Things you're supposed to like, but don't

[Thumpalumpacus]

Are there things (can be anything from arts to food, activities, places etc.) which you always thought you have to like or admire or enjoy for some reason (because everyone does, it's fashionable, expensive, culturally important, or your teacher told you so, etc...) but you simply don't?

As a rock guitarist, King Crimson. It just leaves me high-and-dry, lotsa playing, little emotion.

As a writer, William Faulkner. Yes, I know he's great, but he just doesn't move me.

Outside those fields, I don't worry myself much about expectations.

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What are feefees?

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Ah I thought of 4 more: Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Discord.

ETA: OH WOW ALEX! TOTALLY THE BIGGEST ONE FOR ME: Watching TV.

Feelings


Haven't had a TV hooked up since I moved out of my parents' in 2000. TV get dumber every time I take a peek. Good riddance.

I got rid of television ten years ago. It was a great move, and who cares if I'm supposed to like it? Were Marx alive today, TV would be the opiate he railed against.

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Seinfeld.

Hellloooooo, Jerry!

How the hell can you not like Seinfeld?

Here's my fifty bucks -- I'm out.

[Catholic_Lady]

Are there things (can be anything from arts to food, activities, places etc.) which you always thought you have to like or admire or enjoy for some reason (because everyone does, it's fashionable, expensive, culturally important, or your teacher told you so, etc...) but you simply don't?

Working and socializing. I wish more than anything that I could like those things. Especially now.

[Seraphina]

Seinfeld.

Ugh, I hate Seinfeld. Never laughed at any of his "humor".

I don't like taking selfies or shopping at Walmart.

-Teresa

[Court Jester]

Dress pants without pleats.
- don't know why, but I hate them. I actually hired one engineer over another simply because the one guy didn't have pleats. Repetitively equal all around. It was their choice in fashion for as stupid as that sounds.

Abstract art
- I appreciate art and won several awards for my drawings growing up. I'll post some photos if I figure out how to do it on this forum, but I never understood truly abstract art. Any four year old can kick buckets of paint into a wall and smile at it. I just can't get into it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Are there things (can be anything from arts to food, activities, places etc.) which you always thought you have to like or admire or enjoy for some reason (because everyone does, it's fashionable, expensive, culturally important, or your teacher told you so, etc...) but you simply don't?

Working and socializing. I wish more than anything that I could like those things. Especially now.

Why is it that you don't like those things now?

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Abstract art
 - I appreciate art and won several awards for my drawings growing up. I'll post some photos if I figure out how to do it on this forum, but I never understood truly abstract art. Any four year old can kick buckets of paint into a wall and smile at it. I just can't get into it.

It took me a long time to appreciate it. I couldn't do so until I figured out for myself how to simply appreciate how color and composition work. And there are some (I'm looking at you, Chagall) who I still think are full of shit and themselves. But Kandinsky on his best days, that guy put colors together that really tickled my brain. I still prefer Impressionism as my favorite school, but I can appreciate outside approaches. Mind you, I love playing and listening to jazz, so there's that.

[energizer bunny]

Patriotism, mannerism, politics, religion, sports. I only like and partake in combat sports.

[Angrboda]

I rather like the Star Trek reboot.  Though the last movie was a bit on the ridiculous side.

Was that the one where they cast Cumberbatch as Khan?

No, that was the second to last one, "Into Darkness". I rather liked that one. It had a good plot, and I love Benedict Cumberbatch. The last one was "Star Trek Beyond".

[Edwardo Piet]

The biggest one is football (soccer).

Good for you. As an English bloke I suppose that I'm supposed to like soccer too.

I don't. It's boring as fuck.

Repeated 1-0 scores at the end of games, repeated people accidentally-on-purpose-falling-over to cause the opposing team a red card, and repeated dribbling back and forth with the ball to waste time so they can keep their 1-0 lead, is not my idea of an entertaining sport.

[AFTT47]

Religion - obviously!

Children - especially babies. That's my biggest clue that my brain is wired very differently than the brains of most people. If everyone suddenly became like me, the human race would die in a generation. The thought of raising a child is so horrifying to me, I would have done absolutely anything to avoid it. Fortunately, it never came to that.

Fashion. There is little I care less about. I am always incredulous when I buy a new pair of shoes (because the old ones wore out) and everybody notices. I couldn't tell you the tiniest detail about anyone else's shoes to save my life. Not my coworkers - not even my wife! Why in the world would anyone store enough information in their brain concerning my shoes to notice when I get new ones? I don't get it.

Kim Kardashion

Princess Diana

[Edwardo Piet]

I hate the Star Trek reboot

I pretend it doesn't exist just like I pretend no sequel after Aliens exists.

I also apply it to the 3 episoded 9th series of Red Dwarf "Back to Earth."

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Seinfeld.

Same.

And Friends.

And Fraiser.

And any other inoffensive and tame sitcom.

Although, The Big Bang Theory is definitely watchable most of the time. Although, IMO, that's ENTIRELY because of Sheldon Cooper! He's an awesome character (and although I dislike Friends, Joey is okay (Ross is annoying and whiny as fuck and ruins the series altogether by himself alone for me (he's so annoying and whiny, that liking evolution and dinosaurs is not remotely enough to make up for it). A bit like Sheldon makes BBT. Ross is the anti-Sheldon ).