"How can you NOT like [movie/band/book]???"

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

Okay, I get there are some things out there that a lot of people like: Star Wars, Dr. Who, Game of Thrones, Adele, Bruno Mars, Quentin Tarantino movies, etc, etc.

I also like some of these things but not others.

Game of Thrones for example I just haven't gotten into. Yes I enjoy fantasy as much as the next person but GoT is personally not my thing. Being labeled as something of a traitor to the cause because I don't care for certain elements of pop culture is maddening.

You enjoy what you like, I'll enjoy what I like, maybe we can even find some common ground, but everyone is different and there is no need to act shocked when I say I don't like a particular thing you happen to love. I'm sure the reverse is true in some cases but you don't see me dogging you out for it now do you?

[Aragarthiel]

Living in Georgia, I get this when I mention I don't really like peaches, fried chicken, or grits. Most people just say "You haven't had it made properly then!"

No, I'm sure the dozens of times I've had grits and they all tasted the same, that was pretty standard.

[drunkenwildmage]

I get that alot with seafood. Don't care for any of it. Tried it more then few times..Still don't care for it. Not allergic to it, but hate it so much that even the smallest amount causes my gag reflect to kick in. Don't give me that 'You haven't had it made properly" bullshit, I just don't like it. Period. Want my full opinion on seafood? Ask the ex fellow employee who I threaten to shove a tuna packet up his ass when he was waving it 1 inch from my nose. It was right in front of the boss, and she yelled at him for being an idiot.

[MadMike]

Don't give me that 'You haven't had it made properly" bullshit, I just don't like it.

That, or "You don't know what you're missing!" For some reason, that one's always really ticked me off.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I tend to ask the question, "What don't you like about it?"

Mostly because I'm curious by nature and finding out about dislikes helps me write more complex characters lol.

[Aragarthiel]

"You don't know what you're missing!"

Gritty, salty mucus? Fruit with more hair on it than my husband? Greasy, vein-y, flavorless meat?

[HotelKatz]

So, I'm guessing some people treat Dr. Seuss's 'Green eggs and ham' story as a guide to to life, even as adults?

[EricKei]

wildmage - I have gotten the same with veggies, especially green ones. I have encountered almost none that don't make me gag simply from the aroma. Fortunately, after years of people trying and failing, most of my family members have given up trying My SIL has tried to slip me faux potato soup and faux mashed potatoes made out of cauliflower a couple of times...So I just took a bite or two and didn't comment either way. She insists that they taste indistinguishable from the real thing -- She just leaves out "...as long as you add enough butter, pepper, and cheese to choke an ox."

I say, to each his own! Eat what you like, and just choose a balance that keeps you healthy. I don't think I could live without grits, red beans and rice, or fried chicken -- despite what that last one does to my tummy >_< I think a HUGE part of it was essentially being raised on them; I don't think I have ever eaten grits plain, and I can tell the difference between grits that were properly cooked and which ones were nuked or were prepared by someone who had no clue how to do it. They were a 3 times a week breakfast food; red beans and rice? I grew up in New Orleans, so Mondays always meant red beans made with the leftover ham/bones from Sunday Dinner (soaked overnight before cooking, of course); fish on Fridays. It's the law there, just ask a local if you don't believe me!

PS - I lived in Gawwwwja for a while -- specifically, in Hotlanta, several years before even the thought of having the Olympics there had come up. Still can't stand peaches.

[Shangri-laschild]

I get that comment a lot about beer. "You just have to drink it till you acquire a taste for it!" Why would I drink something I don't like just so that I'll eventually maybe like it?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Had that with the Twilight books. And, when I explained exactly why I didn't like them, I got verbally abused. -.-

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

I get that comment a lot about beer. "You just have to drink it till you acquire a taste for it!" Why would I drink something I don't like just so that I'll eventually maybe like it?

Seconded. I don't like any carbonated beverages. I'm not weird, they just don't work for my tongue. Call it what you will.

Fortunately there's plenty of non beer alcohol I enjoy just fine.

Also, for me personally the difference in taste between genuine mashed potatoes and cauliflower IS very distinguishable. I don't mind the cauliflower version but I prefer the real deal if I can get it.

[EricKei]

ShangriLa - I don't understand that about beer (or any other "you'll develop a taste for it" item), either. When I hear that comment, my mind translates it as "Try this! It sucks! But after enough of them, you won't care anymore!" ~_~

[s_stabeler]

Seconded. I don't like any carbonated beverages. I'm not weird, they just don't work for my tongue. Call it what you will.

no, you aren't weird- I'm much the same, although it's not precisely the carbonation as such that's the problem. ( there always seems to be a funny taste to carbonated drinks that disappears when it goes flat. As such, I have wondered if I can actually taste the carbonation.I know for a fact- due to attending a wedding where enough alcohol was consumed by other guests that condensation from the air was alcoholic and I was slightly drunk due to the level of alcohol in the air- that I can taste alcohol, so it's not impossible.)

[Rageaholic]

Game of Thrones just doesn't look like a show I'd be into so I don't bother watching it. I feel that way with a lot of movies, television, and books. And that's where I'll get fans of said movies, television, and books telling me that I can't say if I wouldn't like it without watching or reading it first. By that logic, I should be forced to watch/read everything just to have an opinion on it.

[D_Yeti_Esquire]

Game of Thrones just doesn't look like a show I'd be into so I don't bother watching it.

Believe me, as a viewer that loves the show and novels, I value that much more highly than you know. Because with that show specifically I am bored to the point of tears by people demanding the show be something else.

For me, the one I shock people with is I tend to find the MCU very "meh." And for me, I do watch them (I'm a film buff so I watch everything) and I can enjoy them. But many of them I don't and I do the world a service and don't jump into chat rooms and douse other peoples enjoyment with my negativity. The studio is probably "Harmless" in both the bad sense and the good sense of the word.