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Things/people you don't get the fuss over

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GunpowderGelatine · 27/11/2018 22:29

David Beckham. He looks like he should be working on the dodgems at the local fair

Tom Hardy. So average!

Christmas dinner. Bland meat, smelly veg and only ever so slightly redeemed by pigs in blankets and cranberry sauce.

Restaurants that serve me food on something that's not a plate. I once had a chickens and leek pie in a mess tin FFS.

Camping. Trips away and holidays are supposed to be enjoyable, what is fun about sweeping bugs out your home in a morning and freezing half to death on a night

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Ubertasha2 · 28/11/2018 22:23
  • fake looking hair extensions
  • outfits for dogs (although I love dogs)
  • instagram
  • mobile phones
  • people shouting on mobiles or playing loud music on them in public
  • Pandora charms (sorry, just that everyone and their dog wears them
  • plastic shite from Smiggle
  • Star Wars, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter
  • The Kardashian girls
  • celebrity offspring
  • Taylor Swift-
  • the TOWIE cast
Graphista · 28/11/2018 22:53

Imustbemad - not bothered by the racism etc in much of disneys productions then? Or just ignoring it?

Elton John - I like a lot of his music but he's a twat! And I say that even though I'm a huge George Michael fan and they were great friends I understand. That ad is awful given the current economic/political climate and not even very Christmassy!

Victoria Coren Mitchell - noo I luffs her makes me laugh

"Boob jobs- you can always tell" totally agree, I don't think they look good nor do I think they feel natural (not mine I'm bisexual)

"Wine, it’s disgusting." Haha that made me think of Sheldon "grape juice that burns" I think you do need to partly get used to it, and partly get food quality wine!

"Its (nandos) popularity mystifies me still and I can only conclude that it is popular with people who have not had much experience of real restaurants, and consider it a real restaurant And i don't mean that in a snobby way." I've never been to one as a veggie I think it'd be pretty pointless as there's very little on the menu. I've not yet been in a position where that's where my group really want to go. Dd however her friends are obsessed, she's in a small tight knit group and the others are really unadventurous and seem not to have been to a wide variety of restaurants & it's not a money issue as their families are better off than us. Maybe because I'm veggie? (But maybe not as my parents were the same - we were getting taken to Thai & Japanese places in the 80's when our friends families were still thinking Italian & generic Chinese were adventurous but then my parents are quite well travelled) But I've always encouraged dd to try different foods and cuisines. Her 2 favourite places are an authentic Japanese in a wee back street, family run place and a Korean place.

Lazymare - there are other chain restaurants & independents that are similarly priced (I don't think it's cheap either) with more varied menus and likely better quality food I suspect.

"New Year's Eve" I'm a Scot living in Scotland again after many years away. I'm the daughter/niece/grandchild of alcoholics so I'm really over the whole Hogmanay thing which seems now almost completely about getting pissed! When I was younger it was more a family occasion, involving a meal first, organising first foot items, doing "party pieces" of entertainment... Paying an extortionate amount to get into your local, being packed in like sardines, struggling to get served, getting my feet trodden on and paying extortionate drinks prices? Not my idea of fun!

"and watch him in The Fall with Gillian Anderson;" sorry but I tried (love Gillian Anderson) but thought him a shit actor too.

""Fashion"

As in, spending money on new clothes even though you already have wearable ones, primarily because you want to dress like how society says you should dress this year.

I don't remember the last time I bought an actual new item of clothing." Yes! I think fairly early on that there's a difference between fashion & style (someone needs to tell Joan Collins too who is trapped in an 80's fashion time warp)

"Expensive loo roll" I have OCD and am really anxious with toilet stuff, years ago someone in the know said to me cheap loo roll is best for NOT blocking the toilet. The expensive quilted stuff apparently terrible for blocking toilets and further down the processing line. They thought they should be banned.

"Expensive and big weddings- it's getting ridiculous" having been in the industry? Totally agree! And the utter cons of things like hotel venues putting couples in the position of basically selling rooms to guests allowing no personal choice on colour schemes, catering, entertainment choices... So that many weddings are identikit, not personalised at all.

"Caroline flack" I don't know any women and very few men who like her. To my mind she's a borderline paedo with the dating Harry styles when he was only 17 and she was in her 30's! Just creepy as fuck! (And yes I think the same when the sexes are reversed).

"Kindles" what's wrong with kindles?!

"Pringles" what not even BBQ ones?!

"The ITV presenters that get rammed down our throats constantly - Philip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Ant/Dec, Rylan, Amanda Holden, the Loose Women lot." OMG yes! Have they nor itv not heard of overexposure? I used to love Phil in broom cupboard & going live days, I've even met him in real life and he's lovely but just too much of ANYONE is too much!

"Idris Elba" - ugh me too - Luther I was told by SO many people that I'd love based on what they already knew I liked. AWFUL actor even on those bloody sky (or is it virgin?) ads? So so wooden/hammy! And only average looking. "charisma and sex appeal." He has none!

"Boots with the toes and heels cut out." Omg yes! Utterly pointless boots are for wet cold weather which putting holes in them makes them useless for, but in hot weather you don't want your ankles/lower leg covered either! Just stupid!

"I wish average blokes looked like Idris Elba and Tom Hardy" seriously I know far better looking more charismatic chaps in real life, I'm even related (by marriage) to a few of them.

"David Beckham was a dish" really? See attached pics - nah he's always looked like an attention seeking twat who needs a wash!

"The Oktoberfest." Having lived in Germany - totally agree. It's a tourist con.

"Christmas markets. Garden sheds full of tat" yes, having seen it done best in Germany the uk versions are very poor imitations.

"Children"

"Babies. Boring as fuck.

Children. Annoying as fuck."

that's brave on mumsnet! 😂

I prefer children/babies and pets to most adults! Mn sin - my wedding had LOADS of children, if I could have invited certain other children without their adults I bloody would have! Hell I'd have had a children only wedding! I especially love the brutally honest and fearless ones. Sadly medical circumstances mean I could only have one of my own. Dd says she's having loads so I can babysit Grin

"Ryan Gosling. Looks like he should work at Kwikfit" omg yes and BORING.

"Chinese food - Never had a really lovely Chinese. I've tried so many restaurants and gave up. Thai and Indian, I've eaten stunning food, Chinese... never." Someone else said similar. I agree if it's simply described as "Chinese" but if you're near a relatively big city and can access authentic regional Chinese restaurants - they'll prefix the "Chinese" usually - then it's less generic and you'll find dishes and flavouring that's greater in variety.

"and weirdly drunk all of a sudden." Well yea if you're chugging them like that! Grin

"Michael Buble" Shock but he's lovely! Not just cute and great singer but funny, self deprecating and I hear fr on people I know in real life who've met him that he's lovely to fans.

"Raw red onion as a garnish on EVERYTHING" not even red onion round here EVERY takeaway comes with a "side salad" of a lettuce leaf, one slice of cucumber, one small tomato wedge and half a fucking tin of raw onion! Even if I specifically say "no onion" or even "no salad at all" Angry

"Summer. It’s nasty and hot. The light hurts my eyes. I burn even if coated in sun cream. I am too short to wear anything “floaty”." An oversight that I didn't put this in my first post. I'm a short, fat, redheaded Celt I am NOT designed for hot weather AT ALL this one with the heatwave was utterly miserable! Couldn't sleep, buggered my appetite, sweaty, uncomfortable ugh HELL!

GabsAlot · 28/11/2018 22:58

yes yes summer when its too hot im short fat nothing fits i cant breathe im miserable

Graphista · 28/11/2018 22:59

Nuts forgot to attach pics

Things/people you don't get the fuss over
Things/people you don't get the fuss over
Mustangwally · 28/11/2018 23:09

New years eve - it's so dull and basically just the date changing. I can't pretend to get excited about fireworks (also over rated) and singing that God awful song auld lang syne!

Sex - ok there I've said it. It's gross, painful and messy and it can make you pregnant. Wish I could just opt out and keep my flab nicely covered. The pretending is exhausting!

GabsAlot · 28/11/2018 23:35

sex is overrated

superstarburst · 28/11/2018 23:42

Totally agree with pp that potatoes are demonised and the new eggs. Soon everyone will be told to eat potatoes again and that will be trendy

Strictly/GBBO and all that shite, in fact most tv
TV Christmas ads or ones with poetry/rapping
Holly/Tess D/Amanda Holden etc
Prosecco
Flavours of gin
Loads of flavoured syrup in your coffee
Twitter/Selfies/Facebook updates and check ins
Christmas jumpers/bedding/cushions/PJs. wasteful
Instagram
Snapchat
Botox and fillers
Cycling, particularly in lycra onesies

An0nym0u3 · 28/11/2018 23:52

Abba. Soaps, all of em. Fruit, it's too cold and I don't have a sweet tooth. Kevin the f'in carrot. Gin-gross.

twiddlydiddly · 29/11/2018 00:00

Beyoncé, I just don't get it.

SisterOfDonFrancisco · 29/11/2018 00:09

Nail polish.

Mustangwally · 29/11/2018 04:34

Totally agree with Instagram. Women like Kelly Brook and Amanda Holden desperately posting pics and videos with everything hanging out so that they can get lots of lewd comments. Pathetic.

user1457017537 · 29/11/2018 04:59

Ed Sheeran and Adele

user1457017537 · 29/11/2018 05:03

ABBA were shite in the 70s. If a pub was playing ABBA you walked on by. Mama Mia probably worse film I ever saw

ByeGermsByeWorries · 29/11/2018 05:07

Thanks for that @Vitalogy Grin

Whisky2014 · 29/11/2018 05:12

"Adult" advent calendars

Booie09 · 29/11/2018 05:15

Gemma Collins
Mrs Hinch
Going to the gym
Channing Tatum
Peaky Blinders
Shark fucking Hoover's
Shark Fucking Mops
Marks and Spencers Cafes

Evangelinee · 29/11/2018 05:32

Ant and Dec. Don't find them funny at all.

MarcieBluebell · 29/11/2018 05:55

How can you not like strictly and I love Ryan Gosling. Also sex is amazing!

I don't like most takeaways. I really don't understand takeaway pizza. The price for dough and cheese!

Bluerussian · 29/11/2018 06:02

Domino's are good. I also had a pizza once at a restaurant in Jersey with loads of fresh stuff including herbs and it was amazing!

Most though are pretty rubbish.

Sex is good - when it is good. A lot of the time it's indifferent.

goose1964 · 29/11/2018 06:08

Any celebrity and wanna be celebrity programme

RoboticSealpup · 29/11/2018 07:47

Domino's pepperoni tastes like vomit...

LucyMorningStar · 29/11/2018 07:55

Oh I forgot my main source of 'just why' - spas. Why do people go wild for them? Why is it the answer to all life's problems? What's so amazing about them? I went for a spa treatment once and spend the whole hour wishing the time away.

lilySalvatore · 29/11/2018 08:01

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sheldonstwin · 29/11/2018 08:10

Madonna

LorraineBainesMcFly · 29/11/2018 08:11

Lena Dunham. I wish she would just go away.

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