Popular Things You're Just Not Interested In

[ZLoth]

Drinking alcohol, smoking - I could never get over the taste of alcohol, it was also more expensive, plus I didn't feel like experiencing some of the negative effects of alcohol, including DUI/DWI. I couldn't get over why people wanted to get "wasted!"

I dislike all live music performances.  The music is too loud, but it has to be so you can hear it over the noise of the crowd.  I don't see why people keep going to live shows now that we have audio recordings.

It depends on the venue and the performers. I like going to performances at the Eisemann Center for the Arts in Richardson, Texas. Some of the performances by some of the "big name" stars are truly outside my budget, and mind you, I moved to DFW for better access to shows.

Also, attending sporting events. There is no way I can attend a Dallas Cowboys game in person at Jerryworld when the viewing is better at home and the food is much cheaper.

I gave up on the Marvel Comics/DC Comics universes when it started to appear that you needed a guidebook to understand them all.

I also gave up on Star Trek after the Deep Space Nine ended for multiple reason, one of them was time. Somehow, I felt that the executives at UPN were hampering the creative forces between Voyager and Enterprise. I also stopped going to Science Fiction conventions.

I'm aware of the popular TV shows, but I haven't watched them. People are surprised when they find out I haven't watched The Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld, or Friends. Not interested....

[Bobby5280]

Popular things I'm not interested in: watching the "Minecraft" movie.

I feel sorry for the theater crews at so many of these theaters getting utterly trashed by audiences at this movie. Management at the biggest theater chains, such as AMC, keep staffing and payroll as minimal as possible. So the employees don't really have the manpower to deal with the aftermath of dozens of people throwing full buckets of popcorn everywhere. Let's not forget the assholes are throwing soft drinks, vandalizing seats and doing other damaging stunts too. Sorry, but fuck "Minecraft" and the pop-cultural fad surrounding it. Same goes for the jerks trashing the theater. I know they're not going to pull the same crap watching the movie in their own living rooms -because they would have to clean up the mess afterward rather than an employee making shit pay.

[Rothman]

White Lotus

Not your cup of tea, but Sydney Sweeney is worth the price of admission on her own for me.

I've sat through a terrible San Andreas a handful of times because Alexandra Daddario was in it.  The first season of White Lotus was a far superior watch and had a specific scene with her that was rather memorable.

A popular thing I'm not interested in is watching bad movies just to leer at actors.  Has to be a good movie or one I'm interested in rather than just gawking at someone else's anatomy.

Then again, I've often mulled over the very thin gray line between acting and stripping in some actors' careers...

[Max Rockatansky]

White Lotus

Not your cup of tea, but Sydney Sweeney is worth the price of admission on her own for me.

I've sat through a terrible San Andreas a handful of times because Alexandra Daddario was in it.  The first season of White Lotus was a far superior watch and had a specific scene with her that was rather memorable.

A popular thing I'm not interested in is watching bad movies just to leer at actors.  Has to be a good movie or one I'm interested in rather than just gawking at someone else's anatomy.

Then again, I've often mulled over the very thin gray line between acting and stripping in some actors' careers...

I will say that the movie in question here is almost so bad that it's good.  The only accurate thing that is said in the entire movie is that 198 crosses the San Andreas Fault. 

Most of these really bad movies end up on the screen as background noise when I'm doing something else at home. 

[english si]

and those people are all there to listen to that specific performer, as opposed to festival attendees' perchant for talking loudly during the music because they consider the experience a gigantic party rather than an artistic performance.

LOL, talking loudly. What pansy-ass festivals are these! Where's the booing, or the throwing stuff?

The organisers of the Reading and Leeds Festivals had not done due vetting on this bubblegum pop act on as basically the warm up for metal and punk bands (who wanted to play the festival to meet Eminem who chose not to play it). They'd still be touring, had not one of them quit the business, off the back of this one (cut short) 15 minute gig at Reading cementing a reputation as two ladies who, despite their music, showed were properly hardcore and punk in the way they dealt with it (even though, when they were in private they were in tears and needed consoling). Certainly similar bands at the time are barely remembered, but these girls are infamous!

It was like that scene where the Blues Brothers go to the Country and Western bar, but without the fence protecting them, and urine not beer in the glass bottles being thrown at them.

[thenetwork]

+1 for superhero anything.

Sports in general

To expound on the specific sports things I'm not interested in:

● NCAA March Madness, or any sports tournament/playoff format where pretty much every team gets in despite how bad they are.

● NCAA Bracket Filling contests

● NFL Mock Drafts

● Fantasy Sports Leagues.

[JayhawkCO]

Popular things I'm not interested in: watching the "Minecraft" movie.

I feel sorry for the theater crews at so many of these theaters getting utterly trashed by audiences at this movie. Management at the biggest theater chains, such as AMC, keep staffing and payroll as minimal as possible. So the employees don't really have the manpower to deal with the aftermath of dozens of people throwing full buckets of popcorn everywhere. Let's not forget the assholes are throwing soft drinks, vandalizing seats and doing other damaging stunts too. Sorry, but fuck "Minecraft" and the pop-cultural fad surrounding it. Same goes for the jerks trashing the theater. I know they're not going to pull the same crap watching the movie in their own living rooms -because they would have to clean up the mess afterward rather than an employee making shit pay.

Maybe I've missed it. Is there something specific that is making people more unruly during this movie than others?

[ZLoth]

The trashing of the theater is not what happened when I went to see the Spirited Away - Live On Stage in the theater... or other anime/cult favorite movies that I've attended. Of course, it's nice to watch a movie in a theater where you can consume good food rather than popcorn, candy, and soda.

[Max Rockatansky]

Apparently this Minecraft hooliganism surrounds a chicken jockey?  What the fuck is a chicken jockey and why does it make people go ape shit?  Is this something like akin to people watching The Room and going nuts whenever a spoon is on screen?

[kphoger]

fishing

[formulanone]

White Lotus

Black-and-gold was superior:


Source: Luca Virani / Wikimedia Commons

[SectorZ]

Skulls on everything - everything is not as ruthless and bad-ass as you think it is

Bonus points if it's a Punisher logo.

More bonus points if it's a cop with the Punisher logo not getting the irony.

[Max Rockatansky]

Skulls on everything - everything is not as ruthless and bad-ass as you think it is

Bonus points if it's a Punisher logo.

More bonus points if it's a cop with the Punisher logo not getting the irony.

Which is actually a plot point in the fourth season of Daredevil.

[JayhawkCO]

Apparently this Minecraft hooliganism surrounds a chicken jockey?  What the fuck is a chicken jockey and why does it make people go ape shit?  Is this something like akin to people watching The Room and going nuts whenever a spoon is on screen?

This paragraph might as well have been in Bengali for me.

[Rothman]

Apparently this Minecraft hooliganism surrounds a chicken jockey?  What the fuck is a chicken jockey and why does it make people go ape shit?  Is this something like akin to people watching The Room and going nuts whenever a spoon is on screen?

Heh.  As someone who played Minecraft with his kids, I find this hilarious.

[CoreySamson]

Popular things I'm not interested in: watching the "Minecraft" movie.

I feel sorry for the theater crews at so many of these theaters getting utterly trashed by audiences at this movie. Management at the biggest theater chains, such as AMC, keep staffing and payroll as minimal as possible. So the employees don't really have the manpower to deal with the aftermath of dozens of people throwing full buckets of popcorn everywhere. Let's not forget the assholes are throwing soft drinks, vandalizing seats and doing other damaging stunts too. Sorry, but fuck "Minecraft" and the pop-cultural fad surrounding it. Same goes for the jerks trashing the theater. I know they're not going to pull the same crap watching the movie in their own living rooms -because they would have to clean up the mess afterward rather than an employee making shit pay.

Maybe I've missed it. Is there something specific that is making people more unruly during this movie than others?

The movie is an entire meme (think Barbie movie but worse). A slop-filled meme that people are willingly watching because the other big release is so bad. I don't think the unruly behavior is related to the Minecraft franchise but instead meme culture, trends, and "challenges" in general, which I guess is exacerbated by how bad and funny the movie is.

[formulanone]

Apparently this Minecraft hooliganism surrounds a chicken jockey?  What the fuck is a chicken jockey and why does it make people go ape shit?  Is this something like akin to people watching The Room and going nuts whenever a spoon is on screen?

Heh.  As someone who played Minecraft with his kids, I find this hilarious.

At times, my son and I were definitely watching two different movies in the same theater. But him and his friends were well-behaved, probably because we were there. Nothing out of the ordinary but there were mostly families there.

I bet most of the ruckus was kids being unattended and given a twenty to spend on concessions. If I get a $12 popcorn, I'm handling it like a Fabregé egg.

Then again, I was 15 when my brother and took our bikes 2 miles away to see Major League, the first movie I'd seen in a theater without our parents or grandparents. By then, it was in the one-dollar matinee with just us and like four others, but that's a good one to have on the 'ol resume.

[kphoger]

Apple anything
kombucha
mowing early in the morning when the grass is still wet

[Rothman]

Apparently this Minecraft hooliganism surrounds a chicken jockey?  What the fuck is a chicken jockey and why does it make people go ape shit?  Is this something like akin to people watching The Room and going nuts whenever a spoon is on screen?

Heh.  As someone who played Minecraft with his kids, I find this hilarious.

At times, my son and I were definitely watching two different movies in the same theater. But him and his friends were well-behaved, probably because we were there. Nothing out of the ordinary but there were mostly families there.

I bet most of the ruckus was kids being unattended and given a twenty to spend on concessions. If I get a $12 popcorn, I'm handling it like a Fabregé egg.

Then again, I was 15 when my brother and took our bikes 2 miles away to see Major League, the first movie I'd seen in a theater without our parents or grandparents. By then, it was in the one-dollar matinee with just us and like four others, but that's a good one to have on the 'ol resume.

Pfft.  Kids have been trashing movie theaters for generations.

[Scott5114]

Side question for the mods: is cannabis an acceptable forum topic, particularly if you live in a jurisdiction where it's legal?

I used to be part owner of a cannabis grow and now I live in Las Vegas. What do you think my answer to that is going to be? 

[kphoger]

What do you think my answer to that is going to be?

the suspense is killing me

[LilianaUwU]

Banks can make debit cards that easy. They just don't want to.

And in Canada, they do make them easy. It's only the US that lags behind.

[formulanone]

mowing early in the morning when the grass is still wet

I get the point of beating heat, but the added dew makes the task 2-3 times harder.

Mowing after two weeks of southern rain is the thirteenth  labor of Hercules.

[Henry]

EVs. I'm just going to keep driving ICE cars until I die, and also, Tuck Fesla!

[Bobby5280]

I bet most of the ruckus was kids being unattended and given a twenty to spend on concessions. If I get a $12 popcorn, I'm handling it like a Fabregé egg.

It's more than just young kids throwing popcorn buckets. Many of the videos posted online at YouTube, various news stories, etc show a lot of grown adults taking part in the mayhem.

Pfft.  Kids have been trashing movie theaters for generations.

The shit taking place during these "Minecraft" screenings is on an entirely different level. The aftermath of a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screening has nothing on kinds of messes behind left behind by "Minecraft" audiences.

Not to worry. Commercial cinemas in America will disappear within a few years. That'll solve the problem.