To me, Office Space isn’t about the “scathing corporate satire” as much as it is about the people. It’s about how they react to the corporate world. I could go on, but it would be a hijack. I don’t care if you don’t like it, but I hope that maybe seeing it in a slightly different light will help you understand why many people do like it so much.
Food:
I hate Bacon! It looks like the grease they use in my car engine, and smells like burnt otter! (Just guessing - I’ve never burned an otter) And yes, I’ve tasted it.
There’s a LOT of other foods I don’t like that would fit this category (many were already mentioned): Coffee, cheddar cheese, pork chops, ribs, alfredo sauce, watermelon, strawberries, etc.
I mostly dislike beer. If it’s really cold Heineken, I can tolerate it.
Movies:
I saw There’s Something About Mary all over the “Best Movies of the 90s” thread, and that movie sucked! I only saw the first Transformers; that movie was so bad, and John Turturro overacted so badly, that I retroactively hate his other roles.
Music:
The Eagles.
As a paisano from Jersey, people are always baffled as to why I don’t like the Godfather or Sopranos. They just don’t do anything for me. Oh, and on the subject of HBO shows, I never found anything funny about the Larry Sanders Show. People said, “You like Seinfeld, then you’ll LOVE Larry Sanders!”, but I don’t see any connection. (And I even liked the Gary Shandling Show). I don’t really even know what type of humor they were going for. It wasn’t zany or intellectual or silly or jokey, was it supposed to be satire of some world I just don’t understand??
Facebook.
It’s okay for the first week or so when I could say “hey, whatta you been up to” to people I haven’t seen for a long time, but after that I don’t really have a need to regularly post what I’m up to or really want to see what everyone else is up to.
I haven’t logged in for a couple months now and all my other male friends around the country have seemed to dropped it all together.
I’m well known for my deep loathing for all forms of chicken.
Yes, it’s un-American, and no, I won’t like your grandmother’s incredible BBQ wings.
Steak houses and restaurant steaks in general. I am not a vegetarian by any stretch and I don’t even hate steak but I don’t understand why anyone needs to order a steak at a restaurant. Maybe I am spoiled because I have the means to buy good meat myself and cook it just as well for less than 1/3 the price and, if I can’t, there is always family that can. The same goes for most restaurant pasta dishes or anything with chicken in it. If I go to a restaurant, I am going to order something that I can’t easily make at home. Lobster basically falls into this category as well but I love lobster so much that I sometimes order it when I am out.
OTOH, I have no idea what you people are talking about when it comes to watermelon. PM me to see where to send your extra slices.
P.S. I can’t stand Woody Allen movies or him in general.
Oh, and yes, I do like turkey very much. They taste nothing alike.
Turkey. No one really likes it, yet it must be purchased, thawed, cooked, a million things have to be cooked to accompany it, it just MUST be done. ( And Thanksgiving. Many reasons, but the upshot is, I end up in tears every single Thanksgiving and only feel better when I fling the rotting carcass into the trash can on Sunday night.)
Christmas! I think you have to be under the age 12 to like Christmas. There’s no “magic”, no great gifts, no warm loving family in my bitter little world, only spendspendspend, stress/stress/stress. Last year was almost bearable because we got an artificial tree, cut waaay back on the idiot spending, and some great friends and relatives came to visit.
Holidays in general. That enforced jolliness, that ‘you HAVE to go to the beach’, ‘you HAVE to cook on the grill’, ‘you MUST get your SO a meaningful Valentine’s Day present’.
Generic sitcoms with smart pretty mom, fat clueless dad, smartass kids, wacky neighbors popping in, same old plots over and over. I miss “Roseanne” and “Married With Children”! But I suppose there has to be something to fill up time and space on TV schedules.
Yeah, I’m a real fun gal to hang out with…:mad:
I think it is one of the great mass conspiracies of our time. I know lots of big players in the national gourmet foods business and some of them will tell you that they don’t like Thanksgiving turkey either but they have to come with a way to make it more palatable to present to the American public every November. I have bitched about Thanksgiving turkey a few times here over the years and there are lots of people that nod in agreement and others that are trying to work through their denial. That is why people starting going to extreme lengths to circumvent the issue like deep-frying turkey or using complicated smoking or brining techniques. The “traditionalists” simply just drown their portion of the carcass in more gravy and fake a smile. Growing up, my family just said screw it and bought some high-quality steaks to grill.
You shoul try throwing it out on the lawn and watch the birds pick it apart. That is very satisfying…
I agree with whoever said White Wine, as well…
Wow. I think I love you.
Oh, yeah, Angelina Jolie is a good one. She looks like a caricature of a hot woman instead of looking like a hot woman. The cheek bones are just too ridiculous.
Scotch. A lot of my friends like it as their tastes have ‘matured’ - single malt, aged for X years, I don’t care - it’s kerosene.
Fast food: Just disgusting. The ads, with as prettied-up pictures as possible, still look disgusting. I’m just thankful I come from a foodie family so I don’t have to put up with that shit.
Soda: I’ll take fruit juice instead, thanks. Not my thing.
Alcohol: I use wine in cooking, and get drunk at parties on occasion, but the only time I don’t mind the taste of an alcoholic drink is when its diluted with juice, like a bellini (prosecco and peach juice) I’m not 21 yet, but at my parent’s house I could have a beer whenever I wanted. I don’t though, because I just don’t like the taste. It’s bitter and unpleasant. And hard liquor tastes and smells like gasoline.
Coffee: I drink tea when I can, but I just really don’t like the taste of coffee, even coffee ice cream.
Megan Fox: She seems kind of trashy. Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johannson, and Natalie Portman are all prettier to me.
I’ll join the Melon Haters Of America Club. Ick.
Coffee and Tea and anything alcoholic.
Green Peppers. They taint everything they come in contact with.
Shrimp. They just look so dead and buggy.
StG
I’ve heard people say this before, and I think I agree: I couldn’t get into Seinfeld because I just didn’t like the characters. They were so not special. I do get that they were supposed to represent ordinary human beings going about their business, and the show was all about giving an insider view of people who in real life you’d never even speak to.
Of course, this show came out during the period when I didn’t have a television, and people were always telling me how great Seinfeld was, and Cheers, etc. When I watched episodes I concluded that they’d watched so much television their critical senses had rotted clean away. (Less so with Cheers; I could see the appeal of it, but without being a regular watcher I couldn’t really get into it that much.)
PS I love turkey. Yummmm. And leftover turkey sandwiches? Yummmm. But I hate ice cream. (I realize this makes me very weird.)
Ditto on turkey. It’s tough and tasteless to me. It’s OK smoked, but so is anything…Now that I get to host Thanksgiving, we have lamb or ham or something…
Foods: Pork. All forms of it seem to be just a bland carrier for other spices.
Women: Megan Fox, I just don’t get it, she looks like a run of the mill truck stop floozy.
Liquors: When people get all melty and drooly over fine scotches, brandys, et al. Liquor exists purely to give mixers an alcohol kick and a sidenote flavor, otherwise your expensive liquor is wasted on me when I blend it up in a pina colada.
TV: Friends, Seinfeld, Scrubs
Movie: The Princess Bride
Food and drink: Fruit in general. Liquor in general (especially beer and wine). Salad. Coffee (which I want so much to like, but just can’t manage it)
Sex symbols: Brad Pitt. Benecio del Toro. Ugh.
People: Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell.
Music: the Beatles (with a few rare exceptions)
Watermelon and Seinfeld disliker checking in.
I feel that way about Seinfeld’s cranky cousin, Curb Your Enthusiasm". Larry David is the guy who’s a jerk, like George or Kramer or Newman, but there’s no normal Jerry or Elaine to sympathize with.
Others people really insist I haven’t given a chance, or “don’t get”. I get them and there’s not much there.
I can’t stand South Park, just wall to wall fart jokes. I was unimpressed with that when I was 10.
King of the hill - painfully slow drawls and slackers and bikers hold no appeal. In real life I hurry past those types, so why watch them?
The Office - I forced myself to sit through the entire British 2 short seasons on DVD just so I could tell someone, Yes I gave it all possible chance and it was slow and stupid and one-note and not funny or engaging in any respect. The US version I couldn’t finish the first episode when it went line-for-line like the British one. Line for line? Ugh. And then people tell me the British one was better, but they were identically bad.
I also can’t stand jazz, although it’s been ages since anyone cared except when I’m in New Orleans where it’s still alive in a time warp.