Stuff everybody likes, but you hate.

[keratosis]

Cilantro, stop putting it in my dinner please and thank-you. If I wanted it to taste like soap I'd have stopped and picked up a bar on my way.

[FlamesAddiction]

Chipotle and ciabatta bread, and for a while, that stuff was the trend everywhere.

There was a Seinfeld episode before where he said that salsa was popular because people like to say "salsa". I feel that is true with a lot of foods.

Would you like some dry and bland bread? No, how about some ciabatta? Yeah that sounds delicious!

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

You too huh? Well, maybe the anti-Mexican food contingent is larger than I thought.

Although I must admit I do live in the Mecca of Mexican food. I swear, SoCal Mexican is better than Mexico Mexican

Yeah I ate some Mexican when I was in San Diego last year. Went to a few places that were super highly rated. The Carne Asada (I have no idea how to spell it) was pretty good, but I wasn't jizzing all over the place over it. Churros are good. If I have to eat Mexican, I'd still take Taco Time over anything else, though.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Tequila, understandable. But Mexican food in general?!?!

I thought that stuff was universally loved.

I dunno, I just find the ingredients hastily thrown together, and refried beans are just that... refried beans. Meh. Cilantro doesn't do it for me either. I also find a lot of Mexican food too filling and too, let's just just call it, 'pungent' with the same flavour throughout everything. EVERYTHING.

[AC]

Sports that aren't hockey.

Chiropractors and naturopathic "medicine".

The Calgary Stampede.

[Derek Sutton]

Pets. I like animals but I hate everything about them; Owners, vets, destroying everything, shedding, stinking up your house, the fact tha they are in the house, to name a few. Basically if there were no pets none of these other things would bother me, so simply, I hate pets.

I also hate LOTR and Harry Potter but I do enjoy asking my wife (who loves them) stupid questions and mixing between franchises

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah I ate some Mexican when I was in San Diego last year. Went to a few places that were super highly rated. The Carne Asada (I have no idea how to spell it) was pretty good, but I wasn't jizzing all over the place over it. Churros are good. If I have to eat Mexican, I'd still take Taco Time over anything else, though.

I think I might have identified the problem.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The Hobbit was worse than my memories of the book from when I was a kid. Tolkien uses a lot of damned awkward prose. For all his renown as some kind of classical writer, the words don't exactly flow off the tongue. But it wasn't nearly as bad as Rowling. I had to go back and repeat many sentences because I just couldn't grasp what she was getting at. The woman has no ear for language whatsoever.

I'm reading Sabriel by Garth Nix to the kids right now, and it's a genuine pleasure.

I'll have to check that out. We're just getting through the Percy Jackson series, which I also think is terrible, BTW.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah, Mexican food is terrible. I really like Taco Time, and that's it. Sorry, no matter how fancy your restaurant is, ground beef, beans and rice are just going to taste like I was short on time after a long day and had to throw together a crappy meal to keep everybody fed. I find their food to be sad. Just like whenever I'm in Mexico the country seems sad.

My wife likes Mexican, and I have a chuckle whenever we go to a Mexican restaurant. The menu is the same five ingredients (tortilla, ground meat, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream) configured 16 different ways.

- What are you having?

- The enchiladas, they look great!

- Oh, I'm torn between those and the burritos.

It's the same frickin' stuff!

[CroFlames]

I definitely agree cilantro is too much. I hate it.

However, the better Mexican places know how to use it and I generally find it to add to the overall dish.

[undercoverbrother]

Super Hero movies/shows.

[PsYcNeT]

EDIT I'm dumb.

Dogs in general

[Aegypticus]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Totally. You don't often see an NFL conversation that doesn't immediately move on to who's picked who. It's a gambling league.

We're approaching that time of year where the closet gambling reaches its insufferable peak. The time when People that wouldn't touch basketball with a 10 foot pole suddenly follow US college teams. You get people talking about "their" team like they currently attend the school in question.

I wouldn't have a problem with it if more people would just admit they only care about March Madness because of the gambling angle, but that's not as socially acceptable, so most will pretend that they care deeply about sport.

The worst part is everybody knows that nobody else gives a damn about college basketball either, but everyone still does the song and dance anyways.

[Nyah]

Kids in general. I just truly can't stand kids. Even my own nieces & nephews are best in small doses. I went to the game at the Dome yesterday, Family Day of all days. It was a nightmare.

[Looch City]

Reality TV, singing/dancing/prancing/talent TV shows.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Muta

I dunno, I just find the ingredients hastily thrown together, and refried beans are just that... refried beans. Meh. Cilantro doesn't do it for me either. I also find a lot of Mexican food too filling and too, let's just just call it, 'pungent' with the same flavour throughout everything. EVERYTHING.

Yeah, it's a one-trick pony. If you like that taste and mushed up food, you're laughing. If you have a more refined palette, you're SOL.

[ScorchyScorch]

Marvel. ####ing. Movies. so painfully mediocre yet overhyped.

Deadpool is an exception and was good because it broke out of the norm for its genre, had non PG humour, was self aware, and didn't take itself seriously, but that was under Fox.

[undercoverbrother]

Expensive booze.


Be it wine, beer, vodka, rum, rye.


To that end expensive coffee.

[jeffporfirio]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The Hobbit was worse than my memories of the book from when I was a kid. Tolkien uses a lot of damned awkward prose. For all his renown as some kind of classical writer, the words don't exactly flow off the tongue. But it wasn't nearly as bad as Rowling. I had to go back and repeat many sentences because I just couldn't grasp what she was getting at. The woman has no ear for language whatsoever.

I'm reading Sabriel by Garth Nix to the kids right now, and it's a genuine pleasure.

Agree on The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings..Shakespeare is easier to read to kids than these two.
Found that the Chronicles of Narnia were enjoyable for my kids when they were in the 8-12 years old time frame.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by jeffporfirio

Agree on The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings..Shakespeare is easier to read to kids than these two.
Found that the Chronicles of Narnia were enjoyable for my kids when they were in the 8-12 years old time frame.

I have a great Shakespeare for Kids book. A bunch of plays in slightly simpler language, but with copy from the "real" texts thrown in sporadically. It was awesome for 6/8 year-olds.