Chess. I was “the brain” in school, but I am the world’s worst chess player.
If you didn’t like it a year ago you’d probably really hate it now. The story is in the middle of taking a very weird turn.
Football. The gene for the appreciation of this sport skipped a generation- my mom and dad both loved watching it, but with me it never even registered, and I live in Lincoln, Ne, home of the mighty Huskers. When people here speak to me of the recent contest it’s “The Game”, never doubting I know which game they’re speaking of, and refer to the team as “we”, as in: when “we” made the field goal, or when “we” made a touchdown. I sometimes ask them what position they played.
The Shield I just didn’t get into season one, didn’t go any farther.
Jazz. Most of it anyway. The NPR station I listen to plays jazz in the evenings and weekend afternoons. Tried to like it but no go. Sometimes I listen to it for hours but it’s not because I enjoy it. Inertia mostly. As someone mentioned above I can appreciate jazz influences in rock and blues but by and large…no jazz for me.
Big Bang Theory
I love sitcoms. Even the bad ones can make me laugh. I am nerdy in lots of ways. Several people told me that I would love this show and it’s perfect for me and it is so awesomely funny. I really think it is neat that the guy from Roseanne is still working. I looked forward to liking the show. I couldn’t, and I tried! I watched it and I didn’t find it funny at all. To me, it felt like a lot of the punch lines were funny just because they happened to reference geeky things. As if the fact that the character was talking about the Star Wars movies was enough for everyone to break up laughing. Anyway, lots of people love the show. I just didn’t make the cut on this one to many people’s surprise.
Websites set up specifically to mock people.
I like mocking things. And, I like to laugh. So, these sites like GoFugYourself seem like something I should enjoy, yet I never do. I usually end up mocking the mockers which is really not the point of the site. So, I don’t go to them very often. Oddly, I enjoy other sites that are pretty similar like Lamebook and PassiveAggresiveNotes. I think I like those because the stuff is put up without much mockery. More of a “Look at this!” instead of “Listen to me mock this!”
I’m off Warren Ellis, in general.
I still like Transmet (though I haven’t finished it, yet), and Planetary is a work of genius.
But the fact that everything he writes of late is a neverending series of delays (even if the delays in Planetary were understandable), and he’s got multiple series left hanging (he’s never, ever going to get back to newuniversal…)…if it’s not a one-shot or already finished limited series, I’m just not going to bother.
On the note of comics books - Peter A. David. We have similar senses of humour. I’m a fan of a number of the characters he’s written (Superboy, Robin, Impulse, Aquaman)…but aside from about a year and a half of the current X-Factor series (from the introduction of Layla to her reintroduction after her disappearance)… He gets a resounding ‘meh’. At best - I loathe Young Justice with a burning passion - primarily for the ridiculous way he handled Superboy and the moronic ‘Klarion - bum, bum, bum! - the Witch Boy’ nonsense. I’ve yet to give Supergirl or Aquaman a try, simply because almost everything else I’ve read by him has left me cold, or left a sour taste in my mouth.
Video games. I know quite a few gamers (dating one, in fact), and my generation all but grew up with the things. And yet…I have no interest. None whatsoever. A couple of my exes have tried to get me to play them, to no avail. Current boyfriend doesn’t bother–he figures if I want to learn to play, I’ll come to him and ask.
Related anecdote: My mom and I were walking through Target one day, and we passed the games section of the electronics department. My mom turned to me and said “so…do you feel deprived by my not buying you video games as a kid?” I just shook my head no. If I’d wanted the things, I would’ve asked.
The film The Graduate. I’ve seen it, and there were things I liked about it (the cinematography and the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack), but I just couldn’t muster up enough sympathy for the main character to really care what happened to him. That might very well be the point, for all I know, but it took me out of the movie.
Well, Pet Sounds and Loveless are apex products of notoriously obsessive studio craftsmanship. On the other hand, and as distinct from the music, which I love dearly, the sound of Hüsker Dü’s records is mostly pretty crappy.
I laughed and I laughed, when that creature killed all of those people in the Black Lagoon.
Southern boy here. I can’t stand pecans or sweet potatoes. My relatives have yet to accept this and still offer me those food items in the hopes that I came to my senses.
I like geeks and I like geek humor, but I think more than one geek per situation comedy is intolerable. That’s why I don’t like Big Bang Theory. *Community *has Abed and that’s plenty. Troy doesn’t count; he’s not an Urkel.
Yup.
And yup.
I’ll add – sushi. Sorry, I don’t want to eat raw fish, I really don’t, and I’m not going to. (Thank god for veggie rolls, because I occasionally end up in a sushi restaurant.)
I have never heard of this. I must try it.
Anyway.
Put me on the “don’t get Pavement” list. I love Sonic Youth and assorted other bands that leads everyone to assume that I’ll love Pavement. I don’t. I find them boring.
I really dislike They Might Be Giants, too. It’s really dissonant and unlistenable to me… which says something, considering I love industrial and musique concrete. I find their “humor” to be forced and twee, too.
I never got into role-playing, whether paper-based or live-action. I am the only person in my circle of friends who doesn’t game, and I live in the city that hosts GenCon every year. I truly feel like I’m missing out on something, but I simply cannot generate enough enthusiasm to join in, no matter how many games or events I’m taken to.
Current video games. Never thought I’d say that, since the first 25 years of my life practically revolved around video games. I own 40 or so consoles, as well as nearly 50 different computer platforms. I own three arcade games. I simply don’t care about modern video gaming or video game culture. I like playing video games, but video game culture ruins it for me. I’d rather play my Atari 2600 than anything current. The PlayStation is the last system I actively played. I stopped actively participating in video game scenes-- retro or current-- in 2002 or so, and don’t miss it one bit. I can happily play what I own, if I want, and I can happily ignore what I own for years at a time.
Computers and technology. That’s an odd thing to post on a message board that I can only access via computer but there it is.
It’s this whole attitude of working within the parameters that the computer has set up for you that pisses me off.
Cell phones - loathe them.
Video and computer games, Wee, DS, X-box, whatever new shit they come up with - despise them. Their overriding theme seems to be ‘do what the computer tells you to do.’
Auto-tune - an abomination.
Long lists of people alphabetized by first name - ah, so you aren’t smarter than a fifth grader, you satanic spawn.
On-line checkins for flights - blurghhh.
Auto-fill - fill this!
I realize I’m on the losing end of this particular piece of social history - that doesn’t make me feel any better about it. I also resent the assumption that if you’re an intelligent, well-read person who has many interests, you must be ‘into’ computers. No, sorry - a pen or a pencil is much better at doing what I tell it to do the first time around without having to resort to workarounds and kluges.
This was largely the case in the first season, but after that the humor became much more character driven. I can’t guarantee that you’d like it, of course, but there’s less of that later.
As for me, I should probably like modern war FPSs but I just can’t get in to them. They seem to be just totally devoid of fun, full of frustration, and have a rather depressing tone. Bad Company 2 seems like the one I’d be most interested in but I still haven’t ponied up for that. I can’t stand any of the Call of Duty games. I’ll shoot zombies or space aliens or space marines or the Combine or 1960s era cartoons, but not real looking people.
Exercise.
Word games, “brain twisters” (Why do I want my brain twisted? It’s twisted enough, thank you.), anagrams. I used to do crossword puzzles with my late H, but that was a way of interacting and spending time together and THAT was the salient/fun part, not the stupid puzzle. When the Puzzlemaster comes on on NPR on Saturday morning, it annoys the holy shit out of me. Oddly, I do like cryptograms. <Thelma scratches head in puzzlement>
I thought of another one: Rachel Maddow. I mentioned my dislike of her once before on the SDMB, causing someone else to go into a rant about how all Republitards like me don’t understand what it’s like to see real honesty in the media and how I should just watch Fox News all the time.
Um, yeah. Except for how I’m a liberal gay-lovin’, gun-hatin’ atheist Jew from San Francisco who’s voted for Obama three times already (I lived in Illinois when he was a senator), this is an entirely accurate depiction of my politics. I just don’t like Rachel Maddow. She always comes across as so smug and…mocking. I’ll watch Colbert when I feel like seeing someone mock conservatives, thank you.
Avatar - still haven’t seen it and really don’t care to be bothered with watching it.
Motion cotrol trend in video games - I think it is a pretty stupid way to play video games.
Most seafood - born and raised on the Gulf Coast and I hate fish.
Cellphones - don’t own one and don’t ever plan on owning one.
Video Games
All my friends and contemporaries are seriously into video games, but I not only don’t like most of them (they are so repetitious, and the screen can get so filled with dazzle it assaults the senses), I’m also just really bad at them, so don’t play. There are a couple of older games I occasionally unearth and replay, but that’s not very often, and the graphics feel really dated now.
I am into computer graphics, so I do like to watch others play so I can be impressed by the cool imagery, but manipulating the 23 buttons to make my character move forward and to the left, duck, shoot, swap guns, and reload, argh, no. Not for me.