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People you would like to dislike but you just cant

  • 18-04-2015 11:29PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭


    What celebrities etc. do you like but at another level would like not to?

    People that you think you shouldn't like but secretly you do.

    For me:
    Gerry Adams,
    Not a fan of Sinn Fein and he's no angel but I love the guys sense of humor.

    Micheál Martin, Again never a FF fan but grew up near him and we'd try to hassle him when canvasing etc but to be fair you just couldn't rattle him and he was always happy to entertain disgruntled teenagers.

    Donal Skehan, Coming from an affluent background, boy band member and food critic by his mid twenties it sounds like I should find him really irritating but I cant. Dont know why but always find him entertaining.

    Lance Armstrong, drug cheat sportsman etc etc. Something about just how single minded & determined to get what he wants just makes me find him fascinating. I read his books before he was found out and didnt believe his innocence for a second but so brazen...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Tom Cruise, I want to hate the short arsed fecker but he always comes across great in interviews. No nonsense and very self deprecating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Kevin Myers
    Prince Philip
    Martin McGuinness


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭whupdedo


    Ryan tubs, can't understand the vitriol directed at him sometimes , he's not that bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    anncoates wrote: »
    Kevin Myers
    Prince Philip
    Martin McGuinness

    Prince Philip, how could I have not mentioned him. Legend


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Everyone tells me I should dislike Bono but I really like him.

    And I have never been to a U2 concert.

    I just like Bono.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Prince Philip, how could I have not mentioned him. Legend

    Wouldn't go as far as that but I just guiltily enjoy his outbursts.

    I suspect he's one of these people that is horrible in the accepted sense: gentry, politics and so on but you'd probably just like him personally. A good friend of mine had a father-in-law (a dyed-in-the-wool Francoist) that was the same: awful politics and views but you just couldn't help secretly warming to him personally, because of his charisma, (appalling) humour and friendliness. It was a little weird.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 491 ✭✭Dozer Dave


    I just like Bono.

    And Bono like you too buddie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Jesus Christ


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Nigel Farage. I dislike everything about his politics but he's most certainly the party leader in the UK that I'd prefer to be stuck with on a holiday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    Aongus Von Bismarck.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    Nib wrote: »
    Aongus Von Bismarck.

    Hardly a celeb. Unless Boards is the world.


    Frederick off the Million Dollar Listing -a gowl, but a watchable gowl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    Hardly a celeb. Unless Boards is the world.


    Frederick off the Million Dollar Listing -a gowl, but a watchable gowl.
    How do you know he's a Boards poster? This is your first post.. right?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    Nib wrote: »
    How do you know he's a Boards poster? This is your first post.. right?

    First post ever. Honest Guv.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Tom Cruise as well.
    Robert Downey Jr
    Jennifer Lawrence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    my old teacher. some would call her a bit of Nazi when it came to discipline and teaching style, but I always had this begrudging respect for her. she knew how to command a class and make them listen even if by rather abrasive means. she didn't take any crap and was very up front if someone was acting out. god help you if you hadn't the homework done to her standard, and if not done at all then ''don't even darken her door'' as she put it.you weren't even allowed have your head in your hand/s in her class. at the time I just thought she was a bully but at the end of the day I did listen to her. well I had to, her style of teaching was very ''shut up and listen''. you always knew where you stood with her.

    I bumped into her recently and she asked me how I was, she was friendly and smiling. I only had her once for my junior cert year in a packed class, and even then we barely interacted apart from the odd correction. but she remembered me. it was disarming to see her ''out of character'', she rarely broke it. though I did see glimpses of it in the short time she taught me. I wasn't speaking to a teacher that day. its nice seeing them in a different light once you've left school.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Yup.+1 for Phil The Greek. And the missus for putting up with him. She's doing well being married to the old grump this long. Not to mention putting up with a squad of kids that belong on Shameless.

    Daniel O' Donnell....I just know that guy is taking the piss and laughing all the way to the bank.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Jennifer Lawrence.

    Why would you like to dislike her?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    I hate how everyone gushes over Jennifer Lawrence like she's Jesus christ incarnate but she is just such a lovely person in interviews, so witty, she's just extremely likeable.
    Angelina Jolies humanitarian efforts seem so patronising and contrived sometimes but she too seems like a very genuine and kind person .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Paul Murphy. What he stands for is laughable but in any interview I've heard him in, he comes across as a decent, well-spoken guy.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Twink. But the thought of a threesome with her and daughter Chloe cancels any feelings of dislike


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    Charlie Sheen "winning" :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    whupdedo wrote: »
    Ryan tubs, can't understand the vitriol directed at him sometimes , he's not that bad

    He is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭fermanagh_man


    Bressie

    Then he goes and raises so much awareness for mental health/suicide, hard to dislike after that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Georgia Salpa- so called celeb, never has to work, job seems to be going on holiday and taking selfies. But there just something about her that i can't put my finger on but i really really really like her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭chewed


    People who can't spell "can't"!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    chewed wrote: »
    People who can't spell "can't"!

    Wat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭arayess


    Georgia Salpa- so called celeb, never has to work, job seems to be going on holiday and taking selfies. But there just something about her that i can't put my finger on but i really really really like her.

    your username might be a hint


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Amanda Brunker.

    Having seen those puppies up close and personal i have nothing but the utmost respect for her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Georgia Salpa- so called celeb, never has to work, job seems to be going on holiday and taking selfies. But there just something about her that i can't put my finger on but i really really really like her.

    I could put my two hands on the reason.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    whupdedo wrote: »
    Ryan tubs, can't understand the vitriol directed at him sometimes , he's not that bad
    He's a pain on television but isn't bad on the radio, maybe it's his uncontrollable winking eye and the fact that he talks utter sh1te on television.


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