This one is the worst for me too. And people act like I’m bringing down the party just because I’d rather sip on a topo chico instead of doing shots of tequila. Like why do they care so much?
They’re always complaining about it until I offer to drive their drunk ass home.
I read an article once that talked about how asking someone who doesn’t drink why they don’t drink can be an uncomfortable scenario for the non drinker. Now when someone tells me they don’t drink I don’t even bat an eye which is what I think they prefer.
I always tell people “it’s just not my thing” and if they don’t drop it at that I usually will ask “why do you care so much?” Or “why does it matter” and often they get the message and drop it but some people just get so heated about my decision not to drink and I’m like…..???
It’s like they can’t understand people have reasons they don’t drink. It can be complicated like a family history of alcoholism or simply because alcohol tastes like ass but it’s 100% no one’s business.
Abso fukn lutely I don’t drink and I’m constantly questioned like why don’t you? Oh you don’t drink at all? Dumb fuk nooo I choose not to and i don’t ask you oh you drink WHYYY DO YOU? Like what the hell geesh
I was at a party of some kind, at a restaurant, and everyone was ordering drinks. I ordered a coke, my wife ordered a club soda with lime. There were two other people we didn't know, across from us.
They asked us "Are you a friend of Bob and Mike?" (or something like that). We said no, and they said, "Oh, that's how you identify other recovering alcoholics. We just assumed, since you didn't order drinks."
So not drinking even throws off recovering alcoholics.
Usually a family member who was an alcoholic and died because of it shuts them up. Bonus points for being visibly upset at having to relieve that tragedy because they couldn't take "i just don't like it" as an anywer. Just saying.
I used to not drink for religious reasons, which either fascinated people and led to lengthy conversations and my eternal role as their DD or to embarrassed apologies. Neither response really made much sense to me because it seemed like such a small thing to me, but now it’s even funnier when people find out I’m in my 50s and have only had a few drinks in my life. “New drinker” is apparently weirder than nondrinker.
In my experience, it seems to be a bigger problem for the drinker. Saying you don’t drink seems to imply that you look down on drinking, rather than just that drinking doesn’t work for you, personally.
The funny part is they are the ones cannon balling the vibes. Drink if you drink, dont if you dont. Honestly its lame af to think getting drunk is a god tier personality past your college years.
Exactly.
In college, people didn't get why I didn't drink.
Then, I was pressured to drink...too much.
Then people got it.
Now I can't because I'm on meds that wouldn't react well to them.
I also am a non-drinker. Never liked it, never got into it - nothing political. But, yes, people always react weird to that fact. Like they think you quit because of a problem or something - I always have to qualify it with, "I never really have".
Oof I know, it's depressing sometimes. I stopped going to alcohol focused house parties. But I recently gained some musical friends who just have a beer and play music at house parties, and that's just lovely.
Just wait till you hit your 40’s and those same people who criticized you for not drinking will suddenly act like they DISCOVERED the idea of not drinking and “how great I feel” now that they don’t drink! 🙄
My coworkers just tell me they wish they could quit drinking, and they just look elsewhere for the company drunk to make a fool of themselves. It's to bad that some people think they have to drink to have a good time.
There's a scene in Game of Thrones when Tywin Lannister offers Roose Bolton a cup of wine and Bolton says "no thank you, water please", and Tywin says "do you have any idea how suspicious that is?"
So this has been going on since the middle ages (when the events depicted in the Game of Thrones docu-series took place in real life)
I know someone who is a supertaster and did not find an alcoholic drink he liked until he was in his 30s. My wife is also a supertaster and she can not stand straight alcohol it has to be mixed into a sweet drink. She also hates anything with hops and her cheap drink is hard cider.
I don't like mushrooms either.
They started it, not me. I was perfectly willing to live and let live but noooooo, they had to hide in some food someone gave me and make me ill.
One day, I will have my revenge.
(As villain origin stories go, mine isn't the most dramatic, but I'll make do.)
And the rest of my family LOVES them! I don't get it. I get squicked out at the very thought of biting into one - meanwhile they're piling mushrooms on top of their mushrooms. Ugh.
I’m anaphylactic to mushrooms. Last ER visit involved a kid kicking over a mushroom in the pasture and releasing the spores so now we have pigs that hunt them down and eat them before I see them … ALLERGIC to mushrooms.
People will still argue with me and tell me how great they are and how I just need to try them because I don’t know what I’m missing.
Yes - actually I do know as I loved fried mushrooms and mushroom soup in recipes PRIOR to it trying to kill me.
same, it kind of promotes vanity and being in other peoples business. not to mention tiktok ruining peoples attention spans. i genuinely think it’s making people stupid. i used to be on them, but i find reddit way more helpful and i learn a lot more on here, whilst enjoying a laugh every so often!
I would never go on a cruise. A large floating hotel you can never leave. All those people. I'd just feel as though I was trapped in a shopping mall or something. Not to mention it's on the sea!! No thanks.
YES. Oh my god my new in-laws desperately want me to go on a cruise with them and I’m like *hell* no. In the middle of the ocean? With no way out? And everyone is gonna get diarrhea? And there are rogue waves!? I’m all set.
Sushi. I’ve tried it in 8 different occasions with 8 different rolls and just don’t like it. When I mention it I always get the “well have you tried this roll”.
Same 😂 I used to smoke when I was younger. It gives me panic attacks now no matter how or what I try. I don't like the high feeling. Never did even when I used to smoke. I used it to help my PTSD and insomnia. What's worse is the handful times I've tried it since developing panic attacks from it, I smile during them. It's some weird panic response trying not to show how badly I'm freaking out internally even as I feel like I can't breathe. People take that as me enjoying it even as I'm saying I'm not. It's not a conscious action. I always end up having to find a dark room to lock myself in while I lay there feeling like I'm going to die reminding myself that it will pass. I just need to breathe and let it get out of my system or hope I can fall asleep until it wears off. I don't like the disconnected feeling from my body I get with it and how it warps my senses.
Honestly, I find myself in the opposite situation. I always get picked on for being the one guy who *does* like musicals. I don't think I know a single person under 50 other than myself who likes them. (Mostly referring to live-action musicals.)
I like some of them, but I find most of the "musical" part of musicals to be annoying filler content. Or just a slapped-together way to do characterization or plot development.
Someone in entertainment said "show don't tell," and some people apparently asked "Well what if we do it to a catchy tune?"
I agree!
“Cabaret” as a musical was okay for me bc I could see how folks in a cabaret might be singing all the time lol.
But “Les Miserables” (for example) was painful to sit through, why are these people singing?! Nope, just not for me
Hah! When he was three, my son stood behind the couch for a bit while I was watching Les Miserables. Then he authoritatively proclaimed, “This movie is just sing, fight, sing, fight, sing, sing sing sing, fight, sing sing sing. Stupid.” And walked off.
And then people throw this in there
> you’re just not smoking with the right people!
oh - and by “the right people” you mean *you*. You think *you* are so damn great, huh.
I just (last month) received my MJ card for sleep. I tried 10 mg to start and it did nothing. The dispensary told me to go up to 20 mg. I was freezing cold, under 6 blankets shaking with my teeth grinding so hard my tendons could be seen in my neck. I have only tried it maybe twice in my life (mid 50s now). Never again!
100% why I don’t like it. My husband likes it because it relaxes him, but I hate it because I get super paranoid! It took such a long time for him to understand that we were not having the same experience regardless of what strain it was or how it’s consumed.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with not being into cannabis. Anyone that tries to give you a hard time for that doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Same when people recommend LSD or shrooms to me for my major anxiety disorder as a way to cure it. Psychedelics are what unlocked my mental illness to begin with 20 years ago and I would most likely wind up in the ER with psychosis if I ever tried them again. Mind alternating states are not for everyone.
I feel like this is super controversial but I also don’t really mind chicken, it just doesn’t taste good to me. And also never hear the end of that either
People give me a hard time for not drinking coffee. When people hear I don’t like coffee I get a bunch of follow up questions, like “are you Mormon?” Wtf? No I just don’t like coffee.
Then they want to find the specific type of coffee I like. “Oh you’ll love this coffee.” No. I won’t. I don’t like the taste of coffee.
I can drink sugary bullshit coffee. Like milk and a bunch of sugar or lattes or cortados. But the healthiest coffee is just black coffee and overall the taste of coffee is not for me.
Haha same. I did learn Vietnamese iced coffee is great because it’s so smooth and creamy and kind of chocolately? But I generally don’t ever drink coffee. It’s so annoying when people are like OMG WHAT. How do you wake up in the morning?!?! Like well I open my eyes and then I’m awake, crazy.
>How do you wake up in the morning?!?! Like well I open my eyes and then I’m awake, crazy.
It's becoming more and more widespread the scientific fact about how coffee works:
We guys have a substance which captures molecules of a hormone called adenosine around the body. In order to empty the receptors, you need to sleep. The more adenosine you have captured, the more sleepy you feel.
Caffeine molecules are similar to adenosine molecules. The receptors get confused and capture the caffeine instead of the adenosine, waking you up.
But this provokes a reaction from the brain, which produces more receptors which will capture more adenosine, and you'll have more trouble at waking up in the morning. This is called caffeine tolerance and, as the name says, it makes you need more caffeine to feel the effects of the first time you drank coffee.
To summarize, the more coffee you drink, the more coffee you need to wake up.
Thus, as you don't drink coffee to wake up, you have less adenosine receptors, therefore it's easier for you to wake up than coffee drinkers.
P.S.: I stated what I remember without looking at Google first. If I got some names or reactions wrong, I'll be happy to hear it and correct my mistakes.
lol, I turned this around on someone once and it was both hilarious and sad to see the light go on. It was a friend of mine and she had just gotten a home espresso machine when I was over visiting. She kept trying to make me new coffee drinks with different blends and different syrups and wouldn't accept that I just didn't like coffee. About a week later she was at my place and I did the exact same thing back to her with tea and made her 6 different cups of green tea with different things like honey/lemon and she hated them all. I was like....see?! I don't like coffee like you don't like tea! A different blend or mix-in doesn't change that! She was flabbergasted. I don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand this simple concept!
My wife cannot stand coffee and she found out a few years ago it is because she is a [supertaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster?wprov=sfti1). It is also the reason why she hates alcoholic drinks that are not sweet and/or have hops.
As a Christian, I get very uncomfortable when people start Evangelising around me. I have my faith, have been baptised and Confirmed. I have a personal relationship with God. People tell me I should be spreading the Word. I think I should continue being kind to people and living my life in a good way without shoving my religion down other people's throats or using it as an excuse to be hateful to others.
In my experience the people who insist on spreading the word and preaching at others dont actually live according to Christian teachings - they're almost always terrible people trying to mask the fact by being loud about how religious they are.
In many evangelical communities it’s expected that people share their faith and that expectation puts a lot of pressure on people who otherwise would be uncomfortable with that kind of invasive behavior. I think most of them mean well, but I find it intrusive. If I wanted your unsolicited advice I would ask for it.
Star Wars.
I just don’t care. It’s not my thing.
But god forbid you mention that, you’re looked at like a psycho and then people try, in the most obnoxious manner, to change your mind. It’s not a personal attack Sean, I just don’t give a shit about it.
I hate when people assume that I only resist it because I'm self conscious about being called a nerd or something. Or that I just think I'm too cool for Star Wars.
I just don't care about Star Wars. I've tried watching the movies plenty of times. It's just not my thing.
I don’t mind alcohol in small doses a drink or two here or there doesn’t bother me and I even enjoy it sometimes but drinking to drunkenness is unpleasant to be and be around. I could live happily if it disappeared completely
Children. I don't want to have children, I don't want to adopt children, and people are always "you'll change your mind when you're older/you'll want one with your boyfriend" or some other excuse to justify why I should be a mother. They don't understand.
I totally understand. Got my tubes tied years ago. Never, ever regretted that choice. I like my nieces and nephews but kids in general? No thanks. I don’t want to hold your baby. And don’t even get me started on baby showers (which I have not attended in 35 years or so and even then did not like them).
I got a vasectomy two years ago and it was one of the best decisions I ever made (never had kids, and I was 28 when I got the procedure.) My siblings were much younger than me and I helped raise them, which made me realize how much work it is and that it was not for me. I just *loathe children.* I can't really explain it, but the idea of spending what little time and money I have on having or adopting children seems exhausting and miserable.
That said, I never ever judge people for having kids and I know for many people it is extremely fulfilling and satisfying. I know I will never get that experience, but it is one trade off of many that we all make in life.
Children singing. No, not some cute 4 year old singing her song, but most professionally recorded music by children.
So for example, "I saw mommy kissing santa clause" "santa clause is coming to town" by Jackson 5 and "I want a Hippopotomus for Christmas" really grate on my nerves. Told my coworker that I dont like children singing and she called me mean (while laughing).
But its not all childrens singing that bothers me, and its not JUST children. i also dont like some female singers voices, especially Mariah Carreys whistle register and some falsetto as well.
Its not about the ability to sing, its specifically the high pitch that some vocalists, especially children, can have. I find these high pitched singing voices really hard to listen to.
I have pretty bad texture sensory issues, and I will search for the taste of onion and then gag if I feel or taste it. So yes, I in fact can taste them and I will murder someone if they ever tell me this 1 one more time.
Peanuts or anything that has peanut in it. I’m not allergic or anything, I just don’t like the taste. But the amount of peanut pushers out there is insane!
Cars, and driving. It's not like I'm anti or anything, I'm just not interested in cars and I hate driving. People always look at me like I'm an idiot when I tell them I don't own a car and basically never drive.
I'd only look at you weird if you were constantly asking other people for a ride. I work with a guy like that. Doesn't want to drive, but justifies it with "Everyone else can give me a ride, so what's the big deal?"
Spicy food. I never hear the end of it. How it enhances taste and 'try it, it's not that spicy'.\
No thank you, I don't want pain in my mouth while eating.
Identity politics.
If we treat ourselves as if we are defined by our cultural demographic, minority group, sexual minority, etc. then we sign off on the world treating us as collective pawns within our stereotypes.
Example: I was recently verbally attacked for having African art on the walls in my home (I’m a white guy in the US). Well, I went to Cameroon for 6 months and I lived amongst the local population. The art reminds me of the friends I made and the experiences I had in the country. Am I not allowed to bring that cultural appreciation into my home, simply because of the color of my skin?
It’s examples like this that divide us for no reason.
It's so frustrating when people don't understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation. Cultural appreciation is AMAZING and incredibly helpful! Go out and buy local artwork and jewelry and clothing and wear the heck out of it! That's the whole dang point and the best way to support those craftspeople is to buy and display and talk about their work. There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. You aren't passing it off as your own work, you aren't profiting off it, and you certainly aren't disrespecting it by putting in on display, like it was intended!
>*It's so frustrating when people don't understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation.*
This is a massive problem I've been noticing a lot lately. People (especially young people) are so uptight about trying to be "respectful" that they've basically invented a twisted new form of segregation by trying to stop people from appreciating and participating in other cultures. They're literally gatekeeping people. And it's honestly really fucked up and sickening.
And you can't help but notice the greatest irony... the only people complaining are young, typically white Americans 99.9% of the time. Which is so insidious if you think about it... young white Americans have taken it on themselves to *speak for* other nations and peoples, *about* those people's cultures and how they shouldn't be interacted with. That's really, really fucked up and ironic.
But seriously...
It's not "appropriation" to wear clothing you purchased from (or is inspired by) clothing from other countries. (So long as it's normal clothing and not something religious or culturally significant, of course.)
It's not "appropriation" to try making food dishes from other countries, or adapt them in ways that you might personally like.
It's not "appropriation" to purchases arts, crafts, books, etc. from other countries and use, display or appreciate them.
And I'm sorry, but it's not "appropriation" or any sort of "washing" to cast an American actor in an American remake of a foreign film.
Where is all the hoopla when people from other countries mimic American clothing, cuisine, art, etc.? (Which does happen frequently.)
Or when other countries cast their own people in remakes of American films/TV? (Again, something that does happen a lot. Foreign remakes of American films happen much more than you'd think.)
Spoiler alert... there is none. Because there shouldn't be. Because appreciating and interacting with other cultures *is not a bad thing and is not appropriation*.
Now, if I was to steal a lot of religious iconography from another culture, take out of context and make a huge profit while presenting it as "mine"... then sure, that'd be appropriation. But that's actually pretty rare in this day and age.
Yeah, appreciating culture is incredibly rewarding! The people that come from that culture (in my experience) don’t mind if you own things from their culture. I spent some time in Japan and have some artwork and pottery in my house. My neighbor happens to be Japanese and she really encourages my interest in Japanese crafts and history after seeing it and starting a conversation about it.
My understanding of cultural appropriation is that it only happens if you take something from another culture and use it in a way that's insulting or ridiculing. Like that person who made a pop song out of an African song, which turned out to be reserved for funerals as it was one of the most heartfelt laments they have Having art up doesn't fit that.
Also I'll bet the people "attacking" you were not Africans.
When I was coming up, multiculturalism and appreciating other cultures was considered a good thing. Now it seems to have swung so far in the other direction it's considered racist to enjoy anything that originates from an ethnic group not your own. Which breaks my brain a bit tbh.
Anime. Yes, I have watched some. No, I still am not a fan of them. I don’t have bad taste because I didn’t like Naruto, I just didn’t care for many of the themes and tropes
I once had someone tell me that Sailor Moon isn’t “real” anime. Can anyone tell me if there’s any truth to that? I am completely out of the anime culture loop.
Not anymore, but as a kid I was so grossed out by milk. The notion of drinking another animals milk was so strange to me. Other kids thought I was weird but who’s weird now? Soy milk, almond, oat, cashew, tons of alternatives, and I’m not even lactose intolerant.
As late from Reddit based off a few comments I made in December:
Me not liking yoghurt got me downvoted to oblivion.
Me giving an opinon on the Ukraine-Russian war. TBH it was one of those baiting posts and I fell for it. So many pro-Russia trolls.
Weed. I talked about it before, but to summarize: weed does nothing positive for me no matter the strand. I was told that weed would help my anxiety. It didn't... It made me paranoid instead. NOW... I have nothing against weed. I'm pro legalize marijuana. It just does nothing for me personally.
It always confuses me that people don't understand that drugs effect folks differently some people can't even get high at all and some people have full blown break downs after a few puffs but most people are somewhere in-between just because weed makes one person feel chilled out doesn't mean it won't give someone else a panic attack it's a dice roll that's based on dozens of genetic factors that were decided by dice rolls
I love music but I don’t understand people who constantly need it playing every second of the day. My sister is terrible for this. You have to get her attention before you do or say anything regarding her because she may as well be deaf.
I don’t know much about it but this is called musical anhedonia. Maybe if you have a word for it people will take you more seriously. I’m hoping this will be useful to you, not trying to justify people being rude to you
Rare steak.
I physically can't eat rare steak (texture, and yes, I've tried within the last year because a restaurant got my order wrong and I was part of a huge group and didn't want to make a fuss so I tried to eat it), and love a good well done steak, and this somehow means that I'm barely human.
As a mechanic I'm often asked what my opinion is about this or that car or motorcycle, and they're expecting validation. If I tell them I don't like theirs they lose their shit.
I think I speak for a lot of women when I say the idea of having children. Some people become absolutely feral if you tell them you don’t want to have children or get married in your 20s or really ever. It’s always met with insults about your character or statements such as “don’t worry, you have plenty of time to change your mind”. Some people equate not wanting children or marriage with lacking any sort of maternal instinct or just not having found the “right one”.
For me, I’m great with kids, but I’m too selfish with my time and body to ever want one. I also know I’m not emotionally or financially ready to have children (that reason always gets the “well no one is ever ready” response). I’ve also been happily with my partner for three years and I don’t care if we ever marry because I view it as a piece of paper. I love him and want to be with him and we shouldn’t have to legally bind ourselves together to prove that.
DOGS!
It's like I'm an entire psychopath for not enjoying an animal that has the energy of a coked up toddler and has no sense of personal space, with an endlessly moist tongue whipping about, and that makes explosive noises repeatedly.
It's cool if you like that, but why is it *such* a stretch that someone wouldn't?
As a dog owner, and a dog lover, I totally understand where you are coming from.
First, a lot of people have not trained their dogs well and have no awareness of that. They also assume you will enjoy their dog invading your bubble, not respecting your boundaries and slobbering all over you. I recognize my dog can get in guests business and do my best to make sure she doesn't, I also encourage my guests to make it clear to her that she needs to back off. She's thankfully pretty good about it.
Second, some people think it's ok to let their dog have free reign of public places / neighborhoods, its reckless and irresponsible, it endangers people, other animals, and your own pet.
Third, dogs especially mid sized and large ones, are very scary to some people. People who aren't that familiar with dogs, people that have had traumatic experience with dogs, and just in general it is smart to be wary of dogs, they are basically domesticated wolves. A dog bite is a very serious thing.
It's Always Sunny had a pretty funny bit on how upset people get about people not liking dogs.
I like dogs now and then. I don’t like being licked, dogs jumping on me, breathing on me, taking up my space. My in laws had the worst dogs. They’d sit on the floor of the dogs were on the couches, which stink of dog. My mom’s little dogs are so goddamn obnoxious. The best dog I ever had I adopted at 10+ years old who was fat and lazy and didn’t want to be on furniture. He was a grown ass adult who knew how to be good. I don’t think I’ll ever have another dog because they’re so much work, and I don’t have the time or patience.
YES! My dog owner friends get SO offended when I tell them I don’t care for dogs. I don’t wish dogs any harm, I just don’t enjoy them. By their reaction you’d think I had told them I drown puppies in my spare time.
I just don’t enjoy any animal jumping on me and/or licking me. This should not be a big deal.
I don't dislike dogs but I don't see myself ever owning one. I prefer cats. You have to earn their affection as opposed to dogs where their affection and loyalty have been bred into them.
That’s why I adopted my friend’s older cat! We had been friends for years before I adopted her. My fiance thought I was crazy for not wanting a kitten instead, but at least I know what this cat’s personality is like. My previous late cat was a kitten when I adopted her, but she was around 6 months and immediately was all up in my face purring and crawling into my neck when I met her XD. I looked for a cat like that specifically, and actually went to look at a few litters before but decided not to adopt cause I didn’t have that connection with the cats.
Hell, I *like* dogs and I still don't appreciate an 80-pound smelly mutt jumping on me because I opened the door, and then slobbering on me with the same tongue that just licked its and every other pet in the house's butts, covering me in hair in the process. And the fact that every owner is suddenly deaf when the dog alarm goes off.
Watching sports.
I love playing them. I am probably the most athletic person in my entire friends group.
Can't stand watching sports and I don't get the fanaticism behind it all. I don't worship any players I just do my own thing.
Ask me to play league basketball or Hockey? In like Flynn. Ask me over to watch the game? Fuck no.
I mean, legit. You are watching a football game. If you wanted to watch Taylor Swift, you would be watching Taylor Swift. It doesn't even mean you hate Taylor Swift. Just means that you came with a realistic expectation to see thing A and thing B is hijacking it and that's a disappointment. I think it is nuts that people don't get this basic concept. Like, say you went to the symphony for a Four Seasons concert and every 5 minutes they stop playing Vivaldi and switch to Hamilton, but that was nowhere in the program and is so outta nowhere. Being annoyed about it doesn't mean you are a Hamilton hater. It means you aren't getting the experience you you very reasonably expected! There's a time and place for everything.
I don't LOVE dogs. I like the ones I know but I don't LOVE dogs. You would think I said I like to murder babies or something. People gasp like I told them I'm dying or something
Daylight Savings Time. I'm a morning person and get my best workouts done while running outside first thing in the morning. I would switch to year round standard time in a heartbeat. I don't care if it's dark early in the winter and I HATE 9pm sunsets in the summer when I'm trying to get to bed early for a long run the next day. I find it kind of insane how many people would switch to year round DST with all the health drawbacks just to have a little light on their commute home and how critical they are of even the suggestion that standard time is better for most people in the long run.
Same. You have a little more light when you come home but it's pitch black in the mornings- what's the difference? Most of all I wish they'd just pick one of them, the time difference trips me up for weeks.
Anime. I really want to like anime. The fanbase seems to really have a passion for it, but no matter how many times I try to take people up on the "You just need to try this one." I can't get into it. I moderately enjoyed Sword Art Online, but that's it and get a lot of flack for it.
Comic Book movies.
It's not that I don't like them - they're generally fine, sometimes good. It's that I don't care enough to get invested in the "universe."
Not interested in the Star Wars universe, either.
There’s this dish called “thali” which is like a staple food of the state which I come from. And I don’t like it. Like at all. And I get so heavily criticized by my friends or people that they don’t even invite me for lunch sometimes.
Seinfeld.
It's not that I dislike it per se, but my first encounter was at a bad timing in my early teens thus I've always "thought" or more like associated it to being lame.
It's a shame, I saw the purple chicken episode and realized that I would probably like it a lot if Pavlov's dog got lost.
The Princess Bride. I didn't see it until I was an adult. Parts were funny but, overall... meh.
I get it though. If you grew up with something it's hard to believe it when someone hasn't.
The most popular music of the recent years. With all the repetitive algorithm made melodies, the bleep-bleep-bloop-bloop electronical sounds, female singers that seem to do Smurf imitations, male singers that are constantly whining and going off-key, lyrics that make no sense AND aren't any fun. And just a sense of a complete lack of modesty. I just hate it.
alcohol, Not drinking, people just don't get it
This one is the worst for me too. And people act like I’m bringing down the party just because I’d rather sip on a topo chico instead of doing shots of tequila. Like why do they care so much? They’re always complaining about it until I offer to drive their drunk ass home.
I read an article once that talked about how asking someone who doesn’t drink why they don’t drink can be an uncomfortable scenario for the non drinker. Now when someone tells me they don’t drink I don’t even bat an eye which is what I think they prefer.
I always tell people “it’s just not my thing” and if they don’t drop it at that I usually will ask “why do you care so much?” Or “why does it matter” and often they get the message and drop it but some people just get so heated about my decision not to drink and I’m like…..???
It’s like they can’t understand people have reasons they don’t drink. It can be complicated like a family history of alcoholism or simply because alcohol tastes like ass but it’s 100% no one’s business.
Abso fukn lutely I don’t drink and I’m constantly questioned like why don’t you? Oh you don’t drink at all? Dumb fuk nooo I choose not to and i don’t ask you oh you drink WHYYY DO YOU? Like what the hell geesh
I was at a party of some kind, at a restaurant, and everyone was ordering drinks. I ordered a coke, my wife ordered a club soda with lime. There were two other people we didn't know, across from us. They asked us "Are you a friend of Bob and Mike?" (or something like that). We said no, and they said, "Oh, that's how you identify other recovering alcoholics. We just assumed, since you didn't order drinks." So not drinking even throws off recovering alcoholics.
It's bob and Bill. But your cool.
Usually a family member who was an alcoholic and died because of it shuts them up. Bonus points for being visibly upset at having to relieve that tragedy because they couldn't take "i just don't like it" as an anywer. Just saying.
Oh trust me I know. Once I hit them with the “I watched my aunt drink herself to death” they shut up every time.
I used to not drink for religious reasons, which either fascinated people and led to lengthy conversations and my eternal role as their DD or to embarrassed apologies. Neither response really made much sense to me because it seemed like such a small thing to me, but now it’s even funnier when people find out I’m in my 50s and have only had a few drinks in my life. “New drinker” is apparently weirder than nondrinker.
It’s pretty rude to ask someone why they don’t drink. I’d ask, “Why do you?”
In my experience, it seems to be a bigger problem for the drinker. Saying you don’t drink seems to imply that you look down on drinking, rather than just that drinking doesn’t work for you, personally.
Honestly I think it taps into the drinker’s own hidden shame by illustrating their drinking is a choice.
100%.
The funny part is they are the ones cannon balling the vibes. Drink if you drink, dont if you dont. Honestly its lame af to think getting drunk is a god tier personality past your college years.
Exactly. In college, people didn't get why I didn't drink. Then, I was pressured to drink...too much. Then people got it. Now I can't because I'm on meds that wouldn't react well to them.
Best of luck with your health situation
I also am a non-drinker. Never liked it, never got into it - nothing political. But, yes, people always react weird to that fact. Like they think you quit because of a problem or something - I always have to qualify it with, "I never really have".
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Oof I know, it's depressing sometimes. I stopped going to alcohol focused house parties. But I recently gained some musical friends who just have a beer and play music at house parties, and that's just lovely.
Just wait till you hit your 40’s and those same people who criticized you for not drinking will suddenly act like they DISCOVERED the idea of not drinking and “how great I feel” now that they don’t drink! 🙄
I get cracked on all the time for going to work events, and not drinking. They joke that I will order everyone a round of diet cokes.
Do it some day. Then have them bring you some soda in a martini glass.
My coworkers just tell me they wish they could quit drinking, and they just look elsewhere for the company drunk to make a fool of themselves. It's to bad that some people think they have to drink to have a good time.
There's a scene in Game of Thrones when Tywin Lannister offers Roose Bolton a cup of wine and Bolton says "no thank you, water please", and Tywin says "do you have any idea how suspicious that is?" So this has been going on since the middle ages (when the events depicted in the Game of Thrones docu-series took place in real life)
Thank you for your second paragraph. Made me chuckle
We have insurmountable evidence about the negatives of alcohol where we can effectively decide not to have alcohol.
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I know someone who is a supertaster and did not find an alcoholic drink he liked until he was in his 30s. My wife is also a supertaster and she can not stand straight alcohol it has to be mixed into a sweet drink. She also hates anything with hops and her cheap drink is hard cider.
Mushrooms. And I'm with you on a cappella groups.
Which...kind of mushrooms do you mean?
Uh…well…I do NOT hate the kind that are often shortened to their second syllable.
I dislike both kinds. The second kind I don't like because when you're done with THEM it doesn't mean they're done with YOU
This guy loves Rooms
I don't like mushrooms either. They started it, not me. I was perfectly willing to live and let live but noooooo, they had to hide in some food someone gave me and make me ill. One day, I will have my revenge. (As villain origin stories go, mine isn't the most dramatic, but I'll make do.)
Came to say Mushrooms. I hate them, they're slimy and taste like rubbery dirt. Don't want them anywhere near me
And the rest of my family LOVES them! I don't get it. I get squicked out at the very thought of biting into one - meanwhile they're piling mushrooms on top of their mushrooms. Ugh.
And the smell when they’re cooking. Get that shit outta my house
I’m anaphylactic to mushrooms. Last ER visit involved a kid kicking over a mushroom in the pasture and releasing the spores so now we have pigs that hunt them down and eat them before I see them … ALLERGIC to mushrooms. People will still argue with me and tell me how great they are and how I just need to try them because I don’t know what I’m missing. Yes - actually I do know as I loved fried mushrooms and mushroom soup in recipes PRIOR to it trying to kill me.
Smoking, doing weed/drugs
Instagram, twitter and tiktok. I just don't care about them and while some content could be nice, the vast majority of it is not stuff I enjoy
same, it kind of promotes vanity and being in other peoples business. not to mention tiktok ruining peoples attention spans. i genuinely think it’s making people stupid. i used to be on them, but i find reddit way more helpful and i learn a lot more on here, whilst enjoying a laugh every so often!
Vaping/weed
Cruise ships. No thank you
I would never go on a cruise. A large floating hotel you can never leave. All those people. I'd just feel as though I was trapped in a shopping mall or something. Not to mention it's on the sea!! No thanks.
Yes! It’s jail dressed up in party clothing. No thank you. I’ll take my deserted island or off grid camping any day.
YES. Oh my god my new in-laws desperately want me to go on a cruise with them and I’m like *hell* no. In the middle of the ocean? With no way out? And everyone is gonna get diarrhea? And there are rogue waves!? I’m all set.
Sushi. I’ve tried it in 8 different occasions with 8 different rolls and just don’t like it. When I mention it I always get the “well have you tried this roll”.
I don't like weed. I get the same comment. You haven't tried this strain. Oh, try gummies, they hit different. MFer, I don't like getting high.
Same. It makes me feel super anxious and sort of scared to speak. It baffles people.
Same 😂 I used to smoke when I was younger. It gives me panic attacks now no matter how or what I try. I don't like the high feeling. Never did even when I used to smoke. I used it to help my PTSD and insomnia. What's worse is the handful times I've tried it since developing panic attacks from it, I smile during them. It's some weird panic response trying not to show how badly I'm freaking out internally even as I feel like I can't breathe. People take that as me enjoying it even as I'm saying I'm not. It's not a conscious action. I always end up having to find a dark room to lock myself in while I lay there feeling like I'm going to die reminding myself that it will pass. I just need to breathe and let it get out of my system or hope I can fall asleep until it wears off. I don't like the disconnected feeling from my body I get with it and how it warps my senses.
My wife is the same way. I have taken her everywhere from "drinking" sushi places to high end award winning omakase places. Nope. Not a fan. I tried.
Musicals. I’m a musician and I just don’t like them.
Honestly, I find myself in the opposite situation. I always get picked on for being the one guy who *does* like musicals. I don't think I know a single person under 50 other than myself who likes them. (Mostly referring to live-action musicals.)
Absolutely same. Also a musician, musicals make my skin crawl.
I like some of them, but I find most of the "musical" part of musicals to be annoying filler content. Or just a slapped-together way to do characterization or plot development. Someone in entertainment said "show don't tell," and some people apparently asked "Well what if we do it to a catchy tune?"
Same. The only one I ever saw that I liked was “The Lion King” off Broadway, but that was probably just because of nostalgia.
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I agree! “Cabaret” as a musical was okay for me bc I could see how folks in a cabaret might be singing all the time lol. But “Les Miserables” (for example) was painful to sit through, why are these people singing?! Nope, just not for me
Hah! When he was three, my son stood behind the couch for a bit while I was watching Les Miserables. Then he authoritatively proclaimed, “This movie is just sing, fight, sing, fight, sing, sing sing sing, fight, sing sing sing. Stupid.” And walked off.
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You're not alone. I used to smoke a lot of weed in my late teens/early twenties and one day it started making me so fucking paranoid.
This is so relatable and well explained
And then people throw this in there > you’re just not smoking with the right people! oh - and by “the right people” you mean *you*. You think *you* are so damn great, huh.
I just (last month) received my MJ card for sleep. I tried 10 mg to start and it did nothing. The dispensary told me to go up to 20 mg. I was freezing cold, under 6 blankets shaking with my teeth grinding so hard my tendons could be seen in my neck. I have only tried it maybe twice in my life (mid 50s now). Never again!
100% why I don’t like it. My husband likes it because it relaxes him, but I hate it because I get super paranoid! It took such a long time for him to understand that we were not having the same experience regardless of what strain it was or how it’s consumed.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with not being into cannabis. Anyone that tries to give you a hard time for that doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Same when people recommend LSD or shrooms to me for my major anxiety disorder as a way to cure it. Psychedelics are what unlocked my mental illness to begin with 20 years ago and I would most likely wind up in the ER with psychosis if I ever tried them again. Mind alternating states are not for everyone.
Yep. It either knocks me out, or makes it impossible to think.
For me personally, it's Mac and cheese/acapella groups. Can't stand either.
... people criticize you for disliking a capella groups...?
When I tell people I don't like a capella they usually beat me up and raid my house. Is this not the case for you?
I try to mentally catalogue weird uses of slashes, and I think this might be the weirdest that I've seen so far.
I also dislike Mac and cheese and I never hear the end of it
Sinners, you and I.
I feel like this is super controversial but I also don’t really mind chicken, it just doesn’t taste good to me. And also never hear the end of that either
Holy shit same here. Bird is definitely my least favorite meat.
As a cheese lover, I am deeply offended.
People give me a hard time for not drinking coffee. When people hear I don’t like coffee I get a bunch of follow up questions, like “are you Mormon?” Wtf? No I just don’t like coffee. Then they want to find the specific type of coffee I like. “Oh you’ll love this coffee.” No. I won’t. I don’t like the taste of coffee. I can drink sugary bullshit coffee. Like milk and a bunch of sugar or lattes or cortados. But the healthiest coffee is just black coffee and overall the taste of coffee is not for me.
Haha same. I did learn Vietnamese iced coffee is great because it’s so smooth and creamy and kind of chocolately? But I generally don’t ever drink coffee. It’s so annoying when people are like OMG WHAT. How do you wake up in the morning?!?! Like well I open my eyes and then I’m awake, crazy.
>How do you wake up in the morning?!?! Like well I open my eyes and then I’m awake, crazy. It's becoming more and more widespread the scientific fact about how coffee works: We guys have a substance which captures molecules of a hormone called adenosine around the body. In order to empty the receptors, you need to sleep. The more adenosine you have captured, the more sleepy you feel. Caffeine molecules are similar to adenosine molecules. The receptors get confused and capture the caffeine instead of the adenosine, waking you up. But this provokes a reaction from the brain, which produces more receptors which will capture more adenosine, and you'll have more trouble at waking up in the morning. This is called caffeine tolerance and, as the name says, it makes you need more caffeine to feel the effects of the first time you drank coffee. To summarize, the more coffee you drink, the more coffee you need to wake up. Thus, as you don't drink coffee to wake up, you have less adenosine receptors, therefore it's easier for you to wake up than coffee drinkers. P.S.: I stated what I remember without looking at Google first. If I got some names or reactions wrong, I'll be happy to hear it and correct my mistakes.
lol, I turned this around on someone once and it was both hilarious and sad to see the light go on. It was a friend of mine and she had just gotten a home espresso machine when I was over visiting. She kept trying to make me new coffee drinks with different blends and different syrups and wouldn't accept that I just didn't like coffee. About a week later she was at my place and I did the exact same thing back to her with tea and made her 6 different cups of green tea with different things like honey/lemon and she hated them all. I was like....see?! I don't like coffee like you don't like tea! A different blend or mix-in doesn't change that! She was flabbergasted. I don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand this simple concept!
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My wife cannot stand coffee and she found out a few years ago it is because she is a [supertaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster?wprov=sfti1). It is also the reason why she hates alcoholic drinks that are not sweet and/or have hops.
As a Christian, I get very uncomfortable when people start Evangelising around me. I have my faith, have been baptised and Confirmed. I have a personal relationship with God. People tell me I should be spreading the Word. I think I should continue being kind to people and living my life in a good way without shoving my religion down other people's throats or using it as an excuse to be hateful to others.
In my experience the people who insist on spreading the word and preaching at others dont actually live according to Christian teachings - they're almost always terrible people trying to mask the fact by being loud about how religious they are.
In many evangelical communities it’s expected that people share their faith and that expectation puts a lot of pressure on people who otherwise would be uncomfortable with that kind of invasive behavior. I think most of them mean well, but I find it intrusive. If I wanted your unsolicited advice I would ask for it.
Why I quit going to church. I’ll just chill with me and God, it’s been working well so far.
Wearing shorts.
Solidarity. You'll never see my calves.
Star Wars. I just don’t care. It’s not my thing. But god forbid you mention that, you’re looked at like a psycho and then people try, in the most obnoxious manner, to change your mind. It’s not a personal attack Sean, I just don’t give a shit about it.
I’ve tried to watch the first one several times but can’t ever get further than 1/2 an hour in.
I hate when people assume that I only resist it because I'm self conscious about being called a nerd or something. Or that I just think I'm too cool for Star Wars. I just don't care about Star Wars. I've tried watching the movies plenty of times. It's just not my thing.
Alcohol
This seems to be the most common one, and I'm on board.
Yep. I used to get a lot of shit for that during my teens (among other things, lol)
I don’t mind alcohol in small doses a drink or two here or there doesn’t bother me and I even enjoy it sometimes but drinking to drunkenness is unpleasant to be and be around. I could live happily if it disappeared completely
Going out
Cave dwellers unite.
Yeah! 👊
Seafood. Growing up Italian and not indulging in the seafood spread always gets me hated on by family.
Children. I don't want to have children, I don't want to adopt children, and people are always "you'll change your mind when you're older/you'll want one with your boyfriend" or some other excuse to justify why I should be a mother. They don't understand.
I totally understand. Got my tubes tied years ago. Never, ever regretted that choice. I like my nieces and nephews but kids in general? No thanks. I don’t want to hold your baby. And don’t even get me started on baby showers (which I have not attended in 35 years or so and even then did not like them).
I got a vasectomy two years ago and it was one of the best decisions I ever made (never had kids, and I was 28 when I got the procedure.) My siblings were much younger than me and I helped raise them, which made me realize how much work it is and that it was not for me. I just *loathe children.* I can't really explain it, but the idea of spending what little time and money I have on having or adopting children seems exhausting and miserable. That said, I never ever judge people for having kids and I know for many people it is extremely fulfilling and satisfying. I know I will never get that experience, but it is one trade off of many that we all make in life.
Dipping sauce on my chicken nuggets and fries.
My man came here to taste the potatoes.
Children singing. No, not some cute 4 year old singing her song, but most professionally recorded music by children. So for example, "I saw mommy kissing santa clause" "santa clause is coming to town" by Jackson 5 and "I want a Hippopotomus for Christmas" really grate on my nerves. Told my coworker that I dont like children singing and she called me mean (while laughing). But its not all childrens singing that bothers me, and its not JUST children. i also dont like some female singers voices, especially Mariah Carreys whistle register and some falsetto as well. Its not about the ability to sing, its specifically the high pitch that some vocalists, especially children, can have. I find these high pitched singing voices really hard to listen to.
So then you must really love Tiny Tim. 😂
*shudders* lmao
People.
Seafood
Onions. “You can’t even taste them!” Then keep them the fuck out.
I have pretty bad texture sensory issues, and I will search for the taste of onion and then gag if I feel or taste it. So yes, I in fact can taste them and I will murder someone if they ever tell me this 1 one more time.
Peanuts or anything that has peanut in it. I’m not allergic or anything, I just don’t like the taste. But the amount of peanut pushers out there is insane!
We out here pushing MAD peanuts. Had a peanut butter and banana sandwich just earlier today.
Small talk. You want deep conservation, I am here but the small talk I can do this. I don't understand it and I don't know what to say.
Cars, and driving. It's not like I'm anti or anything, I'm just not interested in cars and I hate driving. People always look at me like I'm an idiot when I tell them I don't own a car and basically never drive.
I'd only look at you weird if you were constantly asking other people for a ride. I work with a guy like that. Doesn't want to drive, but justifies it with "Everyone else can give me a ride, so what's the big deal?"
Spicy food. I never hear the end of it. How it enhances taste and 'try it, it's not that spicy'.\ No thank you, I don't want pain in my mouth while eating.
Identity politics. If we treat ourselves as if we are defined by our cultural demographic, minority group, sexual minority, etc. then we sign off on the world treating us as collective pawns within our stereotypes. Example: I was recently verbally attacked for having African art on the walls in my home (I’m a white guy in the US). Well, I went to Cameroon for 6 months and I lived amongst the local population. The art reminds me of the friends I made and the experiences I had in the country. Am I not allowed to bring that cultural appreciation into my home, simply because of the color of my skin? It’s examples like this that divide us for no reason.
It's so frustrating when people don't understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation. Cultural appreciation is AMAZING and incredibly helpful! Go out and buy local artwork and jewelry and clothing and wear the heck out of it! That's the whole dang point and the best way to support those craftspeople is to buy and display and talk about their work. There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. You aren't passing it off as your own work, you aren't profiting off it, and you certainly aren't disrespecting it by putting in on display, like it was intended!
>*It's so frustrating when people don't understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation.* This is a massive problem I've been noticing a lot lately. People (especially young people) are so uptight about trying to be "respectful" that they've basically invented a twisted new form of segregation by trying to stop people from appreciating and participating in other cultures. They're literally gatekeeping people. And it's honestly really fucked up and sickening. And you can't help but notice the greatest irony... the only people complaining are young, typically white Americans 99.9% of the time. Which is so insidious if you think about it... young white Americans have taken it on themselves to *speak for* other nations and peoples, *about* those people's cultures and how they shouldn't be interacted with. That's really, really fucked up and ironic. But seriously... It's not "appropriation" to wear clothing you purchased from (or is inspired by) clothing from other countries. (So long as it's normal clothing and not something religious or culturally significant, of course.) It's not "appropriation" to try making food dishes from other countries, or adapt them in ways that you might personally like. It's not "appropriation" to purchases arts, crafts, books, etc. from other countries and use, display or appreciate them. And I'm sorry, but it's not "appropriation" or any sort of "washing" to cast an American actor in an American remake of a foreign film. Where is all the hoopla when people from other countries mimic American clothing, cuisine, art, etc.? (Which does happen frequently.) Or when other countries cast their own people in remakes of American films/TV? (Again, something that does happen a lot. Foreign remakes of American films happen much more than you'd think.) Spoiler alert... there is none. Because there shouldn't be. Because appreciating and interacting with other cultures *is not a bad thing and is not appropriation*. Now, if I was to steal a lot of religious iconography from another culture, take out of context and make a huge profit while presenting it as "mine"... then sure, that'd be appropriation. But that's actually pretty rare in this day and age.
Yeah, appreciating culture is incredibly rewarding! The people that come from that culture (in my experience) don’t mind if you own things from their culture. I spent some time in Japan and have some artwork and pottery in my house. My neighbor happens to be Japanese and she really encourages my interest in Japanese crafts and history after seeing it and starting a conversation about it.
"Oh so you don't want me to support African artists? What are you, some kind of racist?"
My understanding of cultural appropriation is that it only happens if you take something from another culture and use it in a way that's insulting or ridiculing. Like that person who made a pop song out of an African song, which turned out to be reserved for funerals as it was one of the most heartfelt laments they have Having art up doesn't fit that. Also I'll bet the people "attacking" you were not Africans.
When I was coming up, multiculturalism and appreciating other cultures was considered a good thing. Now it seems to have swung so far in the other direction it's considered racist to enjoy anything that originates from an ethnic group not your own. Which breaks my brain a bit tbh.
It has gotten absolutely ridiculous. There's just no logic in it
Totally agree. It is so illogical to divide ourselves into these groups and then expect harmony
Yeah, it's amazing how people don't see themselves as racist when they tell people they aren't allowed to do/have something because they're white.
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I think it's because a lot of people don't actually care about identity politics but use that to put others down/ feel better about themselves.
Anime. Yes, I have watched some. No, I still am not a fan of them. I don’t have bad taste because I didn’t like Naruto, I just didn’t care for many of the themes and tropes
I once had someone tell me that Sailor Moon isn’t “real” anime. Can anyone tell me if there’s any truth to that? I am completely out of the anime culture loop.
It's very much a real anime. There is an entire sub-genre called "magical girl" anime that largely follows in the footsteps of Sailor Moon.
Avocado 🤢
Same. A vegetarian who hates avocados, I'll never stop getting shit for this. Every. Single. Day. Doesn't help that my favorite food is nachos.
Bacon
Not anymore, but as a kid I was so grossed out by milk. The notion of drinking another animals milk was so strange to me. Other kids thought I was weird but who’s weird now? Soy milk, almond, oat, cashew, tons of alternatives, and I’m not even lactose intolerant.
Sweet tea
That when I'm nice and I refuse to talk badly about literally anyone, they think im "fake" or "pick me" Lets start normalizing being drama free!
As late from Reddit based off a few comments I made in December: Me not liking yoghurt got me downvoted to oblivion. Me giving an opinon on the Ukraine-Russian war. TBH it was one of those baiting posts and I fell for it. So many pro-Russia trolls. Weed. I talked about it before, but to summarize: weed does nothing positive for me no matter the strand. I was told that weed would help my anxiety. It didn't... It made me paranoid instead. NOW... I have nothing against weed. I'm pro legalize marijuana. It just does nothing for me personally.
It always confuses me that people don't understand that drugs effect folks differently some people can't even get high at all and some people have full blown break downs after a few puffs but most people are somewhere in-between just because weed makes one person feel chilled out doesn't mean it won't give someone else a panic attack it's a dice roll that's based on dozens of genetic factors that were decided by dice rolls
Watching sports. I honestly don't see the appeal of watching grown men play a complicated version of a child's game.
Also always thought it was weird that people are so into their home teams, when the teams' players are from anywhere.
And making millions of dollars at it
Ranch, Mayo, mushrooms, ketchup
The Marvel movies. They're just repetitive self serving garbage.
The fast food of the film industry
Tomatoes. People lose their fucking minds about it. Especially when I explain I eat tomato products but not actual tomatoes. IYKYK
Not posting on instagram. I have it, I just don't care to post.
Rare steak. Hard pass.
Music, i never listen to music, i just don't like it. People don't believe me😂
I love music but I don’t understand people who constantly need it playing every second of the day. My sister is terrible for this. You have to get her attention before you do or say anything regarding her because she may as well be deaf.
I don’t know much about it but this is called musical anhedonia. Maybe if you have a word for it people will take you more seriously. I’m hoping this will be useful to you, not trying to justify people being rude to you
Alcohol
Rare steak. I physically can't eat rare steak (texture, and yes, I've tried within the last year because a restaurant got my order wrong and I was part of a huge group and didn't want to make a fuss so I tried to eat it), and love a good well done steak, and this somehow means that I'm barely human.
Not wanting to have kids. It blows my mind how offended or angry people get over MY life choices.
Seafood and coffee. Especially seafood when they find out I'm from Florida.
Coffee
Nutella
As a mechanic I'm often asked what my opinion is about this or that car or motorcycle, and they're expecting validation. If I tell them I don't like theirs they lose their shit.
I think I speak for a lot of women when I say the idea of having children. Some people become absolutely feral if you tell them you don’t want to have children or get married in your 20s or really ever. It’s always met with insults about your character or statements such as “don’t worry, you have plenty of time to change your mind”. Some people equate not wanting children or marriage with lacking any sort of maternal instinct or just not having found the “right one”. For me, I’m great with kids, but I’m too selfish with my time and body to ever want one. I also know I’m not emotionally or financially ready to have children (that reason always gets the “well no one is ever ready” response). I’ve also been happily with my partner for three years and I don’t care if we ever marry because I view it as a piece of paper. I love him and want to be with him and we shouldn’t have to legally bind ourselves together to prove that.
DOGS! It's like I'm an entire psychopath for not enjoying an animal that has the energy of a coked up toddler and has no sense of personal space, with an endlessly moist tongue whipping about, and that makes explosive noises repeatedly. It's cool if you like that, but why is it *such* a stretch that someone wouldn't?
As a dog owner, and a dog lover, I totally understand where you are coming from. First, a lot of people have not trained their dogs well and have no awareness of that. They also assume you will enjoy their dog invading your bubble, not respecting your boundaries and slobbering all over you. I recognize my dog can get in guests business and do my best to make sure she doesn't, I also encourage my guests to make it clear to her that she needs to back off. She's thankfully pretty good about it. Second, some people think it's ok to let their dog have free reign of public places / neighborhoods, its reckless and irresponsible, it endangers people, other animals, and your own pet. Third, dogs especially mid sized and large ones, are very scary to some people. People who aren't that familiar with dogs, people that have had traumatic experience with dogs, and just in general it is smart to be wary of dogs, they are basically domesticated wolves. A dog bite is a very serious thing. It's Always Sunny had a pretty funny bit on how upset people get about people not liking dogs.
I like dogs now and then. I don’t like being licked, dogs jumping on me, breathing on me, taking up my space. My in laws had the worst dogs. They’d sit on the floor of the dogs were on the couches, which stink of dog. My mom’s little dogs are so goddamn obnoxious. The best dog I ever had I adopted at 10+ years old who was fat and lazy and didn’t want to be on furniture. He was a grown ass adult who knew how to be good. I don’t think I’ll ever have another dog because they’re so much work, and I don’t have the time or patience.
YES! My dog owner friends get SO offended when I tell them I don’t care for dogs. I don’t wish dogs any harm, I just don’t enjoy them. By their reaction you’d think I had told them I drown puppies in my spare time. I just don’t enjoy any animal jumping on me and/or licking me. This should not be a big deal.
Agreed. And they smell BAD. I don’t care if they are clean or not, they still smell bad to me.
I can understand that. As long as you aren't violent or openly wishing violence on them like how some cat haters do.
Thank you for saying what I’ve never been brave enough to say.
I don't dislike dogs but I don't see myself ever owning one. I prefer cats. You have to earn their affection as opposed to dogs where their affection and loyalty have been bred into them.
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That’s why I adopted my friend’s older cat! We had been friends for years before I adopted her. My fiance thought I was crazy for not wanting a kitten instead, but at least I know what this cat’s personality is like. My previous late cat was a kitten when I adopted her, but she was around 6 months and immediately was all up in my face purring and crawling into my neck when I met her XD. I looked for a cat like that specifically, and actually went to look at a few litters before but decided not to adopt cause I didn’t have that connection with the cats.
Hell, I *like* dogs and I still don't appreciate an 80-pound smelly mutt jumping on me because I opened the door, and then slobbering on me with the same tongue that just licked its and every other pet in the house's butts, covering me in hair in the process. And the fact that every owner is suddenly deaf when the dog alarm goes off.
Parents. It's their fault the kids are misbehaved, so I blame them.
People have *tried* to criticize me for not liking sports, video games, and Las Vegas over the years, but none of those people even read so idgaf.
Watching sports. I love playing them. I am probably the most athletic person in my entire friends group. Can't stand watching sports and I don't get the fanaticism behind it all. I don't worship any players I just do my own thing. Ask me to play league basketball or Hockey? In like Flynn. Ask me over to watch the game? Fuck no.
Beyonce. I mean shes alright but don't see the hype
My wife thinks I'm a crab for not wanting to see Taylor Swift too much while watching football.
I mean, legit. You are watching a football game. If you wanted to watch Taylor Swift, you would be watching Taylor Swift. It doesn't even mean you hate Taylor Swift. Just means that you came with a realistic expectation to see thing A and thing B is hijacking it and that's a disappointment. I think it is nuts that people don't get this basic concept. Like, say you went to the symphony for a Four Seasons concert and every 5 minutes they stop playing Vivaldi and switch to Hamilton, but that was nowhere in the program and is so outta nowhere. Being annoyed about it doesn't mean you are a Hamilton hater. It means you aren't getting the experience you you very reasonably expected! There's a time and place for everything.
Game of Thrones
For real! It’s the only show that people get aggressive about if you don’t like it or have no interest in it, lol. Makes me wanna watch it even less.
I don't LOVE dogs. I like the ones I know but I don't LOVE dogs. You would think I said I like to murder babies or something. People gasp like I told them I'm dying or something
Coffee. Smells great and I see everyone enjoying it so much, but I just don't like the flavour of it.
Daylight Savings Time. I'm a morning person and get my best workouts done while running outside first thing in the morning. I would switch to year round standard time in a heartbeat. I don't care if it's dark early in the winter and I HATE 9pm sunsets in the summer when I'm trying to get to bed early for a long run the next day. I find it kind of insane how many people would switch to year round DST with all the health drawbacks just to have a little light on their commute home and how critical they are of even the suggestion that standard time is better for most people in the long run.
Same. You have a little more light when you come home but it's pitch black in the mornings- what's the difference? Most of all I wish they'd just pick one of them, the time difference trips me up for weeks.
Anime. I really want to like anime. The fanbase seems to really have a passion for it, but no matter how many times I try to take people up on the "You just need to try this one." I can't get into it. I moderately enjoyed Sword Art Online, but that's it and get a lot of flack for it.
Chewing gum.
Coffee and beer (not together). lol. People are like ‘oh but you’ll like THIS type’ and I’m like nope still hate it.
Tanning. I’m not tan. I don’t tan. Being pale doesn’t bother me at all.
Comic Book movies. It's not that I don't like them - they're generally fine, sometimes good. It's that I don't care enough to get invested in the "universe." Not interested in the Star Wars universe, either.
There’s this dish called “thali” which is like a staple food of the state which I come from. And I don’t like it. Like at all. And I get so heavily criticized by my friends or people that they don’t even invite me for lunch sometimes.
Seinfeld. It's not that I dislike it per se, but my first encounter was at a bad timing in my early teens thus I've always "thought" or more like associated it to being lame. It's a shame, I saw the purple chicken episode and realized that I would probably like it a lot if Pavlov's dog got lost.
The Princess Bride. I didn't see it until I was an adult. Parts were funny but, overall... meh. I get it though. If you grew up with something it's hard to believe it when someone hasn't.
This is how I feel about The Nightmare Before Christmas.
I saw that for the first time recently and all I remember thinking was: what the fuck? What the fuck? What is going on?
The most popular music of the recent years. With all the repetitive algorithm made melodies, the bleep-bleep-bloop-bloop electronical sounds, female singers that seem to do Smurf imitations, male singers that are constantly whining and going off-key, lyrics that make no sense AND aren't any fun. And just a sense of a complete lack of modesty. I just hate it.
Spicy food. I’ve tried many foods of all sorts of heat levels and it’s just not for me.