Things that everyone still seems to love ... except you

Avocado toast

Fucking cold bean salad.

Pickleball.

Ina Garten.

I like many of her recipes but she herself is very off putting. So fake. And, her delusions about Jeffrey really are odd to behold.

Dame Edna.

Christopher Guest movies.

So cloying. Especially HIM.

Marvel and DC comic films. If you have kids/teenagers, ok - fine. But as a grown adult?

I never understood gaming culture either. We had a lot of video games in the 80s and I know the new versions are totally different, but still - it's just a gaming system?

Also Disney for adults - the 'magic' of the parks is lost on me as an adult. They're clean and can be fun - but, without kids, to spend your vacation there?

I know I sound very condescending - but these things are for kids, teens and very young adults. You're supposed to outgrow this.

Yes I know - super judgey and it's not hurting anyone. But it's creepy to me - it's like older women with doll collections and men with baseball card collections.

Wilco.

Fucking Wilco.

Connie Francis

Sex.

I think I've had sufficient.

[qoote]Also Disney for adults - the 'magic' of the parks is lost on me as an adult. They're clean and can be fun - but, without kids, to spend your vacation there?

I recently went to Universal Hollywood (I'm 48). I went more for the studio tour, but the entire tour also included fast pass to the popular rides so I went.

Did I have fun? Yes.

Would I do it multiple times a year? No.

The Hollywood Horror nights look interesting, and I would like to try that out sometime.

R11 - Ngl, Universal Hollywood has been on my list for awhile - I think that's very different than Disney. I still love amusement parks - and Universal seems like a pop-culture amusement park - plus it's a studio set.

I'm talking Disneyland, Disney world/Magic Kingdom - staying IN the park in Orlando - that stuff.

I would totally do what you did and want to. How much was the studio tour and fast path?

Cars Land at Disney's California Adventure...one of the best places to be

...when the sun starts to set and those neon lights in Radiator Springs kick on 🤩 Ask a cast member when the neon lighting “ceremony” is and don’t miss it!! 🏎🏎🏎✨✨

The word 'queer'.

Public transport. I do not enjoy hoi polloi.

Bleu cheese.

Being a car passenger.

That reminds me how much I dislike driving. Used to love it.

This one is rather specific: Caitlin Doughty and her Bettie Page aesthetic.

[quote]Dame Edna.

Have you noticed that she makes fewer appearances since her death?

Star Trek and all its incarnations.

Star Wars and all its incarnations.

M

venetian blinds.

Lollipop

I signed up for the VIP tour R12, and it as $399. That included a private tour of the studio, lunch at Moulin Rouge, and we rode each ride once completely skipping the line (like we even just walked past the people in the fast pass lane).

Mine started at 9, and was done by around 3. You then had a fast pass for the rest of the day.

I thought it was worth it for a one-time thing.

Gray plank flooring.

Open floor plans.

Big box stores except for Costco.

Minimalistic decor.

White walls.

Shelving over toilets.

Lab grown "gemstones".

Kitchen cabinets without doors. All that cooking grease and dust just means constantly cleaning your dishes; even the ones you don't use often.

Cacti indoors

The resurgence of macrame (why couldn't it stay buried?)

Hipster hats like women's floppy hats and men in long, folding over slouchy knit beanies that look like a loose sock

Podcasts

Brachycephalic dogs

R28 - I agree with you about the macrame and the overgrown house plant BS from the last 10 years. It looks awful and the tens of houseplants looks messy and without reason.

This shit looks awful. No restraint - just a ton of assorted house plants taking up way too much room and creating visual clutter. I don't understand it.

Oh and I think (I hope) the animal skull adornment is finally done.

And cottage core can kiss my ass - I just see Grandma and cheap old second-hand furniture that nobody wants anymore.

The vast majority of modern Broadway musicals.

Gypsy!!!!!

Rollercoasters or any other rides that take you off the ground.

Taylor Swift, Stanley cups, Yeti cups. All the basic AF all American crap I usually hate. Anything that goes viral, etc.

Stainless steel appliances - we have them but I actually much prefer white. Dark wood floors. Leather furniture. Shorts. Logos for companies on clothing.

Grocery home delivery. I don't like someone to see, and worse, comment on my purchases.

^Grocery delivery was useful during Covid, but I prefer doing my own shopping. Also food delivery apps - never used them. It's one thing to order a pizza or something occasionally, but I don't understand people who are so lazy that they have to order food multiple times a week. It gets expensive too.

The look of bodybuilders on gear.

Amusement parks of any stripe and the adult freaks who like them

Barbeque (flavor & event)

Road trips

Musicals

Divas

Clean lines

People who think Ikea is a one-stop lifestyle shopping center

People who don't have art or anything interesting in their houses or make any effort at all

Moisturizer queens (you can see them coming from the sheen)

R37 I'd rather have a plain house with no art and basic, than someone with god awful taste and horrid art, who's really committed to it.

R38, you have a good point in that choice - and if the difference turns on money, all the more so.

Maybe I lived too long in a city where educated people bought very expensive houses and never missed an opportunity to brag about how much they paid, yet for all their worldliness they decorated their houses like a college student on a financial needs based scholarship. If you're an accountant, it's forgivable. If you're head of a major arts organization, it's criminal

Alcohol - I've never gotten the taste for it. Just give me a soft drink and I'm happy.

Music on tv shows over dialogue to tell us this is a poignant moment. the plucked guitar or one note piano. I'm looking at you, Party of five.

And speaking of party of five - Jeremy London.

Orvillle Peck's stupid fucking mask.

Beards. I am so fucking tired of beards.

[quote]Beards. I am so fucking tired of beards.

Then I suggest that you not grow one.

This would have been a much less successful thread if it was called "Things that everyone still seems to love ... including you."

Salted caramel…and also add pumpkin spice and red velvet anything to that list. Although I wouldn’t say I hate these flavours, they would never be my first choice. I’ll eat them if offered to be polite but very meh.

Matcha this matcha that.

R47 ick, salt and caramel, two things I do not like the taste of. Mixing the two is not an improvement

I'm not sure that almost everyone still seems to love pumpkin spice, R47. It's so overdone every fall, it's become something of a joke.

Recipes that contain the words "marry me."

Traitors. Never watched and never will.

Recipe titles that contain the word “crack."

"cooking with crack" - is that really a thing?

I think adding the word “crack” to recipes is a cutesy frau thing, as in “it’s so delicious, it’s addictive, like CRACK!”

Examples: chocolate crack cookies, caramel crack pie, crock pot crack potatoes, bourbon crack chicken… Maybe even crack veggies with EVOO. Squee!

Engagement Chicken

Marry-Me Pot Roast

No-Peek Beef Tips

Cowboy Crack Dip

Better than Sex Mug Cake

Funeral potatoes

I don't know if everyone loves them, but olives - can't stand them.

I didn't start to like olives until I was about 50. Now, I love them.

Still loathe beets. And, licorice.

Chappell Roan

The "Grease" Soundtrack

Cake pops

Spiral curled hair extensions with chopped ends

Netflix

Fortunately, cake pops seem to have came and very quickly went away.

Because they were so stupid.

I would know it is time to die if I ever spent 399.00 on a one day pass at a theme park.

I did a search and didn't find root beer.

Blech, I hate it.

However, I do like Dr. Pepper once in a blue moon.

Cupcakes. Too messy. Cake should be eaten with a fork.

The Crack Shack is a chicken restaurant in a former Big Boy’s. I wouldn’t set foot in there.

Seafood of any kind.

The sun.

Road trips

Lakes

A kitchen just like everyone else's

Arena or stadium concerts

Red velvet cake

Wearing black (fine on other people, but I feel like an undertaker’s mute in black)

Tattoos (again fine on other people, but I’d never get one myself)

Beaches - I like an ocean view, but I don’t actually enjoy laying out on the beach for hours at a time.

Monochromatic interiors - somehow both fussy and lazy (and there’s nothing worse than a room full of a bunch of subtly clashing off-whites)

Furbaby sofa protection covers - usually a weird micro suede or chenille

Chia seeds

Lady Gaga in every episode American Horror Story, except maybe two in “Hotel”

Etro and Versace - something to wear as you’re sucking dick through a chain link fence down at the casino..

R70 - monochromatic interiors and dressing in black is the same for me - no style, boring and lacks imagination. The few times it's done well, I always think - but what if was done with a different color palette or same clothes but with different colors and/patterns.

Granted, I live in a very sunny, warm year-round location now. I used to own a lot of black, grey, dark navy clothes when I lived in NYC and Chicago. Now when I visit there, it's all I see - very little color and soooo many black coats and outerwear.

Why do we do it? It's like it just adds to the bad winter experience - no greenery, cold weather, gray skies and - let's just match it with dark clothes.

Dark outfits just look and feel wrong in a sunny climate. But it should also be the same in a cold, winter climate - yet it's the norm.

Camping.

Do you mean the kind of camping that doesn't involve tents, R73?

In n Out Burgers

Chick-fil-A

Any kind of camping. Tents or RV's. All suck.

Grilled foods; I can taste the accelerant and the grill always looks nasty.

Taste the meat and not the heat - Hank Hill

It’s over now but the bouclé furniture trend during the COVID years was a hard no for me: “do you want a chair that looks like a pilling Macy’s sweater that will snag every time you sit on it?”

Granite counter tops and Shaker cabinets. So ubiquitous for the last 20 years why do people still put this in their new kitchens?

sugar cookies. Why???

This shit right here - that's what I'm talking about. The tasteless high-calorie sugary absolute WASTE of calories.

If you bring this to any event, consider our friendship irretrievably broken.

I adore black (hides so many things that need hiding...) and it CAN be boring but it's because people don't really know how to style themselves. And, I agree that black doesn't really work well in hot climates. Which is one of the reasons I hate hot climates.

Meanwhile, I hate 98% of hot climate clothes. It's all ugly shorts and ugly sleeveless shirts and ghastly bucket hats and dirty athletic shoes. If it's crisp white linen and gaily colored shirts with smart shoes/sandals then yum but you really only see that in films and on fashion runways....in the real world it's people wearing ugly cargo shorts and tank tops from Old Navy or Marshalls.

R82 - you're hanging out in Florida too much. You're describing lower middle class fashion.

And sunny climate does not necessarily = hot and humid. On the east coast, yes, but not on the west coast.

Tomatoes, most fish.

Unless camping involves cabins like these 19thC Adirondack numbers, I'll pass.

R83 I've never been to Florida.

I live on the West Coast, though on the upper part so it's not too bad. Still...I cut down on my black wardrobe in July and August quite drastically. Black is usually my largest laundry load, by far, for 8 to 9 months of the year.

Yes...we have humidity. Not as bad as Florida but Southern California can get quite unpleasantly muggy thanks to all the stupid non native plants people brought to the region.

The Olympics - massive black holes of corruption and eye-watering public expense on what is essentially a make work project for a cadre of euro trash jock-sniffers.

Marijuana - eat an entire pepperoni and mushroom pizza and then spend the next hour spinning out about all the ways your appliances could catch on fire before falling asleep sitting up on the couch.

Award Shows - the format died in the mid-2000s, except for the Tony Awards and the AVN awards, which are still “awards night at Camp Chippewa” parochial enough to be endearingly campy, the rest of are deeply embarrassing zombie versions of what they were 30 years ago.

R87 - you're taking the wrong marijuana. There are 2 types and lots of variations in mood and effects.

Agree sbout The Olympics r87

The movie Clue.

It's stupid.

Every hospital and police/crime show on television - ER, Gray's Anatomy, Chicago Hope, Law & Order and it's different variations.

It's lazy - open the newspaper, pick up a medical or criminal case - and off you go writing an episode.

With all the negative shit we have to deal with - why add more with traumatic medical events and fucked-up injustice stories? And - multiple decades in - hasn't every story line been done a MILLION times?

I don't understand the appeal. At all. You've seen all of this over and over before - yet they still get good ratings.

Filipino and Peruvian food. Sorry.

R33 MARY!

Oooops comment was actually meant for r34. Apologies r33.

R4, remember when she was approached by The Make A Wish foundation THREE TIMES. Some dying kid loved her and wanted to bake with her and she said NO. She said no THREE TIMES. Until it leaked to the press and then she couldn’t agree fast enough.

The family passed on her offer saying they’d moved on.

She’s an absolute cunt.

Hot honey

The incident at R95 may be the only thing that makes me almost like the fat giggly bitch.

I hope they have a special freezer filled with boil bags that are reserved for ugly American tourists who wear hats at the table.

"Bloom County."

A complete ripoff of Doonesbury that thinks it's edgy when it's just sickeningly twee.

Labubu - I can't believe grown ass adults are falling for this shit again, just like Beanie Babies.

How the fuck did this become a thing?

$4,000USD for this shit?

Jenna Ortega.

She just screams: CUNT.

And, Wednesday is an awful show. It's Harry Potter with a cunty female as the lead.

No one will ever top Christina Ricci's Wednesday.

Nordic noir - dreary and depressing.

"Dancing" water fountain shows with cheesy music.

Saunas

Betty White

Hummus

Avatar

Shake Shack

Bernie Sanders

Sushi

Saint-Tropez, Ibiza and Portofino

Sushi

Poke Bowls

Ramen

Love ramen, poke bowls, sushi.

Hate toys hanging off designer bags.

Shows with layer upon layer of plot that never seem to go anywhere (but have rabid online communities devoted to analyzing every twist and turn) making me wonder if the showrunners have lost control of their stories—thinking of Lost, Severence, Mr. Robot, Westworld, etc.

Ironically R107, the same people who have toys on designer bags are the same shallow fad followers of those who love poke bowls and Ramen.

Not this buckaroo

Flopyoncé

R108 I always heard Mr Robot was excellent. Is it not true?

Bananas - can't stand them.

Mr. Robot was great! I don't think it was lost in anyway, the end kind of summed up the seasons and plot.

Spoiler Alert: Mr Robot has nothing to do with robots. It was the name of his father's computer repair store in the 80's. The series is about a drug addicted computer hacker that hacks into peoples stuff for good. Sort of like Dexter without the murder. At one point he hacks into his shrinks computer and finds out she's in an abusive relationship and does something about it. You don't need to know anything about computers to get it.

Drew Barrymore is annoying the fuck out of me.

What is wrong with her?

She's so cloying.

Drew Barrymore is one of the biggest phonies in the biz. Obnoxious to all the "little people" and I don't mean the ones in Oz.

Mystery novels. Even a really well written one. There's something disappointing about them to me.

Charlie Kirk

The youth obsession with Korean culture. K-this, K-that--enough.

Every Western generation seems to fetishize a different Asian culture.

Fuck Royal Kingdom and the celebs who shill it. Love Korean skin care, Indifferent to the music.

I'm not mourning Robert Redford.

He had a hairy blond hotness I liked, when he was young and hot but he was a boring actor.

An ok director.

R44, I’m a lesbian, so what I say about men probably doesn’t matter much here, but I’m so tired of seeing beards on everyone. Some just can’t pull it off. I dislike stubble, too. Sloppy and unattractive to me.

Seeing a clean-shaven man is so rare these days, but such a man really does stand out. In a good way, I think. Again, I only look at men as I look at art.

As a gay man, I have to point out to R122 that I hate beards/facial hair on women.

Ugh.

Disney World. It was meant for children but it seems more adults go there. Grow the fuck up.

[quote]Disney World. It was meant for children but it seems more adults go there.

Have you any idea what it costs to go there?

Christmas markets. Crowded, full of overpriced made in China tat. Long lines just to stand around in the cold eating sausages and drinking mulled wine.

June Squibb.

I've had sufficient.

Commercial television

These are movie that look their best on a big screen but are Barry Lyndon, Out of Africa, Around the World in 80 Days, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World worth watching under any circumstances?

Raw fish, Sushi, Poke etc. Man invented fire for a reason. It made everything taste better. USE IT.

The movie Wicked

Also, the musical Wicked.

And, the book.

The book was a great idea but Maguire is not a great writer. He rambles.

Pasta.

Overrated.

And, I prefer Asian noodle dishes to Italian.

Studio Ghibli.

Eating outside.

Brunch

I am the opposite R133, cant stand Asian Nooooodls. Always over cooked and mushy.

r129 Yes. Even if various movies are not to a person's own taste, they can be worth experiencing on another level as something broadening, as cultural touchstones, and as insights into other times, other places.

Halloween

Christmas

I totally loathe all those male celebs/public figures who get married with chicks and have kids, and at some point of their lives, they eventually reveal they are bisexual, when it's more than obvious they won't be publicly dating another man.

R138 I'll watch the History Channel for National Geographic instead if that's what I'm looking for

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys

LaCroix or any sparking waters. Yuck!

Dolly Parton

Bacon

hostas

Horchata

Smoked salmon--tastes like fishy smoke

I'm shocked that no one "rebuts" on this thread...no, "you couldn't be more wrong about smoked salmon, bitch!" comebacks.

So, I guess kudos to us for respecting the nature and format of the thread?

High fives and fist bumps.

R149 These and the "underwhelm me" threads are where we go when we have no fight left in us.

Threads about Brenda Dickson.

Cheap colored help from those voodoo Islands!

Twinks on the rise in Hollywood.

R133 "Pasta" R148 "Smoked Salmon" and the one who doesn't like olives.

Are you five years old?

-DEI

If you don't like cured fish I assume you're gentile. Nothing wrong with that.

Cookies are massively overrated.

Dolly in here is a bridge too far.

I said pasta is overrated.

It is. Mushy wheat dough covered in a sauce that has to work too hard.

I apparently opened a can of worms with my "people don't rebut on this thread" comment...

I also agree cookies are overrated. There's a lot of terrible cookies out there. Though, when they're good, they're amazing.

Mel Brooks except for Young Frankenstein...which, he isn't in thus it's terrific.

Watches. Now that we have phones with a clock, why do we need them?

No place to put your phone at the orgy.

Lidia Bastianich

Sushi

Coffee and its culture

Michelle Obama

Chanel

The British Royal Family

Taylor Swift

Joe Rogan

The Super Bowl, there I said it.

I don't care how trendy it's become for gays to pretend they are all sports bros now, other than the commercials, the Super Bowl is boring AF.

r161 because in some situations I'd rather know the time without taking out my phone.

British Royal Family

A more boring group I have never heard of. I was raised with Diana and her tormentors, a brief respite than Will & Kate and their excruciating long engagement and, later, adorable children. Then the chaos of Harry and his wife.

Now—boredom!

Cher. Average singer and average actress. Where would she be without Bob Mackie?

R170, its more like where would Bob Mackie be without Cher. She made him a household name. Not just famous among fashion elites.

Fucking ADULTS who go ape-shit over any and everything DISNEY or STARWARS. For Pete's SAKES!!!!

Oversized, sloppy, syrup-y coffee drinks and the stupid cows who slurp at them all day.

Strappy sandals on dough-y-looking FAT HOCKS

Blonde women.

96% of them are dumb cunts.

Blonde men, being rarer, and REAL blonde men, very rare indeed are also usually awful but more just dumb.

Peter Sellers

I think Cher might be a real dumb bunny.

Chicken wings

BEER

Can't stand it, all tastes the same to me, bitter, watered down and bloats like nothing else.

The films of the massively overrated Wes Anderson.

"Clean lines"

Low ceilings

Flat pack furniture

Houses without entry halls

Houses with too many bathrooms

Garage doors visible from a house or street

Bookshelves filled with 90% non-books

A sea of neutrals

Dine-in movie theaters.

Cruises.

Open floor design.

R182 OMG! We might be twins separated at birth! Same with R183!

Home design wise, I'd have to add:

Dry wall (HAAAAAAAAATE it)

Marble countertops

Ugly overhead light fixtures

As for the "too many bathrooms", my question is, "WHO IS CLEANING ALL THESE GAWDAMNED BATHROOMS?!?!?!?" Because, I'm not.

As for the "open floor plan", it always cracks me up when I hear that on real estate videos when the idiot agent starts gushing over the joy of having the open kitchen/dining/living room design so that family and guests can interact with the person cooking the dinner, and all I can say is, pretty much every cook I've known really just wants to be left the fuck alone while they concentrate on making the food. People babbling at me while I'm trying to make risotto is fucking annoying and distracting.

[quote]People babbling at me while I'm trying to make risotto is fucking annoying and distracting.

I am the same way, but to be fair, a lot of people see cooking as a social event, not a chore. I am Italian so people except me to be drinking red wine, playing Italian music, singing and socializing while I make tomato sauce. When I tell them I cant think or cook like that they get offended. Like I destroyed their fantasy.

R185 People who see cooking as a social event are probably not cooks themselves...they're moochers.

If you're cook who likes to be a "star" while doing your thing, then you're probably a narcissist.

185, if you have guests that get offended because you're not entertaining them while cooking, I would hope you remove them from your guest list. The audacity!

If you invite people to your home, isn't it your job as host to entertain your guests? I am not saying you have to preform while cooking but it is the expected courtesy or undertone when you invite someone over for dinner?

The title of this thread is not "Question other people's choice" so let's not get derailed.

Sports arenas and everything that happens in them.

Late night television.

Huge breakfasts.

Skiing. Fuck that.

Most popular genre fiction but especially "romantasy," yuck.

R187 I guess you mostly answered your own dumb question.

[quote]"Clean lines"

R182 Whatever that is, I want the opposite. Pretty much every piece of architecture or interior design I've seen with this in the description has been hideous, or at best bland

Is it weird for someone to throw her own birthday dinner party and give the guests assignments, like "you bring the booze and stand by the stove and make the hot toddies." Actually happened to me, need perspective please.

R182 garage doors visible from a house or street?

If people are "things":

Thelma Todd

Mable Normand

Charlie Chaplin

*Mabel

R193. Yes, this sort of thing (in the American extreme), but who wants to look their windows to see a garage door?

Antiques.

Why are so many elder gays into collecting this nonsense? It's old peoples junk. 99% of it is NOT historically signicant, or holds significant value. Create your own life and stop living in the past.