# What should you like, but don't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680 "2010-12-02T16:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/41 "2010-12-03T00:39:12Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Jazz. To the point where I can’t even be in the same room as it. > > \ > > But Jazz? no, never. I find it physically uncomfortable to listen to. I came here to say that. I played guitar when I was younger. I know that what jazz musos do is really impressive. I know that all “real” musos admire what jazz musos do, and most of them at least dabble in playing it. But I just cannot stand to listen to it. I was at my sister-in-law’s house a few years ago for dinner and she had jazz on as background music. I had to apologize profusely and ask her to put something else on because of the way it made me feel. **Novelty Bobble** is the first person I have ever heard who shares my reaction. It really does make me feel physically bad. There are lots of styles of music I don’t really like, but jazz is the only one which causes a physical reaction. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/42 "2010-12-03T02:14:44Z")
Oh, another one. Comic books and superheroes. Another thing all stereotypical geeks are into. Yeah, I read em as a kid, kind of, but wasn’t any more into them than I should be. Haven’t really paid any attention to any comic book anywhere since I was 15. IDGI. And **woodstockbirdybird** , it’s not a laugh track, it’s called a live studio audience. I dare you to find a cite to shatter my illusion. And, you read my orders, march. And take **kushiel** with you. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/43 "2010-12-03T02:18:33Z")
\*\*\*GLEE. \*\*\*I’m a gay man who sings in a gay chorus. I’ve watched two episodes of Glee, and am not interested in watching more. I even Tivo’d a few more, but never watched them. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/44 "2010-12-03T02:25:12Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > **TOS and TNG**. This is one I’m even afraid to admit in a room full of other Trek geeks. I love me some Star Trek, but the first two series (especially the first one) seem far too cheesy for me to enjoy and I really don’t see why any Trek fan does enjoy it unless it’s for the camp factor that it exudes all over. I wouldn’t say I hate it, I have watched episodes of both, there are episodes I like of both (Tribbles of TOS (of course, but that is a subtle nod to my not liking of it, I only like the most popular episode) and mostly later TNG) but I can’t back either horse in the endless “Picard v. Kirk” debate. I dislike Star Trek and Voyager, and am indifferent to The Next Generation and Enterprise, but still consider myself a Trekkie. I love Deep Space Nine. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/45 "2010-12-03T02:25:53Z")
Doctor Who. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/46 "2010-12-03T02:36:25Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Jazz. To the point where I can’t even be in the same room as it. > > Strangely I love funky stuff like Prince, adore soul, blues and rock such as Pink Floyd and The Who. > Punk, electronica, rap, Wagner, Elgar, Mozart…I could go on. > > But Jazz? no, never. I find it physically uncomfortable to listen to. Me too! It’s like I can’t find the music. When I hear a jazz song I do like, my purist friends are quick to remind me that it’s not _real_ jazz. King Pleasure’s version of Moody’s Mood for Love and Spyro Gyra, for example. I think what makes jazz great is what I dislike about it most. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/47 "2010-12-03T02:39:03Z")
Coen brothers movies Kevin Smith movies Quentin Tarantino movies _Firefly_ - yet I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. To me it’s a juvenile series aimed at 13-year-old boys. _Office Space_ _The Princess Bride_ - I don’t hate it, but I don’t much like it. Kim chee, the food - I’m working on liking it, but I don’t like it yet ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/48 "2010-12-03T03:20:46Z")
I love Murakami so much. I finished _Wind Up Bird Chronicles_ about a month ago, and now I’m reading _Norwegian Wood._ No depth? What about all those wells? : / For me it’s playing Scrabble. I’m a diehard word person and love playing word games, but Scrabble bores me to tears. I’m also not a jazz fan, but people expect me to be and act disappointed when I’m not. Men, I mean. Most women I know don’t give a flip about jazz. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/49 "2010-12-03T03:26:01Z")
Another one: Beer. And wine. And, well, _any_ alcoholic drink, really. I just don’t care for booze. And I’m a middle-aged Southern football fan, _and_ an NPR-listening left-leaning sushi eater - so demographically, I’m supposed to live on beer and wine. But I’d rather drink sweet tea. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/50 "2010-12-03T03:43:59Z")
I love weird music. I adore psychedelic folk. I’m all about unusual singing voices. I _should be_ the Joanna Newsom demographic. And yet… ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/51 "2010-12-03T04:14:14Z")
_Born_ in California. Without any tastebuds that respond to avocados, or guacamole. Those don’t taste bad, don’t taste like anything - but that greenish paste does look a little dodgy… you can have mine. But I’m going to feel really bad when the other dudes find out and force me to move out of the state… ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/52 "2010-12-03T04:48:16Z")
[Prince.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584026) Peanut butter. Everyone is always ruining perfectly good chocolate chip cookies with this crap. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/53 "2010-12-03T07:19:02Z")
Gratifying to know that I’m not the only one with a real aversion to jazz. And of course the world mocks me by hosting a jazz festival, every year, 400 yards from my font door. There is no god. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2010, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/54 "2010-12-03T11:22:51Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Doctor Who. Old, new, or both? As for the OP: I really can’t think of anything. Okay, so maybe celery, since I love vegetables. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/55 "2010-12-03T12:14:34Z")
I worked at a company that licenses many well-known Japanese anime as well as the Star Wars franchise, and I hate 'em both. They used to DRAG me to see Star Wars movies so that I’d be able to keep up in meetings. I once tossed an unopened action figure signed by one of the SW actors, and when I mentioned it to friends they cried and cursed my stupidity. Not into manga either. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/56 "2010-12-03T13:41:56Z")
Jazz. With my other musical oddities, everyone says I should like jazz. Nope Firefly. Again, seems like it should fit with my other entertainment likes, but just meh. Wine. Have had an occasional glass that I thought was “okay”, but not enough to really try to cultivate a real like. Amy Winehouse. Can’t stand her voice, but I do like other similar artists. Grateful Dead. Lots of my generation loved/loves them. Please god, make it stop. Guacamole. I’m sure YOUR guacamole recipe is outstanding, but I just think this stuff sucks. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/57 "2010-12-03T13:57:24Z")
I am a huge aficianado of Asian film. I own over 400 Asian movies on DVD and have seen hundreds more. But I don’t like anime at all. Oh, there are a couple of films I really like (\*\*Spirited Away \*\*is a masterpiece) but I just don’t get the cartoons. People will say "Oh, you must love \*\*Cowboy Bebop \*\*or **Dragonball Z** or whatever and I’m like, uh, that would be NOT. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/58 "2010-12-03T14:52:48Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Old, new, or both? I’ve only seen a few new episodes. I think it’s safe to say I’d dislike the old one, too, if I ever saw it. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/59 "2010-12-03T17:26:59Z")
Ryan Adams. On paper, he should be my favorite musician of all time. Actually, I enjoy his songs when they pop up on Pandora or last.fm, but when I listen to his albums, I’m just left cold. Solo stuff or Whiskeytown. I just don’t understand why I’m not a rabid fan when he literally fits in perfectly with my musical tastes (Wilco, the National, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, etc). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680/60 "2010-12-03T17:42:56Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > \*\*\*GLEE. \*\*\*I’m a gay man who sings in a gay chorus. I’ve watched two episodes of Glee, and am not interested in watching more. I even Tivo’d a few more, but never watched them. I totally love this for some reason, especially after the thread title of your review of Burlesque… Jazz - for those of you say “I don’t like jazz” - totally cool. I will argue, though, that many, many potential jazz likers miss a great chance simply because getting started listening to jazz is SO FREAKING DIFFERENT than listening to pop, rock, country, classical and many other popular genres. Without some basic grounding, jazz can start off sounding like gibberish, and then your ear can ONLY hear gibberish when you are exposed to it again. It breaks my heart… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-you-like-but-dont/562680.md?page=4)