I don't understand the appeal of...

[Mike Gloady]

I don't get those sugary cold coffee things they sell in those places. When did cold coffee turn into something you can SELL as opposed to something you throw away after tasting it and doing a minisick? I've never seen a less tempting beverage in my life. Yuk. X

[HdE]

Doing this, I get to do a job I enjoy, I've rediscovered the pleasure of drawing, and I can copy the job I'm working on over to the laptop and take it down the pub for the afternoon.

Ain't that just the best? Sometimes, if there are projects going on that I'm asked to update people for, I'll wander into town and sup a beer or two while I fling the files over t'internet. It's a beautiful thing.

As regards the theme of the thread, another thing I don't see the appeal of is public brawling.

Not one hour ago, I set foot outside my front door to go to the off-license. I open my door, and three inches in front of me, two shell-suited girls are smacking the living daylights out of each other.

What is the point?

[House of Usher]

I'm not saying I'm some kind of prude, but I reckon you should only really have sex with someone you're in a relationship with and you should only enter into (so to speak) a relationship with someone who you could happily spend lots of time with

I hold a different point of view. At any time between the ages of ** and ** I would have gladly entered into a relationship just to have sex. Come to that, I did. And I would've quite happily taken the sex without the relationship too. Chance would have been a fine thing! My motto in matters of the... er... heart (?) is take it if it's offered, unless there's someone else objects, as most people who come under the heading of significant other generally do.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Texting without spelling the words out, I get all this stuff from my nephews and I say to them. You are lazy gits, you don't even use capital letters at the begining.
I even caught one of them writing something on facebook with a Geordie accent. He wrote something along the lines of 'can't wait to gan yam' I had to tell him on the phone and on facebook that he's not a Geordie and he couldn't have picked that accent up from his Mam, well that is unless she suddenly changed the way she spoke once I left home to go in the forces.

[Kerrin]

...Michael Mcintyre.



When do I get my license to kill?

[wild-seven]

well done for choosing the picture that makes him look er 'special' 

[Christov]

...Michael Mcintyre.



When do I get my license to kill?

He looks so... vacant. Like a robot.

[I, Cosh]

...Michael Mcintyre.

When do I get my license to kill?

I'd never heard of him until last week when my mate took me to see him live, as he couldn't find a woman willing to accompany him. I thought he was alright. A few boring stretches made up for by some funny jokes. Unfortunately, the man sitting next to me seemed to think it was the funniest thing that had ever happened ever in the history of things.

The appeal of MacDonalds is simple.  Sugar.  Salt.  Fat.  And steaming hunks of mysterymeat.  Simple really.  These are the things people like, sad though it is.  I'm not defending it or anything, just that's what I think drags folks in the doors.

I've never really understood the appeal of sneering at MacDonalds and the like. Personally, I don't give much of a fuck about what's in my dinner, so long as it's tasty. A Big Mac is tasty, as is an Angry Whopper, Andrew Fairlie's signature wood smoked lobster or the Colonel's big bucket. As with anything, I'm not going to eat it every day but, if I'm in town of a Saturday and feeling peckish I'll happily grab a burger and you can shove your condescension up your arse.

[Mike Gloady]

Thanks for that considered, polite opinion.

[Mike Gloady]

Sorry, hyper-sensitive and easily wound up this end.  Apologies.

I don't understand the appeal of monkeys in hats.

[Peter Wolf]

Each to their own but i find Mcdonalds to be sub standard and i wouldnt eat it if it was given let alone pay to eat it.I eat at BK though because they sell Aberdeen Angus beef which is fine otherwise i wouldnt eat it as i am picky about what meat i eat plus i dont support intensive farming and i dont want to eat meat that is of indeterminate origin and i do give a fuck about what is in my dinner.

So its discernment rather than condescension and i dont really give a toss what anyone else eats.Its of no consequence.

[Christov]

Believe it or not, but McDonald's do actually use decent meat (because of some health standards and regulation hoopla), however most of the meat is reconstituted and pumped full of chemicals and preservatives and cooked in an overwhelmingly unhealthly way.

Still, it's quick, it's cheap, and it tastes fine. Just don't have it every day and you'll be able to stave off a heart attack fairly easily.

[Mike Gloady]

I don't abhor the stuff, I just try to find healthier options.  Or at least ones that FEEL like healthier options - thus, if I'm in the mood for a burger and there isn't a pub around that I know does reasonable food, I have been known to go into Burger King for precisely the same reasons that Peter states.  All things in moderation.

I try to avoid McDonalds though as, purely from a taste point of view, bread shouldn't be that sweet (they put sugar in it so it toasts nicely) and the chemicals play havoc with my IBS.

[HdE]

I don't understand the appeal of monkeys in hats.

Hmm. Our town has a guy who walks around perpetually in a really ridiculous looking top hat, with massive muttonchops that make him look like a monkey.

I don't understand the appeal of such flamboyant individualism. Especially given that the guy must be pushing 60.

[Peter Wolf]

I don't abhor the stuff, I just try to find healthier options.  Or at least ones that FEEL like healthier options - thus, if I'm in the mood for a burger and there isn't a pub around that I know does reasonable food, I have been known to go into Burger King for precisely the same reasons that Peter states.  All things in moderation.

I try to avoid McDonalds though as, purely from a taste point of view, bread shouldn't be that sweet (they put sugar in it so it toasts nicely) and the chemicals play havoc with my IBS.

I could never stand the smell of McDonalds.Its not like anything else and i always notice it walking past.Subway is acceptable though if theres nothing else but the best thing of all are cornish pasty shops.