Things that I *should* like, but have never really got into.

Mountain biking

Mountain biking videos. I like beautiful scenery. I like riding mountain bikes. I find watching people ride mountain bikes through beautiful scenery really, really dull.

I’ve never thought about why I should like something. I either do or don’t. I’m not one for trying to like something as I don’t see the point

classic example is football. If I had any interest then conversation at work would be so much easier. But I hate it so hey go

I think Inside No 9 is quite patchy, there are some genius episodes, and some that just never get off the ground at all

Science fiction. I’m a scientist. I like fiction. But it all seems really stupid.

Fiction, football, television

AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Motely Crue; all that MOR Stadium/Hair/Dad Rock. I'm right in the demographic, all my friends listen to them all them time...Just leaves me cold.

I thought I would love archery - I did lots of shooting in my teens/early 20's. So in my head archery would be an ideal hobby after giving up cycling. It's got lots of cool, shiny bits to buy too! 🙂

But nope, stuck at it for a year waiting for the obsession to kick in, but it just didn't.

And fancy cooking - we watch loads of cooking shows. But i have little interest in actually doing it even though I'm not a bad cook.

Nature programs, especially the ones from far flung places like the David Attenborough stuff.

Absolutely love nature, love being out in it but would rather see a fox or squirrel in my local woodland than a tiger on the TV.

AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Motely Crue; all that MOR Stadium/Hair/Dad Rock. I’m right in the demographic, all my friends listen to them all them time…Just leaves me cold.

Probably more down to them being stuck in a musical rut. I loved all those bands back in the day, but wouldn't choose to listen to them now.

Olives

Dance/electronic music

Oysters

Hip hop

Football

Strictly come dancing

Baked beans

Karaoke

Watching other people do sports.

Whether it's Football, Tour de 'wherever', Mountain biking, Grand Prix or whatever else, watching other people doing sport for hours on end bores me.

Cheese.

I love my food, wine, beer and love loads of different flavors.

But I absolutely hate cheese unless it's melted on a burger.

I'm a philistine.

Game of Thrones. Gave it a go but couldn't get into it.

Watching DH racing, love XC racing but watching DH bores the crap out of me and I did it recreational for years having owned a fair few DH bikes.

Tea. My parents always drank tea but I never took to it, it's just nasty tasting water. Coffee is much better.

I'm another football, hate everything about it, especially having to listen to conversations about it...

Lager - tried everything from Heineken to posh "craft" lagers, but it all tastes like watered down ditch water to me..

Radiohead - i can appreciate their musicianship, but his voice just goes through me like nails on a blackboard.

Modern cars, motorbikes and even many bicycles - I find all modern cars soulless, like modern carbon road bikes, they all look the same to me, and they are almost "too good, give me my trusty steel singlespeed bike any day.

Many modern comedy films - I think i have a tin-ear for many modern comedies, especially american ones, I just don't find them funny..

@nickc funnily enough AC/DC come under the category of things that I thought I hated but actually really like.

Radiohead – i can appreciate their musicianship, but his voice just goes through me like nails on a blackboard.

Same with Pink Floyd for me, I just find it incredibly depressing

Hot drinks

Never apologise for your taste in music.

I get why folks like ACDC, and I generally like the first 20 seconds of most of their songs, but then Johnson starts to 'sing' and I can't reach the off button fast enough. I really like Radiohead, but @scud is not alone in his dislike of Yorke's voice for the same reason I can't stand Johnson I suspect.

People. 😉

Relaxing - I am rubbish at doing nothing. It is getting worse as I get older. My wife likes to do nothing at the weekends, I get itchy teeth at the thought of wasting a day. We argue about it.

Olives - I really really want to be able to eat olives on holiday whilst evening sun is setting and enjoying a glass of white wine.  Every year I try again, and every time they make me physically gag.

Arctic Monkeys.

Relaxing – I am rubbish at doing nothing. It is getting worse as I get older. My wife likes to do nothing at the weekends, I get itchy teeth at the thought of wasting a day. We argue about it.

I've always struggled with this concept too.

I much prefer a low-level activity to chill, gentle spannering in the bike, bit of weeding.

I can't just sit and do **** all.

Tea and coffee. Grew up in a family of 6, all powered by tea with the occasional coffee thrown in for good measure, especially Dad who  really loved a good one. Wife & step kids all love tea and drink it like there's going to be a world shortage.

I can't stand the stuff. Just the smell of coffee can make me want to be physically sick sometimes.

Food.  I love cooking, I enjoy the pleasure it brings to others, but actually eating bores the tits off me.

Watching other people do sports.

Also, this.  Particularly football, I think it's the sheer rabid incessance of it which does my gourd in, you can't get away from it.  Like, one lunchtime at work some bloke I've never seen before (or, thankfully, since) goes to me "did you see the game last night?!"  Once I'd extracted from him that 'the game' he was referring to was football I said "I don't follow football, sorry."  He replied "oh, no, me neither," and then proceeded to talk at me about it for a solid half an hour.  WTF?

I have dabbled, but it's been with niche sports.  I followed Manchester Storm (ice hockey) for a couple of years, went to matches and everything, until the novelty wore off.  I watched American Football in high school, today I'll watch the Superbowl but that's mostly out of habit and generally a social thing with a mate or two.

Same with Pink Floyd for me, I just find it incredibly depressing

I thought that was the point. Have I been doing it wrong all this time?

I never used to get what people saw in Pink Floyd until I saw "The Wall" live. It's one of the best things I've ever seen.

MrsMC

Nature programs, especially the ones from far flung places like the David Attenborough stuff.

David Attenborough. National Treasure my arse. I reckon he's done more harm to the environment than good with his endless flying around, promotion of exotic holiday destinations and fictionalized portrayals of the natual world being hunky dory (I know they do the 'here's the real version' for 5 minutes at the end now, but no-one watches that bit).

"Relaxing – I am rubbish at doing nothing. It is getting worse as I get older."

I'm with you on this one.  I really wish I could sit, do nothing and enjoy it.  But it feels like time wasting and I cannot do it.

On paper I am a pretty good candidate to enjoy running.  I don't like sitting around, I like being outdoors, I'm in good shape.  But it's a hateful pastime and I can find no joy in it.  I am always impressed by people who can run but it's not for me.

I never used to get what people saw in Pink Floyd until I saw “The Wall” live. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Broadly the same here.  I saw them on The Pulse tour (the date which had to be rescheduled because the seating collapsed), I was ambivalent at best about Pink Floyd but figured it was one of those things that I might kick myself for years down the line if I passed up the opportunity.  It was absolutely astonishing, one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

There are a bunch of bands which are simply just live bands in my head, acts that I'd never get excited about a new album over but I'd sell a kidney for a concert ticket.  (There are also many more which aren't...!)

The Godfather

The Sopranos

Breaking Bad

GoT

Netflix

 I saw them on The Pulse tour (the date which had to be rescheduled because the seating collapsed), I was ambivalent at best about Pink Floyd but figured it was one of those things that I might kick myself for years down the line if I passed up the opportunity.  It was absolutely astonishing, one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.

Exactly the same here. Thought that we should go as not sure whether there'd be another chance, and it was amazing.

David Attenborough. National Treasure my arse. I reckon he’s done more harm to the environment than good with his endless flying around, promotion of exotic holiday destinations and fictionalized portrayals of the natual world being hunky dory (I know they do the ‘here’s the real version’ for 5 minutes at the end now, but no-one watches that bit).

im so glad I’m not the only one who thinks that. We have a rule in our house that it goes off the second he starts getting eco preachy as if making the programme covers the planet in eco goodness that removes carbon from the atmosphere with every airmile they rack up. Yes it’s good tv but the way they try to portray it as been good for the environment or nature is just comical

Work

Dance music

Vodka

Cocktails

Fast loud cars

Formula1

Football

ITV

'Proper' coffee. Flame me!

Coke and Hookers?

David Attenborough. National Treasure my arse

It's his birthday today, I believe.

One I forgot, that judging by regular comments on here puts me in a tiny minority of STWers

Recreational drugs. I never have and have never felt the inclination. Not judging those that do, it's just not something I've ever fancied trying. And being in a job from 16 to 40 where random drug tests were a thing, kind of helped reinforce that!

Coffee - it'd be much easier to like it but I try and it just doesn't taste nice, I'm a tea person and always will be.

Whisky - I really want to like it, I've tried really nice ones from various locations and I just can't get on with it.

Gigs- I like music, and spent a lot of time in my youth absorbed in various genres of music. However, every gig I went to left me wondering what the fuss was about, small venue to stadium, just felt a bit awkward and out of place. I think I'd like 'sitting down' more passive gigs like the old mtv unplugged stuff, but can't relax or feel comfortable in the standing throng, feeling out of place and not really 'getting it'.

Kilometres.

Metric makes mores sense, it is correct, that's why it is used by science and everybody apart from the backwards USA. But every ride, run, walk I do I track in miles because "I know how far a mile is" (I don't).

I know it's partly a British thing being in limbo between metric and imperial. Reminds of a time my brother was measuring something and said it's 45mm by 5 inches.