That’s what she said.
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.
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.
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.
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?
It didn’t work.
Nobody really likes Scotch; they just drink it because it is sophisticated.
Regards,
Shodan
Needs jalapeños.
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.
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?
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.
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
“Absolutely terrible”? Don’t be ridiculous - it’s nowhere near that good!
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.
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.
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.
MST3K was funny. Saturday Night Live is funny. Seriously?
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:
- He has a dark and mysterious past.
- He has an insanely high pain tolerance.
- His bones are laced with adamantium.
- He’s a smart-ass who loves children.
- He stabs and slashes people.
- Hugh Jackman is hot.
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.
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.
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.