Things that everyone seems to love ... except you

Sunshine.

Shrimps

Cheesecake

OP

Eating outside in the sun.

The Golden Girls

Eating outside on the street.

buttered popcorn. even homemade with good butter.

Music festivals. Crowded restaurants. Professional sports -- or ANY spectator sports. The fucking fetish about bacon and/or burgers. Fried eggs dumped on top of EVERYTHING. Salted caramel. Pumpkin Spice. Ugh.

Burnung Man

Loud music in bars and restaurants. It hurts my ears.

Reality TV shows

Gay Icons

My husband.

So sorry to hear that, r14. I would give anything, anything to be with mine again.

Donuts.

Starbucks

[quote]Music festivals. Crowded restaurants. Professional sports -- or ANY spectator sports. The fucking fetish about bacon and/or burgers. Fried eggs dumped on top of EVERYTHING. Salted caramel. Pumpkin Spice. Ugh.

R9 with you on all of the above except maybe pumpkin spice I can tolerate that although I'm not wild about it. I did a music festival as a late teen, first and last time, would take a lot to persuade me now and I love music too

Glad to see other people that cant stand bacon or the abomination that is salted caramel

Coffee

Dystopian novels

Definitely outdoor music festivals, although they're coming up a lot in this thread.

Also, this trend for slightly cropped trousers - I see them all over the place, and it just looks like the wearer had a recent growth spurt.

+1 for music festivals. My experiences were awful.

Food trucks and street food in general

Skiing - nothing about it looks appealing

Beach resorts. Can't think of anything more hellishly boring than spending all day in a sun lounger surrounded by the hoi polloi. Ugh!

Cruise ships. Same deal...trapped on a boat with hundreds of annoying people? No thanks!

Luxury Hotels

Television drama like a Netflix series and the overly scripted sitcom that passes for entertainment for so many. I don't find it in the least entertaining.

Ina Garten has stated her boundaries, @R8.

Nature. Whatever it's just a tree.

Hiking. In SoCal, it's so popular. I have never heard so many people talk about their hikes, future plans for hikes, or asked me if I wanted to go hiking in my life.

I will second shrimp - it's OK, rubbery and weird, but I prefer real fish.

R26 - I'm with you. I can appreciate a good view and scenery - but after a few hours I'm done. No need to camp or be in it for days at a time.

Raw tomatoes

Surprise anal....

r1 and r5 beat me to it.

I don't mind the occasional hot-dog at a baseball or football game, but if I'm eating a meal, I want a table, out of the sun, in a temperature-controlled environment.

White Lotus or any piece of media satirizing rich cunts. So much of modern culture focuses on rich cunts and I'm tired of it. I get it, they're utter cunts.

Sex.

Video games.

Instagram and TikTok. I haven't been active on Facebook for over 10 years and it's been recently disabled for no good reason a few months ago - as have thousands of others.

Facebook can die for all I care - and it looks like they're actively trying to do that on their own.

I'm basically on message boards - DL and Reddit. Some say it's social media, but I don't see it as the same thing.

I really don't feel the need to share my life with everyone - or to feel pressured to like banal pics of people eating or out with friends. So pointless and high school.

Ethiopian food. Sorry.

My ex. Everyone didn’t just seem to love him, they did. Biblically.

Harry Fucking Potter.

Karaoke. I could never be drunk enough to make an ass out of myself. And what gives people the illusion that they can sing?

R38 - Karaoke is weird. Who wants to go up on stage, be the center of attention, and knowingly sing poorly? And we have to listen and watch this abomination? Then there are those who feel like they're having a Susan Boyle moment and it's soooo cringe.

Most people have a fear of public speaking - let alone public singing. From their game shows and chat shows, the Japanese seem to love putting people into awkward positions or have them fall down.

Karaoke is an activity for behaviorally-oppressed people to open up and go wild in a safe space. The rest of the world doesn't need that.

R31 that includes AJLT.

I second R37

Social media.

Blockbuster movie franchises.

Squid Game.

Last of Us.

Pop up shops and markets in busy downtown areas.

Michelle Obama,

She is tiresome.

I don't hate Michelle Obama but I do find her boring as a celebrity.

I think her book contained all her interesting opinions and anecdotes and now whenever she's in the news it's because of mundane bullshit. She's a spent force.

I never eat from food trucks. Where do those people do their business and wash their hands? I imagine rats scurrying through them while they're in storage at night.

Christmas

Dogs

R46 - I've lost the Christmas spirit over the last 10-15 years as I've gotten older. It's just so much now. It really is a kid's holiday.

But I'll add to that - July 4th. Outdoor in the heat for some shitty burgers and cheap hot dogs (I will take a brat though), sweating, swapping mosquitoes - and waiting for the same firework show that hasn't changed much since 1975. No thanks.

Then listening to the kids and asshole adults shoot off m80s and fireworks until 2 or 3 in the morning.

However, I'm hopeful for drone displays. Firework technology has been stuck for too long - it just fails to excite me. We don't have enough drone displays yet.

Chicken wings / wings / Buffalo wings - whatever you want to call it. Garbage food gussied up with spices at a premium price.

I'm also suspicious of the size of some of these wings - they're too tiny, and I think they are from damaged or unhealthy chickens that didn't live to maturity. Seriously. Those wings are too fucking small sometimes to be taken from a mature bird.

Salmon

Avocados

Lying on the beach to get tanned

Sushi / sashimi

Hamburgers

Cold beer (to me it tastes better at room temperature)

Chastity cages, fisting, pissing/scat - actually most kink. I guess I just like the classics when it comes to sex - doesn't mean that it's boring. Not that everyone loves it - but somehow you're called a prude if you're not open to that thing.

Beach/Pool - fine for a couple of hours, then I'm bored. Particularly a beach - I just cannot wrap my head around sitting on the beach all day. And 'the best beaches' just seem weird to me - splitting hairs over small things.

Crowded, sand in EVERYTHING, questionable water that has God knows what in it, HOOOOOT sand, jerks playing music too loud, obnoxious families and kids. Harassing vendors in foreign locals trying to sell you the same awful jewelry and tourist shit as the last person who came over 10 mins ago.

However - I do like beach clubs. On the beach but have a pool, changing facilities, waiter, food, drinks, towels, etc. Beach clubs are how you do beaches.

Everyone seems to love pissing/scat, r52?

I'm running with a different crowd.

Alcohol

Online gaming: Call Of Duty and all that other bullshit. I can understand little kids, but grown ass men? Get out of the house and have a conversation with somebody.

I have never hit so many WW buttons in a row before!

The band Jungle.

Beer and wine.

Sydney Sweeney - yes, I went there.

Wicked movie part 1 - but I'm holding judgment until part 2 comes out.

(to be fair, I did have an edible before seeing it, but I thought it was too much panning, too much busy camera work to enjoy the story. The story stands on its own - it doesn't need so many fast cuts and shots of every damn thing)

Wow.

One of the best dinners I ever had was dining al fresco on the Amalfi Coast. We had arrived several hour prior and we were tired and hungry. Around 4pm I asked at the hotel desk if it would be possible to have some food. We were ushered to the rooftop where there was a dining area overlooking the Bay of Salerno. Beautiful bougainvillea and hibiscus all around. They brought us some bread, cheese, prosciutto, figs, and a glass of wine. Around ten minutes later, they brought us a very simple pasta pomodoro with basil and pecorino cheese. Even growing up poor, we'd put some hamburgers on the grill in the backyard and eat outside. It was wonderful. Now, it Texas, it's mostly either too hot or too cold to eat outside, but I still love to when I get the chance.

Beaches? I grew up 2.5 miles from our local beach in CT. We'd either take the bus, or walk when we got older. I spent a lot of time there from 4th grade through college until I moved away. I either went alone, sometimes hung out with friends, or went with a group. It was fantastic, considering most of us were pretty poor. Oh, and there was a bath house where you could shower and see all the naked men. Sometimes the beach is just a great place to chill, if you have some time.

Now, to add insult to injury to some of you, my mother would pack us frittata or tomato sandwiches to bring to the beach to eat there. There were also a couple hamburger stands that you could get freshly made hamburgers and hot dogs to either eat at the picnic tables or back at your blanket. The beach was never really all that crowded, except at the bath house, when it could get so on weekends.

Eating...outdoors...at the beach. Simple pleasures.

Jeez how many micro humblebrags can you pack into a post? When you were eating prosciutto and figs al fresco off the Almafi coast, wherever the fuck that is, did it remind you of those fancy frittata sandwiches mommy used to make for lunch? All I had was peanut butter and jelly.

R61 - yeah - R60 didn't understand the assignment and went on a weird humblebrag retort but inserted enough 'we were poor' to try and undercut it.

Dustin, this wasn't your best post, dear - but you're not an asshole, so all is forgiven. There are always exceptions to everything posted here, but we're talking in generalities.

Summer and its bastard child, hot weather.

I'm a lifelong Texan. I should be used to it, but no. Summer is by far my least favorite season. Give me late fall and winter any day. I dread the return of 90+ degree temperatures and triple digits in late July and August. Your daily routine has to change in order to avoid the midday heat. Outdoor activities are done early in the morning or late afternoon/early evening. Air-conditioning is mandatory and you're screwed if it goes out, repairs are expensive. An 85 degree house that doesn't cool down at night is intolerable.

As hot as it gets in Texas, the southwest U.S. is one step above hell with persistent heat waves and extreme temperatures. I don't know how people in places like Phoenix and Las Vegas tolerate it, but they do.

Superhero movies, fantasy or fairytale movies, fiction books

I didn’t like that shit as a kid and I definitely don’t like it as an adult. I prefer movies based on true stories (or at least realistic scenarios) or documentaries and I only read nonfiction.

Raymond.

I lived in Phoenix and I hate the heat...but humidity is even worse. The bugs, the oppressiveness, the smells, sweating through your underwear. I find it harder to focus and think clearly when it's hot out too.

I also don't like the long daylight hours. I don't like having dinner when it's still hot and sunny outside.

[quote]I don't mind the occasional hot-dog at a baseball or football game, but if I'm eating a meal, I want a table, out of the sun, in a temperature-controlled environment.

I'm reminded of this scene from THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

SOPHIA: Why are we cooking outdoors?

DOROTHY: Ma, we're having a barbecue.

SOPHIA: Do you know what they call cooking meat over an open fire in Sicily? Poverty!

😂

I feel the same way about camping. It's just well-off people romanticizing poverty.

I'm the same, R64. I am most interested in the human condition, real history and real people. And truth is really stranger than fiction.

The beach.

[quote]Jeez how many micro humblebrags can you pack into a post? When you were eating prosciutto and figs al fresco off the Almafi coast, wherever the fuck that is, did it remind you of those fancy frittata sandwiches mommy used to make for lunch? All I had was peanut butter and jelly.

Fancy frittata sandwiches? We were fucking poor. We didn't get peanut butter most of the time. Frittata is poor food.

Amalfi Coast - maybe if you used the Goggle machine or got out of your trailer, you'd know where that is. That's where my parents were both from, dickwad. I went back in my mid-40s to visit my cousins. Do you ever get to see your brother/cousins in West Virginia?

I love spending a day on a quite beach laying in the sun and listening to the ocean, but crowded beach hotspots are not for me. Newport Beach, CA on a holiday weekend is the worst.

The Simpsons

The Golden Girls. I can’t stand it.

Robin Williams

Big Brother and Survivor

Another vote for The Simpsons

Daylight Savings Time

Bacon - (runs away looking over my shoulder)

Avocados

Another vote for summer. I prefer brutal Canadian winter, though not by much. Spring smells like dogshit.

I love autumn, my favourite season. And autumn clothing is so much more fashionable.

[quote]The Golden Girls. I can’t stand it.

Watch your back, R72. You just committed DL blasphemy.

Social media.

Selfies.

People who don't like DL blasphemy.

Daylight Savings Time. We’re already getting roasted by the sun more each year because of climate change. We don’t need it until 9:00 at night. I have to wait til 10:00 pm for our long dog walk.

R81 and R74 Should discuss this together.

Moijtos.

Add me r82. I don't need the sunset bearing down on my west facing windows at 9pm.

Another “no thanks” to farmers’ markets. So crowded and parking so difficult, I’m already grumpy before buying anything. And there are too many quirky “artisinal” vendors selling beeswax-this and beef-tallow-that when you just want extremely fresh local vegetables.

Porn

Fire Island. Unless you have friends with a house and pool.

Its beautiful - especially at sunrise and sunset - but there is not all that much to do there.

Christmas for me as well. My late partner and I used used to do the whole Christmas thing - big tree, decorating, parties, big festive dinners... but since he died 15 years ago, its hard to get into the spirit. Plus Covid and a tanking economy put the kibosh on any kind of entertaining.

Kids and bacon

Big ugly logos on clothing and accessories. Most of the expensive pocketbooks women carry and are so proud of are really ugly.

Dogs

Suburbia.

Football.

Bingo, R89!

I hate all but the most discreet logos. I'm okay with an alligator or the Polo logo about the same size. But to wear a sweatshirt that says GAP or any large logo? Never.

They should be paying me to advertise their product.

Valentine's Day. Every restaurant is packed and flowers, chocolates, and other desserts are 3 times the price.

It's a bullshit holiday. Nothing romantic about it.

I had a florist friend who gave me a discount for roses on Mother's Day. Another gouge day like St Valentine's.

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Sushi

Live music at wineries and breweries. It’s always too loud and shitty. I want to talk to my friends, not listen to some asshole with a guitar sing depressing songs. Yes, this happened to me recently.

Big cities

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Billy Joel

Heavy bass in music.

Al reality television. How can intelligent people watch that phony shit?

Sydney Sweeney.

Drag. I saw drag when Milton Berle was on television.

God love ya if you love it, but I have seen enough.

Earrings

Caftans

Farms market

Camping. Bugs, digging cat holes to go to the bathroom in, cooking outside, sleeping in sleeping bags in a tent, not feeling clean. I love looking at a light free night sky, but camping for it is not worth it.

For it is not worth it.

Lobster

I’m with R103. I was raised by a woman who thought “camping out” was a Sheraton without room service.

Bed and breakfasts - Give me an anonymous hotel room, please.

Earrings

Caftans!

Katherine Hepburn

R108 and R109 are not R101.

take out coffee. First the Americans, now the world.

I agree with the above comments about disliking eating outdoors. I don't care if it's streetside, patio, your deck - I hate it!

The heat. Anything over 80 degrees is freaking torture. I don't understand how people crave it.

Sports, religion, and guns.

I, too, don't enjoy lobster or salmon.

Excessive tattoos on baristas, wait staff, barbers, car salesmen and other people who serve the public. (just don't want to see it when making a business transaction).

bloody violence and gore in popular movies.

'straight' men wearing nail polish.

gay guys wearing pearls

Do people under 80 still say pocketbook?

But generally agree about prominent labels. The handbag community on Reddit (yes I know) are generally adamant that if they're paying 5k you better believe they're wanting the label to be noticed.

Comic book movies

I think big logos on ANYTHING are stupid and ugly. Case in point: HOKA shoes. Ugh.

Plus all the ugly handbags with their dumb logos as already mentioned. I really don't get why people like that.

Charcuterie. It’s unsatisfying, not a meal, and it’s gross to me that everyone plucks their food off the same board. I don’t want pickles, salami, olives, peppers, and jams as a dinner.

[quote]Charcuterie

It's not supposed to be dinner. It's antipasto. If people are serving it as dinner, they don't know what they're doing.

Wow, this thread touches on most of the popular, in vogue things that I roll my eyes at! Good read.

I'll add my own – baseball.

the boring colors that are all the rage right now...the neutrals, the grieges, the grays. Ugly, blah, played out.

R27 - the hiking thing made me laugh!

Can't people just go for a walk?

Game of Thrones

the annoying invasion of British women pretending to be gay men

Logos on anything. I'm not being paid to advertise.

Oversharing on social media. No one gives a fuck about your "journey" and "speaking your truth". Shut the fuck up and leave it at your therapist's office.

Stranger Things

Orchids

Fire Island.

Provincetown.

Wilton Manors.

WeHo.

This is not a homophobic rant. Gay man, here. Those places just represent where gay men treat each other terribly.

NYC. It’s not all that.

I did not like Heath Ledger in his role as “Joker.”

Cold weather and snow. Even though I was born in NJ, I grew up in sunbelt states (Texas, Arizona, and Florida) and have no desire to ski, snowboard, build a snowman, or have a white Christmas.

I've never lit a fireplace, shoveled snow, or driven in it. I've only seen it a few times in my life and even though it's beautiful to look at, 60° is officially wintertime for me.

Saturday Night Liive

Scallops, shrimp, lobster, caviar ... but I do love crab.

I hate all forms of sportsball - they have nothing to do with me, and are just a loud, boring time filler for uninteresting people.

Marvel anything, particularly the movies.

LadyG’s poosie

I agree with so many things on here I'm having a struggle to find anything new to add...

Uh, over the top fandom. Being obsessed over certain pop stars/celebrities. Or, sci fi/fantasy things to the point people foam at the mouth because you don't agree that Madonna is a Goddess or Star Wars is better than Star Trek.

Grow the fuck up.

rings, except a simple gold or platinum wedding band.

necklaces worn by men. they are either trashy or trying too hard.

KPop...talk about psycho fans. And the men are too femme for my taste.

Anime, GoT, geek culture in general.

Miles Davis

The gym. I go but I hate it. Not the actual exercise but the other patrons.

gay guys wearing pearls

R117 I have not seen this.

I've only seen Timberlake and Styles wearing the pearls.

A pearl necklace?

RuPaul’s Drag Race

I'll add to R96. Drag queens do nothing for me. I think the idea that they are so brave is just bs. And it doesn't take any talent to lip-sync.

Lip syncing...a skill performed by every child with a hairbrush.

RuPaul has a lot to answer for...prior to Drag Race becoming a hit, drag was on the edge of becoming a very fringe, old fashioned, uncool thing. Most gay people rolled their eyes over it. It was a bit 'Amos & Andy' for most of us.

r124 yes! It's like colour is poisonous now or something.

Baseball. Football. Basketball. Hockey.

Completely lost on me.

Another vote for sports, particularly men's basketball. If most of the players are over 7 feet tall, what is the point? It takes much of the challenge out of it. Shouldn't the basket be raised proportionally. And keep your hand/fingers out of the basket. That should be a foul. Women's basketball is how it should be played, although I don't care for it either.

[quote]keep your hand/fingers out of the basket

Words I never thought to read on the Datalounge.

Some of these contributions are things most people hate.

Watching TV is my “nope” that most everyone else is into. I just can’t sit there and take it in. All that fictionalized manufactured drama. Especially before going to sleep.

Another vote for Daylight Savings Time, Farmers' Markets, and hot sandy beaches. I like rocky dramatic shorelines like from a Gothic novel.

Open floor plans

Big windows that let in lots of "natural light"

Dolly Parton

Local coffee shops -- the coffee always tastes so sour -- do they add artisanal battery acid?

Costco

Cake

Weight training, DEAR GOD the tedium

Trucks

Nancy fucking Pelosi

Fireworks

Crab legs -- I won't eat anything that looks like it came from a giant mutant insect

Hot tubs

BBQ

I could do this all day....

“gay guys wearing pearls

[R117] I have not seen this.”

Harry Styles popularized this trend a few years ago.

R22- I am going on a gay cruise 🚢 in July.

I am the same said person who started the thread about the 11 gay cruises I’ve been on previously and how I didn’t get laid on any of them nor the 21 times I’ve been to Provincetown since 1995 nor the 9 times I’ve been to San Francisco - no sex on any of those trips.

The Comeback

I find it shrill and overrated.

Flipflops and sandals. I hate the straps rubbing on my feet and I hate looking at other people's ugly, gnarly, calloused feet.

R135- You forgot to tell everyone to get off your lawn.

A lot of the media including and most especially the New York Times worship it - French Cuisine.

I wouldn’t say I don’t like it but I do say it’s VERY overrated.

Cocktails, red wine, fancy hotels, golf. I don't hate them at all but they're all completely wasted on me.

Live theater. Mediocrity is rampant.

Pussy.

A lot of these are not "things everyone seems to love." Many people are quite vocal in their hate of Marvel movies or sports, and "guys wearing pearls" was actually a polarizing fad that's mostly over and was never anything remotely close to something "everybody loves."

R158 One alt definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something different - I.e. getting laid - to happen.

As far as gay culture: contemporary drag/RDPR and most post-house contemporary dance music.

Concerts in general and big festival concerts in particular. (I know, this isn't a new idea in this thread.)

On paper, the idea of an outdoor music festival has its appeal but now everyone everywhere has to have one. Are seats and air conditioning so terrible? And who wants to spend hundreds of dollars to see a live performance when my view will be blocked by 4 millennials or Gen Z'ers who will spend the entire concert talking, or doing any and every fucking thing under the sun EXCEPT to watch the performance? Regular concerts seem to be just as bad.

Most TV shows. I don't understand why so much of it is tragedy porn (fire, police, SWAT, FBI and so on).

Fireworks.

We second Fireworks!

Drag

It bores me to death. I find it bizarre that it has become a cultural cornerstone.

On the subway I still see 2 or 3 young guys wearing pearls every day.

Poké.

I ain't eating that seaweed shit.

The Bear. Could only watch 3 episodes. All that yelling and screaming is not enjoyable.

Marathons. Why pay an exorbitant fee when you can just run the mileage for free on your own?

Movie remakes. Jesus Christ, doesn't anyone on Hollywood have original ideas?

Working Out. I still do it 3-5 times a week. I know it's good for me, I know I will feel better after doing it. I always regret not doing it.

However, someone said online that yet knowing all of this, I spend the half hour before working out acting like I am preparing to be publicly executed. I feel that.

Men's black titanium-like wedding bands. It feels like an overreaction to something shiny, like it's not manly or something.

Nothing like a black band on your finger to signify joy and commitment. I don't get it.

There are all of these jeweler websites making shit up and saying that it stands for 'strength, uniqueness and modernity'. Mmmkkayyy....

Also they look cheap.

I never got drag showers either. I especially resent the ones where they dancer around the place expecting dollars. They come off as entitled and money hungry and the whole thing feels like scammy coercion.

Caitlin Clark - such a whiny immature bitch

And I don’t like the humor.

Betty White

Dolly Parton

80s and 90s action stars - Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis. Just over the top bullshit and regressive masculinity.

James Bond is always enjoyable and manly but doesn't ever reach the douche levels of these guys.

R181 What’s your gripe with her? I find her a bit disingenuous.

T193, II don’t like people who are everywhere all the time and are anointed saints.

That nagging Darfur Orphan

Wizards and dragon shit in books and movies. Dungeons and Dragons -- funtime for lonely fatsos? Food trucks. Cruises. The whole 'princess' garbage, even if it mostly involves little kids. Group lunches and dinners in restaurants.

Florida.

Weed. Cheese. Ben & Jerry's.

AMSR ---- UGH. All those spitty mouth sounds and annoying whispering and paper-xrinkling. Showtunes.

Gamers. Game shows. Tattoos.. Unnaturally-colored hair is REALLY played out. 'Pixie' haircuts on fat-headed fraus. They're EVERYWHERE in the Midwest!

Ugly, gerry-rigged 'patios' at restaurants. Where your views of choice are :parking lots or dumpsters.

DISNEY. STARWARS.

[quote]Pixie' haircuts

Unless you have a face like Jean Seberg, forget it.

Dustin and his frucking free-tater samdwiches!

Another one for tattoos.

Gurls, 70% of Dataloungers HATE tattoos, please read OPs title.

This is the most DL Thread that evere DL'd.

Contemporary home interior design which seemingly hasn't changed much in the last 15 years...white and grey and bare and ugly.

For that matter, I hate pretty much all buildings built after about 1970. Certainly 99% of housing.

Condos. Why would you want to own a piece of a whole? You don't really own anything.

Laminate flooring. So hideous.

Marble/granite countertops.

Bowl sinks.

Spa bathrooms that look like cold sterile abortion clinics.

Modern cars. They all look alike. The expensive ones don't look much different than the slightly less expensive ones.

Several have mentioned cruises but I'll get more specific...those uglyass cruise SHIPS! They all look like they want to tip over.

The obession for the gays for ghastly Palm Springs and Puerto Vallarta.

Bottoming.

Nose piercings

Being very invested in some “group identity” - it can be pro sports related, or ethnic, religious, geographic or demographic. I’m me and have my personality, interests and dislikes - for good and for ill. I don’t need to glom onto something outside of myself to give me “validity” or a sense of worth. As you can guess, I’m also not big on the whole LGBTxyz thing either.

I've never liked Cajun food. I love spicy food, but most Cajun food tastes burnt to me. Give me a good Vindaloo or Tikka Masala!

Marble countertops; I don't hate them exactly, but they're not that great of feature over the long haul because they become dull & scratched from use. I don't get how apartments consider it some great feature, like an ocean view

Beige

I moved into a rental which is quite luxurious, compared to what I've been living in for half a decade.

However, I'll never understand why the owner put in black marble countertops. Additionally, grey, shiny subway tile was installed as a backsplash. With white cabinets.

The problem lies in the fact that this home sits on top of an ant nest (I'm sure of it) because ants are a constant companion in the kitchen, no matter how clean it's kept. The real problem lies with the fact that it's impossible to see where the ant trails stem from/lead to, so we're unable to eliminate the entry point with barriers or even poison.

First word problems, I know.

Seafood. I'll eat fish, fine, no problem, but all the other creatures of the sea are too ugly to eat.

I really hate the no-color trend in interior design.

Nobody answered "money"?

Saying "Daylight Savings Time." It's "Saving." You're saving daylight, not opening a bank account for it.

Does everyone "love" that, R209?

Death drops.

You’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it one thousand times.

Huh R211?

No one tell R212!!

Punish them for their laziness!!!!

Everybody loves Death Drops?

Being outdoors in nature. With the bugs and the bees and the fucking mosquitos and wasps. And snakes. And the grass and tree pollen. Fuck it.

Everyone in this thread does, R209. It's an in-thread joke.

Vacations.

SUMMER

I meant R210.

"The Comeback" one season was mildly entertaining

Revivals/remakes and prequels of film and TV, or most any series that runs for more than a few short seasons (there are exceptions, and great ones, but most storytelling is better done on a short run.)

White Lotus.

Cringe humor

Christopher Guest films

Arrested Development

The Golden Girls

R220 I guess that's your list of shows you DON'T love?

I agree with White Lotus and Chris Guest films. And, most cringe humor is just...cringe.

We'll disagree about Arrested Development (the original 3 seasons, not the dreadful revivals) and The Golden Girls which did have very uneven plots but hilarious scenes.

I like some cringe humor, but I never understood the love for The Office...both UK and US versions.

Friends is highly overrated. I found Lisa Kudrow annoying, so I never watched The Comeback.

Bitching about everything.

Oreos

NUTELLA.

Emma Stone. I honestly don't get the appeal.

Camping and fishing. I did both and it's boring as hell.

3 hour movies. Hollywood is getting tedious with this shit.

Nascar racing. Boring as fuck.

Yes! Long movies that don't need to be long. Ditto with documentaries. That recent Pee Wee Herman doc did NOT need to be 2 parts!

Giving blowjobs

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I find the whole combination repulsive, especially when they’re lovingly referred to as PB&J.

I haven't had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich since I was a child. I suspect that if I ate one now, I would experience a madeleine-like trigger of a buried childhood memory.

Calling sandwiches 'sandos'. I don't FUCKING CARE if that's what they say in Japan.

People who can't do anything or go anywhere without their dog/s.

R226 Are you me? Or am I you?

I was finally getting around to watching "The Brutalist" last night. That bitch is 3 and 1/2 hours long. GTFOH

I caught up on "Rick and Morty" instead

Weddings.

Alcohol - just an excuse to act like a jerk.

Pete Buttigieg's looks.

He is not hot.

Divas - Beyonce, Madonna, Taylor Swift, Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Kylie, Lady Gaga...the whole lot of them.

Giving a shit about the Emmy, Oscars, Tony and Grammy awards.

Definitely, R237. All the divas are horrible. It's even worse when people defend their taste in them as some gay genetic thing.

Mel Brooks

I second R238. Awards in general.

Spaceballs

Weed in any format.

Chocolate and peanut butter together.

Gender reveal parties. Social media has created a nation of attention-starved idiots. They go to such ridiculous lengths to outdo each other that people have been injured and died at these things.

Funerals

Marijuana Professional sports College sports

[quote] Calling sandwiches 'sandos'.

How do you feel about 'sammies'?

People who wont' let you enjoy your hot, freshly-served food until they've taken a picture for Instagram. Fuck that! I like to eat my food when served. I don't need you or anyone else to share it on social media.

Office parties/activities/get togethers, specifically those held after work. They're supposed to be down time where you can chat with coworkers you don't often see or work with. Instead, it's just work dressed as a party. Oh, and they are generally loosely referred to as voluntary but 'senior management will be attending' which is code for being voluntold to be there or face the consequences.

Starbucks. I drink decaf and that stuff tastes like it was mixed with charcoal lighter fluid. I have to add so much cream/milk that I'm basically drinking 1/4 cup of coffee and 3/4 cream/milk.

Starbucks "coffee" is one of the greatest marketing ploys of all time.

That swill they call "coffee" tastes worse than (what I imagine) hot cat piss might taste like.

Gay porn 'stars' - you're not a star and you fuck on camera for money. I don't understand some people's obsession (particularly here on DL) with this stuff since 2000.

Back when being gay was still not accepted and difficult - it was brave to be a porn star in the 70s, 80s, 90s. There just wasn't ANY depiction of gay relationships or sex anywhere except porn. And there wasn't THAT much - so of course people had their 'favorites'. That I can understand. But not now.

Schitt's Creek

Car racing...Nascar or Formula One

Pickleball

Bucket Lists

Starbucks

I'm with R252 too on Schitt's Creek

Cats

Listening to music with ear buds or headphones

Talking on your phone in public

Basketball...it is the one sport I care nothing about

Tiny little dogs

Agree, R250. That's why people add some many other flavors to it. You've gotta kill the taste of the battery acid somehow!

Listening to music all the fucking time. The people who have to wake up to music, to shower with music, to have music via ear buds on a bus on the street while working, who can't cook without music...

I've nothing against music to be hear it too often is for it to lose its appeal, its power.

Likewise DJs everywhere. Saturday afternoon at a shoe shop: DJ. Art gallery exhibit opening: DJ. A tiny home in the wall bar: DJ occupying half the navigable space. After work party: DJ. At the airport beside the paid promotional "exhibit" if somebody's latest model electric vehicle.

R256 - worse than that - my ex had to have the TV on all the time. Now that drives you nuts.

But I agree with you about the people who can't do anything without their ears buds - I think it's a way to be acceptably anti-social. But it can also be dangerous - not hearing your environment, particularly in a city, is not smart.

I mean - we had Walkmans, so it's not new - but I don't recall grown adults doing every day things with headphones on.

R123 - Of course, you don't need to love baseball....BUT:

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again."

Maybe people wear earbuds so they don't have to listen to the people who blast videos and music on their phone and don't wear earbuds.

Meh R258 - any US baseball park is filled with 20% actual baseball fans and 80% of people who want to watch something while they're enjoying a summer day.

It's a boring game with a handful of exciting moments spread out over several hours.

Smugly putting down religion.

Podcasts.

The way people who make them automatically shift their voice into the "podcast mode" of speaking just makes me CRINGE.

^There are far too many people producing podcasts now. I don't know who is listening to them all...and some are like 3 hours long??? Nobody is that interesting.

Starbucks; I absolutely loathe their coffee and the company.

This is a bit specific - but tri-color national flags.

So many countries have them and just zero identity. Worse - other countries will have the same colors just in a different order or horizontal instead of vertical.

Then some countries will throw some stupid symbol on it. Just looks lazy and uninspired. And no, I don't count Canada's flag as a tri-band - it's 2 colors and distinctive, without being plain.

I hate seeing these little flags next to people's names online or in competitions and fuck me if I'm supposed to remember the exact order of all of these tri-color tri-band flags.

[quote]Nose piercings.

Septum piercings. Uglier than sin and not one person who has one is pleasant to deal with online or off. That said, I don't mind small single understated nostril piercings - the 1990s type.

Progress flags. The septum piercing people love these hideous troon boosting, retina searing vexillogical nightmares. They look like they were designed in 2018 by a MtF "xem/xir" from Portland Ore., which they were.

I had never heard that word before, R266. Now I'm deep-diving...

R266 - I agree with you on the 'new' gay progress flag. There was nothing wrong with the old pride flag and I prefer it. It didn't discriminate against anyone.

Then seemingly overnight we have the trans flag butting in as well as brown and black for...racial injustice? Separate issues from LGB sexuality and discrimination, but everyone just nods their heads and accepts it.

road trips. Anything over 2 hours is pushing it, 3 hours max.

r269 Bus trips. Vancouver to Seattle on Greyhound was torture - the seats in the newer fleet are too low to the floor for even my 5' 3" comfort and the back is made for people at least 6'6". It also made a normally 3 hour trip a four and a half one.

I also arrived home with the beginnings of whooping cough. I thought the lady across the aisle from me had a minor garden-variety-runny-nose cold. She didn't.

Everyone doesn't seem to love bus trips, R270. Who the hell loves bus trips?

r271 I for one have been on chartered bus trips that were downright pleasant. 🤷‍♀️

Jennifer Coolidge.

She's lovely enough, but let's not fucking go nuts.

Natasha Lyonne's schtick has also grown weary.

All those gravelly voiced actresses...Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Florence Pugh, Hannah Montana...

They need to lay off the whiskey and rye.

[quote]road trips. Anything over 2 hours is pushing it, 3 hours max

I'll wave hello at the train station or airport, R269.

I'm an American by birth but completely missed out on that national trait. Anything more than an about 60 to 90 minutes I would try to invent reasons not to do. Gas stations and shitty food and bypassing anything remotely interesting for miles of highway...like Tennessee Williams, Id rather be asleep in the rear seat under a blanket. Wake me up when we have arrived because there is no pleasure in the drive.

R270 - I've done that trip! I took the train up Seattle to Vancouver, which being Amtrak too forever of course, but took the bus back. Just not great all around. However, beautiful scenery. I preferred the train - just not with a 2 hour delay.

This is going to piss people off - but multiple desk monitors at work.

For SOME jobs when you need multiple applications open at once, then I can understand. Or if you need a large monitor for design work - yep, agreed.

However, for most office workers - it's just laziness and wanting more monitors to seem important. I will grant some people want to create a privacy fortress around them in an open work plan environment - so there's that.

But all of us worked off of one screen for many many many years. And no - we had a lot of applications open then too. It's not a new phenomenon.

r266 very interesting!

My two favorite flags are the flag of Japan and the flag of New Mexico (both bicolor).

I prefer a 5 hour train ride to the arriving the recommended hours early for a one hour flight that starts late.

Sushi and Pok

Just say no to raw fish. - no, lemon does not actually cook fish. Its RAW.

Taylor Swift

Road trips? Where the fk have you been where there is nothing to see for hours? Texas? Iowa?

I love road trips with my partner. Move to California, drive up the coast, one of the most beautiful drives in the world. Especially around Carmel.

R266 - you weren't wrong about the 'designer' of the progress flag (the new gay flag that's everywhere).

Non-binary agoraphobic with mental health issues - his own words.

And everyone just latched on to it and accepted it. 40 years of the old flag being just fine, but no. They had to take the gay flag and fuck with it so THEY were seen as more important.

I hate that frickin new flag.

r277 - sorry, but I don't agree with you at all.

I've worked on computers as my main job function since the 90s and when getting a second monitor became popular, I realized just how much more efficient it was to have two monitors and be able to view two or three documents or inputs/information simultaneously instead of having to switch back and forth from one document to the next. It's a time-saver that prevents you from doing unnecessary tasks (i.e., clicking back and forth) with everything organized and visible so you can do the task at hand more efficiently and effectively. Imagine, for instance, how difficult it is to bake with only a 2 x 2 foot section of countertop to assemble ingredients, mix, roll, cut out, load onto a cookie sheet, etc. in that small space. It takes you longer to do that work with only a teeny, small space to work in

R284 - as I said - for some people it's a requirement. But for many, I see people use one just for email, which is ridiculous. I didn't say all.

Discussions about flags.

Discussions about computer monitors.

Yoga. I've tried it a few times and hated it.

Good one, r287

[quote]I hate that frickin new flag.

Your are not alone. I have noticed the last year or so that more and more actual gay establishments like bars have only used the original flag. Some look brand new too. It's mainly corporate America that has latched on Lock, stock, and barrel to the "progress" flag. We really need to start pushing back on that.

For starters, the progress flag is NOT royalty free. Technically, if you use it in any way commercially, you are supposed to be paying the creator who did this to make money not as a gift to the gay community like the original designer did of the original pride flag.

R289 - seriously? That non-binary weirdo is making money off of this?

"The Progress Pride flag, designed by Daniel Quasar, is copyrighted but with a Creative Commons license that restricts commercial use. This means that while individuals and non-profits can use the flag for non-commercial purposes like personal displays or community events without permission, commercial use (like manufacturing or selling products with the flag) requires permission from the creator"

So what we should do is appeal to businesses that they either need to pay (which they don't like if they don't have to) OR go back to the rainbow flag which is cost free. Pocketbook issues tend to drive corporations most.

Granted, r285

R289 - wait - supposedly, it is free to use except for corporations, where the fee is supposedly donated to the Progress Initiative.

First - the Progress Initiative is what? It's Daniel Quasar. It's his 'organization' that gives money to LBGT causes. How much? Don't know. If someone could find it, that would be great.

Second - he STOLE the original flag and just modified it. Although there's no copyright on the rainbow flag on purpose, this feels like theft if he has a copyright on the new one.

I really hope this isn't as bad as it sounds.

I love the FIRST version of the Original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag.

The initial design had eight stripes, with each color representing a different value: pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art and magic, indigo for serenity, and violet for spirit.

The demand was so great for a rainbow striped flag, it entered mass production by the original designer, Gilbert Baker, and local business Paramount Flag Co.it was impossible for the 8-stripe design to be made in large quantities. Both Paramount and Baker struggled to obtain the hot pink fabric and so began manufacturing a 7-stripe version.

In 1979 the design was amended again. The community finalised this six-colour version and this is now the most familiar and recognisable design for the LGBT flag. Numerous complications over the odd number of stripes, including the desire to split the flag to decorate Pride parades, meant that one colour had to be dropped.

The turquoise and indigo stripes were combined to create a royal blue stripe and it was agreed that the flag should typically be flown horizontally, with red at the top, as it would be in a natural rainbow. This design continued to increase in popularity around the world, being a focal point of landmark decisions such as John Stout fighting for his right to fly the flag from his apartment balcony in 1989.

R294 - I just found out this tidbit, which makes me even angrier. Gilbert Baker died in 2017 - not a year after he's dead, this guy decides to create a new one.

It's just disrespectful - I don't care about the 'true intention'.

The fake new Pride Flag is a piece of idiotic shit.

FLAGS. Any time I complain I'm accused of being Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory.

Which brings me to that show which repeats everwhere. Someone loves it. I have major complaints about every single character but the one that irks me the most is that nasty little blonde chick Bernadette.

Getting your hair done or a manicure

Non-sexual massage

Amusement parks

Parades

Beige and greige

Flipping a house by a cheap remodel where you paint everything white, redo the yards with succulents and a cheap deck, rocks or cactus, put in laminate wood flooring, a farm sink & subway tile, ruin the rooms with open concept and install astroturf. Get some cookie cutter new but made to look mid century decor. LOATHE and it’s everywhere

Donuts

Pastries

Everyone writing in block letters except for the live laugh love calligraphy insta font

Everyone trying an “artist” or photographer due to social media

AI you tubes. This should be required to have a label!

You don't like a fresh, hot and perfectly executed croissant, r298?

Yeah...not liking pastry.

It's...insanity.

Metal water bottles, Hydroflasks, Kleen Kanteens, Stanley mugs, etc.

[quote]Everyone writing in block letters except for the live laugh love calligraphy insta font

I know of no one who likes that

Did anyone say the works of Larry David?

I was tortured at work with replays of every Seinfeld episode - as bad as Friends.

I had night school, so I didn’t get fresh television; I had dipshits at work ruining it for me. When I finally saw an episode, I thought my coworkers used the material better than the actors.

[quote]Metal water bottles, Hydroflasks, Kleen Kanteens, Stanley mugs, etc.

The Stanley craze is incredibly stupid, but what do you want people to do, die of dehydration? Buy single-use plastic bottles?

pet rocks

Anyone who plays slots or candy crush on their phones. At least do a thinking game like draw poker.

S’mores

Girl Scout cookies

Facebook. I have to have a couple of cocktails to even open it. I have no use for SM personally, but if I have to I liked yahoo groups. Nothing has really replaced it.

Casinos

Sourdough

Brioche

[quote]sourdough

For several years during my childhood we had an in-ground outdoor pool and delightful summer pool parties complete with food and drinks. One time somebody brought a sourdough round with spinach dip in the middle.

The dip wasn't terrible but the tanginess of the bread shocked me. "What is WRONG with this bread?!?" I thought as I spat it into my napkin.

I like it now. It's definitely an aquired taste.

"The Golden Girls." I can understand its appeal, but I just find it so formulaic, I can practically hear the gears clicking into place. Blanche is a slut! Rose is sweet but a dumbbell! Sophia is the queen of the one-liners! Lather, rinse and repeat.

Twinks

Sourdough is ok once in awhile, like a crusty slice alongside a soup or something, but the whole sourdough everything craze is bizarre. Brioche sucks

[quote]Beige and greige

[quote]Flipping a house by a cheap remodel where you paint everything white, redo the yards with succulents and a cheap deck, rocks or cactus, put in laminate wood flooring, a farm sink & subway tile, ruin the rooms with open concept and install astroturf. Get some cookie cutter new but made to look mid century decor. LOATHE and it’s everywhere

R298 even though I love many of the other things on your list I had to upvote you for these two, especially the beige and griege, so dull and uninspiring.

311: The fact that its so formulaic and predicable - you know exactly what every punch line is before it's said - is one thing that makes it so popular.

picnics and Barbeques. I hate eating outdoors, I hate ants and flies. Flies most of all. They disgust me.

Barbecues where everyone is eating off flimsy paper plates, with potato salad sitting out in the heat for hours, the smell of lighter fluid and charcoal, flies and bees and wasps (oh my!). What's not to love?

Food. I dont even like chewing. I guess im missing out on so much. Food and eating is a great love for many; but id take a pill if i cud.

You also seem to have an aversion to punctuation and spelling, r318.

I'm okay with family barbecues but don't understand how baked beans = barbecue. I don't see how they go with hot dogs, hamburgers, and/or ribs.

Baked beans are cheap filler and they spread across the plate and get the hamburger/hot dog bun wet. No thank you.

I absolutely love baked beans with burgers or hot dogs or ribs. Delicious.

But I'm a bean lover.

To R321-Seriously

To R322-I absolutely agree with you, I love Baked Beans.

r323 yup, I gained a real love for homemade baked beans when I moved to the East Coast and lived there for about 10 years, where baked beans played a major role at summer bbqs. Delicious!

Colored people from the voodoo islands!!

r314 A new commercial building on my street is charcoal grey, nearly black. It's like yesteryear's teen goths went into design and successly lobbied their colour scheme onto society.

The Brits eat baked beans for breakfast.

[quote]Food. I dont even like chewing. I guess im missing out on so much. Food and eating is a great love for many; but id take a pill if i cud.

Can I have yours?

R326 There’s an enormous newly built two-family side-by-side house one street over from us that is painted charcoal with a black mansard roofline.

People call it Darth Vader’s helmet.

[R329] j’adore a mansard roof ala haussmann.

R326 - that's what all the McDonalds look like now. So inviting....

Summer.

Raymond.

Beyoncé. Forgive me if she’s been mentioned before.

I mean, we all have a long list of celebs we can't stand but I just saw a clip from the ghastly Jennifer Hudson show so that triggered me.

The truly revolting Jennifer Hudson.

Smoked salmon. The smoke flavor is too strong and the salmon always tastes very fishy. Fresh salmon doesn't taste that fishy to me.

Antimacassars.

[quote]311: The fact that its so formulaic and predicable - you know exactly what every punch line is before it's said - is one thing that makes it so popular.

I don't question its popularity for a moment. It just never appealed to me. Isn't that the whole point of this thread?

Manis/pedis. I guess the results are fine, but I find it really uncomfortable to have a total stranger in that kind of proximity to my nails for the time it takes. I just don't want that kind of relationship with anyone.

I also don't like cookies or pie. I love ice cream (and eat it year round) and chocolates, too, but cookies and pie are a waste of the indulgence that is dessert.

People who are either shirtless or in tank tops at home year round. Or, worse, nude.

I get it in summer but...how high is your thermostat set in your house to be that undressed in winter?

Even if you have nice arms/shoulders...we don't need to see that year round...buy a damn shirt with sleeves.

Broccoli

R334 - seriously. I can't stand BeYAWNce. I can't figure out why she's been so popular all these years.

I also feel similarly about Taylor Swift.

R339 I feel you!

r340 I had a Chinese roommate in grad school. We lived in an apartment with hydronic baseboard heating which we didn't pay for. He would set the heat to 85-90 degrees -- basically, as hot at it would go -- and walk around in tank tops and shorts. Why? Because the heat was "free."

outside. I hate outside.

R344 He'd have to go.

No way am I living in an apartment that fucking hot.

[quote]R344 He'd have to go.

I'm pretty sure that homicide would be justifiable in a case like that.

The Kardashians &,Jenners & their love interests. I don’t want to see or hear about them.

cunnilingus

R346: I'm in Florida. I'll die in debt before the AC goes above 72.

Florida and Texas would both be examples of places that millions seem to love yet...

Tattoos, multiple piercings, and especially nose rings

[quote]- he STOLE the original flag and just modified it. Although there's no copyright on the rainbow flag on purpose, this feels like theft if he has a copyright on the new one.

That's a good point. I wish someone would take him to court over this. Even if it didn't go far, it might just be enough to scare off the fake corporate embrace of diversity buy using his flag instead of the original.

Stop bitching about it Elder Gay, we know a lot of you come here to brag about how much money you have. Put it to good use for a change.

R350 - I'm in Southern California (not L.A.) and I feel the same! I just run hot and I refuse to be uncomfortable in my own house.

A/C is just not one of things to skimp on.

I agree about brioche. I’m not eating my steak seasoned hamburg on a sweet roll. Same goes for Kings Hawaiian anything. I don’t like sweet bread with a savory sandwich. That’s what Miracle Whip is for.

German style Potato Salad.

I like my potato salad to actually taste like potatoes, creamy and cool; NOT vinegar, mustard and sugar. 🤮🤮🤮

Sunscreen that doesn't have a white cast. I'm pale and I don't care.

Stephanie Ruhle. Useless for anything other than financial commentary.

Bluetooth. It makes you look like you're talking to yourself.

Smashburgers. I can't eat meat but when I did, I liked it bloody.

Tater tots. Sue me.

Jimmy Fallon.

Progressives who vote their conscience.

Music festivals

Gay bars

Dogs

Weed

Dogs

Dogs off leash

Dogs in the store

Pit bulls

Pit bull advocates

Cats

Cat hair

Cat poop

Cat urine smell in apartments

Cat litter

Cats who poop and than sit in your lap full of cat litter dust

Toxoplasmosis

[quote]People who are either shirtless or in tank tops at home.

That made me laugh! Reminds me of growing up and my dad, who was a hairy like an ape, always went shirtless around the house. When visitors would come over he would start talking to them until my horrified mom would yell at him to go put on a shirt.

Champagne, wine, and beer. I'd rather take a shot of tequila.

R17-I do not get the STARBUCKS love, never did!!

Coffee is bitter& always had the nasty aftertaste.

I do LOVE fucking their hot male baristas& their clientele in the SB bathrooms.

r360 = Lassie

Myself.

Entertainment award shows.

R364 It’s disgusting. Anyone who loves it gets 2 points off their 0-10 rating.

Not R364, R363. Lassie is ine of the few dogs I’ll tolerate.

I am R363. Sorry, I got carried away. There actually one cat I like. But I have a friend whose entire vast library smells like cat ore because they are all over it.

I love cats. (well, most of them. I've met a couple asshole cats in my life...)

I hate bad cat owners.

With dogs, it's "I like many dogs and love a few. Hate some, too"

And, there are a lot of bad or just annoying dog owners.

The stupidity of Joe Rogan, all the bro podcasters and their ignorance of basic civics and poliics.

Toxic tiny-dick masculinity.

This is one of the rare threads where I had fun hitting the WW/FF button just to see how much some of these things are actually hated.

NOTE - Don't list more than one hated thing per post, it splits the hate.

The Facts of Life

Fingernails and toenails,

Mass transit buses. Just get your fat, lumbering ASSES off the streets!!!!

Macarons

Coconut

Smartphones.

Garlic

Remember CAKEBALLS? Are those still around? Sugary feces on a stick!!!!

Drag Race. Why is it everywhere?

The new pride flag. It looks like shit. I love the old pride flag. A thing of beauty.

Bob Dylan. The most nasal sound in the world. It hurts my ears. I have a friend who would travel the world to hear him. I just nod when he talks about him.

Another for eating al fresco. I remember a late hot night in Trastevere and the outside tables were packed. I was like I NEED AIR CONDITIONING! We were the only ones inside the large restaurant.

Bruce Springston. His music sound like second rate rock. It's not terrible but neither is it good. But what the hell do I know? He's an icon and one of the most beloved rock musicians.

Fireworks

Citizen Kane. I prefer The Magnificent Ambersons.

Steven Spielberg and what's his face Star War movies.

Oh yeah, George Lucas.

You find them at Starbucks, R381.

[quote]Coconut

Quite a few people seem to dislike coconut.

[quote]Bruce Springston

Oh dear!

R383 - I've been perplexed by anyone's love for Bob Dylan's voice all my life. Great songwriter? Sure! Let Baez sing them for you, though.

I agree. Same with the Beatles. Their songs are universally covered for a good reason, but the singing and even the “catchy” arrangements mystify me as to why they are liked

Mozart

Dudeldoo doodledee dudeldoor, Doodledee dudeldoo dum! Dudeldoo doodledee dudeldoo, Doodledee doodledee bum! Dudeldoo dudeldoo doodledee dum, Doodledee doodledee doo. Dudeldoo doodledee doodledee dum — Dudeldoo doo, woo hoo!

r392=Salieri

Cats I can tolerate, but PUSSY? Never.

r392 = the ghost of Antonio Salieri

I'm not a huge fan of Mozart's music either (or, more precisely, his operas) even though I do listen to a lot of classical music. I find them too flowery, with the worst curlicued excesses of the baroque era. My partner is a big fan, so I quietly tolerate listening to them.

Bach > Mozart

The whole childlish, creepy nexus of androgyny that includes anime/manga and KPop.

Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, both separately and as a novelty pairing.

Any time I mention how much I hate bats, I get the whole "but they eat mosquitoes!" argument. They are ugly, creepy, and in the Northeast, I'd give them a C- on mosquito-eating.

r400 I hate the seemingly erratic way that bats fly (compared to bird flight). I don't know why, but it causes me considerable anxiety.

R401, uh, and “everyone else” likes it?

Did I claim everyone else likes it, r402? I did not. I simply offered a response to another poster.

Giardineira, kimchi, the devotion to all things pickled or made with pickle juice

Designer waters that come in cans

Sex and the City

Sauced garbanzos passing for stew

Stephen King wrote 3 or 4 good books in the 70s then went straight into the shitter for the next 50 years.

Celine Dion

Angela Lansbury

[quote] Stephen King wrote 3 or 4 good books in the 70s then went straight into the shitter for the next 50 years.

Misery was written in the 80s and it's his best work, imo. 11/22/63 is also very highly regarded.

11/22/63 like many King novels written after he got famous, rich, and powerful, is in desperate need of editing.

Babs

Aretha Franklin

[quote]Things that everyone seems to love ... except you

Thing. Just the one.

“Kettle” potato chips.

Blondes.

Female or male, they tend to be cunts.

The Mini Cooper.

Cute but coyly so.

Ridiculously over priced.

Constantly in the shop.

reality TV

Meat, dairy, beans, sweets, sushi, vegetables.

The Sturniolos Brothers

[quote]Meat, dairy, beans, sweets, sushi, vegetables.

So what foods do you like, R417. Not much left after that.

R417 - So it's a water and semen diet for you?

Hook-ups

I don't like a deep contralto

Or a man whose is alto

Zip

I'm a heterosexual.

Should be 'or a man whose voice is alto.'

R423 You DON’T want to see Zorina or meet Cobina?

Why not?

RuPaul

There I said it, yes I am gay, so tired of drag. it used to be funny and special, drag queens had really sharp senses of humor. Now it's just as boring and mainstream as a trip to Walmart.

I don't care for either Mickey Mouse

Or Rooney makes me sickie.

Snoopy. Once Charles Schulz got a divorce from his first wife, he started focusing on featuring Snoopy more, at the expense of interesting human characters who eventually disappeared. The interaction between Charlie Brown and his friends was always interesting, with hints of pathos, overcoming insecurity, and dealing with personality differences. I guess the marketing of Snoopy plush dolls, snow cone machines, and toys made more money for him. Snoopy was no longer lovable—he became a snotty bitch to the human characters, and adding his siblings made the comic strip boring.

[quote]The Sturniolos Brothers

"Everyone" doesn't even know who these people are.

R428 they grew up down the street from me. The kid who shovels the snow for us went to school with them and had to tell me who they are. He didn’t know who they were then, either.

Fireworks

R425 - I'm fine with RuPaul - but I'm not fine with the C and D grade quality of drag that has been foisted upon us.

Drag is an art medium - and like all people wanting to go into arts, there are those with supreme talent, some middling, and a lot of people who really don't have a knack for it but like to do it anyway.

It's the latter group that we need some quality control on. Instead we have every gay man who is awkward and who used to sing into a hairbrush in their room jumping on stage to get attention that they would never get in real life.

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but it just feels like an attention grab by 80% of them. And no, I don't think kids should be doing drag.

"Buffalo" anything.

R432 - Not even my gals??

My stance r432 ?

Not even my bleak childhood?

Disney's short cartoons with Mickey Mouse and Friends

Bland and simpering.

Versus Warner Brothers hilarious Looney Tunes which were snarky and hilarious.

Overly muscled men.

Like fucking a fire hydrant.

And, anyone who spends that much time in a gym is a moron.

[quote]"Buffalo" anything.

What did I ever do to you?

R432 - What?!

But, but, I'm smooth and creamy and go with almost anything!!!

Don't confuse me with my bastard cousin Buffalo Seasoning - I don't know her and never even saw her at the reunions.

She just showed up one year and we were all like - Who dis woman, Harpo?

Don't take it out on us.

Maya Rudolph.

She's just not funny.

Donald Duck. I say this because I loved the original Donald Duck. He was so nasty and had no redeeming qualities whatsoever and a temper for 10. Very thin and noisy and very irritable. You can see him in wonderful cartoons from the 30s like The Band Concert and Mickey's Fire Brigade. Hilarious brilliant stuff. Towards the thirties Disney plumped him up and despite his outbursts made him lovable. But the original is one of my favorite cartoon characters. But you weren't going to make popular merchandise from him he was so unpleasant.

Burgers. Might as well just buy a butt plug. // Fried eggs DUMPED on everything. Salted caramel everywhere.

Nashville Barbie, aka. Taylor Swift.

We went from Madonna, Michael, Prince, Bowie, etc...to that.

Pop is dead.

I love the way the food fads of the cognoscenti (like salted caramel) trickle down and become debased by the peasants.

[quote]Burgers. Might as well just buy a butt plug. // Fried eggs DUMPED on everything. Salted caramel everywhere.

A haiku that took a bad turn? I have no idea of what any part of this meaans.

Yes, please R443...at least explain the burgers and butt plug analogy?

Going all the way back to OP, I agree with Farmers Markets. I go because I can get fresh produce and other things, but I go right when it opens and run through quickly - before all the people with kids and dogs get there and things start getting too crowded.

r448 I thought of this thread this morning as I drove past a farmers market teeming with people