[Closed] What's your heresy?

Terry Pratchett. Just....not funny. At all.

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also Pink Floyd - Self indulgent twaddle.

I've tried to like it. I really have.

I like riding mountain bikes.

food critics. I will eat and cook whatever I want, however I want.

my favourite heresy

I wear red and green outside of the Christmas season.

i thought Bladerunner was a bit rubbish...

(nothing much happens for 3 and half hours, Rutger Hauer goes off on one at the end)

CaptainFlashheart - Member

I like riding mountain bikes.

We don't want your sort around here. [b]OUT![/b]

VW combi's, parents had a split screen back in the sixties/ early 70's, what a god awful vehicle, it's only redeeming feature being that it was better than the 2 x reliant robins they replaced it with.

CaptainFlashheart - Member

I like riding mountain bikes.

What? In those shoes?

bloody Star Wars. It's a fun kids' film, not flipping Tolstoy.

I thought Reservoir Dogs was a bit shit.

Never seen the fuss about Bladerunner.

I like Coldplay.

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
The Matrix
Star Wars

Edited to add:
Little Britain

SaxonRider - the Dirk Gently books are better from Adams, he's much older by that time and it shows.

My heresy is that I might actually prefer riding with a rucksack than having stuff on my bike.

Oh and Prince - never got his music at all, just seemed totally naff to me. Obviously sad to have died early of course but I honestly have no idea why people praised the music so highly.

While I do like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, there's a whole sort of genre of comedy I hate, that just makes me uncomfortable and twitchy: The humour that's based on exaggeration of character traits and inevitable, predictable outcomes. Hence, I can't stand whole swathes of modern comedy, from Alan Partridge, through The Office and The Inbetweeners, to Mrs Brown, not to say stuff like Arrested Development and Parks & Rec that my other half loves. It's not funny to me, it's just irritating...

Bladerunner - not that good
Pink Floyd - not that good
Star Wars - not for adults
Jay Z - not that good

Radiohead....supposed to be one of the greatest bands, but i just hear some clever musical noodling with what sounds like a cat being castrated wailing over the top..

Love the Radiodread album though

The following are terrible:

Withnail and I
Pink Floyd
Trail centres

i just hear some clever musical noodling with what sounds like a cat being castrated wailing over the top

Yeah generally but The Bends album is the only one that's got some proper tunes on it.

Whisky. At least twice a year I try to drink whisky and enjoy it.

Still don't get it.

Kylie.

There, I've said it.

I thought the same about Whisky until I learnt how to drink it. Get decent stuff, add a tiny bit of water and sip it, don't knock it back like a cowboy.

I don't like 'the broons' - all the stories revolve around one of them mishearing or misinterpreting what another member of the family has said and then a whole story erupts from that misinterpretation. Before it's all resolved and they go for a walk up the ben.

bearnecessities - Member

Kylie.

There, I've said it.

BURN THE WITCH!

So you are not keen on her either

@Coyote

I like Coldplay.

GTFO! There's always one who takes it too far!

I also enjoy the Vengaboys tune 'I'm going to Ibiza.'

I thought the same about Whisky until I learnt how to drink it. Get decent stuff, add a tiny bit of water and sip it, don't knock it back like a cowboy.

I've tried all sorts from the cheapest supermarket blends to the obscenely expensive malts from all areas.
I've tried neat, with a little water, ice, even dabbled with mixers.

I just don't like it.

It makes me embarrassed to be Scottish sometimes.

"D'ye want a wee hauf?"

"Naw thanks, I don't really like whisky"

"WHIT! Is there something wrang wi' ye?"

"Errr......I don't like football either"

"GIT OOOT! ........and dinnae come back!"

harry potter can do one.

Star Wars. Not one to speak ill of the dead, but Leia was a minger.

(Un-)Reality TV

Encouraging moronic, overly dramatic and selfish behaviour in the real world since at least the original Big Brother.

See also: celebrity culture generally and being famous for being famous due to something stupid you did or your family being so wealthy you never need learn from your mistakes.

Whisky. At least twice a year I try to drink whisky and enjoy it.

Still don't get it.

Come independence you will be asked to live South of Hadrian's Wall. Personally I don't think we should take you in. 😉

+1 for Withnail and I.

I don't understand how it's always rolled out as one of the 'Great British Movies' and loved by every media student in the land.

I've never got it, I think it's just overrated twaddle.

And I speak as a former arts & media lecturer.

Perhaps that's why I'm a 'former.....'?

I think Tea is bland and boring and Coffee is disgusting. Which gets me treated like a Lepper sometimes, somewhere between pity and disgust. Giving up a corner of every office up to a sort of low-tech chemistry set to create the stuff seems odd to me, but not as much as how dirty people seem to accept it being.

The idea of a beach holiday fills me with dread, laying in dirt and grit in your underwear, why?

I can't stand Bitter, Ale, IPA etc, I like Lager and sometimes Wheat Beer, but not often.

I will avoid any film that has award laurels on the cover on principle, they're usually boring and pretentious.

I think Super Hero films are juvenile and overly formulaic.

I think the percentage of ‘Health Experts’ who are charlatans and as a rule of thumb the percentage of what they tell you is poppycock is:

Online 95%.
TV and Radio 75%
High Street and Gym based 65%
NHS staff – 5%

Sadly because the NHS Nutritionists won’t spout a lot of nonsense about the latest miracle (and suddenly very expensive) vegetable, supplement or device until a study is made and verified – no one believes them. This puts me at odds with most of my family and it seems everyone on FB. Kale, it’s a miracle, haven’t you heard?

Mrs Brown's boys - utter, utter shi*e!!

stevied - Member
Mrs Brown's boys - utter, utter shi*e!!

Amen brother! I find it painful to watch, had to see it xmas as my wife's nan thinks it is hilarious.

I loathe German cars, find them over rated and just as unreliable as any other brand.

The Matrix was crap.

Football (probably not very contentious on here)

The Beatles - awful.

Jazz. Pretended to like it at uni to try and pull a pretty girl, couldn't maintain the pretence.
My missus loves it as does all of her family. Every so often someone suggests that "I'll definitely love this tune" and it's always shite.

Also poetry and theatre. Would rather watch a film.

And sherry. I love nearly all forms of booze, but I've never had a sherry I like, even after having tried the 'good stuff'. Tramp's piss.

think this beardy git sums up most of them

Breaking Bad.

I'm working my way through it, 18 months in and I'm about halfway.

It's not for me.

This one's a bit niche but it's STW so I'm allowed to be niche. The film "Akira" is shit. Won't deny that it's influential but there's a reason most people that rave about it, saw it when it was new.

perchypanther - Member

"Errr......I don't like football either"

"GIT OOOT! ........and dinnae come back!"

Never have a problem with that, on account of even the most devout scottish football fan is totally aware that scottish football is shite and happens in the rain. I could probably be more into football if I was Spanish.

pictonroad - Member

Breaking Bad.

I'm working my way through it, 18 months in and I'm about halfway.

It's not for me.

I admire your determination!

If it's not working now, it's not going to get much better for you, it does lift in tempo now and again (slow pace is usually the thing that puts people off who don't like it) but for the most part it drags along at it's own pace.

Still, compared to the spin off 'better call saul' it's a Michael Bay film

Top Gear is bollocks.

apologies to all the middle aged men on here. sorry not sorry

Monty Python. Hated that slapstick pish and couldn't ever understand why it was so popular...

Breaking Bad.

I'm working my way through it, 18 months in and I'm about halfway.

I gave up in early Season 2.

"As good as The Wire", they said. meh.

I'm pretty sure that Breaking Bad is well made and well performed and all, I just stopped wanting to watch it.

I will avoid any film that has award laurels on the cover on principle, they're usually boring and pretentious.

I think Super Hero films are juvenile and overly formulaic.

Guess you haven't found much to watch in the last 5 years then? 😆

slow pace is usually the thing that puts people off who don't like it

For me, it's not about pace; it's about a completely unbelievable moral transformation in such a short space of time (and the fact that the cancer narrative ceases to matter).

Unless Walter White had shown signs of psychopathy before, there is no way he could have dissolved someone in acid without a serious personal breakdown. Too much cognitive dissonance.

So yeah, I find 'Breaking Bad' just bad.

Democracy - draw the line of average intelligence and half the voters fall below it. You also need to have a good choice in the first place.

Children - for so many reasons.

Tea - is just dirty water.

Fish - why do people eat aliens?

Vaping - looks like robot porn!

I'm sure there are others.

Flats on the road bike.

Computer games.

slowoldman - Member

Computer games.

+1 for Mrs Brown's Boys. Utter shite.

Michael McIntyre and that bloody Alan Carr. They make my flesh crawl.

Audi/VW group products - overrated, overpriced and horribly arrogant marketing.

Fawlty towers.

Just tell the truth Basil FFS!

doris5000 - Member

I will avoid any film that has award laurels on the cover on principle, they're usually boring and pretentious.

I think Super Hero films are juvenile and overly formulaic.

Guess you haven't found much to watch in the last 5 years then?

It's been a slog at times.

I hate beards.
Skoda cars are just dull.
I love the Welsh, but I am not one. 🙂

What a delightfully cheery thread.

Super hero films are generally crap yes, except the deliberately silly ones.

There are however some superb super hero TV series around at the moment.

Disney, Harry Potter, Star Wars, super heroes, all that shite just CNGAS. Adults going to disney world, buying into it all, and they don't even have children! No!

For me, it's not about pace; it's about a completely unbelievable moral transformation in such a short space of time

YES THIS

everyone said it was about a mild mannered teacher who transforms into a murderous drug dealer. Sounded interesting. Then you discover that he has murdered his first drug dealer and blackmailed his way into meth production BY THE END OF THE PILOT EPISODE. And you go, wait, there's another 60 hours of this? To find out how many more people he kills, now that the moral and character arc is basically complete?

CNGAS

Compressed natural gas?

+1 for computer games, not kids mind, more grown men playing computer games. One particular woek colleague gets up at 3 am to play them, he's so healthy looking he could quite easily be an extra in the new T2 movie.

I find a whole load of comedians just grating but fortunately they're not asked their opinion.

Stephen Fry is asked his opinion and I can't stand the smug git. Don't know why just don't like him.

Mind you David Walliams needs put out of my misery.

Sci-fi is rubbish
Carbs are ace

I have little to no interest in literature - I've tried reading everything from Shakespeare to Tolstoy to Salinger. All a load of meh. Basically I'm not that interested in people - much prefer SF.

*whispers*
I don't like cheese
*/whispers*

Mrs Brown's boys

utter, utter shi*e!!

It has outlived its shelf life.

"As good as The Wire", they said. meh.

Like blinking flip it is.

Breaking Bad is okay to pretty good, no more than that

The Wire is a piece of brilliance. See, also, The Sopranos.

In fact, that reminds me of something else that's rubbish; Westworld.

Jeremy Clarkson
Oasis
Star Trek

If you are saying "+1" to something, that loads of other people have already said (Mrs browns boys)
Then it not really a "heresy" is it ?

It's just a big list of things that are generally thought to be shit 😆

(Un-)Reality TV

Encouraging moronic, overly dramatic and selfish behaviour in the real world since at least the original Big Brother.

See also: celebrity culture generally and being famous for being famous due to something stupid you did or your family being so wealthy you never need learn from your mistakes.

Not really heresy though, is it.

Nor is not liking whisky.

Questioning Help for Heroes, now that is heresy.

Oasis

Jamie - Member
What a delightfully cheery thread.

This one's for you, Jamie.

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Lord of the Rings - the books.

Christ almighty it does go on. Tom ****ing Bombadil and singing dwarves and holy christ how long is the Council of flipping Elrond.

I read it, just so I had read it, but i wouldn't say i enjoyed it.

No problem with the films though largely as they skipped a lot of that shite

Do enjoy re-reading HHGTTG though!

Loath telly especially reality and competition stuff. Eg dancing singing crap and anything popular. Most telly watchers are thick! :lol:so if they like it it must be crap. Obviously cycling on telly is good as are American fly on the walls about chaps with chainsaws.
Also loath baggy shorts, baseball caps and arse showing jeans on blokes. Poncy coffee with a name other than black or white, mobile phones and (anti)social media.

Maybe quicker to have a what I like post. 🙄

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