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Rugby; just can't see what the attraction is... Too many head injuries
Tomatoes are fine just not in a sandwich it's too wet
I love jazz but have no affection for Metal, I think Biffy Clyro is my heaviness limit
Baked beans
Olives
Football
Karaoke
Shellfish
Any sugary/sweet alcoholic drink
Steak - and the weird obsession with having it barely cooked. It's just raw meat.
Football - is just very boring
Tomatoes - uncooked are rank, bloody love a sun dried tomato though
Cucumber - absolutely horrible and ruins everything it touches, so a sandwich remains tainted if you pull out the cucumber, or if a knife has been used on a cucumber then to slice cheese, the cheese is ruined. Tzatziki though..... Love that
Dogs - nothing good about them, they're noisy and smell and I'm not interested in yours, nor do I want it to approach me when we're outdoors or bark at me when I come round your house (I know, you won't invite me anyway 😜)
Tattoos - everyone's got them now. Be different, don't get one! Or use henna, then you could draw something different every week 😂
Big food.
Burgers and sandwiches that are too big to eat in the traditional way. A sandwich should be tops two inches wide, with a bit of a pre squish, just the right size to stick in yer face hole.
Steak. Oysters. Taylor Swift. Tubeless.
@elray89 you're welcome to an opinion but get in the sea but get in the sea for sourdough! (I'm baking a load as I type). Slice it, toast it, rub it with garlic, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle salt, eat with a well dressed salad.
Tea.
Netflix
That just got objectively worse now they "bumped" the £7/month down to £5/month WITH ADS.
ooh thought of another, *****n brioche buns for burgers, one place did it, now every one blinkin does it. It basically meat in cake... usually done by same placed that think i want fries in a little basket..
Salmon. I even tried to learn to like it when I had covid and not much taste but.....
Cycle touring.
Terry Pratchett as well.
Star Wars.
Massive SF fan when growing up, read all the SF books in the library, but never got into Star Wars.
Pratchett is an odd one. It's logical to start at the beginning with his books, but the first couple are objectively poor until he finds his mojo. There are better jumping-off points than The Colour Of Magic.
Donald Trump apparently
The Youtube algorithm seems to have twigged that I'm a middle aged white male with an interest in military history, the great outdoors, barbecuing stuff and with an occasional passing interest in video games.
As a result it constantly hoses my feed with "watch as based sigma male DESTROYS woke SJW with LOGIC" alt-right nonsense. Even creepy Andrew Tate fanboy stuff.
The fact that there appears to be bottomless well of this clap-trap out there and that therefore there must be an audience for it is somewhat depressing.
Beer
Football
Babies/Children
Meeting lots of new people
Sitting in pubs
Dancing
Singing
Books
Another vote for football and steak here. In fact, watching any sport at all. Love cycling, don’t like road cycling. It is in the same sphere as running for me. Just can’t grasp how anyone would find it fun and everyone I see doing either always look really ****ing miserable.
I feel sorry for you, I work with some great people.
This, some of the best nights out I’ve ever had have been work ones.
This, some of the best nights out I’ve ever had have been work ones.
Reader, I married her ......
Louise?
Another to add:
Cheese (including pizza. It's mostly cheese)
Fish
Mushrooms
Whiskey! 🤮
I don’t actually believe people really enjoy it, I think they just daren’t say they don’t like it. The smell of it makes me wretch. I’ve tried it and its wrong. Hateful stuff!
Believe what you want, the six bottles lurking just behind my head puts the lie to that statement. As do the number of people I know who are very happy indeed to receive a nice single malt or a good bourbon.
Never been interested in football, I really don’t like red meat, although, perhaps oddly, I do appreciate a kebab from the van just off the A350, roughly a mile from where I live, especially on my way home from the pub.
Never liked olives or Guinness/stout, until I grew up a bit, and my taste buds developed a real thing for them. My taste for whiskey developed a lot earlier though, in my early twenties.
Lots of other things I don’t like, such is the human condition, but I’ve got wildlife to feed, along with myself, and those are much more important considerations.
Dogs
Mushrooms
Fish
Chicken on the bone
Babies
wine
Craft beer, most of it seems to be overpriced crap, lots of good beer available now without paying ridiculous money
Believe what you want, the six bottles lurking just behind my head puts the lie to that statement. As do the number of people I know who are very happy indeed to receive a nice single malt or a good bourbon
I mean, I wasn't being entirely serious!! But it is ****ing rank. I will literally throw up if I drink whiskey.
Lots of things I don't like. Of those mentioned so far, Terry Pratchett and Footie.
But I really can't think why I should probably like them.
Another whiskey hater here, plus any other spirits (vodka ect ect) All tastes/smells horrid to me. Fancy coffees too, An instant does me fine, caramel latte if I'm feeling decedent.
Mayo. Try buying a sandwich from a shop that doesn’t contain mayo. It seems like the world is expected to want mayo on a sandwich.
This x100, I ****ing hate mayo. I x1000 hate manky, cheap sandwich mayo.
But, not the whole world thinks this way. Go and buy a sandwich from a service station in France and very few will have mayo in them.
Because they use ingredients that have some ****ing taste of their own.
Avocados in general……no point to them.
Whiskey.
Coffee.
Football.
Healthy eating.
As for “burger sauce,” who thought a 50:50 emulsion of mayo and ketchup was a good idea? That’s the rosé wine of condiments, you don’t know if your host likes red or white so you choose pink thus guaranteeing that everyone will dislike it.
I love burger sauce and rosé. It's even better when it's fizzy. And sparkling wine is great too!
Fizzy burger sauce is even more wrong.
Isn't burger sauce basically like Marie rose sauce.. A blend of ketchup and mayo?
Babies
Ah, how did I forget this.
It's seemingly a broken gene in the male lineage of the Cougar family. I don't get it, I can't help it, it's just not there. "Isn't he cute?" Kittens and puppies are cute, human babies look like they've been dropped.
People bring babies into work, the office stops, I stop too because I go and hide in the kitchen until they've taken it away again. Don't get me wrong, you're lovely and I couldn't be happier for you, but please go away and come back to me when they want Lego.
Of late I've been minding my partner's grandson for the two minutes it takes her to go for a wee. I'm terrified, I don't know what I'm doing, yet this is seemingly assumed knowledge. What if he, like, spontaneously combusts or something?
I'll refer you to sun tzu.. Sometimes the best form of action is inaction.
Unless the baby is on fire, of course.
In which case.. Get some water.
Beer... Being ambivalent to football is way less of a problem in social circles (most people I mix with actively dislike football to be fair, I can give or take international footy it's just club footy and its 10 1/2 month grasp on society I have an issue with) than disliking beer... I recently went away to Europe for 5 days with a load of mates I have previously been to both Devon and North Wales with, neither previous destination it was at all difficult to get a decent pint of Cider in... But being told "I've ordered you a beer mate" repeatedly only to have to tell them for the 3rd time that night "why? I don't drink beer" got really quite tiring... I mean, I could drink a pint of weak lager rather than going thirsty if I had to, but I would much rather drink a pint of water. Or more's the point, a nice dry cider, or a glass of red, or a decent G&T... In fact, in Luxembourg, when actually asked what I'd like to drink instead of someone ordering me another beer that they would inevitably have to drink for themselves, I responded with "a G&T please" to be derided with cheers that it was a "girl's drink"... 🤦🏻 I give up!
Cheese... Physically makes me sick... ANY of it... To the point where I consider myself to be allergic to it, because it isn't a voluntary "dislike" of it, it physically repulses me to the point of being ill... Cold, hot, plasticky or boutique french shit, and everything inbetween... It's the Devil's food! At no point in my life have I gone into the fridge, opened a carton of milk to find it slightly gone off and thought "hmmm, that'd be lovely warmed up on a bit of toast"... No, it goes in the effing bin where it belongs! This of course, ironically, is MUCH more of a problem liking Italian foods in general in the UK (where everyone assumes that all Italian foods are completely immersed in the Devil's knob rot) than it is in local restaurants in Italy, where Cheese is considered to be an ingredient choice (even on a Pizza much to the chagrin of many of my friends!) rather than compulsory...
Mushrooms... Vile, just vile! At least I only strongly dislike them, so can pick them out of stuff, or push them to the side if required... Not like cheese, where if a knife that has cut cheese was then used to cut my food, I'd have to send it back for another dish!
Mayo... Yuck! Who assumes that everyone wanting to eat a Sandwich wants it dowsed in this god awful stuff?!?!
Ketchup... Absolutely awful! I could sit and eat good quality raw tomatoes all day long (cheap UK supermarket ones are pretty shit granted)... In fact, when I came back from a week in Florence celebrating a friend's wedding many years ago, the only thing I purchased as a souvenir all week was a punnet of local tomatoes from the local supermarket... They were THAT good! 😍 I'm just imagining them now, along with some lovely warm sourdough bread, some olives, a nice glass of Red... I am salivating at the thought!😂 But ketchup can get in the sea...
Gravel Bikes... I bought one, it's a very nice thing. I bought it primarily because everyone was going on about them, and how great they are at doing everything (I have owned CX bikes in the past before "Gravel" was Gravel, felt they were arguably more useful as they had more of a defined purpose)... So I bought one... And I have absolutely no enthusiasm for it. I would rather be on an MTB or on a road bike to be quite honest. Gravel Bikes to me are the worst of both worlds rather than some fantastic hybrid "jack of all trades" machine. I am absolutely amazed that the marketing hype has lasted this long to be honest, but there we go...
Babies... Firmly on board here... I'm not particularly a dog person, but even I can watch vids of cute little puppies doing cute little puppy things half adoringly. Videos of kittens get me seriously hormonal, and I'm a 43yr old bloke! But actual human children... Good god no... At least not until they're old enough to be into bikes, radio controlled cars or lego...
Camping... No thanks. I'll stay in a B&B with a shower and a toilet thank you very much. The only time I have slept in a tent as an adult was when taking part in 24hr races, and given I haven't done that for a decade or more now, I haven't had to suffer the ignominy for some years now thankfully. And no, buying a camper van or even a bloody great motorhome doesn't somehow make it worthwhile. It may bring a small amount more comfort to the process of sleeping, but is equally devoid of running water and typical hygienic amenities unless you are paying for the privilege to be hooked up to them on someone else's land... And you've had to drive some god awful house on wheels there rather than the convenient car you already owned... B&B's for the win... 👍🏻
Cold Play
NOBODY is supposed to like Coldplay... I am certain they are just an "in joke" and as and when they retire Chris Martin is going to announce "I can't believe any of you stupid ****ers bought our albums, the band was a just a practical joke that got taken too far"... It's those who actually like them that should feel awkward and full of embarrassment!
Sat here feeling really sorry for some of the people who can't enjoy a good steak... It's very rare that I do (I firmly believe it should be a rare privilege rather than a frequent indulgence), but a good steak (medium rare at most of course, rare if it's a particularly choice cut of meat) can be an orgasmic experience! I remember sitting in a very well recommended steak restaurant whilst in South Africa many years ago and after the first mouthful, every single piece of steak afterwards I started cutting smaller and smaller to make it last longer, whilst making sure I didn't swallow anything until there was no chewing left to possibly be done... Preferably served with some vine cherry tomatoes on the side of course! 😉
I thought my blood pressure was high and I was quite stressed but people on here are getting very angry over small things.
its made me feel quite relaxed….well until someone decides to eat tuna anywhere near me!
Whiskey is generally manky, but I'll make an exception for a glass of Oban, straight, no ice
Cheap supermarket steak is chewy and grim, decent butchers are too pricey, but Lidl do fantastic quality fillet steaks, you'd be a fool to miss out.
I really want to like olives, but I just can't. I try them every now and then to check, but it's not happening. They just taste really unpleasant to me.
Oasis
The Smiths
Football
Modern F1
Speedboats - I mean, just what is the point?
and I'm definitely with @mboy on the camping thing
[edit] and having just read the dirty washing machine thread, I'll add fabric softener to the list [/edit]
Sat here feeling really sorry for some of the people who can’t enjoy a good steak…
Apart from y'know; folks like yourself who can't stand some foods. That's some pretty broad blind-spot you've got going there.
*****n brioche buns for burgers, one place did it, now every one blinkin does it. It basically meat in cake… usually done by same placed that think i want fries in a little basket..
Totally agree , and what makes it worse is that some places only stock them , no proper buns in sight
I think I've suffered a form of Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to brioche buns. I do love a fancy burger but it's hard to get them without a brioche bun these days so I've actually grown to like them. Same with red onion and salted caramel. Two invasive species that have taken over yet I've grown to like them too.
Football, team games. mayo (not Mayo), TV, dogs, Old Guys Rule (as above), Star Wars (never seen any), jeggings, keg beer, package holidays.
Mayonnaise
Salads
Balsamic vinegar
Meat with fruit
Any alcoholic drink
Cheese… Physically makes me sick… ANY of it… To the point where I consider myself to be allergic to it, because it isn’t a voluntary “dislike” of it, it physically repulses me to the point of being ill…
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This of course, ironically, is MUCH more of a problem liking Italian foods in general in the UK (where everyone assumes that all Italian foods are completely immersed in the Devil’s knob rot) than it is in local restaurants in Italy, where Cheese is considered to be an ingredient choice (even on a Pizza much to the chagrin of many of my friends!) rather than compulsory…
I'm with you here. I tell people I'm allergic, I'm probably not but every time I've tried it I've either thrown it straight back up again or wound up with a blinding headache. But if you think the UK is bad, avoid the US. Given the choice between guns and cheese they'd probably pick the cheese, it's snuck into everything and their food labelling is somewhat wanting compared with ours.
I was in a branch of an Italian-American restaurant chain one time (Fazoli's, I'm quite the fan). It's a bit like Subway in that you choose the elements on like a production line. I asked for "penne with tomato sauce, no cheese."(*) I walk down the line, pasta goes on the plate, sauce gets added, then they proceed to pick up this big flour duster affair and liberally douse it in parmesan. I said "uh, I asked for no cheese?" and got told "it's not cheese, it's 'shake.'"
(* - "Tomato. Tomato. Tom- oh ok, whatever, toe-MAY-doh." This actually happened.)
Christmas
Time off work, but rubbish weather. Relatives being forced upon you. Materialistic waste with presents, too much food and an expectation of merriment, all sprinkled with an undercurrent of religious silliness.