I don't, but if it is being served in a playlist or anything, I'll skip it. They are so bland, it's almost like easy listening.
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I have a special hate for Phil Collins's solo work. Take a decent drummer from a sort-of-interesting band and have them throw away all their talent to make drivel that has all sharp edges filed off. Also, I was forced to hear this throughout my teenage years all the time.
OP, did you read the books? By today's standards, they may be a tad boring, but these were the books that created the clichhés in the first place. The movies were pretty decent for their time (although RotK was waaaayyyyy too long), but I did not feel that the books were done much justice. And there was too much 'humorous' dialougue shoehorned in. The Legolas-Gimli-Bromance was hard to watch, even then. That in and of itself makes the movies overrated.
Also, as for 'there are no surprises', the story of the movies differed from the books. LotR fans were unpleasantly surprised by that.
Off-topic: the Hobbit movies were abonimations. I fucking hate them.
Fucking cowards. I was already ashamed to be Dutch because Wilders, but I am not particularly proud to be European now either.
It depends who does the ridiculing, in which time period and where they do that. In the last quarter century, in Europe, Dubya has been a grateful target, although Trump makes him look good.
Another one I have not read in this thread yet: seek out (or organize) activities in your neighbourhood.
I'd love to give a helpful answer other than Kafka audiobooks (sorry, am dad, could not help myself), but what do you consider kafkaesque?
Dude! Congratulations! Mechanical?
As for the big ass enter key, when I bought my laptop, I specifically ordered it with ISO layout for my keyboard.
Dutch version? "Hoi, paard!".
I had to explain it to my wife, both in Dutch and English. :-(
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Barefoot shoes convert since two years now. I have three use cases and also own three pairs of barefoot shoes.