# Stuff almost everyone enjoys that you don't care for/about **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342 "2011-11-28T14:57:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/1 "2011-11-28T14:57:23Z")
What are some things that, as far as you can tell, everyone you know seems to enjoy, but you don’t give a crap about? A personal example: Tailgate parties. Everyone I see at one seems to be having a good time, but I have zero interest in attending one. Sitting in a parking lot and eating and socializing? Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/2 "2011-11-28T15:00:32Z")
Television programs. I don’t watch anything with any regularity and never have. Well, there was a year or two back in 1993 - 1994 when I tried to catch The Simpsons every week, but apart from that I have never followed any TV program at all. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/3 "2011-11-28T15:02:44Z")
Sports. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/4 "2011-11-28T15:05:21Z")
Wine. I try to like it, but except for a few types, it really does nothing for me. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/5 "2011-11-28T15:12:43Z")
Christmas. Load of nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/6 "2011-11-28T15:13:28Z")
Coffee. I just never got in the habit and wouldn’t know what to do in a Starbuck’s. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/7 "2011-11-28T15:19:06Z")
Everything mentioned so far and just about everything else likely to be mentioned in this thread. I add specifically ‘shopping for clothes or shoes’. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/8 "2011-11-28T15:19:14Z")
Tuna fish. Yuck! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/9 "2011-11-28T15:22:51Z")
Coffee and beer. They taste vile. ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/10 "2011-11-28T15:24:46Z")
Sports, booze of any sort, the Harry Potter or Twilight movies, chicken, turkey, ham. Probably others, but that’s what I thought of for now. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/11 "2011-11-28T15:26:56Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Sports. I don’t enjoy sports as much as most do but I’m willing to watch a game or two in order to spend time with friends. I have never cared at all for the meta-game aspects of sports, though. When a sports fan starts into “If we win and Teams A and B lose their games and Team C wins…” I can’t make myself pay attention. Others for me: Bananas. Discussing or debating politics. Online multi-player video games. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/12 "2011-11-28T15:44:01Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Sports. Can I sit by you? I don’t care about sports either. Also I just wanted to sit here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/13 "2011-11-28T15:51:31Z")
Football. I liked getting to eat Doritos and guacamole during Superbowl parties as a kid, but that’s the extent of my enjoyment of the sport. I used to play and perform (in marching band) at every football game at my high school, and I never paid attention to the field unless it was our turn to be on it. The vast majority of the game is just a bunch of dudes standing around! I get as much enjoyment from football as I do from watching masked people stand in line. Feh! Shopping. I don’t even care for grocery shopping, much less clothes and shoes and gift shopping. The casual-sex-pickup-at-a-college-bar-or-party scene. I liked casual sex as much as the next college student, but I never liked going to a liquor-serving establishment for it. Picking up people among clubs/study groups is better. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/14 "2011-11-28T15:55:54Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Television programs. I don’t watch anything with any regularity and never have. > > Well, there was a year or two back in 1993 - 1994 when I tried to catch The Simpsons every week, but apart from that I have never followed any TV program at all. Ever. Almost exactly this. Although I did follow TV shows when I was young, since the mid-90s I have not tried to follow any TV show except for The Simpsons. Plus there were a few PBS shows that I watched whenever they came on, but they were so infrequent that it wouldn’t really count as “following”. Plus, now I don’t watch TV at all, what with analog being killed, getting no digital stations over the air, and not wanting to pony up $50+ a month for something I’d barely watch anyway. Thankfully the digital TV I bought can double as a monitor for my second computer/X-box. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/15 "2011-11-28T15:55:57Z")
Video games ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/16 "2011-11-28T15:56:59Z")
Children. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/17 "2011-11-28T15:58:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Can I sit by you? I don’t care about sports either. > > Also I just wanted to sit here. 🙂 You don’t need an excuse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/18 "2011-11-28T16:00:19Z")
The movie _Elf._ ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/19 "2011-11-28T16:03:18Z")
Going to the movies. I can barely make it through a movie at home, pausing when I need to do something else, and always multi-tasking. Paying through the nose to sit in a theater with a bunch of strangers and a sticky floor, going deaf when anything on screen goes kaboom, and it’s too dark to read while half-watching? No thanks. Also, wine. Just don’t care for it. Maybe I could develop a palate, but I have migraines, and the risks seem higher than the potential rewards. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342/20 "2011-11-28T16:08:50Z")
To paraphrase C.S. Lewis: The most boring thing in the world (after sports, of course) is church litanies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-almost-everyone-enjoys-that-you-dont-care-for-about/604342.md?page=2)