View Full Version : You know what? I just don't get it!
Shattered Dreamer
05-19-2011, 02:49 PM
I'm sure much like myself, there are some of the EoFF faithful that see somethings that form part of popular culture and just cringe!
Thread topic: Things that are popular that you hate?
To start, Musician's who go out of their way to label their music as "alternative"
Mo-Nercy
05-19-2011, 03:58 PM
A lot of my friends are into going to raves and hitting up clubs every Friday/Saturday. I just see it as a waste of money. I'd rather spend that time kicking back with friends/workmates at a pub or going to the footy and getting tanked there. My friends now look at me like I'm some sort of middle-aged bogan.
edit: or "redneck" or something.
Shattered Dreamer
05-19-2011, 04:09 PM
Have to agree there Mo-Nercy not much a nightclub person myself! Nothing like a late bar on a Friday/Saturday night with friends, for one you can actually have a conversation & not need to shout!
Cuchulainn
05-19-2011, 06:02 PM
Indie Scenesters. Fuckin Kill Em All.
Polnareff
05-19-2011, 06:13 PM
This whole "emo" thing. I don't get why it's so popular. It's invaded music, video games, and tons of other things.
Not really gonna knock it, it's just something I don't really get.
Psychotic
05-19-2011, 06:32 PM
my little pony
Is WWE/WWF/WCW/ECW/Fake Westling that hicks think is real still popular? If so, I hate that pretty good.
Aside of that there are things I am indifferent to/don't care about, or think is garbage, but nothing I can think of that I really, truly hate.
I Don't Need A Name
05-19-2011, 06:44 PM
Family Guy/South Park/American Dad/Simpsons. I really just don't get what part of these shows anyone can find funny. To me, they're a pile of godawful tripe.
Also, as people have said, the whole club scene. Why go to a sleazy club which plays crap music, it's full of people who're way too pissed, or way to promiscuous and you have to shout to be heard.
Bunny
05-19-2011, 07:22 PM
Family Guy/South Park/American Dad/Simpsons
American Idol and shows like it.
Reality shows.
Anything to do with celebrity gossip.
Kim Kardashian.
Rebecca Black and every other Youtube "celebrity" that exists forever.
Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel.
Basketball.
The Vampire Dairies, Twilight, and almost anything vampire-related. This includes, to a lesser degree, True Blood. It is a decent show, the best of the vampire shows, but it isn't amazing or incredible in any way.
Dane Cook.
I could continue going probably.
NorthernChaosGod
05-19-2011, 07:31 PM
Things I hate:
Lady Gaga
The Beatles
Indie music (when defined as an actual genre o_O)
Vampires that aren't Dracula, Alucard or Blade
Colored people
I Don't Need A Name
05-19-2011, 07:37 PM
The Beatles
YES
Shattered Dreamer
05-19-2011, 10:39 PM
The Beatles
YES
As a musician I'm appalled but you're both not the first people I've heard say this.
Caboose
05-19-2011, 10:47 PM
People in general.
I Don't Need A Name
05-19-2011, 10:50 PM
The Beatles
YES
As a musician I'm appalled but you're both not the first people I've heard say this.
Believe it or not, I'm a musician too. Still can't see the appeal in them. I'm firm in the belief that you can't preach the praises of a band 'changing the face of music' if you weren't there to witness it.
Shattered Dreamer
05-19-2011, 10:55 PM
Believe it or not, I'm a musician too. Still can't see the appeal in them. I'm firm in the belief that you can't preach the praises of a band 'changing the face of music' if you weren't there to witness it.
You know if you were talking about music not written by Lennon & McCartney I'd agree 100%. But I'm not going to argue the toss about The Beatles it's not why I created this thread :lol:
LunarWeaver
05-19-2011, 10:56 PM
The Pokémon games...
:aimblush:
Rostum
05-19-2011, 11:02 PM
Despite being forced to do it on some exercise balls once, planking.
Also, hipsters.
NorthernChaosGod
05-20-2011, 12:32 AM
The Beatles
YES
As a musician I'm appalled but you're both not the first people I've heard say this.
I'm a musician too, dude.
Another thing I hate is when people say they like everything when you ask what type of music they listen to. It never actually applies. :|
fire_of_avalon
05-20-2011, 12:53 AM
I like almost everything. You'd be hard pressed to name a genre I dislike 100%
NorthernChaosGod
05-20-2011, 01:05 AM
I like almost everything. You'd be hard pressed to name a genre I dislike 100%
Give me your thoughts on this song.
YouTube - ‪Necrophagist- Stabwound‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RJXWxth5g)
black orb
05-20-2011, 03:21 AM
>>> Im an old man, I dont even know whats popular these days..:luca:
I would rather get drunk with mates and then try playing games then go to a club and listen their :bou::bou::bou::bou: music and dodge people who are looking for someone to fight. Of course this is hard now that I have no friends :greenie:
qwertysaur
05-20-2011, 03:38 AM
I would rather get drunk with mates and then try playing games then go to a club and listen their :bou::bou::bou::bou: music and dodge people who are looking for someone to fight. Of course this is hard now that I have no friends :greenie:
Just come to the States. :bigsmile:
NorthernChaosGod
05-20-2011, 04:33 AM
Colored people
:onoes:
I was wondering when someone would say something.
Remon
05-20-2011, 12:02 PM
Recently : Memes.
Shattered Dreamer
05-20-2011, 12:12 PM
Another thing I hate is when people say they like everything when you ask what type of music they listen to. It never actually applies. :|
Yeah I have to agree here! So when asked that question I tend to say everything but indie :lol:
Loony BoB
05-20-2011, 03:12 PM
Women.
EDIT: Oh, I thought this thread was about things that you don't get, not things that you hate. :smash:
KentaRawr!
05-20-2011, 03:36 PM
The Beatles
YES
As a musician I'm appalled but you're both not the first people I've heard say this.
I'm a musician too, dude.
Another thing I hate is when people say they like everything when you ask what type of music they listen to. It never actually applies. :|
It's hard for me to say what music I like when I regularly switch from listening to Vinnie Moore to Richard Galliano. Just sayin'.
theundeadhero
05-20-2011, 05:25 PM
I've never been a fan of much pop culture. What I used to hate was when something I liked started to become popular.
Colored people
:onoes:
I was wondering when someone would say something.
I laughed the first time and I laughed now. :hahaha:
Citizen Bleys
05-21-2011, 09:22 AM
What I used to hate was when something I liked started to become popular.
I still hate that. Which makes me a hipster, and that's turning popular, so I hate that too.
There's a reason I hate that. When something gets popular, the lowest common denominator starts to get into it and start working it into their insipid tripe, tainting the source material by association. Slines made me stop liking a lot of things. I used to like the Wheel of Time -- I could forgive the later books on the virtue of the early ones, until I met my 38,000th knuckle-dragging bonehead with a screen name like Demandred79687 blathering on about stupid :bou::bou::bou::bou: that made my brain want to explode.
This is why I love reading things like Stephen R. Donaldson. The stupid are too stupid to understand it, so they stop reading and don't Foul up everything by posting drivel above a signature file with an Ak-Haru Kenaustin Ardenol quote in it. The same goes for anything by John Scalzi and Conn Iggulden. Slines are too stupid to get it, and as a general rule don't read, so they can't ruin my enjoyment of it forever.
Colored people
:onoes:
I was wondering when someone would say something.
I laughed the first time and I laughed now. :hahaha:
I love you guys. You're just so EDGY! :love:
NorthernChaosGod
05-21-2011, 07:20 PM
Colored people
:onoes:
I was wondering when someone would say something.
I laughed the first time and I laughed now. :hahaha:
I love you guys. You're just so EDGY! :love:
Hell yeah. /smug
theundeadhero
05-22-2011, 05:25 PM
I've never been called a hipster before. I guess I was a hipster before it became hip. At least I got out of it now that it's popular. I'm too old to get angry at hipsters.
There are many things I "Dislike" or "Don't bother with"
But "Hate" is a bit too strong, here are a few;
1. People who have loads of facebook friends for no reason whatsoever.
2. Television (Besides DVDs & Video Games) ^.^
3. People who mock the Music I listen to (I'm 18, still annoys me) XD
4. People who mock you for liking small chunks of the Mainstream Culture (Geez, Chill Out Dude!)
5. People who never step outside the Mainstream Culture
6. People who describe themselves as "Unique" and "Interesting" (We all are, well... most of us)
7. People in open Relationships (I'm a Dude, but It generally causes Jealousy)
8. PEOPLE WHO ARE NEVER HAPPY!
Sorry to ramble on... I LOVE YOU ALL! :D
Citizen Bleys
05-22-2011, 11:35 PM
8. PEOPLE WHO ARE NEVER HAPPY!
You and I had better just have a gunfight right now and get it over and done with.
sharkythesharkdogg
05-22-2011, 11:54 PM
I like almost everything. You'd be hard pressed to name a genre I dislike 100%
Give me your thoughts on this song.
YouTube - ‪Necrophagist- Stabwound‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RJXWxth5g)
I'll jump in and say I love it. I love this more, even though it's not as technical. I love melody. :| Arsis - Face of My Innocence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHC9w7pCIMQ)
I guess what I don't get are people who only listen to music like that, or people who immediately ignore it as being stupid and basic.
Now the other people I don't get.
An open letter to people with no sense of independence or responsibility,
I mean people who truly believe the customer is ALWAYS right. I hate that safety net mentality. Be an adult and put on your big person pants.
You shouldn't be able to sue people, whine to people, or have people fix problems you created yourself by being a smurfing moron. I'm talking about you, lady who burned herself on McDonald's coffee because she crushed it between her legs. You're all smurfing fools. I hope your death is painful and lingering.
Kisses,
Sharky.
1. People who have loads of facebook friends for no reason whatsoever.
I like to feel validated :(
Nah I just have mates from school, family and you weirdos. Everyone else gets culled every so often.
blackmage_nuke
05-23-2011, 01:14 AM
I usually say I like all genres of music with some semblance of an organised beat (and occaisionally without) besides the loudest of heavy metal. I include the 'beat' parramater since some people consider recording the cries of lactating goats or something as music.
As for something I hate that is popular, most reality shows with very few exceptions.
Shattered Dreamer
05-24-2011, 02:22 PM
8. PEOPLE WHO ARE NEVER HAPPY!
Yes yes yes yes and more yes!
Laddy
05-24-2011, 08:04 PM
Now I do like indie music, but I like good indie music that's more independent than "OHGODMANDOLINSANDDIDGERIDOOSANDWEREALLETHNICAND:bou::bou::bou::bou:THATSSOIRONICasdhashkdhasdhkash" crap.
I dislike Twilight (for obvious reasons), Lady Gaga (she's an entitled prick with limited talent), Jersey Shore (We remind you everyone you hate. Watch our show!) , Metal music (YOU'RE NOT UNDERGROUND! YOU'RE NOT! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEATHCORE AND GRINDGORE!), "Electropop" (We. Don't. Sing. *generic bass line*), country music (Let's be the face of the south and not try anything new! Heartland music!), and Paramore (I can't sing! I have red hair saidhasj,fhahfawhf I'm so edgy!rhglshge)
Anymore?
NorthernChaosGod
05-24-2011, 08:20 PM
You forgot vagina.
Laddy
05-24-2011, 08:23 PM
Vagina. It's gross and icky. Babies come out of it and babies are fucking terrifying.
Rantz
05-24-2011, 08:23 PM
I try not to let much bother me. Things that occasionally get to me are constant negativity or self-absorption, as well as people dismissing things they don't like as objectively inferior, rather than acknowledge that it just isn't for them. Even then, it rarely gets to me enough that I bother complaining about it.
Metal music (YOU'RE NOT UNDERGROUND! YOU'RE NOT! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEATHCORE AND GRINDGORE!)
Haha! You forgot about Pornogrind and Pirate Metal!
Listening to underground music does not make you interesting,
But wrestling a Panda for kicks does
Citizen Bleys
05-25-2011, 06:12 PM
Wrestling a panda for kicks makes you a giant, throbbing dick. They're an endangered species for cryin' out loud!
Peegee
05-25-2011, 06:18 PM
Things I hate:
Colored people
Seriously I dislike stereotypical pg's parents' generation chinese, the pick-up artist 'community', jersey shore, reality tv, and faux competitions (american idol, so you want to be a cam whore, etc)
Levian
05-25-2011, 06:28 PM
I try not to let much bother me. Things that occasionally get to me are constant negativity or self-absorption, as well as people dismissing things they don't like as objectively inferior, rather than acknowledge that it just isn't for them. Even then, it rarely gets to me enough that I bother complaining about it.
Yes, most definitely. There's too many things to like out there that there's just no point in spending time disliking something that could just as well be easily ignored instead.
Shiny
05-25-2011, 08:57 PM
True Blood. Apart from Frank I could not stomach that show. I tried. I like at least one thing in everything popular. Even reality television which I generally dislike, but I do like Flavor of Love and True Life.
Lady Gaga. Being gay, I end up having to deal with all my friends talking about how she's such an inspiration/individual/role model/blah blah blah.
And I'm just left thinking... No. She's just a rich, white girl who has her designers dress her up in gaudy outfits and put her in repetitive musics videos set to the god-awful noise she calls music/art. Also, no, I was not born this way. I became who I am through years of effort and hard work. kthxbye.
:roll2
Laddy
05-25-2011, 11:44 PM
I know, right? Lady GaGa likes gay people. So? She hasn't done :bou::bou::bou::bou: except make us seem more like shallow, rave-going, uberqueens, which is the last thing we need.
Born This Way sucks.
I know, right? Lady GaGa likes gay people. So? She hasn't done :bou::bou::bou::bou: except make us seem more like shallow, rave-going, uberqueens, which is the last thing we need.
Born This Way sucks.
Amen. She's just a trite popstar that knows how to exploit a market. She'll fade from prominence in time.
I was just jesting about the Panda!
Who would wrestle a Panda for kicks... nobody hopefully.
^.^
Peegee
05-26-2011, 05:51 PM
I know, right? Lady GaGa likes gay people. So? She hasn't done :bou::bou::bou::bou: except make us seem more like shallow, rave-going, uberqueens, which is the last thing we need.
Born This Way sucks.
Amen. She's just a trite popstar that knows how to exploit a market. She'll fade from prominence in time.
both of you are mad. She's awesome.
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