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A Safe Space To Admit You Don't Like The Godfather.
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10/09/09
The Sword (Song?) of Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
I also refuse to read Dragon Lance books, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, etc.
Why?
I don't want to get sucked into any more big huge series. It usually matters whether you read them in order, the library never has all of them, and I'm reading enough of them anyway.
I don't like incredibly epic fantasy that takes forever to finish. At least other authors (Mercedes Lackey, Terry Pratchett) write books that are somewhat independent of each other, or belong to a sub-series withing the larger one.
I love to read, I love SF and Fantasy. Can't stand these people. This makes most SFF geeks' heads explode.
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I will never never never understand The Song of Fire and Ice's appeal as a series. I sorta liked the first book, but it will NEVER end. And it takes forever for things to happen. #danielbsmith
10/29/09
The Song of Fire and Ice has a totally awesome name, but yeah, it's just so long. I don't usually like stories of royalty, really, because they tend to be so steeped in privilege and I feel like they are... well, navel-gazing. Here are these people, who are ridiculously rich and powerful, with problems that they tend to create, and I'm supposed to feel bad for them while their subjects die of plague? It's usually petty things, too, like 'I love the prince, but he does not love me, so I shall poison his bride!'. I tried reading the Amber series, but it was just so bad. There's a book where everything takes forever to happen! :D #danielbsmith
10/29/09
I enjoyed Amber, but I haven't read it since puberty. Making a family tree was the best part. #danielbsmith
10/09/09
I hate Seinfeld - which makes me a complete pariah in my generation. Watched the whole damn finale and will never forgive my husband for making me squander those two hours - I could have been crocheting tea cozies for a better use of my time!
Hated Friends, hate House, hate Monk.
However my loves leave me open for much belittling: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings (books and movie), Battlestar Galactica (new one). Fire away!
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If there's one thing I hate more than movies about chimps in people clothes, it's people who are really self-righteous about never having seen things like "star wars" or read "the great gatsby." It's like my mom's attitude about me and food when I was a kid. I had to take one bite and if I didn't like it, I didn't have to finish. Try it. If you don't like it, that's fine. get over yourself in the meantime.
10/09/09
Most of the people here seem to have tried these things, and don't like them. But if not, then... yeah, give it a try, I guess.
10/09/09
Also, ok some people hate the Beatles, some people hate John Hughes movies, but a lot of this is shit that no one likes that much anyway. Nicholas Cage? Does he even have any acting cred anymore? (500) days of summer, Juno, Garden State? Those movies are already well-maligned, especially on this website. I thought the point of this thread was to air hate for things that everyone else loves (Star Wars, the Simpsons, Gatsby etc), but people are just compiling long lists of things they hate that everyone else hates too. I stick to my original comment: they unleashed a monster.
10/09/09
To a lesser extent, I hate whenever my favorite childhood books are made into movies. I wanted to stab when I found out A Wrinkle in Time was also a mobie.
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10/09/09
Tea, tea is disgusting to me! it's like drinking grass water, wtf is that.
Dirty Dancing, I saw it once, and hated it instantly, it was stupid and I felt embarassed for the actors! I can't listen to the phrase "nobody puts baby in the corner" without cringing and feeling terrible for swayze actually having to say those words out loud.
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I have made me preference known, yet sometimes I still have to ask people to leave my apartment because NO YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN HERE. Or in my car. And if you start smoking, I will politely excuse myself; don't yell at me because I don't want to breathe in stinky smoke and wait for all of you to stop staring into space. High people, when you are not high, are boring. I know they're on a magical fun trip, but you're not.
Smoke it when I'm not there! It's like... 95% of the time! The 5% that I am there, you can't wait?
10/09/09
I gave it a few chances as a teenager, but could not get into it. Things that smell like a dead skunk generally do not appeal to me in the first place. Also, I do not enjoy spending my free time eating and sleeping. Thirdly, while pot supposedly does not cause dependence, damned if one of my friends didn't throw a tantrum when he lost his weed in Vegas and refuse to make the 5-hour trip home until it was located.
Every person in my circle of friends at the time could literally not start their day without a joint or a few hits from their bong. And interestingly, they all lived at home with their mothers long after they should have been on their own. The complete lack of motivation I saw was the final straw. I haven't knowingly associated with anyone who smokes out since those dark, smoky days of my teenage years.
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And then there are the people who are like, "Everyone needs to try it once,". While I've never smoked myself, and I have no intention to, I don't think that makes me unable to make a judgment on the smell, dude D: I dislike the culture that surrounds it and the self-righteousness I run into.
@Grim Reaper of the Forest: That's a big part of it for me. People who are really, really into it and don't get that someone might not want to do it. Or that doesn't want to hang around while they're baked at spacing out. Agh, how boring to sit and watch people be high. They think they are soooooo funnnyyyyy but really, they are boring as shit. It's a difference in sobriety, just like drunk people think that they are sooooo funnnyyy but they are not :D
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10/28/09
@Stephanie wishes to kill Tucker Max: Me too! I think it should be legal, but I don't want to light up, thanks! :D #danielbsmith
10/08/09
I spent a fair amount of time in my childhood in hospitals, and I guess I'm a little oversensitive to asshole doctors. It's not so funny when you're the "idiot" the doctor's talking down to.
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@TallyCola: I never noticed that. Huh!
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@flash: Ha! More reasons to scoff!
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- Angelina Jolie
- House (where the patient ALWAYS survives while an anti-social drug addict isn't caught out for malpractice- o, rly?)
- Chocolate fish (also a major deal in New Zealand)
- Answering questions with questions
- Slate.com (can't say why exactly, maybe it's the layout)
10/08/09
I DO feel better!!
10/08/09
I hate the smell, hate the smell on people and have literally vomited when stuck in close proximity to someone with the "garlic sweats."
That said, whenever I have to tell people I don't like it, if I'm cornered for instance when a acquaintance asks "Should I order extra garlic on the pizza?"
I will say, "Um, I never make fun of people's weird food aversions, but people always make fun of mine. But, I'm throwing this out there...I hate garlic."
I never not been mocked.
10/09/09
NOT FUNNY.
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10/08/09
Oh man, I'm sorry for yelling, but I feel like my roommates belong to some sort of tea cult and I don't get why they love to soak shit in water and then drink it and burn themselves and it doesn't even taste good no matter what kind!
10/08/09
I've since grown to enjoy it a bit more, but it's still low on my list of preferred drinks.
10/09/09
every time i turn it down, i get questioned. it's evening. you're a woman. of course you would want some hot bitter water.
my friend's husband recently said, "wait, you're a lesbian and you don't like tea?" i couldn't be offended; i was like, "i know, right?"
10/09/09
I know no one else who likes tea. We should trade friend circles! You can have my tea-hating friends and I can have your tea-drinking ones!
10/08/09
A Catcher in the Rye
William Faulkner, really most books that you're forced to read in high school. In part because I was forced to read them, but mostly because they're usually more teachable than good.
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
Donnie Darko
Trainspotting
Really any movie that several people claim changed their lives. Especially when I know the person and didn't detect any change.
Star Wars Prequels, and I'm not as in love with the originals as one might expect.
Also, Natalie Portman's career. I don't hate her because I don't know her, only the string of awful movies that people claim that she's acted in (I see no evidence of this acting).
Glee It's just annoying like that obnoxious pop song you can't get out of your head. Usually I avoid TV shows I don't like.
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