anything purple
lava lamps
trees
big scary motorbikes (though not in conjunction with trees)
toilet paper
tents that don't leak
grass (try sitting down in a country with no grass)
see-through things (rooms would be very dark without windows and cars would
be a bitch to drive - I think windows are a great invention)
bubblewrap
velcro
beachcombing
summers when it doesn't rain
childhood
post-it notes
snowball fights
romance
bouncy castles (thanks to Mary the Fairy for the bouncy castle party!)
TV
The Young Ones
Absolutely Fabulous
The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan
Shaun sheep
The Clangers
The Magic Roundabout
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
Shooting Stars
Have I Got News For You?
Chancer
Films
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Heathers
Heavenly Creatures
Bad Taste
Fandango
Easy Rider
Westworld
Austin Powers
Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Bodywatching - Desmond Morris
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Things I really despise include
commercial music (eg an old song re-released by a young good looking singer
just to make some fat promoter lots of money)
boy bands - see above
The Spice Girls - 1 down, 4 to go (he he)
Teletubbies (what the **** is eh-oh supposed to mean?)
people's homepages with hundreds of stolen graphics that take ages to load
with no other content (yeah, I know everyone does it when they first get on
the internet)
bright yellow coats
bed bugs
static electricity (why can't it stop hassling me?)
vending machine plastic cups that are too hot to pick up and too full so you
spill boiling liquid over yourself
white socks with red and blue bits at the top
dentists (they always have big, scary, cold hands)
doctors (same as dentists but you always catch something worse than you had
in the waiting room)
washing machines that won't let you open the door until they've made you
wait for a time proportional to how much of a hurry you're in
wasps (what is the point of them, they just annoy everyone?)
bits of grit that appear in your bed each morning (where do they come from?)
my guitar (coz I still can't play a tune yet)
periods -us men have to suffer them too
mirrors
pierced tongues - scarrrrryyyyyyy!
musicals - everything seems fine then they all burst out singing (exceptions
to this are
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Shop of Horrors and Grease)