The cast of Mad Men. Not that I would know, because I don't watch it.
I’m from Queensland. Which means that for pretty much my entire life I’ve spent Christmas Day in somebody’s swimming pool; I have a friend of a friend of a friend who knows the drummer in Powderfinger; and I’ve been obsessed with South-East Queensland introducing daylight saving for as long as I can remember.
For years I have whined and grumbled and bitched about the fact that Queensland is backwards for not offering it.
When Brad and I decided to (temporarily) move to Adelaide, I was excited. Wine! Haigh’s Chocolates! Daylight Saving! WOO! And then I moved here. And you know what? I frickin’ hate daylight saving*. HATE. IT. I hate Daylight Saving the way Donald Trump hates a windy day. I mean, trying to put a toddler to bed at 7.30pm when it’s still bright outside is a special kind of hell. My toddler Ava and I have this conversation about 34 times every night:
“Mummy is it night-time?”
“Yes darling.”
“Is that the sun?”
“Yes.”
“So it’s daytime?”
By the fifth time, Mummy can’t answer because Mummy is under the table with a large bottle of scotch. Rocking. Back and forth. In the foetal position.
So all this got me thinking about things I thought I’d love until I actually, well, you know TRIED THEM. Things like:
1. Mad Men (sorry, I watched one episode and found it depressing. I refuse to tune in until Larry Tate** does a cameo)
2. Jazz Ballet for Adults (I did a class about ten years ago and nearly had my eye poked out from so many women doing jazz hands)
3. Lord of the Rings: the books, the movies, the tupperware (Zzzzzzz)
4. Sea Monkeys as advertised in Archie comics (All I’m going to say is, There are no crowns, people. THERE ARE NO CROWNS. )
5. Sweetbreads (Excuse me? I don’t think PANCREAS should be called “sweetbreads” on a menu. It’s false advertising.)
6. Using a fit ball to sit on while at my desk (I liked the idea of this until I actually tried to sit on an ENORMOUS BALL WHILE AT MY DESK. I’m sorry, what?)
8. Los Angeles.
9. Donnie Darko. (Seriously WTF?)
10. Cheese in a jar (I never really thought I’d like it but I was prepared to give it a whirl. #fail)
11. Pilates (Nobody actually likes pilates. Think about it? Do any of those pilates poeple look happy? No, no they don’t. They’re all grim faced and angry-sweaty)
* Before the pro-daylight saving brigade come after me with pitchforks, I’d like to say that I’m quite happy to put aside my own hatred for it and do what is best for the majority of the population. Just don’t expect me not to whinge.
** Darrin’s advertising boss in Bewitched. How could you not know that?
So what things did you think you’d love until you actually experienced them?
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University. I did really well in high school and graduated with the highest tertiary entrance score possible. I was so excited about uni and all it had to offer. Boy was I wrong! I hated every second of it. I felt lonely, aimless, overwhelmed, poor, and completely unsatisfied. After a few fails and a belated gap year that turned into a gap-two-years, I did finish my degree but I didn’t end up working in the field. I will never go back to uni study – those were the unhappiest days of my life!
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Something that makes me cringe is the way radio DJs often talk so inanely and lacking in wit – just play the music and announce it in a low key way, thanks! I often feel embarrassed for them.
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Pregnancy Massage – after a couple of non-pregnancy ones I was really looking forward to it but it was just uncomfortable despite the hole in the table (where the bump goes) and all the rolled-up towels (perhaps because of the rolled-up towels).
Wuthering Heights – my mum always raved on about this book and so many different sources had recommended it as well as being one of those ‘classics’ that I felt I should’ve read. So I did, and hated every single character. As for the abusive Heathcliffe being a heart-throb, well, no wonder my mum has been mistreated by men if that’s her idea of her perfect man!
AFL – when I first moved to Australia I used to get free tickets through the first two companies I worked for. I went whenever I could but I just can’t love it.
Dubai – It’s all about money. The guidebooks and the taxi drivers bang on about how they’ve got the best this, biggest that, tallest whatever, but it’s built on slave labour and if you venture out of the shopping malls it’s filthy.
Kuala Lumpur – see Dubai (not sure about the slave labour but one of the buses I went on took us past a building site that appeared to have a lot of people living among the scaffolding so definitely no regard to the health and safety of those making the city look pretty).
Passion Fruit – I like passion fruit flavoured stuff, drinks, ice cream etc, but the fruit itself, yuk!
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Acrylic fingernails. I got them once, and once only – terrible!
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Women’s Fashion Magazines – Sorry there is no way I can afford $300+ clothing.. and yes you do just make me feel like a frump, but the reality is I am lucky to afford Target & Jeans West clothing and I am on a moderate wage but most of us have mortgages to pay.
Pressure to buy the latest labels gimmicks etc i.e Guess Handbags, iPhones, MAC make-up, Dermalogica,
Hair Extensions – Yuck.
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yeah, daylight saving, why do we have that again? i think we are not saving anything! instead we (parents) are using every evening all energy and all sorts of explanations and tricks to get our kids to bed in time for several months. then just as they accepted to go to bed during “daytime”, daylight savings ends and we suffer again, but then because we get up way toooo early in the morning. grrrrrrrrrr
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Totally agree about Lord of the Rings and skinny jeans.
But c’mon – Donny Darko was a good movie!
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And another one for the list – Green Tea. It tastes likes grass clippings in boiled water. Why would I want to eat Green Tea flavoured ice-cream??
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I’m with you, Kiki. Gack. Also chai. I like real chai. REAL chai. But chai ice-cream, chai in Nescafe powdered form, chai-flavoured biscuits, chai-flavoured cupcakes, chai- flavoured cat food, chai-scented toilet cleaner (ok, I may have made a couple of those up, but you get the point.) It’s the new vanilla/white chocolate. Bloody ubiquitous to the point of something that used to be perfectly tasty and fine is the last thing on earth you want because bloody everything is flavoured like it now. Grumble. Mutter.
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i’m soooooo with you. i lived in melbourne for 4 years and hated every second of daylight savings with kids. we have now (sensibly) moved back to queensland…..
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Great post
Here is my list:
*Underbelly – everyone was raving about how great it was but most of the eps I have seen make me zzzzzz
*The Hangover – as above, I heard so many good reviews, mostly from guys but even from a female. I wasnt interested initially but after I saw Bridesmaids thought I would give it a go. v v big let down when I actually saw the movie.
*Beer – bleurggh don’t like the taste of it
*Wine, champagne etc – as above (unless it’s a sweet one)
*Cigarettes – only tried once
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Bec I am with you on Mad Men, I love the idea of it but the storylines are sooo depressing. Its still a good show, but nothing to watch if u want to feel uplifted
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Napolean Dynamite
Watched it for the first time on the weekend and I still don’t understand what it is about
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*women who wear almost transparent leggings/tights as pants! aarrrgghh!! Please get yourself a cute little skirt to go over the top. You look like you put on your tights and forgot to finish getting dressed.
*snowballs – those disgusting marshmallow things covered in cheap compounded chocolate and oversized dessicated coconut – yuck!
*pandora bracelets – I fell for that big time and now I wonder what I was thinking
*zumba – it is NOT a party! it IS a complicated, exhausting sweat fest
*new trendy grains like chia, quinoa, etc etc……boring
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Ice skating. I put one boot on the ice and it was so slippery and scary and DANGEROUS that I just couldn’t bring myself to even try it. This made me sad, but there you are.
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I am so glad to hear I’m not the only woman who finds Mad Men depressing.
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Zara.
I don’t *hate* it, but I hate the idea of other women wearing exactly what I’m wearing. After numerous trips in there trying to love it, I own exactly one skirt from there. Hmpf.
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-diets
-Brazilian waxing
- fruit
-champagne – too sweet, give me a Sav Blanc any day!
and
- overseas holidays – i meant who doesn’t LOVE holidays but I always seem to be so excited to get home at the end of them, perhaps I could have a holiday at home and save 3-4grand!
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I loathe most fruit. I have to bribe myself with something tasty to get myself to eat it. Or I have to chop it up tiny and hide it in cereal or somesuch.
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Having a romantic interlude in the rain. It’s not like The Notebook at all. It’s wet and cold.
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I think daylight saving should be in winter. You get up in the dark anyway and it would mean one more hour of daylight in the afternoon instead of darkness at 5. I am on the Gold Coast…call me backwards if you like
-All those energy drinks….Yuck
-Being blond, I am naturally brunette …staying blond was a lot of hard work.
keeping chickens – noisy, messy, inconsistent egg laying – they are going.
-oprah – I used to love her but now …… not so much
-The Slap – read it – hated it!
-fast food – each time I think I am in the mood and I regret it.
-Rocky Horror Picture Show – nup and nup
-George Clooney – charming yes, good looking….NO
-New Years Eve – forced party.
-Donna Hay – her cook books are just glorified home food, which is fine on its own, not what she is trying to sell it as.
-Junior Masterchef – terrible on so many levels.
-Rove – OMG really??
-kardashians – watched it with the kids and wondered what all the fuss is about.
- Chelsea lately
- Chain fashion stores
-carrying extra weight – I decided I had had enough of being disiplined and just ate what I wanted for 2 years, it was bloody hard work shifting that weight but worth it having my energy back and my waistline!
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Loooove your list Bec!
Here are a couple of my ‘meh’ experiences:
- Cheese and vegemite: dairy and a salty spread? What the…?
- The ‘Valley of the Giants’ tree top walk in Denmark, in the south west of WA. Why was I the only one to bawl my eyes out when on this ridiculously high, swaying and swinging ‘attraction’? I’m ashamed to admit I was 20 at the time.
- Bondi Beach. Meh.
- ‘Second Life’ – the computer game. Tried it so see what all the hype was about. Ended up ‘walking’ around in a no-man’s land, being followed by perverts who only wanted to talk about penises.
- Beginner French language classes. When will I ever have to say ‘The window is green’ or ‘I am at the automobile shop’. French class would be sooo much more interesting if they taught you how to say, ‘Last night I drank a whole bottle of wine and woke up in a strange apartment.’
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Me too!! I have taken French classes before and I always think they’re going to be like something out of a Maeve Binchy novel but they’re not. They’re a bit boring really …..
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God I love this post. LOVE. IT.
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- Mike and Molly – It sends the message that as long as your funny it’s ok to be obese.
- Sea Patrol – Worst show ever!
- Masterchef and Junior Masterchef – Give me Jamie Oliver any day!
- Growing my own herbs and vegetables – I didn’t realise it would be so time consuming.
- Our local country market – It’s busy and people are rude!
- Being a young mum. – I’m now 25 with a 5 year old and I still get looks from judgmental people. Especially older mums. My son starts school next year and I’m dreading it
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I am also a young mum, I am 39 and my first born is 20….in fact, people think we are friends not mother daughter…
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I’m not even a ‘young’ mum (28yo) but I have a 2yo and a 6mth old and people still stare at me and feel the need to make comments like, “You’re too young to have two children…” Riiiight.
I’m also a teacher and let me tell you, you have no reason to dread your son starting school! It’s a really exciting time and you will enjoy every minute
Narrow-minded people are everywhere, but there’s absolutely no reason to let them get to you. Be confident with all that you’ve achieved as a mother, nothing else matters! 
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Bec I feel your pain on the whole trying to get a toddler into bed in summer thing! You should try Tassie in summer, it doesn’t even get dark until about 9pm so the sun is still way up in the sky and shining brightly at our kids’ bedtime. Blackout curtains are good when they are younger but by the time they are about 4 we have had to teach them to tell the time so that they know 7pm is bedtime even if it’s still daytime!! And then the sun is up and shining brightly again at 5:30am the next day – no wonder I’m sleep deprived
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Sex
alcohol
Nightclubs & Discos
Wearing makeup & high heels
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pineapple on pizza
any form of fruit that isnt fresh (tinned, cooked, apple pie makes me blerg)
fruitcake
cake in general (why dilute chocolate?!?)
walking in high heels (im 30 and still a wobbly bambi in anything higher than 2cm)
summer (i have no air con, and i die in the heat, get migraines etc)(i live in sydney)
the beach (unless its a nice quiet beach,, and its early morning or late late afternoon, because i get sunstroke after about an hour and have extremely pale photo-sensitive skin)(but then the sharks are about in the early evening)
traveling to Asia (i cant handle the heat, see above. And i have panic attacks in crowds)
Godiva chocolate (overrated)
Twilight books (read the first 2, but the writing made me cringe)
modern language standards – lol after every sentence? no proper formed sentences? wtf? (hah!)
there are tonnes more but if i keep going i will be invited on that cranky old lady show, so ill stop there!
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I really hate it when people use lol or lol jks at the end of a sentence in the same way they’d use ‘no offence’, i.e. when they want to insult someone.
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don’t mind LOL but hate WTF and freakin’. Language prude maybe but I do think it is crude and unnecessary.
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I can’t stand FML – I always want to respond ‘what you put out, you get back!’
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Some of these have already been mentioned but….
1. Adele, partiularly that ‘Someone Like You’ song. I can’t stand it.
2. Lord of the Rings. An ex from years ago dragged me to see the first movie and I have never wanted to self-harm more. BORING.
3. Twilight – as aforementioned many times
4. Coffee – don’t like the taste, it makes me have an upset stomach and it also makes me feel way too anxious. No thanks.
5. AFL football. I come from Melbourne so it’s pretty much unavoidable here. I particularly hate it when sitting with a group at work and everyone starts talking about the football match on the weekend. Yawn.
6. Lost. I used to hang out with a group of people when I lived abroad that absolutely loved this TV show and insisted I watch it. I sat through a few episodes and that was enough for me. I really WANTED to like it cause everyone else I know did but just coudln’t for the life of me get into it. Unfortunately I havne’t met anyone else who feels the same!!
7. High-wasted jeans. Mum always insists that they look more classy than my hipsters and that i should take the plunge but I find them uncomfortable and restricting.
8. G-string/thong underwear. I tried them at 18 when everyone insisted they were more comfortable than regular underwear. It just felt like I had a permanent wedgie! How is that comfortable, seriously, people?! Having something wedged up your ass all day is NOT comfortable. I will wear them to avoid VPL when I absolutely have to but I never adjusted to them…
Can’t think of any more but I’m sure there are some!! A lot of things mentioned by people I actually really like though. e.g. LOVE green tea after living in Asia, was really into Sex and the City, have always been a Seinfeld fan, like wearing thongs (on my feet, not the other type as aforementioned), summer has always been my favourite season, I love the beach, I got addicted to Gossip Girl, I like clubbing and musical festivals probably too much for some who is 27, and any kind of alcohol, well, what can I say? I think I just might pour myself a glass of wine…..
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Here’s my list:
Sushi
Oysters
Chai tea (all that milk – ewww)
Harry Potter
Yoga (can’t meditate and/or relax!)
5 star restaurants (where you leave feeling hungry and robbed!)
Hmm, brain freeze due to pregnancy brain. That’ll have to do for now!!
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The only good thing about Adelaide is the departure lounge, seriously. World’s capital for serial killers. See what the place does to people.
Daylight saving rocks, what’s wrong with you. I grew up in Bris and cringe about how backward ppl are there when they want to argue about how DLS is so silly. Come on backward QLD dudes, join the rest of the Eastern Seaboard!!!
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Adelaide=world’s capital for serial killers? Umm, so where’s your evidence?
No wonder you hide behind anonymity with statements like that!
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I think it was more a joke about the airport being of crap quality/seedy/not much fun to be in
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* Milk (so GROSS!!!!)
* Lamb’s brains (I just don’t understand why it’s on so many menus – I don’t know anyone who would willingly eat it)
* Gardening (so many things bad about it – the hot sun, the dirt, the aching muscles, the worms, the weeds)
* Self-help books (OMG – they always provide the most obvious, cliched advice – “To be truly happy, you need to embrace your faults”…argghhh)
* Following on from that, fiction books that are written solely to relay messages found in self-help books, albeit in a slightly more poetic manner (Little Prince, The Alchemist…too boring)
* Coffee OR Alcohol
*Rap, rock, heavy metal, punk music (actually anything where there is really no music but just some angry guy screaming his lungs out into your ears)
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Brains (I hate them too) are on menus because chefs like them, especially if they’re into snout to tail and honouring the whole animal.
Worms are good! They are awesome little things.
I have to disagree with your music dislikes – doesn’t sound to me like you’ve given them a go at all!
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I like earthworms, they’re cute. I rescue them when I’m out walking. If there’s one stranding itself on the hot concrete I lift it gently and put it on the grass. I’m sure my neighbours think I’m mental. I just feel sorry for them.
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I too love love love daylight savings. But agree that daylight savings and toddlers do not mix well. Our solution? We taught our kids to tell the time. Really really young. Like about 18 months young. “When the big hand points to the top and the little hand points to here that means its time for bed”. Worked a treat. Except for the fact that everyday I still have a conversation with my 4 year old daughter who says “Is it daylight saving?” “Yes, it will be for 4 months”…next day…”Is it daylight saving?”….
But would I give up daylight saving? Not on your nelly.
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Hamish and Andy – I find them annoying and not funny at all
Reality TV
Twilight
Bondi Beach – I work in Bondi , too many backpackers
Sex and the city
Women’s magazines
Engagement dinners , hen’s nights ,etc etc . If I get married I am never going to do that !
Australia day – would be better without all the bogans
Adele – like some of her songs , but eh
Lady Gaga
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Oh and Masterchef , the Apprentice , Underbelly and pretty much all Aussie tv shows.Sorry !
New years eve
Boxing day sales – people become such animals
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Sorry….but I’m just not into weddings.
I’ve been to two lately – and they were exactly the same. The same Bali flags on the beach, the same chairs with bows, the same prim celebrant, the same vows, the same music (Over the Rainbow – not by Judy Garland but some dinky guy singing with a ukelele – wtf?) the same spray tans, the same strapless wedding dresses, the same bunch of young guys stripping off their shirts at the reception and getting plastered….zzzzzzzz
Ho-hum. Why can’t people do something original at weddings?
Couple of others
Triple J – bunch of self-important pretentious tossers pretending to be radio presenters
Community events – e.g. Australia Day BBQs – too crowded and really bad sausages
Going ‘boating’ – ugh. It’s supposed to be healthy outdoor fun but sunburn, seasickness and everyone jostling for the few public berths at Sydney Harbour beaches and getting boat rage sure is not fun.
And I REALLY dislike daylight saving. If people want to enjoy the sun – get up earlier I say!
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Why cant weddings be classy any more? Most of them have become like an extended bux/hens night where the bride gets more drunk than the groom.
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When I was still at uni I worked at a restaurant in a pub. We used to do the occasional wedding, but not many as most people had worked out that it wasnt that nice a place to get married in. I can still remember one in particular. I could have ignored the dirty great big tattoo across the shoulders above the white strapless dress. I could have (at a pinch) ignored the fact that she took her shoes off. What I couldnt ignore was the constant trips (barefoot) to the stinky outside carpark to have a cigarette. Beer in hand. Especially when I went out to put some rubbish in the bin and found her and the best man umm, how to say it, quite enamoured with each other. And then the groom came out and said (i kid you not) “You guys seriously need to stop doing that now!” and laughed. LAUGHED. Class all round.
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Thats hideous!
I worked in an RSL club while I was at Uni and I worked on quite a few weddings. The one that stands out is the bride who had teeth missing and she asked for a doggy bag of all the leftovers to take home. It was a great look for the bride to leave clutching 2 big foil takeaway trays of food.
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I met one of my best friends while working there and we often joke about writing a book about all the things we saw and heard there – the real Australia warts and all
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Check out the ‘Babylon’ books by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous. They are fantastic. There is a Wedding Babylon, but it is a case of more ‘up market’ weddings than the ones you experienced. Gee, I would love to read your experiences!
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The bingo ladies were the funniest and we still laugh about them. The carpark on bingo days was actually really dangerous! They were so excited about bingo they drove like lunatics. A bingo lady ran over a staff member one morning.
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An old schoolfriend had as her facebook profile pic, an image of her in her wedding dress smoking a cigarette. She changed it after a few days when the comments section was filled with thinks like “how very classy”!
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Lu – couldn’t agree more. At one of the weddings I described above, the bride and groom did vodka shots at the bridal table, made speeches that were verging on pornography, snogged each other senseless on the dance floor and had a monstrous fight in the carpark when the reception ended.
Brides don’t act like ladies anymore – and as for the grooms – meandering along the beach to take your vows, stubby in hand, is not a good look.
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Any wonder the divorce rate is so high. Your wedding day is supposed to be you at your best!
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Now THERE is a post! Tragic weddings; haven’t we all been to one??? Not mine though, of course!!!
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Thought I’d like The Slap on TV because I rated the book on my top 5 of all time, but I think the TV series is sooooo boring.
I can’t deal with things in Trilogies. I rarely make it past the second book or movie. Never saw or read the third LOTR or the third Matrix. But I did just finish reading the final Millennium book, but then again I hear that there is a fourth installment out there somewhere unpublished so perhaps I managed that because it’s not actually a trilogy…
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Things I thought I would love (until I tried them):
Most of the gorgeous (yet insanely impractical) shoes I own;
G&Ts (I like every other alcoholic beverage…?);
Acupuncture (don’t mind the needles, but don’t like the lying still having to listen to that god awful music for so long. Irritating, not relaxing);
Baths (thinking I just don’t like lying still….especially in mucky, tepid water);
The beach (I know…go figure. And I’m a Queenslander…although, now I have probably been been exiled);
Pretty much everything in my wardrobe;
Yoga (enough of the downward dog already);
Dark Cherry Cherry Ripes.
And things I knew I would never like, but still tried them (and still don’t like ‘em…no matter how hard I try):
Twilight
Tupperware
Golf
LOTR
Twilight
Lingerie Parties
Glee
oh, and Twilight
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I’ve been persevering with Mad Men, but it does nothing for me whatsoever.
Daylight savings. Love the endless days, hate the sun being up again at 4 am!! (living in northern Europe). Can’t wait to do it all with kids. Not.
I don’t get Twilight. They’re all whiny and irritating. And worst of all, boring. Same with Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. Didn’t get how cool it’s supposed to be.
Sheldon Cooper. He shits me. Love BBT, but aaarggh!
Speaking of Coopers, I don’t get Bradley Cooper either. Not attractive. At all.
Mixing fruit and cured meat. Melon and serano ham? Disgusting!
LOTR. Loved the films, hate the books. The tone of it is just irritating.
Whale sounds/massage music. Seriously. I’d be happier with silence!
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I’m hearing you. Meat and fruit. Why? I reserve a special hatred for sultanas in curry.
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re lotr
have you read the Narnia series?
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Read Narnia when I was very young and loved it. Especially The Horse and his Boy. Disappointed by the movies though. They just didn´t live up to my memory´s expectations.
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I live in Queensland! Go Queenslander! My comment doesn’t address the topic as such, but I am absolutely for Daylight Savings. My feelings probably would have been different when my kids were younger, but now that the youngest is 10, I would LOVE it. This past week, the days were around 30 deg. The sun comes up at 4.30am and goes down at 6.30pm. Rubbish. We have partially black out curtains, but the sun still manages to shine through way too early. My husband wanted to practice cricket with our son after work one day this week, but it was too dark at 6.30pm. In our climate we should be able to make the most of the evening cool(ing) and be able to enjoy our backyards and pools before it becomes too dark.
I even think back to days when I had to deal with interstate companies about orders, and remembering missing at least one important deadline because we were one hour behind.
CRAZY (unless of course you have very young children and no black out blinds!!). There is certainly something to be said for the Eastern seaboard to have the same time lines.
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Ok, let the rant begin…
Twitter (but quite ok with fb and IM)
The Celestine Prophecy ( self help masquerading as an adventure quest – urggh, the dishonesty of it all’)
Marijuana
Rap ‘music’ ( sorry, but clever words don’t equal music, in my book)
The Kadashians
Big Brother
Using ‘impact’ or ‘transition’ as a verb ( sorry again, cranky ex English teacher rising to the surface)
Instant coffee …
But I do like daylight saving – and what’s not to like about Brad Pitt?
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Oh, The Celestine Prophecy suuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Not only was it mawkish New Age crud, the writing was bad. So, so bad.
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I thought I’d love ‘The Slap’ – I haven’t liked the book or the tv series
I thought I’d love being married until I was and it was full of compromise…
I thought I’d love studying English Lit but turns out I don’t want to pull apart a novel and write an essay on what the author really must have been subconsciously saying in relation to the social and economical constraints of the day..
I thought I’d love gypsy skirts but they look silly on me.
I thought I’d love a tattoo on my arm and ankle – turns out… I don’t
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Hi Bec, I’ve lived in Adelaide most of my life and I always LOVED daylight savings … UNTIL I HAD A CHILD!!!!! You are quite right, it is hell on earth for parents.
It is such a shame you never got to experience it pre-children because it really is fabulous! But yes, I share your hell and my 7.30 pm conversation with my toddler goes like this:
“Time for bed Oscar!”
“But it’s not dark yet!”
“I know, but it’s late and it’s your bedtime!”
“But the sun’s still up Mum!”
Repeat 10 times over and I’m in the foetal position under the table, but with a bottle of red! Good luck Bec!
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Thanks Jane! We have heavy duty curtains and a blind in her bedroom now so I think we’re on the road to success! I bet when I move back to Queensland in 12 months, I’ll miss it though!
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I am not into
Coffee
Beer
Twilight
Trash mags
Hot weather
Most music on commercial radio
I love this post!!
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Love LOTR, Donnie Darko and Mad Men (seriously Bec, give it a go…not just for the divine fashions and the Draper’s bathroom tiles, but it is incredibly well written and goes so much deeper than the aesthetics. It makes you truly grateful to be a women now and not then.)
But things I’m not into:
Gone with the Wind (someone shut that whinging woman up!)
Reality TV
Skinny Jeans
Vodka
men with no hair on their chests
going to the beach (apart from early morning and late afternoon)
seafood (apart from a really good salmon steak)
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Hellburger, I’m prepared to give Mad Men another go (since I only ever watched the first episode …). But I cannot bring myself to watch Donnie Darko again. WHAT WAS WITH THE RABBIT? I need to read “Donnie Darko for Dummies” .. I did not get that movie at all.
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my new work place
long island iced tea
eye cream
my new (uncomfortable) shoes
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sorry about your new workplace. And new uncomfortable shoes are the worst!
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Microwave Rice – maggots in a bag
Yogurt – it’s on my Bucket List to learn to like it but I just. can’t. do. it.
Vampire Diaries – actually I hated the books so I kinda knew I would hate the show
Cross Stitch/Outlander series – everyone raves about it and I managed the first three and a half books without wanting to eat my own head. I googled the rest of the series’ synopses because it was just so borrrring.
Summer – love the concept, hate the fortnight long heatwaves and mozzies
Seinfeld – I wanted to like this show but it was just SO not funny.
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I keep trying with yoghurt too, Shaezy. Nup. Mum has a bowl every night. She actually had it for dinner tonight with some mango. KDot seems to love it too. I seem to buy one tub and then chuck it out after a few weeks sitting in the fridge with a couple of spoonsful out.
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Oh Kris, It’s just GAK! My kids would have it through an IV if they could but just the smell makes me feel ill. I KNOW it’s good for me, I KNOW it will make my insides healthy (blah blah blah) but my taste buds all back up and are like “no way, no how, man! Get that off, stinky milk crap away from us!” It may be the one thing I never achieve (because of course I am going to win lotto!).
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I almost spat out my tea when I read that..maggots in a bag, too funny!!:)
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The snow, actually winter in general, but the snowfields and skiing especially. Skiing is not a holiday its bloody hard work just to arrive each day and then add children and a husband to the mix and I think I’d have more fun and certainly more relaxation in prison for a week.
Fish – removing bones from each mouthful isnt enjoying a meal.
The new David Campbell album I saw advertised on TV thismorning…doing covers of Wham and Soft Cell, what is that all about? That was scary enough, I wont be buying it!
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The Celestine Prophecy – I really wanted to like this and can’t really understand why I can’t stand it! It should be right up my alley as I have also loved Paulo Coelho’s The Prophet, and also The Little Prince in my day, but I just don’t get why so many people love this book! There is nothing in it that is groundbreaking or new, and it does NOTHING for me (except make me look for something else to read!).
The English Patient – I obviously just need to persist on this one, but I just can’t get past the start of the movie! It is just soooo boring to me!
I’m sure I’ll think of more things I just couldn’t get in to, but these above two have burnt me in a way that I will deliberately choose to stay away from something if it is something that ‘everyone else’ is in to!
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I did a book related to The English Patient for 3U English. It was painful and scarred me for life. I have never and will never watch The English Patient. Ever.
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At last! Someone who feels the same way about the Celestine Prophecy. Self help pretending to be an adventure quest. Who did they think they were kidding? I was so pissed off at the disrespect to the reader’s intelligence – such a sham.
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the english patient
one of the alltime best movies
try watching without crying…………impossible
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Sorry bec, I do like daylight savings. I f*^+ing hate being woken up by the sun at 4:30am!! Every time I feel like screaming WTF???
I also love LOTR, huge nerd about JRR Tolkien books. I have never seen the Tupperware, however. A lot of jokes about them being “my precious” would probably ensue if we ever got them.
Not overly impressed by LA either. Loved San Francisco and further south in California, however.
I do agree with the Donnie Darko thing. My lasting impression is of the idiot wearing bunnie ears in the cinema.
I do like skinny jeans, but I have long legs.
I’ve never really liked SATC, it bored me after a while. I don’t really like a lot of reality shows on commercial tv either. We don’t watch australian idol, dancing with the stars, the biggest loser etc and even only lasted 2 seasons of master chef.
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Did you see the little girl on Funniest Home Videos last week saying ‘My Precious’? Sooo cute! I really hope that her parents have just taught her that phrase though and the name of the character that said it, (in the video they were asking her ‘what does a cow say?’ Moo, and ‘what does Gollum say?’ My Precious!) rather than actually having let her watch any of the films! I’m an adult and plenty of those characters still spook ME!
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Yes gollum’s fairly creepy by himself.
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Bradley Cooper
Dirty Dancing
Twilight
Pasta
Twitter
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Bradley Cooper?!?!?!?!?!? You have SEEN him right?
come on zoemirai!
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I’m with Zoe… there’s something infuriatingly smug and weak-chinned about Bradley Cooper…. I always feel like slapping him, hard. He’s a decent actor, but sexiest man alive? Nuh huh, not on yer nellie.
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1. Canned laughter on American sit coms. (so annoying)
2. American sit coms ie Friends, Two and a half Men, Roseanne in fact all of them.
3. American crime shows CSI ad nauseam.
4. High heels (how DO women walk in them?)
5. Jogging/running.
6. Offal in any shape or form.
7. Blue vein cheese (mould anyone?)
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I’d like to add:
Smoked salmon – it’s everywhere, but I can’t eat it. No way.
Rockpool restaurant – I yearned to go for years but a couple of months ago was so disappointed by it. Wanted to love and rave about it.
Taking my kids to the park – I’ll do craft with them, take them swimming, but I hate the park.
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Coriander
Tarragon
Coffee and Tea
Brad Pitt
Alcohol (all it does is make me wee lots & it tastes gross)
Olives
Beauty and the Geek
Driving (hate it!)
Shopping with friends
I could go on…:-)
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you “experienced” brad pitt?
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Bwhaha. No, I just don’t get the big deal with him. He’s not so sexy.
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I can and do drive, but I would happily give it up if I could.
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mad men is a bit slow but im totally addicted.
However I dont understand:
camping
sudoku
coke
any CSI show
bike riding
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Yoga! Actually, just the gym in general.
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