It makes me laugh that they hate Downton Abbey. It's successful, British and on ITV, all the things they hate about TV. If it's not 22 episodes long, in another language and watched by under 300,000 people it has no merit whatsoever. It's snobbery of the worst kind.

I hate The Guardian. They are the new boring.

I've heard of typecasting, but this is ridiculous

Ennui

As the Bonzos sang in 'I'm Bored'

Drinking different coloured wines or beers
(Chug-a-lug chug-a-lug)
Just quite frankly leaves me bored to (tears for souvenirs)
And quite apart from what one hears,
I've been like this for years and years
You see? Ennui.

from Cyril Bored.

Explain that one if you can, you youngsters.

I know it was dull but it was reliable. As my Dad once said 'the best thing since sliced bread is unsliced bread'.

And with that in mind, for me the new boring is anything described as 'a new twist on an old classic' - it always means buggering up something that was perfectly alright.

or is boring the new rock 'n' roll?

Boredom

It's the new journalism, defined by cheap ploys like this Guardian story, designed to get lots of people to comment and increase the paper's Web traffic by attacking things that are (shudder) popular.

I'd normally run a million miles from anything to do with arts & crafts, but I've been watching Kirtie Allsopp's show. She is truly the thinking man's mumsy Tory posh totty.

"journey" is the new boring. Offensive enough to make me want to comment on it, but not a great deal more.

With multiple channels and PVRs, surely nobody needs to sit through stuff they consider boring except journalists that are paid to watch and if they don't like that then perhaps they should get another job rather than complaining to us about it.
I only need to read the press releases about Downton Abbey and Kirstie Allsopp to know that I won't be watching. I know I'll miss a few gems but they usually get flagged up and repeated eventually so I'll rarely miss something I would like completely.
Coldplay at the Emirates? Well the same applies, I won't be going within a mile of the place that day (unless there's something good on down the road!). If my boss said I had to go and write about it then I suppose that after questioning my bosses motives, and suggesting that perhaps I wan't the man for the job, then I suppose I'd go and watch the paint dry.

but it was the old boring too.

Can't beat a classic though.

that you don't...who's to judge?

Up until 2008, credit was easy, the economy seemed okay, and only the structurally excluded underclass wasn't at the party. Since then, faith in the investment value of bricks & mortar has taken a dent, banks won't lend money, we've had the worst recession for a century and there may be another to come. The expansion in the economy brought about by New Labour's public spending is being reversed by the Con-LibDems.
We can no longer afford the consumer experiences that characterised the nineties and noughties: travel, restaurants, cars, property and more. Some people are finding this quite dull. Jobs are not secure, money is being saved, or used to pay off debt, rather than spent in consumerist style.
Poverty is the new boring.

extremely underrated as far as I'm concerned. Makes interesting all the more interesting.

..is the new boring. Pointless filling and repetition. We seemed to manage pretty well without it in World War 2.

"Boring" Bob Grover takes the stage on TOTP.

A man in a chicken suit plays drums in the background. Not boring enough I'm afraid, Bob!