What do you hate that everyone else loves?

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Brightly coloured showjumping jackets, especially with matching stirrups.
The "beauty" industry which has persuaded a whole generation of young women that they need thick brown makeup, false eyelashes like caterpillars and drawn-on eyebrows in order to be attractive. And the young men who are so superficial they can't see through the painted on faces to the true beauty underneath.
Gosh that's shown my age hasn't it!

Oh yes the beauty industry I agree and I'm 28.

And those god awful lip fillers women keep getting that means they can't speak properly and look ridiculous at the same time, who knows what will be the side affects in a few years time. Shows that promote only the perfect image how about having love island with normal people? Reality toot such as towie made in wherever etc etc

X factor it is time for it to die

 

[JFTDWS]

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That looks terribly impractical. She'd stand on it in the field. Daemon would nibble it. It would get covered in mud

 

[Keith_Beef]

People who hate Marmite.

 

[DabDab]

Oh no, I hate those too - the fabric makes the colour look ick.

ETA:response to cowpony 😁

 

[DabDab]

That looks terribly impractical. She'd stand on it in the field. Daemon would nibble it. It would get covered in mud

But she would look fabulous!!!

 

[Keith_Beef]

hmm, not sure about crossbows as a weapon but if you really want one I'll let you. As long as I can have a curved sword and Scythian bow. and some throwing axes. and Legolas knives. and a catapult.

I'll take a spontoon, a halbard or a lucerne hammer, any day, over a curved sword!

Yeah, I'm a foot-soldier; I've not had any training in horseback combat, yet. I keep putting in the applications at work, but they're never approved.

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Oh and the drawn on eyebrows!

Children's beauty pageants, was watching a show on it my word 5 year olds being fake tanned and plastered in make up, fortunately it's mainly America it's big rather than here though surprised all the made in Chelsea/ towie types haven't introduced it here!

 

[MotherOfChickens]

You're arming yourself somewhat... comprehensively... What are you expecting?!

well if it doesn't come March 30th, it'll come later

I watched too much GoT and LoTR over Christmas. There's this brilliant stunt the Dothraki riders do in GoT in the last season whereby they squat/kneel on the saddle and fire arrows. no point to it whatsoever but blinking briliiant-and they have curved swords (I guess curved swords give you more of a cutting edge at speed?)

 

[JFTDWS]

But she would look fabulous!!!

SHE'S ORANGE damn it

 

[DabDab]

SHE'S ORANGE damn it

Trust me, I'm good with colour, she could totally pull it off.....although an emerald green version would be truly amazing 😍

 

[JFTDWS]

well if it doesn't come March 30th, it'll come later

I watched too much GoT and LoTR over Christmas. There's this brilliant stunt the Dothraki riders do in GoT in the last season whereby they squat/kneel on the saddle and fire arrows. no point to it whatsoever but blinking briliiant-and they have curved swords (I guess curved swords give you more of a cutting edge at speed?)

I keep eyeing up smallholdings north of the border I can flee to, in the hope of independence and Sc-re-entry

I haven't seen GoT (I had an existential crisis during the first book and left it in the hope of keeping my sanity intact!) but I do enjoy an LOTR battle scene... Curved swords are a bit too orcish there.

 

[JFTDWS]

Trust me, I'm good with colour, she could totally pull it off.....although an emerald green version would be truly amazing 😍

Now a green one might work... Hmm...

 

[MotherOfChickens]

I keep eyeing up smallholdings north of the border I can flee to, in the hope of independence and Sc-re-entry

I haven't seen GoT (I had an existential crisis during the first book and left it in the hope of keeping my sanity intact!) but I do enjoy an LOTR battle scene... Curved swords are a bit too orcish there.

I think you would like the Dothraki but yes, they are known as the books of pain for good reason.

 

[JFTDWS]

I think you would like the Dothraki but yes, they are known as the books of pain for good reason.

I probably would. I should watch it some time, but it seems like a lot of effort

It wasn't pain, exactly. I was mid-PhD, and I had a proper existential crisis of "why the heck am I reading this, what is the point, I'm supposed to be achieving something with my life and instead I'm reading this madness, is this really what my life has become" sort of rationale... It was very much a "wrong time wrong place" book, and now I can't find the copy I had, but refuse to buy a new one because I refuse to own two copies of a book I never even finished

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I probably would. I should watch it some time, but it seems like a lot of effort

It wasn't pain, exactly. I was mid-PhD, and I had a proper existential crisis of "why the heck am I reading this, what is the point, I'm supposed to be achieving something with my life and instead I'm reading this madness, is this really what my life has become" sort of rationale... It was very much a "wrong time wrong place" book, and now I can't find the copy I had, but refuse to buy a new one because I refuse to own two copies of a book I never even finished

I tried reading the first GOT book on a plane to America where I had no escape. I gave up. I tried watching a few episodes - I started with one with Sean Bean in with the thought that it might get me interested. I ended up bailing and putting my Sharpe DVD's on instead. I just can't get into GOT! I don't like it when the tv/films over takes the books and dictates what should be written. Plus I am probably so far behind now that it would take forever and a day to catch up and I just dont have that sort of time in my life.

 

[Cortez]

Perhaps now is not the time to mention that my OH was the armourer who actually designed and made all the main cast weapons for GoT?

 

[MotherOfChickens]

Perhaps now is not the time to mention that my OH was the armourer who actually designed and made all the main cast weapons for GoT?

Omg, you let slip out just as I am about to go away for a few days !

 

[Rumtytum]

Perhaps now is not the time to mention that my OH was the armourer who actually designed and made all the main cast weapons for GoT?

That’s impressive! I mean REALLY impressive!

 

[JFTDWS]

I tried reading the first GOT book on a plane to America where I had no escape. I gave up. I tried watching a few episodes - I started with one with Sean Bean in with the thought that it might get me interested. I ended up bailing and putting my Sharpe DVD's on instead. I just can't get into GOT! I don't like it when the tv/films over takes the books and dictates what should be written. Plus I am probably so far behind now that it would take forever and a day to catch up and I just dont have that sort of time in my life.

I can watch most things with Sean Bean in I love Sharpe

 

[Cortez]

That’s impressive! I mean REALLY impressive!

Well, I'm pretty proud of him actually So, we're all sorted for arming the moustachioed headscarf wearing posse.

 

[Cortez]

I can watch most things with Sean Bean in I love Sharpe

Well, he wasn't in it (Got) for very long!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Perhaps now is not the time to mention that my OH was the armourer who actually designed and made all the main cast weapons for GoT?

That officially makes you 100 points cooler on the Cool scale!

 

[JFTDWS]

Well, he wasn't in it (Got) for very long!

I suppose your OH was (indirectly) the architect of his demise

 

[Cortez]

That officially makes you 100 points cooler on the Cool scale!

Makes OH cooler: I just "helped" (mostly by saying "it should be longer/shorter/more gold")

 

[Cortez]

I suppose your OH was (indirectly) the architect of his demise

Actually he was very much the architect (and there on the day of filming to erm, "clean up" the blade between takes), have pics somewhere...

 

[millikins]

Harking back to the OP, I truly dislike the gushing over the Budweiser clydesdales with their pitiful scraps of docked tails

 

[JFTDWS]

Actually he was very much the architect (and there on the day of filming to erm, "clean up" the blade between takes), have pics somewhere...

Incredible... I have serious work envy

 

[Rowreach]

That looks terribly impractical. She'd stand on it in the field. Daemon would nibble it. It would get covered in mud

I think she already has the knock-off version so you are too late.

 

[JFTDWS]

I think she already has the knock-off version so you are too late.

If that's the look she was going for, I think she needs to work harder

 

[Rowreach]

I tried reading the first GOT book on a plane to America where I had no escape. I gave up. I tried watching a few episodes - I started with one with Sean Bean in with the thought that it might get me interested. I ended up bailing and putting my Sharpe DVD's on instead. I just can't get into GOT! I don't like it when the tv/films over takes the books and dictates what should be written. Plus I am probably so far behind now that it would take forever and a day to catch up and I just dont have that sort of time in my life.

I strongly dislike GoT because it has attracted far too many people to some of the most beautiful and remote and hitherto unspoilt locations, several of which are near here and I liked being the only one there when I visited

Perhaps now is not the time to mention that my OH was the armourer who actually designed and made all the main cast weapons for GoT?

That does in fact make you both cooler on cool scale.