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'Hate of the popular' list
Oct. 23rd, 2007 01:38 pmStolen from the f-list.
The Top 10 Most Popular Things I hate.
1. Being geek for the sake of being popular - I am aware that being labeled as geek is the new 'in thing' right now. I just hate the fakeness of it. I don't need people to tell me how I am not a geek enough, just because I cannot remember the words to Monty Python's "Philosopher's song". I have the whole Monty Python on DVD, I don't need to remember it, I can just replay it. This does not make me any less of a fan, but I like Monty Python for Monty Python, not out of some obscure need to be identified with a social group.
2. Idols - any version really. No, I do not understand the obsession of people voting incessantly for those, whose voices frankly do not equal to Kylie Minogue's vocal range. I am not a huge fan of reality TV shows period, but the obsession and the constant 'prominence' in every media of the comings and goings of a bunch of amateurs irritates me. Seriously, I cold not care less if some hairdresser has to go back to their job, because their squeaky voice finally got too much for people.
3. Paris Hilton - A spoiled rich slutty brat using Daddy's money to buy everything in the world and evade any responsibility for her actions. I think her very unattractive in both looks and what little personality one sees from all the entertainment snippets on TV.
4. Slash fanfiction imposed on me - Slash fanfiction for the uninitiated is fanfiction stories involving previously established characters of the same sex (mostly male) in various stages of relationships with each other. I do not mind it as a genre, but it is something I do not find appealing and thus keep away from. What really prompts me to get very aggressive is the constant harping of quiet a few slashers in the online communities that this genre is somehow better then any other genre within the fanfiction world and to be a real fanfic fan, one must enjoy slash fanfiction. Bad writing exists everywhere, fanfiction, poetry, original writing there is absolutely no need to differentiate something as better just because it features a same-sex romantic involvement.
5. 5FM - a popular radio station that used to be very good about 7-8 years ago. It has slowly degenerated as a representation of the most shallow and vain young people in the last two generations. A few DJs have kept their standards, but mainly there is nothing to listen but the promotion of the trash-talking, money-spending lifestyle as very cool and exciting to imitate.
6. Science Fiction series that are not really science fiction - I dislike anything with a supernatural/unexplained scientifically twist as being promoted a science fiction series. "Lost" - not science fiction, it is nice, has a cool supernatural bend (I only watched the first episode of the 1st season), but not SCIENCE FICTION. So those idiot TV execs should not market it as such
7. New cellphone services - I don't want to know if my partner and I are astrologically compatible, or get new pick up lines on my phone or pay an exorbitant amount of money on a farting monkey polyphonic ring tone. I get spammed with this kind of crap at least once a week.
8. City Golfs - I hate this brand of Golf. It is overpriced, over-hyped and frankly extremely ugly car.
9. People offering me cash loans - I have ticked the boxes again and again that I do not want to be contacted about any new products and offers from every single company that wants to pay for the contact lists with my number on it . I have expressed my wishes clearly so do not be surprised if I get abusive on the phone after I have told you that I am not interested.
10. The so-called technical journalists who write doomsday articles on how the new offering from Microsoft WILL DOOM Microsoft. Please, I have been seeing these articles for the past 10 years. Very often the wording is so similar, I would not surprised if the words were simply substituted from say Windows XP to Windows Vista. If people want to use Linux, then they should go for it, but don't make it your personal mission in life to convert anyone to it. Windows does what I wanted it to do, I am not going to switch to Ubuntu/Red Hat or any other Linux flavour just because some git, who does not know how to switch off Aero in Vista says so.
The Top 10 Most Popular Things I hate.
1. Being geek for the sake of being popular - I am aware that being labeled as geek is the new 'in thing' right now. I just hate the fakeness of it. I don't need people to tell me how I am not a geek enough, just because I cannot remember the words to Monty Python's "Philosopher's song". I have the whole Monty Python on DVD, I don't need to remember it, I can just replay it. This does not make me any less of a fan, but I like Monty Python for Monty Python, not out of some obscure need to be identified with a social group.
2. Idols - any version really. No, I do not understand the obsession of people voting incessantly for those, whose voices frankly do not equal to Kylie Minogue's vocal range. I am not a huge fan of reality TV shows period, but the obsession and the constant 'prominence' in every media of the comings and goings of a bunch of amateurs irritates me. Seriously, I cold not care less if some hairdresser has to go back to their job, because their squeaky voice finally got too much for people.
3. Paris Hilton - A spoiled rich slutty brat using Daddy's money to buy everything in the world and evade any responsibility for her actions. I think her very unattractive in both looks and what little personality one sees from all the entertainment snippets on TV.
4. Slash fanfiction imposed on me - Slash fanfiction for the uninitiated is fanfiction stories involving previously established characters of the same sex (mostly male) in various stages of relationships with each other. I do not mind it as a genre, but it is something I do not find appealing and thus keep away from. What really prompts me to get very aggressive is the constant harping of quiet a few slashers in the online communities that this genre is somehow better then any other genre within the fanfiction world and to be a real fanfic fan, one must enjoy slash fanfiction. Bad writing exists everywhere, fanfiction, poetry, original writing there is absolutely no need to differentiate something as better just because it features a same-sex romantic involvement.
5. 5FM - a popular radio station that used to be very good about 7-8 years ago. It has slowly degenerated as a representation of the most shallow and vain young people in the last two generations. A few DJs have kept their standards, but mainly there is nothing to listen but the promotion of the trash-talking, money-spending lifestyle as very cool and exciting to imitate.
6. Science Fiction series that are not really science fiction - I dislike anything with a supernatural/unexplained scientifically twist as being promoted a science fiction series. "Lost" - not science fiction, it is nice, has a cool supernatural bend (I only watched the first episode of the 1st season), but not SCIENCE FICTION. So those idiot TV execs should not market it as such
7. New cellphone services - I don't want to know if my partner and I are astrologically compatible, or get new pick up lines on my phone or pay an exorbitant amount of money on a farting monkey polyphonic ring tone. I get spammed with this kind of crap at least once a week.
8. City Golfs - I hate this brand of Golf. It is overpriced, over-hyped and frankly extremely ugly car.
9. People offering me cash loans - I have ticked the boxes again and again that I do not want to be contacted about any new products and offers from every single company that wants to pay for the contact lists with my number on it . I have expressed my wishes clearly so do not be surprised if I get abusive on the phone after I have told you that I am not interested.
10. The so-called technical journalists who write doomsday articles on how the new offering from Microsoft WILL DOOM Microsoft. Please, I have been seeing these articles for the past 10 years. Very often the wording is so similar, I would not surprised if the words were simply substituted from say Windows XP to Windows Vista. If people want to use Linux, then they should go for it, but don't make it your personal mission in life to convert anyone to it. Windows does what I wanted it to do, I am not going to switch to Ubuntu/Red Hat or any other Linux flavour just because some git, who does not know how to switch off Aero in Vista says so.
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