# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Paxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Paxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paxx)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/61 "2016-07-26T12:22:21Z")
The serious depiction of fantasy and the supernatural. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/62 "2016-07-26T12:25:18Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Pokemon Go. Not the game, the idea that people have free will. > [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > This fucking Pokemon Go shit? > Seriously? > Acquire lives, folks. I felt the same way about it. Then a friend who I really respect started playing. I had to sit down and say “OK, WTF?” And she said “It’s like a worldwide game of capture the flag, with three teams, but also individual points.” Now I can’t believe I’m gonna miss out on this. > [@panache45](#): > > Well, that explains half of your screen name. I don’t know a single man who would pass up a date because the woman DIDN’T wear makeup. I know quite a few who won’t date women who wear too much makeup. And this is one of mine - how does this industry take up so much money? What are we really accomplishing with it all? > [@panache45](#): > > For me, it’s red states. You mean there are entire states where more than half the population is like that? It’s bad enough that I live in a swing state, that’s only insane half the time. This. I can’t help listening to some politicians and thinking “Are there people who are really OK with that?” And I don’t just mean Trump, but he is a living caricature of the type. Houses so big it’s like walking to the corner shop for breakfast every morning. There is a point at which simply getting to the room you need is inconvenient. Especially houses that big with only three or four bedrooms. Seriously? It’s 10,000 square feet but you don’t have a bedroom for Grandma on the Holidays?!? Liver. There is no way that anybody could like this stuff. This is a joke, right? You’re trying to trick me into eating this refuse? Ditto anything that is declared to be an “acquired taste.” Why on Earth would anybody choose to inure themselves to something that is initially (and obviously!) vile? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/63 "2016-07-26T13:56:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > _So what if she’s hideous in full color?_) No worries. It’s not full color. It just makes you better able to distinguish colors using the colors you can already see. So, if she look hideous, it’s still not what she actually looks like. (Plus, we’re also all basically one color, except for our hair and eyes.) And, yes, I know you’re being facetious. But I saw some ignorance to fight. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/64 "2016-07-26T13:59:39Z")
Bond. James Bond. The descriptions of both the books and the movies (and I think I’m the only person on the planet who hasn’t read or watched one) leaves me cold. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/65 "2016-07-26T15:58:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No worries. It’s not full color. It just makes you better able to distinguish colors using the colors you can already see. So, if she look hideous, it’s still not what she actually looks like. (Plus, we’re also all basically one color, except for our hair and eyes.) > > And, yes, I know you’re being facetious. Well, the _real_ point is that despite my facetious tone the color-sighted person I’m chatting with typically rushes to reassure me that my wife is in fact gorgeous, which typically channels the conversation into entertaining directions and away from the excruciating minutiae of how I can tell whether it’s a green light or a red light. Obviously no one here will so reassure me, because, well, you don’t know her. But she’s gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/66 "2016-07-26T16:10:50Z")
> [@skylyn12](#): > > Buffy (the series)- I am always flabbergasted when people I like talk about how much they enjoy this show. It just has to be a joke. Everything about the show is just so bad, I can’t imagine someone seriously liking it. > > Dr. Who (the series)- Pretty much everything as stated above. I always assume the person is lying when they tell me they like the show. They are no lying! I understand your plight, since I have also watched this show but didn’t find anything to engage me. But one thing I know for sure – the fans really, REALLY do like the show. All Doctors, all the Time (Lord). ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/67 "2016-07-26T16:17:08Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Tea. Hot tea, iced tea, different varieties: it all smells nasty, and on the few occasions I’ve tasted it, I’ve had to immediately spit it out. Yet, supposedly, a major portion of the world’s population claims to enjoy this substance that I put in the same category as bong water and ditch water. Ditto. Many’s the time, when I have said, “I don’t like tea,” that people have said, “You should try this one, everyone likes it!” \ ---
**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:** [July 26, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/68 "2016-07-26T18:16:54Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > This fucking Pokemon Go shit? > Seriously? > Acquire lives, folks. I don’t understand why it’s popular. I don’t understand why some people who play it have no common sense. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/69 "2016-07-26T18:22:23Z")
That any of this shit is real. That I’m not a disembodied brain being fed sensory information as an experiment to see how weird things can get and still not implode the brain. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/70 "2016-07-26T19:00:43Z")
1. Even though I’ve actually (supposedly) been in Delaware, I’m not sure it really exists. And I’m agnostic on Rhode Island being a real place. 2. Rabid excitement about/enthusiastic playing of videogames eludes me. I played some Super Mario Bros when the home version came out in the '80s, but that’s about it. 3. +2,345 on obsessions with celebrity news. I could give less than a flyin’ F if Brad and Angie get divorced or Kringe Kardashian has had Tibetan peasants’ fat injected into her ass. 4. Due to my profession, I have to say this quickly and then run:I really don’t like poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/71 "2016-07-26T19:02:52Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Hot dogs. I have yet to find someone else claim they don’t love hot dogs. Raises hand in air: I HATE hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/72 "2016-07-26T23:29:55Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > That Seinfeld was popular. When it was current I knew exactly one person IRL who professed to be a fan of the show (and he would not shut up about it no matter how much everyone else rolled their eyes). Now, however many years later it’s been the count is still one. (queueing slapped bass line) seconded. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Tea. Hot tea, iced tea, different varieties: it all smells nasty, and on the few occasions I’ve tasted it, I’ve had to immediately spit it out. Yet, supposedly, a major portion of the world’s population claims to enjoy this substance that I put in the same category as bong water and ditch water. I’d like to see a UK’er corroborate this. Also - the paranormal, reality, csi…most shit on tv. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/73 "2016-07-27T01:44:05Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Hot dogs. I have yet to find someone else claim they don’t love hot dogs. > Abstract art. Critics claim they like it so everyone else follows along. > Firefly. Anti cliche is still cliche. No characters you can root for. > Battlestar Galactica. Just depressing. Well, when my son saw a Jackson Pollock at the museum for the first time his reaction was “This is so cool!” So some people agree with the art critics. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/74 "2016-07-27T03:49:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > For me, it’s red states. You mean there are entire states where more than half the population is like that? It’s bad enough that I live in a swing state, that’s only insane half the time. How did you feel in 1984, when 49 states voted red? :dubious: ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/75 "2016-07-27T04:54:47Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Well, when my son saw a Jackson Pollock at the museum for the first time his reaction was “This is so cool!” So some people agree with the art critics. I don’t have a strong opinion on Jackson Pollock, but this made me very happy. > [@](#): > > Ditto. Many’s the time, when I have said, “I don’t like tea,” that people have said, “You should try this one, everyone likes it!” > > \ HA! I feel the same way about coffee and beer. ‘‘No really, these are the best beans hand ground by the indigenous peoples of Krakatoa…’’ Yeah, no, it tastes like shit. Sorry. I hate that general attitude in which people try to force you to love foods you hate. My Aunt is this way. ‘‘I hate olives.’’ ‘‘Well, you really don’t, you just haven’t had a truly good olive. Here, eat this olive. It’s the best olive that could conceptually exist.’’ ‘‘But I hate olives.’’ ‘‘EAT IT!’’ _Eats olive_ _Is worst experience of my entire life_ ‘‘I hate you.’’ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/76 "2016-07-27T06:27:14Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Battlestar Galactica. Just depressing. Really? How can anybody be depressed watching a chimp in a robot dog costume? And Dirk Benedict blowing the crap out of toaster men! That’s practically the _definition_ of life-affirming. My thing that I’m certain the world is pulling my leg about is reboots. They’re just not good. #JimPhelpswastheGOODguy, #Spock’smommetCAPTAINKirk ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/77 "2016-07-27T06:53:41Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > How did you feel in 1984, when 49 states voted red? :dubious: I was more libertarian in 1984 than I am now. I could understand if today’s red states were libertarian, but conservatives are anything but. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/78 "2016-07-27T07:13:24Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Bond. James Bond. The descriptions of both the books and the movies (and I think I’m the only person on the planet who hasn’t read or watched one) leaves me cold. Kindred spirit! I can’t understand why they ever made another one after _Casino Royale_. It was perfectly enjoyable, didn’t take itself too seriously, and had a built-in excuee for stopping (since the entire British Secret Service, plus George Raft, had been converted to a cloud of ionized particles). They should have just said toodle-oo to the silly cold war dick-waving and spent their money making thirty-three sequels to _Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang_. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/79 "2016-07-27T11:18:34Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Can I mention the Trump candidacy here in Cafe Society? Because I’m not just baffled by it, I’m louvered too. > > **Also, the merits of Hamilton! The musical. I had to listen to the soundtrack during a recent road trip, and it grated on every last one of my nerves.** > [@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.** (bolding mine) Weehawken. Dawn. Guns. Drawn. I am mystified by oysters. Not that they exist, but that people eat them and seem to enjoy the experience. I’ve had one or two in my life and I can only say urgh. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/80 "2016-07-27T11:25:22Z")
I will go with the cheese conversation, but with the specific addition. I hate cheese on a burger. To me a good burger does not need cheese. As a matter of fact cheese ruins a good burger. But no matter where you go, if you order a hamburger, they always ask if you want cheese on that. And when you decline, they look at you like you have a bowling ball for a head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=5)