Feb-20-2011, 04:32 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Feb-20-2011, 04:47 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
James Bond? I am so with you, AR. I detest the movies and just turn off as soon as I hear anything James Bond-related! Sorry, but I feel the same way about the Matrix, and Star Trek, and Aliens, and…! 
I agree with you redchild re shopping, especially for clothes. I even had a man get really upset with me a few times in one conversation recently, and he even went so far as to question my femininity (!!), because I declared that I hated shopping!
I go to a shop to buy what I need to buy and I get out. If I can do it, I’ll order it from town and have my mailman bring it out rather than have to go into town and shop for it myself! Shopping for books though, is a whole different thing altogether.
I also love Disney and/or Pixar movies and am pretty certain I could say with a clear conscience that I’ve watched (and our family owns) every one ever made! It’s good stuff!
As for sport, well, I can’t say too much without completely contradicting myself here!! I hate the chest-thumping, too much money etc side of things, not to mention the rubbish that happens off the field, but I also enjoy playing and watching sport. I have to add that this is the case MOST of the time but there are also a lot of times when I just can’t tolerate it, like I’ve had my fill or something? As with most TV though, I rarely watch it unless it’s something ‘important’, like, the grand final or the last game of the tournament etc and even then it’s more of a stop and look/listen for a bit then watch some more as I walk past the next time, rather than that I’ll sit down from beginning to end.
I do have to say though, as much as I used to watch it when I was young, and as much as I could watch the 'Phar Lap' movie even now, the Melbourne Cup and any horse racing annoys me no end. I don't stop for "the race that stops the nation". There, I've said it! I'll be deported tomorrow...
The reason why I’ve been away the last few days is because my son has been competing in a public speaking/youth competition where there are a number of elements in the judging process. He is representing his school and now, after having won the last two rounds, will represent the entire zone at district finals but, to be honest, I hate the whole idea of young people competing to see who the year’s best youth is in the first place. You don’t need an award to tell you that you are a worthy person…okay, some people do but hopefully you know what I mean?! Do we really need to have our kids competing for such a stupid title?! Does the fact that my son has won this far into the comp REALLY make him a ‘better’ youth than someone he has beaten, or someone who didn’t bother to enter? No, of course not…it’s more that those particular judges could connect with his personality or that he spoke well during his impromptu speeches on that given day etc.
Okay, notch that up to things I hate that others like…titles and competitions like ‘Mum of the Year’ etc.
Even movie and books awards annoy me (despite the fact that I happily voted for RH’s books in a recent comp 
!). Why do we have to be told we are "the best"?!
Back to sport…one aspect of the youth competition involves giving a prepared speech on any topic…my son chose rugby league and the need to dispel the stereotype of the ‘dumb footballer’. It is a subject important to him because he a) is a high-achieving academic who also involves himself in a very broad range of other extra-curricular activities such as music, dance, debating etc and he is also a b) person who loves to play football and lots of other sport for the sheer joy of it, to balance his studies. In this, I guess I see sport more from his perspective. He said something along the lines of, “Loving embroidery does not define a person, as does loving fishing, so why should loving rugby league?”
For many people there is only sport but for just as many, sport is a small facet of who they are. Maybe I’ve just been around too many sports-mad people all my life…no doubt living in Australia has much to do with it also…if you don’t watch or play sport, your level of patriotism or right to be in our country is severely questioned!!
I've added hardly anything new of my own but I have a feeling that this thread and I will be seeing a lot of each other...great idea, AR!
Oh, and Johnny Depp? I can't sit through a movie he's in, no matter what it is! I think I am the only female on the planet who feels that way!
Oh, oh, and well done meat? I can't eat it any other way, though germs have nothing to do with it...I just prefer it that way, a bit like how I prefer strawberry milk over chocolate? As for restaurants, I eat so much red meat here that I always order seafood when I get an opportunity to eat out!
On food though, I hate sauce, especially when someone smothers it over the top of a meal I have prepared!!! I also can't stand buying food from Maccas, KFC etc, etc. What the real attraction is there, I have no clue...and, yet, if I hear of another cooking (or singing, or dancing) TV show I will go totally mental!
I had to Google this!
I agree with you redchild re shopping, especially for clothes. I even had a man get really upset with me a few times in one conversation recently, and he even went so far as to question my femininity (!!), because I declared that I hated shopping!
I go to a shop to buy what I need to buy and I get out. If I can do it, I’ll order it from town and have my mailman bring it out rather than have to go into town and shop for it myself! Shopping for books though, is a whole different thing altogether.I also love Disney and/or Pixar movies and am pretty certain I could say with a clear conscience that I’ve watched (and our family owns) every one ever made! It’s good stuff!
As for sport, well, I can’t say too much without completely contradicting myself here!! I hate the chest-thumping, too much money etc side of things, not to mention the rubbish that happens off the field, but I also enjoy playing and watching sport. I have to add that this is the case MOST of the time but there are also a lot of times when I just can’t tolerate it, like I’ve had my fill or something? As with most TV though, I rarely watch it unless it’s something ‘important’, like, the grand final or the last game of the tournament etc and even then it’s more of a stop and look/listen for a bit then watch some more as I walk past the next time, rather than that I’ll sit down from beginning to end.
I do have to say though, as much as I used to watch it when I was young, and as much as I could watch the 'Phar Lap' movie even now, the Melbourne Cup and any horse racing annoys me no end. I don't stop for "the race that stops the nation". There, I've said it! I'll be deported tomorrow...
The reason why I’ve been away the last few days is because my son has been competing in a public speaking/youth competition where there are a number of elements in the judging process. He is representing his school and now, after having won the last two rounds, will represent the entire zone at district finals but, to be honest, I hate the whole idea of young people competing to see who the year’s best youth is in the first place. You don’t need an award to tell you that you are a worthy person…okay, some people do but hopefully you know what I mean?! Do we really need to have our kids competing for such a stupid title?! Does the fact that my son has won this far into the comp REALLY make him a ‘better’ youth than someone he has beaten, or someone who didn’t bother to enter? No, of course not…it’s more that those particular judges could connect with his personality or that he spoke well during his impromptu speeches on that given day etc.
Okay, notch that up to things I hate that others like…titles and competitions like ‘Mum of the Year’ etc.
Even movie and books awards annoy me (despite the fact that I happily voted for RH’s books in a recent comp !). Why do we have to be told we are "the best"?!Back to sport…one aspect of the youth competition involves giving a prepared speech on any topic…my son chose rugby league and the need to dispel the stereotype of the ‘dumb footballer’. It is a subject important to him because he a) is a high-achieving academic who also involves himself in a very broad range of other extra-curricular activities such as music, dance, debating etc and he is also a b) person who loves to play football and lots of other sport for the sheer joy of it, to balance his studies. In this, I guess I see sport more from his perspective. He said something along the lines of, “Loving embroidery does not define a person, as does loving fishing, so why should loving rugby league?”
For many people there is only sport but for just as many, sport is a small facet of who they are. Maybe I’ve just been around too many sports-mad people all my life…no doubt living in Australia has much to do with it also…if you don’t watch or play sport, your level of patriotism or right to be in our country is severely questioned!!
I've added hardly anything new of my own but I have a feeling that this thread and I will be seeing a lot of each other...great idea, AR!
Oh, and Johnny Depp? I can't sit through a movie he's in, no matter what it is! I think I am the only female on the planet who feels that way!
Oh, oh, and well done meat? I can't eat it any other way, though germs have nothing to do with it...I just prefer it that way, a bit like how I prefer strawberry milk over chocolate? As for restaurants, I eat so much red meat here that I always order seafood when I get an opportunity to eat out!
On food though, I hate sauce, especially when someone smothers it over the top of a meal I have prepared!!! I also can't stand buying food from Maccas, KFC etc, etc. What the real attraction is there, I have no clue...and, yet, if I hear of another cooking (or singing, or dancing) TV show I will go totally mental!
(Feb-20-2011, 01:55 PM (UTC))joost Wrote: "Stuff I like that most people don't like". I think that describes most of my music collection. Limited issues of 100 copies which still aren't sold out after a few years should give you an idea
(Feb-20-2011, 01:55 PM (UTC))joost Wrote: langlaufing
I had to Google this!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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