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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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Sparklingbrook · 03/03/2019 14:02

I don't know what is so marvellous about the group Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody is an awful song that goes on way too long.

LaBelleSauvage · 03/03/2019 14:04

Nando's
Fast food restaurants
Deep pan pizza
Prosecco- it's sickly and revolting. Cava, cremant and champagne are infinitely better.
Soaps
Tabloids
Anyone saying anything about the royal family.
Bedding plants
X factor's got british talent etc
Those 99 ice creams with plastic cones
Fake lawn
Armchair arm covers

LaBelleSauvage · 03/03/2019 14:05

Oh. And daily facebook updates.

LaBelleSauvage · 03/03/2019 14:06

And photos altered to make people's eyes too big for their head. It's not pretty it's creepy

Mymatemarmitey · 03/03/2019 14:14

Olivia Colman. Not a fan, her acting consists of glancing down out of the corner of her eye, and muttering.
The favourite was one of the worst films I have ever seen, would have walked out of cinema but was stuck in the middle of the row, and my friend was enjoying it.

Mymatemarmitey · 03/03/2019 14:15

saying that, I adored mumma Mia and have seen both films at the cinema twice, so maybe my taste in films is questionable..!

Cattenberg · 03/03/2019 14:18

Tea tastes horrible, and I can’t stand the way most people faff about over their hot drinks. If it’s not made exactly the way you like it, you “can’t drink it”. Really? Also, your tea doesn’t have to be in a special mug. You’re not five.

Sparklingbrook · 03/03/2019 14:21

I also can't sit through 4 Weddings and a Funeral/Notting Hill/Love Actually or any of that sort of film. Cringe.

Shinyletsbebadguys · 03/03/2019 14:27

I suspect I'm similar to a lot of you

Cannot bear reality shows...I do not understand remotely the attraction of z list celebrities prancing around for no good reason , actually mostly I don't know who the celebrities are anyway I am very very bad at recognising anyone post 1995

Soaps...why do people want to watch a dramatized excessive version of their own lives ? It's like a very odd perceptual paradox that gains nothing at all

Prosecco but then I do drink whisky so that might be a taste but thing

Having a chat on the phone? Why for God's sake ? Can you not just send a text or an email and boom 30 minute conversation made much more efficient to 5 minutes at your convenience

I am a miserable so and so I fully accept that

Oh wait the whole attraction to celebrities ...jusy why? You are never likely to meet them and they were just a human being there really isn't anything to fancy ...you don't actually know them

I fully believe we should be environmentally responsible however I do not understand the bandwagon jumping on plastic use...people who drive round in Chelsea tractors get apoplectic over the use of straws ...its bizarre...im shit at environmental stuff but I don't pretend I'm not and I'm not a moron and believe that if all single use plastic bags are removed it will in fact instantly save the world

bringincrazyback · 03/03/2019 14:32

Breaking Bad bored the pants off me. There, I said it.

Loyaultemelie · 03/03/2019 14:34

Yes to avoiding weddings like the plague
Mamma Mia (haven't gone near 2)
Nights out to singalong things (greatest showman/dirty dancing etc) why?

bringincrazyback · 03/03/2019 14:34

Also, many/most? people's general obsession with food and eating out drives me crackers. It's just food FFS!

pigsDOfly · 03/03/2019 15:02

Dear god I'm beginning to think there nothing I like. As I read more of the posts on here I'm thinking, oh yeah that too. Maybe I'm just a miserable cow who likes nothing.

I think I've agreed with everything on here except pp's dislike of avocado, that I do like.

Sparklingbrook · 03/03/2019 15:03

Perhaps we need a 'things you love and don't care what anyone else thinks' thread. Grin

QuirkyQuark · 03/03/2019 19:02

LaBelle I don't mind a daily fb update but I do object to multiple ones of "Just been to Asda, now to put the shopping away" or flipping checkins to hospitals, then when you enquire they say they'll pm you. Just say why you're there and stop with all the secret bullshit. Most of us parents have had one incident where we've ended up at A&E because we took our eyes off the ball and our child has a dent in their head other accidents are available , social services are not going to remove your precious child because of your checkin.

Chocolatekitty · 03/03/2019 19:14

Amazing how many people don't like the apparently popular things... maybe everyone is just pretending!

I can't stand the 'doing things for charity'- be that doing a skydive or heading off to build a school in inner Mongolia or whereever. If I want to give to charity, I'll just do it, and I'll pick the charity. No need for flinging yourself out of an aeroplane like it has some value. Also Children in need and its ilk- just a chance for third rate celebrities to get more exposure.

Also avocado. Evil slimy soapy stuff.

Believability · 03/03/2019 19:26

A holiday to Orlando is not the holiday of a lifetime. Going to theme parks every day is boring, Disney is rundown and not magical and the rest of the parks are overgrown funfairs. Orlando itself is horrible and the food almost without exception, wherever you eat is pretty shit.

Other parts of Florida on the other hand are wonderful and well worth exploring

MamaWeasel · 03/03/2019 21:05

Many, many of these, and also Roald Dahl....cannot stand his writing.

And tea, cannot abide the stuff.

Chilli...... Yuck yuck yuck.

Prosecco, profiteroles.... Oh, and lord of the frigging rings....

HeathRobinson · 03/03/2019 21:14

Saying you don't drink much and being believed. Hmm

MrsJayy · 03/03/2019 21:23

Regarding tom hardy he went to a posh private school hismum is a painter (artist not decorator)his dad is a novelist his cockney accent is MockneyGrin

liitlepenguin · 03/03/2019 21:29

I hate musicals
ALL OF THEM
Just talk goddamit

.... that felt much better

ShabbyAbby · 03/03/2019 21:39

I don't like

Prosecco
Champagne
Actually fizzy white wine of any kind
Gin

Guineapiglet345 · 03/03/2019 22:27

I’ve always liked a gin and tonic and the people who used to pull a face and say eugh when I’d have it 10 years ago are the same people who are “obsessed” with fancy gin flavours now it’s fashionable Hmm

My socially unacceptable thing is that I hate recycling, I don’t believe they do anything with it, I think it just sits in its own special section at the tip and it’s just to make us feel like we’re doing something to save the planet, like when people cut down iron railings during WW2 to make them into guns (except it was the wrong kind of metal).

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strawberrisc · 04/03/2019 02:58

I had a conversation with my Dad today about how I couldn’t imagine being able to physically harm someone. For example, if someone was robbing the house and I had a knife to hand I couldn’t imagine using it.

However, lock me in a room for 5 minutes with the adults talking like babies in the Haribo ad, the two women from Bristol who try too hard to be funny on Gogglebox (and fail spectacularly) or Amanda Holden and it might be a different story.

Not a taboo but I feel very at home with my ranty people.

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user1457017537 · 04/03/2019 03:02

I hate, have always hated ABBA. Ditto both MamaMia’s. I loved Dirty Dancing though!
I can’t stand Queen or Freddie Mercury either. Always preferred the Rolling Stones to the Beatles.