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Post by assisi on Jun 30, 2020 20:59:42 GMT
Apologies if there is a similar thread elsewhere on the forum, I had a quick look but couldn't find any. What are the things that you never 'got' or warmed to, things that everyone else seemed to rave about but left you cold or just plain indifferent? I know that many things that we dislike will reflect our ages or the generation we grew up in. But, still, feel free to include anything you just never fancied, whether new or old. Here's some of mine: Golf American Football Disco Music Rap Music Jazz Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf Star Wars Harry Potter Heist Movies Bungee Jumping Marxism Advertisements Lotteries Dogs Parties Narrow legged trousers Coco Pops White wine That's a few to start off with. I'm sure I have offended someone  but feel free to jump in with your own things that you never got. |
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Post by hilary on Jun 30, 2020 21:35:49 GMT
The only one I'd have an issue with on that list is Bat out of Hell! Loved it.
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Post by Tomas on Jul 1, 2020 17:00:25 GMT
Many things may be forgotten since long ago but here a try now to recall a few.
Part I Secular:
Tech devices
Modern politics
Kindle "books"
Recent or semi-recent Disney productions
Skype talks or digital "meetings"
Barbeque-ing
Amusement Parks in general and roller coasters in particular
Russian authors
Cars & motorcycles
Netflix
Dress code (and personally also all that would have to do with clothing by fashion or even by good style)
Van Morrison
Smoking
Vinyl record revivals
Mandatory "high heroes" as Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill (and many others)
Globalist $$
Folk music
Part II Church:
Changes against reason or just for the sake of chronic changes
Discussion of sensitive matters in public fora like Facebook groups
Chorals in the hymn book
Vague remarks about Second Vatican Council
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Post by assisi on Jul 1, 2020 18:13:37 GMT
Many things may be forgotten since long ago but here a try now to recall a few. Part I Secular: Tech devices Modern politics Kindle "books" Recent or semi-recent Disney productions Skype talks or digital "meetings" Barbeque-ing Amusement Parks in general and roller coasters in particular Russian authors Cars & motorcycles Netflix Dress code (and personally also all that would have to do with clothing by fashion or even by good style) Van Morrison Smoking Vinyl record revivals Mandatory "high heroes" as Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill (and many others) Globalist $$ Folk music Part II Church: Changes against reason or just for the sake of chronic changes Discussion of sensitive matters in public fora like Facebook groups Chorals in the hymn book Vague remarks about Second Vatican Council I'm with you on Van Morrison, a very grumpy fellow, but he did have a good album with Astral Weeks and a good collaboration with the Chieftains. Folk music is indeed usually quite cringy, but traditional music (i.e. Irish Traditional music) can be a taste worth acquiring. All the rest I agree with except for Russian writers as I have fond memories of Turgenev and Gogol's 'Overcoat' |
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Post by cato on Jul 1, 2020 19:40:11 GMT
At the risk of sounding wishy washy I quite like some of the things that Tomas and Assisi don't get.
Reality TV is a con I can't really understand.
Most sport leaves me cold. The cancellation of live sport in recent months has given me immense joy.
Atonal music.
Most modern architecture.
Grown ups on (non motorised) scooters.
The Irish national obsession over the Leaving Cert. Another welcome casualty of the Covid crisis.
Loyalty to political parties that betray their traditional core values.
The popularity of capitalist landlords like President Michael Dee Higgins.
Shopping as recreation.
Rich Irish left wingers.
People who believe RTE and who believe the Irish Times tells the truth.
Abstract art.
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Post by Séamus on Jul 4, 2020 7:50:06 GMT
A....... Disco Music Rap Music Jazz Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen ..etc.... 90s/early-2000s techno is the music that absolutely 'don't-gets' me. (The commentators that question how the 80s revival can have lasted longer than the actual 80s need look no further for the origin of this nostalgia.) One vivid memory of the turn of the millennium was my mother philosophically remarking that "'thump thump thump' seems to be a very popular tune at the moment". Actually the techno beat was hardly new by the 90s- Queen's Flash Gordon theme and Blondie's Atomic could be seen as 70s precedents. But,ironically,the insanity of much of the 1990's pop almost seemed to become the gain of alternative music forms,with opera,traditional and Irish or Enya-style-pseudo-Irish becoming phenomenally successful to a degree we wouldn't see in 2020. The sleeve notes on Capercaillie's 1998 retrospective commented on both things- "that earsplitting thud you heard all through the last decade was the sound of musical barriers collapsing in foolish heaps". Positive explanation there. In agreement with Mr Assisi,I'm not sure that I'd get today's interest in rap (or similar) either- why do you bother with music when you're actually talking? |
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Post by assisi on Jul 4, 2020 12:24:19 GMT
A....... Disco Music Rap Music Jazz Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen ..etc.... 90s/early-2000s techno is the music that absolutely 'don't-gets' me. (The commentators that question how the 80s revival can have lasted longer than the actual 80s,need look no further for the origin of this nostalgia.) One vivid memory of the turn of the millennium was my mother philosophically remarking that "'thump thump thump' seems to be a very popular tune at the moment". Actually the techno beat was hardly new by the 90s- Queen's Flash Gordon theme and Blondie's Atomic could be seen as 70s precedents. But,ironically,the insanity of much of the 1990's pop almost seemed to become the gain of alternative music forms,with opera,traditional and Irish or Enya-style-pseudo-Irish becoming phenomenally successful to a degree we wouldn't see in 2020. The sleeve notes on Capercaillie's 1998 retrospective commented on both things- "that earsplitting thud you heard all through the last decade was the sound of musical barriers collapsing in foolish heaps". Positive explanation there. In agreement with Mr Assisi,I'm not sure that I'd get today's interest in rap (or similar) either- why do you bother with music when you're actually talking? Back in the late 1990s I was on a course in England when we all went out one night and ended up in a pub with the thump-thump music ringing out so loud we had to shout to be heard. I said to one of the guys there 'what is the point of this music or rhythm'. He said it was drug music. The young ones at raves and so on would pop pills (amphetamines and ecstasy) and the thump thump beat fitted in to their energy stimulated and mildly hallucinogenic states. |
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but feel free to jump in with your own things that you never got.
