I’m with you. I live alone and frequently make things like chili or spaghetti in big batches in the slow cooker and then eat it every night for 3 or 4 days.
I’ve never understood the need to have the biggest, best and latest in televisions. If my little 15-incher could handle the current broadcasting format without a special antenna (that tend to work only part of the time, I might add,) I’d still be using it. In fact, when we switched over, I just quit watching altogether rather than buying a new set.
I’m with Spoiler Virgin on headphones. I have a pair of earbuds I bought at the Dollar Store that serve me just fine. Was using them just today, in fact.
Oh, I just thought of purses. I don’t understand the need to spend two hundred dollars or more on a purse, especially with someone’s ugly-ass logo plastered all over it. I always think about how easily they can be stolen and how I’d hate to be out all that money. Not to mention, what I’d have in it would be of less value than the purse itself.
I can relate to a few things in here.
My mum wasn’t a shit cook, she did some things really well, but she was taught on a wood stove the old fashioned way and boiled hell out of all vegetables and overcooked all meat unless it was in a casserole. I was in my late teens before I learned that vegetables could actually taste good if they weren’t cooked to mush and that steak was tasty when it still had juice in it. As a result, I have my preferences about how I like things cooked but can tolerate a fairly wide variation.
Toilet seat - I don’t actually register whether it’s up or down when I go in, I just put it where I need it to be if it wasn’t already there for whatever action I’m taking and leave it there when I’m finished.
TV - HD vs SD. I can’t tell the difference. When I bought my current 50 inch, it was on the wall in a shop next to another the same size, same brand, showing the same program except the other one was 50% dearer. When I asked why the price difference, it was because one was more “HD” than the other. I couldn’t tell the freaking difference looking at them so I saved myself a bunch and went the cheaper one.
Same food multiple times in a row - I’m in the camp where I like to cook on the weekend when I have time, not so much in the evenings after work, so I’ll make up a bunch and that’s lunch at work and dinner in the evenings for the next few days.
I used to hang out with a group of senior citizens at the local coffee shop. One of them worked for many years amongst loggers, miners and longshoremen. His language was quite colorful, to say the least, which upset some of the folks at the coffee shop quite a bit. But, because he was so easy-going and good-natured, it never really bothered me at all. I’d much rather hear him talk compared to another fellow would occasionally bring up how he didn’t like a certain race of people.
I agree with Stui Magpie. Don’t care about High def TV. I see them in the store next to the standard def TV and don’t think they’re worth the extra money.
Egyptian cotton fancy sheets. Don’t care. I’ve tried 'em, they’re not worth the extra bucks.
Hand sanitizers. Unlike everyone else I know, I have an immune system that works perfectly fine thank you very much.
Although I love me some M&Ms, my relationship with rest of the food world is you put it in front of me, I’ll eat it. I don’t follow food blogs, or read reviews.
Probably the thing which I was least picky about which caused me the greatest grief was girlfriends / wives.
If they were not bad looking, didn’t have bad body odor and didn’t try to kill me in the first three dates, we were all set to go.
Needless to say, that came back to bite me in the ass many times.
Some other things. I really don’t care if someone has a tattoo. I’m too old to get one without it looking like a midlife (or post midlife?) crisis, but if someone wants to ink up whatever they want if fine with me.
I never obsess about what TV programs random stranger are going home to watch the Jerry Springer or if they are fans of Japanese hentai porn, why the fuck would I care if they have tats covering their body?
Uncomfortable clothing/shoes. Why wear anything that hurts?
I am for the most part utterly unconcerned about, and oblivious to, what I regard as rampant germahobia.
60 frames per second in video games. Yeah, it’s nice, but not worth all the bitching you hear whenever some nextgen game instead gets locked at 30. So long as it’s not bouncing all over the place or something ridiculous like 10fps, get the hell over it.
I actually like comic sans and papyrus - just not for business applications. There a simple times works.
I follow a very few shows - otherwise if a movie or documentary is not on, I turn it to one of the all music stations [I like light classical most of the time. Good generic background music. Or I will pop on and random shuffle itunes.]
Standard drip coffee, very light and a couple splenda or equal. Or espresso with cold half and half and a couple splenda [I know, heresy!]
AS long as the seat is not sprinkled or shat upon, or my butt doesn’t end up in the water because the seat is broken and it flushes, I’m good. And I can cope with the paper hung either way - but I do insist on good 2 ply issue.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, as a diabetic it makes calculating easier. I do take pains with the evening meal though. Although I also do not have anything against repeating the same thing several evenings in a row. I just want it to be of good quality and taste. [And I have been known to have mrAru smuggle food into the hospital for me, and I do actually have a small makeup ‘purse’ with tiny containers of assorted food flavoring agents to deal with industrial cooking. Though I have to say, Yale New Haven hospital has excellent food.]
Other than my brother is actually sensible I agree. Since I don’t watch most TV, I have no idea who most of these iditots are, but I actually now sort of recognize the whole Jersey Shore ducklips and orange tan bunch from seeing so much about them online lurking in advertising.
Where in the world are you shopping that they still have SD TV sets for sale? Thrift shops?
I haven’t seen a new set under 720p for sale in several years.
Bells and whistles (not literally) on most anything.
I recently bought a treadmill that has 20 available programs, a heart rate readout, a USB port that collects and organizes data, 12 incline options, iPod connectivity, etc.
I use none of that. I go for a half hour every day on a level surface. As long as it’s solid and well-built, good enough for me.
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I’m with you on that one. When I see showhomes, they look nice to me, but I like my house just fine the way it is, with dated stuff and second-hand stuff and sentimental stuff.
You’re cut from the same cloth as my husband - spaghetti is his favourite food, and I think he could eat it every day of his life.
I used to think the same thing, then I tried the locally-sourced, organic stuff - holy crap, it tastes so good! I changed away from the cheapest stuff from Safeway for ethical reasons (I don’t actually care about meat being organic, but it seems to be raised better if the farm is organic), but I’m staying for the taste.
Germs and dirt. I am generally unconcerned (except in specific instances where there is good reason for caution).
Ketchup. Heinz, Hunts, and generic all pretty much taste the same to me. I do notice flavor differences between certain different brands of mayonnaise- Trader Joe’s is different from Hellman’s, for example- but I don’t really care which one I’m eating.
Another big one for me is professional sports. I get that there can be a lot of complex strategies involved, and you can have substantive discussions about it, but I don’t get why anyone would want to.
I second Sports. I don’t watch. I don’t care. No Olympics, no college sports, no professional sports. I remember back in high school gym class, it was simply assumed that we knew the rules to games like baseball and football. I don’t. I get it that there are different positions with different roles. But, beyond that, no clue.
Getting drunk / high - I have tried it. I didn’t like it. After so many years of listening to the hype, I had great expectations. I wanted it to be fun. Wow. What a disappointment. I can’t imagine scheduling a life around such lame activities. It was a little like “Froot Loops” cereal in that way. Sure does look great on TV. But, stand back, because, wow, it’s several different kinds of terrible.
Accessories on cars… A while ago, I bought a used 2002 car. The sales guy went on about the fact that it has heated rear-view mirrors. I said, “Oh, well, that’s good… because, I won’t buy a car that doesn’t have heated rear-view mirrors. What do I look like, a savage?” I don’t care about much more than if it will go forward or backwards reliably, when I want it to do so.
Message Boards.
I don’t know if *most *people could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, as they are *both *HD… (The difference between *480p *and 1080p, on the other hand, is staggering.)
Less than pristine flatware. At home especially, but even if we’re eating out, if I pick up a fork and it has a tiny hard bump on it I’ll pop it off with my thumbnail, rub it a couple times and figure that got it. I can tell the difference between utensils that haven’t been washed and those that have run through a dishwasher but left that one tiny, stubborn firch. So those ghostly spots don’t bother me at all.
Eating at chain restaurants. Sampling local cuisine is great but there is nothing wrong with going to chain restaurants.