U2Bama's Dislikes

[Anthony]

"-People that call Bono, Bon-oh"

So, Spinninghead77, how do YOU pronounce it? Bone-oh? If you ask me, THAT's a horrid way of pronouncing it.

(Yeah, I pronounce Bono in the Bon-oh way).
Ant.

[Anthony]

Originally posted by melon:
15) Traditions

This one I don't get; come now, Melon, surely not ALL traditions are bad. Some must bring some merit. After all, Christmas could be argued as a tradition. Which traditions did you have in mind when you wrote 'tradition' down in your dislike column? I must say I don't agree with many, but tradition is fine if contained.

Ant.

[DrTeeth]

1. Empty batteries
2. Too much sauce on my food
3. Senior citizens combined with traffic
4. Schlagers
5. Pop-ups
6. Really fat women wearing really short skirts
7. Really fat men wearing really short skirts
8. Dutch public transport
9. The Salt Lake City scandal
10. Insomnia
11. Being really tired in the morning
12. Food which is past it�s sell-by date but you think �Oh, it�s OK�, but it isn�t�
13. �There are no new messages in your inbox.�
14. Too much make-up
15. Drinking songs/games
16. The sight of dancing men
17. People who yell and scream when they�re angry
18. Will & Grace and the �new homosexual sitcom character� in general
19. Speeding tickets

[Crzy4Bono]

1. Dirty Diapers.
2. The fact that I drive a mini-van.
3. My alarm clock.
4. Cigar smoke.
5. The fact that I'm 10 minutes late to everything.
6. Liver (bluck!)
7. Broccoli
8. The long long security lines at airports these days.
9. Bus fumes
10. Layoffs
11. Whining
12. Winter
13. Jerry Springer (go ahead and throw all like-minded talk shows in here)

I guess that's enough.
(Bama I love coffee and sushi though so I guess dinner's out - hehe)

Oh I had to edit:
14. People who talk on their cell phones at tables in restaurants. I mean jeez, you can't wait until the end of DINNER? dang

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[This message has been edited by Crzy4Bono (edited 01-16-2002).]

[melon]

Originally posted by Anthony:
This one I don't get; come now, Melon, surely not ALL traditions are bad. Some must bring some merit. After all, Christmas could be argued as a tradition. Which traditions did you have in mind when you wrote 'tradition' down in your dislike column? I must say I don't agree with many, but tradition is fine if contained.

I dislike tradition, because, somehow, we decide that the ideas and opinions of people who existed generations before us are automatically more important than ours. And then, when we build huge social structures around these traditions, I dislike it.

To be fair, not all traditions are bad, but I think we should feel free to modify and/or eliminate traditions, along with creating new ones, without feeling guilt.

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

[Klodomir]

Bah humbug! Next thing you know, Melon will be calling off Christmas.

[speedracer]

Well, I'm sure Melon could do without the frantic spending spree that was thrown on top of Christmas.

[melon]

Ah, yes...Christmas. An interesting story on that.

In the 19th century, Americans used to give gifts for New Years. Technically, if you want to get totally traditional, gifts should have been given on Dec. 6th, the feast day of St. Nicholas. In the 1890s, business successfully got people to change the tradition to Dec. 25th, because sales weren't going too well and they hypothesized that lumping gift giving with a religious holiday would guilt people into buying more. Hence, the origin of the commericalism of Christmas.

The modern image of Santa Claus originated from the Coca-Cola Corporation, whose depiction of Santa in a 1940s ad campaign has since stuck.

Commercialism...commercialism...

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

[Hewson]

Originally posted by U2Bama:

35. The guy on NBC Sports who asked Pete Rose the inappropriate question a few years ago.

Jim Gray

[joyfulgirl]

Okay, I'll play. My dislikes, in no particular order:

1. homophobia
2. racism
3. conservatism
4. Nicole Kidman
5. most religions
6. Christmas
7. Valentine's Day
8. tradition (I'm with Melon 100%)
9. gossip
10. scraping ice off my car
11. doctors who don't recognize alternative
health therapies as legitimate
12. the AMA & FDA
13. narrow-mindedness
14. all red meat and poultry
15. my own ego

[joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by U2Bama:
Addendum 1
34. Tori Amos

Ouch! That one hurts. I used to dislike her too, but then I had a change of heart and now she's my other favorite artist. She comes across badly on TV and in interviews but she's wonderful and generous with her fans, and her fans are as obsessive as U2 fans as a result. And her live shows are legendary. But she's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

[rougerum]

Things I dislike.......................whining.

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[Klodomir]

Originally posted by melon:
The modern image of Santa Claus originated from the Coca-Cola Corporation, whose depiction of Santa in a 1940s ad campaign has since stuck.

No, Melon, I'm afraid that you have fallen for an urban legend which is popular in the US but fairly unknown in Europe. Santa Claus looked like that decades before the Coca Cola Company launched their first Santa campaign.
http://www.snopes2.com/cokelore/santa.htm

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

-whiny people
-Michigan
-"downsizing"
-people who can't let things go
-waiting too long, for anything
-my mom's boyfriend
-Survivor, or any other reality-based tv show
-hospitals
-procrastinating (though I am the queen of it)
-bad drivers
-bad service
-Britney Spears/N'Sync, etc
-"Glossy" people
-the commercialization of every holiday
-being single
-rap music
-cruelty to animals

*lots more where that came from*

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Cut out the poetry
Let's hit the main artery
No time for a tourniquet
Let the colour's all run out of me

[This message has been edited by LarryMullen's_POPAngel (edited 01-18-2002).]