I've just never got....

[Aperitif]

Rohlon 2011!

 

[Moodyman]

Egg cups.

Never seen the attraction meself, but when we moved into our new house a while back, Mrs MM bought some and tried to get me to eat out of one. I did, and it was messy.

I'd rather hold a broken half of an egg in one hand and scoop out with another.

 

[Ravenbait]

Eastenders.

Or Coronation Street.

Or anything of that ilk.

Sam

 

[srw]

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.

14 widely spaced gears is exactly what a laden touring tandem needs to get itself propelled across France.

I've never got football. (I may have said that before).

 

[Aperitif]

I've never got Gerard Manley Hopkins or English sweating sickness

You need to MleyTFU then Mort! He liked a bit of prosody, apparently.

 

[snorri]

I don't get the interest in professional football, in fact all professional sport, even the term 'professional sport' seems like a contradiction.

 

[Hover Fly]

Curry.

 

[yello]

Singing. I mean as a profession. 3 year old girls sing in the playground... and Bono thinks he's a god, bands take themselves far too seriously, rappers think they're hard and all because they sing. Wot's tharallabawt then?

(Good call on Rohloff btw, imho. Talk about an over engineered solution to something that isn't really a problem )

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hammond organs.

What!

I can't believe it
The Hammond Organ is God's own Instrument!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Phew! Maybe a few more will feel able to admit to it now!

I'm in!

 

[Fnaar]

What!

I can't believe it
The Hammond Organ is God's own Instrument!

I'm with the fabster on this one... a mighty swelling organ is a good thing.

 

[Bayerd]

Hammond organs.

They don't belong here, surely nobody likes (or is expected to like) Hammond organs?

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......

Reminds me of the time my band were asked to play Solitaire at a wedding......

It is musically safe, bland, makes no demands on either the listener or he musician, and yet it is bigger than Jesus. That I suppose means I don't want to be thought of as enjoying something that I consider to be "pap for the masses"

It's popular because it makes no demands (I sense you know this already). P1sses me off as well, but pap for the masses pays the bills......

 

[craigwend]

Cheese
cricket
musicals
the theatre
'operatic' rock
the killers (the band)
NiN
novels / classic literature
cooking/parenting/DIY/restoration -TV

 

[dellzeqq]

Michael Barrymore.

I'm shocked. Barrymore is a genius. A genius on the verge of a nervous breakdown, but a genius nonetheless. 'Bob Martin' was hilariously funny and very worrying at the same time.

+1 for Hammond organs. Wonderful!

 

[red_tom]

Michael McIntyre