I just don’t love the following, although maybe you will:
1) HP Sauce (or the American similar one, A1 – this was previously number 26 but I had a brain fuck-up so now it’s #1) and people who wear their phones on holsters on their belts
2) The Rolling Stones. Or The Beatles for that matter.
3) Drop-in visitors.
4) Lost
5) American Idol/X Factor/Britain’s Got Talent/ANTM/Any fucking talent reality show that takes up valuable TV time.
6) 4x4s if you don’t work on a farm or have a particularly tenacious river you must ford every day
7) People who don’t own a TV and likewise people who say they’ve never read a book in their life (wtf? Did you go to school?)
8) The words “just adopt”
9) Panto (I don’t understand it or find it funny, but I can see that it could be sweet and if you grew up with it you would get what I think I might be missing here).
10) Twiglets (ditto the above).
11) High School Musical
12) A high-profile blogger who TYPES ENTIRE PARAGRAPHS IN CAPS SO THAT WE, THE STUPID READERS, KNOW WHEN TO LAUGH. And no I’m not naming names. I can’t face the hatemail.
13) Banana anything.
14) Necklaces on men.
15) A modern VW bug that actually has a flower in that stupid vase on the dashboard.
16) Guinness (I’m very, very “meh” about it.)
17) Borat
18) Talk radio (radio is for music. Music, I say!)
19) Mohair anything.
20) Dr. Pepper. Or Root Beer.
21) Chocolate (I know, I know…)
22) Hairspray
23) Patterned tights
24) Twitter (I tried. I really did.)
25) Iced tea. Not that crazy about green tea, either. Or most teas for that matter.
26) These types of lists (as seen all over blogland), which I have shamefully given into because today’s suck factor was high, I have been light on blogging and I’m even lower on energy, and tomorrow has “Hi, Shannon! Welcome to Your Bollicking!” written all over it!
*sigh*
Re: 12 – It’s not just me?! Yay!
3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,14,16,17,18,20,22&25?
I will help you hold up the protest placard!
Can’t agree with you on 9,12,13,15,19,23&24.
As regards 1,2 & 21: you are a complete, utter & total heretic!
Sorry you’re getting your ass kicked, love. It’s such a nice ass, too!
Don’t ford the river, man. You always lose your oxen when you ford the damn rivers.
1) My wife does this. I think it’s a function of the fact that girly girls can’t really do this with the types of clothes we wear.
2) Me either
3) Depends on the visitors
4) OMG ME EITHER!
5) Only one I like is So you Think You Can Dance
6) LOL – we call them “little penis trucks.”
7) Ditto on both of those.
8) I’ll punch the next person I hear say that.
9) and 10) Not sure what those are, but I’m sure they’re weird. :)
11) That’s because you aren’t 14
12) Well now you have me curious.
13) TOTALLY with you.
14) Hahahaha
15) Yeah, what’s that about?
16) I call it mud
17) Offensive
18) Talk radio is a waste of airspace. If I wanted to hear talking, I’d go to WORK
19) Itchy
20) Eh and Eh
21) BLASPHEMY!!!!!
22) Unfortunately can’t live without it. But hate it.
23) LOL – unless you’re like, 6 years old.
24) I only keep my account to keep up with the celebs I follow.
25) Iced tea from Starbucks – yummmmmy.
26) Ketchup I tell you!
27) It’s better than no bloggin at all!!!
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1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24 – absolutely!
9 and 10 – not sure what they are but I doubt I’d like them.
2 – I like some songs but I don’t own any of their stuff
3 – I like them, but we don’t ever get any, so that’s probably why. Clearly, you’re too friendly towards people. We are not.
14 – Depends on the man, and the necklace.
19 and 21 – I must respectfully and vehemently disagree (but I do hate angora)
18 – I don’t mind a news station once in a while, but I am opposed to sports radio, morning dj’s who think they’re funny, and religious radio
25 – Did you get your citizenship yet? Because I don’t think they’ll let you stay if you admit to not liking tea. (I cannot stand any tea. Or coffee for that matter)
26 – Here’s hoping tomorrow is better than you expect…
Dito on 15! But I’ll take it a step further as I HATE all modern bugs.
My phone is on a holster on my purse strap. It’s a better compromise.
In regards to #8: People who say this think that adoption is easy, probably painless, and without major complications, aside from the idiotic idea that it is interchangeable with having body births. Interchangeable, it is not. (Also— better or worse than having your own? Guess what? The answer is neither. Different.) I know several people who have adopted— it is a different set of challenges, often takes years, and can get sideswiped at the last minute after you’ve bonded with the child. And this is true whether you’re adopting infants or kids in the foster care system. (I also just found out that a kid at my church is adopted, and his parents want another one— I’m pulling for them, because adopting kids ain’t easy these days.)(And, FWIW, I haven’t asked why they are adopting instead of “having their own”, because that’s also a rude thing to ask.)
I know we stand on opposite sites of the river in regards to the Beatles, but we can hold hands and hurl insults together about the Rolling Stones. Can’t stand them. I also wonder how in the world Keith Richards is still living.
Are we allowed to guess about 12? (Initials H.A.?)
1) Ugh to both
2) You can keep the stones, but the Beatles are among my favorites.
3) Except for a VERY short list.
4 & 5) Which is worse, the show or the fanatics?
6) Would have killed for one during DC’s snowpocalypse.
7) WTF?
8) And the assholes who say them.
9) I am possibly the only American who likes the Panto – find myself saying LOOK BEHIND YOU at work and nobody gets it :(
10) Never heard of.
11) Why go back?
12) OMG I KNOW, RIGHT!
13) Allergic to all bananas except Republic.
14) Ick.
15) Make that any vintage of bug.
16) Completely uninterested.
17) All Sasha Baren Cohen for that matter.
18) Stresses me out, which is just not what I need.
19) Or Angora. Interestingly to only me, Angora goats = mohair and Angora bunnies = angora.
20) More for me.
21) Except a high quality white.
22) The movie? Yes. The hair product? Meh.
23) Am only interested in very plain woolly ones.
24) I’m so bad at it.
25) Iced, not so much… hot, I’m in love with.
26) Please. I’m happy to hear from you.
I hope you still oike me despite the fact that I actually love HP sauce;)
12 wouldn’t happen to be a certain blogger who lives in Utah?
Unwrapping the chocolate covered bananas was going to send you as a gift. Damn. I wished I asked on the open forum, but what will you teach your children about the USA, do you think they will feel a connection to their mother’s homeland? Hopefully a blog topic for sometime in the future.
Another one who wants to know who 12 is.
Twiglets I will let you off as they are in the Marmite food group and a lot of Brits hate Marmite too.
I bet you had something mohair in the 80s. You were quite young, though, so it was your mother’s fault.
And reality TV and weird sauces – come round to our house, you won’t find any of them here. Or Branston Pickle.
2, 17, and 21. I knew I loved you, but damn girl. I didn’t know anyone else actually disliked both the Beatles and the Stones.
I deeply object to necklaces on men as well. Just…no. Having said that, I did once make a shark tooth necklace for my nephew when he turned 8, and he was stoked beyond belief. So I’ll add an exception for those under 10.
I’m over “just adopt” too. I hear it, then I sigh and say, “My husband has already adopted 3 beautiful children. I just want to give him one child of his own. It’s only the dream of his life, you know..”
I don’t 24, either, and 3 is rude unless there is a lot of understanding beforehand.
I don’t like the Beatles or Stones, either. As far as #12, I get the distinct idea that when she’s capping, it’s because she’s actually yelling in her own head. At least, that’s what I tell myself. But now that you mention it…
I tried to Twitter. I failed.
You used the word “Meh.” Do you read MLIA, too?
I love HP Sauce, but I hate A1. I also love Twiglets but I get that that is weird and so is liking marmite sandwiches. It’s an acquired taste.
I am SO with you on #6. Why, people, why??
I do have to say I agree with btss about #12, but yeah, now you mention it …
#12 UNFOLLOW!
Ha! Just kidding. I still enjoy her blog, despite said annoying quirks. Luckily, we’re all allowed to enjoy different things. :)
#7 I don’t own a TV, thanks to being a floating post-divorcee, but that’s just lack of home that dictates that fact. I watch all my telly online. :) My books are scattered among dear friends, my children, work and my parents so I can find them whenever I need them.
I think I agree with all of these except the chocolate one (it’s a problem I’m overcoming) and the thing about TV. I’m halfway on that one with you. I cannot imagine someone never having read a book. WTF is that about? Really? Did they go to school? (You wrote that, but it too was my first thought.) But the TV thing? Yeah, I could do without. I don’t watch it at all. Everyone else in this house does, so I sequester in a corner of the house that is quiet. If I lived alone, I’d not own a TV.
Due to the fact that I have a strong dislike for all reality shows… make that all nonsense television, I haven’t turned on my TV since…. November? Then again, I download the shows that I follow, so I guess I sort of do watch TV. Sort of. And I read voraciously. On an iPod. :)
Can you do me a favour and have a word with my better half about #14? He wears one and it is only because it’s a St.Christopher from his daughters that I let him wear it. Otherwise it would mysteriously go in the bin.