People who can't accept that you hate something.

[gremcint]

I Don't:
-drink coffee
-drink tea
-smoke
-like steak
-have any interest in drugs
-drink more than average of 1ounce of alcohol a year
-want to be setup with anyone
And most of all: I HATE SOUTHPARK.

A lost of people seem to have problems with this.

Many times I have been asked : how can you not like steak?
(cue at least three people asking this who think they are funny when they are not)

I am allowed to have my own opinion and tastes. I have almost no interest in any of these things and yet people just cannot seem to accept it. My friends accept this because the ones who didn't aren't my friends anymore. I've actually people after I tell them I don't drink beer say that I should.

I have nothing against people who are into these things but sometimes they act like I am judging them even though I'm not.

Southpark fans seem to be the worst for this. I have like three page rant about people who continuously try to get me to watch this show despite me telling them I hate it. I'll summarise: I tried it, I watched several episodes. They were disgusting, one had them playing with a piece of poop as a christmas special, another had things continuously coming out of one of the characters butt, and a third had everyone vomitting, and a fourth had someone keeping his semen in a fishtank. I stopped watching and never looked back. People can't seem to get this, I don't care about the WoW episode, I don't care about the social commentary, I don't care how funny you think it is. I want nothing to do with the show but people just can't get it through their head. This is not me being unsure, this is not me asking your opinion this is you bugging me about something I want to forget even exists.
And the reason I hate it so much is because people won't leave me alone about it.


now take that last paragraph and apply it to the rest of the list.

Is there anything you guys hate that other people just won't leave you alone about?

[Slytovhand]

OMG - how can you not like...

Just kidding! (though you probably don't think so.... )

Actually, there is something a little similar to this in my life. I DO NOT get on with my family! So, don't bloody well give me this "Why don't you blah blah blah" advice based on their own family relationships... Which means absolutely nothing to me! My life is the way I choose to live it - if you don't like it... lucky you're not a part of it


Southpark... yeah, I tend to agree... I got over toilet humour a few decades ago...

[DrFaroohk]

You sound like my step mother...lol...she always had more of a stick up her ass about it though because she's a teacher and has to deal with her students being into south park as well.

I tried to explain to her that the reason its funny is because she's so offended. It's shock value. It's knowing that someone like her is about to bust an artery because of a stupid cartoon. It's "oh my god I can't believe that just did/said/showed that!"

Steak - to each his own I guess. I just recently learned to appreciate seafood after marrying into a seafood eating family and either eating it or starving. You know what I think is grosser than gross? BEER.

[Boozy]

South Park is not for everyone. This should be blindingly obvious to everyone. It can be incredibly offensive. Not everyone likes that kind of humour.

I like South Park, but if someone said they didn't like it I'd say, "I can see why."

Alcohol and coffee are like that, too. They're an acquired taste. I don't understand how someone couldn't figure that one out, either. Give a ten year-old a sip of beer or black coffee and look at the face they make.

[DesignFox]

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Alcohol and coffee are like that, too. They're an acquired taste. I don't understand how someone couldn't figure that one out, either. Give a ten year-old a sip of beer or black coffee and look at the face they make.

*chuckle* that is so true.

I often joke that I knew I became an adult when I started becoming dependent on coffee. (hated it straight through until college- then I started *shudder* working!)



What people don't understand about me is that I HATE sugar in my coffee. Physically can't drink it if there's sugar in it. Yuck. Not to mention the fact that it will make me feel ill.

Off the top of my head, that's the only thing I can think of that people truly give me weird looks or pester me about.

I'll have to come back if I think of anything else.

[AdminAssistant]

Bleh...South Park and beer. Gross. Although a friend of mine got published with a paper comparing South Park to the work of Aristophanes.

[Nyoibo]

Give a ten year-old a sip of beer or black coffee and look at the face they make.

I liked beer when I was 10, but that may have something to do with being Australian, I used to love coffee as well, but now I can't stand it.

Still love beer though.

[Boozy]

Although a friend of mine got published with a paper comparing South Park to the work of Aristophanes.

Over-the-top satire. I can see that.

Aristophanes was the Sacha Baron Cohen of his day. Lots of fart jokes.

[AdminAssistant]

Aristophanes was the Sacha Baron Cohen of his day. Lots of dick jokes.

There, fixed that for ya.

The way I situate Old Comedy (Aristophanes) vs. New Comedy (Menander) is The Daily Show vs. Seinfield. As bawdy and dirty as Aristophanes is, to me the distinguishing factor is the political satire, which very nearly got him booted out of Athens.

Speaking of theatre and hating things, I don't fawn over Shakespeare. I like Shakespeare. I think Hamlet is the finest thing ever written in English. But he wrote a lot of plays that I think are crap. Comedy of Errors? Lame. Romeo and Juliet? Cheap knockoff of an Italian novella.

Pshh.

[Greenday]

Beer is something that the more I drank it, the more I liked it. Used to taste like sewage water when I first started drinking. Now I can really appreciate a good beer. Speaking of beer, I really need to give my liver a rest.

Steak? I love a good steak. Give me a nice juicy steak with no fat on it and I'll die and go to heaven. Could be one of the tastiest things ever.

South Park? I love it. I love how they do a good job mocking current events and situations other people won't touch.

I have one friend whom I rarely talk to because whenever we hang out, she tries to get me to smoke cigarettes. I've never smoked one. I never will. My grandfather just died last year from the emphysema he acquired from smoking. Why the hell would I want to smoke?

[BroomJockey]

Cheap knockoff of an Italian novella.

Pshh.

That's MOST of Shakespeare's plays. He was the original master of "the updated remake." Not to knock it as a whole, since his stuff is generally known while the originals aren't, but that's how it is. Also, dude was another sex/dick joke master. It's just the lingo's changed so much we think it's about something more highbrow

[Peppergirl]

How about the ones who, when you describe something you eat and like, spend 20 minutes saying some variation of:

'ewwwww, yuck! (insert here) is GROSSS!!!!. How can you EATTTTT that?'


An example for me would be the fact that I love double mushrooms and onions on pizza. Not for everyone, sure. But Jesus F-ing Christ, liking these things does NOIT equate to me kicking your puppy. Shaddup!

[AdminAssistant]

That's MOST of Shakespeare's plays. He was the original master of "the updated remake." Not to knock it as a whole, since his stuff is generally known while the originals aren't, but that's how it is. Also, dude was another sex/dick joke master. It's just the lingo's changed so much we think it's about something more highbrow

Yup. Not an original plot in the entire canon. Then there's the whole authorship question, which frustrates me to no end. I've seen the evidence for and against the 'Stratford' man. If you want to think that an illiterate actor wrote nearly 40 plays and over 100 sonnets, go ahead. I still can't believe that's an accepted theory, and those of us who think that it was someone else or a number of people are called crazy nutters and why can't we just accept that he was a prodigy like Mozart? Pshaw.

Othello is really the best play for dirty remarks. "A black ram is tupping your white ewe" "Making the beast with two backs". Although there are some good ones in Hamlet: "I mean, my head upon your lap madam" which actually means "just the tip". Or, "I know thee well, you are a fishmonger" to Polonious. The daughters of fishmongers (aka Ophelia) were considered whores. There's a popular criticism of Hamlet that claims that Ophelia was actually pregnant with Hamlet's child, and that's what caused her to go off the deep end, not the death of Polonious.

How about the ones who, when you describe something you eat and like, spend 20 minutes saying some variation of:

'ewwwww, yuck! (insert here) is GROSSS!!!!. How can you EATTTTT that?'

The only time I'll do that is if I'm sitting at lunch with someone eating fries and they pour themselves a giant pile of mayonnaise to dip the fries in. The sight and smell of mayo alone is enough to make me nauseous, much less watching someone goop up fries with it and eat them. Yuck.

Yeah, I know, stay out of Belgium.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

sports and the fact that i eat limited carbs. how can i not eat bread and frenchfries? what do you mean you don't like football' surely you at oleast watch th superb owl?

gaaaa.

[AdminAssistant]

what do you mean you don't like football' surely you at oleast watch th superb owl?

Try living in a college town with a strong athletic program. Last night was the first home game, and it sucked because I felt totally trapped in my apartment until the game actually started, and then there were parties alllll night. *sigh* No, I really don't give half a damn if our school beat the pants off another school. I understand the importance of creating a 'community' on campus and how athletics can figure into that (especially if you actually, y'know, win, like we do. ) but I don't personally want to get involved. Especially football. It's soooooo boring! And it's outside. And it takes forever. No thank you.