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The Rolling Stones in the early 80s
Inspector Morse
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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.
Flags too!
.
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.
Puffins Rock
Windchimes Suck..
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
man you is kerazzee
innit
respect to the Craven though. Legend.
Countryfile used to be a Sunday morning favourite of mine
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!
*five finger discount
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, The Advisory Circle
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
...
red hulk.
pj harvey.
medway.
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?
Aryan Nusbacher?
Really?!
That show reminds me of being at uni. I was playing Total War a lot of the time as well.
Yeah
I've just tried doing an internet search but came up a blank. I definitely read it in a magazine though.
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.
* television
Hoorah!
I really enjoyed their
"Last of the Dambusters" documentary the other week. That was great.
GalacticStar3ruption
*sigh
in love with me?
...
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.
:)
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.
Flags too!
.
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.
Puffins Rock
Windchimes Suck..
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
man you is kerazzee
innit
respect to the Craven though. Legend.
Countryfile used to be a Sunday morning favourite of mine
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!
*five finger discount
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, The Advisory Circle
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
...
red hulk.
pj harvey.
medway.
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?
Aryan Nusbacher?
Really?!
That show reminds me of being at uni. I was playing Total War a lot of the time as well.
Yeah
I've just tried doing an internet search but came up a blank. I definitely read it in a magazine though.
Shazam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Nusbacher
Good work my man.
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.
* television
Hoorah!
I really enjoyed their
"Last of the Dambusters" documentary the other week. That was great.
GalacticStar3ruption
*sigh
in love with me?
...
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.