# Things you genuinely like, but don't get what all the fuss is about

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-genuinely-like-but-dont-get-what-all-the-fuss-is-about/560966 "2010-11-17T12:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-genuinely-like-but-dont-get-what-all-the-fuss-is-about/560966/61 "2010-11-19T15:39:54Z")

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Scotch. I drink and enjoy scotch, but I don’t get the obsessing over it; especially the single malt varieties.

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**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-genuinely-like-but-dont-get-what-all-the-fuss-is-about/560966/62 "2010-11-19T17:58:28Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> _Firefly_. Fun little show, but get over it already.

Joss Whedon shows in general for me. They’re good, but not great, and Whedonesque dialogue gets annoying pretty quickly.

_The Big Bang Theory_. It’s okay, I’ll watch it when coworkers bring the DVDs in for lunch break, and I like the gratuitous cleavage shots of Penny, but it’s not overly good, and I find I don’t really care about the characters (unlike, say, _How I Met Your Mother_, which can have weak episodes, but I find that I care about the what happens to the characters).

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**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-genuinely-like-but-dont-get-what-all-the-fuss-is-about/560966/63 "2010-11-19T18:53:32Z")

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In baseball, the high regard a lot of sabrmetric people and sportswriters (Jon Heyman of “Sports Illustrated” at the top) have for Bobby Valentine. He’s better than average but these guys will constantly pine for him to get rehired by the Mets or any team with an opening. They underestimate how high the Mets payroll was when he managed, certainly higher than the Braves/Bobby Cox who constantly beat him.

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