Inspired by a recent thread on Facebook. I'll kick things off:
1. District 9
2. Breaking Bad
3. Doctor Who
I don't hate these things, far from it. But I really should love them, and for various reasons, I just don't. Anyone else care to share?
1. Football
2. Beer
3. Sex
Scott Pilgrim - film and comic.
The Walking Dead - comic, never seen the TV show.
DEXTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Firefly. I liked it, but never found any pressing need to watch any more after halfway through episode 3.
Wine. I just don't like the taste of it. I can occasionally just about enjoy a small glass of it, but no more than that.
The Beach Boys
Prince
Dinner Parties
'Worthy' comics
Moon, as in the Duncan Jones film.
Finally got round to watching it recently and gave up after 40mins, just found it mind-numbingly boring, and a bit silly.
With you on Firefly Rads.
I know, I know (*holds hands up apologetically*), it's a terrible thing to say and believe me, I get no satisfaction out of it. I really wanted to love Firefly, just left me totally cold. But you know, I don't think there's anything wrong with this - just proves we're a more discerning bunch than we might otherwise think. Sorry , someone just interrupted me as I wrote that last bit and now I can't tell if it makes sense. God I'm glad it's friday.
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 19 October, 2012, 04:23:32 PM
it's a terrible thing to say and believe me, I get no satisfaction out of it.
There should probably have been a smiley at the end of my last post!
Cheers
Jim
There really is so much. Too much, in fact, for me to list. For the purposes of sanity and keeping it to a minimum, i'll just list the things others go mental over but i cant summon the energy to be enthused about. Things about which i really dont give a toss.
Batman comics, batman films, Alien, Aliens, Muse, that ginger singer Ed Wheelan is it? Red Dwarf, american scifi shows, american dramas like The Wire or The Sopranos or wotnot, Downton Abbey, Dredd 3D, sports cars, Beyonce, football, fucking rugby- no, actually that goes in the 'most hated' thread- Team GB, Ikea, NuWho, any Star Trek post-original series, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Eminem, Manga, Anime, Eastenders, Blake's 7... most things, actually. Heh.
SBT
That's the spirit SBT! ;)
I'm planning to watch Firefly for the first time tonight. Someone at work loaned me the DVDs. Everybody says it's the sort of thing I'd like, so I'm quite looking forward to it.
My contribution to this thread would be unoriginal, I'm afraid: football. Just don't get it at all.
I would extend Firefly to everything Joss Whedon has ever done.
Foods that are a 'delicacy' in general.
Lobster? I'd rather have steak.
Oysters? I'd rather have a Big Mac.
Greg Wallace? I'd rather be shit at cooking and punch you.
The Battlestar Galactica reboot. I loved the cheesy spandex version with shiny chrome men in suit Cylons but cannot get away with the hand held camera CGI recent take on it. There. I've said it.
1. Reservoir Dogs.
2. Preacher.
3. Brazilians (the topiary, not the people).
4. Gin.
5. Tonic.
6. Opera.
But I love Greg Wallace.
Quote from: Daveycandlish on 19 October, 2012, 05:06:00 PM
The Battlestar Galactica reboot.
Yep. Not just crap, but crap that thought it was cleverer than it was.
Cheers
Jim
Think some people are missing the point a bit. It's stuff you feel as if you SHOULD like but don't (I like zombies, i like comics, but dont like The Walking Dead) rather than a random list of things you don't like.
Quote from: radiator on 19 October, 2012, 05:14:36 PM
Think some people are missing the point a bit. It's stuff you feel as if you SHOULD like but don't (I like zombies, i like comics, but dont like The Walking Dead) rather than a random list of things you don't like.
1. Reservoir Dogs. I like Tarrantino, I like stylish violence, I hate this.
2. Preacher. I like Ennis, I like stylish violence, I just can't warm to this.
3. Brazilians (the topiary, not the people). I like naked ladies, so you'd think ladies that are
even more naked would appeal
even more. But they really don't.
4. Gin. I like most forms of alcohol, and this G&Ts always looks so tempting... but
yerrgh.
5. Tonic. See above. So it's not just the gin.
6. Opera. So impressive, so dramatic, so beautifully staged. Why can't I stand a single note?
Well it is what it is.
Wine - I know beer doesn't taste great either, but wine is like beer into which someone has poured vinegar. NO.
Chicken - it's not for me.
Simping Detective - haha like Singing Detective but Simping is a thing in Dredd so that pun can at best be a one-off five page story that might be vaguely amusing twenty-six years ago when Singing Detective is a relevant pop cultural element HOLY FUCK THEY ARE STILL MAKING THIS COMIC IN 2012. Not for me.
Also Galactica reboot for me: obnoxious and ham-fisted, it imitates but never innovates and unlike the one with the creepy monkey robot couldn't pretend to be a kids' show so it could get away with a lack of black people and all the women being sexy robots, which for some reason no-one cared about anyway because at the end of the day it really is only sci-fi. Also every time Apollo is on the screen I get all tourettes going "FUCK OFF JUST FUCK OFF FUCK OFF NOW YOU ARE AWFUL JUST AWFUL JUST STOP YOU FUCKING AWFUL ACTOR" (see also: female Starbuck). Though I appreciate it giving Michael Hogan's career a shot in the arm, this doesn't excuse that its premise, cast, and overall story arc is identical to 1980s kids cartoon Robotech.
Greg Rucka's Batwoman comics: a butch, sexually agressive tattooed and pierced bodybuilder with daddy issues is apparently a groundbreaking portrayal of a lesbian. Okay.
Walking Dead. Liked the comics until the tv show came out, then the shrill fandom ruined both for me. But not you guys - you guys are okay. It's those other jerks I'm on about.
dante
halo
football
cider
hot curry
Radiohead. A band so self-consciously arty and up themselves that their blend of guitars and diluted electronic noises seems almost specifically designed to appeal to me. Yet I just find them a bit dull.
Also agree about Firefly, although that might be more to do with how OTT its supporters are.
James Bond
Children.
Quote from: sauchie on 19 October, 2012, 06:57:28 PM
Children.
There's a Saville joke in there somewhere, if only I had the heart to pursue it...
sadly saville did
Here's some controversy: The current run of strips in the Meg
League of Gentlemen. Sub-par python.
Fringe. Gave up when the eyeballs of the dead recorded the last thing a person saw.
Call of Duty. And most games set in WW2 (that would be all such games, but I haven't played them all)
Star Trek. Poo-faced and condescending.
Then there's the stuff I really love but just shouldn't:
Tinned potato sandwiches.
Roxette.
Thomas the Tank Engine.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 October, 2012, 07:36:16 PM
Tinned potato sandwiches.
I recognize all three of those words, but they just don't make any sense when put together
The Matrix.
The programme Noel Fielding did after the Mighty Boosh, whatever it was called.
The Doors.
Much of David Bowie's 70s Ziggy Stardust stuff (I prefer his 80s stuff).
Most fruit.
Quote from: radiator on 19 October, 2012, 04:07:03 PM
Moon, as in the Duncan Jones film.
Finally got round to watching it recently and gave up after 40mins, just found it mind-numbingly boring, and a bit silly.
Nowt spesh, was it.
Slaine - even when Mick McMahon was drawing it.
Quote from: pops1983 on 19 October, 2012, 07:39:11 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 October, 2012, 07:36:16 PM
Tinned potato sandwiches.
I recognize all three of those words, but they just don't make any sense when put together
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 October, 2012, 07:36:16 PM
Tinned potato sandwiches.
Only two types of carbohydrate in the one snack? I thought you were Scottish? Rice and chips from the local chinese takeaway isn't the same unless you stick the lot of it between two pan bread outsiders. M-m-m-m,
starch.
Fry a couple of farls and use those instead of bread - then maybe we'll talk.
I've tried on several accounts to try and find anything I enjoy about Radiohead. The music itself is pretty swell but the moment Thom opens his mouth I grit my teeth. On that note I cannot stand the vast majority of Post Rock (or similar sounding) music. Despite the fact that two of my favourite bands derive from that genre.
I'll have to agree with Byah on the wine as well.
And to top it off, even though I enjoy the series, I think George Martin is overrated.
The thing with Thom Yorke, is that he has an amazing voice, but he nearly always sings in that dreadful monotone.
Cant beat the Bends, though.
Never really cared for the Beatles, whilst were on the subject of music.
Bob Dylan
Yes yes yes on Radiohead, but I'm afraid Albion is dead to me.
But my vote is for Velvet Underground/Lou Reed - I love everything before/after/around/influenced by this coolest of bands, but their actual music does nothing for me, apart from Venus in Furs, which is so cool.
Avengers Assemble.
Quote from: Albion on 19 October, 2012, 10:19:04 PM
Bob Dylan
:o Where's that 'Ignore' button...
Comedy televangelists and illiterate procrastinators I can tolerate, even embrace, but this forum is no place to be exposed to people who don't like Dylan, especially when they
know that they should.
I love all sorts of music, except for dance and country, and believe me I have tried but I just don't like Bob Dylan.
I like artists who have been influenced by him, I like covers of his song by other artists, but I just don't like Dylan.
I have a very good friend who has worshipped at the altar of Dylan for over 40 years and has tried to get me to see his his genius. I have listened to his work but I just don't like Bob Dylan.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 10:29:40 PM
Yes yes yes on Radiohead, but I'm afraid Albion is dead to me.
But my vote is for Velvet Underground/Lou Reed - I love everything before/after/around/influenced by this coolest of bands, but their actual music does nothing for me, apart from Venus in Furs, which is so cool.
Sorry dandontdare, and we got on so well at Hi-Ex. :( Not only do I not like Dylan but I love the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed!
Totally agree on Radiohead. Can't stand 'em.
actually, I was unfair, cos I can appreciate why people don't like Dylan. His voice is ... um ... unique, he can be a cock in interviews, and he never gives the audience what they want live; BUT ... he's a poet, and a bloody genius one.
Saw him at the MEN arena a few years ago and it was shit - I could only tell which of the tiny figures on stage was Bob by the fact that he had a Big Hat. Every song was sung in the same rhythm/melody, so you had to try to grasp a word or phrase to work out what song you were listening to.
Quote from: Albion on 19 October, 2012, 10:48:33 PM...I love the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed!
Damnit, I'll have to de-ignore you now.
Jeff Buckley.
Caterwauling irritant.
Everyone tells me that Facebook and celery are good. Both the work of the devil if you ask me....
Most Tim Burton films.
Though perhaps those should be classed under 'stuff that should be good but just isn't'.
Cheese and Whiskey.
Marvel and the greater Marvel Universe
Paul Thomas Anderson's films, particularly Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, and Punchdrunk Love
Every Wes Anderson film after Bottle Rocket
Tarantino's Death Proof
Both versions of The Office
Online gaming
Archer
The Dune series
Whedon's Dollhouse
The Incredibles
Wallace and Gromit
Anime
Supermodels
I'll get my coat...
Tarantino films....I first saw pulp fiction and thought it was truly brilliant. I have yet to see another of his films I liked. He's great at scenes (opening scene of inglorious was superb) but he just loses the plot when it comes to whole ideas and films in my opinion.
judge spin offs...Cal hab, Sino cit, brit cit. They just make me cringe. My love of Dredd should mean I love them all but I loathe all of them. When I see a Dredd strip with them in (like emerald isle or crusade) I just can't read them. NOTE: the exception to the rule is East Meg.
The expendables. I love cheesy 80s action, I love modern action but these are just so dull and self-referential it drives me to distraction. I was bored in the first and the second learned none of the lessons from the first's mistakes and decided to put more stars in smaller roles and make jokes about the films they've been in. hilarious. Mrs likes it though.
I could go on all day, but I won't.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 10:57:37 PM
actually, I was unfair, cos I can appreciate why people don't like Dylan. His voice is ... um ... unique, he can be a cock in interviews, and he never gives the audience what they want live; BUT ... he's a poet, and a bloody genius one.
Saw him at the MEN arena a few years ago and it was shit - I could only tell which of the tiny figures on stage was Bob by the fact that he had a Big Hat. Every song was sung in the same rhythm/melody, so you had to try to grasp a word or phrase to work out what song you were listening to.
My brother is a huge Dylan fan and saw him at the MEN some years back; he said the show was pretty poor but one of his big grumbles was Dylan sat at a piano throughout the whole gig.
Quote from: auxlen on 20 October, 2012, 09:56:27 AM
Tarantino films....I first saw pulp fiction and thought it was truly brilliant. I have yet to see another of his films I liked. He's great at scenes (opening scene of inglorious was superb) but he just loses the plot when it comes to whole ideas and films in my opinion.
The expendables. I love cheesy 80s action, I love modern action but these are just so dull and self-referential it drives me to distraction. I was bored in the first and the second learned none of the lessons from the first's mistakes and decided to put more stars in smaller roles and make jokes about the films they've been in. hilarious. Mrs likes it though.
I could go on all day, but I won't.
I don't like Pulp Fiction. Never have and reading the whole back-story of it and how ruthless Tarantino was in Peter Biskind's
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls made me dislike it all the more. As for Expendables, I'm unable to watch it (and its sequel) due to Jason Statham. Absolutely can't stand him. If Danny Dyer of all people was in it I'd probably watch it cos at least I can watch Dyer and laugh at him, but Statham...
Sonic Youth. I love a lot of music that is often lumped in the same category as SY and Amazon keep recommending them to me but I find them boring - not actually bad but just not of any interest to me.
The problem with Sonic Youth is one you'll find with any band with such a history and so many offerings; they've done great albums, they've done really average albums and they've done really poor albums. You just have to be careful with what you get, mate.
Lager. Having been spoilt by having a local that served proper ales, most brands now just taste of chemicals.
Also, spirits diluted with sugary soft drinks. Someone went to a lot of effort to distill that whisky- if your not going to appreciate the taste, then stick to your alcopops.
Superhero films. Smart phones. Pandas. I flipping hate pandas.
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 12:04:45 PM
My brother is a huge Dylan fan and saw him at the MEN some years back; he said the show was pretty poor but one of his big grumbles was Dylan sat at a piano throughout the whole gig.
Sadly, Dylan is now quite badly arthritic so playing the guitar is extremely painful while plonking a couple of chords on the old (visions of) joanna isn't.
I saw him at the NEC with my parents in 1986 and he was absolute horseshit then again at the SECC five or six years ago and he was pretty damned great, even though it was probably the same tour you mention and pretty piano-centric.
Console/ computer games. I used to enjoy Chuckie Egg and Harrier Attack on my old Amstrad CPC464 and the Frogger/Astro Wars hand held arcade jobbies not to mention table top Pac Man in the family room at pubs as a kid and I can happily watch mates play Grand Gears Halo Evil 7 as if it were some ultra violent animation but I cannot be arsed to play them myself.
Never got into online gaming, just do not find it fun at all. I play games to explore and conquer virtual environments at my own pace, not to have to deal with petulant, hyper-competitive, entitled arseholes.
I also find the majority of them tedious and repetitive in the extreme, and require a ludicrous amount of time investment to get good at them.
ET. I honesty preferred Mac and Me as a kid. Always found ET boring. I'm going to watch it again soon to see if I should re-evaluate.
Likewise Jaws. Never appealed to me.
I know it's not in the spirit of the thread but Jaws is one of the most perfect movies ever made!
Quote from: radiator on 20 October, 2012, 03:18:37 PM
Likewise Jaws. Never appealed to me.
What happened to you man, you used to be cool. It's the Stallone/Assante avatar isn't it, slowly eating away at you, their obviously not-cloneness gnawing on your sense of rightness until all that's left is a hatred of all that's good in this world.
Either that or SBT has hijacked your account in an effort not to be most-wrong about films.
Quote from: radiator on 20 October, 2012, 03:18:37 PM
ET. I honesty preferred Mac and Me as a kid. Always found ET boring. I'm going to watch it again soon to see if I should re-evaluate.
Likewise Jaws. Never appealed to me.
Jaws?
There's a fucking line, man, and you just crossed it..!
Episode III is on now. All three of those movies should have been narsom, but instead....
Basically any Star Wars that isn't the original three movies or the 90s Lucasarts games like X-wing and Dark Forces. I have never been able to get into the extended universe at all.
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 20 October, 2012, 03:42:34 PM
Quote from: radiator on 20 October, 2012, 03:18:37 PM
Jaws. Never appealed to me.
Jaws?
There's a fucking line, man, and you just crossed it..!
Aye, threads have been locked away, and people banished for saying less than that. Makes Roger's anus look quite pale by comparison.
Dave, Ed and Nick...nnnnn done that on the other thread.
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 October, 2012, 01:34:57 PM
Sadly, Dylan is now quite badly arthritic so playing the guitar is extremely painful while plonking a couple of chords on the old (visions of) joanna isn't.
I saw him at the NEC with my parents in 1986 and he was absolute horseshit then again at the SECC five or six years ago and he was pretty damned great, even though it was probably the same tour you mention and pretty piano-centric.
Oooh, 80s Dylan! Even the biggest fans tend to pretend that never happened from what I've noticed! Out of curiosity have you ever seen the trailer for the film he was in back in the 80s-
Hearts of Fire? I caught the trailer years back on VHS but there seems to be no record of it online (which is a shame, cos I'd love to see that trailer again!)
Ashamed to say I have Hearts of Fire on video - whole thing, not just the trailer... My excuse is because Richie Havens is in it, and I love Richie Havens enough to forgive him anything, even his Italian 80s synth albums
You have no idea how much I want to see that film from the trailer alone! At least once a year I go to IMDB to see if there is a DVD release date yet! Countless times throughout the year tho I just search for the trailer; I'm convinced Dylan has destroyed most copies of this to prevent it from being seen.
saw that on TV years ago - it's a bad, bad movie. Bad. Movie. Bad.
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 October, 2012, 01:34:57 PM4 plonking a couple of chords on the old (visions of) joanna
:lol:
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2012, 06:17:32 PM
saw that on TV years ago - it's a bad, bad movie. Bad. Movie. Bad.
Why has everybody got to see this gold apart from me?
Slightly different to the trailer I saw, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSy643xHcY
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 06:19:12 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2012, 06:17:32 PM
saw that on TV years ago - it's a bad, bad movie. Bad. Movie. Bad.
Why has everybody got to see this gold apart from me?
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 06:25:31 PM
Slightly different to the trailer I saw, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSy643xHcY
there are a few clips on the woeful title song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_saGeAUy0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_saGeAUy0), and a cringeworthy interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ECr4-YaXM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ECr4-YaXM)
TRULY appreciated! I'll be having a look at those links; I just hope The Cosh notices these last few comments, otherwise Hearts of Fire has been introduced to this thread for no reason whatsoever!
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 05:51:49 PM
Oooh, 80s Dylan! Even the biggest fans tend to pretend that never happened from what I've noticed! Out of curiosity have you ever seen the trailer for the film he was in back in the 80s- Hearts of Fire? I caught the trailer years back on VHS but there seems to be no record of it online (which is a shame, cos I'd love to see that trailer again!)
Hearts of Fire was a Richard Marquand joint.
Dylan plays a perm-haired Nazi spy who is shipwrecked on a forest moon, where he's trapped in a net and revered as a God by a tribe of cute perm-haired and honking-voiced smaller versions of himself. He's goes around stabbing people until he falls in love with a Scottish crofter's wife, who discovers that the typewriter upon which John Lennon and Nick Cotton wrote
Love Me Do has the same raised
't' character as the one Dylan played as a member of Max Rebo's band, and throws him off a cliff.
That's how I remember it playing out, but I only saw it once during a weekend-long Marquand retrospective.
Dredd 3D: I love 2000AD, and Dredd in particular; he was the first non-Super Hero comic character I really got into, and in some ways influenced the direction of my comic book reading (no Super Hero comics for me).
But the film did nothing for me. I didn't think it was terrible, I just didn't think it was very good.
(and yes, I went a second time to be sure)
Quote from: pops1983 on 20 October, 2012, 04:41:21 PM
Episode III is on now. All three of those movies should have been narsom, but instead....
Basically any Star Wars that isn't the original three movies or the 90s Lucasarts games like X-wing and Dark Forces. I have never been able to get into the extended universe at all.
Actually, judging on most online opinion I've come across, I'd say the Star Wars prequels are something I
shouldn't like but do! Strangely I agree with some of the points people make... (the 'obviously acting' style of, er, acting makes me wince inside) yet I still rather like them. Particulaly 2 and 3. And chunks of 1.
Okay my list:
Lager - Actually I don't dislike the taste. And the idea of a thin carbonated beer as a thirst quencher seems good, and the occasional bottled kind is okay, but I've found the pints just don't agree with me. I tend to feel a bit sick after a pint. Mind you, I can feel sick after drinking any beer, but I can usually drink a pint or two of the thicker stuff, and as long as I don't drink too quickly, I'm all right.
Sport - I'm just not into it. Too repetitive. Very little in way of story.* I did go to a football match with a mate once. (Bromley vs Woking in case you're interested. We were backing Bromley -living in that vicinity, but Woking won. ) Thought I'd give it a chance. While I'll admit the bits when the ball got close to the net were somewhat exciting, it would then move away again, and by the time someone did score, my attention was elsewhere and I missed it! I enjoyed going to the grounds pub afterwards though.
The Young Ones. Most of my generation seemed to love this. I'll admit, I haven't seen that much, but thought what I have seen, largely rather rubbish. I did watch a bit last year, to see if my extimation was the same as my tolerance seems to have broadened as I have gotten older. (Which seems converse to most people.) I did like it a bit better, and found it funny in placed, but by large, no thank you.
*Amusingly I did rather enjoy American wrestling for a bit. I stopped when I found out the results were all staged. I mean, it was obvious there was a lot of acting going on, and things were exaggerated, but I thought the actual results of the match themselves were for real! It was still pretty funny stuff though.
Most of the Coen Brothers output, but especially the Big Lebowski.
but No Country for Old Men is perfection, though.
I FINALLY know another person who doesn't particularly rate Lebowski! Some of their early stuff is great tho; always loved Raising Arizona. Thought they picked up again with Burn After Reading myself tho.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 20 October, 2012, 11:25:25 PM
Most of the Coen Brothers output, but especially the Big Lebowski, but No Country for Old Men is perfection, though.
Saved yourself at the death there,
Jack.
Quote from: Mardroid on 20 October, 2012, 11:19:36 PM
Lager - the occasional bottled kind is okay, but I've found the pints just don't agree with me. I tend to feel a bit sick after a pint. Mind you, I can feel sick after drinking any beer, but I can usually drink a pint or two of the thicker stuff, and as long as I don't drink too quickly, I'm all right.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to drink a pint of
anything, let alone foul-tasting shite that makes you talk a load of shite; but in Scotland you might as well announce that you used to hang out in Jimmy Savile's dressing room as refuse the offer of a can of Tennents. This betrayal of my true nature is only compounded by my hatred of
chips. I
remember liking them, and I can't walk past a chippie without the smell making me want to buy a poke of chips; but they're always rubbish - as are my Mum's chips, oven chips, and MacDonalds' fries. Chips are just pish, although expressing that opinion round here means I'll probably be forced to move South after the referendum in 2014.
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 06:30:17 PM
TRULY appreciated! I'll be having a look at those links; I just hope The Cosh notices these last few comments, otherwise Hearts of Fire has been introduced to this thread for no reason whatsoever!
Ha. Been away since yesterday but yes, I have seen the trailer for this but never the film. I recall a helicopter. May need to keep an eye out for it in the charity shops.
While 80s Dylan records may be derided (even though Infidels is quite good) I think the unpredictability of his touring show has remained constant. The reason for the 12 year old Cosh being dragged to the aforementioned NEC gig was that my parents and their mates had been to see him at St James Park a couple of years previously and this event is still referred to in the same terms which would apply had Hendrix been resurrected to announce the second coming live on on the pitch following Scotland's victory in the 78 World Cup final.
Baked beans!
Absolute rancid muck! (enjoyed by millions)
Cheers :)
Mad Men - my brother raves on this but I find it really dull and nothing happens.
Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones - basically any fantasy thing with hairy people with funny names.
Quote from: Buttonman on 21 October, 2012, 03:24:02 PM
Mad Men - my brother raves on this but I find it really dull and nothing happens.
Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones - basically any fantasy thing with hairy people with funny names.
You're dead to me.
Oh yeah, good call on Mad Men. Dull and over-reliant on "ha ha, look at the past and what they thought of things" - Carry On Cleo did that much better.
Pizza
My reason for this is I don't like cooked cheese. I love cheese but as soon as it gets even slightly warm it tastes disgusting to me.
Tomatoes too. I like tomato sauce but actual real tomatoes, ugh! Horrible slimy red things.
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 06:25:31 PM
Slightly different to the trailer I saw, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSy643xHcY
wow :o
And is that guy on drums..this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ
Red Dwarf. I'm sorry.
Quote from: willthemightyW on 21 October, 2012, 04:45:04 PM
Red Dwarf. I'm sorry.
No need to. It's Terry and June is space.
Quote from: johnnystress on 21 October, 2012, 03:57:50 PM
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 06:25:31 PM
Slightly different to the trailer I saw, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSy643xHcY
wow :o
And is that guy on drums..this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ
He certainly looks like he could be but I refuse to believe it is on the basis that any person
that talented would be a household name.
Quote from: willthemightyW on 21 October, 2012, 04:45:04 PM
Red Dwarf. I'm sorry.
I liked the old Red Dwarf this new stuff just doesn't cut it for me.
Gram Parsons. Don't hate his stuff, but he was in the Byrds! Sweetheart of the Rodeo is insanely good and has a place in my heart just for Roger McGuinns "country radio show" story....
But Gram himself, or the Flying Burrito Bros.... I have cds, but I just dont get em, or they dont get me. Or something.
I can't believe that no one has responded to this thread with the classic line of.....
The wife.
:)
Quote from: Professah Byah on 21 October, 2012, 03:33:39 PM
Oh yeah, good call on Mad Men. Dull and over-reliant on "ha ha, look at the past and what they thought of things" - Carry On Cleo did that much better.
Say it ain't so Prof!
Bored Walk Empire
I watched the pilot and it was perfect. Like a Norman Rockwell painting brought to life.
And then nothing happened.
Quote from: pops1983 on 21 October, 2012, 07:34:46 PM
Bored Walk Empire
I watched the pilot and it was perfect. Like a Norman Rockwell painting brought to life.
And then nothing happened.
You know why that is?
Martin Scorsese directed the pilot! I love almost everything he does! But yeah I felt the same way after that, the next few episodes didn't really interest me all that much, but I hear it gets better.
Caught the first one, and though Mr Scorese directed it, it wasnt much cop. Even featuring the eminently watchable Steve Buscemi didnt help, im afraid.
The Walking Dead, thats summat else that isnt much cop, either. Damn you, American TV series, you used to be so good!
I refuse to take part in this thread.
Who is to tell me it is wrong for me not to like:
Doctor Who
Red Dwarf
Monty Python
Pubs
Zenith
Halo Jones?
You must be going to the wrong pubs!
The Wire. Gave up after the pilot. Yeah, so apparently it's AMAZING, you just need to get through the first series - after that you'll be hooked.
Strangely enough, I never seem to find myself with enough spare time to want to sit and watch hour after hour of boring television in the hope it eventually gets interesting.
It also looks incredibly bleak and depressing, but with none of the black humour of The Sopranos or Breaking Bad. Not sure that's my idea of entertainment.
Quote from: radiator on 22 October, 2012, 10:21:14 AM
You must be going to the wrong pubs!
So many times over the years people have said "oh, let's go to such and such, it's a really good pub" and when we'd get there I would think: hang on, isn't it like all the other ones (brown, old fashioned carpets, brass fittings etc). Always seems to be about 'ye olde' look. Just don't do it for me.
Quote from: Nap Normal on 21 October, 2012, 06:47:40 PM
I can't believe that no one has responded to this thread with the classic line of.....
The wife.
:)
They don't seem like the kind of guys who'd be interesting to the opposite sex, so maybe not very many of them have wives. I'm just guessing mind you, and going by the subject of the posts. From experience, ladies don't usually enjoy talking about Star Wars and Bob Dylan for days on end, but I am only generalising here, and do not want to sound like I'm in any way discriminating against the opposite sex...or any one for that matter....apart from Tories. :lol:
This thread. But you know, come to think of it...
Coen Brothers films
Breaking Bad
Dexter
This thread and people who seem to be using it as an excuse to slag people off e.g. fonky. Please fuck off again, that's a post written by a real cunt.
Don't be so bitter about it. A generalisation, nothing specific, nothing personal. Speaking from MY OWN experience, ladies do not generally like to talk to men about sci-fi films and rock groups. Try it in a pub and see how the conversation goes.
I find it's better to be a cunt than a wanker though, cheers Mudcrab.
Quote from: fonky on 22 October, 2012, 03:48:15 PM
Speaking from MY OWN experience, ladies do not generally like to talk to men about sci-fi films and rock groups.
No my girlfriend, president of a sci-fi society and rock radio DJ HATES talking about those things. It's so good literally all women in the world love the same things, makes Christmas so much easier.
Is she married?
Fonky clearly talks to the wrong ladies.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 22 October, 2012, 05:31:44 PM
FTFY
I would venture that his mouth is full of it...
Cheers
Jim
Quote from: fonky on 22 October, 2012, 03:48:15 PM
Don't be so bitter about it. A generalisation, nothing specific, nothing personal. Speaking from MY OWN experience, ladies do not generally like to talk to men about sci-fi films and rock groups. Try it in a pub and see how the conversation goes.
Everyone knows all the ladies have in their pretty little heads is shoes and shopping.
A decade or so back, i went on a date with the best loking girl i'd ever met- we talked all night long about horror films, vincent price and peter cushing, old tv shows like night gallery and the twilight zone and old and new goth bands we both liked. Twelve years later we have two kids, have been married for nearly nine years, and still talk about same. I would ask fonky if he's ever plucked up the courage to speak to a girl?
SBT
^^ This is why I love this place! ^^
8 years ago I had my first date with a lovely lass called Veda. I was lucky enough to convince her to come back to mine and we watched Star Wars and ate crips butties. About 4 years ago, on Valentines Day we stayed in and watched Predator (her suggestion). Her favourite TV shows are Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones and The Sopranos. We bought our first house together earlier this year. I am a very lucky boy.
Love > troll
Bunch of bloody weirdos :lol:
(Jimmy Saville voice)...
"er..er..er..er..er.. rattle, rattle, jewelery, jewelery...er..er..er...er... now then, now then, er..er.. calm down boys and girls"
Quote from: Mudcrab on 22 October, 2012, 12:55:20 PM
This thread.
Hey Mudcrab, why do you object to the thread? Just curious... :)
From talking to all the various forum chaps at get togethers I would say the majority are hitched. (Shock horror, cliche lonesome comic fans with actual wives/girlfriends.)
I saw Dredd 3D with my Mrs and she absolutely loved it. She recently as a surprise bought tickets for us to see Jack White. In last year or so we have been to see White Denim, Black Lips and The Horrors – all of which she was really into. I would say she is more keen than I am to see rock concerts.
(On another note, last week she went to see George Michael at Earls Court but that's another story.)
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 22 October, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
8 years ago I had my first date with a lovely lass called Veda. I was lucky enough to convince her to come back to mine and we watched Star Wars and ate crips butties. About 4 years ago, on Valentines Day we stayed in and watched Predator (her suggestion). Her favourite TV shows are Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones and The Sopranos. We bought our first house together earlier this year. I am a very lucky boy.
...and then you let the air out and folded her back in the bag.
Surprisingly, women appear to be individuals with a range of interests and personal preferences.
Quote from: sauchie on 23 October, 2012, 07:00:57 AM
Surprisingly, women appear to be individuals with a range of interests and personal preferences.
Although apparently the desperate need to moisturise their armpits (while also keeping them dry as a bone) and facilitate regular digestive transit consumes them all. Or so I'm led to believe, my own wife apparently falling outside the tight distribution of required behaviours, and thus probably not a woman.
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 23 October, 2012, 01:14:00 AM
From talking to all the various forum chaps at get togethers I would say the majority are hitched. (Shock horror, cliche lonesome comic fans with actual wives/girlfriends.)
I saw Dredd 3D with my Mrs and she absolutely loved it. She recently as a surprise bought tickets for us to see Jack White. In last year or so we have been to see White Denim, Black Lips and The Horrors – all of which she was really into. I would say she is more keen than I am to see rock concerts.
(On another note, last week she went to see George Michael at Earls Court but that's another story.)
JACK WHITE? Where? WHEN?
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 23 October, 2012, 01:47:52 AM
...and then you let the air out and folded her back in the bag.
Heh.
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 23 October, 2012, 01:47:52 AM
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 22 October, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
8 years ago I had my first date with a lovely lass called Veda. I was lucky enough to convince her to come back to mine and we watched Star Wars and ate crips butties. About 4 years ago, on Valentines Day we stayed in and watched Predator (her suggestion). Her favourite TV shows are Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones and The Sopranos. We bought our first house together earlier this year. I am a very lucky boy.
...and then you let the air out and folded her back in the bag.
Actually she's got a slow puncture - I find myself curiosuly aroused just watching her slowly deflate over a period of about 8 hours...
Huge fan of Armando Ianucci, huge fan of Alan Partridge, but The Thick of It - which everyone praises to high heaven - leaves me utterly cold.
A few instances of funny swearing per episode aside, I really don't see what all the fuss is about, and find the subject matter (party politics) to be dull as dishwater.
Quote from: radiator on 23 October, 2012, 01:29:27 PM
Huge fan of Armando Ianucci, huge fan of Alan Partridge, but The Thick of It - which everyone praises to high heaven - leaves me utterly cold.
A few instances of funny swearing per episode aside, I really don't see what all the fuss is about, and find the subject matter (party politics) to be dull as dishwater.
Whereas as a politics junkie, I find it to be genius!
Yeah not following you on that one, I LOVE the Thick of It. It twists and turns like a brilliant sweary snake.
Tomatoes. Specifically raw tomatoes. I like tomato ketchup, eat more than a fair share of tomato based curries and pasta and happly chomp on sun dried or roasted ones, but raw is for the boids and makes me scrunch up my face in disgust.
I should also like my present occupation but it's just tedious crap as usual. I expect a lot of people would go for that one too?
M.
Yep, I'm the same with tomatoes - in their raw form they make me retch involuntarily, but can eat them tinned, pureed, on pizzas, in sauces etc etc.
I have a very vivid memory of being forced to eat some tomatoes by a weirdly militant dinner lady when I was about 6 years old, and almost puking as I forced them down. I suspect that has something to do with it.
Talking of things that make you retch: whiskey. I've tried to cultivate a taste for it, I've tried the good stuff (the Glens and Talisker and Isle of Jura is it?) and think I can tell the difference between a blend a single malt, but it all still tastes like paint stripper to me. Just can't get my head around how you can train your palette to appreciate something like that. Any whiskey buffs on here care to enlighten me?
Quote from: radiator on 22 October, 2012, 10:36:22 AM
The Wire. Gave up after the pilot. Yeah, so apparently it's AMAZING, you just need to get through the first series - after that you'll be hooked....It also looks incredibly bleak and depressing, but with none of the black humour of The Sopranos or Breaking Bad. Not sure that's my idea of entertainment.
Not that it'll help if you don't like it, but for about the first 20 or 30 minutes it seemed to me like it was the same old "dysfunctional cop devoted to the job over family life" rubbish. By the end of the first episode (or possibly into the second) I was gripped; I certainly wouldn't have watched a whole series of something I didn't enjoy.
There's certainly bleakness in there - it would be hard to avoid given the subject matter - but I find The Wire way funnier than Breaking Bad. However, I have noticed that while we share similar views on aesthetics we have radically different notions of what constitutes "fun" or "entertainment."
I should note that it's only in the last year or so I have been able to get past the gag response generated by the texture of tomatoes and even that only really applies to tiny little ones you might find in a salad.
A friend of mine was quite odd with the Wire, said he found the premise quite formulaic but "cringed through" the first season only to be totally bored to death by the second.
I however, love it. Not a patch on the amazing Treme though IMO but is stuffed full o' brilliant characters.
I don't really have anything "stuff you really should love" because I don't really think I HAVE to love anything! Who's forcing you?
Apart from Dob Bylan. People have actively THREATENED me when I say I don't really get him. Bordering on evangelical Bylan fans are - and I've always found the OTT fans of someone more irritating than the person themselves...
Pretty much all the films by David Fincher.
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 23 October, 2012, 02:42:02 PM
A friend of mine was quite odd with the Wire, said he found the premise quite formulaic but "cringed through" the first season only to be totally bored to death by the second.
I however, love it. Not a patch on the amazing Treme though IMO but is stuffed full o' brilliant characters.
I don't really have anything "stuff you really should love" because I don't really think I HAVE to love anything! Who's forcing you?
Apart from Dob Bylan. People have actively THREATENED me when I say I don't really get him. Bordering on evangelical Bylan fans are - and I've always found the OTT fans of someone more irritating than the person themselves...
Not a case of anyone forcing you, more a case of something that, on paper, ticks all your boxes, but in reality just doesn't do it for you. Firefly being the perfect example (for me) :)
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 23 October, 2012, 02:56:39 PM
more a case of something that, on paper, ticks all your boxes, but in reality just doesn't do it for you.
Like those recommended people to follow things that ALWAYS get it wrong "YOU LIKE COMICS? You'll love Mark Millar's tweets!!" *shudder*
Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 23 October, 2012, 02:10:57 PM
Any whiskey buffs on here care to enlighten me?
Well, I'll try. It's delicious.
M.
Quote from: willthemightyW on 23 October, 2012, 08:01:57 AM
JACK WHITE? Where? WHEN?
Alexandra Palace, London 2-3 November
As for you lot not liking tomatoes I am sure you can get counselling for that. Actually in most cases the regular ones are pretty bland but how can someone not like plum or cherry tomatoes?
It's the texture rather than the taste.
A lot of people are the same about cucumber which is similarly slimy.
Quote from: radiator on 23 October, 2012, 06:09:24 PM
A lot of people are the same about cucumber which is similarly slimy.
You just need to wash them after use.
Vietnamese food. You can't swing a cat without hitting one of these places now, but I hate Vietnamese food. It's all very bland and one note.
Vietnamese food rules!
Stewed pork belly, prawn pho, crispy frogs legs, summer rolls...
I know, I know. Fundamentally I should love Vietnamese food. I love Chinese food and I adore Japanese food, but for whatever reason I don't like Vietnamese food. This is especially terrible as my brother-in-law married a Vietnamese girl and I've been to their home a few times. It's the same every time. I smile and eat, but all I can think about is a steamy bowl of soba.
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 23 October, 2012, 02:42:02 PMApart from Dob Bylan. People have actively THREATENED me when I say I don't really get him. Bordering on evangelical Bylan fans are - and I've always found the OTT fans of someone more irritating than the person themselves...
You want to try questioning the Godhood of The Smiths around Manchester. Now that's a group of fans as psychotically bat-shit in their devotion as anything Dr Who can muster.
Funnily I actively HATED the Smiths when they first came out, that whiny voice was like fingernails on backboard; but later I came to appreciate how incredibly good they were, shortly before discovering that Morrisey is one of those "musicalgenius/totalcockhead" hybrids that seem so common.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 23 October, 2012, 10:48:36 PM
You want to try questioning the Godhood of The Smiths around Manchester. Now that's a group of fans as psychotically bat-shit in their devotion as anything Dr Who can muster.
That was going to be a second. I despise that sod. I refuse to be open to the biggest, most self-involved shit on the planet. I cannot fathom him. I'll live my whole life in ignorance of Morrissey.
Quote from: Leigh S on 21 October, 2012, 06:15:49 PM
Gram Parsons. Don't hate his stuff, but he was in the Byrds! Sweetheart of the Rodeo is insanely good and has a place in my heart just for Roger McGuinns "country radio show" story....
But Gram himself, or the Flying Burrito Bros.... I have cds, but I just dont get em, or they dont get me. Or something.
Stevie finds Frank Black's solo career the same. Changes in the line up of the Breeders are undoubtedly responsible for his only liking the first two albums (So what if she's your sister. Bring back Josephine Wiggs ;))
But not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 October, 2012, 02:27:27 AM
Stevie finds Frank Black's solo career the same ... not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.
TEN PERCENTER (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3-8ffsZhRk) and
ST FRANCIS DAM DISASTER (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6yDjh_irw) are good, but I know what Stevie means,
Stevie. I think if he had picked nine or ten of his best songs to go on each new CD instead of putting out double albums packed with filler, his solo career would have been regarded more favourably. Just to invert the premise of this thread, I haven't got much time for much else Metallica have done in their long career, but this rocks the cock:
FRANTIC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6y5-GuLPM)
Bob Marley may be dead, but he isn't buried...
...every time they try to close the coffin, the lid keeps Jammin'.
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 October, 2012, 02:27:27 AM
But not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.
Really Stevie? I mean, I'm not a big fan myself but Headache is like Cannonball to the power of Tame.
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 October, 2012, 06:26:39 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 October, 2012, 02:27:27 AM
But not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.
Really Stevie? I mean, I'm not a big fan myself but Headache is like Cannonball to the power of Tame.
I like Honeycomb :)
Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 12:04:45 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 10:57:37 PM
actually, I was unfair, cos I can appreciate why people don't like Dylan. His voice is ... um ... unique, he can be a cock in interviews, and he never gives the audience what they want live; BUT ... he's a poet, and a bloody genius one.
Saw him at the MEN arena a few years ago and it was shit - I could only tell which of the tiny figures on stage was Bob by the fact that he had a Big Hat. Every song was sung in the same rhythm/melody, so you had to try to grasp a word or phrase to work out what song you were listening to.
My brother is a huge Dylan fan and saw him at the MEN some years back; he said the show was pretty poor but one of his big grumbles was Dylan sat at a piano throughout the whole gig.
Didn't see if anyonw replied to this - but he sits at the piano as he has a bad back
will change your ind re frank black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik7gjekizk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik7gjekizk)
Stewart Lee.
Like him as a personality, in interviews etc, don't like his stand up at all.
It's all just (extremely long winded) sneering at things.
I also grew up in Manchester hating The Smiths. Then I also hated The Stone Roses & The Happy Mondays.
Life could be tough with those opinions. Lucky I'd left by the time Oasis came out because I fucking hate them too.
Bob Dylan on the other hand is fantastic. Hearts of Fire is possibly the most hilarious film I've ever seen & all his 80's albums were great! I can't understand why anyone would think otherwise.
Live...yeah I saw him when I was 15 at the NEC in 86/87 too, he was quite drunk. Since then I've been to about 30 more shows. Most great, one or two fantastic, one or two pretty bad & ONE that was hands down the best show I've ever seen by anyone!
Quote from: exilewood on 25 October, 2012, 02:02:46 PM
Most great, one or two fantastic, one or two pretty bad & ONE that was hands down the best show I've ever seen by anyone!
That can also be applied to his albums! Just replace 'shows' with 'albums' and 'seen' with 'heard'
Beyond a Boudary by CLR James. As a socialist cricket fan a book combining the two topics should be right up my street and yet it's the dullest thing I've ever read and have never been able to get to the end of it.
True Blood: the 2nd season had me wanting to cut my wrists so i never went further.
Fringe:Meh
Almost anything DC - mainstream DC that is.
99% of shows/tv that is subtitled....i don't need another level of thought involved with my viewing.
True Blood's for girls.
Quote from: exilewood on 25 October, 2012, 02:02:46 PM
Hearts of Fire is possibly the most hilarious film I've ever seen
Seriously- how has everybody managed to see this film but me?
Quote from: Emp on 26 October, 2012, 11:49:13 PM
True Blood: the 2nd season had me wanting to cut my wrists so i never went further.
First series was ok but then it just went too silly. Thanks to Jessica the vampire, it's simply added to my list of "TV Shows I'll Watch because there's an Attractive Cast Member".
Star Trek and Dr Who. I really enjoy sci-fi but neither of these programmes have ever really interested me. Dr Who wasn't helped by it ending when I was around the age that may have got into it, but the episodes I saw before that (starring McCoy) were only alright and the few minutes of the new ones I've seen hasn't interested me at all.
As for ST I watched a bit of TNG when it started on the BBC but again lost interest very quickly, and I've had no interest in watching anything else of it. Of the films I enjoyed Khan when I saw it a few years back but the silly film with the whales in seemed to be on a permanant play on ITV during my early teens and just annoyed me. Seeing the crew in 80s America just seemed like a daft idea to me.
I think both Who and Trek require getting hooked at the right age - I hid behind the sofa for Pertwee when I was about 7 or 8, and then this developped into a total love of the Tom Baker period, by which time even Colin Baker couldn't dent my love of the characters. Similarly, I grew up on constant reruns of original trek, and I thought rebooted TNG was bad idea at first, but it grew on me. In both cases, i didn't really follow or understand the stories at first, just loved the monsters and spaceships.
I agree with Dandontdare that both shows required getting hooked at an early age, but for me Colin Baker was the beginning of the end for WHO. As for Star Trek, I jumped in with both feet for TNG and now find it a bit "meh". Now DS9 is the only ST i would make an effort to catch if it was on. Never saw the appeal of Voyager as i found the characters unlikeable.