BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:36 PM

I'm with you on the designer labels. Also, I agree with whomever it was who complained about dumb guys on sitcoms.

Whatever happened to smart and smart alec types, like Hawkeye and Pierce? Meathead and Archie? Sanford and Son? Or Maude? Oh wait, Maude wasn't a man. Was she?

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:10 PM

"Designer" labels on clothes. In fact, any brand names on clothing of any kind, such as Harley-Davidson. OK, if you're a farmer, you can wear a cap with a tractor company's logo on it, but only if the tractor salesman gave it to you free. And only when you're outdoors and you need to shade your eyes, or keep the top of your head from getting sunburned. Under no circumstances should you pay a premium for a visible brand name. Let them pay for their own damned advertising.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:01 PM

Three minutes of Don Cherry can piss off almost anybody. :-) Therein lies the secret of his success.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:59 PM

Three minutes of Don Cherry could have pissed off the Pope.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:45 PM

Doug - Don Cherry is the most notorious hockey commentator in Canada. He used to coach an NHL team, and he played for the NHL in his youth.

Brucie - I've been wondering about that too...

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:45 PM

The worrying thing is that I mildly disapprove of myself.

PS The late jazzman Don Cherry ?

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,Taylor Takemine
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:44 PM

Fuck you Martin Gibson!

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:27 PM

LH: Did Cherry get Blue stuffed?

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: DougR
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 02:00 PM

L.H.: You mean Don Cherry the golfer/singer?

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:52 PM

It is neither mild nor strong, but I do disapprove of the Bush/Republican right haters. They have become as foaming at the mouth as those they hate are. And I seriously fear they will cost Kerry the election.

My Bush hating partner totally alienated our moderate, politically independent dinner guests last night, to the point that I fear they will vote against Kerry, just because they have become so disapproving of the foaming at the mouth hatred of Bush and the Republican right.

It's damn complicated this hating/disapproving thing, be it mild or vehement.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: gnomad
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:36 PM

I disapprove, mildly, of almost everything and everyone (inluding mtself). I'm sure everyone has some aspect of which I don't approve, but in most cases I haven't got around to noticing it.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:58 PM

I would like to make note that the following quotes that I used in an earlier post are from Winston Churchill.

"And, a preposition is a word one should never end a sentence with."
"This is a situation up with which I can not put!"

The first was a remark he made to someone who got too pedantic about English for his taste.

The second was scribbled in the margin of a letter that had been written by a bureaucrat in the War Office in the early 1940s. The letter was for soldiers, sailors and airmen. The fellow had so convoluted the language in order to make it grammatically correct that no one could figure out what the hell he was saying. That was Winnie's response.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:51 PM

I mildly disapprove of people who have to have mayonaise to make anything taste good.

I also disapprove of any one who's guitar is not a Martin or a Gibson and especially if they have a Taylor or a Takemine.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:49 PM

Wow. I am just breathless at the depths of mild disapproval that are percolating out there in cyberspace.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:04 PM

I mildly disapprove of people who fart in elevators. I often do, but MY farts don't have an odor, unless I have eaten lots of corn, in which case there is liable to be nothing left but the elastic band.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: *daylia*
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 09:24 AM

I mildly disapprove of anyone who wildly approves of anything that's earned my mild disapproval. Furthermore ....

When I'm in a concert hall
And the music's drowned by a baby's bawls
It's parents earn my disapproval
If they stall on bawling child removal.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: el ted
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:56 AM

Photocopier salesmen.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:50 AM

I mildly disapprove of mild disapproval...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:45 AM

Salesmen. Specifically, salesmen who
- are too pushy.
- don't thoroughly understand the products or services they're selling, though they pretend to.
- are dishonest about their product's shortcomings.
- really don't care whether the customer is satisfied with the product.

While it's theoretically possible for salesmen to truly deserve the commissions they are paid, it seems that seldom happens.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:45 AM

people who stand on the right side of the escalator when the sign says KEEP LEFT. The folks in a hurry stride up the right side & either pause behind these thougthtless ones or push past them & some who push past knock into those of us standing properly on the left side!

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 08:08 AM

I mildly disapprove of owners of expensive vehicles who are too cheap and/or lazy to have the sensitivity of the cars' alarms adjusted so that they aren't triggered when other people merely park next to them in public parking lots.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:28 AM

I think I probably mildly disapprove of anyone who is indecisive

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 06:13 AM

The misguided few who still think that Blair is good for Britain.

Non folk performers at 'folk' nights.

Doctors' receptionists.

Jobsworths.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 05:57 AM

People who are snobs about language, music, art, whatever.

Absolutely agree. Possibly even to the extent of being more than mildly disapproving!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 04:22 AM

Some of these are more mild than others...

-Rolf Harris (A poor representative of his country, at least in my mind)
-Lloyd Grossman (NO American talks like that!)
- Janet Jackson (She has NICE TITS and should have stood her ground)
-Most actors who do adverts (unless they really do need the money, but who's kidding who?)
-The whole idea of "celebrity"
-People who don't clean up after their dogs..(this comes close to being "Strongly Disapproved" of)
-Politicians in general, and (Bush) not to mention (Cheney) anyone by (Ashcroft) name, (Rice) those who won't even admit to their own actions (Bush,Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft)...and yeah yeah yeah, this isn't the first nor last administration to be guilty of this. And the more I think of it, the more this last one should be under a different thread..sorry LH)
-I'm sure I'll be back to add to the list..xx..e
-(PS-Ya know, this might be better than Prozac!)

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 03:33 AM

If I could say that we disapprove mildly
With a tepidness dull to the touch
I'd politely scold the young and the childly
With a glance that is cool but not much
Found extravagance may, in moments of yearning
Exicte some small measure of angst
Or an unreturned call, just might be a spurning
Or a gesture of love gone unthanked
But mostly it's I, in this feeling by me
Mildly disaproving perfectionately
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 01:21 AM

It's maybe a bit more than mild disapproval. More like nagging irritation perhaps. Archer Daniels Midland, for trying to poison me everywhere I go in the US with stealth corn.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:30 AM

I mildly disapprove of dogs who are unreasonably hostile when I walk past the parked car that they are trapped inside.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:14 AM

i mildly disapprove of the man whop runs the plant shop at the end of the street. he charges too much for everything, forcing me to walk much further to a cheaper shop.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Mar 04 - 12:02 AM

Great! Keep those letters of mild disapproval rolling in! Isn't this exciting?

I mildly disapprove of the hundreds and hundreds of people who have not yet seen fit to post to this thread. They are less than perfect. I expected slightly better from them. I am almost miffed about it.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:12 PM

Just about all Republicans, except, of course, the ones I intensely hate. And except an aunt and uncle of mine who are fine people. I just don't understand why they're Republicans.

Jay Leno. The humor in his monologues stinks. But I like "Headlines" and "Jaywalking."

Pornographers. I wouldn't try to shut them down, because I don't believe in censorship, because I don't trust anyone to be the censors. And I think non-violent, non-exploitative erotica has a place in society. But so much of it really is disrespectful to women, to the point where, in my opinion, it makes them look less attractive than they are in real life.

People who are snobs about language, music, art, whatever. It's OK to teach and promote standard grammar, for instance, but don't insult the people whose native grammar isn't standard. Feel free to promote whatever kind of music or art you like, but don't tell me that people who like the kinds you dislike are idiots.

Subject: Who do you mildly disapprove of, you bloody fool?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 10:10 PM

Check my modified subject line above, Brucie - fied up that sentence right prettily.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: andi
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 09:54 PM

Shanneygannock and a good portion of the Punters".

I am a Canadian who is lost with the above. Andi: what does that mean?

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Brucie, they are two bands in Newfoundland who treated me to one of the worst nights of my life, and made sure I slept with a knife under my pillow both nights I was in NFLD. I left the province a week and a half early and promised myslef I will never go back.....you don't want the details.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:50 PM

i mildly disapprove of fortune tellers

unless they tell me something really good.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:39 PM

"Shanneygannock and a good portion of the Punters".

I am a Canadian who is lost with the above. Andi: what does that mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: andi
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:33 PM

Would not glare at ...because I wouldn't suffer to look at them is all of Shanneygannock and a good portion of the Punters. GRRRRRRRRRRRR. :P

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:23 PM

well, 'round these parts we got a football team... the washington redskins, who i more than mildly approve....

...but then there is the owner of the team, dan snyder, who fills up the ''mildly diasapprove'' category very nicely...

bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 08:13 PM

I mildy disapprove of--well, maybe I really moderately disapprove of--no, that's not right either. I'll get back to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:13 PM

And, a preposition is a word one should never end a sentence with.
This is a situation up with which I can not put!

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: s&r
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 07:02 PM

very mild disapproval of who intead of whom

Stu :)

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: musicmick
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:57 PM

I mildly disapprove of everyone who disagrees with me, but I will defend, to the death, their......

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 06:05 PM

Well, I feel that we're mining a pretty significant lode of mild disapproval here. This is encouraging.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 05:08 PM

I can't say I'm at all impressed with some of the so called comedy programmes we have on in the UK at the moment, but I do realise that my TV 'on' switch operates in the opposite way as well.

Not too fond of the school welfare officer either who thinks that Limpit has missed too much school (85% attendance since Sept). Pretty dammned good percentage compared with some of the children there!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 04:47 PM

Too true. Maybe this thread should have been entitled, "Who would you not glare at?"

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: GUEST,lurker
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 04:41 PM

You know...I think that "mildly disapprove" is far too strong a term to use. I find that mildly disapproving of anyone severely weakens moral fibre and my worth as a human being.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 04:10 PM

I disapprove of all the sit-com creators who think that stupid men are about the only funny type of men going.

Subject: RE: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 03:57 PM

hahahahaha...

Subject: BS: Who do you mildly disapprove of?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Mar 04 - 03:56 PM

Okay. It has been firmly established that we are mature people here on this forum...too mature to hate anyone. And we're proud of it! But who...who do we mildly disapprove of? Whose presence would we regard as less than totally desirable? Who could stand to make some changes and improvements in their style, attitude, and basic nature?

It takes guts to admit you mildly disapprove of someone, but I am willing to take the plunge.

I mildly disapprove of Don Cherry's tacky sports jackets and high collars. I wish he would do something about that!

Next?

- LH