30 days of...day 6
Dec. 20th, 2010 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
askygoneonfireList 5 things you hate that everyone else in the world seems to love
1. Coffee; love the smell. Hate the taste. And I so *want* to like it; there are so many fabulously exciting variations out there and so frequently I stand in a coffee shop and gaze in awe at the array of coffees and flavours for the same on offer. But coffee does now and always has, made me pull a face and quietly put the cup down and push it away. I simply do not like it.
2. Soaps; Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks; just no. I cannot bear the melodrama. I think they are particularly awful in how they suck you in; 'but I can't miss [insert soap name here] I need to know what happens to [insert character name here]!!!' without ever giving any real narrative resolution, the characters are merely left lurching from one crisis to the next. I appreciate that that is why soaps are considered to be 'like life' but frankly, life is enough like life for me without sitting through 3 hours or more of the same on tv.
3. Roast dinners; as a lacto-ovo vegetarian the core of the roast dinner is obviously off the menu, but of course vege alternatives are available. However, even when I did eat meat I didn't like roast dinners. I think roast potatoes are an abomination (perfectly tasty inside, why inflict that awful skin on them?) and there are no vegetables typically associated with roast dinners that I actually like when they are cooked; peas, carrots, cabbage, broad beans, runner beans? All better raw. Flash boiling of cauliflower and broccoli is also the only way I'll eat it, rather than the traditional 'boiled for 4 hours' approach of the a-typical Sunday roast. As for parsnips? Better left where they grow. Don't even get me started on the horror that is gravy.
I'll take a curry over a roast any day of the week; particularly Sunday.
4. Horror movies; I watch and have watched them, naturally. But aside from the ones which have an aspect of psychological intrigue and depth I simply do not see their appeal or why people feel able to qualify themselves as 'horror fan(s)'. Gory slasher movies with no sense of irony or self awareness are simply dull dull dull to me. Beyond the 'yuck' factor of some of these movies I remain unmoved; unless I laugh - which I did with Silence of the Lambs, much to the chagrin of my friend who adored that film and proudly sat me down to watch this 'brilliant' film.
By the by, I have no objection whatsoever to horror scenes within the context of a movie of a different genre; sci-fi, drama, action, thriller - all fine, I just need the extra facet to have any inclination to sit through such scenes.
5. Putting photos of myself in black and white on facebook; seriously, we all know you either set your camera to black and white before taking them all, or edited them after taking and before uploading. I hate that 'oh ho ho don't I look FABULOUS? What, it's in black and white? I didn't even notice! I look like this all the time though, not just in black in white!'
We all know you come in glorious technicolor and we all know why those photos are in black and white. Take pictures on a night out by all means, but don't spend 2 hours snapping/reviewing/deleting to get 'spontaneous' photos in black and white. Goddamnit.
And a reminder; help me out for another day;
>Tell me something, anything (within decent reason) you would like to see and I'll take a photo. The inside of my wardrobe, a street sign that contains the letter "q", a red haired man...whatever. Send me on a scavenger hunt.
>Ask me a question, any question, and I'll answer. Want to know what kind of toothpaste I use? I'll tell you. Want to know what the inside my glove box looks like? I'll show you. If you'd rather send the question via private message than on a comment below, knock yourself out.
1. Coffee; love the smell. Hate the taste. And I so *want* to like it; there are so many fabulously exciting variations out there and so frequently I stand in a coffee shop and gaze in awe at the array of coffees and flavours for the same on offer. But coffee does now and always has, made me pull a face and quietly put the cup down and push it away. I simply do not like it.
2. Soaps; Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks; just no. I cannot bear the melodrama. I think they are particularly awful in how they suck you in; 'but I can't miss [insert soap name here] I need to know what happens to [insert character name here]!!!' without ever giving any real narrative resolution, the characters are merely left lurching from one crisis to the next. I appreciate that that is why soaps are considered to be 'like life' but frankly, life is enough like life for me without sitting through 3 hours or more of the same on tv.
3. Roast dinners; as a lacto-ovo vegetarian the core of the roast dinner is obviously off the menu, but of course vege alternatives are available. However, even when I did eat meat I didn't like roast dinners. I think roast potatoes are an abomination (perfectly tasty inside, why inflict that awful skin on them?) and there are no vegetables typically associated with roast dinners that I actually like when they are cooked; peas, carrots, cabbage, broad beans, runner beans? All better raw. Flash boiling of cauliflower and broccoli is also the only way I'll eat it, rather than the traditional 'boiled for 4 hours' approach of the a-typical Sunday roast. As for parsnips? Better left where they grow. Don't even get me started on the horror that is gravy.
I'll take a curry over a roast any day of the week; particularly Sunday.
4. Horror movies; I watch and have watched them, naturally. But aside from the ones which have an aspect of psychological intrigue and depth I simply do not see their appeal or why people feel able to qualify themselves as 'horror fan(s)'. Gory slasher movies with no sense of irony or self awareness are simply dull dull dull to me. Beyond the 'yuck' factor of some of these movies I remain unmoved; unless I laugh - which I did with Silence of the Lambs, much to the chagrin of my friend who adored that film and proudly sat me down to watch this 'brilliant' film.
By the by, I have no objection whatsoever to horror scenes within the context of a movie of a different genre; sci-fi, drama, action, thriller - all fine, I just need the extra facet to have any inclination to sit through such scenes.
5. Putting photos of myself in black and white on facebook; seriously, we all know you either set your camera to black and white before taking them all, or edited them after taking and before uploading. I hate that 'oh ho ho don't I look FABULOUS? What, it's in black and white? I didn't even notice! I look like this all the time though, not just in black in white!'
We all know you come in glorious technicolor and we all know why those photos are in black and white. Take pictures on a night out by all means, but don't spend 2 hours snapping/reviewing/deleting to get 'spontaneous' photos in black and white. Goddamnit.
And a reminder; help me out for another day;
>Tell me something, anything (within decent reason) you would like to see and I'll take a photo. The inside of my wardrobe, a street sign that contains the letter "q", a red haired man...whatever. Send me on a scavenger hunt.
>Ask me a question, any question, and I'll answer. Want to know what kind of toothpaste I use? I'll tell you. Want to know what the inside my glove box looks like? I'll show you. If you'd rather send the question via private message than on a comment below, knock yourself out.
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:50 pm (UTC)I'm exactly the same. I love the smell in Starbucks and always lament the fact that tea doesn't come in so many flavours (or when it does, it's not really tea). I used to hate the smell growing up (and still do when it's instant coffee), but proper fresh coffee smells fantabulous.
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:58 pm (UTC)And you are so right about tea. There are a small range of black teas I like and beyond that I get rather disappointed.
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Date: 2010-12-20 09:53 pm (UTC)I love the smell of coffee and sometimes want to buy some just for the smell, but the taste is nasty no matter what you do to it. The only coffee I could drink more of one sip of was chocolate raspberry coffee, and even there I only lasted three swallows. But the cafe was 'bathroom for customers only' so I had to do something. :-)
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Date: 2010-12-20 11:05 pm (UTC)re: tea - have you ever been to Lee Rosy's on Broad Street? Lots of interesting teas there.
Hm, how about a photo of your rats? And I'm relieved to learn that I'm not the only one with a rat who lacks grace, agility and co-ordination.