# Things you HATE that everyone else seems to like **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424 "2002-07-11T14:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/101 "2002-07-16T22:10:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Allen Parine \* > \*\* > I HATE, well ok, am peeved by, this type of thinking. Animation and comic books are just visual media, and anime and manga are their collective realizations produced in Japan. If you want to hate them for what they are, and that is all they are, fine. But what you’re saying, it’s like condemning all American periodicals because you don’t like _Hustler_ or all French novels because _Story of O_ creeps you out. \*\* OK, I’ll qualify that by saying that **almost all** anime/manga I’ve seen have had girls with huge, toddler-like eyes and pornstar breasts. Now, I read your statement as contradictory: I’m allowed to hate anime/manga, but not all anime/manga? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/102 "2002-07-16T22:15:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carlotta \* > \*\*I hate houses with stairs. (sigh, why am I living in one??) \*\* Why, 'cause the stairs are toning up your thighs and butt! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/103 "2002-07-17T07:58:20Z")
I hate… Aw hell, I love everything. _hugs the universe_ ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/104 "2002-07-17T08:15:48Z")
[ul][li]Beaches (well, not beaches specifically, but lying on them doing nothing except going crispy).[/li][li]The idea that something that’s popular must be bad, or at least cannot have any redeeming features at all.[/li][li]Melted cheese. Cold, hard lumps of the stuff are fine, but that gooey, stringy sludge sends shudders down my spine.[/li][li]Eggs. Boiled, scrambled, poached, fried, whatever. [/li][li]Vodka. I don’t care how many drinks you can make with it, I can still taste it and I don’t like it.[/li]Musicals. They just leave me cold.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/105 "2002-07-17T09:55:44Z")
Barbeque sauce-- keep it away from my ffod! Cheesecake --I have tried many and liked none, now go away jalapeno poppers–one of the most revolting food ideas EVER Decaf coffee–give me caffiene or give me death! Raw onions- is it that diifcult to saute them decently?! Talk Shows-- Very depressing to watch anymore Reality TV—All of you can go fuck yourselves! Florida-- the most overrated place i have ever been to, and the water is nasty too! ---
**Author:** ![papertiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@papertiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papertiger)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/106 "2002-07-17T12:05:18Z")
1. The music known as R&B - not good old country/bluesy stuff but the formulaic pap which is constantly played on British Radio makes me want decapitate the “artists” and defecate down their aesophogii. 2. Big brother and other phone in shows - another idiot tax as far as i’m concerned. 3. Playing football or “soccer” - it is a measure of masculinity which I find to be primitive and quite negative. Although I do enjoy the aspects of team spirit and co-ordination. (OK so i’m shit) 4. Proud car owners - “Check my big fast shiny ego symbol!!” 5. Advertising and consumerism - Ok some TV adverts may produce a wry smirk, but on the whole I find that being told I need something and finding all my friends believing that they need it (ie mobile phones) arouses in me a kind of pychosis in which I imagine beating the seven shades out of both the guy who devised the adverts and whoever thought of the damn product in the first place. I held out for a long time with mobile phones, but as peoples social habits changed I was eventually forced to give in and buy one. Sigh, the humanity… ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/107 "2002-07-17T14:50:38Z")
Hospital shows- I have enough sadness in my life without being made to feel sorry for the cute little tyke who is dying of a dread disease despite the heroic doctors best attempt to save her. Or the brave but curmundgeonly old man who the heroic doctors will reunite with his estranged daughter before he dies. The hospital reality shows are even worse. Television is for entertainment, the sick and wounded are not entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/108 "2002-07-17T15:18:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\* > > I simply could not agree more. It really drives me to distraction to think so many Americans, who have the privilege of living in God’s own country, actually bother to come here to this dumb, sad, damp little rock for visits. If only they knew what’s it like to live here in this, the stupidest nation in Europe, where the highest taxation and prices meet the lowest standards and worst services. > \*\* In my experience many Americans come here 'cause it is quaint, and 'cause it is so nice to get away from great weather, amazing food and low prices for a few weeks. Besides, they aren’t taxed to death like we are so they can afford it I lived in the US for 6 years and am so, so pissed off at myself for not waiting another 6 months or so to get my green card. I quit my job to travel around the world for a year (which was great fun) and now I can’t get a job to go back again :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/109 "2002-07-17T19:23:58Z")
I hate velour. Every nerve I have crashes just to look at the stuff. Brushing up against it makes my skin crawl and fills my mouth with a sour 9-volt battery taste. Just thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies. When I rent cars I ask for a vinyl interior, and they act like I’m not of this planet. ---
**Author:** ![Allen\_Parine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Allen\_Parine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allen_Parine)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/110 "2002-07-17T20:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Squish_ > OK, I’ll qualify that by saying that almost all anime/manga I’ve seen have had girls with huge, toddler-like eyes and pornstar breasts. Large eyes are something of a convention (they didn’t name the RPG _Big Eyes Small Mouth_ for nothing) but not ubiquitous. They’re not found in the character designs of Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, for example. They can also be used for a character regardless of age because they’re expressive. Giving characters obvious breasts is an easy way of identifying them as female if the artist’s character designs tend toward the androgynous. 50DD pornstar breasts seems excessive, though, unless of course the anime/manga you’ve seen _was_ porn or softcore aimed at the lolicon/huge breasts demographic. But if almost all manga you’ve seen is like that, it speaks more about the person(s) who recommended them to you than about the medium itself. Your sample is not representative. > [@](#): > > Now, I read your statement as contradictory: I’m allowed to hate anime/manga, but not all anime/manga? Ugh, I suck at expressing myself. Of course you’re _allowed_ to hate anything you want for any reason you want. Certainly I’d prefer if you hated manga for what it is, namely comics produced in Japan, rather than for what some realizations of it might be. I don’t care for generalizations like “this particular manga has toddlers with big teats ==\> manga are creepy.” Apply the same sort of reasoning to, say, the elderly and we have **Uekte**. Clearly, hating pieces of paper with ink on them is a far cry from hating the over-60’s. However, it’s no great intellectual leap to go from “manga are creepy” to “people who draw/read manga are creeps” or, given the popularity of manga in Japan, to “Japanese are creeps.” ---
**Author:** ![papertiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@papertiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papertiger)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/111 "2002-07-18T12:42:52Z")
1. The music known as R&B - not good old country/bluesy stuff but the formulaic pap which is constantly played on British Radio makes me want decapitate the “artists” and defecate down their aesophogii. 2. Big brother and other phone in shows - another idiot tax as far as i’m concerned. 3. Playing football or “soccer” - it is a measure of masculinity which I find to be primitive and quite negative. Although I do enjoy the aspects of team spirit and co-ordination. (OK so i’m shit) 4. Proud car owners - “Check my big fast shiny ego symbol!!” 5. Advertising and consumerism - Ok some TV adverts may produce a wry smirk, but on the whole I find that being told I need something and finding all my friends believing that they need it (ie mobile phones) arouses in me a kind of pychosis in which I imagine beating the seven shades out of both the guy who devised the adverts and whoever thought of the damn product in the first place. I held out for a long time with mobile phones, but as peoples social habits changed I was eventually forced to give in and buy one. Sigh, the humanity… ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/112 "2002-07-18T22:30:27Z")
Urgh! The hamsters ate my post… [QUOTE] _Originally posted by Allen Parine \* **But if almost all manga you’ve seen is like that, it speaks more about the person(s) who recommended them to you than about the medium itself. Your sample is not representative.**_ Uh… _Previews_ and _Wizard_, which I’m sure you will agree cover the comics scene very well. > [@](#): > > **Certainly I’d prefer if you hated manga for what it is, namely comics produced in Japan, rather than for what some realizations of it might be.** Hating all comics produced in Japan would be, in my opinion, more of a generalization. I like the illustrations for _Sandman: The Dream Hunters_, and, although not comics, the females in Final Fantasy X do not have the toddler eyes and humongous ta-tas. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*\*Clearly, hating pieces of paper with ink on them is a far cry from hating the over-60’s. However, it’s no great intellectual leap to go from “manga are creepy” to “people who draw/read manga are creeps” or, given the popularity of manga in Japan, to “Japanese are creeps.” \*\* Fortunately I’m capable of making those fine distinctions. 😉 I hate manga and I don’t care for spandex comics. \ ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/113 "2002-07-19T14:37:10Z")
Wow. It’s amazing what people hate. But, that’s the point of the OP I suppose. Here are the things that most everyone I know likes, and I don’t. **Popcorn.** Little chunks of styrofoam. **Peanut Butter Cookies.** Love peanut butter. Hate it in cookies. **Roller Coasters.** Well. I admit they’re kind of cool, but they make me ill. **Curry.** _Really_ makes me ill. And I have to throw this one in, even though it doesn’t quite fit the OP because nearly everyone I know (except my wife) also hates this… The expression **You go girl!** ---
**Author:** ![Allen\_Parine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Allen\_Parine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allen_Parine)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/114 "2002-07-19T14:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Squish_ > Uh… _Previews_ and _Wizard_, which I’m sure you will agree cover the comics scene very well. Never having read the things myself, I’m still forced to admit actual market research blows my anecdotes out of the water 🙂 Guess it’s my manga collection that’s atypical. And so ends this hijack. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/115 "2002-07-19T19:41:28Z")
Minivans snow late shows eating out- unless it’s one of the establishments I consider “safe” (meaning I’m familiar with the menu and food) I don’t want to go. salad- if it makes you feel better to eat foliage drenched in liquid fat, good for you. I’ll stick to chicken, thanks, but don’t look at me like I’m the misguided one. drinking- yes, I include alcohol, but mostly drinking, period. It’s probably why I often in a state of near-dehydration. chenille sweaters- the feel of the fabric makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/116 "2002-07-19T22:20:30Z")
-Swimming, unless it’s skinny-dipping in a creek or pond. Hate the chlorine, hate the suits. -Water. Drinking it, I mean; it actually makes me nauseous. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/117 "2002-07-19T23:51:20Z")
- getting sand in my bathing suit and shoes - frozen vegetables - smoking (i can smell if from a hundred feet away) - people who use abbreviations (especially on sdmb) which are not in common usage, so i have no clue what they’re saying - licorice - people who say the french are rude (usually they either say that because they’ve been told that, or because they were rude to the french who are then in turn rude back to them…americans can be very obnoxious overseas) - chewing with your mouth open (just makes me cringe) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/118 "2002-07-20T10:18:16Z")
TV. Football. Meat. Alcohol. Artificially flavored and colored food. White bread. Short hair on women (heck, short hair on anyone for that matter) Ice in drinks (where did this idea come from that all drinks always have to be loaded up with ice?) Country music. Republicans. Fundamentalists. White/Anglo/Protestant supremacy. Male supremacy. Machismo. SUVs. Short pants and short sleeves. Shaving face. Top 40 pop music. ---
**Author:** ![brainychick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@brainychick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainychick)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/119 "2002-07-20T23:34:35Z")
The TV show, “Friends.” Who the HELL watches that with any regularity!?!?! Five, broke-ass, dumb-ass neurotic freaks in an apartment? Oh, and the Beatles. Am I the only soul in the world who thinks those dorks couldn’t sing? Funny thing is, they wrote some good songs, which I only discovered after hearing covers of them by much more talented singers. And evangelical holy rollers. Gee-zuss! ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-hate-that-everyone-else-seems-to-like/118424/120 "2002-07-21T01:12:17Z")
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