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Basketball. I'm six foot four inches and I am supposed to act like I love basketball. Can't stand it to watch. Ten abnormally tall guys jumping up and down every thirty seconds...please.
End zone celebrations- No, I'm not the NFL. I just don't like watching some grown man making dumbass antics in the end zone when he cant spell end zone. I love watching my favorite team, the Panthers, but really couldn't give a rats patootie about any others.
Tiger Woods. No, not like that. I don't care who he's shaggin'. I really don't. I figure thats between his wife, him, and the fence post. I spend 10 to 12 hours a day in my truck. I listen to all kinds of things, but Colin Cowherd stretches my patience as it is. Listening to him drone on and on and on and on...I just wanna pour drano down his throat after about three minutes flat.
Squash- My folks made me eat it when I was six. Ever since, count me out. I don't even like the smell of it.
Mushrooms- I just cannot take the consistency of them. They aren't hard, but they crunch...what the hell's up with that?
Parties! I don't like'em. seriously. They are never as fun as tv or the movies make them out to be, someone invariably makes a pass at the wrong person, someone always gets drunk and pukes. I'd rather have a couple of friends over, enjoy a game on the radio and some grilled foods, and relax.
The latest hotchick anorexic/bulimic car wreck. They are almost always barely out of high school or college, skinnier than a toothpick, and reek of desperation.
I like women, one in particular. I don't like women that spout an agenda every time they open their mouths (Had a family member ask me if I found the Lord every time she met me. I finally told her "Yes, and it wasn't easy when he got lost!") or men that always talk in agenda terms, either.
Beer. Never tasted a good one. I like wine just fine. Love me some tequila and vodka and just plain old whiskey. But every time I drink beer, doesn't matter what brand, it tastes like how a men's urinal smells at a ball game. I do like Port or Ale, though.
The Designated Hitter Rule- Usually some over the hill, fat, no longer athletic guy that couldn't play a position if you stuck a gun to his head. National league, everyone hits unless there's a pitching change. American league, here comes Bubba...
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The Democratic Party - In this neck of the woods, you might just as well paste a target between your eyes if you show up at a liberal love-fest blog and explain that it's possible to be something other than EITHER a Democrat OR a Right-winger.
My List of Issues That I Do Not Discuss With Anyone Who I Still Want To Like Next Week expands tenfold every month since President Hope's ascension to power. Not that it was doing badly before.
Tom Waits - It's tough being a card-carrying art fart and being unable to stomach Waits. Actually, I enjoy some of his songs-- so long as SOMEBODY ELSE is doing the actual singing of them. Oh, and I liked him in Mystery Men.
Supernatural - It's hugely popular on some of the fan boards I frequent. Apparently, women from 10 to 60 treat it like cats treat catnip. Tried watching it and was instantly bored. Ignoring how guy-centric it is, there's also the fact that I'm supposed to be drooling over the leads and I just don't. I don't care how tragic your life's supposed to be, Jared. You guys always look like you just got done shooting an underwear ad and only bothered to put clothes on because it got cold outside. (Uh, I've known people who've had to live out of their cars or out of cheap motels. Cars and cheap motels don't have gyms and diner food will swiftly destroy your metabolism.) I just can't take you seriously. Also, I hate gas guzzlers (even the vintage ones) and butt rock.
Now, if you gave me John Turturo and William H. Macy, driving across the country in a 1978 Honda Civic fighting demons while arguing over whether Steve Lacy or Anthony Braxton plays better in the tape deck--- THAT, I would probably watch with gusto.
Pro Figure Skating - It was awesome when I was a little girl. Now it just makes me snore. The same garish outfits, the same designated twelve approved skating melodies, the same idiot judges. Feh. I'd rather wait for nice weather and go watch baseball. At least then I can get fresh air and sunshine.
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Christmas songs...They are good for one particular time of the year, and they always seem like something that's done either by mid level talent, or tossed off without a care by top level. I've rarely heard a piece of christmas music that I wanted to hear the full version of once, much less hear it over and over again. Hell, I'd shoot grandma, them damn reindeer, santa, his elves, grandpa and pretty much the whole damn town if it meant i never had to hear that song again.
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The Simpsons - I hate this show, and I think I'm specifically the group that is supposed to love it. I reiterate--I don't dislike it, I actually hate it. Everything about it.
Madonna - not only is she annoying, her music sucks 90% of the time too.
Toby Keith - I might not be alone so this might not fit this category. But Toby Keith seems like a poser who is all talk. I think if I could pick anyone in the US to have a bar-fight with, it'd be him. Besides Sean Hannity, another wimpy wannabe.
"American Graffiti" (the movie) - George, lets just say its a good thing you did Star Wars. Because I wasn't alive when this came out and it hasn't held up well over time. It reminds me more of the 70's than the era its supposed to be in.
Vacations in Mexico - I know, I know, it almost guaranties I'm an awful human being to say it out loud, but going to Mexico is just...unpleasant.
Texas Hold 'Em Poker - everyone and their brother thinks they're a Vegas poker player these days and all they know how to play is hold 'em. There's other ways to play poker and most of them are better, involve more bluffing and are more complex. I hate it because its trendy.
Anti-smoking adds - This is another one everyone might hate but I had to say it. These adds are so annoying that I basically am now pro-smoking. I might start supporting tobacco companies. Keep a close eye on this Environmentalists--you go to far and I start supporting big oil. Out of spite.
Seperatists in the US - grow up already.
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I'm a country boy (yeah, big surprise there, right...) and as such, I'm supposed to like Collards. Well, I don't. I hate the damn things. I have ever since elementary school when it smelled like the cooks took a dump in the pot, colored it green and served it up to us. Just had the first frost of the year where I live, which is when the collards are ready. Don't ask me why, the frost just does something to them.
I still freakin hate the dang thangs. Mustard and deep pan cornbread with some texas pete or hot peppers and a glass or two of tea and I'm a happy man, but Collards just might get you kicked outta my house.
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The Dark Knight, which I'm apparently supposed to love. I do not get the fan-love for this movie, which, IMO, was tedious, even more so than the much-maligned Superman Returns. I liked Christian Bale's performances in Equilibrium, American Psycho and, especially, The Prestige, but he's deadly dull as Bruce Wayne. Keaton was many times better (although the less said about Kilmer and Clooney, the better).
And Heath Ledger's Joker was terribly overrated (again, an actor I liked in a Knight's Tale, completely failing to deliver the goods, although I suspect the writing gave him nothing to work with). It's like they forgot that the Joker isn't just creepy and crazy, but also *funny.* Even if nobody else is laughing, *he's* supposed to be having fun, not trudging around acting oh-so-terribly-serious...
DC has yet to put out a good superhero movie, IMO. They need to take a look at Spiderman, Iron Man and, to a lesser extent, the first couple of X-Men movies and take notes. A decent superhero movie can be made, although it isn't easy (as miss-steps like the Fantastic Four and Hulk movies suggest). DC keeps trying to ride off of the popularity of the characters, and failing to deliver a decent storyline with a compelling characterization. Superman and Batman come across as emotionless zombots, and their villains are devoid of personality, 'character' or life, resulting in there being no identifiable *people* anywhere within their movies.
The only 'good' things in the last two Batman movies have been Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine's performances as Lucius and Alfred.
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I too was underwhelmed by the Dark Knight. I certainly wouldn't say I hated it, but I'm kind of surprised at the gushing it seems to get.
Even Batman Begins, which I really liked when it came out, doesn't seem to hold up as well now.
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Sports- I'd rather draw pictures of comic book characters than watch the big game. I always have to opt out of those discussions.
Cars - I just want it to be reliable, look pretty good and get me from A to B to C, etc. I don't know the latest about any of the latest. I drive an '07 Jetta and an '01 Dodge Caravan. Got good deals on them, but I didn't spend months researching.
I don't like political discussions because I've seen too many nice people end up in heated arguments. So many people like to discuss politics.
Those are some pretty major topics I have to avoid at parties. I often find it interesting to listen to others who are passionate about those topics, if they don't drone on and on....
quote:The latest hotchick anorexic/bulimic car wreck. They are almost always barely out of high school or college, skinnier than a toothpick, and reek of desperation.
This hits two of my big annoyances:
- Being supposed to favor thin girls.
- Designated attractive people. I don't want to be told who's the pretty girl and who isn't.
quote:The Dark Knight, which I'm apparently supposed to love. I do not get the fan-love for this movie, which, IMO, was tedious, even more so than the much-maligned Superman Returns. I liked Christian Bale's performances in Equilibrium, American Psycho and, especially, The Prestige, but he's deadly dull as Bruce Wayne. Keaton was many times better (although the less said about Kilmer and Clooney, the better).
And Heath Ledger's Joker was terribly overrated (again, an actor I liked in a Knight's Tale, completely failing to deliver the goods, although I suspect the writing gave him nothing to work with). It's like they forgot that the Joker isn't just creepy and crazy, but also *funny.* Even if nobody else is laughing, *he's* supposed to be having fun, not trudging around acting oh-so-terribly-serious...
I can't see why Batman Begins was so well-liked. It gave me a distinct feeling of trying too hard, presenting a "more believable" Batman movie that really wasn't. And I don't get why Christian Bale's so popular. The Dark Knight was better. Not as good as most people say it is, but enough that I would look forward to the third movie with the prospect of it being genuinely good. Except we know the curse of #3's...
quote:Sports- I'd rather draw pictures of comic book characters than watch the big game. I always have to opt out of those discussions.
Pretty similar here, plus I'm bothered by the tribal sort of provincialism sports fans have.
quote:Cars - I just want it to be reliable, look pretty good and get me from A to B to C, etc. I don't know the latest about any of the latest. I drive an '07 Jetta and an '01 Dodge Caravan. Got good deals on them, but I didn't spend months researching.
And I don't drive, and don't get car culture at all. All I can think when I stand by a highway is the statistic that, what is it, 93% of the cars have only one person in them? I'm bothered by how much people want new cars, and by how most cars on the street are less than 20 years old. Machines should last.
And a couple that haven't been mentioned:
Sweets. Even as a kid, even with my weak sense of taste, I never favored sweet things.
50s retro / Americana. An era of conservatism, trying-too-hard industrial design, and unshakable faith in car culture (see above), white-picket-fence suburbia, and atomic energy.
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quote:Originally posted by Triplicate Kid: Sweets. Even as a kid, even with my weak sense of taste, I never favored sweet things.
Baked sweets, for me. I love ice cream, dark semi-sweet chocolate, cheesecake, custard, egg nog, etc. are awesome, but cookies, cakes and brownies are nasty, IMO.
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With the exception of the people here and several others that I know, I find them to be a near-useless pack of emotional infants with grotesque entitlement issues. If the industry collapses tomorrow, they will merit much of the blame, not that they are in the habit of taking responsibility for anything.
quote:Originally posted by rickshaw1: Basketball. I'm six foot four inches and I am supposed to act like I love basketball. Can't stand it to watch. Ten abnormally tall guys jumping up and down every thirty seconds...please.
Parties! I don't like'em. seriously. They are never as fun as tv or the movies make them out to be, someone invariably makes a pass at the wrong person, someone always gets drunk and pukes. I'd rather have a couple of friends over, enjoy a game on the radio and some grilled foods, and relax.
Beer. Never tasted a good one. I like wine just fine. Love me some tequila and vodka and just plain old whiskey. But every time I drink beer, doesn't matter what brand, it tastes like how a men's urinal smells at a ball game. I do like Port or Ale, though.
I cannot believe how many things we agree on!
Give me brandy or vodka any day, just not beer.
I never had any interest in basketball, other than as a way of bonding with the guys. But screw that, I'd rather go rock climbing.
I don't really see the point of going to bars with friends, unless you want to pick someone up. It's too loud to be able to have good conversation! You go there to drink and dance, but not to learn about your friends.
Or maybe I hate it because I always end up taking care of people who puke all over the floor.
Not because I'm asexual, oh no. But I find subtle teasing much sexier than women ripping their clothes off (and getting paid for it). A lot of appeal is in the chase, and knowing the pair of you find each other attractive!
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Related to the OM's post: amateur comic book creators.
Talk about sense of entitlement! Some have spent their lives reading nothing but Marvel and DC comics, so their creations are nothing more than recycled, second-rate super-heroes. Some have no sense of commitment or responsibility: they promise they'll draw your story then fail to deliver. They say they'll come to meetings, then stop showing up. They expect everyone to share their passion for their own projects while showing zero interest in anyone else's efforts. And somehow they expect to be "discovered" by the very pros whose work they rail against yet continue to buy.
-------------------- The Semi-Great Gildersleeve - writing, super-heroes, and this 'n' that
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I HATE, HATE, HATE Kelly "Smelly" Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and all the clones of that song I've been subjected to over the years, including and especially the clones from Smelly* herself.
And then there's that idiot, I forget her name, who sings that awful song "According To You" and bases her whole career on the supposed novelty of a girl being able to shred on the guitar.
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