I don't like grumpy cat. Or any cat meme stuff. Cat memes are the knock knock jokes of the internet.
Don't stop there.
Cats. Full stop.
Liked or not, unless they happen to see you as their parent (applicable if you raised them), they just want to eat you. Even the small ones which are hilariously unable to. Pro survival tip: if you ever find yourself beset by hungry cats, like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeaztQK9If0 A long and bright object, such as a water hose or even a large cucumber, might save your life.
Much like Indiana Jones, cats have a deep-set fear of snakes.
In topic: I don't like consumer-grade cars and this weird traffic jam cult spreading throughout the world. Many a driver could save enough time and money to study for a PhD just by switching to a horse or (motor)bike.
Oh @God! You reminded me of something: I. HATE. MOTOR. VEHICLES. Would it be cars, bikes, trucks - you name it. . They're deadly, wasteful, indolence friendly & plenty of my worse memories deal with or around them. (7 tries at driving license, CAN U BELIEVE IT? all. failed. O.o)
But TRAINS at the other hand, now THAT me likey! ^^ Cozy, stress-free, book supporting etc. etc. People just can't understand that railways are the real future!
Hmm I've always found that people who watch anime and read manga, actually tend to be some of the biggest haters in a way. There are so many different genres and styles that some people just really cannot stand and speak out against whenever they can, often leading to flame wars and such...Heh good times^^
Another thing I don't like: Space exploration programmes. To think that one could get access the harsh mid-game content without even properly getting started on the cosy tutorial planet is, in simple Quality Assurance terms, psychotic user behaviour. From beyond the Solar System, seeing as those little steel coffins get loaded with explosives and then go PEW PEW PEW in the atmosphere must be quite entertaining. A slightly more advanced civilization some three or four galaxies away from Earth actually happens to livestream that on an equivalent of a reality TV channel.
That reminds me of something I seem to differ on a lot of people with.
As a bi trans woman, I gotta say I stand more with radical queer critiques of marriage as an essentially conservative force in LGBT movements that draws focus away from more important issues, like homeless LGBT youth who have no support from family and are often forced by circumstance into survival sex work and at risk for all kinds of extreme poverty-related health risks even if they don't, etc, etc.
A few essays in this book make the argument that marriage is essentially a heteronormative way of seeing partnership that, by opting into, forecloses on much more organic and less rigid forms of relationship that had always predominated among LGBT folks until the more recent focus on societal/cultural inclusion within societies and cultures that hated us until very recently.
That said, like the feminist Hulk tweet, I obviously support people finally getting legal recognition of long-term partners for the various reasons one does need it. The AIDS crisis saw lots of people unable to participate in the medical decisions of their partners when they were dying and too sick to make them themselves, which resulted in homophobic relatives being who was turned to, people's finances reverted to those who hated them in life instead of those who loved them until the very end, etc, etc. It's a complex issue, but I sure as hell am not getting married in my lifetime. I'll get a civil union with the right person if it helps with financial or medical or inheritance issues in a significant way, but honestly I'd rather fight for basic recognition of non-standard forms of romantic partnership than force LGBT people to conform to a heteronormative institution like marriage in order to be recognized in all the important ways.
tl;dr something everyone seems to like that I don't is a one-sided idea of "marriage equality" where Against is bigoted straights only and For means you're a progressive friend of The Gays everywhere lmao
Natural and intuitive might be better words than "organic", I admit. I'll put it in a spoiler cut @ThacoBell and if you wanna continue the discussion my inbox is open!
People in love being in love is a natural thing. The way that rulers, religions, governments, nation-states, etc. reward people for marrying is an artificial thing, and a form of social control by incentive, and has nothing to do with love and commitment outside of the way those concepts accrete around the incentives over generations, and until a few decades ago, the more fluid recognition in LGBT circles of other "outsides" to marriage happened very naturally within those circles because they were themselves "outside" marriage (such as non-monogamous relationships, non-procreative relationships, casual relationships, etc) which, frankly, are not as transient as people think they are. I'm in a long-term casual friends-with-benefits relationship with someone and it's basically my only current relationship, but at most other times in my life after my first long term monogamous relationship I've been in non-monogamous configurations of one kind or another, and if I'd passed away during those times, there's no way my various partners would've had the same benefits afforded as incentives to married monogamous couples just as, currently, my one casual partner would have no access to any of those.
The link there to the synopsis for the book briefly outlines this issue, and that book is a really good resource of people making arguments much more eloquent than I could deliver here, varied ones too, and I highly recommend it.
But if your public library doesn't have a copy and you don't want to buy it, there are a few places online with bits and pieces of those arguments, and one I found with a quick google search was this one, which has quite a few good points within it, as well as linking throughout to lots of other great resources that again make the argument more eloquently and thoroughly than I can, and cite sources too! The wikipedia page for criticism of marriage has stuff I don't necessarily agree with mixed in with stuff I do, but it's a good read nevertheless, but that first link there has a bit at the top that I just love: "Same-sex marriage advocacy has accomplished an amazing feat--it has made being anti-homophobic synonymous with being pro-marriage. It has drowned out centuries of critical thinking and activism against the racialized, colonial, and patriarchal processes of state regulation of family and gender through marriage." which is right before it launches into a detailed discussion of the stuff I opened with in that first paragraph up there (and more!), so if you're interested and your Google Fu is not so strong, those links are good starting places for terminology to pop into search engines if you wanna drill down on it.
@GenderNihilismGirdle Very interesting, thank you. I'd never heard of marriage discussed on terms like that before.
@Kurona I completely and utterly disagree with you. I myself am very happily married, and fiscal concerns never ever were a reason or a thought to the entire process.
To get back on topic, grass. My allergies absolutely do not allow me to enjoy grass whatsoever. I am allergic to about 13 varieties in my area alone.
@Kurona I completely and utterly disagree with you. I myself am very happily married, and fiscal concerns never ever were a reason or a thought to the entire process.
I made that post in jest because of @GenderNihilismGirdle being all serious in a thread where we bitch about things we don't like
@Kurona I completely and utterly disagree with you. I myself am very happily married, and fiscal concerns never ever were a reason or a thought to the entire process.
I made that post in jest because of @GenderNihilismGirdle being all serious in a thread where we bitch about things we don't like
There should be a sarcasm font
@Nimran Ironically, Druid is one of my favorite classes.
Beer. Of course there are different kinds and tastes, but the average , usuallly cheaper one people buy at supermarkets neither satisfies my thirst nor gives me a nice buzz.
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Cats. Full stop.
Pro survival tip: if you ever find yourself beset by hungry cats, like:
A long and bright object, such as a water hose or even a large cucumber, might save your life.
In topic:
I don't like consumer-grade cars and this weird traffic jam cult spreading throughout the world. Many a driver could save enough time and money to study for a PhD just by switching to a horse or (motor)bike.
I. HATE. MOTOR. VEHICLES.
Would it be cars, bikes, trucks - you name it. .
They're deadly, wasteful, indolence friendly & plenty of my worse memories deal with or around them.
(7 tries at driving license, CAN U BELIEVE IT? all. failed. O.o)
But TRAINS at the other hand, now THAT me likey! ^^
Cozy, stress-free, book supporting etc. etc.
People just can't understand that railways are the real future!
Space exploration programmes. To think that one could get access the harsh mid-game content without even properly getting started on the cosy tutorial planet is, in simple Quality Assurance terms, psychotic user behaviour. From beyond the Solar System, seeing as those little steel coffins get loaded with explosives and then go PEW PEW PEW in the atmosphere must be quite entertaining.
A slightly more advanced civilization some three or four galaxies away from Earth actually happens to livestream that on an equivalent of a reality TV channel.As a bi trans woman, I gotta say I stand more with radical queer critiques of marriage as an essentially conservative force in LGBT movements that draws focus away from more important issues, like homeless LGBT youth who have no support from family and are often forced by circumstance into survival sex work and at risk for all kinds of extreme poverty-related health risks even if they don't, etc, etc.
A few essays in this book make the argument that marriage is essentially a heteronormative way of seeing partnership that, by opting into, forecloses on much more organic and less rigid forms of relationship that had always predominated among LGBT folks until the more recent focus on societal/cultural inclusion within societies and cultures that hated us until very recently.
That said, like the feminist Hulk tweet, I obviously support people finally getting legal recognition of long-term partners for the various reasons one does need it. The AIDS crisis saw lots of people unable to participate in the medical decisions of their partners when they were dying and too sick to make them themselves, which resulted in homophobic relatives being who was turned to, people's finances reverted to those who hated them in life instead of those who loved them until the very end, etc, etc. It's a complex issue, but I sure as hell am not getting married in my lifetime. I'll get a civil union with the right person if it helps with financial or medical or inheritance issues in a significant way, but honestly I'd rather fight for basic recognition of non-standard forms of romantic partnership than force LGBT people to conform to a heteronormative institution like marriage in order to be recognized in all the important ways.
tl;dr something everyone seems to like that I don't is a one-sided idea of "marriage equality" where Against is bigoted straights only and For means you're a progressive friend of The Gays everywhere lmao
The link there to the synopsis for the book briefly outlines this issue, and that book is a really good resource of people making arguments much more eloquent than I could deliver here, varied ones too, and I highly recommend it.
But if your public library doesn't have a copy and you don't want to buy it, there are a few places online with bits and pieces of those arguments, and one I found with a quick google search was this one, which has quite a few good points within it, as well as linking throughout to lots of other great resources that again make the argument more eloquently and thoroughly than I can, and cite sources too! The wikipedia page for criticism of marriage has stuff I don't necessarily agree with mixed in with stuff I do, but it's a good read nevertheless, but that first link there has a bit at the top that I just love: "Same-sex marriage advocacy has accomplished an amazing feat--it has made being anti-homophobic synonymous with being pro-marriage. It has drowned out centuries of critical thinking and activism against the racialized, colonial, and patriarchal processes of state regulation of family and gender through marriage." which is right before it launches into a detailed discussion of the stuff I opened with in that first paragraph up there (and more!), so if you're interested and your Google Fu is not so strong, those links are good starting places for terminology to pop into search engines if you wanna drill down on it.
@Kurona I completely and utterly disagree with you. I myself am very happily married, and fiscal concerns never ever were a reason or a thought to the entire process.
To get back on topic, grass. My allergies absolutely do not allow me to enjoy grass whatsoever. I am allergic to about 13 varieties in my area alone.
@Nimran Ironically, Druid is one of my favorite classes.
Christmas songs on the radio
Make them stop ! MAKE THEM STOP ! ! AAAARRRGGH~ ! ! !Playing this song ought to be considered an indictable offence punishable by flogging.
Of course there are different kinds and tastes, but the average , usuallly cheaper one people buy at supermarkets neither satisfies my thirst nor gives me a nice buzz.