Will & Grace and Friends. I hate those shows, don’t find them funny in the slightest.
Beer. I have tried to like beer, but I don’t, maybe I am drinking the wrong brands, but the taste is too strong.
I’ll second chocolate. I don’t like it. It doesn’t taste as good as vanilla or fruit flavors and it makes me feel bad. Just plain bad.
I also can’t get into Radiohead. I have 2 of their albums, and yet… I don’t listen to them, ever. Thom Yorke repeating words for minutes on end and claiming depth in his music doesn’t jive for me.
And Shaq. But wait, does anybody like him?
Scotch.
I am trying to like all of you, but with your bizarre and petty peeves…
I think you are hilarious.
I used to be in the “Who drinks this swill?” category for coffee. Then I started with mochas… moved to cappucinnos… graduated to gourmet coffee… and have now completed my ascencion to Folger’s. My mother is so proud.
The same thing happened with beer. I worry that it would happen with cigarettes, too, so I stay away from those.
I don’t like mayonnaise. The worst part of going to Europe is watching people drown their fries in it.
Booze (of any kind.) I tended bar for fifteen years, my husband is a beer snob, I have friends who are wine connisuers (that spelling has GOT to be wrong, but I’m not looking it up now) and I cannot abide the taste of alcohol. I have no religious or social convictions against it, I just don’t like it. Interestingly, I have found that drinking is the only “vice” that, if you don’t have it, people demand an explanation.
Unlike others here who have mentioned disliking coffee, I practically LIVE for the stuff - so much so that my user ID elsewhere is “Coffee Jitters.” However, I cannot stand Starbucks coffee. They took out all the taste and left the bitter - bleeeah.
Peanut butter. I just… ugh.
I’d like to like sushi. I have never gotten brave enough to even try it, though.
I’m another one who doesn’t like Coke. It’s not that I hate it, per se, but if anything else is available, including water, I’ll drink that instead.
Chocolate is another thing. Don’t get me wrong, I do like it. But I don’t like white chocolate or dark chocolate or any kind of melted chocolate or orange chocolate or anything like that. I like plain chocolate. That’s it.
I don’t like Seinfeld.
And I don’t like Radiohead! I admit it!
Women in their forties trying to wear clothes designed for today’s kids…Ladies, you looked better before
Friends.Seinfeld… just never got it.
High speed internet…Do the NYT crossword puzzle
CDs…still like vinyl…
SUVs…old truck man
Tourists…Go Home!
Feng Shui…???
Hot tubs…bath without soap
Post-it notes…My boss loves them
hmmmm tomatoes yuck! they are all slimey and don’t look like they are quite finished yet. however tomato sauces are fine. i like ketchup and thats a vegetable so i guess that counts.
shrimp and brocoli are icky too barf. i also do not like coke but find pepsi acceptable. every once in a while i will buy these foods just to give them another chance and the result is still the same – lots of gagging, sorry can’t like em.
i can honestly say, i am not a fan of loud, heavy metal rock music, or country music either. i like musicals and classical music tho. this always makes me feel like i am some kind of alien, especially in my younger single days when my friends were all excited about some concert. generally i would shell out the $$$ for a concert and have a perfectly miserable time. then for weeks my friends would go on about how awesome it was.
elliot, i need to phone home!
oh another one i forgot! reality television–survivor, big brother, the millionaire, who wants to marry my dad sheesh give us a break would ya?
I’ll third Star Wars. I’ve tried to watch it on at least five separate occasions. I’ve put in a good, honest effort. And now, I’m putting my foot down. It’s boring. I’ve never seen the whole thing all the way through. I never will. I’ve tried, and I always end up wandering off to do something more interesting like… fold laundry.
And you know something else? I fell asleep during The Matrix. At a drive in theater. God what a bloody awful movie.
Man, that was cathartic.
Steamed Shrimp. My family always made a big batch of it on New Year’s Eve. It smelled so good with the Old Bay and all. I kept trying it but blech!
Friends. I tried to watch that show, I really did, but I never made it more than five minutes through one episode. If I want to watch dumb, self-involved people, I’ll watch Seinfeld. Oh, wait a minute. I couldn’t make it through more than five minutes of that one, either. (Except one time on a trans-Pacific flight, when even the Soup Nazi was more entertaining than the child kicking me in the back for 12-1/2 hours.)
Jazz – but I’ll specify the type of jazz I don’t like, namely fusion. Give me classic stuff like Dixieland any day. Thank heaven, I’m living in the home of Dixieland, where they perform actual SONGS that have actual MELODIES and actual WORDS and just improvise around them, and you can sing along, dance along, and even parade along down the street to it (called secondlining, for those who don’t know). But not this I’m-going-to-just-make-as-much-noise-as-I-can-for-as-long-as-I-can-so-people-think-I-have-talent type of fusion crap. Does less than nothing for me.
A suggestion for those who don’t like sushi: Try some of the cooked varieties. Not all sushi is raw fish. Lots of it is cooked, and quite tasty. I started an anti-sushi friend off on vegetarian rolls and moved her up to cooked sushi, and she eventually really appreciated that. Still hasn’t moved on to the raw stuff, but that’s okay, it’s not for everyone. (Papa Tiger thinks eel is Og’s gift to sushi…yuck!)
Little yappy dogs that bark at you and hump your leg. Why, oh WHY, do people get those miniaturized spawns of Satan?
I’m another person who doesn’t like Jazz–as much as I’d like to pretend I’m hip and sophisticated and into Jazz I find it dull at best and irritating at worst.
You can also count me as not liking Seinfeld or most of the TV sitcoms that have been around since the mid '90’s, but then I never really tried to like them.
Picasso. I know that I’m supposed to think he was the greatest artistic genius of the 20th century. I know I’m supposed to marvel at the brilliance of his works. Sorry, but I just am not impressed.
Oh goodness…where do I begin?
Seafood - If it came from water I won’t eat it. (With the exception of tuna.)
Vegetables -I can’t stand most vegetables and the ones I do like I rarely eat. I don’t know why. I just don’t eat them. I’ve tried to like more veggies, I’ve tried tomatoes, celery, onions, peppers, peas, beans…there are many more. It’d be easier to list the ones I do like (corn, brocolli, lettuce, carrots, potatoes).
Fruits - Don’t like those either. I’ve tried to. I really have but most of them have icky textures that make me gag. Strawberries are too seedy, peaches are too slimey… I only eat apples, bananas and occasionally watermelon if I’m in the mood for it. I’m working on grapes right now. I’m up to the point where I can tolerate a few at a time.
Peanut Butter - It’s just thick sludge. Can’t stand the stuff. But I do love peanut butter by products.
Peanuts - I only eat them in Snickers bars.
Reality TV - I just don’t get it.
Sports - Baseball, basketball, football, figure skating…I can’t stand to watch any of it. I’ll play sports, sure that’s fine, but it’s boring as hell to watch them. (This one is really bad because I live with Punha and he seems to live for the stuff. ESPN every day of the week. ARG!)
Country music - I live in the country so it would be only natural that everybody around here likes it, right? Well everybody does. Except for me.
I’m sure there are more but these are just the ones that spring to mind right now.
I don’t like steak. We had it a lot when I was a kid and maybe that killed the novelty, but to my taste buds, steak is just kind of- meh.
Despite it’s popularity, I just can’t get into the tv show “Jackass.” Ditto with “Crank Yankers.” I don’t see the humor. It’s just stupid.
I’ll also go out on a limb here and admit that I don’t understand the draw of porn. I seem to be in a minority. It doesn’t do a thing for me.
24 – It just seems like something I would normally like, especially with Keifer, but just can’t somehow.
Coffee – Another vote here. I really know I’d enjoy the specialty kinds that are all malt-like, but since I can’t even handle the smell of the original, it’s a simple no-go. Sigh. It’d be so cool to drink stuff from Starbucks.
Rap – Specific songs and artists can win me over, but trying to listen to a station that plays nothing but, loses me instantly. I don’t seem to have the ability to hold out long enough to like a song unless it’s something that’s been pointed out to me before, that I’ve previously heard.
Xtreme Sports – Oh, to have the nerve to do something like bungee jumping! Those folks look like they’re having such fun and are so ballsy. I’m jealous while simultaneously being too much of a wimp.
Ann Rice – Have read several of her books, but can’t get into them the way other people do and I SO want to! Most of her themes are hugely appealing to me and I do appreciate her writing, but I end up distracted before I’m half-way through.
Baring clothes – I love midi-tops and tasteful low-ride jeans, just not on me who hasn’t ever had the figure for it (unless age 10 counts) and secretly is ashamed that I couldn’t pull it off if my life depended on it. So, that transcends to all the lucky folks who can where them. < glares > 
I’m sure there’s lots more that makes me feel like an alien in our culture, but I’ll stop now before I embarrass myself further. What, did you ask if I’d truly never seen The Simpsons? Yeah, um, right. I’ll slink away now to hide back under my very spacious rock.
LifeOnWry do we know each other? I completely agree with your sensible list.
A few of mine: boxing movies, 80s nostalgia, banana bread, the Sports Section of the newspaper and the novel The Corrections, which irritates me just thinking about it.
Anime. I tried. And don’t give me that “You just haven’t seen (whatever)”, because I probably DID try to see it and thought it was boring. Does nothing for me. Revoke my geek card.
Jazz. I try to see it, I really do, but it’s just boring as hell. The snooty fans don’t help.
Vegetables. I can count on one hand the vegetables I’ll eat. ANd I’ve tried them and I don’t like them.
Soccer. I’ve watched men’s and women’s. I even played it as a kid. And I STILL don’t find it fun to watch.
Seafood. I grew up on the coast and lived in New Orleans. And I eat no seafood whatsoever. Even fish sticks.
I’ll second reality television. I can’t even stay focused on that crap…I can actually feel my eyes glazing over. Same for talk shows like Oprah, Sharon Osbourne, etc. I’ve tried forever to get interested in this stuff, but forget it. I sit there begging for the first commercial so I can change the channel. (I am sometimes roped into watching this inanity at my sister’s house…arrrgh!)
And while I’m thinking about it, I frickin’ loathe Nascar. I mean, yes, I really thought the world of Dale Earnhardt (my husband still has a shrine built to him in the den) but I have not and never will be able to watch a damn race. Cars going fast, round and round in a circle? I think not. I also could NOT care less about who’s on the poles, the numbers, what they drive…any of it!
Unfortunately, I still have to hear it every Sunday, along with a narration and complete stats. I live in NascarHell, where everyone but me is perfectly content.
I always want to like new cuisines, but lots of odors turn me off.
I went with friends to a Thai diner, and when they unwrapped a foil-covered fish I nearly threw up. Even smelling the other sauces made me nauseous, so I said I had diarrhea and just left.
I know they will want to go back, but I’m planning to play deaf to that and just never say yes or no.