Let’s start a club. I’ve never had a driver’s license either. I live in the city, so no need.
I’m with you DianaG, I’ll be your first member.
But you live in… Kansas… and can get away with not having a car, NYC style?
Even worse, I live in the country and have to have my husband drive me everywhere.
For all those myspace / facebook haters that thinks we put everybody on our list whether we know them or not:
I have no interest putting people I don’t know on myspace or facebook. I put people that invite me that I socialize with in my classes or other events, but 6+ months after I last spoke to you? Gone. Old friends I keep, somebody I talked to a couple times during the course of a semester, nope.
I also have no interest in putting every single picture I ever take online.
Speaking of pictures, I have no interest in taking hundreds of random pictures consisting of girl kissing girl, girl kissing different girl, girl kissing first girl again but in a different pose, full glass of froofy drink, empty glass that originally contained froofy drink, picture of three girls in ‘sexy’ poses holding said empty glasses, and endless combinations thereof.
I swear this is Generation N (for Narcissism).
Gambling. I’ve never understood why people spend real money on it. Why not just give their money away to random strangers?
A lot of the online stuff already mentioned, like FaceBook and MySpace. One thing they have taught me is that few really interesting people have time to be online. (Dopers excepted! :D)
My rebuttal to that is “Most people aren’t from New York.”
I would if there was a chance that every now and then one of those random strangers would give a whole bunch back to me.
Philosophy. I respect it, but I’m not at all interested in learning about it.
Auto racing. You go as fast as you can and keep turning left. Wake me when it’s over.
Drag racing. You go as fast as you can for five seconds. Whoop de doo.
Survivor type shows. Especially the one where they have to suck down pig snot or something just as gross.
Can I join? I have a driver’s license, but:
I didn’t get it until I was 23.
I dislike driving. I do it, but frankly I’d rather be cleaning the toilet.
I try to do as little driving as possible (being able to walk to shopping was a major factor when Mr. Neville and I bought a house this year- a suburb like the one where I lived when I was in high school, where you couldn’t walk anywhere but to other houses, was out of the question).
When I do drive to shopping, I always try to park once, then walk between places I’m going, rather than drive between them.
Maybe Mr. Neville could join, too- he has a driver’s license, but drives maybe once a year.
I’m not really interested in cars, either, except in terms of getting good gas mileage and being easy to park. I will probably never own anything other than a small car with an automatic transmission. On the occasions when I need something bigger (generally, moving), I rent a minivan.
Not interested in gambling, either. When I flew through the Las Vegas airport several years ago, I put a quarter in a slot machine- after one, I was bored and ready to do something else.
Lying on a beach. Unless I’ve got a good book to read, I can do it for about ten minutes, tops, before I get bored.
Competitive sports, or other activities where I’m competing against someone. Playing a game without keeping score is at least as much fun for me (usually more) than it is when someone is keeping score and there’s a question of winning or losing.
Gossip. Unless it’s affecting me, I don’t care what other people are doing or who they’re sleeping with. If they’ve read an interesting book or learned something cool (ideally having to do with something I’m interested in) lately, I’m happy to discuss it with them, but I’m not interested in the usual topics of gossip. That goes at least double for celebrity gossip.
Brand name/designer clothes, and status symbols in general. I don’t buy them for myself, and am not at all likely to notice if someone else is wearing them or has them.
Scrapbooking or any other type of craft project. Before my wedding, I put my foot down- there were absolutely going to be no wedding favors that would require me to do any kind of crafting. In addition to not being interested in crafts, I’m generally not any good at working with my hands (unless the work in question is typing).
My only interest in housework is in ways to either make it easier or get out of doing it. My house has hardwood flooring on the stairs, and I want to put carpet down, because carpeting doesn’t show cat hair like hardwood floors do, and stairs are hard to clean.
(In the interest of the safety of the universe, I make sure I never meet up with Martha Stewart- if we shook hands, we’d probably annihilate one another)
I do not know why I started this thread.
The thread is more about things that you have no interest in at all. But many people are just saying what they do not like. I do not like the Olympics but I take a keen interest in reading about the corruption involved
I could care less about baseball. I barely knew there was a World Series going on, and I have no interest in who wins. Likewise basketball and hockey, although I have gone to hockey games in person and had a lot of fun. But I have no desire to watch them on TV.
Professional sports
Facebook (don’t even know exactly what it is.)
Collecting MySpace “friends” (although MySpace itself is ok, especially for bands.)
Holidays. I think it has something to do with the fact that stores are so damn early on everything; Christmas decorations are out before Halloween. Plus holidays are a lot of work when you’re an adult.
Classical music. It’s neat during movies, but I can’t just sit and listen to it.
Team sports.
A complete failure to follow, even in the broadest detail, the governments that serve you or the events of the day. There are people who would be hard put to tell you who the Prime Minister is. I’ve canvassed people who claimed not to know there was an election on, a week before polling day.
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[li]Sports, especially football- who really gives a flying fat fuck? Well, apparently lots of people do (I’m just not one of them); otherwise we wouldn’t have stadiums that seat over 50,000 people and the Superbowl wouldn’t be the big event that it is.[/li][li]Count me amongst the people who don’t use Myspace. Facebook or any social-network website. And why would I be interested in someone’s blog.[/li][li]Text messaging. Communicating this way would seem so awkward and cumbersome, esp when ppl type lk ths. Why not just, you know, talk?[/li][li]Politics. It doesn’t matter to me if you’re a Republican, a Democrat or if you claim to have some other partisan affiliation. I may agree with some of your views and I might not, but I’m not going to get passionate enough about them to help you defend them or refute them, and if I do it won’t be on the basis of your preferred political party.[/li][li]American Idol, Survivor (I don’t even know if this is still on) or any other program branded as “reality TV.”[/li][li]Anything the media latches onto like flies to a pile of shit and won’t let go of. Jonbenet Ramsy, OJ, Michael Jackson, the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan debacle, Paris Hilton, Janet Jackson’s inadvertent breast exposure… I could go on. Enough already![/li][li]Glurgy emails. Please, people, for the love of God, why are youeven sending me this useless crap? Do you really think I am going to take time to even read it? It borders on being spam (I didn’t ask for it and it contains absolutely no useful or interesting information to me whatsoever).[/li][li]Religious debates. No matter how many points you can argue, no matter how many cites you can produce to back your claims or refute the other side’s claims, nobody is going to be convinced enough to change his ways of thinking to mesh with yours. You’re just wasting your time. Nobody has all the right answers, and a lot of people don’t have any right answers.[/li][li]Soap operas- I have enough problems of my own to deal with, thank you. The last thing I need is to immerse myself in someone else’s fictional world.[/li][li]Most fads, whether it be a collector’s item, dance craze, fashion. Macarena? Never learned it. Tamagachi? Beanie Babies? Furbies? Meh, you can have 'em![/li][li]Being the first to own a copy of the latest movie release, latest game system, etc. Being first to be admitted into the theater to see the latest ultra-mega blockbuster of the century after camping out for three days to see a two-hour movie … so what?[/li][li]After-Thanksgiving sales and the crowds they attract. Nothing to me is worth being the first one in the door at 5:00 AM. While your ass as getting trampled by throngs of drooling rabid bargain hunters I’ll be sleeping in as the tryptophan (sp?) of yesterday’s turkey wears off.[/li][/ul]
What’s that leave?
“Litmus Test” Issues - things like abortion, the death penalty, etc. I know the issues, know my opinions, and still can’t muster enough emotion to get all worked up about them. I had classes where the professor would toss an issue like that out and let the feeding frenzy begin, where they actually had problems getting students to shut up long enough to leave the room at the end of class. Seeing the kind of emotional response almost everyone else had to them really made me feel a bit odd.
board games (Monopoly, Clue)
on-line games (WoW, EverQuest)
X-boxy type games (Wii, PSP)
Sports involving my possible/likely injury
Snow
drinking with getting drunk in mind
webcams
on-line “romances”
Japanese Anime and Manga. I can appreciate the art to some degree, but the stories and mannerisms don’t appeal to me.
South Park. I like Simpsons and Family Guy, but not South Park. Taken in small doses it’s funny, but I’ve never made it through an episode.