This topic should motivate you picky cunts. People, places, animals, events, things, food, movies, music... Maybe you'll discover you're not alone in your taste.
Almost universally beloved, yet disliked by you.
by Anonymous | reply 458 | October 1, 2020 6:27 PM |
She is my favorite actress.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 18, 2020 8:08 PM |
I do love Katherine Hepburn but I despise green beans -- not just in that hateful Xmas casserole but even raw or blanched or in French (haricots verts).
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 18, 2020 8:15 PM |
Princess Diana. Repulsive borderline personality disordered brat.
Marilyn Monroe. I find her fake little girl mannerisms vomit inducing.
John McCain. Vile war mongering right winger propped up by a bunch of simps in the American media.
American history . I find much of it painfully dull . I am only fascinated by the history of Los Angeles.
Amanda Know , something is off with that woman and no amount of white washing in the US press will convince me otherwise.
Any sort of fast food. No, it's not a guilty pleasure it's disgusting. I can't even walk past a McDonald's without wretching from the smell.
Lala land. It captured the vibes of Paris or NY, didn't capture LA 's essence at all.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 18, 2020 8:21 PM |
Titanic was maudlin.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 18, 2020 8:23 PM |
R3, let’s get hitched.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 18, 2020 8:27 PM |
Disney
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 18, 2020 8:28 PM |
A Christmas Story
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 18, 2020 8:30 PM |
Human interaction.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 18, 2020 8:39 PM |
MANDINGO
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 18, 2020 8:42 PM |
Ellen. Oh, wait...
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 18, 2020 8:42 PM |
Babies. Toddlers. Children in general. I do take great care to avoid them (& vice versa)
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 18, 2020 8:43 PM |
Streep and Close
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 18, 2020 8:43 PM |
Chocolate
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 18, 2020 8:46 PM |
Betty White - Always found her goody two shoes image annoying, as well as her phony humility act.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 18, 2020 9:11 PM |
Beer and Coffee, I find both equally unappealing.
Watching television
Sports
Starbucks
Beards (facially hair, not paid women to pretend be the date/girlfriend/wife of a closeted actor(s).
Video Games or Gaming
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 18, 2020 9:12 PM |
R15
And I meant "Facial" hair NOT Facially Hair Lol
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 18, 2020 9:15 PM |
Hamilton
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 18, 2020 9:15 PM |
Food
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 18, 2020 9:17 PM |
Coffee - love the smell, hate the taste
Marilyn Monroe - she looked cheap and couldn't act for shit
Cats - smelly and selfish little creatures
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 18, 2020 9:20 PM |
Kristin Chenoweth. FEH!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 18, 2020 9:21 PM |
God.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 18, 2020 9:24 PM |
Friends
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 18, 2020 9:28 PM |
Second on Princess Diana who got famous because she married well.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 18, 2020 9:35 PM |
Greta Thunberg. Cunt. Retarded. Attention whore.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 18, 2020 9:38 PM |
charlie chaplin.
was always more spooky to me than max schreck in nosferatu
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 18, 2020 9:58 PM |
Avatar
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 18, 2020 10:07 PM |
Lin-Manuel Mranda. And his annoying famewhore father.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 18, 2020 10:10 PM |
Women.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 18, 2020 10:13 PM |
I know it's considered sacreligious, but Ella Fitzgerald leaves me cold. I'm not denying that she was talented and influential, but she sings every song in the same style. She always sounds to me as though she's smiling as she sings, if that makes sense. Her voice doesn't really evoke emotion in me.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 18, 2020 10:23 PM |
R29, you are dead to me. I worship Ella.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 18, 2020 10:23 PM |
Modern (-ish) movies that are called Christmas classics: Home Alone, Die Hard, National Lampoon, and of course any Hallmark dreck. It's a Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife, Miracle on 34th Street, and the various Christmas Carols from Alistair Sim to Mister Magoo are the ones that count.
Thanksgiving at home unless you can gather a good sized crowd with a lot of appetizers and booze. Fewer than 6 is kind of pathetic -- go to a nice restaurant.
Chicago Bulls, Dallas Cowboys, the New York Yankees/Boston Red Sox rivalry.
Miles Davis, opera from just about any period, music in general that is played nonstop.
Oreos, the Spritz fad, "comfort foods," and foodies in general.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 18, 2020 10:26 PM |
R30, I accept that I probably have no soul
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 18, 2020 10:28 PM |
The wide held belief that Laurence Olivier was the definitive actor.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 18, 2020 10:35 PM |
James Dean . . . WTF?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 18, 2020 10:37 PM |
If anyone wants to try another side of Ella Fitzgerald, try the subdued soundtrack to Let No Man Write My Epitaph, also releases as The Intimate Ella.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 18, 2020 10:41 PM |
Forest Gump
The Olympics
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 18, 2020 10:41 PM |
Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa. All assholes.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 18, 2020 10:45 PM |
Bleu cheese. Gag-inducing.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 18, 2020 10:47 PM |
Santa Claus
Snoopy
Star Wars - all of them.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 18, 2020 10:51 PM |
John Krasinski- He comes off as a phony nice guy. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets outed as another asshole like Ellen DeGeneres.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 18, 2020 11:57 PM |
Orson Welles -- he wasn't a genius, just a gigantic ham
Princess Di -- she looked like a poodle with sanpaku eyes
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 19, 2020 12:21 AM |
Tom Hanks. I don't hate him, but I dislike him.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 19, 2020 12:48 AM |
Malala
Beyonce
Betty White
Vin Diesel
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 19, 2020 12:55 AM |
Not universal now, but beloved by people when I was in college - The Grateful Dead - unbelievably boring.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 19, 2020 1:00 AM |
Sam Smith
Nirvana
The Rolling Stones
Superhero movies
Tattoos
Piercings
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 19, 2020 1:10 AM |
Don Lemmon, Chris Cuomo. Both over-hyped, wannabe journalists, preachy, sail on merely having opinions.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 19, 2020 1:18 AM |
Harry Potter
Adele
Awards shows...all of them
New York City
Paris
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 19, 2020 1:31 AM |
Marry me, r15. Or get out of my brain
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 19, 2020 1:40 AM |
Eugene Levy is too much for me to bear. Small doses. Only.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 19, 2020 1:56 AM |
BEYONCE owns this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 19, 2020 2:02 AM |
[quote] Orson Welles -- he wasn't a genius, just a gigantic ham
I love The Third Man and Touch of Evil but Othello was unbearable. It was like "William Shatner meets Shakespeare".
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 19, 2020 2:03 AM |
Taylor Swift. Beyond fake in so many ways. Ok singer, but this recent attempt to re-invent herself as a serious artist is fucking laughable.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 19, 2020 2:07 AM |
Ha. I don’t hate Hepburn but I hate the sound of her voice. That accent may have been fashionable but it’s passé and like nails on a chalkboard.
I don’t love Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney or Julia Roberts. They all have fake energy.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 19, 2020 2:08 AM |
Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order, NSCI
Essentially any cop, lawyer or doctor program.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 19, 2020 2:10 AM |
Mother Theresa was a dirty little bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 19, 2020 2:14 AM |
Agree with Di— what a crazy phony try hard bitch
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 19, 2020 3:07 AM |
Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. I keep thinking that, had I discovered these as a child, I'd have loved them. I loved movies like The Never-ending Story, Labyrinth, and Willow as a kid, but these just didn't do anything for me.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 19, 2020 3:10 AM |
Anal sex
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 19, 2020 3:12 AM |
Most movies that are considered classics.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 19, 2020 3:24 AM |
Anthony Fauci.
Those of us who have been following him for the past 35 years all know what a worm he is.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 19, 2020 3:34 AM |
"Seinfeld"
After all these years I still don't get it. The most uninteresting, unlovable, unfunny group of people ever assembled to make the dullest hit sitcom ever
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 19, 2020 3:44 AM |
Robin Williams
Katy Perry
More votes for Disney, Betty White, Adele, Tom Hanks, Friends, Star Wars, and boring Snoopy
The Simpsons
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 19, 2020 3:54 AM |
Wine. It's just grape juice gone bad.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 19, 2020 3:57 AM |
God. Unhelpful in general.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 19, 2020 4:02 AM |
Bob Dylan. Sounds like a goat giving birth.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 19, 2020 4:03 AM |
r[60], hey! We called him Tony "The Weasel" Fauci. We was on the NIH grant comittee. Your grant would be rejected, then he'd publish based on your ideas a year later. But I respect him more now, given the circumstances.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 19, 2020 4:10 AM |
Marilyn Monroe - glad to see I'm not the only one. And all those 50s sexpots in general. Oysters - it's like eating phlegm. Friends - unwatchable, esp. for a w/c New Yorker. Singer/songwriters - I've got my own life to work out thanks and don't need to hear your feeeeelings.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 19, 2020 4:16 AM |
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This band that has never made a single great song is still listened to A LOT by younger people. They are like one of the 5 most streamed legacy artists. I don't understand. Their music was always a lower-grade version of many artists you can think of.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 19, 2020 4:20 AM |
The Walking Dead
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 19, 2020 4:22 AM |
Friends (series)
Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
Tomato sauce
Mustard
Rap
Hip hop
Taylor Swift
Hillary Clinton
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 19, 2020 4:24 AM |
The original Grease.
American Graffiti.
Happy Days.
Never liked any of this 50s retro crap and Grease especially was so unbelievable. Two gay leads with no chemistry (although they seem like good friends now).
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 19, 2020 4:24 AM |
ariana grande
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 19, 2020 4:27 AM |
Obama
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 19, 2020 4:29 AM |
Lady Di—-SO Annoying. What a drip.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 19, 2020 4:50 AM |
In honor of the worshipful Ingrid Bergman thread (which I simply can't stomach the idea of reading), here's one:
CASABLANCA is dated, talky, dull, and melodramatic. I find it emotionally uninvolving. I admire Bogart (mostly for his politics and integrity) but he creeps me out a bit onscreen. I find Bogart and Bergman completely unconvincing together and mostly free of any real chemistry. (A lot of heterosexual love stories leave me cold, but I will never understand why this one is such a standout.)
Bergman was pretty and, for the era, refreshing onscreen in her raw, big-boned way, but I've always found her a little chilly to watch. She's a decent actor with good instincts but a film legend? Not at all. Her Oscar for MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS? Please.... it's a fun character turn in an entertaining movie filled with fun character turns, but utterly undeserving of an Oscar, even a Best Supporting one.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 19, 2020 4:51 AM |
The Broadways shows Les Miserables, RENT, and Wicked.
I hate them all with the fire of 10,000 suns!!!!!
How can people like this crap?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 19, 2020 4:55 AM |
R75, you're right, Casablanca is very overrated.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 19, 2020 4:59 AM |
Sharon Tate and Jean Seberg were both fairly terrible actresses who died tragic, premature deaths..... but neither death makes either of them anything but a terrible actress. The evidence lives on in their movies.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 19, 2020 4:59 AM |
Selena Gomez is a talentless little troll who I don’t understand how she is a music artist or an actress.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 19, 2020 5:00 AM |
The Kennedys--I don't hate them, I just find them incredibly overrated. And Jackie looked like the result of incest.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 19, 2020 5:08 AM |
A lot of Shakespeare plays are not worth staging. I've probably seen close to 100 productions over my lifetime.
Some of the tragedies hold up well (LEAR, OTHELLO, MACBETH) as well as TWELFTH NIGHT and MIDSUMMER (if they don't screw with it); however, most of the "history" plays and the other "comedies" are punishing to sit through and often pointless.
Directors love it all equally because the dull plays give them a great big canvas to piss all over. And because it's freaking Shakespeare, so....
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 19, 2020 5:09 AM |
Harrison Ford has always seemed like a dumb tool to me.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 19, 2020 5:27 AM |
R82 Well he was a carpenter.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 19, 2020 5:30 AM |
R83, so was the good lord!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 19, 2020 5:44 AM |
Dogs, they are needy, manipulative, smelly, and filty. They destroy and eat everything and you need pick their shit. They stink! Literally.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 19, 2020 5:59 AM |
[quote]Marilyn Monroe - she looked cheap and couldn't act for shit
I've always though that too. She looked so common, platinum blonde.
In fact I hate most of the big stars of the 50s - yes, including Elvis and James Dean....Doris Day.
Cary Grant was so wooden. Absolutely the same in everything. Yet he's considered so adorable.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 19, 2020 6:14 AM |
Marilyn Monroe was such a pain in the ass, and for seemingly forever, despite her being dead, we have to hear about her delicate sensibilities. If I had been the studio head, she would’ve been kicked to the curb.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 19, 2020 6:21 AM |
Rice Crispy Treats
Blech
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 19, 2020 7:27 AM |
LOL, I hate pretty much everything mentioned in this thread except dogs, and will add Game of Thrones.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 19, 2020 7:41 AM |
S'mores - blecch
Pretzels, Oreos, fast food hamburgers
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 19, 2020 7:47 AM |
I’m with you on Katherine Hepburn, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 19, 2020 9:54 AM |
R19 Cats do not smell, their litter boxes do if not maintained. That’s like saying all people smell like I flushed toilets.
People project all of these complicated emotions onto cats - they’re aloof, selfish, secretive, spiteful, etc - they are aren’t capable of having. I’ve always found that strange.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 19, 2020 11:35 AM |
^unflushed
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 19, 2020 11:35 AM |
Barbara Bush. I know we have her number here, but throughout the land she is ooh'd and ahh'd far too much.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 19, 2020 12:40 PM |
Michelle Obama. A good wife and mother, and that’s no small thing, but beyond that I’m not impressed.. Even her DNC speech. It reads better than her actual delivery which I thought sounded desperate and overwrought instead of sincere.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 19, 2020 12:53 PM |
Ann Hathaway
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 19, 2020 1:19 PM |
R96.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 19, 2020 2:08 PM |
The characters of Jim and Pam on The Office.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 19, 2020 2:23 PM |
R98 Seriously. They always acted as if they were so superior to their kooky co workers and yet they were still working there after like a decade.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 19, 2020 2:34 PM |
R99 That was one of the reasons I disliked them.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 19, 2020 2:44 PM |
NEW. YORK. CITY.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 19, 2020 2:54 PM |
Dogs -obnoxious, loud, high maintenance attention whores
Taylor Swift -She is plain looking, not a great singer, an overrated songwriter. All her songs are either about a cute boy (whether she's becoming infatuated with him or they're breaking up) or about how she's always victimized by haters and bullies. She is just boring all the way around. I don't know how she got so popular.
Ariana Grande -Not all that special either. All she does is mumble some wannabe sassy lyrics while looking like a doe eyed Bratz doll.
The Conjuring - Everybody acts like it's a modern day horror classic. It was acted well enough and there are some pretty looking shots, but storywise it was just the same as every other haunted house horror movie ever made.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 19, 2020 3:17 PM |
Yoga is boring
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 19, 2020 3:20 PM |
Chrissy Teigen // Schitt's Creek
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 19, 2020 3:34 PM |
Mean Girls. The film was ...fine. An amusing little comedy. But people treat it as some sort of one of a kind classic.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 19, 2020 3:44 PM |
r30, that was the point of the entire thread. Did you not read the subject heading?
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 19, 2020 3:46 PM |
John Hughes movies. They reveal adolescent attitudes towards wealth and privilege that are both conservative (Hughes was a Republican) and repulsive. Yes, that includes the John Candy movies (as delightful as Candy was) as well as the Brat Pack ones.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 19, 2020 3:48 PM |
"Mean Girls" was like a much weaker and less original remake of "Heathers."
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 19, 2020 3:49 PM |
Glee. Those annoying people pretending to be teenagers gave me the creeps.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 19, 2020 3:51 PM |
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Can’t stand either version. Original or reboot.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 19, 2020 4:07 PM |
Beyawnce.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 19, 2020 4:08 PM |
R80 You're only saying that because my eyes were set so far apart from each other.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 19, 2020 4:36 PM |
R85 = Introverted cat person
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 19, 2020 4:37 PM |
Harpo in particular creeped me out.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 19, 2020 5:15 PM |
Fred Astaire. Funny looking.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 19, 2020 5:18 PM |
Not a fan of Ginger Rogers either. Dislike them both.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 19, 2020 5:18 PM |
Princess Di
Mother Theresa, after I researched her.
Meryl
Titanic (the movie is insufferable, no ill will to the ship herself)
Bacon (thinking of the suffering caused to pigs and humans through massive pork farms...ugh)
Ronald Reagan
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 19, 2020 5:38 PM |
I don't even find him good looking, much less a good actor.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 19, 2020 5:49 PM |
Ariadna Grande, Charlotte Church, Shania Twain, all those posturing PBS types cashing in on the reactionary "I'm a woman, I have feelings" ethic.
(Buffy Ste. Marie is excepted from this, she's the real deal.)
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 19, 2020 5:57 PM |
The band Tool. Their music blows big donkey dick but everyone pretends that they’re mind blowing. Lay off the mushrooms.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 19, 2020 6:10 PM |
Carole King.
I appreciate her Brill Building output (with and without Gerry Goffin, her ex-husband). She was as good as any of her peers, and there was a lot of talent in that group...
Then she went solo.
TAPESTRY and everything that followed is wildly overpraised, mostly because she is beloved of the Boomer frauen. Her version of "Natural Woman" is superfluous, particularly after Aretha's. (Same with James Taylor and "You've Got A Friend," and the original "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" with The Shirelles.) That doesn't leave much. "Jazzman" is a decent song from a few years later, but otherwise.... not much doing.
Sentimentality aside, it's absurd that she's compared to either Joni Mitchell (a pioneering American artist who bested Dylan, IMHO) and Carly Simon, who had longevity and commercial success on her side.
She's more like Carole Bayer Sager.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 19, 2020 6:11 PM |
I never enjoyed Absolutely Fabulous. Even before knowing Joanna Lumley is a closet Tory and Jennifer Saunders is pro hunting I never found it funny.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 19, 2020 6:13 PM |
That goddamned Geico lizard.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 19, 2020 6:13 PM |
The French part of Switzerland is awful. Geneva ought to be the suicide capital of the world, not Zurich.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 19, 2020 6:14 PM |
Mamma Mia. I love ABBA as much as the next gay and the concept of a musical with their songs isn't the worst idea to ever come out of someone's head, but did they even try to come up with an interesting plot or characters that resemble human beings. They shoehorn in every song they can even when it doesn't make sense for the story.
It's all this forced merriment and camp. You can't really force camp. Camp is usually more of a happy accident when filmmakers and actors are taking some so ridiculous so seriously that all you can do is laugh. When they seem in on the joke, it's not very funny and becomes grating.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 19, 2020 6:17 PM |
I found most of Switzerland awful, particularly the Swiss.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 19, 2020 6:18 PM |
To Kill A Mockingbird, the novel and the movie. And any white savior movies like The Help and Green Book.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 19, 2020 6:23 PM |
I second Ab Fab, which is painfully unfunny.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 19, 2020 6:24 PM |
Daniel Craig has a hot body, and a ridiculously ugly face. And he's short, and mean. How he ever got cast as Bond is beyond me.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | August 19, 2020 6:26 PM |
The Greatest Showman is just terrible, and I was in it.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 19, 2020 6:26 PM |
Kate Hepburn is pretty dreadful in her early movies, but she got a LOT better. She is really amazing in Suddenly Last Summer (1959).
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 19, 2020 6:28 PM |
Even those of us who loved AB FAB desperately wish Saunders et al. had hung it up after 3 decent seasons. The retreads were beyond awful. And depressing.
The only saving grace for the movie is that it was really no worse than Seasons 4 and 5.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 19, 2020 6:43 PM |
Isn't Jennifer Saunders actually a Tory in real life who goes on "the hunt" regularly? So Absolutely Fabulous isn't completely satirical? That's dissapointing.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | August 19, 2020 6:51 PM |
R130, I agree. He has always looked sooo old to me.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | August 19, 2020 6:51 PM |
r134 Apart from the first three seasons of AbFab, I vastly prefer her husband Ade Edmondson.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | August 19, 2020 6:54 PM |
R136, I like Absolutely Fabulous but I thought the Morocco episode was boring as shit.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | August 19, 2020 6:56 PM |
Leslie Jones- One of the worst SNL performers of all time. It's crazy how a talented person like Michaela Watkins got fired from SNL after a year, yet Jones stunk up SNL for multiple seasons. Even that nepotism hire Abby Elliott was better than Jones.
Jones didn't deserve her Emmy nominations and Cecily Strong should have been nominated during those years.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | August 19, 2020 6:56 PM |
That reminds me--SNL. It hasn't been funny in decades (since the 90s). It's so bad that everytime there actually IS a funny sketch, it makes the news.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | August 19, 2020 6:58 PM |
Kate McKinnon's impersonations of Jeff Sessions and Robert Mueller are awful and creepy. I never got why people praised those impersonations.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | August 19, 2020 7:06 PM |
Leave Brad and the Geico lizard alone!!!
by Anonymous | reply 141 | August 19, 2020 7:07 PM |
Marvin Gaye--I like him but I think he's overrated. What's Going On isn't that great of an album.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | August 19, 2020 7:13 PM |
American football, which I guess isn't universal, but still. WHY? Why do people watch it? Why do people play it? All the starting and stopping, the tailgating, the risk of brain damage. Plus it's SO boring. To this day, I still don't understand how the game works.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | August 19, 2020 7:15 PM |
R143, I've never understood football, either.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | August 19, 2020 7:26 PM |
Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Golden Girls.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | August 19, 2020 7:37 PM |
AOC.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | August 19, 2020 7:38 PM |
R146 She's not almost universally beloved. Plenty of Democrats dislike her in addition to Republicans.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | August 19, 2020 7:44 PM |
R146 She's not almost universally beloved. Plenty of Democrats dislike her in addition to Republicans.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | August 19, 2020 7:44 PM |
R146 reading skills? AOC = almost universally beloved?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | August 19, 2020 7:44 PM |
London--I'm not a fan. Something about it just doesn't sit well with me. I've heard it's similar to LA where you need someone who really knows the city to show you around so maybe that's it.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | August 19, 2020 7:48 PM |
R149 All I read at R146 are the initials AOC. I don't see anything about 'universally beloved.' That belongs to R147
by Anonymous | reply 151 | August 19, 2020 7:48 PM |
Vaginas
by Anonymous | reply 152 | August 19, 2020 7:50 PM |
Maya Angelou.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | August 19, 2020 7:53 PM |
San Francisco.
And another vote for coffee.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | August 19, 2020 8:09 PM |
Agatha Christie novels...and the movies based on them.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | August 19, 2020 8:12 PM |
R149 My apologies! I'm the one who didn't read carefully and was too quick to snap.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | August 19, 2020 8:19 PM |
I loved Maya Angelou’s autobiographies, but her poetry was rancid and egotistical.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | August 19, 2020 9:03 PM |
Hemingway--his writing sucked. Apparently, punctuation marks don't exist in his world.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | August 19, 2020 10:04 PM |
R158 Yes. Faulkner, also. They both sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | August 19, 2020 10:10 PM |
Leo DiCaprio and all of Scorsese's movies after 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | August 19, 2020 10:16 PM |
Adam Sandler
Leading Scientologist Tom Cruise
#3 John Travolta
Mark Wahlberg
Michael Douglas
by Anonymous | reply 161 | August 20, 2020 12:28 AM |
I don't know anyone who loves Mark Wahlberg,
by Anonymous | reply 162 | August 20, 2020 12:54 AM |
R162, Mark Wahlberg loves Mark Wahlberg.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | August 20, 2020 12:57 AM |
R162 He has quite a bit of fans with people who love action and military movies.
Wahlberg's upcoming movie Good Joe Bell might turn off some of his conservative fans because the movie is based on the true story of a man who attempted to walk cross country in honor of his gay son who committed suicide.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | August 20, 2020 1:00 AM |
Tom Cruise stopped being universally loved the minute he jumped on Oprah's couch. And that Katy Holmes seperation debacle was the icing on the cake.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | August 20, 2020 1:07 AM |
Reality TV shows
by Anonymous | reply 167 | August 20, 2020 1:20 AM |
[quote] Disney
I only like the old stuff; I can't stand them now.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | August 20, 2020 1:25 AM |
Going to concerts - I hate it. I only like it when it is a very small, intimate venue. I can't stand those giant concerts - people are too stupid, think they can sing along, stand up, etc. No, just no.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | August 20, 2020 1:29 AM |
Peanut butter. HATE IT.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | August 20, 2020 1:29 AM |
"Dr." Maya Angelou.
One does not refer to oneself as "Doctor" when the doctorate was conferred as an honorary degree.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | August 20, 2020 1:39 AM |
I always disliked and mistrusted Maya Angelou. Big grand phony. When everyone was making a huge deal of her on her death, I had to laugh. Plagiarist, fake, nasty, selfish, mean. I was embarrassed for black culture, falling for undeserved grand laureate identity.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | August 20, 2020 1:42 AM |
Most folk music sucks. Boring music for boring hipster-type white people.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | August 20, 2020 2:08 AM |
R158 I've always thought he had to be a big ol' closet case. All that forced, desperate masculinity is so transparent.
The movies of Richard Curtis - They are so schmaltzy, badly written, often badly acted, and ham fisted. I enjoy a nice uplifting movie, particularly in these times, but these are all so awful.
Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live - I don't think I've ever cracked a smile at either of them, and I laugh a lot. SNL is particularly badly written and unfunny. I suppose I can at least understand why people enjoy Seinfeld, even if I don't, there being differences in humour and all. The fact anyone laughs at SNL on the other hand, is baffling to me.
Beyonce - a lot has been said on her already, but she really has no tune to her voice, just volume. Her ideas are unfocused and unintelligible. She doesn't have the intelligence to bring out the artistic and political ideas she wants to, but everyone raves about her all the same. I feel the same about Lady Gaga really.
Roxane Gay - terrible writer, contradictory arguments, and nasty, bullying online personality.
New York City - it's not that I dislike it that much (on my holidays there I have enjoyed myself ok), but every time I leave it I feel a relief, and an excitement when we touch down in the next city. I don't even know why. I think maybe it's overrated or past its prime now? I can see it has an interesting history and should be a vibrant exciting place to be, but there are other cities I've been in that give me that feeling, New York leaves me yearning to get on to the next place. And I'm surrounded by people here in Australia who all are desperate to move there and love everything about it, so I feel weird that I don't get that. And I can appreciate that tastes are different but they are always making statements like: "anyone who doesn't like New York is just stupid/an idiot" etc. It's strange.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | August 20, 2020 2:30 AM |
R172, whenever I hear the name Maya Angelou, I always think of that bit Kathy Griffin did: "Maya Angelou is insufferable. I know why the caged bird sings - to drown out her horrible voice!"
by Anonymous | reply 175 | August 20, 2020 2:32 AM |
Sharon Stone.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | August 20, 2020 3:39 AM |
The Evil Dead. Totally not scary.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | August 20, 2020 3:50 AM |
Jennifer Garner - all she does is sell things
by Anonymous | reply 178 | August 20, 2020 3:50 AM |
R178, I don't even remember the last thing she did. Commercials not included.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | August 20, 2020 3:54 AM |
I just don’t get the Pokemon stuff, especially Pikachu, it looks like some kind of mutant and not the good kind like the XMen.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | August 20, 2020 3:58 AM |
My sister is a Katharine Hepburn-lookalike. Bad hair, weird features and all.
Mine:
The show Friends
Most game shows suck, except for Jeopardy! once in a while and Whose Line is it Anyway
Baseball. As an excellent baseball player myself, I cannot sit through an entire baseball game. It's a dull sport for boring fans. I don't know how I got into playing it as a child but it's somehow not so bad hands-on.
The winter Olympics, although I love to ice skate, snowboard, ski and play hockey. Still, can't watch.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | August 20, 2020 4:14 AM |
R181, I feel similarly about cricket as you do about baseball.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | August 20, 2020 4:41 AM |
Friends & Seinfeld (perv Jerry, and TV show) - two of the most overrated shows in television. Awards undeserved. Jerry, Richards, Aniston, Cox, Perry & LeBlanc overrated as well, haven't done anything post-show and shouldn't be A-list at this point.
Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson - Nothing but a pretty face, and in Brad's case, casting couch alumnus. Neither deserve an Oscar, and it's nauseating the way Mel's been able to go back into Hollywood.
Tom Cruise, Ryan Seacrest - old, queeny $c bitches, who mask their closetedness with homophobia.
Riverdale - another overrated show. Not only is it poorly written (and, in some cases, acted), but it promotes statutory rape, gangs, and drug use, and makes them look normal and okay. It's the face of the "dark, edgy reboot" trend, which should never have happened.
RDJ - Overrated, seems cocky and rude. And if he can be let back into Hollywood, why can't Lindsay Lohan, etc.?
Football/NFL - Spreads homophobia, sexism. Don't get me started on the rest.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | August 20, 2020 5:13 AM |
Any of the films of Christopher Guest.
The humor is labored.
Don't find any of them AT ALL funny.
& what a fucking misery he is.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | August 20, 2020 5:16 AM |
Ricky Gervaise and that ghastly Office.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | August 20, 2020 5:17 AM |
R184 I hate the American version of The Office with such intensity that I never even thought to watch the UK version. Is it as cutesy-stupid?
by Anonymous | reply 186 | August 20, 2020 5:20 AM |
Frasier. I just don't find it funny at all.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | August 20, 2020 5:30 AM |
Dogs with long fur. What is going on in that mess?
by Anonymous | reply 188 | August 20, 2020 6:07 AM |
The Book of Mormon. Read nothing but rave reviews plus I'm a South Park fan so it should have been fantastic, but I don't think I laughed once. Long Days' Journey into Night has more hilarity if you ask me.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | August 20, 2020 6:10 AM |
[quote]Frasier. I just don't find it funny at all.
Not even Daphne?
by Anonymous | reply 190 | August 20, 2020 6:12 AM |
[quote]I hate the American version of The Office with such intensity that I never even thought to watch the UK version. Is it as cutesy-stupid?
I lasted about 2.5 minutes of the American version so I can't compare.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | August 20, 2020 6:13 AM |
R190, no, I like the actors. I don't know. It just doesn't click for me.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | August 20, 2020 6:16 AM |
I did not see anyone list Dolly. I guess she really is universally beloved.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | August 20, 2020 6:16 AM |
[quote]London--I'm not a fan. Something about it just doesn't sit well with me. I've heard it's similar to LA where you need someone who really knows the city to show you around so maybe that's it.
Definitely.
Unlike New York which hits you in the face the second you arrive. London's beauty is what you don't see on the main drags. It's all the secret alleyways and streets round the back where its charm lies. The funny little villages that you'd never know about unless someone showed you.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | August 20, 2020 6:20 AM |
[quote]The French part of Switzerland is awful. Geneva ought to be the suicide capital of the world, not Zurich.
Geneva isn't universally loved. People have hated it forever.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | August 20, 2020 6:23 AM |
R24
by Anonymous | reply 196 | August 20, 2020 6:38 AM |
R194, that makes perfect sense then. I actually loved LA but it's so obvious it's not a tourist city. Nobody except the most flyoveriest of the flyover people is excited to be stuck in traffic for hours to see the Hollywood walk of fame or the Hollywood sign. You need someone who knows the neighborhoods well.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | August 20, 2020 7:17 AM |
(deep breath)
Travel. I like being in new places. I just don't like going to new places. But part of this is based on the fact I have a chronic condition that makes extended travel very painful - and this is topped up with a crippling fear of flying.
Desserts. I know some of them are delicious. But even the ones I like always feel like homework.
Television. Even the shows that I know are well-written and well-acted tend to lose me after a few episodes. I just dislike being expected to invest that much time in something. Even the longest Russian novel doesn't bang on the way the Sopranos (for example) did. An exception was all three seasons of Twin Peaks, particularly the last season, which I loved every minute of and never want to see again. I also loved Dr. Who as a kid, because it was such a puzzle-piece approach to TV.
I think beaches can be sublime environments. To walk on, to photograph? Beautiful. To lie on with sunglasses on and bake yourself under the sun? I don't get it. I'd rather take a hot bath. No skin cancer.
Nice, France, is an abomination. Monaco is equally objectionable.
England's country houses are mostly cold and ugly and vulgar and were built and inhabited by philistines. The older Tudor places can be quite charming, but I have never understood the fascination with them.
Florida has wonderful things in it, but the negative aspects cancel out the good millions of vacationers see in the place.
I have never understood the appeal of Joan Crawford. She was phenomenally beautiful as a young woman and a photographer's dream - but I can't think of a single signature performance that means anything the way that Bette Davis did in "All About Eve", Lauren Bacall did in "To Have and Have Not", Katherine Hepburn did in "The African Queen", Ingrid Bergman did in "Gaslight", Judy Garland did in "The Wizard of Oz", Marilyn Monroe did in "Some Like it Hot", Barbara Stanwyck did in "Double Indemnity", etc,. etc., etc. "Mildred Pierce" seems to be the going standard, and it's not much of a performance, although I know she is giving it her all.
I dislike receiving gifts. Giving them., I'm fine with. Getting them, I hate.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | August 20, 2020 7:19 AM |
R33 and Marlon Brando. Being “great” a couple of times in ones career shouldn’t be enough to cement you as “greatest actor” forever — some degree of consistency is important too and he had NONE. Someone like Paul Newman who just got better and better ranks far higher for me. (I do love him in The Freshman, however, a very funny and affectionate send up. But anything good he did was just too few and far between)
R187 agree about Frasier (does nothing for me) and I think Daphne is the most annoying one of all.
And I love cats!!
by Anonymous | reply 199 | August 20, 2020 7:40 AM |
Anything Spielberg. Turned films into childish preachy simplistic crap - almost singlehandedly, though that Star Wars shit's just as bad. Makes Harry Potter look like Shakespeare (though I hate that too)
by Anonymous | reply 200 | August 20, 2020 7:43 AM |
Christian Louboutin. Those fucking shoes are so played out.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | August 20, 2020 8:12 AM |
John Oliver - There is something about this guy that annoys me, even though I agree with the majority of his opinions and like his show. He's insufferable in a way I can't put into words. Hasan Minjah has the same effect on me.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | August 20, 2020 8:14 AM |
^^^*Hasan Minhaj
by Anonymous | reply 203 | August 20, 2020 8:15 AM |
[quote][R187] agree about Frasier (does nothing for me) and I think Daphne is the most annoying one of all.
I was kidding when I said "Not even Daphne?" she was terrible and the more they featured her the worse it got. The father was also a big bore. Don't know why the gays love him SO much they even claimed he was gay in real life.
But the two male leads were wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | August 20, 2020 9:17 AM |
Meat
Anal sex
Breaking Bad (in retrospect)
The Beatles (also in retrospect)
Everyone on FoxNews
by Anonymous | reply 205 | August 20, 2020 9:47 AM |
Billie Eilish
by Anonymous | reply 206 | August 20, 2020 10:20 AM |
[quote]John Oliver - There is something about this guy that annoys me, even though I agree with the majority of his opinions and like his show. He's insufferable in a way I can't put into words.
I'll do it for you, the way he looks the way he sounds and his all-around demeanor.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | August 20, 2020 10:24 AM |
[quote]John Oliver
He looks like an owl.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | August 20, 2020 10:26 AM |
The John Oliver Samantha Bee and some segments of Seth Meyers are just cringe-worthy hand-me-down dog-eared shtick.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | August 20, 2020 10:28 AM |
Oliver tries too hard in his monologues. Especially when he starts yelling and goes off on a tangent. But for the most part, I like him and his liberal views. And his wife is hot. How’d he get her?
by Anonymous | reply 210 | August 20, 2020 10:32 AM |
[quote]The John Oliver Samantha Bee and some segments of Seth Meyers are just cringe-worthy hand-me-down dog-eared shtick.
Yes, there's nothing more draining than lame tired TV humor.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | August 20, 2020 10:33 AM |
I like the information in their reports and I like each person (Olivier, Bee, Meyers....) but the steady rhythm of non sequitor and absurd analogies is so annoying and somehow counterproductive. Every 10th one will make me smile, I admit.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | August 20, 2020 10:42 AM |
David Bowie. I just don’t care. His stans are y pretentious, too (Gaga, anyone?).
I always preferred Iggy Pop.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | August 20, 2020 10:44 AM |
R3 I agree with 3,4 and 6. R60 Dr Fauci and the NIH are notorious for junk science and corruption from the AZT trials on. THe NIH is currently under investigation but you won't hear it on the news.
Worse the WHO, CDC and NIH get a ton of funding from vaccine happy Gates who has no clinical background or degree in medical science. There has never been a Corona vaccine bc it's an RNA virus and even hard 2 get an accurate test for. Its coding and as likely to scramble human DNA as not. For that on other reasons it's likely 2 be dangerous. It will enrich ppl who have investment in BIg Pharma though.
Do your own research, there are plenty qualified scientists who have questioned all of this from the start. They re all shot down by media owned by corps. The latest are a group of German Drrs have formed an inquiry committee recently.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | August 20, 2020 12:22 PM |
[quote] Makes Harry Potter look like Shakespeare (though I hate that too)
R200, which one do you hate? Or both?
by Anonymous | reply 215 | August 20, 2020 1:41 PM |
Star Wars. Maybe if I'd been force fed them as a kid like seemingly everyone else in America, I'd have liked them more.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | August 20, 2020 6:35 PM |
I like Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. All the others are shit.
P.S. All the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, shit.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | August 20, 2020 6:47 PM |
US modern day television. First off, the BBC has been doing short seasons for fifty years now, so stop patting yourselves on the back because you don't follow a traditional TV schedule. Number two, you still can't even come up with ten watchable episodes per season. And stop with you're award nominated. The Emmys nominated ten people per category today. It's like Oprah , You get a car, you get a car!
Also, make more fucking standalone shows. A lot of you aren't special or even compelling enough to devote so much time and interest in.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | August 20, 2020 7:00 PM |
Angela Lansbury
by Anonymous | reply 219 | August 20, 2020 7:05 PM |
Computer animations. Everything from Toy Story to the latest one. Cartoons should be done by hand with a pencil.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | August 20, 2020 7:08 PM |
President Josiah Bartlet
by Anonymous | reply 221 | August 20, 2020 7:09 PM |
Hey R214, go inject some bleach.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | August 20, 2020 7:14 PM |
The Sedarises, unfunny, self-involved, crikey they think they're clever.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | August 20, 2020 7:19 PM |
Coffee. Mocha.
Most fruit. Any fruit but lemon or lime in main dishes (I like my savories "neat" that way).
"American Country" decor: oak; plaid upholstery; redware; those oval braided throw rugs; quilts; pottery; etc.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | August 20, 2020 7:29 PM |
R218, I reallly cannot stand that most American tv shows are 23 or so episodes and last for like 10 seasons. It's better to have 5 seasons with 10 good/great episodes than 10 seasons with mostly filler and some great episodes here and there.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | August 20, 2020 7:32 PM |
Expanding on the post about modern US television. Many of the 60s shows like The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, etc. have aged far better than shows released this decade. Breaking Bad included. Breaking Bad is very much "of the moment". It will not age well. And i loved it originally.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | August 20, 2020 7:33 PM |
R224 "Most fruit" What the fuck is wrong with you?
by Anonymous | reply 227 | August 20, 2020 7:38 PM |
R14, I think the Betty White acting persona has always been of the sly man-eater! No Goody Two-Shoes she!
R3, Whenever you or I saw MarIlyn, she was"on." She acted the dumb blonde, the breathy sexpot, Sugar Kane, but I highly doubt she was that way with Joe or Arthur.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | August 20, 2020 7:43 PM |
R37 = The Ghost of Christopher Hitchens.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | August 20, 2020 7:46 PM |
Obama. I respect him and think he was a very good president, but have never understood the worship. Guess I just never connected with him at an emotional level.
That was a hell of a speech at the 2020 DNC, though!
by Anonymous | reply 230 | August 20, 2020 7:58 PM |
R178 she’s also a DEVOUT something or other?
by Anonymous | reply 231 | August 20, 2020 8:11 PM |
The Kennedys. Slimy, corrupt and venal. I prefer Obama, Clinton and even the unfairly maligned Carter. I always thought it was ironic how the media seemed fixated on the supposed endless corruption of Bill and Hilary Clinton while shrugging off the open criminality of the Kennedy family.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | August 20, 2020 8:11 PM |
Sobriety.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | August 20, 2020 8:50 PM |
"I Love Lucy". I just can't. "Double Indemnity". I adore Barbara Stanwyck, but Fred MacMurray as a leading man? Watching "My Three Sons" reruns as a kid completely ruined that concept for me.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | August 20, 2020 9:00 PM |
R234 I agree Lucille Ball was so overated.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | August 20, 2020 9:08 PM |
R232, so true. The Kennedy's were very, very corrupt. Bill and Hillary were pretty transparent compared to them.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | August 20, 2020 9:16 PM |
Dr. Strangelove--it's one of the few Kubrick movies I don't like. And I don't know why. But I struggle to get through it.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | August 20, 2020 9:32 PM |
PeterSellers
by Anonymous | reply 238 | August 20, 2020 9:37 PM |
Sunday in the Park with George. The most pretentious piece of shit about the artistic process ever. Dot dot fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.
Move on? Fuck off. The people who like this garbage killed musical theater.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | August 20, 2020 9:52 PM |
R227, Turn it down a notch, pal. I've not much of a sweet tooth; I never eat candy, either. Eat cake rarely.
It's all down to the taste buds. Give me salt and spice.
Though I admit to loving green seedless grapes and apple pie!
by Anonymous | reply 240 | August 20, 2020 9:53 PM |
R29, I will take your side! Ella is wonderful, but don’t Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, and the other big E, EARTHA seem more fun? The Scat Queen comes off vanilla after Dinah’s date with her dentist.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | August 20, 2020 10:32 PM |
John Paul II. He was pope from 1978 to 2005, nearly thirty years. In that time, with his implicit knowledge, the Catholic church hid child molesters and indemnified those who covered up for them.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | August 21, 2020 1:26 AM |
Beyonce -- so beyond boring. How many times do we have to see this same fucking "fierce" pose in her goddamn panties and that weave blowing?
by Anonymous | reply 243 | August 21, 2020 1:36 AM |
Ronnie Howard. Okay, he was a cute imp on the Andy Griffith Show sixty years ago. But I cannot stand his movies. They are distilled into simplistic parables and in-your-face "moral" lessons.
Rush. Angels & Demons. Cinderella Man. A Beautiful Mind. Apollo 13. Backdraft, Parenthood, Gung Ho. Cocoon.
Lots of preachy dreck there. Oh, and only due to Ron Howard do we have to endure his father, Rance, and his repulsive brother, Clint, on movie screens.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | August 21, 2020 1:40 AM |
“It’s Yoplait Time!” Yoplait commercials Man buns Televised tennis Candy corn Property Brothers Will Ferrell David Muir Anything from McDonald’s Dwayne Johnson CSI Anything Grease John Malkovich The cast of “Two Broke Girls” Molly Shannon Samantha Bee
by Anonymous | reply 245 | August 21, 2020 7:07 AM |
[quote] The Sedarises, unfunny, self-involved, crikey they think they're clever.
David is funny. I love his e-books. His deadpan delivery is hysterical to me. Amy OTOH, is as funny as a hysterectomy. Plus she engages in hipster racism. Making foolish racist comments about Asians and blacks, pretending that she’s being ironic.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | August 21, 2020 3:45 PM |
Jordan Peele. I saw Us and it felt like a half-finished movie that wasn't scary at all. The ideas were half-baked and forced. Yet it was raved by everyone. I've heard Get Out was mediocre too.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | August 21, 2020 8:21 PM |
R247 Get Out was great. Us was just a stupid typical american horror with silly acting by people who would never acted that way in a real life situation like that one.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | August 22, 2020 1:19 AM |
R248, fair enough. I haven't seen Get Out but it's hard for me to imagine it being worse than Us. Us seemed liked it wanted to be many types of movie all in one and it ended up failing at all of them. It wasn't funny, it wasn't scary and the political message was weak and half-backed.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | August 22, 2020 1:22 AM |
Has anyone said Obama yet? That guy is overrated. Better than Clinton, Bush, Trump, and probably Biden but that still very good at pushing an image while pushing policies that kind of sucked. Reagan is worse tho. Why boomers love that guy is weird. He royally fucked over so many people. Just a disgusting stupid bitch. I guess Reagan's bitchass is my number one answer.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | August 22, 2020 1:41 AM |
My parents are boomers and they didn't vote for Reagan.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | August 22, 2020 1:53 AM |
I'm a boomer and I despised Reagan. Even my father, who was Republican at the time, hated him -- we both realized that he was stupid and were appalled by the notion that he might be elected.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | August 22, 2020 1:59 AM |
Amanda Kloots, widow of nick Cordero. In my news feed daily, trying to keep her exposure in the media alive, no doubt to keep the GoFundMe alive. Sad story, but I have no patience for professional grievers, be they Meghan McCain or Amanda Kloots.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | August 22, 2020 2:12 AM |
agreeing with criticisms of Anthony Fauci. Corrupt money-grubbing asshole. Also the Clintons, the Obamas, Greta Thurnberg (spelling?), Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, BOTH political parties, the Fed, the WHO, China. That's right, China. The whole entire country.
Hollywood scolds (like Rob Reiner and Robert de niro), narcissists, especially alcoholic ones.
This is the thread I could just keeep adding to, all day every day for the rest of my life..... worried.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | August 22, 2020 2:26 AM |
Rob Reiner's addiction of choice seems to be simple carbohydrates.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | August 22, 2020 2:44 AM |
R254 is the worst kind of gay. Go away, troll!!!
by Anonymous | reply 256 | August 22, 2020 2:50 AM |
[quote]Reagan is worse tho. Why boomers love that guy is weird.
I did not vote for Reagan, nor do I "love that guy." Neither did any of my boomer friends. I don't know a single person who voted for Reagan, in fact.
We are all able to spell "though," though.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | August 22, 2020 2:54 AM |
Madonna
by Anonymous | reply 258 | August 22, 2020 2:56 AM |
Julie Andrews
by Anonymous | reply 259 | August 22, 2020 3:13 AM |
white flour pancakes. I like hippy dippy pancakes with some taste.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | August 22, 2020 3:47 AM |
Is Buckwheat Hippy Dippy?
by Anonymous | reply 261 | August 22, 2020 6:19 AM |
R250, Obama wasn't greater as President than Bill Clinton, who actually balanced our budget, which Dubya then squandered on his illegal invasion of Iraq.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | August 22, 2020 6:29 AM |
Oh, and Ira Glass.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | August 22, 2020 4:21 PM |
R261 - sure. whole wheat, oatmeal flour, buckwheat, whole meal, amaranth, nut flours. But has to be done well and kept cakey and fluffy.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | August 22, 2020 6:51 PM |
Espresso. Too strong.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | August 22, 2020 7:00 PM |
[quote] But has to be done well and kept cakey and fluffy.
How do you do that?
Mine have been a bit flat lately.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | August 22, 2020 7:12 PM |
R266 Isn’t it the baking powder?
by Anonymous | reply 267 | August 22, 2020 7:22 PM |
sift the flour materials know how to mix sparingly whip egg whites and fold in last if you use buttermilk, you can use baking soda with baking powder. Baking soda can't be used without buttermilk.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | August 22, 2020 7:50 PM |
Leather material for couches, chairs etc. It's ugly, it's sticky, it makes a squeaking sound
by Anonymous | reply 269 | August 22, 2020 8:27 PM |
R269, I can't stand the smell of leather.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | August 22, 2020 8:36 PM |
I can't believe somebody said Breaking Bad. They must not have watched the entire series.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | August 23, 2020 3:00 AM |
Breaking Bad (entire series)
by Anonymous | reply 272 | August 23, 2020 3:33 AM |
I watched all of Breaking Bad and it feels more "of its time" than The Wire, The Sopranos, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | August 23, 2020 3:35 AM |
r254 = Sean Hannity.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | August 23, 2020 3:50 AM |
[quote]Get Out was great. Us was just a stupid typical american horror with silly acting by people who would never acted that way in a real life situation like that one.
This is how I felt. I really liked Get Out and was excited for Us. I saw it in theaters on opening day and was disappointed.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | August 23, 2020 4:57 AM |
Summer
by Anonymous | reply 276 | August 23, 2020 6:50 AM |
Modern Family. Bad, selfish behavior that's supposed to be funny. Just made me cringe.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | August 23, 2020 7:52 AM |
Leslie Odom Jr. Fingernails on a chalk board to my ears. What am I missing?
by Anonymous | reply 278 | August 23, 2020 7:56 AM |
Glee and Friends.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | August 23, 2020 8:40 AM |
[quote] Espresso. Too strong.
Add some very hot water and it’s perfect.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | August 23, 2020 9:21 AM |
I second John Hughes films. They really haven’t stood the test of time and are just mean spirited.
Cruise ships even before the COVID-19. I’ve been on a few and not for me.
Socialising solely centred around alcohol. I’ve had a few friendships die on the vine because of this. I enjoy the occasional drink but just not going to pickle my liver.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | August 23, 2020 9:42 AM |
R282, who is she? She's stunning.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | August 23, 2020 2:30 PM |
Barbara Stanwyck
by Anonymous | reply 286 | August 23, 2020 3:03 PM |
Pandas. I fucking hate them.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | August 23, 2020 4:19 PM |
Love Stanwyck to death.
Garbo and Dietrich I detest.
by Anonymous | reply 288 | August 23, 2020 4:53 PM |
[quote]My parents are boomers and they didn't vote for Reagan.
My dad hated Reagan from the get go and didn't vote for him '80 or '84. My mom voted for him '80 and regretted it within a couple of years and that was the last time she voted Republican in a presidential election.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | August 23, 2020 5:12 PM |
The Little Prince is a load of crap and not really a children’s book, though I do find his personal story quite interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | August 23, 2020 5:20 PM |
R290 I love the opening joke about the snake and the elephant - it really captures the difference between how children and adults view images - and I loved the idea of little planets and the drawing of the baobabs. But the story overall has a sickly, pederastic quality to it - a "Little Nell" child-too-beautiful-and-pure-for-this-world bathos that I find creepy. I picture those two clowns from Call Me By Your Name in the lead roles.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | August 23, 2020 5:27 PM |
[quote]I second John Hughes films. They really haven’t stood the test of time and are just mean spirited.
A couple of years back, my former boss mentioned how she got one of those John Hughes DVD sets as a gift. She mentioned how she hadn't seen those movies in 10-15 years and one weekend she and her husband to do a marathon. She mentioned how they don't hold up well and she realized that most of the characters weren't likable or relatable.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | August 23, 2020 5:35 PM |
Dancing with the Stars
Big Bang Theory
Friends
by Anonymous | reply 293 | August 23, 2020 5:36 PM |
American Idol. And all "talent" competition shows.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | August 23, 2020 5:38 PM |
The talent reality shows I don’t mind, but the others like the Kardashians or Real Housewives franchise are the ones that I despise. They are filled with useless people. At least the talent based reality shows requires the cast to have some tangible ability to do SOMETHING.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | August 23, 2020 5:58 PM |
R277 I dislike the show because I almost find it too realistic. Entitled ,umc brat suburbanite breeders simply aren't endearing to me. And I find Ed O Neil too repulsive to watch in anything. He gives off malicious and nasty vibes. He seems like the guy at the little league screaming obscenities at the kids and coach while guzzling beer on the bleachers.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | August 23, 2020 6:00 PM |
R296, I hate the talent shows far more. They always manage to find the most boring people to win these things--with a few exceptions here and there.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | August 23, 2020 6:14 PM |
Saoirse Ronan.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | August 23, 2020 6:25 PM |
R298 I think the reason these shows often attract bores is because the people who compete will essentially have to agree to be a music producers creation if they win. They won't be writing their own music or doing anything that isn't tested with the target demographic first. Most interesting artists won't agree to that.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | August 23, 2020 6:26 PM |
R300, good point. They have to be willing to be completely manufactured.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | August 23, 2020 6:27 PM |
West Side Story. The music is beautiful and the choreography is great, but the story has never done a thing for me. Neither has any version or production Romeo and Juliet.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | August 23, 2020 6:29 PM |
Watching movies in a movie theater. No, thanks. One of my siblings really loves to do that.
I don't need to get dressed, jump in a car, and drive for a communal experience with talking and texting strangers. And it's expen$ive, too.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | August 23, 2020 6:46 PM |
1,000,000 WWs for r303.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | August 23, 2020 6:47 PM |
R304 is very easily impressed.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | August 23, 2020 6:50 PM |
‘Friends’ owns this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | August 23, 2020 6:53 PM |
With 4k tv and streaming rentals, there is really no need to step into a theater.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | August 23, 2020 7:01 PM |
R305 ate popcorn left over from March when he saw Tenet last night.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | August 23, 2020 7:17 PM |
I'm not sure either of these are "universally beloved" but they generate a lot of praise.
Dick van Dyke
Ava DuVernay
I don't really dislike him now and, of course, he would be 1000x better than what we have now - in fact I grew to really like him as a person - but I thought he was punching way above his weight when he decided to run for president and that 8 years as a vice-president would have honed him as a more savvy and hopefully effective president and ensured the Ds held the White House for 16 years (the weakness of the ACA is an example of his weakness as a politician) . . . Barack Obama. In fact, I have found the people who turned on him were the people who were uberfans when he ran and would entertain no discussion over his qualifications and spouted 25 year old Hillary smears. I actually think he did better than I expected and they all thought he turned out way worse. I still don't think except for the fact he was a Democratic president implementing Democratic party ideas he was all that great and that had a lot to do with his inexperience. And spare me any comparisons with our current idiot prez. My Hillary coffee mug would have been a better president than Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | August 23, 2020 7:17 PM |
Steak. Particularly, red bloody steaks, the way most Americans like them. What is appealing about eating a undercooked piece of meat.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | August 23, 2020 7:20 PM |
R310, I have eaten rare steak once in my life (I ordered it when drunk) and it was actually far better than I expected. It's almost like it's wine is coming out of the steak (if that makes any sense). i'll still eat my steaks at medium though. iBtw, that red stuff isn't blood.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | August 23, 2020 7:37 PM |
R287, how is it possible to hate pandas? They're like furry soccer balls!
R286, do you mean that you hate Barbara Stanwyck, or that R282's post is a picture of her? Because that's not Barbara Stanwyck -- I'm unsure who it is, but I've seen enough of Stanwyck to know that she's not the girl in that picture (and I love her, by the way).
by Anonymous | reply 312 | August 23, 2020 7:41 PM |
R310, I kind of agree re: rare steaks. If you ever end up at a prime rib carving station, ask for the end pieces (more well-done and more salt & pepper / seasonings on it). I once was at a party that had a prime rib carving station and I was embarrassed to ask for the end piece because I thought it would be more classy to want a rare, center-cut piece. The chef (who was carving) said: "You know how to eat."
by Anonymous | reply 313 | August 23, 2020 7:45 PM |
R282 is definitely Stanwyck's pic
by Anonymous | reply 314 | August 23, 2020 7:45 PM |
Chicken fingers. WTF? All I can see are factory electrocuted chickens fried in salty flour and the dipped in high fructose corn syrup dips. And now there are restaurant chains based on them?
by Anonymous | reply 315 | August 23, 2020 8:06 PM |
Yes r282 that is Barbara Stanwyck. It’s a publicity still from REMEMBER THE NIGHT. A Xmas film with Sterling Holloway and Beulah Bondi.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | August 23, 2020 8:37 PM |
R315, they will taste better if you make them in an air fryer. And make your own dips with Dijon and Honey. Organic honey.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | August 23, 2020 8:38 PM |
R317, the air fryer is a great invention.
by Anonymous | reply 318 | August 23, 2020 8:47 PM |
Seafood in general and sushi in particular.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | August 23, 2020 8:52 PM |
I like sushi but I don't understand people (mainly white girls) who are obsessed with it. Is it because it's mainly protein and no carbs?
by Anonymous | reply 320 | August 23, 2020 8:53 PM |
[R320] I don’t know about other people and their love of sushi, but for me it taps into my phobia (mentioned previously on the fear thread) of tapeworms.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | August 23, 2020 9:00 PM |
R321, perfectly reasonable honestly. I eat sushi sparingly. Like once or twice a year.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | August 23, 2020 9:02 PM |
I think R312 was referring to R284.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | August 23, 2020 9:05 PM |
I grew up eating sushi and raw foods, so it's not exotic to me. I enjoy sushi & raw seafood.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | August 23, 2020 9:08 PM |
What is so great about an air fryer? Isn't it just a new fangled convection oven? And you don't get the texture of fried foods, so what's the point?
by Anonymous | reply 325 | August 23, 2020 9:16 PM |
R325, it is pretty much a convection oven but I love it. To me, it is close to the texture of fried with like 50% of the calories. That's the appeal in a nutshell.
by Anonymous | reply 326 | August 23, 2020 9:17 PM |
Yes r326. I make my breaded shrimp in my air fryer and it is delicious! Without the grease.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | August 23, 2020 9:20 PM |
R291 " too beautiful and pure for this world" ... That's what always bothered me about a lot of much loved Victorian dramas like Tess of the D' Ubervilles. Except they usually centered on young women rather than children. I hate stories of relentlessly physically and emotionally perfect protagonists who are endlessly beaten down by wicked society. Nuanced characters and stories are always more interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | August 23, 2020 9:20 PM |
Ive never heard of a gay man disliking Barbara Stanwyck. Bravo.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | August 23, 2020 9:24 PM |
Dalgona coffee. A separated and overly caffeinated mess, that takes too much trouble to make. You have to spend like 20 minutes jerking off the coffee grinds and the results aren't that great in terms of taste. I love iced coffee but dalgona is lame. People just like the way it looks on Instagram.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | August 23, 2020 9:25 PM |
R327, it's truly the best of both worlds--fried appeal but without the guilt and the weight gain. What's not to love?
by Anonymous | reply 331 | August 23, 2020 9:26 PM |
Agree with r253. Amanda Kloots, whoever she is, needs to go away already. Sorry for your loss and all but really, just stop now.
Also, my Instant Pot has not been the panacea online reviews promised me.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | August 23, 2020 9:28 PM |
the Bible
by Anonymous | reply 333 | August 23, 2020 9:39 PM |
[quote] Chicken fingers. WTF?
Agree. Also, "chicken tenders." Sounds "moist." I think people who like these reconstituted, deep-fried chicken nuggets are parents with no imagination. They feed their kids chicken McNuggets, kids tastebuds get locked into that, and then the parents have to recreate it at home.
That said, I do eat stuff like chicken strips, etc., at restaurants. But I like to eat a whole variety of foods as well.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | August 23, 2020 9:41 PM |
R328 has obviously never read Tess of the d'Urbevilles.
the protagonist is not perfect. she courts her own downfall in a variety of ways, tries to rectify herself, and falls back into the sleaze. partially because being poor AND beautiful sets her up for just such a situation in life. it's an object lesson in how the aristocracy/elite prey on their lessers.
it, along with Les Miserables, is one of the greatest -must read- books of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 335 | August 23, 2020 9:46 PM |
It's funny that someone who professes to hate Stanwyck posts the most beautiful portrait ever made of her.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | August 23, 2020 9:48 PM |
Is polenta still "a thing"? It certainly was a decade or so ago.
It's boiled cornmeal, and it's the incarnation of "bland mush."
And someone please explain the whole flavored carbonated water in cans thing to me, please. The Gen Z and younger millennials just love this shit. I get that it's healthier than cola, but... why bother?
by Anonymous | reply 337 | August 23, 2020 9:58 PM |
Polenta is a staple in some cultures and it's a comfort food (like potatoes or white rice).
Personally, I hate the texture of polenta.
by Anonymous | reply 338 | August 23, 2020 10:05 PM |
Keto diets. It's just the latest in an endless cycle of fad diets. If I hear someone say " you can eat unlimited amounts of food and lose weight if you just cut out carbs", I'll kill someone.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | August 23, 2020 11:46 PM |
I tried the Keto diet, since I’m such a trendy follower of fads, and it was horrible. I lasted a few days before having to succumb to carbs and eat a Carr’s cracker. About an hour after eating the cracker, I started to feel normal again.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | August 24, 2020 12:23 AM |
Brandon and Stu of Sean Cody.
by Anonymous | reply 341 | August 24, 2020 12:23 AM |
Einstein. Treated his first wife like shit (probably plagiarized from her too) and was a hypocritical racist.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | August 24, 2020 12:40 AM |
R336 she was undeniably beautiful. and a hard worker, determined, etc. much respect.
but her acting style has always left me cold.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | August 24, 2020 1:14 AM |
Einstein decried Jim Crow America, but at the same time he held rather bigoted views on Asians.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | August 24, 2020 1:22 AM |
Peaches.
Tomatoes.
Corn on the cob.
by Anonymous | reply 345 | August 24, 2020 1:25 AM |
R206, I second the musical stylings of Billie Eilish. She seems to be a critically-acclaimed darling, but I'm not a fan at all of her mumbling-breathing-murmuring.
by Anonymous | reply 346 | August 24, 2020 5:10 AM |
The late Johnny Carson- he was a racist who hated that his son had a child with a black woman.
by Anonymous | reply 347 | August 24, 2020 5:16 AM |
In the larger world: pasta sauce you buy in jars
In Datalounge: EST queens
by Anonymous | reply 348 | August 24, 2020 6:12 AM |
[quote] In the larger world ...
Bigger is always better, R348.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | August 24, 2020 6:30 AM |
Smegma.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | August 24, 2020 10:57 AM |
Porn.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | August 24, 2020 11:03 AM |
Feet, in a sexual manner
by Anonymous | reply 352 | August 24, 2020 11:08 AM |
At least popular with the gays:
Eurovision
Musical theatre
Disney
Muscled men
Madonna, Lady Gaga, Barbra and any of those other godawful ‘divas’
The British royal family
Tom Daley
Adults playing with Lego / Pokemon etc
Erasure
Dressing up as a ‘pup’. Those masks look ridiculous and as for those butt-plug tails. I'm all for live and let live but that one is beyond my comprehension.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | August 24, 2020 11:24 AM |
And Janet fucking Jackson and her thread starting loon.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | August 24, 2020 11:25 AM |
Coffee, tea, beer, whiskey, rum, gin, red wine
Parties
Fish of any kind (to eat)
(I like vodka, dry white wine and dry cider, chicken, bacon, ham)
by Anonymous | reply 355 | August 24, 2020 11:53 AM |
I want to throw a fish fry for R355.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | August 24, 2020 1:36 PM |
Telegrams!
by Anonymous | reply 357 | August 24, 2020 1:37 PM |
Oxygen.
The female of any living species.
Language, written or spoken.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | August 24, 2020 5:06 PM |
You don’t like female cats? The males spray all over the place.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | August 25, 2020 3:31 AM |
Eating outside.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | August 25, 2020 9:11 PM |
[quote]Eating outside.
My father was a great one for eating in the sun. I hated it
by Anonymous | reply 361 | August 25, 2020 9:15 PM |
Swearing constantly, especially in entertainment (songs, music videos, movies, tv, etc.). It's lazy and indicates a lack of imagination.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | August 25, 2020 9:20 PM |
Also, sex scenes in movies. They are rarely actually sexy. They are cheesy more often than not.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | August 25, 2020 9:23 PM |
Sex scenes in movies are bad, but the ones I hate are sex scenes in books. "He jammed his wang into a fully consensual hole" is what it usually boils down to and attempts to gild the lily, such as it is, are generally risible and/or actually nauseating. "She was like the driven snow beneath the galoshes of my lust." "His pulse raised as she ripped off her babushka." Etc.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | August 25, 2020 9:33 PM |
I hate the slurping kissing noises in movies. I go back to being a ten your old “eww gross” boy when I hear smacking and heaving breathing.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | August 25, 2020 9:40 PM |
English Bulldogs. So fucking ugly. They slobber and are gassy. 💨
by Anonymous | reply 366 | August 25, 2020 9:40 PM |
If you’re not actually having sex (or masturbating to sexual images) it’s a rather mundane activity and pretty boring for the unaroused.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | August 25, 2020 10:58 PM |
I love the buildup to a sex scene. That's the sexy part. Once they take off their clothes, just fade to black and come back when their done. It's not like its usually got anything to do with the story unless a robber breaks in or they get an important phone call during it. If they can find a way to make something important happen during a sex scene, I'm all for it, but just watching two people hump for a few minutes isn't terribly exciting.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | August 25, 2020 11:10 PM |
R368, how about panning to a tree?
by Anonymous | reply 369 | August 25, 2020 11:12 PM |
Fully agree with R360, I never eat outside and don't understand why people like to.
(Also, I LOLed at post R364.)
by Anonymous | reply 370 | August 25, 2020 11:21 PM |
[quote] I'm all for it, but just watching two people hump for a few minutes isn't terribly exciting.
MOST pron these days seems to consists of extreme close-ups of genitals whilst fucking. Most people who make pron haven't got a clue.
by Anonymous | reply 371 | August 25, 2020 11:30 PM |
I've always thought that, if there was some way to make porn with a real plot, someone would get really rich. Not this Fifty Shades or 9 1/2 Weeks kinda softcore crap. There are some gay porn films recently that are shot with genuine care and are more about the chemistry between the actors. There's some thought that goes into the lighting and framing and everything doesn't look like they borrowed the lights and sets from a sitcom.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | August 25, 2020 11:55 PM |
I hate extended micro close-ups in porn. So boring.
by Anonymous | reply 373 | August 26, 2020 12:33 AM |
Fiona Apple.
A narcissistic, sanctimonious, dumb cunt. Her music sounds like your drunk, washed up aunt doing shitty slam poetry.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | August 26, 2020 12:38 AM |
Most 90s rock music is really bad. It just looks good in comparison to a lot of the rock music that came later.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | August 26, 2020 1:44 AM |
Most 90s rock music is really bad. It just looks good in comparison to a lot of the rock music that came later.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | August 26, 2020 1:44 AM |
Joan Didion
by Anonymous | reply 377 | August 26, 2020 2:57 AM |
Fancy dress parties. They're more a source of stress than fun. The people throwing the party decide on a theme based on what they have available and are excited to wear, so it doesn't bother them. Everyone else is miserable, running around trying to find something appropriate when they just want to be able to go out on a Saturday night and have fun.
Counting Crows. Couldn't bear them to begin with, then they did that horrible cover of "Big Yellow Taxi".
Really pleased to see the discussion here on sex scenes in entertainment, because I thought it was just me who thought that. I'm far from a prude, but unless there's a plot or character reason then sex scenes are just boring, as would any other scene that doesn't advance the plot would be.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | August 26, 2020 4:25 AM |
Gustav Mahler. Great orchestrations but melodically barren.
by Anonymous | reply 379 | August 26, 2020 7:49 AM |
[quote] Peaches.
[quote] Tomatoes.
I love them when they're good. The last time I had a good peach was in the 1990s. Tomatoes, I had some good ones several years ago, but they are hardly ever edible.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | August 26, 2020 7:57 AM |
The dreaded scrawlings of Jane Austen
by Anonymous | reply 381 | August 26, 2020 8:15 AM |
[quote] If I hear someone say " you can eat unlimited amounts of food and lose weight if you just cut out carbs", I'll kill someone.
Those must’ve been Harvey Milk’s last words to Dan White.
by Anonymous | reply 382 | August 26, 2020 8:51 AM |
Totally agree on Mahler. If it wasn't for the push Visconti gave him in the 70s, he'd be nowhere today.
Also chocolate. Even as a child I couldn't understand why everyone was raving about it. Why chocolate, of all sweets?! Why not baklava or jelly, or caramel?
by Anonymous | reply 383 | August 26, 2020 3:12 PM |
[quote]Totally agree on Mahler. If it wasn't for the push Visconti gave him in the 70s, he'd be nowhere today.
Yeah. Bernstein had nothing to do with it.
by Anonymous | reply 384 | August 26, 2020 3:22 PM |
Bernstein's Second Mahler cycle, as well as Karajan's, both not only followed but were inspired by Death in Venice (because both men had gay leanings, it seems.) The First cycle was earlier, you're right.
by Anonymous | reply 385 | August 26, 2020 3:47 PM |
I was talking about Bernstein's first Mahler cycle, r385. Death in Venice has made the Adagietto in the M5 popular, but that's about it. At least, that's the only Mahler with which most people are familiar.
Are you saying HvK had "gay leanings"? First I've heard.
by Anonymous | reply 386 | August 26, 2020 3:52 PM |
Read his biography by Richard Osborne, R386. He proves it pretty much without doubt and part of the material in the book is provided by Herbie's old lover Raffaello de Banfield.
by Anonymous | reply 387 | August 26, 2020 4:13 PM |
Fascinating, r387. Not inconclusive proof, but highly interesting nonetheless.
I had a friend for whom the sun rose and set on the music of Herbert von Karajan, but we never once discussed any possibility of homosexual happenings. I wish he were still alive so I could show him that article.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | August 26, 2020 4:18 PM |
* conclusive, not inconclusive
by Anonymous | reply 389 | August 26, 2020 4:19 PM |
Apparently, it was an open secret at the time. Osborne claims that he was bisexual, citing a contemporary actor saying: "Herbert? Oh, he likes a little bit of everything - like all of us". But it really seems that his 3 marriages were bearding/opportunistic.
It is also heavily implied by the factology in his Nurnberg hearings that he joined the Nazi party after being blackmailed by the Nazi secretary in Aachen at the time. It was also the exact same time he got hastily married for the first time - a marriage he mostly spent away from his wife. I checked, and it was the exact same time as many gay public figures in Germany were blackmailed by the Party, outed and sent to the camps. The most famous case was that of the No1 radio host at the time - I forget his name.
In his later life he clearly had a decade-long relationship with pianist Alexis Weissenberg who left him for a younger lover. Herbie had a stroke on stage shortly thereafter. Later he always had a handsome gay assistant/pupil with him - Bulgarian Emil Chakarov, Japanese Seiji Osawa and even our dear Christian Thielemann (who scarpered rather quickly).
There's a lot more and if you look into his opera films and listen to his music (especially the early works with the Philharmonia), the homoeroticism is rather obvious. It's now strange to me that most people haven't noticed it.
by Anonymous | reply 390 | August 26, 2020 6:30 PM |
This thread got super sophisticated. Then died.
by Anonymous | reply 391 | August 27, 2020 10:40 AM |
Think of every opera fan you've known in real life (both of them) -- was it thrilling to hear them chat about their hobby? Or even enough to keep you awake for a minute?
by Anonymous | reply 392 | August 27, 2020 12:43 PM |
No one is thrilled to listen to others go on about an interest they don't share. What's your point? That you turn your brain off when anything "cultured" flies by? That's just sad.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | August 27, 2020 12:55 PM |
Not anything "cultured", just opera.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | August 27, 2020 1:47 PM |
While there was talk about classical music and gay conductors, I see nothing about opera??
by Anonymous | reply 395 | August 27, 2020 1:51 PM |
That Pokémon and Pikachu shit, what is that, am I just too old to understand. Sometimes it seems like a cult?
by Anonymous | reply 396 | August 27, 2020 2:31 PM |
Chihuahuas are popular but they are the meanest dogs I have ever met. My dog has been nearly attacked by several of them even though he doesn't do anything to them. They are the definition of "Napoleon complex". Most of them just look like large rats.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | August 27, 2020 5:13 PM |
Bill Cosby
by Anonymous | reply 398 | August 29, 2020 5:03 AM |
Both popes before this one were Nazi collaborators. Terrible people through and through.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | August 29, 2020 6:28 AM |
Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Rihanna
by Anonymous | reply 400 | August 29, 2020 11:19 AM |
All and any songs produced by Max Martin. It all sounds the same.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | August 30, 2020 8:05 AM |
Iced tea
by Anonymous | reply 402 | August 30, 2020 2:44 PM |
[quote]Leibowitz is a tired, cliched, gimmicky one-trick pony. She has no business shooting fashion, which she never understood. It's shocking how highly regarded this mediocre photographer is in publishing, music, and fashion, based solely on name recognition. She's a hack.
I'm sharing my post about famed "photographer" Annie Leibowitz because I think it belongs here, not in the Gal Gadot VOGUE thread. I have never understood the wide acclaim for this woman. Is it based on her proximity to Jan Wenner, her old boss? Susan Sontag, her deceased girlfriend? The famous people she's photographed? There have been a number of major retrospectives of her work in respected museums and galleries all over the world (including MOMA, I believe). I would love to support a mature, lesbian artist, but I can't.
She sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 403 | September 1, 2020 4:29 AM |
Kate Jackson, especially on Fridays.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | September 1, 2020 4:58 AM |
Patti LuPone always seems to be a nightmare. Can't get along with a lot of people, extremely bitchy and bitter at everyone that she's not bigger than she is (e.g. Madonna for playing Evitia), and expects everyone to worship her at her feet. She can have several seats.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | September 2, 2020 3:12 AM |
Madonna
by Anonymous | reply 406 | September 2, 2020 3:16 AM |
Patti can be (and usually is) insufferable, but she's talented too, and committed to the theatre.
Sadly, I don't expect her revival of COMPANY to ever re-open, and she's already announced that it will be her last Bway musical.
by Anonymous | reply 407 | September 2, 2020 3:47 AM |
Perry Mason, The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock
by Anonymous | reply 408 | September 2, 2020 4:02 AM |
Why, R408? Does one have to be old (like me) to enjoy them? Are you young and find that they have nothing to offer except nostalgia, which is lost on young people?
by Anonymous | reply 409 | September 2, 2020 4:18 AM |
Turtles. You can't hug them.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | September 2, 2020 4:39 AM |
[quote]I love them when they're good. The last time I had a good peach was in the 1990s. Tomatoes, I had some good ones several years ago, but they are hardly ever edible.
When I lived in America in the 80s they tasted like shit in comparison to the ones in England - now the tomatoes in England are just as shit as the American ones - even the fancy "on the vine" ones.
Occasionally by sheer fluke, I find tasty ones, but that usually doesn't last for long.
by Anonymous | reply 411 | September 2, 2020 9:01 AM |
[quote]Turtles. You can't hug them.
Who cares?
by Anonymous | reply 412 | September 2, 2020 9:03 AM |
[quote]The dreaded scrawlings of Jane Austen
And all the dreaded movies and TV series.
by Anonymous | reply 413 | September 2, 2020 9:05 AM |
"Also, my Instant Pot has not been the panacea online reviews promised me. " [R332]
I laughed out loud. Hope springs eternal, does it not? I'm beginning to believe there is no such thing as a *panacea* at all... today I received a package that was the same TYPE of product I ordered, yet inexplicably was: 1) a cheaper model 2) a different color & 3) cheerfully described as "delivered" online with a pic of the one I actually did order.
Universally beloved, disliked by me? Watermelon. Someone gave me some 'watermelon salad': straight to compost.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | September 2, 2020 10:19 AM |
In the gay community: Britney Spears and jockstraps. Boooooooring.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | September 2, 2020 4:49 PM |
Dolly Parton
by Anonymous | reply 417 | September 27, 2020 6:42 AM |
thank you R417. i didn't say it myself.
by Anonymous | reply 418 | September 27, 2020 6:44 AM |
I do.not know why Dolly gets a pass on some of the shit she says and does.
by Anonymous | reply 419 | September 27, 2020 6:57 AM |
1. Madonna
2. the cunt who will type "r420, see r935, r621, r802, r822" and all the other posts that mentioned Madonna.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | September 27, 2020 7:00 AM |
Gene Kelly -- he always tried too hard to look energetic and upbeat
Most Italian food-- 400 variations of pasta and tomato doesn't do it for me
Brad Pitt-- sounds dumb, bad skin, shapeless body
Restaurants-- I like to eat in comfortable clothes
by Anonymous | reply 421 | September 27, 2020 7:18 AM |
[quote]Restaurants-- I like to eat in comfortable clothes
So go to restaurants where you can wear comfortable clothes.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | September 27, 2020 12:05 PM |
Jimmy Stewart.
by Anonymous | reply 423 | September 27, 2020 12:14 PM |
The places where I can eat in comfortable clothes R422 do not serve the kind of food I'd be willing to pay money for. And I DO believe in dressing nicely when going out to eat, and nicely fitted clothes are generally uncomfortable to me
by Anonymous | reply 424 | September 27, 2020 7:39 PM |
[quote] 1. Madonna
Madonna is not "almost universally beloved".
by Anonymous | reply 425 | September 27, 2020 7:43 PM |
Cats
by Anonymous | reply 426 | September 27, 2020 9:13 PM |
Rebel Wilson
by Anonymous | reply 427 | September 29, 2020 1:22 AM |
Jack Black
by Anonymous | reply 428 | September 29, 2020 1:33 AM |
Patti LaBelle - too nasal. I just think she and her act is corny. I don't understand why she is put up so high on a throne as one of the greatest singers of all time.
Elvis also never did anything for me. I don't understand the adulation and reverence.
And Nirvana wasn't all that.
by Anonymous | reply 429 | September 29, 2020 1:39 AM |
Stranger things. Didn't hate it but didn't really care for it either. The cast is not bad with the exception of Winona Ryder. She seems terribly miscast and only capable of a few facial expressions. Not right for the role at all. To be fair I only got through season 1 so perhaps it improves.
by Anonymous | reply 430 | September 29, 2020 1:43 AM |
That's interesing, R430. I finally sat down and watched the first episode last week. It was a weird experience where I kept thinking I should be liking it more than I did. Like, recognising what people must love about it, thinking it would, in another time, be something I would love too, and just not really getting in to it. I'll definitely watch a few more episodes just to see, but I'm not in any rush. Particularly as I've already heard many people say it should've stopped after the first season, which doesn't inspire me to invest in it long term.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | September 29, 2020 5:01 AM |
Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey
by Anonymous | reply 432 | September 29, 2020 5:10 AM |
Shitty Bob Iger Marvel Comic Book Movies.
Save society from this dreck.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | September 29, 2020 5:22 AM |
Big dogs and their proud owners ...?shitting everywhere and the owner carrying around a little bag of shit. And the dog so gleefully licks his owners face. And the owners love it. I’ll never get it
by Anonymous | reply 434 | September 29, 2020 5:23 AM |
Yes, R434. I mentioned that @R433. Give credit where it's due.
by Anonymous | reply 435 | September 29, 2020 5:31 AM |
Children
by Anonymous | reply 436 | September 29, 2020 5:31 AM |
Jaden Smith.
Wait, I think I must have inverted the thread title's meaning.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | September 29, 2020 5:33 AM |
Ken Burns documentaries. I get they're documentaries, but they don't need to be so dry and soulless. Ugh!
by Anonymous | reply 438 | September 29, 2020 5:54 AM |
I hate cheese. I've never met anyone else who does.
by Anonymous | reply 439 | September 29, 2020 5:56 AM |
There isn't anyone else who hates cheese, R439. You're unique in the whole world with your inexplicable opinion of cheese!
by Anonymous | reply 440 | September 29, 2020 6:01 AM |
Celebrity Children, such as the Willis Sisters, the Osbourne Children, the Jenner kids, Cindy Crawford's boring brats and Daniel Day Lewis' gay-faced son.
Oh. Wait. Only the inbred, sycophantic media class like and promote these people, forcing them on the rest of us.
by Anonymous | reply 441 | September 29, 2020 7:18 AM |
Spending the day at the beach. Yeah it’s pretty, but it’s usually a hassle getting there with all the junk required, plus sand everywhere. And on the west coast the water is ice cold 50 weeks out of the year.
by Anonymous | reply 442 | September 30, 2020 2:24 PM |
[quote] In the gay community: Britney Spears and jockstraps. Boooooooring.
Jockstraps are hot when the guy wearing them is also hot out of them, but Britney sucks and it sickens me that anyone still cares about her. When I heard my baby sister singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time" I was horrified because it sounded like they were trying to normalize domestic violence and selling it to children!
by Anonymous | reply 443 | September 30, 2020 2:59 PM |
[quote] When I heard my baby sister singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time" I was horrified because it sounded like they were trying to normalize domestic violence and selling it to children!
Great song!
by Anonymous | reply 444 | September 30, 2020 4:05 PM |
Grace Kelly
Tony Curtis
by Anonymous | reply 445 | September 30, 2020 4:07 PM |
Cardamom
by Anonymous | reply 446 | September 30, 2020 4:07 PM |
Mason jars. Use a regular cup/mug like everyone else.
by Anonymous | reply 447 | September 30, 2020 4:09 PM |
Agree:
1. Jack Black (same manic but not funny energy Robin Williams had, yes I know no one agrees)
2. Stranger Things - mediocre
3. Matthew McConaughey (terrible, terrible, terrible actor, always the same goddamn mannerisms and style of speaking in everything, that get-up-close-into-someone's-face-and-talk-intensely-but-quietly-BULLSHIT - cannot stand him)
4. Leo DiCaprio. Same as Matt M. Way more lauded than he deserves, his Oscar campaigning the year he won was some of the most craven shit I ever saw.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | October 1, 2020 5:49 AM |
R403 Marry me. I could have written both posts on Leibowitz. I have NO IDEA how anyone thinks this woman isn't a hack. All her photos look the same and 90% of the time those being photographed look worse than they do irl. That VF cover (?) of Miley Cyrus and her dad made a healthy teenage girl look like a weird, grey, consumptive vampire.
What I hate most is that stormy grey tone in so many of her images. It's always there, always so the same, always so ugly and faux-artistic. Awful. Actually awful.
One-trick pony is 100% right. The fact that fashion mags employ her just proves the whole industry is rotten and NO ONE should be taking style tips from the likes of Vogue.
by Anonymous | reply 449 | October 1, 2020 5:54 AM |
Would like to recommend (to those who brought up various fruits):
1. peaches from Warner's Farm in Ontario. Had some delivered by my CSA about a month ago, best peaches I've tasted since the late 80s.
2. tomatoes - I tried every heirloom I could get my hands on this summer. Everyone seems to prefer the sweeter varieties but to me Green Zebra was the best, the most tomatoey flavour, better than all the more well known ones.
by Anonymous | reply 450 | October 1, 2020 5:56 AM |
Apparently, Chrissy Teigen and her husband are of great interest to everyone except me, if not actually universally beloved. Sorry about the miscarriage of their baby, but I only know their names (and can't remember his) because I keep seeing them mentioned at DL.
by Anonymous | reply 451 | October 1, 2020 6:45 AM |
Jack Black? I'm not sure he's universally recognized, much less beloved in 2020. He still works, but I don't think anyone cares. I know I don't.
He peaked around 2005.
by Anonymous | reply 452 | October 1, 2020 1:58 PM |
Football (American). Well both of them.
by Anonymous | reply 453 | October 1, 2020 2:05 PM |
All sportsball.
by Anonymous | reply 454 | October 1, 2020 2:20 PM |
Old black and white movies from the 1930s/40s
by Anonymous | reply 455 | October 1, 2020 2:32 PM |
washboard abs
pumpkin spice
by Anonymous | reply 456 | October 1, 2020 2:52 PM |
Pumpkin spice with washboard abs.
by Anonymous | reply 457 | October 1, 2020 3:20 PM |