I wish there were more foods I disliked. Wold make dieting easier.
I definitely dislike violent movies. And most sci-fi ones.
@Nrdsb4 : I went to the film on Christmas with a whole bunch of relatives, including my children, all of whom wanted to see it more than anything. I had never seen the show. I had heard a couple of songs over the years, not paid much attention to them, and thought they were OK/not great. I knew everyone loved Les Miz, and I liked all of the actors who were in the film, so I expected to like it at least a little, maybe a lot. But, no.
You’re right. The musical was originally written in French, although one of the authors has a German surname. And of course the source-material novel is a classic of French literature. I think I got it confused with Marat/Sade, which was originally written in German (and which I love).
I had to read the book in French, and its title says all about my experience with it…
Andrew Lloyd webber lost it after “Jesus Christ Superstar”, everything after that was downhill…
+1 on hating violent movies. What is the point of sitting through 2 hours of that? Not my idea of entertainment. Just makes me think ill of humanity and literally gives me nightmares. Very few movies I can see these days.
^^^Yes to the above. Also hate car crash movies, movies with robots, zombies, super heros, video game characters and imaginary worlds.
Any movie with a character running around with a chainsaw.
I hate Lucille Ball which means that I hate “I love Lucy”. I also hated “The Honeymooners”.
I have a serious love affair with Les Mis. Have seen the stage play 3 times. I did not like the movie.
I adore Rent and saw it first in Australia as it emerged and then here.
I detest Beauty and the Beast. I also feel literally ill if I am forced to hear a single word of the Song of Music.
I cannot even leave it there. I seriously do hate it. period.
Each to their own :ar!
^^^^That reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Elaine hated The English Patient, and she kept getting major grief for it. The scene where she loses it in the movie theater (shrieking “Just DIE already!!!”) was hilarious.
A friend of mine says she nearly went into a panic attack once when she had to sit through Oklahoma! Her kid was in it, so she had no choice.
I don’t like The Honeymooners, either. Well, I like Norton, but can’t understand why anybody would be interested in Ralph.
Prompted by today’s Washington Post article on hearing loss:
I hate restaurants with loud music, leaf blowers, motorcycles without mufflers, really loud anything. What makes people think they have the right to turn their noise up so loud it damages other people’s hearing?
^^^ And you think most everyone else loves those things? Um, no.
i don’t hate or dislike this, just find it kind of annoying …
crime shows where the cops / FBI / police chief, etc, always dismiss the theories and methods of the quirky, eccentric main character because he/she is seen as an “outsider” – even though the main character literally solves the case or the murder EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
I mean, come on. do all TV cops have amnesia so badly that they just forgot the 79 consecutive murders the main character solved while they were just scratching their heads? it’s always “come on, Quirky Main Character, there is no possible way it went down the way you say. there’s a good reason you never made detective!”
after the first 2 or 3 cracked cases, if it was me i’d be all, “oh cool, Quirky Main Character is here. let’s get donuts while he wraps this up in an hour, then we can take credit for it!”
Enough people like loud noises that the noise bothers a lot of people and causes hearing loss. The trend to noisy restaurants is one example. The restaurants are designed to be noisy, not just with music but to not muffle the ambient noise of talking, dishware clattering and so forth. They think it creates a ‘lively’ atmosphere. To me it means I can’t talk to the person I’m sitting next to.
That doesn’t mean people like it. It’s a strategy.
Starbucks – I think it is awful and I do NOT get it
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@toomanyteens
yeah i much prefer donut shop coffee – Dunkin, Krispy Kreme, Duck, Tim Hortons. heck i even think Denny’s coffee is better than Starbucks.
Dunkin Donuts. I don’t even like walking into the place. That Dunkin Donuts smell just permeates your hair and clothing. Even their donuts (which taste like crap) taste like that smell. And I live in Dunkin country. No thanks!
I hate that there are TVs in so many restaurants and bars. When I go out to eat the purpose is to socialize with my friends and family, not to watch TV. I try not to look but they are distracting so I asked to be seated where I can’t see them, if that’s possible.
I too dislike Starbucks coffee,to me it is way overpriced and overly strong… Dunkin Donuts coffee is much better…I don’t know if it is simply the shop stinks, but the Tim Horton’s in Times Square in NYC when I tried their donuts were horrible…Krispy Cremes were good, though, as long as they are fresh. Actually, in NYC most delis and such have great coffee, too, a lot of that is the water (Damon Runyon, the newspaperman and writer, once said almost any place in NYC had great coffee, thanks to the water, except for one coffee shot in lower Manhattan who gets their recipe from the Witches of Macbeth lol).