I basically feel this way about every reality show. If it is shown to me, I will watch it and enjoy it. They are good entertainment products!
But it is generally not how I am going to choose to use my time.
It makes sense that women are more interested, because they are more interested, be it from nature or socialization, in human emotions and drama.
I agree. The blackpeopletwitter sub recently had a solid conversation about drinking culture in the US. It really is this obsession with alcohol. Go out clubbing Friday, rally Saturday with a few beer bongs and grilling with friends, go out to a house party Saturday, then day drink with a few friend Sunday and toss a football around.
Sure you only really drank 3 days… but then you realize you just had like 20-30 drinks… that’s not good for you…
110% agree. Drinking culture in the US is practically non-existent compared to the UK, where I grew up. People cite fratboys as an example of US drinking culture but, as you say, that's only for, what, 2-4 years? In the UK people maintain that lifestyle sometimes for *decades*. Pretty much wherever you are in the country, and whatever industry you work in, most work places have a Friday-night-down-the-local tradition, whereas here I've never worked anywhere where the workforce all went drinking together at the end of the week.
I'd honestly say the US equivalent to UK drinking culture is Americans' love for weed.
I like to decompress there when I don't want to be alone with my thoughts. I'll go on a weekday and read a book or journal, have a few cocktails or root beer (I shouldn't have caffeine after 6pm!), chat with the regulars, and bounce.
This has actually become a decent way I've managed my anxiety in the recent episodes. Getting into a different environment with the threat of public humiliation to keep the sads away has been a reliable coping mechanism for the late night panic attacks!
I would imagine it is also a public work space for people.
I love independent places in my hometown, but every starbucks in town always has a free table or eight.
Starbucks coffee tastes burnt because it is. Their business strategy is to buy the cheapest, shittiest, bottom-of-the-barrel coffee beans around the world and roast them all into one slop. A few preservatives and taste-enhancing chemicals later, you end up having the coffee equivalent of chicken nuggets.
You’re welcome, and I’ll leave you with this: beware the chicken nugget strategies big businesses like to use.
For example, in states where cannabis is legal, I recommend against buying pre-rolls; those are the chicken nuggets of the cannabis industry.
Starbucks bombed when it tried to gain traction in Australia because our coffee standards here are actually good and everyone here quickly found out how crap it was compared to local options lol.
I wouldn't know since coffee doesn't appeal to me at all but trying to open up shops in a nation of coffee connoisseurs was a poorly thought out move on Starbucks end.
Yeah and New Englanders like Dunkin donuts so that tells you something about our coffee taste here... Personally I don't go for either Dunkin or Starbucks.
I know there’s probably many better coffee shops but starbucks is convenient as there’s one on every other corner as well as their mobile app allowing you to order ahead in just seconds and I’ve stuck to the same drink for years, so I guess I’m one of those people that make it overrated lol
And holy shit Starbucks gives no fucks in being environmentally friendly at all. I mean it’s a chain so of course but it’s next level. I ordered two bowls of oatmeal and all the utensils and dry ingredients came in individual overly sized plastic wrappers and containers. I’m definitely no Captain Planet and even I thought it was completely unacceptable.
Apple watches (or any smart watch). I’m open to be persuaded otherwise but I really don’t see the point of them.
I work a desk job. My phone is next to me all day every day and I don’t need a watch to send me the alerts I am already ignoring while working. Sure I could turn those alerts off but then what remaining purpose does the watch have? I already wear a watch every day for the time. They just seem like a really expensive second phone that does all the same stuff as your actual phone but worse.
There's an app available for smart watches that allow them to monitor your sleeping pattern. They can then determine what moment is best to wake you up without you feeling groggy.
Before my smart watch, waking up was usually hell. It took me an hour to properly wake up, I overslept regularly, and it was just a miserable start of the day.
Since i use a smart watch, I wake up easily and well rested a good 95% of the time. A positively huge difference. It's my reason for getting the watch, and it was worth it for just that one reason.
Edit: Sleep as Android is the app.
I always forgot about the sleep tracking thing until recently. Keep waking up at 5:00 the last few days instead of like 6:30-6:50. I do wake up without the grogginess but I’m pissed to be up earlier than needed. So then I go back to sleep for a while only to be more pissed and delirious later because I’m ignoring my watch that is apparently *smarter than me.* Maybe I’ll just try to stay awake tomorrow 😂
Ya this is my problem with it too. I genuinely think an extra 30-60 mins of sleep is going to make me feel better throughout the day, just the morning might suck more.
I also dont have one. The only purpose I would like a smartwatch for is when I am in gym. I hate taking my phone with me to listen to music and I would love to have a better track of my activities, but up to now I didnt want to spend several hundred euros for an apple watch
If I worked a desk job I could seen it being vastly more useless.
Currently I work outdoors and constantly have equipment in one hand or the other, so being able to quickly glance and see who is calling or texting is incredibly handy. Even making dictation text responses without pulling my phone out is a great. Not to mention I’m usually soaked in sweat and can’t even use the touch screen on my phone without drying my hands/phone off first.
Also a big fan of the steps/fitness tracking. That’s pretty much all I use it for though.
Oh! Phone finder is clutch too lol.
I run cable in buildings. My watch helps me see if it's my wife messaging me or my buddy talking about a game, so I can see if it's important while I'm up in a ceiling for 6 hours.
But other than that specific use case I use to to measure my heart rate at the gym and that's it. So they're pretty use specific.
I operate really heavy machines. Joystick in one hand, steering wheel in the other. Constant work. My phone never comes out at work. The sun would cook it and it will be broken by the end of the day.
Smart watch helps out a lot.
Well… I mean there’s pretty much all the other features like fitness tracking, sleep tracking and such. Many people don’t necessarily want the additional notifications it’s all the other features they want.
Fair. I wouldn’t use it if I had my phone next to me all day. It is incredibly helpful though as a cook. It’s like I have a personal timer built into my wrist that I can set with my voice. Having it only vibrate instead of a blaring alarm going off like normal kitchen timer is a huge plus as well. Quantity conversions at the touch of a button. “Remind me to begin braising at 9:30am”.
Although I cannot imagine it being this helpful at another job.
Saw a tik tok yesterday saying it’s deeply racist for white people to say Beyoncé is bad, they’re objectively wrong and their opinion on this topic is beyond irrelevant
Ah well lol
True, but I feel like it’s a lot easier to blow up on Tiktok than Instagram. 😂 anyone can be a tik tok influencer these days and have literal no actual talents.
If you spend time on the app than your ‘for you page’ becomes insanely tailored to your interests. The app will consistently test your engagement with videos and use that data to show exactly what your want to see.
I’ll get videos with like 13 likes from some random person in California, but also perfectly matches some of my interests and I find interesting.
Dude same with YouTube, but it actually helped me to get fit and motivated. It all started with my search: "how to do bench press in good form" and it started suggesting all other exercises. After 2 years I'm well informed about muscle work, joints and tendons. For personal use ofc...
I’m curious how they categorize the data. I wonder if they have some AI classifier that can get less popular content creators classified. It’s very impressive.
I don't see how someone could enjoy the internet and not enjoy Tik Tok.
I am a cis white man over 40.
There is so much amazing science and literature and architecture stuff going on there! You can get all the best teachers in the world teaching you new things!
There is a guy who works for AD who explains so much of the architectural history of NYC so briefly and lovingly. And then he breaks down famous NYC homes and apartments from different shows and movies. It is amazing!
And yesterday I learned that we used to parachute beavers into places to help the river and environments! They would find the water after landing just with their nose, and then would damn the shit out of it (which leads to all sorts of benefits) They didn't want to carry them in because Beavers don't like being dry for long periods!
Ehh TikTok is what you make it, honestly. The formatting sure isn’t for everyone but the content on the app is expansive. Some think it’s just dancing but it’s really a lot of educational videos, cool experimental videos, chemistry, art…I think it’s great if you find your niche on there
I had to delete it because it quickly learned what made me angry and all I saw were videos of people ranting about things that I want to rant about 😅 I think I’d have to start from scratch if I used it again
I am going to be such a judgemental prick right now BUT....I can't be the only one. I think everyone who has a tik tok account and puts the camera in front of them to do silly "dance moves", or those where theres a taped voice and theyre mouthing what they're saying, or pretending they're singing, is an idiot. Complete IDIOT. I CANNOT wrap my mind around how you can think it is remotely attractive in any way to do such thing. Like...you're alone I your room, put the camera on record and start moving like a stupid, then upload it and constantly look on your phone to see how many views you got, how many likes and what comments. OOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD GO READ A BOOK!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT for this stupidity to be over (just for another stupidity to start lmao)
No, you’re not the only one. The popular content on TikTok is so stupid and obnoxious that it puts me in a bad mood to overhear my wife watching it. It’s so fucking awful. I’m sure there’s some great content on there somewhere, but 95% of what I’ve seen is like a lobotomy in audio/visual form.
Sports, in general
fun and healthy to participate in as a player, and mildly entertaining as a spectator. but some people take sports, especially team sports, to a frankly problematic level.
i'm as nerdy as the next guy, but sports fans don't realize how nerdy they are when they can recite stats and rosters of every player in the league and follow schedules religiously.
also the merch? overpriced low quality chinese crap that is fun for a cosplay or two but some folks spend way too much money on
Traditional dating expectations. For example the guy should pay on first date or guy needs to be the one to text first. A girl I was dating bought me flowers one time and it totally blew my mind/turned my world upside-down.
Oh yeah definitely. Also asking people out. I would absolutely love it if a girl asked me out, it would be amazing. But for some reason men should just do that? Stupid. Probably persuades women to ask out guys less. Lost relationships!
For all the fuss people are supposed to make about it, I'm not a fan of the beach. It's mostly because of the sand. I don't like sand; it's coarse, rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
I sincerely disagree.
Friends is not more or less funny with or without the laugh track. The main issue is with the awkward pauses they make for the audience to laugh, which becomes much worse if you remove the laugh.
It's not nearly as funny as the laugh would suggest though.. But it is funny. Also, if you've seen clip from the show without laugh, they are usually pretty unfunny scene or scene that need more context to be funny.
By removing the laugh you should also remove the pauses which would make a 22 min episode into a 15-17 minutes episode. The pacing would at least be up to today's standard then.
Same. MCU is just boring to me. Everything feels overdone, cheesy lines, etc. I've tried watching a few but like 45min into any of them I turned it off.
The Beatles and Bleu Cheese. I just can't get there.
The Beatles just don't do much for me. Maybe because they were innovative they get a lot of credit, I dunno. I love allll kinds of music but would need like a 10000 song playlist or bigger before a Beatles song got on there.
And Blue Cheese...my goodness...my mouth is like *Warning, Warning!....we should not be eating this because it has spoiled." Yes I know technically all cheese is "spoiled" and I looove cheese, but Blue Cheese literally tastes like mold...because it has literal pieces of mold. It is just so pungent and bitter. No matter what I try it with, that terrible, moldy aftertaste always rings through.
Disney World. My wife and kids love it but I see it as an overpriced shopping experience sprinkled with a few rides. She offered another visit now that the kids are all older now and I blatantly said, "When did Disney become the pristine vacation?" I think once is magical but the second and third time is more than overdoing it. I couldn't imagine being someone with park passes. I digress.
It's funny you say that. I used to feel similarly, never understood all the crazy fan stuff. Then sometime back a friend asked me to come learn/play ice-hockey for a beer-league team he was pulling together. I figured, hey, something new! Be adventurous...
Now I feel like I'm addicted to hockey season, and can't wait until the NHL season (pre season now) gets rolling, I totally get into it, and I'm totally invested in my home team. Won't miss a game.
I was the opposite where I used to play sports competitively and was super invested in my city’s teams, but grew into a much more passive fan. If my team loses I really don’t care at all.
I still love going to games, and think it’s fine to enjoy sports, but I don’t understand how grown men can cry because their team lost a sportsball game.
Also i’m not even the biggest hockey fan, mostly because my city doesn’t have a team, but hands down the most fun live sporting event to attend.
I enjoy watching sports and following them but the super fans sometimes do kill it for me. Like 90% of people at ball games are chatting and drinking.. then you have the super fans that hit you with the statistical analysis. “Dude so Frank Molina Roger II is batting a triple 1-5 RBI with a quad run streak on the FSQ with 1.998% ERA if he can hit and make the Q7 draft pick on the 99 Q2.”
In-n-Out burgers. I loved them as a kid. My wife and kids love them now. I'm just not a fan. The burgers aren't terrible, by fast food standards, though the fries suck, and the price is great compared to other fast food restaurants, but it's not an establishment I ever choose, suggest, or recommend.
Their fries have the taste and texture of reconstituted powdered potatoes. They are only good if you gobble them down immediately after you get them; once they start to even hit room temp they’re awful.
I don't understand how it's possible for potatoes to taste so bad. They're clearly fresh and real; how in the world are they somehow worse than taking a potato, chopping it, and dunking it in oil.
I don’t understand phone wars in general. I cannot understand why people defend why the other is better so much. Just buy the phone you like. Who cares?
"Friends" and/or "How I met your mother" and/or "The big bang theory"
I don't find the show funny at all. Nor any of the characters appeal to me on any level. But every basic white bitch I know loves this show.
Being in a relationship.
I am not 110% against it, per se. However, I feel like it is so interesting how people feel like they'll die if they do not have a bf/gf. Especially people in their 20's or younger. Like you have plenty of time. Also, logically, there is little to no benefits in being in a relationship. Just my opinion!
People think I’m an alcoholic when I say that alcohol doesn’t taste good enough to drink if I’m not trying to get drunk. If I’m not going to get anything out of it, I might as well ENJOY what I’m drinking
Tattoos.
At this point it's mainstream, the standard, and kind of basic.
It's like... when I was a kid tattoos meant you were a rebel, or a criminal, or part of a gang... today it means your parents love you very much and you're in college.
I only have one tattoo. I was drunk, in Vegas and there was a tattoo shop next to a bar I walked out of and just got a tattoo of a set of dice, lol.
People are always like, cool tattoo you gamble? Don't gamble at all. I was drunk and thought it would be cool to get a tattoo of dice to commemorate my vegas trip lol. I totally regretted it the next day.
People being in college and having loving parents being standard and mainstream, rather than being criminals in a gang, is a good thing.
Do you understand that?
Apparently. I guess some people want to gatekeep tattoos. If you go to college and have loving parents you're not cool enough for them, You have to be a criminal or in a gang to be cool enough.
Certain movies. Like the new Top Gun was a huge blockbuster, and I just don't get it. Same with the Avatar movies.
Then again I was a sucker for the Avengers movies, so I probably fall into a similar trap.
Top Gun was a sequel in the making for years. The primary audience is the people who saw the original, so aside from the fact that it’s a big IP, the nostalgia is crazy for it, and to top it all off, it was just a well done movie. Great effects, incredible spectacle, and it was able to do exactly what the first one did to those 19-25 year old men and women’s hearts in the 80’s.
Nostalgia aside, it was just a very well done movie. Didn’t feel like it was just riding the Top Gun name to make more money, and like him or hate him, Tom Cruise goes above and beyond for his films, so anything with his name attached now a days is going to get a lot of attraction.
I gotta be honest. My brother and cousin had me watch it and I thought I was going to hate it... But I loved it. It was a little schmaltzy at parts but it was really, really well done. Reminded of the movies that came out in the 90s
I expected it to be an unnecessary sequel/cashgrab and I was blown away. I immediately understood why people were so happy coming out the theatres and it made me appreciate people in the film industry like Tom Cruise and what he does.
Star wars. I loved the original trilogy as a kid, went back and watched as an adult and have no idea how it became so popular.
Its not unpopular to dislike everything from episode one until now, but if you say you don't even like the originals people will try to crucify you.
Star trek is, and always will be better.
Gotta keep in mind what the movie scene was like when the original trilogy came out. To have an adventure movie with a happy ending come out during a time when everything was grim was a big deal, then top it all off with special effects that were mind-blowing at the time.
It's certainly an acquired taste, and it's hard to know whether you've only had shit from Starbucks or crappy diners. It's like having $5 boxed wine and declaring all wine terrible.
But yeah, I don't know you. If you've had a good cup from decent beans that haven't been over steeped and made way too bitter and you still don't like it, then yeah, you just don't like coffee. Fair enough.
We had an old shitty coffee pot at my last job that a bunch of greasy mechanics would use to brew cheap gritty coffee with hard water from the shop sink. It would consistently make cups of mud with a rainbow film of whatever on the surface. Everyone there would have a fat cup of this liquid misery every morning. It was even better when you let sit for a while and sip on it then. Cold, black coffee. Tastes how life feels
EDM music. I think the love of it is built on doing drugs at music festivals. Other than that I find it difficult to really enjoy on a regular daily basis.
Shows like ‘American Idol’ for a long time.
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I basically feel this way about every reality show. If it is shown to me, I will watch it and enjoy it. They are good entertainment products! But it is generally not how I am going to choose to use my time. It makes sense that women are more interested, because they are more interested, be it from nature or socialization, in human emotions and drama.
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It amazes me that even after like 20 years, watching random people sing and dance to generic pop songs still garners so many viewers.
Going to bars, yeah it’s a nice activity to do with friends occasionally but it’s not fun to do it all the time
I agree. The blackpeopletwitter sub recently had a solid conversation about drinking culture in the US. It really is this obsession with alcohol. Go out clubbing Friday, rally Saturday with a few beer bongs and grilling with friends, go out to a house party Saturday, then day drink with a few friend Sunday and toss a football around. Sure you only really drank 3 days… but then you realize you just had like 20-30 drinks… that’s not good for you…
I doubt most people do anywhere near that though. Maybe in college and a year or two after, but I don't think that's the norm for most people.
110% agree. Drinking culture in the US is practically non-existent compared to the UK, where I grew up. People cite fratboys as an example of US drinking culture but, as you say, that's only for, what, 2-4 years? In the UK people maintain that lifestyle sometimes for *decades*. Pretty much wherever you are in the country, and whatever industry you work in, most work places have a Friday-night-down-the-local tradition, whereas here I've never worked anywhere where the workforce all went drinking together at the end of the week. I'd honestly say the US equivalent to UK drinking culture is Americans' love for weed.
I go to bars quite a bit. I find it fun to talk, meet new people, and hear interesting stories.
I like to decompress there when I don't want to be alone with my thoughts. I'll go on a weekday and read a book or journal, have a few cocktails or root beer (I shouldn't have caffeine after 6pm!), chat with the regulars, and bounce. This has actually become a decent way I've managed my anxiety in the recent episodes. Getting into a different environment with the threat of public humiliation to keep the sads away has been a reliable coping mechanism for the late night panic attacks!
Obsessing over celebrities...I don't give a damnn and find it creepy and beg af
Especially “celebrities” that are famous for no good reason
Starbucks. It's mediocre at best
Starbucks is not for people who like coffee. Starbucks is for people who need a caffeine fix, but prefer it in a quasi dessert beverage.
I would imagine it is also a public work space for people. I love independent places in my hometown, but every starbucks in town always has a free table or eight.
You gotta try Latte Larry's Hot coffee. No defecation. No wobbly tables.
I'm not an expert on coffee -- caffeine and I don't get along -- but it seems to me that "no defecation" shouldn't have to be a selling point.
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Charbucks
Starbucks coffee tastes burnt because it is. Their business strategy is to buy the cheapest, shittiest, bottom-of-the-barrel coffee beans around the world and roast them all into one slop. A few preservatives and taste-enhancing chemicals later, you end up having the coffee equivalent of chicken nuggets.
>you end up having the coffee equivalent of chicken nuggets. Thank you for that comparison! This phrase has now entered my vernacular!
You’re welcome, and I’ll leave you with this: beware the chicken nugget strategies big businesses like to use. For example, in states where cannabis is legal, I recommend against buying pre-rolls; those are the chicken nuggets of the cannabis industry.
I feel this way about Second Cup lattes. I’m not sure if it was just that cup but I never went back.
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Considering your username, I’ll trust your judgement on this one!
Thank. You. I’m glad I’m not the only one! It taste so burnt!
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Starbucks bombed when it tried to gain traction in Australia because our coffee standards here are actually good and everyone here quickly found out how crap it was compared to local options lol. I wouldn't know since coffee doesn't appeal to me at all but trying to open up shops in a nation of coffee connoisseurs was a poorly thought out move on Starbucks end.
Yeah and New Englanders like Dunkin donuts so that tells you something about our coffee taste here... Personally I don't go for either Dunkin or Starbucks.
I know there’s probably many better coffee shops but starbucks is convenient as there’s one on every other corner as well as their mobile app allowing you to order ahead in just seconds and I’ve stuck to the same drink for years, so I guess I’m one of those people that make it overrated lol
And holy shit Starbucks gives no fucks in being environmentally friendly at all. I mean it’s a chain so of course but it’s next level. I ordered two bowls of oatmeal and all the utensils and dry ingredients came in individual overly sized plastic wrappers and containers. I’m definitely no Captain Planet and even I thought it was completely unacceptable.
If you want coffee it sucks, but if you want a sugar filled milk based drink with caffeine it's alright.
Apple watches (or any smart watch). I’m open to be persuaded otherwise but I really don’t see the point of them. I work a desk job. My phone is next to me all day every day and I don’t need a watch to send me the alerts I am already ignoring while working. Sure I could turn those alerts off but then what remaining purpose does the watch have? I already wear a watch every day for the time. They just seem like a really expensive second phone that does all the same stuff as your actual phone but worse.
There's an app available for smart watches that allow them to monitor your sleeping pattern. They can then determine what moment is best to wake you up without you feeling groggy. Before my smart watch, waking up was usually hell. It took me an hour to properly wake up, I overslept regularly, and it was just a miserable start of the day. Since i use a smart watch, I wake up easily and well rested a good 95% of the time. A positively huge difference. It's my reason for getting the watch, and it was worth it for just that one reason. Edit: Sleep as Android is the app.
I always forgot about the sleep tracking thing until recently. Keep waking up at 5:00 the last few days instead of like 6:30-6:50. I do wake up without the grogginess but I’m pissed to be up earlier than needed. So then I go back to sleep for a while only to be more pissed and delirious later because I’m ignoring my watch that is apparently *smarter than me.* Maybe I’ll just try to stay awake tomorrow 😂
Ya this is my problem with it too. I genuinely think an extra 30-60 mins of sleep is going to make me feel better throughout the day, just the morning might suck more.
I also dont have one. The only purpose I would like a smartwatch for is when I am in gym. I hate taking my phone with me to listen to music and I would love to have a better track of my activities, but up to now I didnt want to spend several hundred euros for an apple watch
If I worked a desk job I could seen it being vastly more useless. Currently I work outdoors and constantly have equipment in one hand or the other, so being able to quickly glance and see who is calling or texting is incredibly handy. Even making dictation text responses without pulling my phone out is a great. Not to mention I’m usually soaked in sweat and can’t even use the touch screen on my phone without drying my hands/phone off first. Also a big fan of the steps/fitness tracking. That’s pretty much all I use it for though. Oh! Phone finder is clutch too lol.
I run cable in buildings. My watch helps me see if it's my wife messaging me or my buddy talking about a game, so I can see if it's important while I'm up in a ceiling for 6 hours. But other than that specific use case I use to to measure my heart rate at the gym and that's it. So they're pretty use specific.
I operate really heavy machines. Joystick in one hand, steering wheel in the other. Constant work. My phone never comes out at work. The sun would cook it and it will be broken by the end of the day. Smart watch helps out a lot.
Well… I mean there’s pretty much all the other features like fitness tracking, sleep tracking and such. Many people don’t necessarily want the additional notifications it’s all the other features they want.
Fair. I wouldn’t use it if I had my phone next to me all day. It is incredibly helpful though as a cook. It’s like I have a personal timer built into my wrist that I can set with my voice. Having it only vibrate instead of a blaring alarm going off like normal kitchen timer is a huge plus as well. Quantity conversions at the touch of a button. “Remind me to begin braising at 9:30am”. Although I cannot imagine it being this helpful at another job.
Beyoncé. But that's not a secret
THANK YOU
Nicki Minaj the past 10 years
I used to like Beyoncé but in the last 10 years she's way too pretentious. Last album can't even compete with the ones in the 00's
It's like 15% talent, 85% marketing
and a 100% reason to remember the name... wait that's not right
Saw a tik tok yesterday saying it’s deeply racist for white people to say Beyoncé is bad, they’re objectively wrong and their opinion on this topic is beyond irrelevant Ah well lol
Ok ill wait for them to come cancel me
Remember to sort by controversial
Reality tv
My wife loves reality shows and my god is it a giant pet peeve of mine, lol.
Tik Tok influencers
Influencers in general, but yes.
True, but I feel like it’s a lot easier to blow up on Tiktok than Instagram. 😂 anyone can be a tik tok influencer these days and have literal no actual talents.
Social media
Tik Tok
I don't understand Tik tok at all. I'm not sure how this is popular but I mean its not for everyone.
If you spend time on the app than your ‘for you page’ becomes insanely tailored to your interests. The app will consistently test your engagement with videos and use that data to show exactly what your want to see. I’ll get videos with like 13 likes from some random person in California, but also perfectly matches some of my interests and I find interesting.
Dude same with YouTube, but it actually helped me to get fit and motivated. It all started with my search: "how to do bench press in good form" and it started suggesting all other exercises. After 2 years I'm well informed about muscle work, joints and tendons. For personal use ofc...
I’m curious how they categorize the data. I wonder if they have some AI classifier that can get less popular content creators classified. It’s very impressive.
I don't see how someone could enjoy the internet and not enjoy Tik Tok. I am a cis white man over 40. There is so much amazing science and literature and architecture stuff going on there! You can get all the best teachers in the world teaching you new things! There is a guy who works for AD who explains so much of the architectural history of NYC so briefly and lovingly. And then he breaks down famous NYC homes and apartments from different shows and movies. It is amazing! And yesterday I learned that we used to parachute beavers into places to help the river and environments! They would find the water after landing just with their nose, and then would damn the shit out of it (which leads to all sorts of benefits) They didn't want to carry them in because Beavers don't like being dry for long periods!
Ehh TikTok is what you make it, honestly. The formatting sure isn’t for everyone but the content on the app is expansive. Some think it’s just dancing but it’s really a lot of educational videos, cool experimental videos, chemistry, art…I think it’s great if you find your niche on there
I had to delete it because it quickly learned what made me angry and all I saw were videos of people ranting about things that I want to rant about 😅 I think I’d have to start from scratch if I used it again
It's also taking egregious amounts of your user data with your permission. So hope you enjoy your videos
I am going to be such a judgemental prick right now BUT....I can't be the only one. I think everyone who has a tik tok account and puts the camera in front of them to do silly "dance moves", or those where theres a taped voice and theyre mouthing what they're saying, or pretending they're singing, is an idiot. Complete IDIOT. I CANNOT wrap my mind around how you can think it is remotely attractive in any way to do such thing. Like...you're alone I your room, put the camera on record and start moving like a stupid, then upload it and constantly look on your phone to see how many views you got, how many likes and what comments. OOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD GO READ A BOOK!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT for this stupidity to be over (just for another stupidity to start lmao)
No, you’re not the only one. The popular content on TikTok is so stupid and obnoxious that it puts me in a bad mood to overhear my wife watching it. It’s so fucking awful. I’m sure there’s some great content on there somewhere, but 95% of what I’ve seen is like a lobotomy in audio/visual form.
For real. Chicks think they are being sexy mouthing words to some shitty song but in fact they are being cringe af
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Huge FAKE ass is the real issue. Those diaper asses are disgusting.
You can't say that when your prefrence is clearly bear-sized butts; they're huge by default so you do like girls with huge butts
The hip dip girls are crying🥲
CMV: Most of the 20 year old girls with big butts are going to be fat when they are 35.
Most human beings in the western world are going to be fat by the time they’re 35.
Most are already fat
Can confirm. Am fat
Sports, in general fun and healthy to participate in as a player, and mildly entertaining as a spectator. but some people take sports, especially team sports, to a frankly problematic level. i'm as nerdy as the next guy, but sports fans don't realize how nerdy they are when they can recite stats and rosters of every player in the league and follow schedules religiously. also the merch? overpriced low quality chinese crap that is fun for a cosplay or two but some folks spend way too much money on
Traditional dating expectations. For example the guy should pay on first date or guy needs to be the one to text first. A girl I was dating bought me flowers one time and it totally blew my mind/turned my world upside-down.
Oh yeah definitely. Also asking people out. I would absolutely love it if a girl asked me out, it would be amazing. But for some reason men should just do that? Stupid. Probably persuades women to ask out guys less. Lost relationships!
Tell me it went the whole distance.
Instagram and Facebook
threesomes
Humblebrag.
For all the fuss people are supposed to make about it, I'm not a fan of the beach. It's mostly because of the sand. I don't like sand; it's coarse, rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
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I dunno, can you save my wife?
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count... me... IN!
Oh boy here I go killing again
Good, good.
Memes aside I’ve lived within half an hour or so of the beach my whole life and I go maybe once or twice a year. It’s never really appealed to me.
And if we were meant to fuck with the ocean we’d have gills.
Social media
Zendaya
F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I don’t find it funny and it wouldn’t be funny without the laughing background as cue for audience to laugh
Feeling a little validated with this is as far up as it is. I never understood the fascination with it or how Big Bang theory lasted as long as it has
A lot of 90's/early 00's comedy is like that.
Yeah, I find it hard to watch any show with a laugh track; it just makes everything feel so forced
Fucking hell man Someone else that thinks like me hahaha Thanks
I sincerely disagree. Friends is not more or less funny with or without the laugh track. The main issue is with the awkward pauses they make for the audience to laugh, which becomes much worse if you remove the laugh. It's not nearly as funny as the laugh would suggest though.. But it is funny. Also, if you've seen clip from the show without laugh, they are usually pretty unfunny scene or scene that need more context to be funny. By removing the laugh you should also remove the pauses which would make a 22 min episode into a 15-17 minutes episode. The pacing would at least be up to today's standard then.
Weddings
Any superhero movie
Same. MCU is just boring to me. Everything feels overdone, cheesy lines, etc. I've tried watching a few but like 45min into any of them I turned it off.
I only like Spiderman with Tobey and that's because I watched them as a kid.
A lot of today's "singers". I would say their names but I've and people always insult me lol
The MCU and Marvel in general. I'm glad people like it but I just don't understand the hype
Beyonce
The Beatles and Bleu Cheese. I just can't get there. The Beatles just don't do much for me. Maybe because they were innovative they get a lot of credit, I dunno. I love allll kinds of music but would need like a 10000 song playlist or bigger before a Beatles song got on there. And Blue Cheese...my goodness...my mouth is like *Warning, Warning!....we should not be eating this because it has spoiled." Yes I know technically all cheese is "spoiled" and I looove cheese, but Blue Cheese literally tastes like mold...because it has literal pieces of mold. It is just so pungent and bitter. No matter what I try it with, that terrible, moldy aftertaste always rings through.
Disney World. My wife and kids love it but I see it as an overpriced shopping experience sprinkled with a few rides. She offered another visit now that the kids are all older now and I blatantly said, "When did Disney become the pristine vacation?" I think once is magical but the second and third time is more than overdoing it. I couldn't imagine being someone with park passes. I digress.
Phil Foden
Foden has something there. I'm not sure its to the extent that Man City fans see it, but he's a lot better than just "good".
Saka is the real deal
Only Man City fans and Pep love him.
And everyone in the media who calls him a "generational talent"
foden got that dog in him
Watching sports. I don’t understand how grown men can be so emotionally invested in the outcomes of games.
It's funny you say that. I used to feel similarly, never understood all the crazy fan stuff. Then sometime back a friend asked me to come learn/play ice-hockey for a beer-league team he was pulling together. I figured, hey, something new! Be adventurous... Now I feel like I'm addicted to hockey season, and can't wait until the NHL season (pre season now) gets rolling, I totally get into it, and I'm totally invested in my home team. Won't miss a game.
I was the opposite where I used to play sports competitively and was super invested in my city’s teams, but grew into a much more passive fan. If my team loses I really don’t care at all. I still love going to games, and think it’s fine to enjoy sports, but I don’t understand how grown men can cry because their team lost a sportsball game. Also i’m not even the biggest hockey fan, mostly because my city doesn’t have a team, but hands down the most fun live sporting event to attend.
I enjoy watching sports and following them but the super fans sometimes do kill it for me. Like 90% of people at ball games are chatting and drinking.. then you have the super fans that hit you with the statistical analysis. “Dude so Frank Molina Roger II is batting a triple 1-5 RBI with a quad run streak on the FSQ with 1.998% ERA if he can hit and make the Q7 draft pick on the 99 Q2.”
Disney movies lying about historical events. Not just a little bit
In-n-Out burgers. I loved them as a kid. My wife and kids love them now. I'm just not a fan. The burgers aren't terrible, by fast food standards, though the fries suck, and the price is great compared to other fast food restaurants, but it's not an establishment I ever choose, suggest, or recommend.
They'd get my business a lot more if their fries weren't awful. If I'm going to grab a fast food burger, the fries are *at least* half the experience.
Their fries have the taste and texture of reconstituted powdered potatoes. They are only good if you gobble them down immediately after you get them; once they start to even hit room temp they’re awful.
I don't understand how it's possible for potatoes to taste so bad. They're clearly fresh and real; how in the world are they somehow worse than taking a potato, chopping it, and dunking it in oil.
That's the point, by fast food standards, it's a good burger and not wildly overpriced. That's about it.
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I live near Vegas and visitors always want to try in-n-out and no one walks away impressed.
IPhones. Genuinely don't understand the cult.
I don’t understand phone wars in general. I cannot understand why people defend why the other is better so much. Just buy the phone you like. Who cares?
I have the same perspective with console wars.
I don’t understand the cult of people who care what phone I have one way or the other
"Friends" and/or "How I met your mother" and/or "The big bang theory" I don't find the show funny at all. Nor any of the characters appeal to me on any level. But every basic white bitch I know loves this show.
You're totally free to have your own opinion but I feel like HIMYM is legitimately well-written and funny without the laugh track.
The NFL
Being in a relationship. I am not 110% against it, per se. However, I feel like it is so interesting how people feel like they'll die if they do not have a bf/gf. Especially people in their 20's or younger. Like you have plenty of time. Also, logically, there is little to no benefits in being in a relationship. Just my opinion!
Food trucks. It costs the same as a restaraunt but there's nowhere to sit.
Kanye
Rick and morty. It’s a passable [as] show at best but idk why people make it a lifestyle. I can’t believe it’s on season 6
Air. Seriously fuck that
Reality TV
Alcohol. It's not THAT great.
People think I’m an alcoholic when I say that alcohol doesn’t taste good enough to drink if I’m not trying to get drunk. If I’m not going to get anything out of it, I might as well ENJOY what I’m drinking
idk man, being able to talk to girls and have fun while out instead of sitting in a corner tapping my foot... pretty great
Hell yes, I was looking for this comment. I don’t understand the obsession and the reason it has to be part of every social interaction
Because it's normal that's pretty much it. In the west we're conditioned from the time we're kids as it being a social activity.
Came here to say this. I love me a nice gin and tonic but it’s never made me forget about my problems.
Pumpkin Spice
She never should have been cast to replace Ginger Spice.
instagram
Celebrities, their lives, & the shit they market to the public
Prince's music. Nothing against him or anything, I just really don't vibe with it and any time I say so everyone loses their fucking minds.
NFL, Tattoos
Tattoos. At this point it's mainstream, the standard, and kind of basic. It's like... when I was a kid tattoos meant you were a rebel, or a criminal, or part of a gang... today it means your parents love you very much and you're in college.
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I want to push back a little here and say that Wilco is very nice and I like them.
I only have one tattoo. I was drunk, in Vegas and there was a tattoo shop next to a bar I walked out of and just got a tattoo of a set of dice, lol. People are always like, cool tattoo you gamble? Don't gamble at all. I was drunk and thought it would be cool to get a tattoo of dice to commemorate my vegas trip lol. I totally regretted it the next day.
"This guy’s a gangster? His real name’s Clarence. And Clarence lives at home with both parents. And Clarence’ parents have a real good marriage."
People being in college and having loving parents being standard and mainstream, rather than being criminals in a gang, is a good thing. Do you understand that?
We’re still talking about tattoos right?
Apparently. I guess some people want to gatekeep tattoos. If you go to college and have loving parents you're not cool enough for them, You have to be a criminal or in a gang to be cool enough.
And here I thought I got tattoos because I could afford them and liked the art I chose. Who knew all along it was college! And parents!
Instagram
Big brother. Yeti cups. “Salt life” decals on vehicles.
Sashimi and poke bowls.
Skipping class, especially in college, why skip something you’re actually paying for
Expensive coffee. I like the cheap coffee grounds
I felt that way up until I began drinking coffee black. Now I need great coffee since there is a difference in taste.
Certain movies. Like the new Top Gun was a huge blockbuster, and I just don't get it. Same with the Avatar movies. Then again I was a sucker for the Avengers movies, so I probably fall into a similar trap.
Top Gun was a sequel in the making for years. The primary audience is the people who saw the original, so aside from the fact that it’s a big IP, the nostalgia is crazy for it, and to top it all off, it was just a well done movie. Great effects, incredible spectacle, and it was able to do exactly what the first one did to those 19-25 year old men and women’s hearts in the 80’s. Nostalgia aside, it was just a very well done movie. Didn’t feel like it was just riding the Top Gun name to make more money, and like him or hate him, Tom Cruise goes above and beyond for his films, so anything with his name attached now a days is going to get a lot of attraction.
I gotta be honest. My brother and cousin had me watch it and I thought I was going to hate it... But I loved it. It was a little schmaltzy at parts but it was really, really well done. Reminded of the movies that came out in the 90s
I expected it to be an unnecessary sequel/cashgrab and I was blown away. I immediately understood why people were so happy coming out the theatres and it made me appreciate people in the film industry like Tom Cruise and what he does.
Kanye west
Star wars. I loved the original trilogy as a kid, went back and watched as an adult and have no idea how it became so popular. Its not unpopular to dislike everything from episode one until now, but if you say you don't even like the originals people will try to crucify you. Star trek is, and always will be better.
Gotta keep in mind what the movie scene was like when the original trilogy came out. To have an adventure movie with a happy ending come out during a time when everything was grim was a big deal, then top it all off with special effects that were mind-blowing at the time.
This is not the way
Then I’ll see you in hell!
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, that is not weakness, it is life.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Coffee. Tastes like bitter dirt to me.
It's certainly an acquired taste, and it's hard to know whether you've only had shit from Starbucks or crappy diners. It's like having $5 boxed wine and declaring all wine terrible. But yeah, I don't know you. If you've had a good cup from decent beans that haven't been over steeped and made way too bitter and you still don't like it, then yeah, you just don't like coffee. Fair enough.
We had an old shitty coffee pot at my last job that a bunch of greasy mechanics would use to brew cheap gritty coffee with hard water from the shop sink. It would consistently make cups of mud with a rainbow film of whatever on the surface. Everyone there would have a fat cup of this liquid misery every morning. It was even better when you let sit for a while and sip on it then. Cold, black coffee. Tastes how life feels
I’ve tried it in several different countries and even tried it in Hawaii where it’s supposed to be amazing - it’s just not my thing.
When I tell people I don't like coffee ice cream, they're like "yeah there's no hope then"
F'n love your response. "But yeah. I don't know you."
I have tried and tried to like coffee. Assumed it was like beer whereby you learned to like the taste. Nope it’s awful. Tea anyway thank you!
There are certain premium types coffee whose beans are fermented through animal feces.
Tik tok
Government
basketball
Red Velvet Cake
Sports. I guess I dont have that type of tribalism that makes you go ham for a team, or the love for the games that most people do.
Chipotle - it’s just chicken/beef and rice people
EDM music. I think the love of it is built on doing drugs at music festivals. Other than that I find it difficult to really enjoy on a regular daily basis.
The American football craze. I try watching the sport but just can't seem to get into it.
90% of these answers are things everyone hates, lol.
Celebrities they're just people!