What are some cultural phenomena pretty much universally accepted as great that you despise?

Here are some for me.

Music:

The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Pink Floyd
AC/DC
The Who
Aretha Franklin
The Eagles
Bob Dylan
Jill Scott
D'Angelo
Alicia Keys
Dave Matthews Band

Movies:

Star Wars
Rocky

Television:

Friends
Seinfeld
ER
Three's Company

How about you?

Thought of some more!
[This message was edited Thu Sep 4 11:25:35 PDT 2003 by Moonbeam]

Also, why is it that admitting to not like these things is considered a cultural sin to many? I've always been curious about why hating the Beatles was such a crime for me.

does not matter Moon...



your just the nutter in the butter

Ian's just saying crazy things.

althom said:

honey ian is soo not moonbeam...

I don't like peanut butter much and I WILL NOT put ketchup on anything!!

Moonbeam said:[quote]

Television:

Friends
Seinfeld
ER
Three's Company

How about you?



damn...

take away seinfeld and add in the practice...

you have a list of my all time favorite shows...

E.T. first i got a lot of grief for not having seen it, and then when i finally watched it, i just hated it! sorry, but it's hands-down the biggest piece of drivel i've ever seen...

Moonbeam said:

Music:

the list is long




Movies:
starwars(altho i liked spaceballs eheh)



Television:
M.A.S.H
mamas family
seinfield
home improvment

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[This message was edited Tue Sep 2 19:02:47 PDT 2003 by Christopher]

music:

boy/girl bands
avril lavigne (she is sooo not punk!!! )

damn near every musical act that has sprung up since the mid-'90s

teevee:
everything except whatever's on vh-1 classic and cartoon network

movies:
"chick flicks"

any remakes of perfectly good films/old teevee shows/cartoons

new-skool disney crap (mr.eisner is da debble )

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

But are these things classic? Do you get flack for not liking them?

people that hate the Beatles don't deserve to own music.

people that hate Seinfeld don't deserve to own a TV.

AaronSuperior said:

irresistibleb1tch said:

even as a kid i hated it

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

You! I'm so with you girl! Ooowwaaah! Heee.

Yes, Mall Punk sucks.

Disney anything and everything...and Pixar movies.

Lord Of The Rings over the top boring pretentious poop.

Video games XBOX Sega, PSPS2...3..GEEKY!

Sports. I could care LESS. No I don't care. Who won the Super Bowl, I don't know, or care. Buh bye.

Magazines YAAAWN. Especially those Maxims. I love beautiful women, but in 3-D and in person, no not a strip joint, don't get it.

Yes, TV. Fuck off TV cable news and local fear news.

Computers Jeez, I need to use them, they make me money but fuck, I can't stand them anymore. Windows AND Macs, it's all souless, bullshit technology.

Same goes for cell phones, I hate those things. Dudes who use them get on my nerves, so gay. But if you're gay, that's cool! (I know, wierd, but no offence, really.)

Overpriced Internet Dual Band High Frequency Cable Satellite, Lan...INTERNET!

irresistibleb1tch said:

I didn't ask to be taken to see E.T. in 82 (?) when I was a pubescent kid and I STILL haven't seen it!! I will NOT! It makes me criiinge!

Hey, I love the Beatles when I was a kid, a little one, no one influenced me, I just loved them.


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[This message was edited Tue Sep 2 22:25:51 PDT 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger]

Music
the rolling stones... they have a couple great songs but most of it i just don't get the allure.

Movies
Star Wars...empire and jedi are good the rest vary from okay to craptacular
the lord of the rings... as someone who didn't read the books i had no fucking clue what was going on. i tried 3 fucking in the times in theatre and was fighting off sleep every time.
forrest gump... sacharine shit
there's something about mary... has about two funny moments

Moonbeam said:

i get flack for damn near everything i post here...

Overalls. I Hate those UGLY FUCKING Farmer Pants. YUCK Sometimes well I get Sooo sick of those stupid INAGADADAVIDA shit and old songs like Mellow Yellow and Puff The Magic Dragon. But the most Fucking Stupid Annoying Shit has got to be Nanny And The Professor, Family Affair, and that Stupid Religious show with Davy and Goliath. Oh,DAAAVY. DAVY. Oh and Sorry but I can't STAND THE GREATFUL DEAD and well all that Casey Jones Crap and Bruce Stinks. Also Paula Abdul Opposites Attract with Scat Cat is DUMB and ANNOYING. How about PAUL KING and How about Paul Young? and How about Dead or Alive You Spin Me Right Round baby Right Round and how BOUT Stacy Q 2 Of Hearts ,2 Hearts that beat as 1. I Love You ,I Love You! Sickenly , Robotic Riffs like a Chipmunk on Helium.

Muffy said:

Muffy said:

Don't hold back now!

Muffy said:

Uhhh yeah...what she said

O.K. what about those Earth shoes that were suppose to make your feet and your gait better and FamaloresI Know the Spelling is off. But these shoes were suppose to help you but made you walk like a Cripple. How about Fake Eyelashes that are never on Straight? Remember Feathered earrings and how ya had to have Incense,Oil, a Black Light and a Waterbed and Velvet posters while Deep Purple or Rush was on and Bongs and Winesacks at concerts? My BoYfriend used to Carry his Winesack to Concerts. And he would Smoke so much fucking Pot and drop so much Acid and he was Sooo Fucked up. Stupid Mutherfucker on Mescaline. Glam Rocker Wannabe and well another Rabbit Fur wearing Bi whatever??? Ozzy Osbourne Iron Man was the Anthem.

Madonna

Completely trying 2 look hip and trendy which makes me cringe. Being married 2 'mockney' Guy Richie, the whole Britney and Christina snog, the fucking Gap commercial(!!!). It just all makes me wanna puke. Good pop artist, fair enough but as 4 starting new trends? Please, its only cuz she's fuckin' famous she gets noticed.

Rolling Stones

Well of modern day anyway. They just look completely daft. Well done 4 Brandon Block 4 that whole incident at the Brit Awards that time; Ronnie Wood just looked like a dirty old man.

'Mockney' Gangster flicks

i.e. Guy guckin' Richie movies, Love, Honour and Obey. These R just 1/2 baked wannabe movies and aint a patch on classics like Get Carter, The Long Good Friday etc. The Xception only being Sexy Beast just becuz Ben Kinsley is so hilarious and viscious in it at the same time!

MTV Cribs

Not so much the programme but Ive watched it a few times now and I dont know 1/2 the people they feature on there. More 2 the point where the fuck did they get all that money!?!?

I HATE COLDPLAY :PUKE:

THEY R JUST FUCKING TERRIBLE,WHERE IS THE FUCKING TALENT?
HOW COME SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THESE GUYS?:CONFUSE: ALL OF THEIR MUSIC SOUNDS THE SAME 2 ME,BUT HELL WHAT DO I KNOW? THEY SOUND LIKE A BROKE-DOWN,PLAYED-OUT VERSION OF MORRISSEY OR THE CURE,(WITH BETTER HAIR OF COURSE) :LOL: THANK U 4 LETTING ME GET THAT OFF MY CHEST,AS U WERE. :LOL:

Moonbeam said:

Well, I don't actively hate anything, but the above are your choices that I agree with in that they do nothing for me.

Oh, and let me add-edit: Bad girls comics - what juvenile crap, made entirely for drooling puberty boys. Eeew...
[This message was edited Wed Sep 3 7:26:47 PDT 2003 by scififilmnerd]

I hate Bob Dylan. That shit is NOT music. It sounds like a cat being killed. Why he is the object of so much worship I will never understand.

People:

Mads Mikkelsen
He was voted as the sexiest man in Denmark, year 2002. Don't see why

Britney Spears
Enrique Iglesias


Other:

Chritianity
God (who doesn't really exsist!)
Stupid people

Oh, and Charles Dickens. Goddamn, does that guy ever get around to the point? His shit just draaags...but no, it's a classic, you must worship!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

AGREED!

FlyingCloudPassenger said:

I agree completely. I never got sports of any kind.

And it only takes a computer to drive a borderline insane man over the friggin' edge - I'n telling you, it drives me crazy the way it behaves sometimes. Man, if I didn't need it for work, I'd KILL the dang thing and love doing it slowly too.