I've just never got....

[User169]

The Lark Ascending.

What is it about this interminably boring, drippy piece of music that ensures its place at the top of the classical music charts?

 

[ChrisKH]

Michael Barrymore.

 

[User169]

Morrisey is a complete knob though, you have to agree.

My nephew very nearly became a roadie for him a couple of years back and his interview was a trip to the pub with his fawning entourage. He got a rejection text from Morrisey's PA the next day. Reason never stated. Bear in mind that my nephew is very well respected in the business, extemely easy going and has worked for numerous bands (Gallows, Cocteau Twins, Cancer Bats, amongst many others) and never had a complaint about his work.

That sounds a bit familiar; did he write about it in one of the newspapers?

 

[jiggerypokery]

While I'm at it - 'Fixie Culture', yep, I ride a fixed/single speed bike but to feel the need to build an entire pseudo culture around it????????

Does your life have so little meaning for you, does society hold so little interest, is just riding for the sake of it so blase' that you have to invent a whole new subculture - and then tattoo it on your knuckles???????

I also have no appreciation for the whole Star Wars thing - I find it mind numbingly boring.

As a man, and I may speak for a very silent majority here, football????? I should have a team, I should rave about it, I should follow my country, I should know the offside rule and I should be excited about taking my son/daughter to their first game and the joy that there will be when they kick a football for the first time - but nope - not an iota of interest or appreciation here. And if my kids grow up equally uninterested in this naf game then I shall have achieved something great in my life.

 

[slowmotion]

Chocolate. Is it really that special?

 

[Night Train]

Value Added Tax.

So, I pay Income Tax on my wages, then I pay again to buy things with my wages because the things I buy dare to have 'value' (no? really? I thought wages were for throwing away on worthless tat!), only some have more 'value' than others.

I've often thought this too.

Work to earn money - pay tax on it.
Buy something - pay tax on it.
Supply energy to it - pay tax on it.
Insure it - pay tax on it.

I wonder when they will find a way to tax your tax bill?
Oh yeah, they have!
Pay tax for public services - Pay tax again in order to receive them from your local authority!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Michael Barrymore.

hardly highbrow though, on a par with not really appreciating i'm a celeb and calling oneself cultured as a consequence…

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Chocolate. Is it really that special?

Yes. Next!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Yes. Next!

as long as it's dark…

 

[Rhythm Thief]

As a man, and I may speak for a very silent majority here, football?????

I might have put down football, but it's not a thing I feel I should "get". I just don't like it and that's that.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

can i mention 'strictly', or is that taken as read?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

can i mention 'strictly', or is that taken as read?

Depends whether you feel you should really be enjoying it or not. Me, I'd rather spend an evening lancing the dog's boils than watch "Strictly ...".

 

[yello]

How's about a program entitled 'Strictly Lancing The Dog's Boils'? Would that entice you?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

"Strictly Come Lancing"

 

[dellzeqq]

Rohloff gears. Sorry. If there was ever a case of making something more expensive and less useful, this would be it. You get 14 widely spaced ratios of which you'll use approximately three this side of Annapurna. They cost a mint. When they go wrong you can't fix them. And they're a substitute for derailleur gears which, I may say, have not let me down in over 40 years.