# I Hate Beatles Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334 "2011-11-28T13:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/261 "2021-12-19T06:49:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > \*Almost did this with a rock star I saw one night (I’m going to be mysterious and not mention his name). But it was weird, he was alone without his bandmates, and they’d played a huge coliseum show nearby two nights before, so I assume he was hanging around needlessly. And walking around in the snow, long after everything had closed… Betcha 5 Quatloos that guy was high. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/262 "2021-12-19T07:55:28Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > The better question would be, “What is it about the Beatles that people continue to find so fascinating?” And it’s not just people old enough to remember them. My daughter became a huge Beatles fan at 14 and has loved them ever since. She knows more about them than I do, and I’m old enough to remember their first hit record. I think it’s being fueled by Gen-Xers who found their parents’ original albums as teenagers and went through a massive Beatles phase. I know it wasn’t just me - the Beatles were _huge_ among my peer group around 1990-1992. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/263 "2021-12-19T22:08:58Z")
My son and all his friends are huge Beatles fans. He’s in his mid-20’s. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/264 "2021-12-23T21:10:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > At any rate, here’s one explanation of the rule: I wonder how that is applied to the The. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/265 "2021-12-28T23:14:26Z")
> [@digs](#): > > ::sigh:: . If only Styx had had a red-light district to play in … I must admit that I also like Styx better than The Beatles (and, yes, I capitalized “The”). ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/266 "2021-12-29T01:18:37Z")
I personally have a big problem with Beatles fans because when the linkages between the beetles and the electric motor fail, you get a room littered with bugs ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/267 "2021-12-29T02:30:23Z")
I keep seeing the thread title and thinking: “I Hate \_\_\_ (Anything) \_\_\_ Fans” I’m fine with someone saying “I really like The Shaggs.” Or “Of all Bieliebers twice his age, I’m the biggest!” Or, even less defensible, something like: > [@](#): > > I must admit that I also like Styx better than The Beatles… But we’ve all known The True Fanatic. Might be worshipping Klezmer bands, or Tony Robbins… or _“Floyd, maaaan…”,_ like my friend Feeney (which was odd, because we were just kids, and back then we could only get like two of their albums in the midwest). I had a college student who broke down in tears because she couldn’t get a signal and missed Taylor Swift announcing a new single. Her friends, _no, the whole world!_, knew about it five minutes before she did. She was inconsolable and couldn’t stop sobbing for almost an hour. See, this is why the world has never seen my genius. Because if they did, I’d be invited on a talk show, and as I was sneaking out the stage door, some Brunhilda would rush me, screaming “I’m your biiiiiggest fan!!!” and I’d panic: “Lady, you need therapy. Security? Get me out of here!” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/268 "2021-12-29T05:04:10Z")
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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/269 "2021-12-29T05:57:42Z")
Hell, Beethoven never managed to get onto a bubblegum card. _Edit_: **burpo,** damn your eyes! You ninja’d me…three weeks ago… I think the final paragraph of [Cecil’s article on Houdini](https://www.straightdope.com/21341207/what-happened-to-the-secrets-of-houdini) has some transitive relevance here… ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/270 "2021-12-29T17:20:22Z")
The Carefrees say you Beatles haters can go _SUCK IT_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bPQ8P2QZvKg/hqdefault.jpg "The Carefrees - We love You Beatles (1964)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQ8P2QZvKg) damn - there used to be _awesome_ footage of these four, swell, shimmying, young African American ladies in bobby socks singing away at this - guess just the audio’ll have to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334.md?page=13)