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strawberrisc · 02/03/2019 21:57

I just watched Mamma Mia 2.

If I say it was the biggest pile of steaming shite ever, am I out of the gang? Honest to God I don’t know what I wanted to gouge out first, my ears, my eyes or my brain.

Does anyone else have anything else to admit? You didn’t fancy Patrick Swazye in Dirty Dancing?

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SapphireSeptember · 03/03/2019 00:00

I still sleep with stuffed animals. Don't care that I'm 30, I like cuddles and as I'm single and have no pets stuffed animals it is!

I don't care if people can see my bra through my clothes, suck it up, buttercup! (At least I'm wearing one, sometimes I don't and that's even worse! Grin ) Also don't care if people can see my nipples through my clothes. They're covered, what more d'you want?

Reality TV and talent(less) shows are terrible and boring and need to go away. Soaps are boring and miserable. I don't bother watching TV anymore, I watch YouTube instead! Far more entertaining.

StinkyCandle · 03/03/2019 00:01

I thought nobody ever admitted liking Mamma Mia! The normal thing to do is to hate it.

I liked it, but I don't think anyone ever agreeing with me.

Shodan · 03/03/2019 00:02

'Celebrity' tv like Love Dancing Strictly on the Jungle Island or whatever it's called.

Star Wars and Lord of the Rings for taking hours of my life and boring me rigid (XH and ds2 are fans, now they can go together, thank god)

Kill Bill for just being shitey shiteiness.

Feature walls, especially those with a 'jazzy'/'snazzy'/'fun' wallpaper.

Jazz.

Tillygetsit · 03/03/2019 00:11

Hate Friends and have never sat through a whole episode. Mamma Mia 1 was excruciating so I will not be seeing Mamma Mia 2. Never seen Dirty Dancing and I think Leonardo Di Caprio looks like a pig and Johnny Depp now looks like he smells.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:13

I also despise Harry Potter an absolute load of appallingly written twaddle and can't understand how adults talk about it. especially what Hogwarts House their in and wear the house lanyards etc at work, as if it's real it, bad news folks wake up it isn't.

Somebody alluded to this on another thread and was promptly flamed for apparently accusing adults who like HP of having a low reading age, and thus low intelligence. The OP said, quite rightly IMO, that she was just perplexed at adults openly and proudly reading children's books.

Not that I'd want my DS to read HP for all of the reasons already given. I'm no literary snob and I'm not expecting him to be devouring Proust whilst at primary school. I also don't have a problem with adults occasionally revisiting their own childhoods and swapping their normal grown-up books for an Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl from time to time.

The thing is when people act so superior about it and exhibit inverse snobbery. I enjoy watching tacky old gameshows on Challenge sometimes (I also like Only Connect, Newsnight if the topic interests me and even some programmes on BBC4!), but I don't go around assuming that everybody is a fan of Bullseye or Wheel of Fortune, talking excitedly about it to strangers in shops and then accusing them of being 'superior' for denying that they love it - or, worse, calling them 'muggles' who just fail to understand it.

SapphireSeptember · 03/03/2019 00:17

I also take Harry Potter very seriously. I'm a Hufflepuff (until August when I become a MacNewthorn and I go to a 'real' magic school. Grin )

vintanner · 03/03/2019 00:18

My list is so long my finger would bleed.

BarnabybearinDenmark · 03/03/2019 00:18

I don't get why Goggle box is supposed to be hilarious. If they were being filmed secretly and we're unaware then that would be much funnier.
Also, loathe Mrs. Brown's boys.

vintanner · 03/03/2019 00:19

fingers

ColeHawlins · 03/03/2019 00:20

calling them 'muggles' who just fail to understand it.

They didn't? That's hilarious.

They're the same kind of tribe as Trekkies, though aren't they? Just smile and nod.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:22

Watching and following sport (unless you know and are close to the players) absolutely baffles me. Sport is something that you DO - why would you care about strangers doing it? Maybe if it's a visually vibrant sport such as gymnastics or American football, but cricket and golf? And boxing - grown-ups watching other grown-ups having a glorified playground scrap?!

I like watching the telly, but I have no interest in watching other people watching it. Then again, I've heard of Gogglebox and it sounds like it's very popular - so maybe it's just me on that one.

nakedscientist · 03/03/2019 00:24

Climate change is undoubtedly occurring, but is part of the natural cycles of our planet which play out over centuries and are not caused by human activity. The Romans grew grapes in the north of England, the Victorians skated on the frozen Thames. We are currently experiencing a warm spell. It will pass, as others did before it.

Sorry, but this is dangerous and simply not true.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:26

@BarnabybearinDenmark - cross-posted on Gogglebox!

Agree on Mrs Brown's Boys, though. I actually quite like Brendan O'Carroll when I've seen him elsewhere on telly, but MBB is just utter offal of the highest order. And why is it actually called that anyway when Mrs Brown also has a daughter?

sushisuperstar · 03/03/2019 00:28

Oh yes Zoe ball is torture on R2. Graham norton and Steve Wright are also irritating.

I also hate friends the show. Awful. I can't see the appeal in restaurants or fitness classes either. I generally find the public loud and annoying.

Ed Sheeran Jess Glynne the lot of them argh.

Socialising too. I CBA with that 99% of the time. Oh and hashtags. Naff naff naff.

All of these tacky celeb things children in need CR etc. Stinks of hypocrisy IMO.

I'm such a grump lol.

sushisuperstar · 03/03/2019 00:29

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll totally agree re sport in general. Although I watch the 6 nations to get an eye full of some of the players 😏

Kneehigim · 03/03/2019 00:30

It's because the daughter doesn't get a look-in. Typical Irish Mammy. It's all about the boys.

Thurmanmurman · 03/03/2019 00:33

I hate gin. It tastes like hairspray when you accidentally get a bit in your mouth. Also avocado tastes like soap.

Kneehigim · 03/03/2019 00:34

I endured a Harry Potter tour of London with dd. Muggles was derived from something Dickens wrote (Muggletown maybe?). Apparently JK adopted a lot from his writing.

Kneehigim · 03/03/2019 00:35

@sushisuperstar I'm totally with you on the 6 nations! Wink

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:35

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll totally agree re sport in general. Although I watch the 6 nations to get an eye full of some of the players 😏

At least you're honest! That just reminded me of the old Not The Nine O'Clock News Sketch where men dressed as darts players were having a 501-zero drinking competition - the scores counting down being units of alcohol. Best of all, they were idly throwing darts at a board whilst they were waiting for their turn at the REAL competition Grin

Kneehigim · 03/03/2019 00:36

I have never watched a HP film or read a book. As I said, I hate science fiction. Or nonsensical fiction.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:44

Graham norton and Steve Wright are also irritating

I can take or leave Graham, but Steve (with his Big Show) is indeed annoying. And whilst we're at it, the definition of a 'factoid' is a myth that many people believe to be true. You are NOT featuring 'factoids' - what you are relating are, in fact, called 'facts' and not usually very interesting or uncommonly-known ones at that.

It's a shame as I otherwise like some of the music that tends to be played on his show, but as soon as I hear the theme tune after Jeremy Vine's programme and then the short news bulletin has finished, it has me doing some serious switchin' off of the radio (no 'g').

Kneehigim · 03/03/2019 00:50

DD could have spent hours and hours in the HP souvenir shop. She was in utter heaven. What's the dorm HP was in? That's the one dd wanted to belong to believed she belonged to and everything for that dorm was sold out.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:51

It's because the daughter doesn't get a look-in. Typical Irish Mammy. It's all about the boys.

Ah, that didn't occur to me. It's a bit unsubtle actually calling it that, though, isn't it - rather than it just being a manifest recurring theme of the programme?

I agree with a PP that Only Fools And Horses was never actually that amazing (unlike John Sullivan's relatively little-known Dear John, which was brilliant), but at least they gave it a deliberately subtle and slightly poetic title - they didn't just call it 'Hapless Family Of Dishonest Traders'.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/03/2019 00:53

DD could have spent hours and hours in the HP souvenir shop. She was in utter heaven. What's the dorm HP was in? That's the one dd wanted to belong to believed she belonged to and everything for that dorm was sold out.

This is now where you tell us that your DD is actually 38, isn't it? Grin