A couple of years ago,
we were trawling the shops for a new sofa. There was one particular one that I liked quite a lot. But as time went on, we started noticing slight variations on the design in various shops and for some reason that put me off. I decided it a bit naff, moved on and never gave it a second thought after that. Then a few weeks later, a friend bought one in that style.

Another example was a certain type of bath. The typical rectangular bath, except that half of one side is bowed out and you get a similarly curved glass shower screen. I quite liked them at first, but then I saw them everywhere. Again, it put me off and I think they're a bit tacky now. Once more, a friend of my missus bought the same bath and shower screen.

So, people we know. Stop buying stuff I no longer like. It really gets on my tits.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:49, 1 reply)

I saw someone's front room through their window once
It was done out in (what I thought at the time was) a very fetching shade of dark red. I liked it so much I went to Wickes and bought some of those match pots to try out, put splashes of them onto the wall I wanted to paint, and having decided on my favourite shade, bought four
tins of the stuff.

14 years later, the tins still sit, unopened, in the cupboard under my stairs. Partly because I'm still not sure I like the colour I chose. Partly because hundreds of other Victorian terraces like mine have been done in similar shades of red/brown/reddish-brown/brownish-red since then, so it looks a bit common. And partly because I'm lazy (ok, mainly that, since I still have the same six colour test splodges I originally put there in 1999).
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 15:43, closed)