This is kind of a spin-off of my Playgirl thread. What stuff out there is popular, but has zero appeal to you? It’s not necessarily something you despise (i.e., Spice Girls, Clinton)…just something that does nothing for you, but makes way too many other people go “oooh!”…and you just don’t get it.
I’ll start:
Playgirl (duh)
Cola drinks
Tequila shots
Soap Operas
Chihuahuas
SUVs
Woody Allen and his movies
Uma Thurman
Potato Salad
Porshes
Longaberger baskets
Lowered cars
Beanie Babies (well…except the cats! ) Gone With the Wind
The funky plastic colorful kitchenware that’s hip now
Birkenstocks
How about ya’ll?
“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”
-Celebrities (I just dont see how people get so worked up over them)
-Soap Operas
-Ricky Martin
-The Southeast Asian Decorating craze (Uh yeah, like a balinese peasant sleeps on silk pillows, lives in an expansive “Balinese Villa”, and all the other stuff. It’s nice if you genuinely like the style but dont do it because the Joneses or some decorator are doing it. :))
-Beanie Babies
-All of the teenie bopper pop singers
-Rice Rockets (Japanese economy cars that are “customized”)
-Limp Bizkit
-Kid Rock
-SUV’s
-Choppers
-Fast Cars
-Vacations to Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
-Paris
-Euro-Asian cooking (We call that making do in my home)
I used to not have a problem with some of those things but since some have become trendy, they all are becoming quite trite.
“Let me show you something
that you’ve never seen before
like a light im gonna shine on you
forever is a word i dont often get to say
but if you say it loud enough i’ll say it too”
-Furbies
-Beanie babies
-Anime
-Marilyn Manson
-Star Wars (well, Return of the Jedi was good)
-Y2K chaos
-Ricky Martin
-Little-boy bands (Backstreet Boys and clones)
-Golf
-Old Navy, Tommy Hilfiger, and whatever other brand names are charging exhorbitant amounts for kids to walk around everywhere doing free advertising
-MS Excel
As for clothing…
-Any pair of sneakers costing more than $35
-Any pair of jeans costing more than $30
And I’ll definitely go along with the Woody Allen movies.
But I noticed both of you that said SUV are from CA, here in the northeast we get snow and a trip to a real supermarket usually involves a half hour drive.
-the allure of fake nails and big hair
-why Backstreet Boys and 'NSync are so popular
-how people can whine about their life and not do anything to address the issues
-Ditto on Woody Allen
-selling/trading in a perfectly good car after two years 'cause something ‘new’ is out
-the hoopla about Pulp Fiction (that’ll get me some heat! )
-consumerism: the need to buy things to make you feel good about yourself;buying into the culture of advertising
-Beanie Babies
-Elvis memorabilia
-country music
brain is dead today;can’t think of much!
And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens “Dombey and Son”
-blue-rinse hair
-those rubber covers on the front of cars to stop the paint getting chipped or something.
-strapping mobile 'phones to your belt when your pocket would do fine.
• Jeans with the crotch down to your knees
• Top 40 music
• Wedge-shaped cars w/o any styling
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Mozart [the top 40 of classical?]
• television
• cellular phones
• virtual business cards in email
• guys shorts with the legs down to the knees
Gambling - It just doesn’t work for me. I see friends, relatives, and co-workers buying lottery tickets and going to casinos and I just don’t understand the appeal. They tell me they enjoy thinking about the possibility of winning huge amounts of money. Well, I enjoy thinking about the possibility of being rich but I don’t see how spending my money away on Lotto and slot machines has any connection with that.
Car crashs - I see a lot of action movies that feature cars chasing each other around and crashing in spectacular fashions. What is the attraction of watching cars drive around fast, crash through fruit stands, flip over, or go over cliffs and explode? My advice - cut the car scenes and add more sex scenes.
Austin Powers - A friend of mine says this is the funniest movie he has ever seen. Obviously there are a lot of other people who loved it. I was really looking forward to it because I had heard it was funny, but when I saw it I didn’t think it was anything special. I’m not saying I hated it, but I’d rate it about a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Coffee - I can drink it but I’ve never understood the appeal it holds for other people. I probably actually drink about four or five cups of coffee a year.
Friends (TV show)
Diet Soda - Why do people drink this foul crap when unsweetened iced tea tastes so much better?
KoRn - I was forced to one of their concerts and I just don’t see what the big deal is.
People who drive pick-up trucks, but never put anything in back.
Religion
high school mentality among people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s
60-80 hour work week = necessary for success
Julia Roberts
good looking = talented
MBAs
the stock market
Cher
artificial humming birds (I saw these at the pool store)
4X4 vehicles driven by people who freak out if they get dirt under their fingernails (Thanks for screwing up the demand curve people! I would actually make good use of a 4X4 if I could afford it!)
–The crappy movies that Hollywood puts out and paying $8.75 to see them
–Breast Implants
–Women who are constantly on a diet or “watching what they eat”
–Stephen King, Daniel Steele, John Grisham, etc.
–Ditto on Backstreet Boys and N’Suck
– George W. Bush: even if I were republican I wouldn’t understand why money’s being thrown at the vaguest candidate in the field.
– Reality Bites
– Pi (movie, not the number)
– Clueless
– the British Royal Family ( I get why the Brits obsess, but Americans?)
– rock/rap hybrid bands
– gaudy, tacky jewelry
– people who can have fact upon fact upon fact thrown at them and refuse to compromise when they believe something contrary to those facts (and I’m not just talking religious fundamentalists here… stubborn people in general)
– Jimmy Buffett
– this Wavy Gravy character I’ve seen in every Woodstock retrospective this month. Who is he and WHAT is that thing he’s carrying?
– anal sex
– hot dogs
Pardon my “ya’ll,” Strainger. I’m a displanted hillbilly (born in West Virginee, thank y’all very much!) who never quite learned the correct spelling of such euphenisms.
Still, when I think about it for 3 seconds, DUH.
“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”
Platform shoes. What is the deal? They’re horrible. They were ugly in the 70’s, and they’re ugly now.
Strainger said - “4X4 vehicles driven by people who freak out if they get dirt under their fingernails (Thanks for screwing up the demand curve people! I would actually make good use of a 4X4 if I could afford it!)”
I agree. I can’t stand people who spend thousands of dollars lifting their trucks, getting huge mud tires, buying a winch that can lift a bus, and then only driving them around town, being real careful not to run over a little curb or anything. What a waste.
Hey Strainger, get a 4X4! A good used Toyota truck or 4Runner is not very expensive, they’re easy to work on, and they are so much fun! You have trails all over Arizona, too. You can’t believe what you ever did without one (I felt the same way when I got this damn computer). Mine has a permanent coat of mud on it and sees the trails at least once a month.
Ditto on these:
Soap Operas
Chihuahuas
SUVs
Longaberger baskets
Lowered cars
Beanie Babies
-Golf
-Old Navy
-Elvis memorabilia
-country music
the British Royal Family ( I get why the Brits obsess, but Americans?)
And let me add these:
Hunting for sport
Forrest Gump
Caffeine free diet Coke
Holocaust denial
Camping (let’s go be uncomfortable for several days and nights)
Office parties on Dec. 24, with a guy dressed up as Santa, lots of red and green decorations, and a gift exchange, and insisting on calling them “Holiday” parties, and expecting the Jews to join in and feel truly included, as everyone wishes you “Happy Hanukkah,” when Hanukkah ended a week ago.
Brad Pitt
Tom Selleck
Romance novels
Floating basketball art
People who drive to the gym to work out
People who will give money as charity to disabled people, but won’t let them work to earn it.
–Rowan
Shopping is still cheaper than therapy. --my Aunt Franny
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