# What is the entire world pulling your leg about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850 "2016-07-25T13:54:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/181 "2016-08-05T11:53:47Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > The saltiness and sweetness is good eatin’ That’s what _ **she** _ said. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/182 "2016-08-05T14:24:41Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Well, not the whole world. “Starbucks have reportedly accumulated losses of at least $143 million since they opened here 14 years ago” "It also didn’t help Starbucks’ case that most Australians can see through their sugar-laden excuse for coffee. " > FWIW, I thought the same way when I was psychotic. Or I was psychotic when I thought the same way. Or… > > Anyway, (for a friend of mine) Tomatoes. He was intrigued to see me eating voluntarily eating tomatoes. Growing up, he’d sort of believed that pretending to like tomatoes were an adult plot to get you to eat vegetables. There’s three types of tomatoes: The cheap store brand, the decent ones that’s sold with the vine still attached and the nectar if the gods, fresh homegrown tomatoes. If your friend has only eaten store tomatoes I could see why he might not like tomatoes. BTW tomtoes are a fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/183 "2016-08-05T14:26:52Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Drinking non-mixed alcoholic drinks for the taste. For example, some people say that they like a good aged scotch. Alcohol tastes terrible, so I struggle to believe that people actually like the taste of straight alcoholic drinks. I understand the appeal of things like strawberry margaritas or long island iced teas - they taste good. I think people find the idea of drinking things like whiskey and scotch to fit their idea of adulthood or specifically manhood, and have eventually gotten to the point where they don’t mind the taste as much and associate it with the pleasant feeling of inebriation. They confuse this with enjoying the taste itself. Ah, you’re a sweet taster. Not all of us like sweet drinks. I’ve rejected sandwiches because the bread was made with too much sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/184 "2016-08-05T14:54:37Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Next, let’s make these supposedly action-oriented games as boring as possible to actually watch. I think it was George Will who said that football is the most American of sports, being board meetings punctuated by violence. Baseball is notoriously dull, to the point a recitation of statistics is a practical necessity in order to keep drowsiness from setting in. I’ve long said that baseball is so dull they had to add statistics to liven it up a bit. But I recently came across another definition which is equally fitting: baseball is a contraption to make you enjoy a summer day. In other words it’s an excuse to go outside and forcibly enjoy the weather. Football makes no sense to me, but it makes no sense to anyone who is not American. I think it’s just an excuse to eat bad food and drink terrible beer. I enjoy soccer, and to those who don’t get it, I tell them they have to understand it’s schadenfreude on grass: you have to enjoy watching people who are very talented at thwarting people making beautiful plays. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/185 "2016-08-05T15:54:50Z")
NO watching of team sports makes sense to me. I don’t mean PLAYING the games, I suppose that might be challenging and exhilarating. But I’ve known people who park themselves in front of the TV for hours and hours at a time, to watch total strangers playing a game. To me, that’s a wasted life. And what’s with watching golf or bowling on TV? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/186 "2016-08-05T16:26:15Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > I’ve long said that baseball is so dull they had to add statistics to liven it up a bit. It didn’t work. Nobody really likes Scotch; they just drink it because it is sophisticated. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/187 "2016-08-05T16:40:44Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ham and pineapple pizza is good stuff. I’ve been on a kick with it lately. Needs jalapeños. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/188 "2016-08-05T18:48:46Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Shoes? I know that in theory, shoes are to indicate that you are so rich that you don’t have to walk, but really? Why are the rest of you torturing your feet with shoes? Is it just because of the signs that say “No shirt,no shoes, no service” ?? > > Sigh. I grew up in a gentler, more tolerant time, when we could go barefoot to school without exciting comment. Going barefoot. Shoes are only uncomfortable if they don’t fit. Bare feet are only comfortable if they don’t touch the ground. Gravel, twigs, thorns, rough pavement: all torture. I’ve had many smaller relations who refused to wear shoes outside, insisting they liked barefoot better. Without exception, they were running in every 10-15 minutes yelling “Owie. Owie! OWIEEEEEEE!!!” wanting some foreign object pulled from their mangled feet. ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/189 "2016-08-06T18:51:21Z")
Unfunny, but oddly popular sitcoms – I keep getting told how funny “The Big Bang Theory” is, for example. Also, “Mad Men”… I watched the first episode and that is what everyone was watching? All I can think is that it must have gotten much, much better, but the first episode was a real yawner. I know it’s gotten bad reviews, so this may be a bad example, but all of my friends LOVED “X-Men Apocalypse” – I thought it was horrible, worst X-Men Film ever (With the possible exception of the first Wolverine Movie). And about Wolverine – how the heck is he the most popular X-Men character??? I mean, sure, Hugh Jackman is a decent actor, but wolverine???. Yeah, he’s a character who stabs and slashes people. There are HUNDREDS of characters in movies who stab and slash people. Is that supposed to be cool to stab and shred villains, but no one sent me the memo? ---
**Author:** ![Haldurson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Haldurson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haldurson)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/190 "2016-08-06T18:59:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > NO watching of team sports makes sense to me. I don’t mean PLAYING the games, I suppose that might be challenging and exhilarating. But I’ve known people who park themselves in front of the TV for hours and hours at a time, to watch total strangers playing a game. To me, that’s a wasted life. > > And what’s with watching golf or bowling on TV? When I played Little League, I enjoyed watching baseball. Heck, when I was in Mexico and feeling a bit homesick, I sat in the bar and watched the World Series with some fellow Americans and some Mexicans, and I felt a bit better. I couldn’t sit there for more than an hour but still… When I played Tennis, I liked watching Tennis. When I bowled… well I never liked watching bowling. When I fenced, I would look for Fencing when the summer Olympics were going. I tried watching years later, and found it a bore. As a little kid, I loved going to Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium with my dad. I loved seeing Mickey Mantle, though I probably couldn’t actually follow the game at all from way up in the cheap seats (I didn’t know until later that I was thoroughly near-sighted when a teacher figured it out for me). When I was in a carpool much later with my dad, I joined their football pool. I knew nothing about football, I never watched a game. But picking randomly, I had the best record in the pool, so they (true story) kicked me out. Yeah, my dad kicked me out of a football pool because I was doing better than people who followed the game religiously. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/191 "2016-08-06T23:05:10Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Hot dogs. I have yet to find someone else claim they don’t love hot dogs. > [@Jennshark](#): > > Raises hand in air: I HATE hot dogs. Before we got married I told my wife that though there were only three things I would refuse to eat, there was a shortish list of things I’d rather not eat, but I would eat if she served them to me. Hot dogs were on that list > [@Superdude](#): > > Beer. Beer is absolutely terrible. I’d rather drink antifreeze. “Absolutely terrible”? Don’t be ridiculous - it’s nowhere near that good! > [@OffByOne](#): > > A number of burger chains (Hardees/Carl’s Jr./Dairy Queen/Wendy’s) do not even list “hamburger” on their menu. Their standard burger is a cheeseburger. When I made a habit of Wendy’s, back in the late '70s, cheeseburgers were not on the menu - you had to specifically request cheese, just as you did ketchup, pickles, and everything else you wanted in addition to the meat and bun. > [@panache45](#): > > NO watching of team sports makes sense to me. I don’t mean PLAYING the games, I suppose that might be challenging and exhilarating. Playing them is just as bad as watching them. Lobster. Sure, I’ll eat it if it’s ready to eat - but if I have to butcher the thing myself? No way. It’s not _that_ good. I won’t butcher my own crab, either - it’s even more work, for less result, though it does at least taste much better. _South Park_ and _Big Bang Theory_. I’ve seen maybe half an episode of each, and that was far more than enough. Ranch dressing. One day I’d never heard of it; the next day it was everywhere. Salted caramel is just as bad - it seems almost impossible to find normal caramel now. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/192 "2016-08-07T20:52:20Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Those @\*%$! magic eye pictures… mass hallucinations, I tells ya… people did too much LDS in the 60’s. > **[Magic Eyes](https://pbfcomics.com/comics/magic-eyes/)** > > The Perry Bible Fellowship ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/193 "2016-08-08T00:27:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Religion. Same here. I’ve been wondering what the hell I’m missing for over 50 years now. I just assume that all the politicians are lying about it, but every once in a while somebody who has no apparent motive to lie about it, e.g. Chris Matthews, mentions he’s a strong Catholic or whatever. Even after all this time, I’m still taken aback to think that an intelligent, educated adult could take it seriously. Even one with a name like Christopher John Matthews. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/194 "2016-08-08T04:22:33Z")
MST3K was funny. Saturday Night Live is funny. Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/195 "2016-08-08T14:08:30Z")
> [@Haldurson](#): > > And about Wolverine – how the heck is he the most popular X-Men character??? I mean, sure, Hugh Jackman is a decent actor, but wolverine???. Yeah, he’s a character who stabs and slashes people. There are HUNDREDS of characters in movies who stab and slash people. Is that supposed to be cool to stab and shred villains, but no one sent me the memo? Wolverine has been the most popular X-Men character since before Marvel made movies. He’s had several of his own titles, including my personal favorite, Wolverine and the X-men (hilarious/clever recent title where he is headmaster at Jean Grey’s School for Higher Learning.) Things that make Wolverine awesome/intriguing as a character: 1. He has a dark and mysterious past. 2. He has an insanely high pain tolerance. 3. His bones are laced with adamantium. 4. He’s a smart-ass who loves children. 5. He stabs and slashes people. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/196 "2016-08-08T14:32:13Z")
1. Hugh Jackman is hot. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/197 "2016-08-08T15:25:26Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > In this vein, American-built cars used to be absolute crap. Why buy American when your Chevy Chiclet will die 100,000 miles before a Toyota Elf even gets its first oil change! I’ve always thought it was funny that capitalism (which I generally support, to be clear) is this lauded philosophy in U.S. culture that embraces this survival of the fittest mentality, whoever makes the superior product deserves to win, etc. but that philosophy totally breaks down when Japan can make the shit out of some cars way better than the U.S. If you want me to drive a Ford instead of a Honda, then make Ford a better car than Honda, otherwise STFU about the value of competition. Buy American seems to me to be a remarkably anti-capitalist slogan. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/198 "2016-08-08T15:25:32Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Cheese. I’m admittedly pickier than most but I have literally (yes, literally) _that I know of_ not met another person who won’t eat it. It’s obvious that the vast majority like it because you can scarcely find a dish that doesn’t have some kind of cheese on it. It’s not only the default on any kind of sandwich, hot or cold, but it shows up on salads, chili and all manner of places it doesn’t belong. > > Several of the things that have been mentioned are pretty middle of the road in that, for instance, I’ve heard an even amount of people express like and dislike for sports and piercings. But cheese? Tell someone you won’t eat it and they look at you like you just farted. > > I mentioned in another thread that I didn’t care for the music from Hamilton and I was almost scared. No one I know IRL has seen it so I haven’t heard much first hand but the way people were praising it here was almost cult like. I wanted to experience what everyone else did. That did not work out. I do not accept cheese on sandwiches, or raw cheese of any sort in any application. Cooked cheese (e.g. pizza) is OK, but I could live without it. Things taste different to different people–proof: cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/199 "2016-08-08T15:32:14Z")
It’s cool if you don’t like cheese. I am utterly convinced cheese was created for me, specifically, to never give up hope on the world. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/200 "2016-08-08T15:33:32Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > … > Beer. Beer is absolutely terrible. I’d rather drink antifreeze. [xkcd beer](http://xkcd.com/1534/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=11)