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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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BatshitCrazyWoman · 29/11/2018 18:48

Oh Grinchly yes 'piece' when talking about clothes. The fashion singular ('a heel' 'a dark jean') - wankiness!!

Oh and Youtube haul videos make me feel slightly sick - who watches that crap??

bossyrossy · 29/11/2018 18:50

Sending and receiving Christmas cards. I hate writing them (so I don’t any more) but people still send them to me and then I just feel guilty because I haven’t sent them one.

rosettesforjill · 29/11/2018 18:52

Mrs Brown's Boys (which I can see has been mentioned already)
The Next sale

rosettesforjill · 29/11/2018 18:54

Also, the Inbetweeners

ChocolateTearDrops · 29/11/2018 18:57

"Time for wine" "wine o'clock" "let the good times beGIN" wanky phrases on "must have" gifts.

Mrs Browns Boys. I was assured by people at work that I would love it, my sense of humour and it really just passed me by. Guess no one at work knew me!

Salted caramel. Why? Confused

CheeseTheDay · 29/11/2018 19:01

In no particular order, other than the order I thought of them...

  • Game of Thrones
  • Ant 'n' Dec
  • Prosecco
  • Beyonce
  • Strictly Come Dancing
  • Ricky Gervais (about as funny as toothache)
  • UGGs
  • Pandora
simiisme · 29/11/2018 19:02

I unashamedly love just about every thing and every person listed here. So the theories about, 'nobody likes them anyway' are wrong. Here I am! :D
Don't like long nails, fake tan, heavy makeup. I'm fascinated by HD brows and think they can look amazingly perfect.
Nando's chicken livers bring me joy.
I would cheerfully be Holly Willoughby's pal.
Beckham & Hardy are hotties. If Tom's 'average' you must have wonderful men where you live!
And if your Christmas dinner is crap, you're cooking it wrong. DH makes ours and it is utterly delicious, including sprouts that are a family favourite - we eat them all year.
Bollocks to Brexit, though.

SushiRolll · 29/11/2018 19:06

TOY STORY. I hate the first one and every subsequent. Stop making them fgs.

bumblebee39 · 29/11/2018 19:09

Love Nandos. Dominoes on the other hand... Bleurgh!

Not a big fan of many celebrities (I literally can't think of one I particularly admire or fancy or whatever)

Oral sex (giving or receiving just think it's seriously overrated and no not because I've been doing it wrong)
Equally porn.

Soaps, especially Hollyoaks.

Galaxy chocolate.

Big brother, X factor, Love Island.

bumblebee39 · 29/11/2018 19:11

Yes to gin and prosecco.
But also vodka and champagne.
Booze just tastes bad (unless its alcopops which remind me of my yoof)

Christmas dinner is the shit though. Love anything roast so Xmas is just that plus EXTRA

The80sweregreat · 29/11/2018 19:12

Squashyhat ; best answer to a thread I've read on here. I totally agree. As you get older you realise life is mostly pretty crap to be honest.

PortiaCastis · 29/11/2018 19:14

A piece for a dress or top etc.......sounds pretentious made up and unfuckinnecessary
Wanky women who draw slug eyebrows on themselves
People that brag incessantly about how much money they earn/how big their house is
IACGMOOH
Michael fuckin McIntyre
FB lookee at me posers

IlikebigbotsandIcannotlie · 29/11/2018 19:16

Yankee Candles.

RaiderOfTheKitchenCupboard · 29/11/2018 19:19

Perfume adverts on tv - wtaf are they all about?

RoboticSealpup · 29/11/2018 19:20

Agree about recieving oral sex. But I'm even more feed up of the 'advice' on how to make it better. As if it's fucking rocket science to 'get him to use his fingers at the same time'. Noooo - really? I would never have thought to try that! And yes, I've had more than one sex partner in my life so it's not just 'his bad technique'.

PeroniZucchini · 29/11/2018 19:23

Zara - cheap, badly fitting shite. And the shops are like jumble sales.
high street shopping in general: crowded, full of rude people, no bargains ever in my size, horrible queues for the till and changing rooms... And when you don’t get what you went for you still end up spending a fortune on parking, coffees, lunch and irrelevant crap that you never knew you needed.
IKEA. See above.
Festivals. Mud, noise, shit, twats, and Ed Sheeran headlining? No ta.
Instagram influencers. Anyone who follows these mediocre, talentless hawkers and buys into their shite is a 🐑

lionlaw · 29/11/2018 19:27

Grin purpletiger
Wish I knew you Grin

StarB3 · 29/11/2018 19:29

Tom Hardy has that cheeky guy appeal, i don't get David Beckham though. But Star Wars - the new ones are rubbish. I'm A Celeb, just normal tv in general is rubbish. The list could be endless. Each to their own though. Oh and Kevin the carrot!

CiderBrains · 29/11/2018 19:30

All these different kinds of advent calendars on sale nowadays.

"Baby sign language " classes. I realise you are desperate for your pfb baby to communicate but believe me, they will talk soon, just wait ffs!

Unknownunknowns · 29/11/2018 19:32

Love Actually - boring!!!!!

Vivianebrezilletbrooks · 29/11/2018 19:33

Ok. Here's what I don't get the fuss about.
Prosecco.
The fuss over Christmas adverts.
Primark.
Ugg Boots.
Spending thousands on holidays.
Daft motivational phrases on wall hangings.
Victoria's Secret.
Coldplay, Elbow and all those other boring indie blands.

Tweez · 29/11/2018 19:35

Another one for Ed Sheran here, he makes me go cold.
Mary Berry
Star Wars films
Another for Sheridan Smith Hmm so fake
Another for Mrs Brown’s boys...hubby can’t stand it either.
Boots Christmas advert Confused

virginqueen · 29/11/2018 19:35

Anything to do with the Kardashians
Or the Beckhams
Any soap that isn't The Archers
Lush - overpriced and smells horrible
Pizza Hut
Kirsty Allsop - go back to the 1950s
Primark
Vintage shops
Salted caramel anything

SirB0bby · 29/11/2018 19:41

Kylie Minogue. How she got to be such a successful singer Is beyond me. She can't sing.

PeroniZucchini · 29/11/2018 19:42

Yy to Christmas cards, Nando’s, Strictly, X Factor, Cheryl Cole (has she been mentioned yet?), the Beckhams and their kids, most celebrity kids that are foisted upon us that have no choice. Also private education (sorry, I’m blinded by experience that it’s a rip off IMHO), brexit, Next, kitten heels, leggings, coffee mornings, baby showers, spa days... I’m a miserable ol’ cunt.

Although I went to Dubai and was surprised by how much I liked it Blush

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