What do you hate....that almost everyone else loves

Chocolate – revolting in all forms esp extra dark

Extra Dark is my favorite

Movies where all the main characters die or leave on a down note…I go to a movie or watch one to feel better, real life has enough gloom in it. Nothing wrong with realistic movies, just want something to have hope around.

Food/drinks that are “piping hot”. They burn my mouth.

Agreed, which is why I have resorted to watching mostly classic movies these days. It’s bad when old WW2 movies put me in a better mood than modern comedies! :))

Book of Mormon. Despised it.

I have to say my book club is KILLING me with their picks. I just finished The Lake House by Kate Morton, and it was awful- 512 pages of a static main character, a loathsome secondary character (Eleanor, who is written as a heroine), an unanswered question (did she EVER talk to Charlotte?) and some pretty thin plot devices-she “forgot” her grandfather was adopted? Really?

But Amazon loves it, and I’m going to guess all the ladies at book club will love it, so I’ll be zipping my lip next month and sipping wine instead of expressing my opinion about it. :blush:

@fractalmastr:
lol This past weekend I was lazing out after putting more work in my 20 yr + basement renovation, and I caught one of my old favorites from the 4:30 movies “The Devil’s Brigade”, and absolutely loved it, no real moral message, cliched as heck (the US troops all a bunch of misfits and criminals, the crack Canadian team they are put together with, William Holden (need I say more?), Caroll O’Connor as the general (before all in the family, made a career out of that!), the requisite appearence by Claude Akins , the bonding over the bar fight, etc…and loved it lol.

Devil’s Brigade… I have not seen that one! It’s going on my list for this weekend B-)

@MotherOfDragons - I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with my book club’s picks as well. This month’s was a flaming pile of you-know-what…The worst part is that it’s a local author and she’s going to be joining us, which seemed like a good idea when we selected the book and now feels like a major exercise in tongue-biting. Can you pass the wine bottle, please?

Any suggestions? (Besides skipping out on The Lake House, of course).

We are set to read a suggestion I picked up here on CC: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (certainly better than the last ANYTHING of Betsy de Vos – I was watching the confirmation vote and am sick to my stomach…but I digress)

@LoveTheBard we’re reading the de vos book next, and I have high hopes for that one! The one book I managed to get voted onto the list this year is mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour book store, an enjoyable, fizzy, nerdy good time of a book.

@MotherOfDragons - We read Mr. Penumbra in our inaugural year. I enjoyed that one as well (although for the life of me I couldn’t tell you what it was about!)…with a couple of exceptions, it’s been downhill ever since. Oh well.

I, too, am looking forward to Sara de Vos…we had read The Art Forger which was good, but the ending was a bit overly dramatic, if memory serves (and it usually doesn’t!)

beets. They taste like dirt no matter how they are prepared unless grated in a homemade veggie burger.

Up there with kale in the “nobody love that” category. :slight_smile:

I’m new to this thread, and seeing that complaining is my No. 1 hobby, I can’t believe I haven’t sen it before! :wink:

Anyway, I hate laugh tracks. Actually, I hate Big Bang theory, and specifically/especially its laugh track. If you think you wrote/acted in something funny, let it stand on its own merit, don’t tell me “this part here is the funny part, so you’re supposed to laugh now.”

@skieurope I hate kale too. I think everyone who thinks they love it has successfully deluded themselves, because they want to eat healthily. Just admit you’re on a diet and eat your plastic parsley, people.

I hate when people call their dogs and cats their “furbabies.”

“I hate when people call their dogs and cats their “fur babies.””

THIS.

Cherry Pie
Cherries for that matter
Watermelon
Driving

But I do LOVE beets
And the color orange

Babytalk. Even to babies.

There are benefits to baby talk in a young child’s development. I’m also guessing you are not a parent, @marvin100 ?

http://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/research-shows-infants-may-benefit-baby-talk/

There are benefits to running marathons, too, @doschicos , but I dislike them as well :slight_smile:

(Also worth noting that your link says “may” rather than “are”…)