Stuff You Know You SHOULDN'T Like but Do
Nightmare's thread on this topic is quite interesting, but I'm sure everyone reading it encountered at least one or two things that made him (or her) think 'how could xxx hate xxxx!? It's the best thing ever'. So, here's a bit of a positive alternative on that idea:
How about stuff that you expected to hate, but ended up really liking? Be it soap, a movie, a game, or even a salad dressing, how about those pleasant surprises that you enjoy even if your gut/brain/heart tells you that you shouldn't? No shame, be it Hanson, Heroes, or Hummers, post 'em!
Feeding Frenzy: x360 game that came with the arcade version of the system. Very simplisitic, but a lot of fun. I love seeing all of the new fish species and the little factoids between levels are a nice touch.
Jewel: Much-hated singer-songwriter of the 90's. I still enjoy her earlier songs and find that Don't runs through my head far more often than I would normally admit.
Kingdom Hearts: I thought that a mash-up of Disney and Final Fantasy sounded like a match made in hell, but I ended up having a great time with the first game.
onions: I hated that nasty vegetable for the first 30 years of my life. Then, I decided to try it diced finely with some mushrooms in a saute - turns out that now half of the stuff I cook has onion in it. Who knew?
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Video games: How old am I now? 24?! WTH is wrong with me?
Vegetables: I hated vegetables for the majority of my life... Then I moved out and taught myself how to cook them PROPERLY. Now they taste great!
Plushies: You make a plush doll of a character that I like and I will give you my monies.
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24: Male soap opera which has a majorly pro-America slant, usually taking not so subtle anti-ethnic slants (yes, I saw the ads for accepting people of other cultures... but please, 30 seconds versus 45 minutes?) and giving people incredibly unrealistic views on the war on terrorism and interrogation... but god damn it, it's so suspenseful with some decent plot twists now and again (except for season 2's awful Kim storyline).
WoW: Two epic flying mounts, a character exalted with almost every meaningful faction... and I still play constantly. Got a healer (my main), caster DPS, and melee DPS at 70, and working on a tank, now in his late 30s. Still, on a limited budget, it keeps me from buying more games... and I do greatly enjoy the raiding and social scene in my guild (though I had to step out of raiding when they got into Hyjal and BT due to student teaching). I've met people I could compare to GWJers, and I can't say that about any other online game I've ever played.
Harry Potter: God damn it, it's compelling. End of story.
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Sad music: I enjoy emo-kid jokes, but I do like me some depressing music.
Bad movies: Most recent example - I should hate Highlander: The Source, but I was so convinced it was based on someone's fanfic that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The apocalypse/end of the world as we know it: I know I shouldn't look forward to the fall of mankind, but I can't help myself from hoping that the end has started and we just haven't realized it yet, and zombies. I demand zombies involved in my apocalypse. They can be the antagonists, or just scenery, but they must be present, otherwise it's just not an apocalypse worth having.
Stuffed animals: I'm nearly 25, and male. I still like stuffed animals. Thankfully my girlfriend likes them even more than I do, so she doesn't think I'm weird, and least, not for that specific reason.
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I miss the time where people wouldn't find it necessary to complain about an American show having a "pro-American slant".
Shelter: a post-nuclear RPG.
Oh, I thought of another one: the Geico gecko. Never has an advertising icon garnered so much adoration from me. I think it's probably the accent.
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Xena: The Warrior Princess. Contrary to popular belief, Xena was a great TV series. It's no Buffy, but much fun regardless. That some people extend this to the truly god-awful Hercules: Legendary Journeys (or something) is beyond me.
America's Next Top Model and some other choice reality TV. ANTM is really the best "brains off" programming there is. Survivor's been picking itself up, as well. I know you're not supposed to watch any of these shows, but there you go.
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BACON!
Why has noone listed BACON! Its like the food of the gods... fat, groggy, slow moving, but gods none the less!
You know what I really want... Bacon layered on top of canadian bacon, layered on top of Pork tenderloin, layered on top of new york strip, then wrap that arround a filet mignon.
And I want a HUGE freaking baked potato with LOTS of butter (the kind you sometimes get that is salt crusted please!) and a side of Brussel sprouts (yeah I love them go figure). And a soda... (made from real freaking sugar damnit!).
and I want a pie... a whole damn pie. You pick the flavor so long as its made from fruit and lots of sugar.
THAT is how I want to die.... so much meat at once my heart explodes at the sight of it... But I want it to explode really slowly so I can at least eat the feast!
Also Capt. Morgain's Mango Rum. That stuff is great straight or mixed in coke.
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Speaking of alcohol, I like gin-tonics and Jack Daniel's. I am always ashamed to order them. JD I cannot order when I'm out with friends, so many of them are Scotch aficionados. I don't know, I just like the sweet, cheap, warm taste.
Also, sometimes I settle for one of the crappy local beers, if nothing good is on tap. A lame beer is still better than no beer (as long as it's not Guinness), and damned if I'm paying for the overpriced, undersized bottled beer that's usually the alternative.
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America's Funniest Home Videos for me. It's lame and terrible and just about every host that's ever done the show has had to do a cheesy, terrible job, but watching people get hit in the crotch or fall down always makes me laugh. And God help me if a dog does something funny on that show. Oy.
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I guess it's not the point of this thread to put down entries, but since I watch it, too: oh god how I hate that show. We have a local variant, which uses the American footage. The upside is, it has less inane commentary. I feel my life dwindling away as I'm losing moments, never to be seen again, to the show. My wife wants to watch it and I try to play along, see.
It's not that it can't be funny, it often is, but I have so little free time anyway, I'd rather be playing videogames. And it's an hour long and it comes more than once a week! I could deal with half an hour once a week, but that's just overkill. Thankfully my wife knows how much I hate it, and is usually content with me sitting by in case there's something especially funny going on.
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Starship Troopers (The Movie) - Yeah, it was terrible. A two hour CGI fest where the digital characters could act and appear more lifelike than the real people. I'm also a big fan of the book, so I am required by law to hate the movie. Can't do it. I love it.
Carbs: Sure, they're no longer politically correct and I have cut down on them. But I'll sneak some french fries whenever I can weakly justify it.
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I'm surprised no one's said "penis" yet. At least none of our male Goodjers.
Feeding Frenzy isn't a BAD game, per se, it's just that there's very little to it and there are literally dozens of free variations on the PC.
jlaakso, liking that American Model show is bad and you should feel bad!
Me? I kinda like... J-Pop. The beats are good, their voices are pretty and I don't understand the words so I can't tell how vapid and inane it is!
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White chocolate. People say it tastes like wax, it's not even chocolate, and it's bad for you. I don't care. It's delicious, and a girl once bought me a bar of the white coconut chocolate from Godiva. She now owns my soul.
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America's Next Top Model. American Idol. Flavor of Love 3. I Love New York. Lindsay Lohan. Victoria Beckham. Ryan Seacrest. Skinny jeans. Skinny lattes. Impractically high stillettos. Trapeze dresses. Final Fantasy 9. Final Fantasy 8. Final Fantasy the Movie. Marc Jacobs. Milla Jovovich's clothing line. Milla Jovovich's line for Target. The Spearwielder's Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. Glamour. In Style. Perez Hilton. Go Fug Yourself. Potato chips. Bottled water. Bright pink lipstick. Hobo bags. Antique rings. Microsoft Word. iWork. Paying someone to do my taxes. Paying someone to design my logos. Paying someone to rub my shoulders with hot stones. Getting my hair did. Bookworm: Adventures. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Roseanne. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Giant slabs of chocolate cake. Canned Macaroons. Jellied fruit slices. God. Matzoh. The Playboy spread of Tricia Helfer. Prog rock. Early Rush. Fly By Night. The Necromancer. Closer to the Heart. Megadeth. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Bluegrass music. Dolly Parton. Neil Diamond. Hillary Clinton. Otto von Bismarck. Harry Potter. Harry Hamlin. Harry and the Hendersons. Alicia Silverstone. Clueless. The Rocketeer. Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Fan fiction. Brussel sprouts. Kim chee. A chunky heel. Snakes. Worms. Spiders. Candy. Differential equations. New Winnie the Pooh. Brendan Fraser. Commander Jeffrey Sinclair. Zack Allen.
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I don't think I'll top that list, Kat, but here's my 2 cents.
Movies in general. I'll give most movies a rental. Even made for tv stuff and direct to DVD.
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Perez Hilton, Fast and the Furious, OPP (not the song), alcohol.
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I love, love, love New Found Glory. I don't know why. I don't even like anything else that sounds like them. I also like Matchbox Twenty but I will defend that with Thomas' incredible song-writing, even if the music itself is fairly pedestrian.
Also, *looks around nervously* Professional Bull Riding. PBR is awesome.
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Pink, the singer. She's hot, has attitude, and look like fun. I've never examined it deeply but I have a definite crush on Pink.
Avatar the Last Airbender.
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Road House: Explosions, violence, monster trucks, and Patrick Swayze totally rips out this dude's throat. What's not to like?
Movies featuring The Rock. The Rundown was possibly one of the best action movies of recent vintage until Hot Fuzz came along. And, say what you want about the original, I enjoyed the remake of Walking Tall.
Gallagher: Yes, the guy who smashes watermelons. I have all of his DVDs, and they still crack me up even though I've watched them dozens of times.
Chinese Food: I wish I could eat it, but the MSG gives me serious migraines and something else in it gives me flu-like symptoms. I've had chinese food three times from three different places in the past ten years, and each time I've gotten sick as a dog for a week.
The Spice Girls: I have their first two albums, and still listen to them occasionally.
Movie Musicals: I don't know how anybody can not like Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum.
Food TV: I love Paula Deen and Emeril, and I used to watch Graham Kerr back when he was still on TV. never learned a blasted thing except that butter makes things good, but still fun to watch.
World's Strongest Man competition on ESPN: I have to watch this whenever I'm someplace that has cable and it's on. Something about watching men carry things that no human being has a right to be able to carry is very compelling to me.
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A Knight's Tale and Barbershop Quartets.
It's an interesting comment on human nature that whenever threads like these come up, there is always some overlap on what is considered overrated and underrated. Grenn hates The Sims and is ashamed of it, and you love it and are ashamed of that. I wonder if there are people ashamed of their ambivalence towards The Sims?
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George Michael. I was a teenage girl in the 80s. What else can I say?
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double post - sorry. But maybe it bears repeating?
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Dr. Martin Luther King
For the past year, our TV has been tuned almost exclusively to Treehouse (think Noggin, but in Canada). I seem to have developed an affinity for a couple of the kids shows on there. Namely: The Backyardigans, Pocoyo, and Rolie Polie Olie.
White Chocolate (you have to try the Lindt Lindor Truffle, Vrikk)
I liked Starship Troopers the movie, too.
The Rundown, and Walking Tall are in my collection as well.
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I also love both The Sims and The Sims 2, but usually can't stand beyond the first expansion packs for each since they go from "fun household items" to "wacky sh*t your sims can't do without failing school/being fired".
I love the silence of my computer lab while I'm typing up an essay, email, or just farting around and posting on here on Cracked. It's strangely relaxing to me to hear my fingers move at the speed of light while the only other sounds are the servers humming quietly in the background, or the large poster printer lazily cutting projects.
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Kat wins the thread with a bullet! Not even a contest.
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EDIT: Oh yeah, The Backyardigans kick all kinds of ass. Reminds me of Muppet Babies but less annoying and with better music.
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Our kids watch Noggin. The Backyardigans is a pretty good show. I prefer Rugrats, though.
I like just about anything with Sean William Scott. I find Stiffler hilarious for some reason.