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Do you have a seemingly innocuous weakness, something that others may even actively like but reduces you to quivering, mere mortal jelly? One of those things than when you tell others they react with disbelief or puzzlement. It doesn't have to be ffod and drink, though my two examples are from this world.

Tim Popkins, he hate the mustard.
Collette, she hate the mayo.

And you?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Team Meetings

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Having to call people on the phone

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Sobriety.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Forest Pines, to a self-sabotaging degree.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I hate using the phone too. What's that about?

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, talking on the phoen I ate. That's worth a thread on it's own. Actually, I'll go and start it now.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Does fish count?

I mean, not just because I'm actually allergic, but I hate it so much, even the smell of it. If someone's eating fish somewhere near me that I can smell it, I'll lose my appetite.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

If someone's eating fish near me, chances are I start retching.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I am allergic to lettuce.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I have an unnatural hatred towards cheese, the smell, the taste, the way everyone I know raves about it, the way they all think I'm a freak for not liking it, the way it gets poured over every meal in restaurants even when you don't ask them for it. I can't even touch it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.livingincomfort.com/images/krypev20bikl_pic.jpg

I guess I'm happy with it. Though, I really just should have gotten a Mini, instead, that fits in my back pocket.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Pea soup makes me want to vomit. It's the only food that does that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Tomato seeds. I have been known to go through a tin of tomatoes to pick out the seeds. Thank god for passata!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Cilantro, olives. I am really, really sorry about hating olives, but cilantro can just fuck right off.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

OMG cilantro is my favorite. Are you one of those ppl that can't actually taste it? Like, it tastes like soap or something. I've heard this is a "genetic thing," and not just a matter of preference.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Exercise.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

eggs

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it tastes soapy to me. I always have to be wary in Mexican, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

cilantro is an acquired taste for some people. i love it, but only in small amounts.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it tastes soapy to me. I always have to be wary in Mexican, Indian and Vietnamese restaurants.
Indeed! I don't mind it cooked, but if it's just sprinkled on the top of something, eurgh!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Country music in general. I've tried and tried and tried but, aside from maybe ten songs, I really can't abide it no matter what form it comes in.

― Dan (Thank You, Childhood) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

dan, do you hate america?

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

mmmm olives are genius.

i cannot stand isolated kernels of corn

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

oh man Dan i agree, what is it about that music that's just so unwelcoming to the ear?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

dan, do you hate america?

...

― Dan (Is This A Trick Question?) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

The sound of finger/toenails being clipped.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, yes, kernels of sweetcorn in otherwise edible food.

I mean, I don't mind baby corn in stirfry and salad and the like, but individual kernels of corn? On pizzas? And in lasagnes? MAKE IT STOP!!! (I know Emsk shares my fear here.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

The see-through limp lettuce you get in shop-bought sandwiches can make me vomit.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Parsley. I used to like it until someone told me it tasted like bleach (which she once tried) and now that's all I can taste when I eat it too.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

People blowing on food. All my enemies would need to do is get some hot potatos and blow on them constantly. Damn.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Mayonnaise and the dentist's drill. Alone or in any possible combination.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Mayonaise mouth-wash.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

1. Needles
2. Cilantro
3. The many faces/projects of Mike Patton

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

cotton wool.

― pompe vers le haut du volume (haitch), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Some of youse are right fine-mouthed, as my dad would put it.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

steely dan
new york rangers
long fingernails

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

women.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

How did you find that out, Jess?

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

OMG cilantro is my favorite. Are you one of those ppl that can't actually taste it? Like, it tastes like soap or something. I've heard this is a "genetic thing," and not just a matter of preference.
-- gbx

Yeah, my mother and I both have the soap thing.

I also freeze for cucumber, the smell of roasting turky (even though I like turkey) and worms. I have real issues even trying to step over a worm. London has less worm than anywhere I've ever lived. Which is good and adds to my quality of life on rainy days.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I have eaten cilantro plain, grazing at the grocery store, simply because I heart it so fucking much.

You people are crazy. And, apparently, defective in the mouth.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

hair on soap

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

ILX

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

a woman touched me, and the same thing happened as happens when i am exposed to a red sun

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't know how else to describe it, cilantro tastes overwhelmingly green. And kind of metallic. Hate. It also makes me suspicious of parsley which has a similar greenish tang, if much milder (although I still eat it).

I'm getting better at needles, I can give blood and everything! But I've been known to back up all the way to the wall of the doc's office and promise tearfully to be extra careful of rusty nails. I think in my panic I even asked the dr to lie on my paperwork so I could get into college w/o the injections.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

http://theages.superman.ws/Encyclopaedia/death/statue.gif

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

-black olives
-job hunting
-calling people on the phone while hunting(begging) for a job

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

--raw onions

--eyes, and things poking them

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Needles, though they no longer make me totally pass out unless sprung on me unawares (as in witnessing flu shots being given in the middle of the grocery store's Starbucks area - that was a Bad Day).

Inexplicably - gum. I can't explain it. Just the thought makes me retch. Actual encounter = puking. Getting any on shoes = throwing them away immediately.

Violent images. They get stuck in my head and replayed when I least expect.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

-the thought of rubbing my eyes along a stucco wall

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I hate you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Jordan, my college roommate was eye-protective, she could sense a pencil pointed her way from across the room. Sometimes I'd point sharp things at her and see how long it took her to notice -- I think it really did give her the creepy-crawlies.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

seeing lots of clothes, especially unfolded, in a clothing store. It boggles my mind thinking that someone has to fold them, it gives me vertigo, or like a boredom/ennui "attack" or something, I don't know how to describe it. I'm even more terrible at wrapping gifts. Marriage was worth it if only because I get to outsource these two activities if I ask politely.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I hate you.

for real, i hate the finish on my bedroom walls. and the rest of the house, for that matter, since it's all the same style & color.

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

cream of anything

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Hot lady reporters.
http://images.comicbookresources.com/news/SupermanReturns03.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I was reminded of this one at lunch: The smell of cheap hot dogs being cooked.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

i can't touch cotton balls. and certain paper napkins and paper towels. it basically causes my nervous system to revolt.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

thinking of it and typing it just now gave me shivers.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

is the smell of gourmet hot dogs much better, jocelyn? (xpost)

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

The sound effect of a liquid being poured over ice cubes, on the radio. Really.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Receiving oral sex.

― True, Friday, 6 January 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

certain radio/tv sound fx like that get to me too. (xpost)

also certain food textures. mainly shaved things. like shaved coconut in mouth equals throat closing up tightly and/or gagging.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

is the smell of gourmet hot dogs much better, jocelyn? (xpost)

Yes!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Mayo
Jaegermeister.

(Not together, though that would be disgusting in it's own right)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

The sound and feeling of desplintering cheap wooden chopsticks is intolerable to me.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

My friend Megan has a violent aversion to cilantro, which she claims began when she lived in Ecuador for nine months. I don't know if that means that she got sick of it from eating it so much, or what. But she also claims that she's not the only person she knows that contracted such a strong distaste for cilantro after having lived there. It's like the minute she detects it in whatever she's eating, she wants to vomit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

i also have a very negative reaction to that fuckin dumb band, the rapture. i scream in horror when i hear them. oh also that woman in the overstock.com commercials.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

i wish gunther heartymeal would get on this thread so she could talk about how she's scared of ribbons

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, brats and good sausages don't bother me, but the smell of pinky-grey hot dogs and vienna weiners does.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Wires. I hate power cords, connecting wires, ethernet cables, printer cables, power strips, etc. I can't stand to look at them. They give me the creeps. Tom had a drawer FULL of nothing but cables once and if I opened it I'd feel a little queasy and have to close it. One day someone will make even power supplies wireless and I won't have to worry.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

vienna weiners
This sounds like a bratty character played by Lindsay Lohan.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

A friend of my wife is terrified of rocking chairs, gliders, recliners... all seating that isn't 100% flat and stable on the ground.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I also have a fear of pierced things, especially nipples but even ears (I don't have pierced ears). I'm convinced the ring or stud or whatever is going to rip right out and leave a big ragged tear. *shiver*

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

water (as in pools, not glasses)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

-black olives
I remember when the black man couldn't have olives!

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

mayo, ranch dressing. people who use too much salad dressing. all creamy dressings. the aisle in the supermarket with salad dressing. things that remind me of salad dressing. things that remind me of things that remind me of salad dressing. miracle whip. left-over tuna-fish salad (with mayo).

― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Expensive photographic or filmic toys

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

i can't touch cotton balls. and certain paper napkins and paper towels. it basically causes my nervous system to revolt.

You gave me the shivers as well here. Especially when I thought of not only touching a cotton ball, but ... squeezing it argh.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

For the longest time, using a wood pencil would cause me to bite my tongue from how uncomfortable it made it. Mechanical pencils = no problem, but something about the texture of the wood & graphic on cheap paper = ick.

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

oh also that woman in the overstock.com commercials.

OTM

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

You gave me the shivers as well here.

Me as well, like blackboard+fingernails. Chicken, polystyrene, damp towels, too. I would be a weak-ass superman.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

ugh y'all are trying to kill me with the cotton talk! it's that horrible squeak! i'm dying.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

The sound and feeling of desplintering cheap wooden chopsticks is intolerable to me.

I love those chopsticks! They have that slight tooth to their surface that makes them grab onto the food better. And I enjoy snapping them apart, almost as much as I enjoy popping the cherry of a new tube of ointment, etc, with the pointy end of the cap. I love that. It's the anti-kryptonite.
M. White, you must have hated those balsa-wood airplane kits when you were a kid. Sad.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

milk/dairy from anywhere but my fridge 98.7%
east coast cities 80%
other people 75%
new job with NO CUBICLE AND ANNOYING LIGHTS AND SOUNDS99%
talking on the phone 100%
having to use the phone again for work 100%
most covers of songs i like, tribute cd's 75%
egg salad 100%
oh you like music!? me too! the new u2 album is sooo good

― no bones, Friday, 6 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I will drive miles and miles to stores that might not have what I need and might not even be open, just to avoid telephoning. My husbands thinks I'm nuts.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Husband. Heh heh.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

your husbands are not laughing right now. they're busy calling each other on the phone you refuse to use.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

The wooden sticks inside popsicles and other quiescently frozen confections. When my teeth encounter them: YAAAAAAARGH.

I have eaten cilantro plain, grazing at the grocery store, simply because I heart it so fucking much.

Me too.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Ican't stand cotton near my teeth. Or biting anything fabric. God, makes me want to yank my teeth out just thinking about it.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

ok i thought everyone here was a complete freak about the cotton and the mayo and whatnot but imagining cotton in the teeth is giving me the willies. and now that i really think about, i don't like the feeling i get when pulling apart well-compacted cotton.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

That gave me the heebies AND the jeebies.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

the willies surely aren't far off

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

They never are, AMIRITE?!?!?!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

i'm reminded of my ex-wife, who i could terrorize at any time by the simple act of running a paper napkin across my tongue. just seeing someone else do that -- much less doing it herself -- completely nauseated her. after actually ruining a couple meals for her, i stopped. (this was not cited in the divorce, fwiw.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

(the only thing that has any similar effect on me -- tho not as dramatic -- is the sensation/sound of fingernails running across paper bags. dunno why.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I don't mind baby corn in stirfry and salad and the like, but individual kernels of corn? On pizzas? And in lasagnes? MAKE IT STOP!!! (I know Emsk shares my fear here.)

yebbut it doesn't make me feel queasy or weak, it just PISSES ME OFF. there is a place for freshly bbqed/grilled/boiledifyoumust corn on the cob with butter melted and smothered all over it (actually there are many, many places for this) and there is a place for baby corn (in stir fly as suggested) but why do people feel the need to fuck up both corn and otherwise perfectly nummy dishes by putting fucking TINNED SWEETCORN in them? jeebus. we went on a walk in the suffolk/essex borders and ended at a pub where i got a lasagne - a fucking LASAGNE, right, so you expect onions, tomatoes, courgette, maybe aubergine, garlicke, oh i dunno, meat if you eat it - and the whole thing was full of fucking SWEETCORN. i picked it all out and there was a MOUND of it on the side of the plate and the lasagne was deflated. so now when i order lasagne the people always think i am a menk because i ask if there is sweetcorn in it or not and they're all like "er... no... it's lasagne, stupid... course it hasn't got sweetcorn. you menk."

actually, tinned sweetcorn in the first place. why bother even eating it? you might just as well throw it straight down the toilet.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

It must be a sign of my content state with the universe that I can't think of anything even though I must have a list approximately ten miles long.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

the last time i had to leave the room because of something was when people were eating oysters. (i really didn't expect to be revolted by it. i can deal with maggoty rotting animal corpses no prob compared to live humangs eating live oysters; the sound is what does it.) it's not quite kryptonite though...

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

They could be green oysters, to make them more kryptonitey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

yebbut i meant it just makes me feel a bit manky and queasy, rather than destroys my SUPAHPOWAHS. there MUST be something that does that... i guess it needn't be negative...

actually the above isn't quite true; the last thing i physically couldn't be in the same room as was a stereo playing the ronan keating cover of 'fairytale of new york' just over a year ago. same deal as the oysters: i knew it was coming and expected to be able to cope, but when it happened it was all too much for me and i flew upstairs and put nick cave on or something.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

the smell of liver. the smell of cat food. the smell of rancid grease.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Ronan Keating covering "Fairytale of New York"? Now why couldn't the car have actually run over him in that one video?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

yeh ned :( it is a thing of utter, irredeemable horror. it... it scrapes new depths. i pray none of you ever have to hear it. or i would pray if i had a mite of religion in me. i honestly didn't know a great song could be made that bad.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

ronan keating cover of 'fairytale of new york'

??!?!??!?!!! (nb I am not Ned)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

i know you are not ned! this cover is truly... well... if i were religious i would say it was the devil's work except that shane 'n' kirsty would already've been on the devil's side so i would keep my mouth shut i guess for fear of confusion. THEREFORE ALL IT NEEDS FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS FOR GOOD MENKS TO DO NOTHING and that is why it is legal for this cover to be roaming the christmas compilations of planet uk.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

You made me fire up the slsk you did. This is a most baffling artifact. In the slow, pre-woman intro, it might be defensible in maybe aiming for the effect of the 78 rpm version of Tom Waits' "Innocent When You Dream" off Franks Wild Years. Enya-sister then shows up with Great Emphasis on imPortant Syllables -- but wait, that is not the worst. BECAUSE THEN Keating ruins everything with trying to emulate Our Shane in the "you were pretty" inburst, and everything after is naturally ruined, while we lay laughing or cursing.

Why why why?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

oh my god. THIS WAS NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. you are meant to AVOID, AVOID, AVOID.

i mean - no version is ever, EVER, EVAH going to improve on shane & kirsty, right, but it's ok if people with some soul and some liquor want to have a go, they'll probably come up with something different - more drunkenly cheerful/more rancidly vicious/more sottily maudlin, whatever. it won't top the awesome sick/love seesaw of the original but it could have something all its own. but this travesty... i don't even know why they bothered. i bet even ronan keating fans hated it because there was no ez-redemption-4u clause... i bet you wish you hadn't slsked it, ha!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Not really. I wish to know the worst as well as the best *sniffs superiorly*.

HOW THE FUCK DID MAIRE AGREE TO THIS is all I want to know.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I am glad, me, that I am not tempted to hear this horror.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Erm, having been part of derailing this thread for so long, I guess I should answer the question.

Cod. I like fish in general, but there is a particular tang in cod that repulses me. Cleverly disguised cod is ok and all, so it's not irreparable. HowEVER, out of curiosity I ordered seal once in a restaurant, and that was more coddish that any actual cod I've had. So, yeah, seal.

Whale is delicious though.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

but miracle whip is white. which is part of the miracle.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

(haha oops, that goes on the other thread. i've never tried miracle whip on whale.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

oh gah bah you fuckers, ok you really shouldn't eat whales! cow and sheep and dog and whatever is soya in comparison. whales - they hang out for DECADES, just chillin in the seas and not hurting anyone except some krill (er i may have this wrong) and krill are so small they probably don't even notice they've been eaten by something so big anyway and y'know they swim around being the biggest fuckers on the planet and also the gentlest, looking all cool and occasionally flipping up to freak the tourists out and make them grin, and there aren't a lot of them and well there isn't space for a LOT of them, but you guys think it would be nice to carve them up and eat 'em? i give up. i'm just going to stop breathing now. it'll cause everyone a lot less hassle in the long run.

go and eat your DOG! and your CAT! and your HAMSTER! and your FISH! i fail to see how eating dog is different to eating cow.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, hamsters would make create ravioli stuffing as is. You'd just have to shave them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Whale romanticism is misguided. Whale count realism is sensible. ("Us" Nogs were guilty in overhunting whale for quite some time.)

To quench your ire a bit emsk, I haven't had a piece of that smallest-brains-compared-to-body-size-EVAH mammal for about 20 years. Then it was seen as the archetypal cheap dinner, to which ver kids would go "ew!", much like liver or something. It's achieved a more ooh-yes-I'd-pay-£30-per-pound-of-that status now, due to scarcity.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

i cant talk on the phone either, i am so awkward.

also, cotton balls

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

never tried whale, and have no real desire to. swordfish, now that's my kinda dinner.

my seafaring kryptonite = fishy-tasting fish like tilapia.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Thing about whale is, back in the 70s it was like cheap beef to housewives (like 1/5 of the price), except it was often stored suboptimally, thus gaining a cod-liver-oily smell and taste which required excessive frying to hide. If you're able to get whale now, it's probably only been in the hands of connoisseurs, and should be delish.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

i don't care how big their brains are/aren't! it's something to do with how long it takes them to grow so big, and how generally unwarlike and harmless and chilled out and oh yeah completely bewilderingly overwhelmingly inexplicably bafflingly hugely graceful and sense-putting-into-perspective-and 8-0 they are. dude they are so much better alive than dead. bust mostly it's to do with how long it takes them to grow so big. same deal with trees.

hamsters, yeah whatever. obv i pref them alive to dead but there's shitloads of them around, so eat 'em if you like. you might have to pull their shitguts out first. then again...

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh but I'd eat tasty 180 year old trees, if I was assured that there would be more of them for future generations!

Haha emsk let's let this one lie. I'm having visions of other ilxors in their furry hats and snowploughs, feverishly clearing ground for their regular daytime kryptonite discussion tomorrow. ;)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

no, bollocks. there's no fucking need. unless the only way to survive is to eat 'em, in which case fine. this isn't one i'll call it quits on. which isn't to say i want to fight with you til the end, i've done it efuckingnough times already with efuckingnough other people, but i refuse to accept this behaviour is anywhere near even approaching the realms of thinking about being acceptable.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

I hear you em. I've just always been confused by the foreign fervour, is all.

This should by rights be a thread of itself, no? I'll see if I can muster the courage.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

BUTTERFLIES.

When I was 2 my family went on a camping trip DURING BUTTERFLY MATING SEASON. My soul has been scarred ever since.

BUTTERFLIES EAT SKULLS IT IS A FACT.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

(That said I think they're right cute. Just as long as I'm not in a butterfly house or something.)

(...*shudders*)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Big blown up pictures of insects' "faces". AAAAAH!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

M. White, you must have hated those balsa-wood airplane kits when you were a kid. Sad.

Not at all. They were made with the kind of destructive love that builds a model with a firecracker attached. It's very boyish, I'll admit, but I enjoyed it and recall it quite fondly. Plus balsa wood scraping against balsa wood doesn't bug me at all, it's just pine/pine that me uncomfortable.

― M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 7 January 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

1. coins
2. The Conservative Party of Canada
3. people who walk slowly in shopping malls

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

THSI SONG RULES

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 7 January 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

This thread is like a key to a vault. (But the vault is less full than it used to be, true. Though I think I now have a pretty strong and physical mayonnaise aversion.) I'd like to think that some people just have stronger, near-disabling, physical reactions to certain things, and that these things are not actually mere annoyances, but something, y'know, BIGGER. maybe.

- i had no idea i felt this way about squeezing cotton balls! ick!
- air farce - not funny please stop cbc, i can't even watch preview segments
- low-quality trendy/slutty clothing stores, e.g. garage, stitches - just, can't go near. sometimes kind of want to! can't.
- really bad dramatic paintings, esp nudes, done in oil. pain. Must put hands around eyes, as shield.
- creamed corn / "creamed" "corn"
- my old computer. on dial-up.
- MASCOTS (the kind people dress up as, with fake heads.)
- the feeling of trying to push the same poles of two magnets together and having them repel, no matter how hard you push
- which is also like trying to make a fist upon first waking up, and not being able to because even though your hand appears to be in fist shape, it's weak and is laughing at your brain's efforts
- black spiders, okay.
- monkeys dressed up like people
- winking in a non-joking way - wtf, shudder, cringe

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

http://fogcity.blogs.com/jen/mushroom-thumb.jpg

eeeeeeeeeeeee!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Whenever I'm on a bridge, or somewhere high up, I have a morbid fear that I'll accidentally drop expensive or important things - glasses, camera, housekeys etc - over the edge.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

bananas
Rum

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

heh fp i have a morbid fear that i will deliberately do that! hanging over the rail of a boat, walking along a cliff path, up the eiffel tower: OH NOES i am going to take off my glasses and necklace and get my phone and money and credit cards and keys and camera and cd player out and i am going to THROW THEM ALL OVER THE SIDE. and then i am going to FOLLOW THEM. it's part of the same fear that makes me think i'm going to yell "FUCKPISSCUNTSHITBOLLOCKS" in a church or similar, or open a really lovely present someone's given me in front of them and just wilfully smash it, laughing. i don't want to do any of these things and i don't think i am going to. but i fear that i will.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Fish. Not just eating them, or other people eating them, or the smell of them, but live ones too - looking at them, or more specifically, them looking at me.

Also crocodiles, snakes, lizards etc. Whenever we have been at zoos or aquaria, I keep thinking "I can do this", going in, and then I start shaking and have to leave. Last year Neil found me sobbing outside the reptile house at the zoo because my legs gave in under me when I looked at a sleeping Komodo dragon. I can watch them on the telly, but put me near a real life one, even with foot-thick plate-glass between me and them, and...

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

i actually cant stop thinking of taking one of those starch napkins one gets at a fast food restaurant, and biting down on it -- AND ITS MAKING ME SO GROSSED OUT

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm chewing napkins and snapping apart chopsticks AT THE SAME TIME, RIGHT NOW!!!!
CRINGE, WEAKLINGS!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Mandee you INTRODUCED me to The Rapture! In your car in Denver!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Weirdest: Buttons, the sew-on kind with 2 or 4 eyes, make me feel sick. On or off clothing. If I see one lying around I have to move it away from me, but I almost always avoid direct contact. I just push it with my foot or elbow. Also:
-Broccoli
-Refried beans
-Pumpkin (the savoury kind, not the pie kind)
-Corned beef & cabbage + all odours associated with it.
-Stupidity

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who has a phobia about buttons too. I thought that was weird, but it's not uncommon.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

- the feeling of trying to push the same poles of two magnets together and having them repel, no matter how hard you push
- which is also like trying to make a fist upon first waking up, and not being able to because even though your hand appears to be in fist shape, it's weak and is laughing at your brain's efforts

OMG - I thought it was just me! This stuff makes me insane. Also, anyone who says 'sssshhh' to me. Not as in a staccato-like 'SSH!', but in a soothing, trying to be relaxing 'sssshhh' way. I can go ballistic over that.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Well, Mark, those mix tapes are coming back to haunt me.. nearly EVERY ONE I've ever made has some goddamn RAPTURE song on it and I hate them now!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Courtney Love is like kryptonite to my penis. Not to imply that my penis is super in any way. Although it is.

― my penis wears a cape, Sunday, 8 January 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

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