Has anyone you don't like ever done something you do like?

Cathy.C

As in a singer, group, author, actor etc?

I can't stand the Stereophonics.
Even their cover of Handbags & Gladrags goes through me, so much so that now I hate the Rod Stewart version, which previously I had quite liked.

However one of my favourite songs of all time, which I just adore, especially when I'm driving, is Dakota and so now all is forgiven. I like the song so much (you're gonna think I'm crazy) that I bought tickets for myself and a friend to see them recently at the O2 and we didn't go in until almost 10pm, just so we could hear that one song and it was worth every cent.
I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnf7LX63fpM

Femme_Fatale

Bryan Adams is a singer I really detest... but I do really like the duets he did with Mel C and Tina Turner.

endacl

Guy I was in school with. Real tosser. Met him out one night and he bought me a pint.

The Backwards Man

Gary Neville is a very good soccer analyst.:mad:

Galwayguy35

Steve Collins came across as a bit of a tool in interviews but he shut Eubank up so I like him for that.

gammygils

Boyzone did "Father And Son" so I hate
that song now. I don't hate Boyzone
anymore...
I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE THEM !!

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Pretty much every time I've read a post from MadsL I've found myself disagreeing with him/her, sometimes a little bit, sometimes a big bit, but it was almost always a clean sweep of me disagreeing with what was posted by them, yet, I ended up thanking one of their posts tonight. No big deal, but in the context of how boring my night has been it would rank about the 5th most interesting thing that's happened to me over the past few hours.

Ihatecuddles

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Pretty much every time I've read a post from MadsL I've found myself disagreeing with him/her, sometimes a little bit, sometimes a big bit, but it was almost always a clean sweep of me disagreeing with what was posted by them, yet, I ended up thanking one of their posts tonight. No big deal, but in the context of how boring my night has been it would rank about the 5th most interesting thing that's happened to me over the past few hours.

What was number 1??

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

mauzo! wrote: »

What was number 1??

Chocolate ice cream, talking to my friend, getting promoted in Fifa online and ordering a book from Amazon that will be a perfect Xmas pressie all rank ahead, I guess in that order.

God I'm dull.

Dublinpato

Russel brand has done katy perry

Ihatecuddles

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Chocolate ice cream, talking to my friend, getting promoted in Fifa online and ordering a book from Amazon that will be a perfect Xmas pressie all rank ahead, I guess in that order.

God I'm dull.

There's nothing dull about chocolate ice cream. Sounds like a good day

I have an ear infection, so I stayed in bed all day.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Would have been hilarious if they didn't play Dakota. :pac:

stefan idiot jones

Easy, Declan Kidney did the decent thing and fcuked off from driving Ireland further down the world rankings.

Sting wrote a song called I hung my head, and Johnny cash sings an animal version of it. Couldn't believe he wrote it when I first heard it.

Daqster

The whole of the Temple Bar area was destined to be turned into a central bus station by CIE in the late 80's but Haughey (as a part of an election campaign) went on TV and vowed to prevent CIE from getting their hands on it and to also give tax incentives to small business that wished to set up there.

Guess some might see it as a failed endevour consider what the place has become but I think it was one of the more positive steps taken at the time as it is a tourist hot spot for sure now and I really can't imagine Dublin without it, let alone a gigantic Dublin Bus station / depot there instead of it.

So as I didn't like Haughey, that would be my choice.

ardle1

Nobecause then I would like them! and I wouldn't be able to answer this question, unlesssssssss I had a flux capacitor to go back to the future and promise myself never to dislike this particular person, assuming I knew them in the beginnizzzzz

Napper Hawkins

Enda Kenny having a go at the Vatican was a bit of a surprise.

Heckler

Deleted User wrote: »

Sting wrote a song called I hung my head, and Johnny cash sings an animal version of it. Couldn't believe he wrote it when I first heard it.

Don't like Nine Inch Nails but they do a great version of Johnny Cashs Hurt.

mrsdewinter

Heckler wrote: »

Don't like Nine Inch Nails but they do a great version of Johnny Cashs Hurt.

Good one, Heckler *waits for music nerds to combust*

Sinfonia

Heckler wrote: »

Don't like Nine Inch Nails but they do a great version of Johnny Cashs Hurt.

*eye twitches*

Cliona99

Katy Perry has done Russell Brand.


(homage to poster up there, can't do quotey thing)


Also...can't believe I'm about to admit this, but I admire those pro-life tds for acting in accordance with their values and beliefs (even though I know those beliefs are total effing nonsense). I'd be a lot less admiring if their taking a stand had actually affected anything though. I get fierce conflicted thinking about it...

(that's 'fierce' in the Irish Mammy sense btw)

The Diabolical Monocle

hmmmm .... I cant think of one.

However, if it does count there were quite a few people I disliked during my school days.

Statistically out of the number I disliked by now at least one must be an alcoholic, and a percentage will also contract gruesome std's or experience unwanted pregnancies or experience poverty and homelessness.

I haven't experienced any of these. So technically yes - someone I dislike must have taken a course of action which leads to what should be my schadenfreude (shameful joy) .... but is really just my freude (joy).

Fingers crossed for certain ones among them.

I wish I knew who was which so I could offer them help.

And then not. :pac:

Cliona99

Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher. Travesty.

Couldn't even watch the trailers in case Reacher would transform forever in my mind into that short-arse Scientologist. (it's not libel if it's true, is it?) Ugh.

Best hope is they'll do a Bond/Dr Who job and get someone (taller better faster
stronger) else in.

Sorry for the rant; I didn't realise I felt so strongly about it...

Jesus Wept

Daqster wrote: »

The whole of the Temple Bar area was destined to be turned into a central bus station by CIE in the late 80's but Haughey (as a part of an election campaign) went on TV and vowed to prevent CIE from getting their hands on it and to also give tax incentives to small business that wished to set up there.

Guess some might see it as a failed endevour consider what the place has become but I think it was one of the more positive steps taken at the time as it is a tourist hot spot for sure now and I really can't imagine Dublin without it, let alone a gigantic Dublin Bus station / depot there instead of it.

So as I didn't like Haughey, that would be my choice.

I can, temple bar is fairly gash.

Eathrin

Luis Suarez is a scumbag but he is a superb player when he's not cheating.

Irish Guitarist

I'm not a big U2 fan but Bono and The Edge wrote She's A Mystery To Me, which in my opinion is one of Roy Orbisons best songs.

Can't stand Coldplay. Chris Martin is a pretentious, smug twat and has a horrible whiney voice.
But damn it, this song is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A

And while I don't hate Keane, I always saw them as really dull and formulaic. But I've always really liked this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG72J2ylUGE

endacl

Daqster wrote: »

The whole of the Temple Bar area was destined to be turned into a central bus station by CIE in the late 80's but Haughey (as a part of an election campaign) went on TV and vowed to prevent CIE from getting their hands on it and to also give tax incentives to small business that wished to set up there.

Guess some might see it as a failed endevour consider what the place has become but I think it was one of the more positive steps taken at the time as it is a tourist hot spot for sure now and I really can't imagine Dublin without it, let alone a gigantic Dublin Bus station / depot there instead of it.

So as I didn't like Haughey, that would be my choice.

Temple Bar would have made a much better bus station.

Sleepy

I detest everything Fianna Fail represent. But they brought in the smoking ban which, while I agree with it, lead to me meeting my wife.

Femme_Fatale

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't stand Coldplay. Chris Martin is a pretentious, smug twat and has a horrible whiney voice.
But damn it, this song is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A

And while I don't hate Keane, I always saw them as really dull and formulaic. But I've always really liked this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG72J2ylUGE

Both bands have churned out too much blandness for me to like them overall, but they have a few absolute gems in the mix.

pickarooney

I can't stand Dinosaur Jr. normally but this is just a great tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpl_rYZVhi0

The Diabolical Monocle

Johnny Sac pitched in on the esplanade project, went 60/40.

Dont like the guy but he kept Carmine out of it.

Ficheall

The lass who took my virginity then turned out to be not such a nice person.

DazMarz

Vladimir Putin

A right-wing politico of whom I'm no big fan (the anti-gay laws that he has thrust upon the Russian Federation are sickening and he grossly mishandled the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, to name but two things he is guilty of).

But he has to be admired, in a grudging way perhaps, for the transformation of Russia from a near-bankrupt nation on its knees that had been led down a road of ruin by an alcoholic buffoon back into a near-Superpower.

Boris Yeltsin gutted the Russian economy by short-sightedly selling off Russia's mineral wealth to the opportunistic oligarchs for a fraction of their worth for a one-off cash injection to prop up the failing economy. This stripped Russia of much of her wealth and the long-term effects could still be utterly devastating.

Yeltsin staggered onwards with his Presidency until 1999, when his approval rating reached a record low of a reported 2%. He finally resigned in near-disgrace and his Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, succeeded him.

Putin inherited a country that was borrowing over $40 billion from the IMF and others, a country whose economy and currency had collapsed in 1998, a raging Vietnam-esque war in Chechnya and a country in the grip of corruption and oligarchy. Bleak does not begin to describe.

During his first tenure as President (2000-2008), real incomes in Russia grew by a factor of 2.5, real wages tripled, unemployment reduced by 50%, poverty reduced by 50%, GDP grew for 8 straight years (72% total growth), murder rates in Russia halved by 2011, he signed the Kyoto Agreement, several endangered species are now protected by law.

Russia was on the verge of complete collapse in 1999. Putin changed everything. I may dislike the man and his social policies, but I admire him for what he did to the world's largest country. He grabbed her by the hair and dragged her back from the abyss. He is the closest that there is to a legal dictator, but for all his faults, his successes and achievements cannot be denied.

johndaman66

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't stand Coldplay. Chris Martin is a pretentious, smug twat and has a horrible whiney voice.
But damn it, this song is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A

I'm not a big fan of Coldplay either. I find much of their music to be too downbeat and depressing. I do think thats one of their poorer efforts. I do like Yellow and Paradise though

Sleepy wrote: »

I detest everything Fianna Fail represent. But they brought in the smoking ban which, while I agree with it, lead to me meeting my wife.

Would there have being a considerable chance you would have met her inside the bar if there was no smoking ban enacted?

IvaBigWun

The reputation of Bruce Willis and his attitude wasnt great over the last few years and it was recently cemented by this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6viUMICL31E

But then there's always this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxBXm7ZUTM

johndaman66

johndaman66 wrote: »

I'm not a big fan of Coldplay either. I find much of their music to be too downbeat and depressing. I do think thats one of their poorer efforts. I do like Yellow and Paradise though

Ugh and I think Yellow is horrible. Awful, awful song with ridiculous lyrics and irritating vocals.

And some of the best music ever written is downbeat and depressing.

Daqster

Not a Stephen King fan at all. Tried reading Salem's Lot and a few other books of his but just never would get further than half way though them and lose interest but.. Different Seasons was an unbelievable collection of four (somewhat) short stories of which three were made into movies (Stand By Me, Apt Pupil and The Shawshank Redemption). Not bad for one book, must have paid a few bills.

johndaman66

Deleted User wrote: »

Ugh and I think Yellow is horrible. Awful, awful song with ridiculous lyrics and irritating vocals.

I'll need to disagree with you on that one Homer J. While Yellow would be far from my favourite tune ever I do think it is not too bad and one of their better offerings, certainly a hell of a lot better a tune than The Scientist I'd think. I wont deny you your opinion though. Different strokes for different folks....Its what makes the world an interesting place:P

Deleted User wrote: »

And some of the best music ever written is downbeat and depressing.

True true, but just because that is the case does not mean all bands/ artists produce good downbeat music. Furthermore if certain artists produced a downbeat tune I don't think many would see it as a realistic proposition because of the name of the band or their niche alone. For example if I knew David Guetta or avicci produced such a tune I wouldn't take it seriously because of the name of the act, not that that would happen.

I heard one or two downbeat tunes from the ting tings and to me they just sounded dirt. Didn't help that the ting tings were an indie pop sort of outfit in the first place and in account of that I was never going to give the tunes a chance anyway probably, apart from the fact that they were dirt. I think the same is the case with Coldplay albeit to a lesser extent perhaps. The are a soft commercial type rock band. Downbeat tunes is not the best niche for them.

feargale

There was a guy I couldn't stand. He died.

downonthefarm

Bertie ahern -bit of a test and irresponsible but he helped humble a lot of Celtic tiger **** who thought their ****e didn't

Billy86

Deleted User wrote: »

And while I don't hate Keane, I always saw them as really dull and formulaic.

I would agree, though Somewhere Only We Know is a very, very good song as well.

Here's my one - it's actually a pretty good song, despite them being so incredibly unlikable in general.

Another bubble-gum 90s girl band who had one single good song were All Saints (see what I did there, eh eh!?), and no it's not that God awful cover of Under the Bridge:

And though Dave Chappelle completely destroyed it with this parody, this remains the one tolerable R. Kelly song of his career (I hate I Believe I Can Fly, before so). Oddly, it listed on a tonne of 'best' and 'worst' of the 2000s lists, so I guess it's pretty polarising.

camel jockey

The Irish rugby team bottling it and losing.

Sunglasses Ron

Tony Blair is one of the slimiest, most repugnant people ever elected to office. Take Thatcher Bertie and Charlie combined and you would still fall short. A sell out to the EU, an appeaser of fundamentalist Islam in his own back yard, an all round PC thug (and I've been called a greasy thug lots of times!)

However, he did make tremendous efforts for the good of the north despite it being almost a complete non issue for the vast majority of the voters he would need to impress. And I guess Kosovo was a valiant and selfless campaign.

Apart from that, an utter c'unt.

remsburgsgirl

Cannot stand Kings of Leon's music, but the lead singer...his voice...holy god yum...I have been known to endure listening to a song just to focus on his voice...weird

Titzon Toast

remsburgsgirl wrote: »

Cannot stand Kings of Leon's music, but the lead singer...his voice...holy god yum...I have been known to endure listening to a song just to focus on his voice...weird

Hope that ^^^ worked. I think that's probably one of their best performances ever. Caleb's vocals are top-notch. I haven't been able to get that song out of my head since I first heard it. The original is a hidden song from their first album, it's good too but not as good as that imo.

EDIT

I'm brutal with computers! Maybe this one will work, or maybe not...
http://youtu.be/jOellGm2OS8


OT.

I didn't care much for Jorge Lorenzo when he first stormed onto the grid in the Moto GP championship. Who was this young upstart threatening to depose The Doctor as the greatest rider out there?!
But, my respect for him after this season could not be any higher. He fought like a true champion to defend his title. He didn't manage it of course but it still made for one of the best Moto GP championships there has ever been.
I can't wait for next season.