It’s so reaffirming to hear from someone who hates all the things that I hate. How do you feel about horseradish? Twitter? Hugh Grant?
Hyper action films, graphic violence and crime shows. I used to enjoy these. Lost my taste for graphic violence first. Next it was action, action, action! After watching a few, that was it, not relaxing at all. And crime shows? I don’t want to see another crime scene, or get inside the mind of some deviant, one day I had just had enough, that was it, done.
My world is oh so much better without these things, I must say
MMA entirely baffles me, I can’t/ will not watch it. Sorry no can do. I find both the participants and the fans baffling.
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Some people really love driving. Just the act itself is enjoyable and relaxing. I don’t have that gene. Driving is just a way to get where I’m going and if I were ever a billionaire, hiring someone to drive me everywhere 24/7 would be one of the first things I would do.
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I used to work in a department that often required I spend most of the day driving, we worked with partners and we were detailed at the start of a shift if we would be driving that day or not. Personally I enjoy driving, as you say I find it enjoyable and relaxing, so it wouldn’t bother me at all to drive the whole shift while for others it made them increasingly tired and irritable as they found the act of driving stressful.
Part of the fun of the world is that everyone is different! It would be very boring if we all liked the same things. But it is annoying when someone tries to foist things they enjoy on others.
Anyway my examples:
The vast majority of sports
Loud music and ‘parties’ generally
Reality TV
There are more but thats the first few that spring to mind.
I can see enjoying watching a game of some sport, even if I don’t necessarily enjoy the sport. Example- I enjoy the occasional football game, either college or pro, but maybe 2 or 3 a year- max. The unscripted drama, and all that. I’m no fan of soccer or hockey, but I can understand that people enjoy watching and cheering for one team or the other. But some people really get off on being a fan- buying all the team gear (let’s say the New York Giants), wearing a Giants hat and winter coat, putting Giants posters up in the man cave, Giants stickers on the back of the pickup, a Giants license plate frame, drinking from Giants beer mugs (every day, just just during the games), using a Giants beach blanket… seriously? You’re devoting your fanatacism to a team name- the players and coaches switch around so frequently it’s nothing more than lining the pockets of the owners. I just don’t get it.
Bananas. I hate them, although I recognize their convenience and health properties.
Cats. Ugh.
Video games.
Food. I sometimes wish I could buy Purina People Chow.
I’m pretty normal weight (180lbs - 6ft tall) and have been accused of being a “super taster” and “super smeller” but I really doubt that. Although the smell of some things, like raw onions, makes it almost impossible to eat anything while the smell is present and for quite some time afterwards.
Facebook
Cilantro
Caviar
Bleu Cheese
“Movie premiers”
Again something relatively unusual. Is this something a lot of people enjoy? Do you mean just opening night of a movie or full blown premiers?
I’ve been to a coupe of big time premiers, celebrities etc., but that was because I was friends with a girl who was friends with someone high up in Lowe’s theater corporation. I liked them. best part was candy counter was wide open. Free Goobers for all!
I wasn’t gonna say it, but that’s my thought too. The difference between a two-week-old previously-frozen Sara Lee cheesecake, and one that I baked yesterday in a water bath and just put a fresh-fruit topping on, is like the difference between canned mushrooms and fresh chanterelles.
Cake- Even the ones people claim “they make the best cake in town!” I’d rather have a cookie, brownie, or cheesecake. Birthday cakes, wedding cakes, big fancy chocolate cakes all taste blah to me.
Musicals- About the only one I can handle is Singin in the Rain since most of the appeal is how cheesey and kitch it is. Wizard of Oz is allright since it’s a kids movie. All modern musicals I can’t stand. Chicago, Les Mis, Phantom, Wicked, Cats, etc. Yuck.
Country music- nuff said.
Getting Drunk- All it’s ever done for me is get me dizzy, then sleepy, then a hangover the next day. As I got older the dizzy part lost it’s appeal and the hangovers got worse. I still drink but never to the point of getting drunk.
Some people obviously love getting smashed on a weekly basis.
“reality” TV shows. Sports. Fashion. The Oscars, or any other awards show for that matter. Hollywood blockbusters. Celebrity gossip.
Pedicures and manicures.
Of all the activities I’d like to be doing in my free time, having someone digging into my cuticles with metal implements is not one of them. I had a pedicure once, and the relief I felt afterwards was not unlike that which comes with going to gyno.
“cheesecake, I think you’ve simply not been given a good one to taste.”
A couple of people concur on this.
I see things like this at cooking discussion boards. Somebody say f’rinstance “I like steaks medium well” Someone will respond, “No , you shuold eat it rare, that’s ewhen it’s best.”
I always want to say, Look, I’m 60 years old, and have been eating steak longer than you have been alive. Don’t presume to tell me I like steak the way I do because I’ve never had a good one.’
Don’t you think that by the time one is halfway through their lifetime, they have a pretty good idea of what they like to eat and their tastes have not been formed because they eat only bad examples of the foods they like?
I get this recurring because I do bnot care for the gamay grape, used in Beaujolais wine. I always hear “It’s because you never had a good one.”
Definitely this as well. The one I really don’t get is the Survivor show. A lot of my friends really like this, but to me is so stupid. I mean, it’s all about the voting thingy and immunity. Personally, would be more interesting to me to drop the folks off in Borneo with, oh, say a butter knife, and give the prize to whoever is still alive after 2 months. If everyone survives, well, they all get a share. If none of them do, well…that will be more prize money for the next crew. 
Sports
Facebook
Religion
Frank Zappa
I’m sure there are more I’m not thinking of…I go around in a near-constant state of “wha…?”
Chocolate cake.
Chocolate cookies.
Chocolate shakes.
I love chocolate in nearly every incarnation except those.
TV, sushi, videogames.
Fighting. When I was in the SCA, I spent seven or eight years in armor, learning how to fight, going to wars & tournaments, and although I enjoyed having the armor, and making it and weapons, and I enjoyed learning about fighting, when the rubber meets the road, I just never really understood the appeal of walking out onto the field and letting somebody beat me with a chair leg.
I’ve never seen the appeal of “awkward” comedy- like say the Larry David / Jerry Seinfeld type stuff. It always mostly seems mean, not funny.
I’ve never understood why people get SO into entertainment things- bands, TV shows, etc… I mean, it’s one thing to like a TV show, but it’s another to know the life history of the leads, and pick out continuity errors. Science fiction shows are the worst for this, but there were people who probably sat around and obsessed over what Elvis liked to eat for breakfast.
I’m weird in this I know, but I’ve never understood the typical hobbyist “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” equipment obsession. You see it in any hobby- the people who are really into it get really crazy detail oriented, when professionals in that field probably say “eh, good enough” and go on. Cyclists get all crazy about weight, homebrewers get crazy about any number of things, amateur photographers about lenses, distortion, etc… and I imagine it’s the same in any hobby. Ultimately, it’s the person using the equipment, not the equipment that makes the difference in 99% of the cases.
Plays, or opera. I know a lot of people who really like going to see a show, but the few times I have were meh. Some relatives think I am uncultured for not liking the opera. If I never see another show it would not phase me. I do like live music, and the orchestra. Different strokes.
I used to watch sports a lot. Now I cannot think of anything more boring than watching a baseball game (live or on TV). Golf is more fun to play than watch. Football is also meh – I cannot see wasting 3 hours sitting on the couch – and my kid plays on a football team. Some of the other parents are really into it. No, I mean REALLY into it – and I just don’t get it. Ice hockey is fun to watch, I admit.
Agree with “parties”. I have become an introvert, I guess. I also cannot stand “small talk”.
Roller coasters. As I have aged I cannot handle them. At. All.
Facebook.
Scotch.
My thing people enjoy which I don’t appreciate is fruit on cheesecake. I love cheesecakes of all sorts and have baked dozens if not hundreds myself. I don’t hate fruit on a cheesecake and I won’t turn down cheesecake because it has fruit on it; however, I think adding fruit detracts from the dessert.