Can't you see I'm trying, I don't even like it
Happy Easter everyone.
Thanks for all the responses to my courageous Dr Who-related confession yesterday. About half of respondents were in the same situation as me; the other half offered useful pointers to understanding the popular-but-seemingly-not-for-me phenomenon. I will be following these over the next few weeks and will report back to you. I also feel emboldened to admit to some of the other things I’ve so far failed to join the rest of the world in appreciating. I’ll be covering them in a blog some time next week
In the meantime, I’m going to invite other people to disclose their own unfashionable tastes. It’s a lonely business, not being ‘into’ something which everyone else makes a big fuss over. If you genuinely believe Jedward are the best musicians there have ever been, it doesn’t matter how few people agree with you: you get that defiant glow from enjoying something which the herd don’t appreciate. Whereas if the rest of Planet Earth is falling over itself to talk about how cool X is, and you don’t agree, you don’t even have the consolation of your own enthusiasm. You’re just left with the bitter feeling of someone who’s not been invited to a party everyone else will be talking about on Monday.
Perhaps we can have a prize for the person who can honestly lay claim to disliking the thing which is most liked by the rest of the world. So if you’ve never quite ‘got’ chocolate, television or staying in bed, spill the beans. Nobody will be made fun of, I imagine – this is, as we’ve said before, a supportive environment (and if you ever doubt that, check out the comments people leave on my Yahoo! blog). Who knows, you might find someone else with the same pet indifference as you. So, over to you. What films/books/people/things do you not ‘get’?
After the Easter break I’ll explore your responses as well as catching up with a good few other loose ends left by this, the blog that never quite runs out of steam, but often doesn’t quite make sense either. Enjoy the rest of your long weekend! Ho ho ho! No, I’m thinking of Christmas.
Posted by knox on May 8, 2011
I didn’t have much in mind when I first read the blog, but skimming the comments has given me some ideas.
Don’t get:
- women’s magazines that just glorify in all the horrible things that happen to people, celebrity or otherwise. Sometimes standing in the queues at the shops, seeing all of them screaming their gleeful outrage or ‘sympathy’ I just want to burn them all.
- people who carry on buying stuff from companies that have pretty awful CVs in terms of human rights etc just because it’s cheaper (primark) or they ‘can’t do without it’ (coca-cola)
- celebrity-life following – I couldn’t care less who was spotted where doing what with who. I don’t mean like when an actual person sees someone they like – I once stood at the same traffic light as mark Thomas and got a bit over-excited! – I mean newspaper reports/news articles about things like I saw on google the other day ‘facebook owner buys first house’ – and I’m supposed to care because..?
- bitching about people that haven’t really done anything except maybe slightly irritatate you, then being nice to their face. A lot of colleagues do this at work, and even though they know I hate it, still decide I’m a willing vessel for their gripes. And I do mean bitching- like ‘what was she wearing, she looked like mutton dressed as lamb’ etc. Just not nice really
- premier league footballers’ salaries. I have heard the arguments. I am not convinced.
- not being 100% yourself/honest when it comes to the whole relationship thing-acting uninterested or whatever – I thought people stopped doing that when they were 14
- casual racism eg it being ok to generalise when it comes to, say, Americans or the french (burger king ad anyone!?)
- the film of ‘the shining’- I’m a huge Stephen king fan, and thought bits of the film were truly scary. Overall though, didn’t understand the hype. Same for Black Swan-good acting but not always brilliant story, and Napoleon Dynamite-funny, but not that great.
- Ricky Gervaise – as a stand up, I just don’t find him funny. Didn’t get the office either
OK, that turned a bit rant-like. Things I do like despite potential unpopularity:
- lost. Especially the ending, which even a lot of loyal fans didn’t
- the hoosiers. Not so much the second album, but definitely a big fan of the guys themselves and the first album.
- stacking dishes at restaurants/stripping beds at hotels and b&bs
- paying your own part of the bill rather than splitting equal ways-never understood how that’s fair especially when some people are on a real budget and others not
- dark chocolate bounty
- Stuart Townsend even in ‘shooting fish’
- most films Rachel Aniston has been in.
- Chicago Hope and Eli Stone
Posted by SirChrisOfBumpstead on May 24, 2010
Am I the first person to realise that this is the opening line to one of the best albums ever?
x
Posted by Hannah on April 21, 2010
Chocolate.
Cream.
Cake – especially with the combination of chocolate and cream.
Popular music.
Posted by Chris on April 21, 2010
Things I don’t get;
Atheism (what’s the point of that?)
Agnosticism (so you’re not sure and that’s the label you are going to attach to yourself – congratulations! Get off the fence and find a better song to sing)
Church (dull, boring, too much singing)
Religion (too much fighting and disagreement)
politics (just tell the truth and do what you think is right)
Dancing
dance music (by association with above)
ITV
bad newspapers
low fat ….. (just eat less of the nice stuff)
Posted by Kate on April 8, 2010
Some of the things I really don’t get/ really don’t like are:
Cake
Reality TV shows- I mean half the time you just watch people eat or sleep,I really don’t get it.
Watching football on TV (sorry Mark!)
Most American comedy cartoon shows, not including the Simpsons
Robert Pattinson
Posted by Rachel V on April 7, 2010
I’m so glad other people have said Twilight! So many of my very normal friends went absolutely mental over the series I was beginning to wonder whether the problem was with me.
It was the same with Skins although I could never admit to whilst i was still at 6th form because everyone I knew worshipped that blonde ‘Maxxie’ character. I was so pleased when Inbetweeners did so well, it seemed the perfect antidote to all of E4′s pale, self-indulgent teen dramas.
Oh and brightly coloured eye make-up! What’s that all about?! I hear its the new big thing but anything other than black/grey or brown shades just looks like clown make-up to me.
Larkrise to Candleford however is a master-piece and it’s only a matter of time before everyone comes their senses and stops teasing for me for having the boxsets on my wish list- I hope!
Posted by Anca H. on April 6, 2010
Hate:
- Tea. OK if it’s medicinal, there is a purpose to it then, but otherwise… why? (I live in Yorkshire with a man who drinks 7 cups of tea per day. Still, it could be a lot worse: he could be drinking 7 cups of whisky per day…)
– Pancake Tuesday. So, they have a huge Carnival in Rio, a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, and… Pancake Tuesday, around here. It’s not that I am longing to see a bunch of scantily clad Yorkshire folks parading down Main Street, dancing with abandon to samba music, but, either you seriously want to celebrate something, or forget it. Besides, you can have pancakes any day, they are very easy to make. Should we at least kick it up a notch and declare it Crepes Suzette Tuesday? Make it a bit more special?
– Vampire stories/movies/books. My Gran was Transylvanian, so I have it on good authority: there is no such thing as vampires. Get over it, people.
Posted by Megan on April 6, 2010
Well, I’ve been out in the garden/at the pub for the last few days and missed this posting. There are plenty of things I don’t get, despite the insistence on them being awesome:
1. Weed. (I live in Canada. The bloody stuff is everywhere. It puts me to sleep. This is not how I want to spend an evening unless I’m having an early night. In which case I’ll just sleep.)
2. Most (not all) North American standup comedy. I prefer wordplay and irony to loud obnoxiousness and gross generalisations. (See what I did there?)
3. Terry Pratchett and Tom Robbins (who might not be as popular in the UK). I find their cleverness unreadably forced.
4. Ben Stiller. Grating.
5. Public shows of skin at places that aren’t beaches. I don’t care if you’re buff, put your damn shirt back on. And maybe choose a skirt that doesn’t make the world your gynaecologist (tm Patsy Stone). Good lord, I’m old. Olde, even. At 32.
6. Hot weather. In part because of the people mentioned in 5, but also because I can’t deal with it very well. Perhaps this is why I like Edinburgh and Reykjavík so much.
7. Lord of the Rings. To my shame (?), I’ve never made it through the books (except The Hobbit, which I enjoyed well enough) and have never seen the films.
Things I love that I know make me uncool:
1. Medical/’medical’ shows, particularly the real gross and exploitative ones that Channel 4 makes.
2. Romanian comedy films. This is only based on two films (Police, Adjective and 12:08 East of Bucharest), but I loved them both.
3. Curling. Watching, not playing.
Posted by Mark D on April 6, 2010
Dr Who, I don’t get it also, I like sci-fi stuff in general, but I just don’t understand the mania about, I have watched it, I didn’t think it was bad, wouldn’t make time to watch it or rush out to buy the DVD boxset, but just couldn’t understand why it has such a following.
Euro-vision: I honestly don’t understand the concept of this contest, even when my country (am from Ireland) was doing well at it, the contest is not about musical merit, and also I don’t understand how the songs are meant to appeal to people from diverse group of cultures and countries.
Boybands in general, I don’t get them, but suppose it is ok as they are not really targeted at me.
CSI TV programs: I have a complete hatred of these programs, I fail to understand how they have became so popular, I realise that they are fictional, but the depiction of police procedure is wrong and incorrect. I could rant on and on about what I dislike about it, but this is not the place for it.
Posted by Sam on April 6, 2010
Quick addendum to my original post on star wars, cushions & video games:
Dean: I know and that there are lots of games that don’t involve shooting/wars/killing in general and that people can get totally immersed in those virtual worlds, but I still just genuinely don’t get it. I don’t judge – to each his own. I’m sure people don’t value Dawson’s Creek and mushrooms as much as I do. I think in general I just don’t see the fascination and entertainment value in spending hours playing a computer game. I can get totally lost in a great book, lost for hours at a time in the words, but a pc/console game? Nah, not for me. Perhaps another thing I should have added to my list is online networking in general – facebook, bebo, myspace etc. I know most people are mad for it but I’m not interested. Friends and my boyfriend try to get me to set up a page as it’s a ‘great way to stay in touch with friends’ but so is e-mail and telephone calls and face-to-face visits. I’m no luddite by any stretch of the imagination but the idea of having 1200 friends who can all poke me….don’t see the appeal. From what I’ve seen of facebook in particular there seems so much nonsense and spam, something about farmville? and people sending you virtual flowers? Real flowers for me, thanks very much. Anyway, off to check that Joey still picks Pacy over Dawson…
Posted by Jackiec on April 6, 2010
I am fairly middle of the road, and didn’t think I had anything to add, but then I remembered that I just can’t stand Myleen Klass(?). I’m pretty sure she is a lovely person, but she really got my goat with her book on how brilliant it is to be a mum. Never read the book, but the publicity she did angered me beyond belief! She was so ‘ aren’t babies brilliant?’ and ‘ I just love being a mum’. I’m sure that some babies are wonderful, but for those of us who had colicky babies that slept little and cried a lot for the first 6 months, the things she said just added to the worry that I was not doing things right. Having children is wonderful and I adore my little girl, but the first 6 months was the hardest time of my life! A little empathy would have gone a long way! Oops, ethos turned into more of a rant than comment! Sorry!
Posted by EmmaT on April 6, 2010
Primark – don’t get it, never will, yet all my friends rave about it.
Bananas – Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Posted by Mel on April 6, 2010
Quienten Tarintino films. (‘scuse the spelling). Don’t get them. I’ve tried.
I’ll add the godfather series too. I group them a as guy films, ones I don’t get.
I read the comments and was heartened to find that a large portion of us don’t like going out that much. I told a friend this the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy.
Driving would be the other one. I’m really ok with taking the bus and the train and I get so annoyed when people try to tell me I need to learn to drive and get a car. I really don’t. The train is cheaper. And I can read.
Posted by Dean on April 6, 2010
The Simpsons.
God, I’ve tried. On multiple occasions. I just don’t see why it’s meant to be funny. And my friends look at me in complete horror when I explain this as I’m the guy that’s meant to be ‘in to’ comedy.
And a quick defense of videogames: Sam, there are games where you can choose peace over war. There are games that put narrative front and centre and don’t involve any shooting of people. It’s a wonderful form, that’s bogged down in the fact that 90% of people that play games just want to blow things up. And so 90% of games cater to those people. And so that’s all we see in the media and is what the average boyfriend spends his time on the Xbox doing.
I suggest anyone that’s unsure about video games take five minutes (as that’s all it takes) to play Passage: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/
It’s about something. To explain would ruin it, but if you have any sort of awareness (of life, and artistic expression, not games) then you’ll get it.
Posted by Beth on April 5, 2010
Beer. I just don’t get it. It tastes vile and takes forever to get you drunk.
I don’t get RnB music either, just sounds like noise to me.
Posted by Heather Jones on April 5, 2010
Just to join in -
I don’t ‘get’ cats as pets (am very much a dog person)
I don’t ‘get’ pretty much all classical music: have given up going to recitals or listening to it – my mind always just starts drifting away. Feel I am missing some bit of the brain that allows me to appreciate the structure of a piece of music – even went to an adult education class some years ago to try to learn how to appreciae classical music, but it was no good.
I don’t see the appeal of tattoos and body piercings (except for the ‘normal’ single ear piercing in each earlobe to be able to wear earrings) I dread the future with vast numbers of wrinkly tatooed people all around the place – yuck!
Posted by Sam on April 5, 2010
I’ve come up with a few things that I don’t like/have never tried:
Star Wars movies. Just don’t see what all the fuss is above. I’ve watched one and a bit. When the first of the new ones came out a few years ago I thought I would watch the original 3 (which I’d never seen before) and then go to the cinema to watch the new ones as they were released. I watched all of the first one and was a bit baffled – not by the story as that’s so simple a foetus could understand it – but just…what was the point? I got about 15mins or so into the second one and decided that life was just too short to waste time watching rubbish movies.
Cushions – as a girl I’m supposed to like all types of soft furnishings but cushions just don’t do it for me. I don’t see the need for them. They make your sofa look untidy so that you’re constantly fixing/rearranging them to be neat, when you sit down you just move them out the way, so what’s the point? If you need them to be comfy on your sofa then you should have bought a more comfy sofa in the first place.
Computer/Console Games – I’ve had a go at rock band and it can be fun if there are a few of you and you’re all a bit tipsy, but that’s where my love of x-box or whatever ends. My boyfriend enjoys shooting/soldier/fast car type games. He and his friends (all geeks!) were very excited when the latest Call of Duty came out so I had a go to see what all the fuss was about. I spent about 10 minutes running around holding a gun shooting at immobile objects while he too great joy in killing me and launching air attacks against me. I wanted to know if we were the goodies or the baddies – but apparently those minor details don’t matter. I wanted to know why we were fighting – what was the war about – but that doesn’t really matter either. In the end I asked if there was a button on the joystick that you could use to make the soldiers put down there guns and give each other man hugs and agree that war was pointless. Apparently not, and he told me that I couldn’t use the online talk option to ask people to come to a peaceful agreement and ceasefire as he’d probably get a complaint put against him to Microsoft. That signalled then end of my online shoot em up experience.
Posted by Hannah on April 5, 2010
I hate:
- tea.
- hotels (I don’t like how people are paid to be nice to/ do things for me.)
- shepherd’s pie
- the meerkat adverts
- mobile phones and people’s obsession with having really new ones
I love:
- Coach Trip
- S Club 7
Posted by Lynsey on April 5, 2010
A few things I don’t get:
Lost – Watched one episode. Never watched it again.
Most magazines aimed at women – Especially those ones with “real life” stories like “MY HUSBAND LEFT ME FOR MY TRANSVESTITE BROTHER!” and “I GAVE BIRTH TO A HAMSTER!” Did women fight for equality so we’d get this tripe?!
Arctic Monkeys – yes “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” is a tune and all, but really I don’t think they are as brilliant as they are made out to be.
Skins – See Lost.
Charlie Brooker – I’m probably the only person who thinks this, but I genuinely can’t stand the man. To me he’s just another jumped up journalist who’s become a TV personality. He’s nowhere near in the same league as Piers Morgan or Janet Street-Porter in terms of annoyance (who is?), but he irritates me nonetheless.
Posted by Anna Lowman on April 5, 2010
I shouldn’t be allowed to comment on here, because I just want to heal those who don’t get The Beatles, and that’s not really the point.
Agreed on Napoleon Dynamite and the taste of alcohol though.
Posted by Rory on April 5, 2010
There are a few things I really can’t enjoy.
Superhero films, actually there are lots of films I’ve not watched which apparently I should. I watch a few more interesting films but I don’t understand how Batman is cool and even less Superman.
Anything with Adam Sandler/Seth Rogan/Will Ferrell/etc. I thought it was the general consensus that 3 films like this came out a year, millions 14 yr olds sneaked and they were crappy. Aren’t they just a rite of passage? Surely once you’ve reached 17 you stop watching them.
Computer Games. I think it may be a little obvious I’m 21 now. I can play things like Sonic etc but Call of Duty seems a little too long to spend controller in hand.
Similarly those marathon TV shows from over the sea. It’s not just the time spent. I think it was also the playground conversation and the massive expectation for every episode and seemingly nothing happening in any one. How has lost not finished?
Posted by Tom Beasley on April 5, 2010
I have never understood the obsession with several of the animated American comedies. Programmes like Family Guy, South Park and American Dad seem to encapsulate almost everyone else I know, when I just don’t get them.
For me, those kind of comedies are just full of coarse language and crass humour, which I find hilarious when used properly, but really doesn’t work in these shows. In fact, a lot of the time, it seems gratuitous as opposed to necessary.
Also, I don’t follow the huge popularity of rap music. To me, it just seems like someone talking quickly over a rubbish beat. Usually, they just go on about knives and “hoes/bitches/birds/sexually exploited females” for the whole song and yet people buy these records all the time. It mystifies me.
Similarly on the topic of music, Muse are a band I just don’t get. Unusually, Muse seem to be one of very few bands that appeal to people of all intelligence and maturity levels. Despite this, I think that they are horrendously overrated. That probably makes me weird, but meh. :-/
Posted by Dawn on April 5, 2010
I don’t get:
Coffee – I’ve never actually tasted it because I find the smell nauseating. When people order coffee, I don’t know what they’re talking about – I have no idea what a macchiato is or how its different to a cappuccino. I only know these 2 types because I just asked my housemate. There seem to be far too many options and combinations, I’m actually quite glad I don’t get it.
Cooked fruit – in pies, crumbles, jam etc. I like fruit when it’s ‘raw’, but cooked takes all the freshness out. Disguising it with custard doesn’t make it better either, I’ve tried.
Topiary – I understand pruning and keeping your garden tidy but why clip a hedge into the shape of a dragon/car/rubiks cube? I think it’s creepy* and have been known to cross the street to avoid walking close to hedge in the shape of fish. I realize topiary isn’t really prominent in popular culture, but it does really bug me.
Things I get and encourage friends to try:
Christopher Brookmyre novels
Ben Folds
making stuff that you initially think might be a bit ambitious
*I read The Shining when I was probably a bit too young
Posted by Corey on April 5, 2010
Some more stuff people seem to like but not for me (theme of food):
Apple Pie
Cake
Those pink wafer biscuits
Curry would have been on the list but I had a lovely one the other week so cannot include it
Broccoli
Sweetcorn
All other foods loved!
Posted by Alice on April 5, 2010
Three things I don’t really get that alienate me from many female bonding opportunities:
Victoria Sponge- my sister’s speciality and therefore a betrayal
Ive Cream- it never comforts, it just makes my teeth hurt and leaves a cloyingly sweet taste in my mouth for hours
Bridget Jones and all other items of her ilk. Celia Ahern, ‘rom coms’
Apparently this means I’m not a ‘proper girl’.
However I love bad American sitcoms, the kind that take up air space on E4. The worse the writing and acting the more I love it. Not to mention if these people can get work there’s hope for me!
Posted by Megan on April 5, 2010
I don’t like Bob Dylan. I usually only say this wearing full body armour and hiding behind a defensive barricade of overturned tables, but I don’t know why anyone *does* like him, with that nasal voice. And apparently I’m supposed to admire Morrisey too, but I think his lyrics are rather bland. (Ducks back under the barricade)
Posted by Lydia on April 5, 2010
I can’t stand Clint Eastwood, I won’t watch a film if he is in it. I don’t know why I have a irrational dislike of the man but he makes me mad.
I don’t watch tv, probably only watch it for a couple of hours a week. I don’t find this odd, but lots of other people do, especially my mother in law who seems to get offended when I don’t know what is happening in Emmerdale and she will make a snotty comment (this actually happened on Friday, she said ” Oh I forgot you’re one of these who won’t have the tv on”) It’s not that I won’t I just don’t enjoy it.
I go on a parenting website even though my children are 11 and 7 and the site is aimmed at parents of little children. I can’t tear myself away from it. There is a debate forum on there that I enjoy going to, it’s good to see topics from a different point of view, to have a bit of a vent or even just to reassure myself that I’m not a great big numpty, it’s also a bit funny when someone gets irrate about parent and child parking spaces or something else very small.
Posted by Simone on April 5, 2010
I don’t like most sci-fi programmes/movies and cartoons.
Posted by James on April 5, 2010
- Elvis
- The London Underground
- Most popular music (I’m 20 so its not an old person thing)
- Reality TV
- “Pulling”
- The gym (What is wrong with exercising outside?)
Posted by Laura on April 5, 2010
I have no shame in admitting that I really do not see the appeal of Michael McIntyre. There is something about him that seems very false – the accent, the hair, the decidedly lowest common denominator comedy. It’s one of those things where, upon admitting it to your friends, they look at you as if you have had a total personality bypass. ‘How can you not find him funny? He does that brilliant joke abbout the man drawer!’
Perhaps it is me. Perhaps I have had a personality bypass (not sure what that says about your appeal then, Mark).
Also, Dan Brown. What a dreadful, dreadful writer.
And Cheryl Cole. What is her appeal? Yes, she is pretty but so what? That seems to be her net worth and her sole contribution to society. Nice hair, big eyes and quick to weep. Irritating.
Posted by Rose on April 5, 2010
I have trouble with lager. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed it, despite my persistence in trying. There was an ice cold bottle of Tiger once that was almost nice, but still not quite because, really, it wasn’t a gin and tonic.
Also birthdays. I like to make a big fuss for other people, but for mine I just sheepishly thank my mother and try to pretend nothing is happening.
Things I like with which others may disagree include the later seasons of The West Wing when Sorkin wasn’t writing so much and it got even more smug, things written in marker pen on the back of toilet doors, and the Oxford comma.
Posted by glamlovinkitty on April 5, 2010
I simply don’t get reality TV. I’ve never watched a single episode of big brother, x factor, or any of that stuff. I’ve never had the slightest inclination towards any of it, even out of curiosity.
I also don’t get facebook and the nation’s apparent obsession with it. I’ve never registered with it and don’t plan to. Last time I was out for dinner with my gal pals all they talked about was facebook, made me wonder why they didn’t just stay at home and ‘poke’ each other instead of the chore of meeting up in person.
There are many many other things I don’t get – why anyone would eat meat (particularly from mank-tastic places like kfc…); why people like to read trashy chick lit; the appeal of Gavin and Stacey – but there’s only so many hours in the day
Posted by tothesky on April 5, 2010
Things I don’t get:
- drinking – I will have a drink but why would actively try and get drunk?
- clubbing – I’d rather go to a pub or stay in
- needing to have millions of friends/followers or becoming best friends with someone after knowing them for a week. I’m happy with my couple of friends who I’ve known for life thank you. Relationships will develop naturally – don’t try and force it with alcohol please.
- why people are percieved to be intelligent to be an atheist and stupid if they do believe
-sci-fi – DW, Star Trek etc
- spending a ridiculous amount of money on perfrume or shoes
- frozen fishcakes
- eating meat – sausages/bacon, beef and lamb joints especially
- custard
- jelly
- buying new phones every year when the one you already own works fine
- Ipods/tunes/phones. The whole apple thing really
- small talk, especially when it’s about the weather
Things I love
- maths, physics and chemistry – I wish i was clever enough to actually have done a degree in Maths or Physics. One day.
- undercover princesses and snog, marry advoid on BBC3 it’s awful but I still love it
- Thomas Hardy – better than Dickens. Yep I’ve said it
- jingly jangly things like bells and windchimes and bangles
Posted by Becca on April 5, 2010
Marriage – I don’t personally understand why you need a piece of paper to prove your love to someone…
Tattooing someone’s name on your body – I’m all for tattoos and got mine as soon as I could, and generally I try not to judge what other people have chosen to get tattooed because some people might think I’m a prick for getting mine (it’s a panther) but I do think someone’s name is a massive mistake
To echo some which have already been said:
Robert Pattinson – literally what the fuck. His forehead is 4 times the length of his face and his hair is double that.
Russell Brand – there’s funny and there’s attention seeking. He is the extremely annoying, overhyped latter.
South Park – tries too hard to be funny/controversial, much like Russell Brand.
Alcohol – while I now drink more than I used to (didn’t start until I was nearing 19) I don’t get why people think they can’t have fun without being smashed off their face. It’s just generally annoying because you have to be helped home or looked after – I’ve only been in this state once when my friend kept adding alcohol to my drink whenever I turned my back and I still feel guilty that people had to sort me out! This still seems to be a pretty weird opinion to have as a university student.
Oh and ‘classic’ literature – Wuthering Heights was shit. Shakespeare is shit. Pride and Prejudice was shit. etc.
Posted by Madeleine on April 5, 2010
I just sat here for about 20 minutes trying to think of popular things I don’t like – All I came up with was little Britain and even that I didn’t mind for a while.
Things like twilight, lady gaga, meat and Miley Cyrus I also strongly dislike, but I also understand that its “cool” NOT to like these things. Anything thats a kind of “Indie” popular I can pretty much get into quite rabidly (see: Grizzly Bear, The Drums, The Wire, Doctor Who, The Mighty Boosh, Russell Brand, Foals, The Horrors)
My Favourite thing in the world is Radiohead, but it should never be uncool to like them.
Posted by Sue on April 5, 2010
I don’t get sport: nope, not at all. Not tennis, football, cricket, not anything in the Olympics, (well maybe ice-dancing because it’s pretty, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it). I would not miss sport it if it didn’t exist.
Horror movies are no good to me either. I watched Hammer House stuff when I was a teenager, and I think that was as spooky as I’d want to go. Dr Who’s ‘Blink’ is about as scary as I’d go these days… I’d never go to watch something like “Saw”.
Posted by Corey on April 5, 2010
Things I don’t get:
Chris Moyles
Scott Mills
Lord Of The Rings
Soap Operas
Russell Brand
ITV
Reality Shows
Nightclubs
Shameless
Skins
Posted by Rachael on April 5, 2010
Hate/ really don’t get:
- Family Guy/ The Simpsons/ Futurama/ animated tv shows generally
- Dance/ Trance/ R’n'B (until I went to uni I had no idea that people genuinely consider this music)
- alcohol/ getting drunk and the situations people do this in e.g. clubbing
- Gerard Butler
- constantly calling people babe, pet, sweetheart, baby girl, lovelies, etc and saying you love them, mainly girls to their girlfriends
- Onions
- Cheryl Cole
Like:
- Folk music
- 80′s movies
Posted by Emily on April 5, 2010
More things I don’t get (with a recap from my previous post as it was too long and rambled on):
- Food/eating, with particular note for citrus
- Alcohol
- Clubs
- Mainstream music
- Make-up, in fact anything at all like that, fake tan, dyed hair etc
- Films (not all, but most. Especially scary/horror etc)
- Celebrities and gossip about them
- Fizzy drinks
- Reality TV
- Christmas/Easter/any other “religious” celebrations
Things I do get that are unpopular:
- Metal music, including (some of) the death/scream side of it
- Maths
- Chemistry
- Geeky computer stuff
- Pi (OK so it’s not really a “thing” that can be “got” but I love it, I’m weird like that)
I sound like quite a boring, sad geek eh. I suppose I am really. Ah well.
Posted by DeborahF on April 5, 2010
My name is Deborah and I just don’t get football (sorry Mark).
I’ve never got it – never got the passion people display for ‘their team’, the highs and lows people go through for a bunch of over paid blokes running around a pitch after ball and falling over like ham actors. I can just about understand supporting the team local to where you grew up but why are there more Manchester United supporters around the world than there are in Manchester? I’m afraid I don’t even get the World Cup and all its jingoism, which I know some people think is unforgivable – but lets face it, if everyone was really into the World Cup who would be in the office working while the games are on this summer?
So there you go – I just don’t get football.
Posted by lisa brunders on April 5, 2010
Happy Easter.
Blimey there’s loads of things. Here’s a few!
- The Beatles
- The Who
- Jimi Hendrix
- Rolling Stones
- Hollyoakes
- Dr Who
- The Office
- Harry Potter
- marriage
- permanent jobs
I fell asleep last night making this list!
I have tried all of them, except marriage (although I have lived with a few partners over the years). I have varying degrees of like, some I don’t mind, some I dislike, but even the ones I don’t mind I just don’t get why everyone else thinks they’re so great.
However, I’m currently in a permanent job, and it’s in my Tysics to stay there. I took the job by mistake, because I thought it was a temporary role. But times are hard, there’s not many jobs about, and I’d actually been out of work for 2 months in 2008, which had never happened before. I’d been temping there for 6 months and liked it. So, suddenly, I began to think it’s not such a bad idea after all. I’m not sure I’d be so keen if I had choices, we’ll see about that when the job market changes! But I’m really trying to embrace it at the moment.
Posted by Linzy on April 5, 2010
Ricky Gervais.
I’ve never understood the hype around him. I saw him do a ten minute slot at Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People in 2008 and he was probably the worst act of the night. I just don’t find him even remotely amusing, either live or as a writer. I’m genuinely baffled as to how he can charge so much for big arena tours and still manage to sell all the tickets.
Ah… that’s better.
Posted by EllieCat on April 5, 2010
I don’t get football. It’s not simply that I don’t like it. It’s more than that, more like football blindness or deafness. My brain simply does not possess the capacity to process and absorb football related information. If by chance some football facts are presented to me, maybe by way of a TV channel changing error, they will simply pass me by like a slidy thing on a slippery surface, or a very streamlined thing in a wind tunnel. I don’t know the names of any famous footballers and should they be mentioned in conversation, I will look as bewildered as a visitor from outer space or a high court judge. To make any impact on my consciousness, a footballer must do something very high profile in a non-football related area. For example, that chap in the news recently, called, erm, who did that thing… No, sorry it’s gone.
Posted by Lally on April 5, 2010
Soda pop
Reality shows
(Fictional) Serial killers as entertainment (although I guees I wouldn’t get any kind as entertainment!)
Fashion and Makeup (is there an age where I’ll have to start wearing makeup and “doing” my hair? I’m pretty old already.)
Material displays through yards or cars (I think I get it about gadgets and some other stuff a little more)
Being “too old” for silly jokes or playing with toys or playground equipment. Fun is fun.
Posted by ElizabethD on April 5, 2010
Love: Movie musicals. I mean the old MGM technicolor extravaganzas that all have the same plot. They are just magnificent and bold and gorgeous and they always end well.
Hate: Glee. Among theater friends this is apparently a tacky admission, but I think it’s a tacky show. I think it confuses overblown performances and snappy camera angles with campy charm. I also don’t think it counts in the musical genre. Songs happen in a good musical when a character has gotten as far as he or she can with words and now only as song will do. Songs happen in Glee because record companies have deals with the network.
Love: The Star Wars Trilogy
Hate: The Star Wars prequels
Love: Conan the Barbarian the books and movies (though my hopes aren’t high for the new one. From what I’ve seen of the guy playing Conan he makes Arnold Schwarzenegger seem like a good actor)
Hate: The Lord of the Rings books and the movies. I’ve tried many many times cause I think that hating LOTR interferes with my geek cred, but it puts me to sleep every time.
Posted by Catherine on April 5, 2010
Can’t stand bananas or tuna in any way, shape or form.
Posted by h2osarah on April 5, 2010
I don’t like:
Harry Potter – I’ve seen the second movie, twice, both times against my will.
Lost/24/The Wire – It’s nothing against any of these series specifically. But actually, I don’t really like TV drama. If it doesn’t make me laugh, I’m hard pressed to find time for it.
Ketchup/Catsup – Ew ew and ew. Get it away from me. I like my french fries (or chips as you call them) plain. Just salt. Nothing else. Also mayonnaise is gross.
Poutine – fries + cheese curds + gravy. Disgusting.
Coca Cola/other fizzy drinks/tea/coffee/juice – Yep. I almost exclusively drink *gasp* plain water. I drank RedBull at the Edinburgh Fringe last year as a much needed caffeine boost & about once a year I will have some orange juice, or maybe a hot chocolate. But if you see me drinking something that isn’t water, then odds are that it’s got alcohol in it. I only use those other beverages to mask the taste. Also, fizzy drinks are gross. They make my stomach hurt and they make me burp. Why would you want that?
I do like:
ABBA and a lot of cheesy pop music like ‘Walking on Sunshine’. It cheers me up, what can I say?
Grey’s Anatomy – I know it’s shit. But I’m into it now.
Posted by Gilly on April 5, 2010
*takes a deep breath*
I hate cheesecake. Actively hate it. I’ve been dragged to restaurants that specialize in it, and told I MUST try a certain type, because it is wonderful, but find it absolutely disgusting.
I like cheese. I like cake. I believe they should never be combined.
I also hate pickes (not branston, but the cucumbers-soaked-in-evil kind). Love pickled onions. Hate pickle.
Also, pretzels. I live in America right now, so this makes me weird.
Ah, that feels so much better… not having that huge burden of secrecy.
Posted by Dave on April 5, 2010
Don’t get:
Tattoos – I’ve never understood the appeal, especially as most people who have/like them say it’s all about ‘expressing yourself as an individual’ – but when so many people have similar designs it is hardly special is it?
Someone told me they got one because everyone else has one – surely that has to be the best reason not to do something – THAT is expressing yourself as an individual. I’ve always likened it to the appeal of supercars – if everyone had a Ferrari, no one would care about them or desire them.
On a seperate note, I agree with the earlier post about Robin Ince – he deserves to be much more famous than he is – a very nice guy and very funny too
Posted by Georgie on April 5, 2010
Things I don’t quite get…
- Alcohol (I don’t have anything against people drinking it, but I hate it when they try to convince me to. I never really feel like it, so I very rarely drink. I can have fun without it. Isn’t that ok? It seems not)
- Tea/Coffee (Tried tea a few times and it doesn’t really do anything for me. Never tried coffee but don’t really feel the need to).
- Star Wars (I’ve never actually watched any of them… is this bad? Guess I shouldn’t judge it before I’ve seen it. Have never really felt the need to watch them though)
- Lord of the Rings (Tried to watch these a few times and literally fell asleep in the first one. Twice. Maybe I would be more interested if I read the books first…)
That’s about all I can think of for now. x
Posted by Robyn on April 5, 2010
I like Twilight and Glee and Doctor Who and Harry Potter. And more shamefully Eastenders.
But evem more than that, I love Jesus. What can I say? It’s not a particularly popular opinion, but hey. I love Him.
I don’t like or understand clubbing or binge drinking or coffee. Or football. I love rugby, but honestly I don’t see the fascination with football, and I would be happy for someone to change my mind, but there it is, I just don’t like it. I don’t understand horror films, I just get bored. Or running. I really can’t stand it, even though I wish I could. If anyone can explain, demonstrate and get me hooked on running, I would love it, genuinely. I also do not understand platinum blond hair that is fake, or excesses of fake tan…it boggles my mind!
Ok, rant over!
Mark, if you want to understand Dr Who, watch Army of Ghosts and Doomsday – Series 2 for the more emotional and human side, and for the alien side watch Blink – series 3 or The Imposible Planet – series 2…or just all of it – series 1-5 of the new stuff, though I can’t recommend the older stuf as I’m too young, and have never got around to watching it.
Posted by Caitlin on April 5, 2010
I don’t like/get…
-Michael McIntyre, he tries too hard
-Tea, I feel like I’m drinking old man
-Baked Beans, they’re just wrong
-Lord of the Rings, booooring
-High School Musical & Lost, bad ideas.
And I love
-maths, I find it soothing
-classical music, not that weird overall, but not many of my fellow 17 year olds appreciate it.
-reading, again, most of my peers would rather ‘just watch the film’ or not bother at all
Posted by Maddie on April 5, 2010
Things I don’t like/get -
Jam (the preserve)
24
Lost
Corrie / Eastenders
Marzipan
Lee Evans
Easter Eggs (seems appropriate being the holidays and all, but I never eat them EVER – love chocolate though)
Doughnuts
Kasabian
Florence and her prick of a machine.
Jelly Beans
Wine Gums
Strawberry flavoured things
Twilight
Brad Pitt
On the plus side I do happen to like -
Highly inappropriate jokes (really pretty sick ones)
The green sweets,e.g gummy bears, fruit pastils and jelly tots
Bananas and peanut butter on toast
Chris Moyles
Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’
Singing (with my friend randomly in public places) the hymns we were forced to sing at junior school when I was little, even though I am not remotely religious
Russell Brand
Sorry, I went on a bit there x
Posted by Terry on April 5, 2010
Several popular things I dislike.
1-Forced Joviality, as in birthdays, christmas, new years eve. If I want to get drunk I’ll do it without having to be told I should
2-Twilight, I don’t get it, it’s books and films for teenage girls, why has it become such a massive phenomenom
3-Dan Brown novels, it’s as if he’s written them for children, “the man wore a coat. He sat in a car. The car went down the road.” 2 pages is not a chapter!
4-Peter Kay and the rest of the Phoenix Nights gang, I just assume you have to be northern to enjoy them.
And the thing I actually hate with a passion that most that I see everyday except for sundays and makes me shake with rage everyday…
The Sun, a disgusting excuse for a newspaper, which just spreads hate and lies yet says it speaks for the nation.
The things I like are
1-BBC4 a wonderful channel of learning and fun
2-Robin Ince, he deserves to be so much more popular than he is. Plus on his observational bit on his DVD he makes me feel special cause I do the same things.
3- I like Scallywagga on BBC3, I don’t know why, I know it’s terrible, but I love it.
Oh and Mark Watsons alright too
Posted by Lauren on April 5, 2010
Napoleon Dynamite. I thought it was god awful.
Posted by Simon on April 5, 2010
Going against (fairly) popular opinion, I DON’T think:
> Tea tastes nice
> Angelina Jolie is beautiful
> South Park is funny
> Boxing is appealing
> Nightclubs are fun
> Butter is necessary
Posted by Katie on April 5, 2010
There’s lots of things I don’t get, but mainly, I don’t get clubs. I really, really don’t. I can understand going to gigs – you are experiencing music in a live and exciting environment. In clubs, however, you have one of two things happening around you:
1) Thinner, more attractive people dancing better than you and being sexier in general.
2) Sweaty people threatening to jump in your face.
Plus, I don’t get electronic music. It’s not music. It’s the theme tune to a migraine. It’s made by angry young men when they’re finished playing World of Warcraft and wanking.
Plus, I’ve never been to a club where they’ve played anything I can dance to. I don’t like Lady Gaga. She doesn’t make any bloody sense. I think I need new friends.
Posted by Bloomability (Beth) on April 5, 2010
I really don’t like chocolate cake… is that weird? I like chocolate… but it just somehow tastes really sickly in cake form. I always felt really guilty when I was younger at birthday parties when the cake was brought out (almost always chocolate, esp. at my best friend’s parties) and I had to refuse a piece
i suppose that’s not really ‘not getting’ it, but… never mind.
On the list of things I don’t get…
Lady Gaga
Pickled things in general. (Pickled eggs? They look like Ood heads or something.)
Coleslaw/ Cottage Cheese (It looks like sick. Who wants to eat something that looks like sick?)
RPatz/Taylor Lautner
Reality TV (X Factor, Big Brother, IACGMOH, you name it, they all just seem stupid and boring to me)
Wearing ‘designer labels’. (Why people are happy to go around with the word ‘bench’ slapped across their chests evades me. People are paying to be walking advertisements so they can look cool. I don’t mind brands, I just don’t like clothes with the brand/label in massive letters across the chest. WTF)
-Skipping your lunch break to go jogging (a BLT buttie vs a few laps around the park. I know which I would choose every time)
Posted by Shell on April 5, 2010
Great topic and interesting to read all the other comments. Like Misha I find I have quite a list and have therefore copied her bulleted format.
I just don’t ‘get’:
- Horror genre books or films and zombie crap in particular. (I like thrillers and intense scary films though)
- Any soap: Eastenders, Corrie whatever – usually depressing twaddle.
- Women’s magazines: Cosmo, Bella, Take a Break, Heat, Hello…expensive waste of paper with no useful information.
-The fuss made on New Year’s Eve
- League of Gentleman, Psychoville, Bo Selecta – just find them dull
- Hans Teeuen, Paul Foot – both simply make me cross!
- All studio public debates of personal or relationship issues: Trisha, Jeremy Kyle…
- The obsession with absolutely perfect teeth. Slight imperfections are nice: e.g. I think David Bowie looked better before he got his teeth ‘fixed’
-Shopping ‘as recreation/entertainment’ – I just want go to buy what I need as fast as possible and then get the hell out of there.
-Most team sports with balls: Football, Rugby, Cricket… and golf.
- Traditional Clowns
- Flowery house plants…leafy ones are nice though.
*and breathes*
I’ll have to stop now but that was quite cathartic.
Posted by Steph on April 4, 2010
I agree with many things here on the comments.
I also hate mushrooms, olives and other generally ugly foods.
Also have never been attracted by Brad Pitt. Eww.
The one thing (singer) I haven’t ‘got’ either is Paloma Faith. Whenever I hear her sing it sounds so forced and unnatural. I love natural singers that don’t sound cabaret-y or like pub singers. That’s pretty much what I think she sounds like. I just hate it when her lyrics are quoted on facebook statuses. Brr. (I was actually going to type ‘Brrrrrrr’ but didn’t want to come under fire from Rachel.)
Posted by Sam on April 4, 2010
Holding hands, hugging, kissing, any kind of contact like that.
It terrifies me so much that I become so hideously uncomfortable.
Just thinking about it makes me physically nervous.
Posted by Anji on April 4, 2010
I don’t get Harry Potter either, and am glad I’m not the first to admit this, I don’t get lord of the rings either. Usually the gasp of horror and the lectures that follow admitting this are long and I don’t get them either.
I am trying to get Twilight but am failing there as well.
I don’t get maths. I have totally given up trying too.
David Walliams – almost hate him. Which is harsh and unfair, but there is just something that
screams at me about him and I can’t hide it. Same as Ricky Gervais. Ugh.
High healed shoes. I lust after them, but they aren’t practicle and are never comfy and always cost far more then is right.
Think I might stop there before I list everything and realise I’m a grumpy old woman before my time!
Posted by Alex on April 4, 2010
Firstly- Bond films. The most I’ve ever watched of one was approximately 20 minutes, before some ridiculously named woman entered and I gave up.
Secondly- Pajama days. I feel smelly and uncomfortable. Don’t get it.
Thirdly- Robert Pattinson/Brad Pitt. The first one looks like a neanderthal, the second like a monkey.
Posted by Carl on April 4, 2010
Blimey yeah, Gavin and Stacey. For me, easy comedy. And 100% Robert Pattinson, Patterson, Pattoson, who-ever-the-fucking-heller-son. Apparantly attractive because he is pale, with dark eyes and red lips. That’s how I look when I’m ill. Pathetic.
Posted by Rachel on April 4, 2010
Things I strongly dislike: Adding extra letters to the end of words (i.e. babesssss) – it wastes time and makes people look like morons; using the word ‘babes’ to describe your friends – it sounds terribly forced and also terribly pretentious; Florence and the Machine – really, really cannot stand the woman, she can’t sing and her entire stage persona just annoys me; Cheryl Cole – strange how nobody liked her until her husband cheated…; and finally James Corden – why does nobody see how large his ego is?!
And as for things I like despite the fact that nobody else does: The Eurovision Song Contest, songs in foreign languages (possibly more than songs in English, if I’m being honest), my teachers (all except the one that taught me so little I had to teach myself almost all of the course for the exam in January)…
Posted by Emily on April 4, 2010
I couldn’t think of much at first but reading the comments so far has made me think again and it turns out there’s a few things I just don’t get.
I’m with Ben Draper, I don’t get food. I don’t get how eating is fun and enjoyable. I have to force myself to eat sometimes else I’ll accidentally starve myself. And most food is just not nice. This is my main TYSIC though so hopefully one day, whilst I’ll probably never understand what’s so great about food, I’ll at least eat normally. Citrus and all citrus based things are the most evil of all foods.
I’m also with Elin, I don’t get drinking, I can have a great time without it, though I don’t get the joys going to clubs, I suspect the two are linked but the music in clubs is invariably crap. But then I don’t get mainstream music either so there you go. Love metal though.
Other things I don’t get that I haven’t stolen from other people are make-up and films. I mean, I can understand why people wear make-up, and can appreciate that it can look better than without, but I still just don’t see the need. It takes up time and it’s expensive.
As for films, I imagine that’s the most extreme of my things, I like books, and films based on them are sometimes OK but I could quite happily live without, I haven’t seen almost all films “everyone” has seen, let alone heard of the rest. I do watch some films, and I guess I do like some, but for the most part I just don’t see the appeal. Probably doesn’t help that I can never actually remember what’s happened as soon as I come out of the cinema but that might be an indication I was bored so didn’t pay as much attention as I could have.
Another over-long comment, I need to learn to cut down.
Posted by Ben Draper on April 4, 2010
Hot drinks as well. For me it’s water, cola or wine. Normally water. Water is bloody delicious though.
Posted by Ben Draper on April 4, 2010
Food, I don’t like almost any of it. I have a hatred for tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, peppers, sea food, pasta and other things like that which limits me to burgers and roast dinners and that’s about it. I like curries, oddly, but that’s about it, which makes life very difficult for me to go to restaurants. It also means I have no idea to and no intention to cook, even if I’m pretty hungry. There’s just nothing in it for me. I don’t understand how people can devote their whole lives or careers or pass-times to it, write books about it, travel the world just to experience it. It doesn’t make any sense to me. But everyone who likes it seems to love it, I feel a little left out on that front i guess.
Posted by Iona on April 4, 2010
I don’t get popular music. By this, I mean the stuff like the saturdays. I could have a whole rant about the Saturdays actually, how they are ridiculously slaggy, stupid (did you see them on never mind the buzzcocks) and make shit music that all sounds the same.
Having said this, I am rediscovering a love of busted (they were my favourite band when I was about 10) so I can’t really make out that I like only “cool” indie music!
Also I don’t understand uggs. Every teenage girl seems to wear them but they are bad for your feet and look a bit weird. And, as I said, everyone has them. What happened to expressing individuality?
Posted by A lot of Rach[a]els on April 4, 2010
- The Beatles.
- Sketch comedy.
- The nightmare before christmas.
- South Park.
Posted by helen on April 4, 2010
For me it’s Harry Potter which is a bit odd apparently. I’m just at the top end of the age range for reading them each time a new book was out. I’ve seen the films but mostly was bribed to the cinema with pick and mix in order to keep someone company. I read the first book and just didn’t really get the appeal. It’s not that I’m a literature snob ho would prefer to be reading Dostoyevsky, I don’t like him either. I blame it on a Saturday job at WHSmith’s and having to unpack millions of books every time a new one was launched. They arrive triple-wrapped for secrecy and to anger retail employees…
Posted by Kathryn on April 4, 2010
All those comedy series that have been so popular over the last few years. The Office, Little Britain, Gavin and Stacey, etc. So unfunny.
As much as I want to be seen as a sort of “cool” indie music person, I really like Coldplay. And Snow Patrol. Not very cool at all.
I don’t get salad. Lettuce makes everything taste horrible.
Posted by Helen on April 4, 2010
I don’t ‘get’ water. Or celery. It just tastes like nothing. And celery is totally pointless cos apparently you use more calories eating it than you actually get from eating it. Why bother? And I hate drinking water.
Posted by elin on April 4, 2010
Ok, here we go.
I don’t understand coffee, alcohol, or ‘going out’. Or overly happy music. Or sports.
Things I do understand that most people don’t include knitting and spinning and painting ugly buildings in great detail. All wonderful things. And Mark, about knitting that hat, I meant it. For you or someone else…
And i’m not 100 years old. It sounds like I am, I know, but I’m only 27. I was born with the mind of an old woman. An old woman who doesn’t like coffee…
Posted by Laurs on April 4, 2010
I don’t get the appeal of Gavin and Stacey. Almost everyone I know loves it, yet I’ve watched a full series of it and I am still waiting to laugh…
Also, I can’t understand the appeal of Lady Gaga. I don’t understand her. The music isn’t great, the usual drivel from American pop singer, she wears THE most stupid items of clothes and I get the impression that she puts out this nicer than nice image but she is actually a bitch.
Oh and another, I can’t stop thinking of things now! I don’t get both the Twilight series (books and films) and the Northern Lights series – I just don’t think they are particularly well written.
Posted by Emmy on April 4, 2010
Oh, and as for the chocolate thing it’s okay. I like it, I eat it, it makes me happy. But carob, now that is the best thing ever! I could eat my weight in it and then some. And I’m not that much of a hippie. I shower regularly.
Posted by Louise on April 4, 2010
I really dont like Twilight and I think that robert pattinson is horrid looking. I was also disappointed when I watched scarface for the first time, I just didnt think that it was that great. I am loving pineapple dance studio at the moment which probably isnt very cool.
Posted by Zoe on April 4, 2010
Things I don’t and will never ‘get’ include ANY soap opera (I have quite enough of my own nonsense to worry about), 24 (the old man watches and every time I walk in the room someone is being shot, blown up, stabbed or is having a finger snicked off with a handy pair of scissors, yep don’t get that), vodka and Red Bull (just because it tastes horrid) and the awful pile of shite that is The Catcher in the Rye (I could fill a whole blog of my own with the reasons why). I’ll let you know if anything else springs to mind. x
Posted by Emmy on April 4, 2010
Hello, my name is Emmy, I am 19, and I hate Facebook. I often feel that I am the only one in the world under 45 who is not on it and will never be on it. Yes, it makes it somewhat easier to communicate with people, but what’s wrong with email, phone calls, and (gasp!) a regular letter? Plus, I don’t want to know what people are doing 24/7, nor do I want them to know that about me. This hatred of social networking sites extends to myspace, twitter, and whatever newfangled thing that I don’t know exists yet.
Also, I hate olives. I know they are supposed to be one of the most awesome tastes in the world (or so everyone tells me), but I think they taste of sick.
Posted by Carl on April 4, 2010
It appears my iPhone was sabbotaged by my brother attempting to embarrassing me infront of my TYSIC peers by declaring I love Holby City. I will admit it is an elaborate hoax by my sibling, but in relation to the blog, it doesn’t quite make sense!!
Anywho, I must agree Ive never got the show Lost. Appreciate it’s well written but it just feels like they themselves don’t know where it’s going, and that bugs me.
Oh, and coffee. Hate the stuff.
Posted by Misha on April 4, 2010
I could go on at length on the subject of things I just don’t “get”.
But I won’t, so here’s a short list.
- Clubbing
- X Factor
- High School Musical
- Glee
- Lost
- 24
- South Park
- Sex
Particularly the last one. I’ve yet to discover the appeal in that.
Posted by rachel (pandora) on April 4, 2010
one of comedy things i just don’t ‘get’ is ‘the office’. i’ve seen it all (i think) as a result of various friends and their attempts to educate me in its brilliance, but i just feel like i’m missing something. odd.
Posted by Carl on April 4, 2010
Cocoa Co Merry Easter! I’m ashamed (proud) to say I love Holby City. That is all. x