I've just never got....

[threebikesmcginty]

I don't get ( and don't want to):

Make up, high heels, big hair, piercings, tattoos, McDonald's, boy bands, girl bands (?), impatient drivers, smoking, strippers, lap-dancers, pole dancers, prostitution, poodles (and other ponced-up dogs), eating shellfish, soaps, other people's holiday videos/photos, window shopping, sado-masochism, bungee jumping, rollercoasters, ironing, fake tans, fake breasts, ladyboys, expensive hifi cables, paying £53 million for a vase, bling, Mills & Boon...

Mind if I cut and paste that for the 'I do get' thread - save me typing it all out?

 

[ColinJ]

Mind if I cut and paste that for the 'I do get' thread - save me typing it all out?

What, you're into ladyboys with poodles! 

 

[slowmotion]

Cheese fondue....what's that all about?

 

[Brahan]

Alcohol free beer.

I don't get it.

 

[beanzontoast]

Alcohol free beer.

I don't get it.

Free beer?

Did someone mention free beer?....

 

[Firestorm]

Which one? Costello's voice irritates me now. If I hear those whiny nasal tones once more, particularly combined with misty eyed couples claiming 'Alison' as "our song"...

My Wife (Alison) and I were talking about having this song at our wedding, until we listened closely and realised its about a bloke trying to persuade Alison to leave her husband for him......


Back on thread...the Beatles ok , as an early raw Beat combo, but after that nah !!

I go into a fight in Junior school (early '69) for saying the Beatles were crap....

 

[Haitch]

What have you tried? Some of it is very odd, but some is very good.

Admittedly, very little. I just don't get the contrived world made up by the author as a setting for a contrived plot.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

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Led Zeppelin.
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I used to feel I should like Led Zep, but I don't any more. They were really little more than a load of session musicians led by a poodle, ripping off other people's tunes.

 

[Ravenbait]

Neil Gaiman. I mean, I get it, but I do think he'e over-hyped. Tim Burton, too. And Star Wars.

Larkin. In fact, a lot of poetry I don't get, although I'm trying and I'm learning. I'm having a go at the Inferno, at the moment.


Sam

 

[srw]

Larkin. In fact, a lot of poetry I don't get, although I'm trying and I'm learning. I'm having a go at the Inferno, at the moment.

A fourteenth-century Italian writing an epic that expounds Christian theology, based on an Imperial Roman epic. Not the most obvious place to start...

 

[srw]

Back on thread...the Beatles ok , as an early raw Beat combo, but after that nah !!

The early stuff is a bit of fun, but Lennon and McCartney were able to do so much more. Revolver is a great song cycle - up there with Winterreise and Liderkreis.


(srw makes an early bid for pseuds' corner...)

 

[just jim]

Contemporary dancers. They're so show-offy!!!

 

[slowmotion]

Madonna. What on earth was all the fuss about?

 

[philipbh]

Agree on the Beatles (except Come Together)

 

[jonesy]

I get the impression that I'm the only person in P&L who doesn't find the Daily Mash funny. Not even remotely funny. Sorry.