# Things you like that everyone else seems to hate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101 "2021-07-22T22:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/61 "2021-07-24T01:51:25Z")
I bet I"m alone on this one: Commuting. I have a half-hour drive to and from work every day. For me, it’s a half hour of nice downtime. I do not get stressed out by traffic jams or A-hole drivers. I am comfy in my vehicle, I can listen to whatever music or podcast I feel like listening to (thanks, Apple CarPlay and Spotify), or sometimes I just enjoy the silence. mmm ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/62 "2021-07-24T04:35:37Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Stout As in Guinness or Beamish? Who doesn’t like Stout? This is a trick question. There are plenty of folks that “think” they don’t like Stout who have never had a decent stout. But those people are merely coverts in waiting… ---
**Author:** ![Dorabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@Dorabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorabella)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/63 "2021-07-24T04:52:35Z")
I like grocery shopping too. I don’t much like carrying in the bags once I get home or having to find places for everything in my messy cupboards but selecting the items at the store is fun. Some of my friends like shoe shopping. Nah, give me groceries every time. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/64 "2021-07-24T05:11:10Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Who doesn’t like Stout? This is a trick question. There are plenty of folks that “think” they don’t like Stout who have never had a decent stout. But those people are merely coverts in waiting… I like sobriety. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/65 "2021-07-24T05:14:41Z")
I like to watch movies on DVD/Blu-ray. I don’t have to screw around with all the online B.S. Just stick it in the player and it plays, with full resolution. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/66 "2021-07-24T05:32:55Z")
Actually, I like almost everything that has been listed here. Some of them quite a lot. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/67 "2021-07-24T06:01:58Z")
Thrills gum and Sen-Sen. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/68 "2021-07-24T06:23:39Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I like to watch movies on DVD/Blu-ray. > > I don’t have to screw around with all the online B.S. Just stick it in the player and it plays, with full resolution. Me. Plus if I own my favorites I never have to worry about their disappearing off the service. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/69 "2021-07-24T12:30:26Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > As I understand they had their bitterness bred out of them a decade or so ago, so today’s Brussel sprouts aren’t the same as the ones everyone hated a few decades ago. This is true. And now they’re not as good as they used to be. But I still love them. Especially roasted, with just olive oil and kosher salt. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/70 "2021-07-24T12:37:27Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I like sobriety. I liked it as a child, then developed an allergy later on. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/71 "2021-07-24T12:53:23Z")
I like reciprocal Google Location Sharing, which saves me and my hubby hundreds of “Where are you now?” text messages every year. Everybody we mention it to recoils in horror. ---
**Author:** ![Franklymydear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Franklymydear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Franklymydear)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/72 "2021-07-24T15:09:07Z")
Flying. Especially with all TSA rules, checked baggage fees, less leg room, many people seem to loathe the flying experience. I get excited every time i go to the airport. I fly maybe 9/10 times a year for business or pleasure. I like looking at all the airplanes. i like when the plane first moves back from the gate. i like when we get to the runway and i’m thrown back into my seat when they floor it. i look out the window the entire time, except when i am looking at the flight map. i like turbulence, it’s fun. I like when the wheels touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/73 "2021-07-24T16:00:08Z")
Mowing the lawn. Just finished doing it. Very satisfying. Bonus satisfaction cuz I beat the upcoming thunderstorm. mmm ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/74 "2021-07-24T16:16:36Z")
Ok, I’ll come right out and say it here: _Atlas Shrugged._ And that’s from a left-leaning Democrat ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/75 "2021-07-24T16:25:46Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Halvah. My daughter recently brought over a batch of halvah she made (including chopped pistachios) from a jar of tahini I’d given her. We’re huge fans! ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/76 "2021-07-24T16:32:54Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Atlas Shrugged. Yep. The Fountainhead as well. Licorice (but I’m Dutch, so that doesn’t count I guess) I’m all for (pickled) herring! I prefer inlagd silt (sold in the Ikea supermarket) to rolmops though. But my absolute favourite is Matjes. With onions, please. Jenever, especially old jenever. And wodka. Goes well with the herring. Menudo and other cloyingly sweet Latin pop like Lucero. Alongside Rammstein preferably. Andrei Tarkovsky, especially Stalker. Handspinning. On a spindle, no less. Hijack: The thing about Ayn Rand is (IMHO) that she was a refugee from the Soviet system. If you keep that in the back of your head while reading it, it still doesn’t make her philosophy a worthy goal, but you’ll get where she’s coming from at least. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/77 "2021-07-24T17:20:43Z")
> [@Drsunflower1](#): > > The thing about Ayn Rand is (IMHO) that she was a refugee from the Soviet system. If you keep that in the back of your head while reading it, it still doesn’t make her philosophy a worthy goal, but you’ll get where she’s coming from at least. What people seem to forget is that there’s a whole lot more to her philosophy than her politics. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/78 "2021-07-25T06:26:17Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Mowing the lawn. Just finished doing it. Very satisfying. > > Bonus satisfaction cuz I beat the upcoming thunderstorm. Agree. I also do a couple of neighbors yards that are unable to do their own. Not only did I beat a thunderstorm, I beat a straight line wind of 55+mph which knocked down trees and tree branches all over the place just as I was returning the mower to my garage. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/79 "2021-07-25T06:54:34Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Going alone to the movies. I don’t know if it’s universal, but in my circles going to the movies is considered a social activity, and you go in groups or at least in pairs. I love going alone. I like that too. I even enjoy going to the drive-in theater alone; watching a movie in your car is somehow more “alone” than going to a regular theater by yourself. There’s also more room to spread out your snack food. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-that-everyone-else-seems-to-hate/947101/80 "2021-07-25T09:49:35Z")
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