Adam Sandler Jim Carrey The Beatles The Doors
Because they’re all just really, really bad.
Anime and manga, because there’s something really creepy about 5-year-old faces on top of 50DD breasts.
Sunshine and afternoons. This may have something to do with having spent most of my life in Arizona; in any event, I hate the glare. Give me rain and clouds!
Lamb–utterly the most foul-smelling and horrible tasting substance I’ve ever had the misfortune to consume. How people can cook this stuff without gagging bewilders the fuck out of me.
Friends. These people don’t look or act like any of my friends. Do they look or act like any of yours? Seinfeld–enough with the neurotic New Yorkers, already; that stuff hasn’t been funny since the 50s.
Magic (the game). Boring. Booooorrrriiiiiinnnnnnngg!
Birkenstocks. If your ankles are so fat you can’t wear decent shoes, lose weight NOW! Similarly, obese people who complain that society is unfair when they make no attempt to get off the couch, put down the bag of candy, and do something!. This does not apply to overweight people who try to maintain a healthy weight, or to people who have a true medical condition which causes their obesity.
I am of the opinion that 90% of all people who watched it, did not get it AT ALL. it’s not a big anti-consumerist message, it’s a message that buying ANYONE’S message hook line and sinker and not thinking long and hard about it is well, BLIND CONSUMERISM. The movie wasn’t trying to make Tyler Durden sound like this messianic prophet. In fact as the movie went farther and farther along it deconstructed him into this really undesirable scumbag, so much so that his other personality couldn’t even stand him. It was about the great American dream of 0 responsibility and having everything handed to you. About blind rebellion and so many other romantic notions we hold in this country.
However I think people missed it and just went for the surface message thinking either “That was deep” or “That wasn’t as deep as everyone said it was”, because we expect movies NOT to be deep.
The movie wasn’t extolling blind rebellion and expression of angst as a positive notion. I just think that the average viewer missed that point and most people I’ve heard that hated Fight Club only got to that point and didn’t like that message. I think that movie is one of the deepest movies to come out in ages, just not too many people really get it.
Police States, I think the fact that they are really trendy and most people wish America were more like one is horrible. Every time I hear someone talk about giving up some rights for the common good I cringe. I read 1984 and it scared me. I didn’t realize there were those who read it and though “Hey what a good idea”
Supermodels: I second this one, I’m sick of anorexia, it’s gross, it’s a disease, it doesn’t look attractive.
Vegans: Well I know nobody besides other Vegans really likes them, but I find them to be too annoying and pretentious in a way that I am not annoying and pretentious. Also, I don’t converse with prey.
People with the ignorant opinion that electronic music is easy to create or has somehow less inherent value than music played upon a traditional instrument. I am not hearing too much original sounding music coming out of many musicians that AREN’T heavily using electronic instruments these days.
Well, let me say this…
I’m am not going to hijack Crepitus’s thread by arguing the merits (or lack thereof) of Fight Club. I will however posit that if only 10% of the population understands the message behind an artistic work then in all likelyhood, that message is poorly stated and its significance dubious at best. Anyway, we can agree to disagree-- everyone is supposed to love Fight Club but me, remember?
Amusement parks. Stumbling across acres of baking asphalt and waiting in endless lines while being jostled by sweating, obese parents while they bark at their wailing offspring.
I’ll rubberstamp the slams on Fight Club and Minority Report (and might as well throw in Tom Cruise since he sucks much of the interest ou of the latter film).
Chiming in on the show tunes, but with a twist. I play tuba in a few community concert bands, and I hate playing show tunes with a passion that burns with the heat of a thousand stage lights.
I don’t like the music that much to begin with, but it gets worse. Tuba parts to them are all the same, regardless of the chippy melody that the trumpets and clarinets are playing. Show tune arrangements are also generally the most exhausting things we’ll ever do, because extended rests for tubas are annoyingly infrequent - if there are any at all. Hardly anything I’ve played is more tiring on the chops than just about any Warren Barker showtune arrangement.
Any and all the music currently being played on the radio. I am only vaguely familiar with a couple of artists with songs in the top 10 songs of the week. Even my looooongtime rock radio station I listen to has me reaching for the radio much too often. I also agree with the OP. I can’t stand musicals.
I love coffee. I adore coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. But what is with all these coffee drinks. My wife has me taste some of these so called coffee drinks and that crap is terrible. I don’t do espressos, lattes, or any of the other crap coffee vendors sell now. I want plain ordinary black coffee. And I don’t want to call it “Americano” either.
I don’t like sushi. I don’t eat sushi. Everybody that live in my house has decided they like sushi. Even 3 year old Jojobean eats it right up. It’s all fish bait to me. The cafeterias at my place of employment even sell sushi. My wife thinks I’m weird because I won’t eat sushi but I like my steaks with the meat still red and the blood flowing. My wife likes hers burnt (a little pink is ok) but my usual cooking instructions are “just throw it on the grill till it quits mooing.”
Shopping! well I guess I have atleast some of the male population on my side here.
Beaches I can’t stand swimming in water where I can’t see the bottom, who knows what horrible creatures lurk in there, waiting to brush against my feet or just plain eat me.
Sushi eew! that stuff tastes like raw fish - oh wait… :rolleyes:
And the flip side: I adore rain, snow, and overcast and everyone else seemsm to complain about them as being “rotten weather” … it really pisses me off, actually.
Pulp Fiction. I hate, hate, hate this movie. Did I say I hated it? Didn’t want to see it, was forced to watch it by my SO, hated it then and have successfully blocked most of the scenes from my memory. (Really - the only scenes I even remotely recall are the ones repeated on the soundtrack, which is pretty good. That and the “pot belly” scene - guess I remember that one 'cuz it was so bizarre.) Even those horrible Scary Movie movies I was dragged to were better. And no, I won’t ever watch it again. Tripe.
Snicks
At last, I have found my soul brother. Perhaps there’s some genetic component to it, because the smell, or even the thought of the smell, of hard boiled eggs makes me want to wretch. They are so horribly repulsive. (shudder)
