Babies. Most sports. Monty Python. Yeah, that last gives me the most social trouble.
THIS. I guess you have to have watched it at a certain age? I’ve tried to watch it several times, and it just holds no appeal at all for me. I don’t admit to this in social settings though.
I can tolerate babies – don’t expect me to hold one though – but I absolutely despise it when people bring cranky babies or squalling toddlers into the office. There’s nothing cute about that at all, yet the older ladies will stand around the screeching bundle "awww!"ing and cooing. I actually had a grandparent glare at me when I got up to close my door after her pwecious widdle pwincess started having a full-on meltdown in front of the copier.
Barbecue. Barbecue is just tolerably-cooked meat with somebody’s version of ketchup on it. Served on styrofoam with a plastic fork. Overpriced. In a noisy place with bare tables and uncomfortable chairs.
Book clubs. Everyone is trying to get me to join theirs & I just have no interest.
Ditto on A Christmas Story & Princess Bride.
I’d like to change my answer to join those who are barely able to tolerate children, of any age. Annoying little bastards.
“Cultural events.” My set of friends attend all variety of poetry readings, museum events, community theatre, and lectures and LOVE them. I attend something with them once in a while but I hate every moment. I have a sneaky suspicion that no one really likes sitting in a hot room for two hours while white poetesses in African garb and “statement” necklaces read poems about their vaginas and cats – they’re just afraid to say so.
Vacations to hot, palm tree-y, beach places. Am I the sole person on Earth who hates these places? My ex-partner loved vacations to hot, palmy places and I barely tolerated it.
Actually, just about any vacation sucks. I would much rather stay home and read good books, watch movies, and sleep in my own bed.
I’ve become a real curmudgeon.
Bruce Springsteen…his voice makes me want to stab pencils in my ears…
Yeah, they’re the worst…
corned beef … why would someone want to kill innocent brisket that way …and most non fried non cheese covered potatoes …
Cilantro. No, wait, I hate it. It’s vile.
James Taylor and others of that ilk.
Art, beauty, love. …
I’d chime in with any number of other things that folks have mentioned but then I’d be fitting in and I can’t have that.
I will mention one thing not mentioned yet: KALE! Blecch…
I have never liked ketchup, even when I was a kid, and have never acquired the taste for coffee, either. While I can eat something with those in them to be polite, I can taste both of them in microscopic amounts.
If I make a recipe that calls for ketchup, I’ll substitute BBQ sauce, salsa, tomato paste, etc. because I don’t buy it. Flavored coffees don’t do anything for me, either, because it’s COFFEE.
I’d just say that meatloaf made with a glaze of tomato paste instead of ketchup is pretty terrific.
And flavored coffees are the work of the devil…
Gah. How many times are they going to do that thread?
This post cracked me up for its sheer social cluelessness:
If he’s regularly killing conversations when sports come up, then why the hell doesn’t he TRY to respond in a non-conversation-killing way? One does not have to actually watch sports to do so!
Sample conversations:
Coworker: Who’s your favorite football team?
My stock answer: I have a soft spot for the Steelers. I used to live in Pittsburgh.
*Truth: i don’t actually have a favorite football team, but I am sentimental about the 'burgh, so this is close enough. Besides, very few people seem to dislike the Steelers. *
Coworker: Did you see the hockey game last night?
My stock answer: No. what happened?
Coworker: The Devils were down by two, but then Hingle McCringleberry scored a 3-point touchdown in the bottom of the ninth!
Truth: obviously my coworker wants to talk about the game, so why not humor him a little? Besides, sometimes something remarkable DOES happen!
See? It’s not hard!
I get that kind of BS from people about wine and beer, or any kind of alcohol. I don’t drink, simply not into it, and I see no upside of doing so simply to please them. They are pushers in my opinion. I like ice cream, but I don’t force a dish on it for every guess, that’s simply rude.
You learn something from watching a movie, there is story, music, etc. Reading a novel has story, it is a literary work. Sports, it’s a group of guys chasing after a ball. You can’t compare the two, one is an intelligent activity while sports is a low brain function passive activity. You enjoy it, that’s fine, but don’t expect or force it on others, or treat them oddly because they don’t think setting fire to the campus when the team they bought tickers for which they claim as “their team” wins a game is just part of the fun.
You know people who go nuts over Boston Market? Wow, I never heard of anyone feeling that way about them.
Heh! Funny.