Things you wanted to like, but just couldn't...

Ok is this just stuff I don’t like, or stuff I wish that I liked but don’t?

Things I wish I liked but can’t:

Beer. Nasty, foul stuff. Basically if it isn’t sweet, I won’t drink it. And I mean SWEET. If anyone here has seen me up-end 8 sugars into a glass of iced tea, they know what I mean. So beer fails on the ‘sweet’ criteria, plus it has that foul beer flavor to boot. But it’s such a social thing… it would be handy to like it. sigh

Sports on TV. This was mostly a childhood thing. I wanted to like it so I could watch it with my mom and have bonding time rather than have her screaming at me. Just couldn’t do it, though.

I’ve seen a lot of mine already posted here (lots of “yeah, me too!” nods as I read along), so I’ll repeat a few and add a few more:

Coffee - I want to like coffee. It looks good (especially in foo-foo coffee drinks) and every time the spouse orders one I ask if I can try it, to which he replies, “It tastes like coffee, you know…” and I nod sadly and skip it.

Beer, wine, and 99% of liquor: I like Drambuie, Amaretto, and occasional scotch (and by “like” I mean “can tolerate drinking a bit of it”). The rest–feh. Tastes like…yuck. I guess I’ll never be an alcoholic, at least. :slight_smile:

Most vegetables and fruits: although I do like some of the “unpopular” veggies like cauliflower and broccoli. Nothing raw, though. Cook it up or get it away from me. And, to follow logically:

Salads: How I managed to lose over 100 pounds without ever touching a salad, I’m not sure. But I can’t stand the things. The lettuce is yucky, the dressing is yucky…about the only part I like is the croutons.

Seinfeld: Can’t stand it. Tried to watch it once, and that was enough.

Baseball: The most boring sport on Earth. Most of it consists of a bunch of guys standing around scratching themselves and spitting, punctuated by occasional brief spurts of activity. Okay, golf might be more boring, but it’s a toss-up.

Jazz: Yeah, me too. I don’t get it, I don’t enjoy it, and listening to it makes me vaguely anxious.

Babies and toddlers: I’m childfree and don’t find them cute, their antics amusing, or anything about them appealing. On the other hand, I become a puddle of goo in the presence of kittens, and think most puppies are cute. Needless to say, I don’t go around admitting this in too many places–I just avoid places where small children are likely to be foisted at me.

“The Princess Bride”–I didn’t see this one on anybody else’s list. I’m an RPG geek, and it seems like one of the qualifications for an RPG Geek Card is to like this movie and be able to quote it incessantly. I don’t and I can’t, and I just don’t see what everybody sees in it. I’ve tried to watch it twice and both times I fell asleep.

Monty Python: It’s not that I actively dislike Monty Python stuff (which is good because I’d really lose my geek card if anybody found that out). Some of it’s funny. Some of it’s hilarious. But a lot of it isn’t, at least to me. And again, I can’t summon up a MP quote for every occasion like many of my friends can.

Roller coasters: I used to love them as a kid. These days all they do is give me a headache and make me vaguely worried that something mechanical is going to have a catastrophic failure while I’m riding. I still like Space Mountain at Disneyland, though.

I agree with this. My idea of a really good bottle of wine is… like… Manischewitz Blackberry wine. It’s one of those kosher wines that tastes like Kool Aid. Good stuff. The more expensive stuff just starts to taste bad though… and I know that a “dry” wine is supposed to be oh-so-much-better but GAH they are foul!

Another coffee hater. I think it tastes like ashtrays. Sweeten it, and it tastes like ashtrays made of sugar.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer…why is this show so popular? Sarah Michelle Geller looks like a twig, the fight scenes are moronic, the special FX look like ass, the actors are all posers and the dialogue is atrocious. I can understand the so-bad-it’s-good appeal, but it has to be interesting first…

I hate vampires too. Look at me, I’m so dark and mysterious and romantic and antisocial, fear me.

That 70’s show. Why is this still on the air? Come to think of it, I hate the 70’s, period. That was disco, afros, leisure suits, Donnie and Marie, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Village People, BeeGees, John Revolta, ack, ptoot, yuk, bleh. January 1, 1980, was the day I offically left hell.

I hate Christmas. Scrooge was right.

that must be the tannins in the wine.
you can get wine without tannins, ya know?

I agree with you and WVmom. also what’s up with luxury SUV’s for craps sake. I own a Durango which is just a station wagon on a truck frame, and we need the thing to get up the drive 3 months out of the year. I also drive a 67 Mustang, but not when it’s freezing/snowing, one year we got caught off guard and my baby had to sit at the bottom of the drive for a week!

lobster. I’d rather have shrimp
Buffy. WTF?

Mushrooms. They just taste nasty. Papa Zappa once asked me what was it about them that I didn’t like and I told him “The taste. The texture. The concept”. I don’t even like the smell. (a friend once said “I won’t eat anything that’s a first cousin to athlete’s foot!”). Their foul taste ruins an entire pizza.

Beer (sniff). Coffee. Despite both of these shortcomings, I still somehow managed to graduate college.

Most seafood.

Professional sports. I’ve just never seen the point in watching a bunch of overpaid 300 pound gorillas chase each other around a football field, for example. But everyone around me loves them so I guess it’d be nice to be able to join in the enthusiasm at, say, Super Bowl time.

Books: Sorry folks. Boring. I liked reading when it was new to me. I read horror and fantasy back in high school, but since college (10 years ago) I’ve read about 5 novels. I’ve read the occasional gambling book and I read newspapers and magazines. Books? Nope.

Sushi: Good one folks. Can you say “the emperor’s new clothes”? There are things around that I don’t like, but I can see people liking them. But, IN CASE YOU DIDN’T NOTICE, for what you pay for Sushi, you can actually eat something with some flavor, prepared by someone with talent beyond being able to carve a fish. Shoot, you might even be able to get a piece of fish with salt and pepper on it.

A movie list…
Dr. Strangelove: Dated, and I question whether it was ever funny.

Adam Sandler movies: There are funny parts in all of them, to be sure, but to call any one of them a “comedy” is demeaning to actual comedies.

Carnivale: I was really looking forward to this. What a dull dull show. I cut it every break. It started waning in week 2, and by week 6, I stopped watching.

"O Brother, Where Art Thou", “The Man Who Wasn’t There”: Particularly more disappointing because I’m a Coen bros. fan. “OBWAT” was not funny. It was all over the place. T.B. Nelson was negative funny. “TMWWT” started strong, and then died.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - tried several times, never could finish it.

Classical music - some of it’s nice but I can’t handle more than a couple of songs on the radio before it’s back to classic rock.

Theatre - sorry, but yawn.

I’m amazed at how offended I actually feel at some of these posts! But then again, I hate:

Thai Food. Yuck. Gross. Blech. The worst combination of textures, scents and tastes ever invented.

Bananas. Ew.

Hot Dogs. I just don’t get it.

Luxury SUVs. None of those things would survive 15 minutes actually off-roading without sustaining 10,000 dollars worth of damage. How stoopid can you get?

Blond highlights. It seems like every chick in the world got blond highlights in the last year. What is up? It looks fake and generic and trendy. Quit it.

Ah. I feel purged.

Coffee of any kind
Beer (except the sweet cider kind)
Mushrooms, raw tomatoes, and celery
Nascar
Sit-com TV (they’re just not like they used to be – FUNNY)
Girls Night Out (probably because I don’t have female friends)
Shopping
Country or Gospel music (but I do like Traditional hymns)
Phony, superficial people (somehow related to the women I used to work with, hence the hatred of Girls Night Out)

People.

Yet another coffee hater. I’ve tried, just can’t stand it.

I like tomatoes, but can’t stand any of the products made from it. That means no ketchup, spaghetti, lasagna, or pizza.

Seafood makes my stomach turn.

Any form of intoxication. I like to have complete control over my body and the feeling just makes me sick.

Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew. Actually the only soft drink I like is Dr Pepper.

Ani DeFranco. My friends love her. She represents what women should be to them. I can’t stand most of her music.

Potatoes. The texture is a complete turn off. I’ll eat them fried, but baked or mashed, yuck.

There’s probably tons more. I’m a really picky person. The list would probably be shorter if I said what I did like.

If you guys really want to learn to love coffee, then you should learn to love intoxication. It’s like one big game of chemical overcorrection. :smiley:

Torieboyfriend and I are huge movie buffs. So we really, really, REALLY wanted to like “Lost In Translation” but didn’t. There was no point.

Most of the works of Charles Dickens.

Dreipfennig Opera

Yeah, me too. Well, they have to be cooked. Put tomatoes on my pizza as a topping? Yum. Put them on a sandwich raw? Meh, not sooo bad, because I have other things to drown out the taste. Put them in a salad? BLEAH!

The Rolling Stones. I just don’t like them. I ONLY like Paint it Black and everything else can go away.

Classical music… sure, it’s intricate and beautiful and takes talent to play, and I don’t hate to hear it when it’s on in the background, but it just doesn’t grab me.

Horror movies - I just have a huge thing about blood and no matter how I try, I can’t get over it. Can’t watch 'em.

All movies that are just so overhyped I can’t bring myself to watch - The Matrix, Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Also movies that are like 95% stupid sex jokes - American Pie, Not Another Teen Movie, yada yada.

Princess Mononoke… and I actually like anime, but that was just so boring, it was like a half-hour’s worth of plot dragged out for two hours with unnecessary blood making me want to faint (yes, even animated blood gets to me).

Pepperoni or onions! It’s so inconvenient not to like pepperoni or onions. Try ordering a pizza with ANYONE EVER if you have my taste in toppings. You’ll be going for a half-and-half.

Burgers. Why can’t I just like burgers? They’re so cheap and they’re everywhere and they’d be perfect for a quick meal on the go… but they’re just yucky!

That stupid Big Yellow Taxi song (by Joni Mitchell especially, but I also hate every single cover of it). Retch retch retch! And everything else Joni Mitchell has ever done.

The Eagles - Hotel California.

I’ll stop now. :smiley:

Me likey Radiohead (even met the band once) but it’s cool you do not. To each their own.

I tried sushi and EWWWWW! Yes, raw fish is just the best! Not… and don’t get me started on that nasty green goo. YUUURRRCK!

Coffee… ummm, no thanks. I DO however enjoy a nice iced cafe mocha. It’s MOCHA, not hot dirt water!

Most of today’s music (aside from a very select few like Jeff Buckley but he DIED and cannot make more music big sigh) is just crap. I’m a Seventies girl or something. Heart, Led Zep, The Beatles, Bad Company, ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, The Who, Aerosmith, David Bowie (ahhh B-O-W-I-E!), and the like. I just don’t dig on this new crap that sounds so electronic, it’s sad. Is that a voice? No… it’s… wait, it IS a voice… no, wait… it’s not a voice… huh? The voices all sound the same (Britney, Christina, Justin, Jennifer Lopez-- I am NOT calling her by that stupid nickname).

Reggae… real reggae. I just can’t listen to it and not laugh or roll my eyes. Jazz, too. COUNTRY, TOO.

Tried watching several sports on the TV but I just… cannot… do… it. Lucky me, my SO doesn’t enjoy sports much at all either. YAY!! I love him so!

Darkhold and AngelicGemma - I’m with you. I have a very narrow range of foods I can enjoy - and everybody acts like I’m just being annoying for the sake of it. Hell, it’s not like I ever say ‘Hey, I don’t like that so YOU can’t eat it!’, it’s just that I don’t have to eat it.

And I’m with everyone who doesn’t like coffee. CadburyAngel - but I do enjoy alcohol - so liking the effects of intoxication must not be that big a factor in determining whether someone likes coffee. No offense :slight_smile:

Pizza. ALL pizza. Yuck. There is no topping I can stand.

Rinni - I’m with you on the burgers!

The Sopranos. ‘Change the channel!!!’

Cars. Well, I don’t actually dislike cars - but I fail completely to understand the huge interest some people can have in them

‘The Godfather’ movies…they’re just bad.

Or the gelatinous fetal goo they leave behind even when you pick the nasty buggers off.

I can eat them cooked, but raw? Never. I’ve hated them since I can remember and I’ve tried them several times with the same reaction - gagging.