To ask for your hill you will die on? LIGHTHEARTED

[SheliaHammondDiet]

As per the meme ‘I will die on this hill’ what are your lighthearted hills you’re willing to die on?

Mine:

Phoebe Buffay is the worst friends character. She is not kooky, she’s mean, selfish and always looking for ways to put the other friends down. Everyone is too busy hating Ross to realise Phoebe is a cock. I will die on this hill.

There is nothing wrong with putting Lurpak AND then dripping on toast.

I don't care how horrified DH is by my culinary habits. Or how much he makes noises about 'heart attack on a plate'.

Also, it's not wrong to cook sausages in an oven....and then pour the sausage fat over your mashed potatoes. It's tasty.

This may, of course, be the hill I literally die on...

Ross Geller and an absolutely fuck tonne of "delightful" lighthearted 90s twaddle was actually just misogynistic bullshit.

I'll dig two graves and prepare to engage on that score, anyday. if I grin it's still lighthearted, yes?

The difference between less and fewer.

That’s my hill. Get it right or I will fight you!!

It’s not hard - you can have less mash potato and fewer chips. Get it right. Yes, BBC, I’m looking at you mostly.

Harry Potter was a friend endangering whiny emo tool. Neville Longbottom was the Hero of Hogwarts.

The book is ALWAYS better than the film. There are two exceptions: Jaws and The Princess Bride. That is it.

MouthBreathingRage I'm with you on that HP hill.

Ron weasley gets on my tits and I’d happily punch him into the face.

Butter. Salted. Unless baking cake in which case Marge is fine. That is all.

Peanut butter and marmite on toast IS amazing.

Dr Who is a man.

It spoils historical dramas by casting people from BAME into roles that they wouldn't be in. I will extend the same to white actors who are cast as indigenous people. We need more diverse actors, including those with regional dialects.

We need more proper 18 horror films and not in between that will also suit the teenage market.

Weed is a terrible drug.

Americans can call films movies but if you are in the UK it is punishable by death.

Probably inappropriately unlighthearted, but caring for your own children IS work. Fecking hard work. The threads arguing otherwise always give me the rage.

Peanut butter marmite (in one jar) is even better.

Macarons are basically fancy coloured meringue with filling and macaroons are baked coconut biscuit/cake things.

Both exist entirely separately from each other and are things in their own right. Although if they're ever put on a plate together the universe will spontaneously separate into two parallel existences.

My hills are trifle is awful and should never be served as a dessert. Custard should only be served cold. Cereal is meant to be served with cold milk. Porridge is hot not cereal!

Then dogs are way better than cats.... Mike drop, no contest.

They'd have all died without her.

Would they have though? Or had she become a typical female character - silly menz can't organise themselves so she had to step in to do it for them. That was her character setup from the first book, boys couldn't be arsed thinking for themselves, or do their homework, so the nice, sensible, clever girl did it for them. Harry could then go off an be the hero without engaging his braincells for all 7 books. They boys never had to use their brains or even common sense, because she always did it for them - all they had to say was 'oh but you're clever Hermione' and she cracked!

Actually, I can't think of any male student who was written as having any intelligence or common sense in the books, they were all either ready to play hero or overly aggressive. Percy, but all his personality was made out to be insufferable. Fred and George perhaps but the former was also a nasty bulky (he didn't deserve to die, but he really was vile). Just really disappointing character arcs in general.

Russell Crowe was a great Javert!

If anyone has anything to say FFS Wolverine was bloody Val Jean. Forget the singing thing it's Hollywood doing a musical. You don't get to criticise!

Neville Longbottom was the Hero of Hogwarts.

I dunno about that. Yes, he killed the snake, but any one of a number of others would have done that if asked, armed and available. He won ten points for Griffindor in the first book by standing up to the main characters. He joined Dumbledore's army and did lead it but only at a point where it was unnecessary to the plot. Luna and Ginny also had a hand in leading it. He survived being raised by his grandmother. He came face to face with the woman who killed his parents in battle. But is he the hero, or just a hero?

Sherry doesn't belong in a trifle - makes it taste awful

@MouthBreathingRage

I kind of agree. The fanaticism was always there. Firebombing a surrendered city was inevitable. It's an interesting point about the danger of those who are convinced they are righteous. As Tyrion says to Jon Snow:

When she murdered the slavers of Astapor, sure noone but the slavers complained. After all, they were evil men. When she crucified hundreds of Mereeneese nobles, who could argue? They were evil men. The Dothraki Khals she burned alive? They would have done worse to her. Everywhere she goes, evil men die and we cheer her for it. And she grows more powerful and more sure she is good and right. She believes her destiny is to build a better world for everyone. If you believed that, if you truly believed it, wouldn't you kill whoever stood between you and Paradise?

I agree with some of the above, I disagree with others whilst accepting their viewpoint is valid, but the disrespect to Saint David of Attenborough makes me very sad.

I will die on a hill of cold baked beans. Because that's true love. Right there.

The British have the best puddings and cakes in the world. I will grant the rest of our cuisine is pretty shit, but when it comes to pudding we knock every other foody culture into a cocked hat. Victoria sponge, jam roly poly, mince pies, fruit cake, christmas pudding, chocolate cake, steamed syrup pudding, lemon drizzle, millionnaires shortbread, queen of pudding, treacle tart, bakewell tart, paradise slice, I could go on and on, the list of British dessert delights is endless and wonderful. And I will die on this hill.

Hermione is the best character in Harry Potter and the real hero.

Likewise Samwise in Lord of the Rings.

Othello is a better love tragedy than Romeo and Juliet.

Rachel and Chandler were the most likable Friends characters and grew the most through all the series. They'd have been a better couple than
Rachel/Ross and Chandler/Monica.

I liked Phoebe, but I always felt they tried to disguise serious MH issues as being 'a bit quirky'. Though that was likely the point.

The Tudor period is actually really interesting, which is why it is studied at school so much.

You don't have to cut your hair in to a bob when you have kids.

Mayonnaise goes with virtually any food.

Smoked salmon aka uncooked fish, is bloody rank, and so is sushi!