Ripped jeans - rain gets in the holes
Beards - they just make me laugh
Fitbits - no need, I get enough exercise
Nigel Farage - a power-hungry rabble-rouser
Quinoa - looks weird and tastes of nothing
Twitter - infested with bullying and abuse
Poetry - I prefer a good novel
Energy drinks - I have plenty of energy already
Cruises - too many people, too much pollution
Botox - I don't mind the wrinkles
Porn - degrades both women and men
Marathons - too strenuous and competitive
Award ceremonies - too pompous and contentious
The Royal Family - an out-of-date waste of money
Harry Potter - wizards leave me cold
Fun drugs* - I'm having plenty of fun without them
Electric toothbrushes - no better than manual
Work-outs - I'm fit enough for my age
Video games - do nothing for me
Frappuccinos - I prefer my coffees hot
Mind you, if I was stranded on a desert island with nothing to read except the collected adventures of Harry Potter, I guess I would get stuck in. I could enjoy Hermione Granger's razor-sharp brain as I wait to be rescued.
*aka recreational drugs
Ha! I agree with most things on your list! I used to like ripped jeans.... but these days ripped jeans seem to have more rip than jean, and that's just draughty. And silly.
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I agree with everything except the quinoa. I've had it prepared where it was really good. And I've never heard of Nigel.
ReplyDeleteWhen you look at those who do care about the things on your list it makes you glad that you don't.
ReplyDeleteMs Scarlet: True, there's the draught factor as well. I'm glad there's no fashion for ripped shirts. Or ripped shoes.
ReplyDeleteBijoux: Nigel Farage is the leader of UK's Brexit Party. Polls say the Party will give the Conservatives a thrashing in the European Elections on May 23. He's also a good friend of Donald Trump.
Helen: Well said. Especially the dental fanatics with their electric toothbrushes, inter-dental brushes, dental floss, whitening toothpaste etc. A good brush twice a day has kept my teeth in good shape (and they're still all my own).
ReplyDeleteWhat shocks me most is what those ripped jeans cost plus the factor, rarely spoken about, is that women in them look battered and/or assaulted and what is that saying about society? Much like the prison wear some guys have.
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www: I hadn't thought of that particular association - looking battered and assaulted. Very true. Of course the other trend is clothes that look working class. Except that they invariably cost a lot more than genuine working class clothing which probably comes from Primark or the local charity shop.
ReplyDeleteI'm so clueless I don't even know what the fads are. :D
ReplyDeleteJean: I'm sure you're doing very nicely without any of them. I can't even imagine you in a pair of ripped jeans!
ReplyDeleteLOLOL! love your list. but then I usually do. :D
ReplyDeleteI second the entire list, excepting Harry Potter. It was a good read.
ReplyDeleteTammy: So I take it you agree with most of them?
ReplyDeleteJoanne: Yes, I thought Harry Potter would cause some dissent!
My area of dissent was video games - there are some games I love, though generally old games, such as Raving Rabbids :-)
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My area of dissent is beards. Dave has such tender skin that shaving hurt. When he first grew his beard he was still shaving parts of his face but I persuaded him to stop. He does keep his beard well trimmed, though.
ReplyDeleteLinda: If shaving is painful, then growing a beard makes perfect sense. Nice to know he keeps it trimmed and doesn't let it run riot!
ReplyDeleteI agree with a lot of your views. Those jeans are such a joke. I do find my electric toothbrush does a much better job than my manual one but am not inclined to go for the latest version with a built-in water pic. My husband didn’t like a beard for himself either.
ReplyDeleteJoared: I think Jenny briefly tried an electric toothbrush and wasn't convinced it did a better job than an ordinary toothbrush. I'd never heard of the waterpik, which I gather is promoted as a superior substitute for flossing. Certainly my dentist has never mentioned it.
ReplyDeleteHave to disagree over electric toothbrushes. Most of the rest though I'd go along with. Oh, I did enjoy the Harry Potter books but not the films.
ReplyDeleteLiz: Goodness, maybe I should give an electric toothbrush a try. I wonder if Harry Potter uses an electric toothbrush?
ReplyDeleteMust be all of the Irish blood in me- we seem to be on the same page m ost of the time. I have NEVER understood ripped jeans - LOL but my dentist buddy and his dentist wife both say electric toothbrushes are best, I did like Harry Potter - both written and on the screen andI do have a beard but it covers a flaw I dio not want on display.
ReplyDeleteChuck: Another plug for electric toothbrushes! I shall have to try one out. I guess a beard is handy for hiding something you'd rather not reveal.
ReplyDeleteI do not care about all the things you put in your list, but please take out poetry, what does poetry have to do with fashion ? And well Quinoa has nothing to do with fashion too, may be you do not know how to prepare it , that's why you consider it to be tasteless.
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Mira: I included poetry because poetry is very trendy right now in the UK. Ditto quinoa. But you may be right about not knowing how to prepare quinoa.
ReplyDeleteI think some people are poetry people and some people are prose people. I'm a prose person, definitely. I mostly agree with your whole list. I did like the Harry Potter books and movies, but partly because they were something I experienced with my boys. Also - I like quinoa.
ReplyDeleteAgent: I was very keen on poetry as a teenager, but my enthusiasm cooled for some reason. To my mind, there's an awful lot of bad poetry around at the moment, which puts me right off poetry in general.
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