Halvah.
In 6th grade social studies, the once-a-week guest teacher brought some in. Everyone except me thought it was gross. I loved it and ended up getting most of the classes’ portions. Yum!!!
Music in foreign languages. Practallty all my play-list is music from foreign countries – which I can listen to for the arrangement, vocal predentation, etc. without beimg distracted by the lyrics. It has opened up a huge new world of music I would have never known existed.
I like opera. And if by operetta you mean Gilbert and Sullivan, I’m a fan.
I love halvah! I used to work with a woman from India who would make a big batch of halvah every year for Diwali, and she would bring me a zipper baggie full of it.
Working on MS Windows computers (both laptops and desktops). And I mean installing, configuring, troubleshooting, repairing hardware, etc., not just using them. Everybody I know groans and bitches whenever they have problems, but I think of it as a game. Can I figure out what the nutty MS coders intended? Can I zero in on a problem and fix it before I really, really need the machine working again? Can I make a functioning system out of my spare junk parts? It’s almost a hobby with me.
OTOH, I hate being the “computer go-to guy” for friends and family. In those cases, it’s always the person, not the computer, I’m fighting.
Think I’ve mentioned this before…
Years ago I was at my mom’s for Thanksgiving with my sibs. My brother had the football game on TV. Halftime came, and he wandered off to do something. I heard the band who was playing at the halftime show and said out loud "When did Pearl Jam get so bad?
Turns out it was Nickelback.
I like going to the Post Office.
Broccoli and Brussels sprouts. I can’t understand the hate, both are (cooked the right way) delicious.
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.
Black jelly beans.
(the “normal” licorice ones; sometimes companies get cute with it, and that I don’t like)
Bands like Creed and Nickelback have some good songs.
I like grocery shopping, all the new options of things I’ve never tried.
I like working second shift. Its an unpopular shift, but I like it. You get paid more, you get to stay up late and sleep in, traffic to/from work isn’t nearly as bad, and the workload is usually lower vs first shift.
All the people here who enjoy doing housework are hereby invited to my apartment.
Budweiser beer. (I know not everyone hates it, it’s pretty popular, but there’s a lot of hate)
Ishtar (a movie most people panned)
You would have loved my uncle. He was a baker, and made the most amazing halvah cake, with chunks of halvah in it.
I don’t think Brussel sprouts are as hated as they used to be, and in fact they’re kind of trendy now. 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.
Ditto!
Sardines. Black (real) licorice. Stout.
F’n-A. I am turning into my old man!
Yeah, liver and onions with bacon is great.
My pizza MUST have Anchovies.
Wow. I am astonished at some of the things you guys enjoy doing. Taxes? Laundry?? House-cleaning??? Like, the actual process of doing these, and not just the finished product? Damn.
I can think of two, one of which quite a few Dopers probably like but everyone in real life seems to hate, and the other of which all Dopers seem to hate, but there are probably other people in real life who also like it.
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(The one Dopers hate) Gigantic muscles on a man. I find this aesthetically pleasing, and a sexual turn-on.
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(The one people in real life seem to hate) I leave my phone at home whenever I walk my dog, and I love having that digital break built into my day.
I didn’t know this! I thought it just took us a few generations to figure out that roasted vegetables with butter and/or bacon taste better than boiled vegetables, and Brussels sprouts needed that help more than most other veggies.
The movie Waterworld.
Good to know I’m not the only one:
- Sardines
- Anchovies on pizza
Then there’s these. I can’t say that “everyone hates” but that I get a helluva lot of static and disagreement from IRL people I know because I like:
- Old B & W movies ( or even contemporary B&W movies )
- Foreign movies with subtitles
- Quiet time for myself ( no, there’s nothing wrong, I just feel like chillin’ right now )
This reminded me of another one for me: The Three Stooges.