# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/161 "2016-08-02T04:26:22Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > 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. You mean, “cut the cheese.” 😃 > [@DonLogan](#): > > Eating pineapple makes semen taste, well, presumably, like pineapple juice. > [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > It does. How do you think they make pineapple juice? W. C. Fields had a pretty low opinion of pineapple juice. “Somebody put _pineapple juice_ in my pineapple juice!” ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/162 "2016-08-02T05:26:07Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > You mean, “cut the cheese.” 😃 > > W. C. Fields had a pretty low opinion of pineapple juice. > > “Somebody put _pineapple juice_ in my pineapple juice!” I thought we were done with the semen tasting stuff. I say whoever wants it can make a thread and title it so we know what it is going in. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/163 "2016-08-02T15:54:32Z")
Wait, I’ve been skimming, what’s going in who? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/164 "2016-08-02T21:10:43Z")
Apparently people are having sex with pineapples. Which I think they are pulling my leg on because surely watermelon is the fruit of choice. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/165 "2016-08-02T21:48:00Z")
Speaking of pineapples, people who put them on pizza… I can’t believe they actually like that… it boggles the mind. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/166 "2016-08-03T02:24:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > W. C. Fields had a pretty low opinion of pineapple juice. > > “Somebody put _pineapple juice_ in my pineapple juice!” It’s just that it wasn’t the booze he usually passed off as “pineapple juice”. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/167 "2016-08-03T05:06:36Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Speaking of pineapples, people who put them on pizza… I can’t believe they actually like that… it boggles the mind. Ham and pineapple pizza is good stuff. I’ve been on a kick with it lately. ---
**Author:** ![kevlaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kevlaw/32/2281_2.png) [@kevlaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevlaw)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/168 "2016-08-03T19:31:14Z")
I can usually appreciate why other people like a novel even when I hate it but, for the life of me, I do not understand why anyone thinks the _The Great Gatsby_ is good. I even tried watching the movie to see if it could shed any additional light but…nope. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/169 "2016-08-03T19:48:33Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Speaking of pineapples, people who put them on pizza… I can’t believe they actually like that… it boggles the mind. Not to hijack the thread, but – how do you feel about other sweet-and-savory stuff? Chicken slathered in a honey barbecue sauce? Salted caramel? Maple-glazed bacon? Prosciutto-wrapped melon? Chocolate-covered popcorn? Peanut butter and jelly? (Snack mix, built around pretzel sticks and M&Ms?) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/170 "2016-08-04T02:42:40Z")
> [@](#): > > **Starbucks**. They’ve gotten the whole world to go along with the fiction that burned coffee tastes good. 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. " > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m color-blind. > The rest of you are, too; you just have this stupid, long-running prank going where you all make sure you’re on the same page, and then snicker behind the backs of everyone who hasn’t caught on yet. And whenever someone announces that he’s color-blind, you all nod seriously but giggle inwardly at the grown man disappointedly declaring that Santa Claus didn’t come to his house this year. 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. ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/171 "2016-08-04T15:56:32Z")
Oreos The cookies look like chocolate, but taste like brown. I just don’t get all the love… ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/172 "2016-08-04T16:00:39Z")
I vote for religion as the biggest, longest running joke. I mean once you learn there is more than one religion, why keep at it? (Cause if there is more than one religion, then there is more than one supreme being, so how do you know which supreme being is the supreme being, and if there is more than one supreme being, then which one is the supremest?) ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/173 "2016-08-04T16:11:57Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > 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. 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. They will make you a hamburger if you ask, but you will still pay for that cheese. ---
**Author:** ![oara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@oara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oara)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/174 "2016-08-04T16:22:41Z")
> [@DrForrester](#): > > But, two that really, really bother me are the music of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. All of my peers _love_ their music. I WANT to enjoy it. But, it just grates on me. Bob Dylan’s music is best when performed by someone else. I’ve bought their albums. I’ve gone to their shows. I’ve talked to their fans. But, I just don’t get it. They’re just … mediocre as far as I can tell. I think there are certain things that, nine out of ten times, people become fans of in order to take on an identity or show that they are part of a certain subculture. Musically, the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan are very good examples of that. Bob Marley, too. ---
**Author:** ![TheseGoToEleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TheseGoToEleven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheseGoToEleven)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/175 "2016-08-04T17:12:54Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Not calling anyone childish. But when I was growing up for the most part only kids called the red stuff “ketchup” (or “katchup”). Nope. There really are two names for that particular condiment, but the reasons are lost in the mists of time. You must have missed the answer from the master: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/683/how-come-they-call-it-ketchup-sometimes-and-catsup-other-times](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/683/how-come-they-call-it-ketchup-sometimes-and-catsup-other-times) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/176 "2016-08-04T17:44:05Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Ham and pineapple pizza is good stuff. I’ve been on a kick with it lately. Ham, pineapple and green olive. The saltiness and sweetness is good eatin’ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/177 "2016-08-04T17:50:51Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > You know, one week ago I’d have agreed. But, my six year old made me download it and we’ve been going out after dinner to catch Pokemon. He hasn’t wanted to watch TV or play video games all week, and instead all he wants to do is to go walk around the neighborhood with his father. That’s a life. Heck, my _17 year old_ went on an hour long walk with me around the neighborhood while we looked for Pokemon. And, last Sunday after breakfast, we all drove around town, stopping at various locations to restock Pokeballs or catch critters. Part of the benefit is that Pokemon Go doesn’t work well in the background so, if you’re walking and looking for Pokemon, you can’t be on Facebook or Twitter or anything else. And it doesn’t take any special attention to monitor your phone (it’ll buzz/vibrate if something appears) so people are sort of forced to actually talk to one another as they play. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/178 "2016-08-05T00:11:14Z")
Flip-Flops Yeah sandals are great, comfort is good. But there is nooooooo way anybody can actually stand having some nasty post or strap stuck between their toes. There is some Truman show crap going on where people are issued these torturous things just the corner from wherever I am then they grit their teeth to walk in front of me before going around another corner to throw them away to put on human shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/179 "2016-08-05T06:28:17Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Flip-Flops > > Yeah sandals are great, comfort is good. But there is nooooooo way anybody can actually stand having some nasty post or strap stuck between their toes. There is some Truman show crap going on where people are issued these torturous things just the corner from wherever I am then they grit their teeth to walk in front of me before going around another corner to throw them away to put on human shoes. 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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850/180 "2016-08-05T06:47:20Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > It’s just that it wasn’t the booze he usually passed off as “pineapple juice”. That was sorta my point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-entire-world-pulling-your-leg-about/760850.md?page=10)