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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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Buswankeress · 29/11/2018 08:13

Keith Lemon - do not see the point of him at all.

Gin - I like gin but it's just been a PR exercise that everyone has gone crazy about, I have to give anyone who asks for one a questionnaire!
-Gin and tonic please

  • which gin would you like, we have (reels of eleventy billion gins)
  • which tonic with that (reels off the endless list of tonic)
  • ice and fruit? (Reels off the greengrocer stall of chopped fruit)
Rum will be next, I can see it creeping in already and then gin will go back to a green bottle gathering dust at the back of the bar.

Soaps (the TV kind, not the washy kind)

Natural horsemanship/Parelli etc (yes it's a bit specific) - it's all money making bollocks. There's shite all 'natural' about waving a stick in a horses face and lunging it to the field. Teach it some manners and you'll be better off and less injured!

Clothing on dogs. My old dog has a mini version of a horses winter rug to keep her dry in bad weather. She does not need a full outfit for every day of the week.

Turkey (especially at Christmas) it's dry whichever way you look at it, don't see the fuss about it.

fixxle · 29/11/2018 08:17

Bath bombs

RoboticSealpup · 29/11/2018 09:21

Oh, I just thought of my absolute number one! White gold.

Yeah, there's no such thing. It's gold mixed with other metals and plated with rhodium in order to look nice and white. When the rhodium wears off, It's more like sludgy brownish-grey gold. And still, 95% of all engagement rings seem to be made of it. Baffling.

IJustLostTheGame · 29/11/2018 09:24

Kristy Kreme
Nandos
Avocados
The big bang theory

Drogosnextwife · 29/11/2018 09:26

Sorry bit Peaky blinders and Game of thrones is amazing. I refused to watch them for years because I thought what is the fuss, then I binge watched both and I can't wait for the new ones next year!

dayswithaY · 29/11/2018 09:37

Rose gold anything
Ornaments in the shape of a llama, a pug, a cactus plant or a pineapple
Coca Cola - fizzy brown syrup - never understood this one.

allthgoodusernamesaretaken · 29/11/2018 10:07

Wood burning stoves - great in a cosy holiday cottage, but they look daft in top floor city flats

LadyRochfordsSpikedGusset · 29/11/2018 10:14

Fizzy alcohol but especially Prosecco and Champagne. For the first it seems a must to like if you're a woman apparently and the latter necessary for "occasions". Can't stand either.

That one Michelle Keenan's married to, don't get the fuss. Same with George Clooney. Tom Hardy is gorgeous though IMO.

Holidaying 100% by a pool. Pool could be anywhere.

Clinique- I bought most of the products for quite a while only to find the cheapy Nivea stuff was just just as good if not better.

Minor celebs acting thick a lot and thinking people will think it endearing and funny that they don't know quite basic general knowledge.

The smirking self-satisfied audience on Jeremy Kyle: worse than the guests.

Oasis - designed for waistless people.

Christmas jumpers: they look shit.

Well that was cathartic! & Sash love that quote from The Hitch.

LadyRochfordsSpikedGusset · 29/11/2018 10:15

*Keegan

thepoorestoftherichteabiscuits · 29/11/2018 10:24

Everything about ITV
Tess Daly and Holly Willoughby
Celebrity programmes especially ITV ones that are full of ‘celebs’ from ITV programmes
Social media
Alcohol
Cara Delevingne (ugliest model ever)
Christmas dinner
Gameshows like Deal or No Deal that have no real skill or entertainment value
Sarah Millican and Sara Pascoe
Personalised number plates – waste of money and just showing off
Overpaying for clothes because of brand names

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 29/11/2018 10:35

Talentless non c'lebs who launch a career on the back of say some show like TOWIE
Lily Allen and her reedy voice, she's no Adele for sure.
Most c'lebs "model" kids, expensive education and then they're launched. Brooklyn Beckham, drops out of Parsons after a year but has an amazing internship lined up according to his mother. The son of Jude Law, a "model" with several chins Shock Scarlett Curtis writing in The Sunday Times. Sheer nepotism at its worst.
Selfies, could some people get any vainer and how self absorbed to be constantly posing and taking photos of yourself.
C'lebs such as Lily Allen, Gary Lineker, Benedict Cumberbatch who regale the public with their political opinions, why do they think they have any influence in that sphere.
Stag and hen parties, baby showers, and other conspicuous waste of money events that some people think they are entitled to, but put others who can't afford such occasions in a difficult position.
Holly Willoughby overly sugary, no journalistic background unlike Judy Finnegan had when she was fronting same morning show and such brassy hair.
The Beckhams and the way they put their children in the spotlight, it's all very tacky.

carbuncleonapigsposterior · 29/11/2018 10:46

Forgot to add, women, who cycle about with baby wagon type of affairs, ok in Center Parcs, but on ordinary roads, really stupid, subjecting their offspring to diesel fumes and generally holding up the traffic.

Livingoncake · 29/11/2018 10:49

Ombré, balayage and all variations thereof. If I’m shelling out for a professional colour job, then yes, I want my roots covered.

JudasPrudy · 29/11/2018 10:53

YY to baby massage, please can we stop making new mums feel like they have to drag their baby around town to all these 'stimulating' activities, for them it's just stimulating enough to be alive.

ComeOnComeOnComeOnGetThroughIt · 29/11/2018 11:02

Florida
BMWs
Hot tubs
Dubai
Personalised number plates
Las Vegas
Men wearing brown shoes with a suit.

TheWiseWomansFear · 29/11/2018 14:21

The X factor is shite, shepherds pie is Vom, as is chocolate ice cream.

Evangelinee · 29/11/2018 16:22

YY to baby massage, please can we stop making new mums feel like they have to drag their baby around town to all these 'stimulating' activities, for them it's just stimulating enough to be alive.

This ^^

I have a timetable with all these "activities" on. I then get "reminded" daily by daily and also at each health visitor appointment that I need to attend. Why do I need to attend?
Also feeling less than capable after friends manage to attend several activities a day and I'm sat here as a single parent exhausted from last night's cluster feed.

MaryShelley1818 · 29/11/2018 16:29

Gin
Prosecco
Eyebrows that look like stick on fuzzy felts
Thai food

Graphista · 29/11/2018 16:41

"Dubai" omg yes! I think you should be ASHAMED if you holiday there not proud! Appalling human rights issues especially for women and if you holiday there you're making them think it's acceptable AND funding it! There are 1000's of other equally hot, beautiful places to go where those benefiting from your tourist £ aren't treating people like shit!

RayRayBidet · 29/11/2018 16:45

@StripySocksAndDocs
I fucking hate Mrs Brown. What a load of shit.

ilovechocolate07 · 29/11/2018 17:24

Alexa, iPhones, football fans, spending hundreds on concert tickets, lol dolls, squashy toy things, gin, macaroni and cheese....

Oobis · 29/11/2018 17:28

Jelly beans
Krispy Kreme donuts

Fowles94 · 29/11/2018 17:31

People who think vegetarian and vegan is trendy.
People who smoke and drink whilst pregnant.
People who moan about cost of living but live in London.
People who assume their parenting style is the only way to do it.

DarlingNikita · 29/11/2018 17:32

The Wire. Boring. Dominic West's American accent is toe-curling.

Twelve Years a Slave. DULL and too long by half.

Ryan Gosling. Looks like someone stacking shelves at Aldi.

Tom Hardy. Lips like a girl.

Sushi. You'd need to eat about a thousand pounds' worth to fill you up.

Christmas food (sprouts, stuffing, parsnips, pudding, rich fruit cake, brandy butter are all foul IMO). In fact 'doing' Christmas in general. It's just competitive buying/busyness/stressiness, plus sitting on trains with a load of drunks if you're stupid or unfortunate enough to be travelling in the few days preceding. I'd rather stay at home in PJs, have a roast chicken sandwich and listen to Radio 3.

Michael McIntyre. Not funny.

Hotel beds with a billion useless tiny cushions and one shite pillow.

I like lots of the things here though, including Nando's, Strictly, tattoos, coffee and poo toilet spray.

MrsPeel · 29/11/2018 17:43

Frank Sinatra - a nasty piece of work with only an average talent - only got where he was because he was in with the mob and yet he is idolised.

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