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Things other people think are well boring but you think are good

motorway service stations
The Rolling Stones in the early 80s
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  • :)

    stock exchange im well into observing that
    elbow

  • looking at maps

    Coast

    • coast the programme or

      coast in general, although I suppose the two are the same. I love coastline, can't get enough of it.

    • I'd say both of those

      have a favourable majority, no?

    • I like that stuff

    • everyone likes the coast!

    • these are like my fav things ever

      when i was wee, i used to read an atlas from cover to cover for my bedtime reading. i got my bf the DVD of Coast, i don't think he was too happy :(

    • I love reading maps

      Done it since I was little so I now have a ridiculous knowledge of capital cities.
      Coast is great. Coast the TV programme is fucking TERRIBLE.

  • kraftwerk

    Puffins
    wagon wheels

    • who doesen't like any of that stuff?

      • the question was "Things other people think are well boring but you think are good "

        I've not met very many people who like those particular items, but maybe I've been speaking to the wrong people !

        • I love puffins

          the biscuits and the animals. I've got a puffin windchime from orkney.

    • surely everyone loves these

  • Motorway service stations <3

    The best bit about travelling the highways of England

    • Road signs

    • but which one's your favourite?

      • My favourite is

        Leigh Delamere.
        It has an M&S, but the next nearest services is Membury, which is rubbish and doesn't have an M&S, making Leigh Delamere seem even better.

        • Leigh Delamere is the nuts, but it's no Fleet

          Fleet even has a sign saying it has a McDonald's when it doesn't really - the little tease.

          That one in Shap is quite good as well, the farm shoppy one. Prefer the classics on the A1M, though.

          • Fleet? I thought that had a McDonalds.

            I don't usually stop at Fleet though as my parents only live 10 minutes away.

            • it probably used to, because it still has the arches on a pole by the entrance

              but there ain't no McDonald's. A BK, and a Primo Coffee, and an unbelievable overpriced grill/carvery affair, but no McD's.

      • Ahh I dunno

        I haven't really been up and down England since I was 11!

      • NOT AGAIN

        PLEASE

        • Best. Discussion. Ever.

  • Rollercoaster Tycoon 3

  • Counting out coppers.

    Oh yeah!

  • I love motorway service stations

    the more depressing, the better to me. There's this brilliant one on the A4 (I think? I could be completely wrong) and it's got a horrible dingy cafe and 7 or 8 clothes rails filled with outdoors-y type gear and their marked either "male rack" or "female rack"(which I laughed at) and then arranged in order of price. And they've still got a few of those machines which cost 20p to test your ideal weight and test how good a kisser you are just by holding on to the little metal bit. It was great.

    Oh yeah, anyway

    Queen

    • There's a depressing station on the M1

      near Leicester somewhere, it looks like it's been made out of bits of concrete plonked in a sea of mud. I've yet to stop at it, but I might do next time I pass it.

      • I don't know about english ones

        but as far as scottish ones go there's a really good one with wimpy burger on one side of the road, and if you want to get to the petrol stop you've gotta walk through a big glass overpass. It's brilliant. When I drove down to dover all the english ones we stopped at were like palaces compared to the scottish ones, all with costas and McDs and stuff, though we could'ave just got lucky.

        • yeah <3hill service station

          my gran was on a bus passing through it once, and she heard the driver saying to someone "enjoy your holiday" as she walked off with her suitcases.

        • "like palaces"

          that just made me chuckle- I'm imagining some rubbish monarch who claims the title of 'Burger King' and lives in a giant service station.

    • everyone loves Queen

      everyone who counts, anyway

  • the railways

    local government
    Countryfile

  • atlases/maps

    statistics
    numbers in general

    • Who doesn't like an atlas and numbers?

  • everybody loves raymond

    probably the only thing i could watch consistently on tv - and i hate tv.

    cranes - i could look at them all day, seriously theyre amazing.

    and sunn O)))

    • yes to Raymond!

      My ex-girlfriend owned every series box set. Good times.

      • I used to love that show

        I watched it every morning on channel 4 before school from about 2003-2005.

        • i'm at home at the moment

          seeing family before i graduate and i've watched a double bill every single day. there are countless similarities between my relationship with my brother and ray's with robert.

    • motorway services and maps

      yeah forgot those, good ones

  • really in-depth LOST stuff

    staying in.

  • those late night sexy jiggle booby tv channels

    and marmite in pasta sauce

  • maps

    knitting
    Jane Austen
    school stuff

    anything i say, someone's going to say they like it too.

  • Mansun

    Footballers' dates of birth
    Data Protection

    • Sol Campbell - 18th September

      You can add that to your collection if you don't already have it.

      • I really like this post.

      • I need a year

        but I'd guess at 1974

        My favourite is Peter Schmeichel 18/11/63. Not sure why

        • four days before Kennedy was shot!

          ARE YOU WORKING FOR THE CIA??

  • Ten, to start with:

    1) cockney wartime songs
    2) disused buildings, especially factories & pubs.
    3) the history of lower league football clubs.
    4) coronation street and its complete history, including maps & family trees
    5) slang, especially patois & polari
    6) most statistics
    7) northern irish football
    8) skilless instruments like the triangle
    9) the history of UK roads
    10) Margaret Thatcher

    • i am interested in all these things

      except Thatcher

      wanna hook up?

      • you're intereste in northern irish football, tristan?

    • I worked out who you are.

      \o/ for being a bit slow.

  • lots of people say maps :D

  • I quite like maths

    I realise it's become very trendy recently to say you like a maths but it's still used by "artsy" people to indicate that a person is somehow a dead soul. Which is weird.

    • maths is good

      i took home extra maths in primary. they called me the Peak Geek. omgomgomg

  • I should perhaps have said 'most other people', since it's clear

    that we're all getting nerdy hobbies out in the open and discovering fellow nerds, which is a lovely caring sharing experience.

    So things which MOST other people think are boring, but you like.

    like Woolworths.

    • I think woolworths retains a little charm these days

      especially as it's clinging on for dear life, but only if you don't go too often otherwise you would probably kill yourself.

      • I really only go for the cheap CDs

        and the '5 for £1' confectionary!

    • growing up in a country town with very few shops

      woolies was a lifeline ! thats where my musical tastes were formed.. Good old Woolies !

  • things that people my own age think are boring but i love

    Radio 4
    cooking
    walking places
    looking at history
    giving people false directions

    • I would probably like to look at history

      but I can only see the present.

    • Radio 4 isn't boring, just terrible

      cooking is good, so is walking.

      The last one you might as well s a"being an arsehole".

    • why how old are u

      11?

    • Last one

      oh dear...

    • I love radio 4, but some of it's really gone to shit

      the 630 comedy is appalling. Apart from repeats of 'Sorry I haven't a clue', it's either feeble meeja type satire like 'the now show', being all self-referential and cosy and gay about being on radio 4, or laugh-free borefests like 'Clare in the Community'.

      • You obviously missed the brilliance

        that was Rudy's Rare Records.

        • I did. must admit I quite enjoyed 'Fags, Mags & Bags'

          heard for the first time last night. Harmless fun, and definitely not 'Quote, Unquote'.

          • the worst show on the air

            is broadcasting house. with that stupid woman who says things like "you're listening to BH on radio 4, please rinse and return".
            she isnt funny

            • Ahem, ever heard of a little show called 'Does He Take Sugar?'

              • no

                • well i guess that reference is just going to fall a little flat then, isn't it?

  • The English Patient

    • GET OUT

      its hideous

      • NO WAY DUDE

        I love that film, it makes me cry even though I know it's a bit rubbish. It's a 120-minute swoon.

  • Sex

  • Cy Twombly

    Boys From The Blackstuff and talking crude.

  • also,

    old pubs - preferably on my own. i like my own drunken company alot.

    • old man pubs are amazing

      you meet all sorts of characters in those places. Far better than soulless trendy pubs.

      • agreed.

        Except you do sometimes find senile men masterbating into the sinks in the toilet.

        • all part of the fun and games

          you wouldn't get that in your swanky gastropubs.

          • In gastropubs...

            You find shirted young bucks spunking onto the stomachs of tanned 40 + spinsters with flailing thighs.

            • P.s.

              You should post a thread weighing up the pros and cons of 'Old Man Shacks'' and 'City Boy Shelters''

  • Test Cricket

    Drone records

    In fact listening to Jeff Boycott complain about our inability to find a wicketkeeper/batsman while Earth 2 rumbles on in the background is pretty much my idea of heaven.

    • ^drone

      very good, very good.

    • Flags

      Bingo
      Old manny pubs
      the World Service
      HEIMAT
      Old films like Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
      Looking at the ASPC website
      Dominoes
      Going to the planetarium
      Going for drives in the country

    • Surely

      everyone likes test cricket?

      • I wish this were true

        and that I didn't have to fight my wife for the remote in order to watch it.

        • I had forgotten

          about my girlfriend too.

          I have managed to drag her to a Twenty20 match though.

  • Hedge funds

    Venture capitalists
    Docklands and the Isle of Dogs

  • newsround (Y)

    and Look North

  • .

    national trust properties
    birdwatching

  • Bruce

    Springsteen

    • i'm pretty sure The Boss

      has a fair bit of love round these parts yknow.

      • Malajube

        those golden chinese cats with the moving arm

  • DiS

  • maps

  • economics

    time team
    fraud enquiries

  • Listening to HAM radio
    The Sky At Night
    BBC World Service

    • 'Sailing By' - best piece of music on any radio station EVAH

      Eric Coates rules

      • Yes.

        I love Sailing By.

        • Nothing says "it's all going to fine, don't worry" like 'Sailing By'

          shortly followed by the national anthem, more stirringly

          • You're absolutely right.

            I haven't heard it since I moved in with the missus though. I'm going to have to listen again soon.

  • Myself

  • Time Commanders

    • ^ amazing show

      I loved that.

      Did you know that the Israeli curly haired expert who used to pour scorn on the commanders' efforts has had a sex change?

  • WWII

    Goodnight Sweetheart (the sitcom)
    Brush Strokes.

  • Megastructures

    on Channel 5. I really enjoy it, not in some daft ironic way, but in a genuinely fascinated way.

    • There's actually some alright documentaries

      on Channel 5. I watched part of one the other day where someone decided to move a building via truck, not just a small one either, it was like a golfing clubhouse.

      • I'm glad Channel 5 cater for that kind of audience

        The audience who want to watch programmes about big buildings being towed somewhere, or building the worlds largest cruise ship in Finland, or a really big bridge somewhere. They aren't ever particularly well narrated, and look a bit cheap, but they're completely engrossing.

        So here's to Channel 5 and its low-cost televion programme scheduling policy.

  • GalacticStar3ruption

  • ...

    1.) 19th Century/early 20th Century political cartoons, like the ones in Punch.
    2.) Old photographs of anything.
    3.) History in general.
    4.) From Our Own Correspondent.
    5.) 1950s American cars.
    6.) Maps, flags, atlases, capital cities etc.

    • I think you may be preaching to the choir with all of that brilliant stuff

    • those are fucking great

  • This thread is full of "URRRGGGH"

    • wossat?

      • onomatopoeic representation of embarrassment

        • i mean

          there's enough "cooky" to keep a certain sesame street character sustained for months

          • cookie/kooky - what's it to be?

  • moomins

    space

  • newsnight

    and This week on BBC

    • Question Time + This Week =

      a whole load of awesome

  • columbo (the proper 70s one)

    early 90s Poirot
    The whole ENTIRE arts supplement of every newspaper
    The Antiques Roadshow

    • The New Yorker

      Crappy books from the 20s found inside second hand book shops (just for the historical element)

      I'm not sure any of these are obviously boring and probably most people like them.

      Oh yeah, service stations are fun.

    • One last thing -

      70s Columbo kept me sane through university...until I saw the one with the inside fair ground and I cracked up.

    • the ENTIRE supplement?

      Even stuff like 'Libby Purves - My Week In Potato-Printing'?

      • yeah

        I love that stuff. It's terrible. I'll read every section of the lifestyle and arts supplements even if they annoy me.

        Oh, the clothing bit of the V&A.

        The really nasty interviews in the Daily Mail. This is work related but they make me recoil in horror but they are also so mean it's astounding and compulsive.

        • by work related, i mean that's the only time I have to read the Daily Mail

        • The 50 Best Shoetrees Under £85

          • i have a high boredom threshold

            The 50 Best Eco-Friendly Bins Under £100

            The 50 Best Things to Buy Your Uncle

            I love it!

  • .

    Following 50 different football leagues around the world.

    • ^ I'd love to do this

      I really would. I have to make do with 3 and World Soccer magazine.