Now, maybe I'm just a stuffy stick in the mud, but don't you just hate it when something catches on, it gets loads of media coverage and you can't understand where it came from, why its popular and what the hell its all about?

Case in point: the frickin' motorcycle crazy frog mobile phone thing.

What is that all about? Who pays for all this advertising? Why does everyone have this ringtone? AM I MISSING THE POINT?!

You have no idea how much I hate that that ringtone. Luckily I haven't met anyone that has it, because if I did I would shove their f**king phone up their arseholes

South Park. The whole craze passed me by then, and it`s still passing me by now.

Unfunny shite.

Yep. Although I will make an exception with the 'shit' episode.

Austin Powers? Load of aul bollox - and don't start me about people who use "powerisms" in conversation.....

I hate that ringtone!! One of my mate's have it and I swear if it goes off Im gonna throw his mobile phone out the fricken' window!!

. . . see what I did there? "fricken'", Austin Powers?

. . . Ill be going now . . .

Democracy! Pah!..ridiculous notion.

Yoyos, Tamagotchis, Pokemon cards.

The fact that I took part in them all is irrelevant.

I thought you meant yoyo's as in the biscuits for a second, you know like viscounts only better. I miss 'em, unless they're still around, I'll have to check.

Internet fan forums

yo yo's and friggin pokemon (digimon et all other spin offs)

Dirty Dancing...

Never seen it, probably never will!

wearing pyjamas in the pub

pulling boots over trousers

i'm a celebrity get me out of here...

I've seen it and I still don't get it.

The whole remake thing thats going on, shite sequels to disney films, remaking /rereleasing old kids classics which can be good or horendusly bad (just look at the popples and the latest hideous remake that is The littlest petshop which I still have the originals)

Remaking some films making me heave. I avoid them with a passioin. Mind you I was forced to watch the new italien job. seeing it as a separate film unrelated to anything else (havent seen original) i thought it was ok as a different story.

Ringtone/other products being advertised back toback or 5 times in a single break.

I LIKE South Park, but one I think was crap was King of the Hill.

You know what ringtone ad really bugged me? I can't remember the name of it but its the one with the guy walking down the street with all the people dancing behind him, then this mono ringtone rings and the expression on everyones face is shocked. It turns out to be someone else and all the plonkers start swaying and dancing down the street.

Grease, the films, the show, the music.

Whats GOOD about them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

And South Park too.

i hate it when shit and unecessary remakes are made - they take a good film and squeeze all the life out of it. whats the effing point?

What I don't get are 'remakes' that have absolutely nothing to do with the original.

The Italian Job is a prime example, even Charlize Theron being eminently fanciable doesn't make that guilt free.

I asked some people about why the Italian Job isn't like the old one and was told "Hollywood audiences want a US based film", whether that's true or not, why even bother calling it The Italian Job and not just use the same story that they had but call it something else.

And some of the films they're making right now....Alexander, now let's see, we have the worlds most celebrated General, for one, we'll not concentrate on his military campaigns, we'll concentrate on his sexuality, oh his mother will be played by someone who is only a year older than the actor playing Alexander, she'll have a ridiculous pseudo-Russian Accent, and the Macedonian prince himself will sound Irish.

I disagree... I think the first Charlie's Angels movie and the new Battlestar Galactica proves that, when done right, you can get away with remaking something and it ending up superior!

Yeah, but wouldn't it be better to just come up with a new idea, or is that asking too much?

Granted, remakes sometimes work, Galactica is a good one, and the Starsky & Hutch film was good because it was done partially as a parody and didn't attempt to take itself too seriously, but the whole remake thing has got out of hand.

I think that all depends. If someone has a passion for something and believes that they can "reinvent it" so to speak, then let them. As long as they do a decent job...

I mean, should we boycott the new Doctor Who series?

Yeah, quite possibly.

It's just that I would much rather see something new, and if I want to see a film again I will watch it again, better than a shitty rehash of something you used to really like.

Argh, which has reminded me of the remastered Red Dwarf

Big Brother!

Please explain this ridiculous phenomenon! Sad people sit in their house watching even sadder people...sat in a house!!! The whole concept repulses me!

Garage musicc.....love techno, drum and bass, indie, metal...and can see the point (although not really my bag) in other genres including house, rnb etc.....but why garage....its sooooooooo shite!

Waste of space and everybody s time

Px

And sorry, who or what were The Libertines?

All I know is that they split up and were supposedly very cool because the lead singer was an angry drug-addled twat, but they're all in new bands already. Someone explain?!

Yeah, I never really got them either. Only ever heard about 2 of their songs. They're more about the smack than the music (man) and that's only meant to happen after the third album. And in the 1960's.

thank god! someone else who HATES big brother. Why do they put a load of chavs in a room just so they can argue, how is this trash sorting out todays youth? It just teaches them to be anti-social bastards

I don't get the whole reality TV concept at all.

Something like Airport can occasionally be fun to watch when you get the stupid goits who check in two minutes before take off and wonder why they don't get on board and then say they wouldn't have this with British Airways (patent crap as a 2 hour check in is a standard and BA's a lot more expensive anyway)

Anyhow, shows like Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity and so on, I've never watched them, I've seen the occasional clip and really don't see what's appealing about them. The funny thing is, if you say you watch something like Star Trek, B5, Galactica etc, you get called 'sad', but the people that do that are the types that'll watch this sort of garbage.

I did watch the first series of Big Brother, because it was an original concept (although not that original being stolen from Holland) and it was quite interesting how people coped in such an unusual environment.

However after that it was just shite. There wasn't much point in doing it all over again as it had already been done.

As for I'm a celebrity, I could never bring myself to watch it in a million years. It's just an excuse for a bunch of has-been's to try and resurrect a career which died on it's arse years ago.

ah, sweet irony



Yeah, i quite enjoyed the first series - cos at the time, a lot of people had no clue what it was like (including the contestants) so they acted normal and they were quite likeable.
Now though, Channel 4 - being the most 'unable-to-let-go' channel have just let the flood gates open for all these wankers to come in and soil television.

How about fucking showing Spaced again instead?!!

i still really enjoy big brother because i enjoy to watch people who try to become stars who have absolutely no talent whatsoever.

but i dispise them as soon as they leave the house

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed that Dermot O Leary presented program, called shattered. It was purely for research though.

Bloody Jade being the prime example.

oh yeah that woman cant even talk, i think all big brother contestants should be put down after the show its the most humain thing to do really

The last time on was in the doctors there was a picture of Stuart and Michelle on the cover of a magazine, and I couldn't for the life of me remember who they were (obviously I did in the end). So it looks like their careers 'ell last.

The whole Harry Potter thing. They're kids books/films and not very good ones at that. End of.

Harry fucking Potter

What the hell is that all about!? Derivative nonsense. Kids liking it is fine, but adults! Reading it in public? They could at least have the decency to hide it behind porn.

amen to that, sista

Fuckin' A!

Who would have though slagging off some specky wizard would win you so much respect?

its the thought of the slight bubbling of indignant spittle, flecked at the corner of the mouths of all the ardent Harryites that did it for me...

Fucking muggles

I've never read any of the Potter books, so I went to see the first film when it was released, as everyone had said how it was just like the book and all.

It was a great big pile of tods.

And to think that they feel it can be compared to the Lord of the Rings films?! Never read any of those books, but the films turned out rather well, eh?

I can't wait for the last book to be released. Despite all the 'end of an era' shite they may say, it will be great to see Potter fans crying into their broomsticks.

Now I f**king hate Lord of the Rings. It's just so long and tedious. I'd rather kill myself than watch that shite again.

To add to the Harry Pothead stuff, I don't know what it is about JK Rowling, there's just something about her that's irritating.

Maybe it's because she named her little girl Mckenzie.

I feel a bit sorry for her really. She's really shy and has so much press attention. It'd scare the crap outta me

Boo Hoo! I'm sure the huge pile of money she sleeps on every night is some consolation.

I hate her and her fucking stupid books.