Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.
Socializing. There are lots of benefits to being connected, but I just can’t stand people. People are the worst, and yeah, that includes me.
Running. It’s the cheapest, easiest form of exercise, but it absolutely bores me to death and i just can’t deal with it after 5 minutes.
I don’t mind most other forms of exercise, it’s just that they all require more time, effort or resources. Going to the gym requires a gym membership, basketball requires friends, etc.
try roller skates. saves your knees and not boring.
Try low intensity while listening to a podcast. 80% of runs are best done at a pace where you can easily hold a conversation and breath through your nose (5/10 effort).
I’m listening to history podcasts now and it feels incredibly relaxing and makes my whole day better. Now I don’t even like rest days anymore. 🙃
It’s all about the activity. My younger kid is extremely athletic: he did a 5k on a whim and kept up with the runners club without preparation. However he hates running, and gives similar reasons. His activity is soccer. Soccer gives a point to running. That kid will run the entire game if he’s playing soccer, but even he can’t stand running
Cilantro. Fucking soapy-assed tasting bullshit. I want to like you, but genetics won’t let me.
Never got a soapy taste from cilantro, but as a kid, a suicidal stink bug landed on a PB&J I was eating.
At first I was pissed off at my brother, cuz that bastard put cilantro on a fucking PB&J!!! I spit the bite out. Wad of partially chewed sandwich, mixed with insect legs and broken shell lands on my plate: no cilantro. Brother is now looking up at me with a genuine expression of concern: not a prank.
Lesson 1: look before you bite.
Lesson 2: Stink bugs taste exactly like cilantro.
Lesson 3: …cilantro tastes exactly like stink bugs.
The tiniest little flek of that shit can ruin an otherwise delicious bite of food.
This for sure. I have the soap gene as well. I love Mexican food, and it’s nigh impossible to find much traditional Mexican without cilantro.
Heads up: cooking cilantro should eliminate the soapy flavor.
Also be aware many indian dishes contain cilantro/coriander
Oh yes I forgot about Indian. I have to be picky about where I go so I can avoid cilantro. Cooking does help a little bit the soap is still there for me. It’s really overwhelming in dishes to me.
That’s really unfortunate- it’s such a great taste
Is parsley related to Cilantro?
I really really cannot stand parsley in anything, it is bitter and disgusting and mu workplace puts it in everything.
I’m the opposite. I pretty much sub out cilantro for parsley in every dish.
Maybe I need to try some cilantro to see if I am some sort of rare mutant.
You have probably had it. It’s in tons of food. If you’ve ever had coriander, that is another name for cilantro.
If you like cilantro, you’re normal. The soap gene is the mutant gene. Like blue eyes, or being able to process lactose (I have both).
Embarrassment humor. It’s always sunny. How I met your mother. Arrested development. I think you should leave. I can’t stand cringe.
I’m the same way. It usually makes me uncomfortable and I don’t want to watch it.
Something similar with reality TV. I start to get irritated. I know the situations are fabricated and edited but it gets me worked up and I hate it.
I was the same way and then I found American Family. I also only started watching it to have something on in the background which is actually probably the reason why I “adapted” to embarrassment humor.
I looked up from the computer/phone/chores to appreciate funny moments bit by bit, started appreciating the characters in wholesome moments, tune out when cringy things were going on… Eventually I got invested into the story of some of the episodes to the point where I started to tolerate cringe and even laugh at it.
God I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I thought everyone likes embarrassment humor and maybe I was getting a little cynical about “how bad taste is getting” or something. So good to know that others call it “cringe” (in one way, not in the other) and can’t watch it either.
Lovey dovey feelings. My wife would be much happier if I was more open with them, and it wouldn’t be so much work.
Social connection. It would be nice if I could be confident and good at making friends with strangers. I have no idea why I feel so lonely when in the crowd and even more lonely when I’m alone.
Trust me, it’s overrated. Besides, you’re avoiding COVID naturally. That’s a perk.
Getting up early. Ideally even exercising before breakfast.
I Think You Should Leave. I feel like something is wrong with me. On paper it should be right up my street and two of my closest friends (both of whom I have a near complete overlap with in comedy tastes) are massive fans but I just don’t get it? I get the jokes but I just don’t laugh. I feel like Bart in that episode of The Simpsons where he sells his soul when I watch it.
To me, the skits tend to go on about 10% too long.
The first thing I ever saw of his was a YouTube clip of the faux lawyer advertisement for homeowners that gets increasingly deranged, and the clip cuts short the ending, which tightens up the humor and makes it better.
I like absurdist humor, but there’s an element more than “wow wacky guy in normal situation” that needs to elevate it for me. Some of his skits have it, and some don’t.
I didn’t like it until I watched Detroiters.
Math. I’m embarrassingly bad at math, like can’t do it in my head, don’t get the math meme jokes, can’t add fractions even on paper bad. I took 3 remedial math classes in college before they let me take the one that actually counted for credit. Just thinking about doing math gives me anxiety. I know I could get all sorts of better-paying jobs if I was better at it, but it’s like my brain refuses to learn it beyond the basics. I really envy anyone who’s good at it.
There are specific learning disabilities around math. If you think your issue might be something fundamental about how your brain works, you should look into dyscalculia
I have this and I always struggled with math. I was terrible at mental math and I wanted to be better. I changed all of my clocks to military time so I had to do a very small and easy mental math problem if I wanted to know the time. I started to get better at it and now I am better than most people I know (not by a whole lot, and it does still take me a while to get more difficult problems done). I now enjoy trying more difficult problems just for fun. I also developed some interesting methods to chunk problems in my head so they are easier to manage.
It’s not about hours of practice. Small incremental changes over time can be a better way to go about it.
I’m the same way. I just had to keep trying to figure it out, and eventually something clicked. I’m still bad at doing math in my head, and I found out that different types of math math more sense than others. Like I’m really bat at algebra and calculus, but I can get geometry and trigonometry. It just took WAY more practice for me than other people I know.
Coffee, it’s just too bitter for me, and by the time I get it tasting okay, it may as well be a dessert. People seem to form half of their personality around how much they love coffee, it makes me feel like I’m missing out.
The problem might be the coffee itself. The stuff you buy at the store is often the cheaper robusta variety, which is known for its bitter taste. It’s why it’s cheap. Arabica coffee is smoother, and much less bitter in some cases. But anything from the store is also from multiple sources, meaning they take crops from all over the world and mix them together. Single source coffee is more expensive, but you can find varieties that are more delicate than store coffee and taste more fruity. Chances are you could find a kind you would be happy drinking with no added cream or sugar.
But then again, don’t push yourself to try it. It’s really no big deal if you don’t like coffee. And honestly, it’s not really good for you anyway, as caffeine is addictive and weaning yourself off of it can be a quite literal headache. Plus it raises your blood pressure, so depending on your health conditions, it might be really bad for you. You’re not missing anything to be sad over. And I say that as a coffee lover.
There are health benefits to coffee as well, as long as you do moderate consumption and don’t put sugar, I don’t think it’s that bad generally.
It is addictive though, and you feel exhausted for some days if you suddenly stop drinking.
If you’re interested in trying to like it, there are a few technique changes I’ve made over the years that have made me enjoy it. If you’re not interested, stop reading and enjoy your coffee free life. 😊
I used to only enjoy it from coffee shops and tolerate it when I made it at home, but I’ve learned a few tricks that helped.
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a pinch of salt in the grounds. Yes, a pinch. 1/16 to 1/8 tsp per pot of coffee. If you can taste the salt, it’s too much. Got this tip from Alton Brown on Good Eats.
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preheat your water. The standard American drip coffee maker cannot heat the first cup or 2 of water to boiling. It comes out around 160-180. Got this from James Hoffman on his YouTube.
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lighter roasts. Dark roasts are like anything burned more.
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grind fresh beans with a burr mill. Bladed coffee grinders make inconsistent chunks and dust. Burr mills don’t. Fresh beans have better and less bitter flavor.
The water and the salt tricks are easy. The lighter roast is more tricky bc grocery stores sell darker roasts. The burr grinder is harder bc they’re not super popular, so you may have to look for one.
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First off, do not do it if you don’t want to, King. But I have found I enjoy light roasts with cream, and yes, that’s a very far departure from what macho men call coffee, but who cares. A light roast will be less bitter and more acidic and sweet instead. Also something I’ve learned is that most people use far too many grounds in their coffee, so you get what amounts to over-steeped coffee that again has bad taste.
Definitely medium roast for me, instead of dark roast that most people seem to obsess about. More complex flavours IMO and it’s not bitter at all. Lighter roasts also have more caffeine than darker ones.
I’m a medium light man myself but I didn’t want to go too into the frippery of it for someone saying they don’t like it at all. I need to get a hand grinder and grind my own beans at some point.
Yes, we can’t trust you if you don’t like coffee. :(
Here’s the current running list of why I can’t be trusted: I don’t drink I’m an atheist I don’t like coffee I don’t like sports
Damn, I should just pack it in and assume no one will ever put trust in me for any reason lol Geek_King the Untrusted
Hold on there…
- +1 Don’t drink - You aren’t going to drive us into a pole from drinking alcohol
- +1 Atheist - You aren’t going to try and govern our lives by some ancient full of crap text
- -1 Don’t coffee - You could still drive us into a pole if you’re sleepy
- +1 Don’t sports - You aren’t going to abuse your kids when your team loses… again… and again.
Sounds like you are actually coming out ahead here.
There is zero flaws in your math! I’ll have to use this as a talking point when introducing my self (not really, but maybe down the line after I know someone)
You might be a super taster like me, do you also hate wine, beer, and most fermented things?
Yeah, they taste awful to me, very overpowering. I think I’ve heard some people can be more sensitive to bitter flavors, so it’s possible that’s why I don’t like anything with bitterness as one of its traits.
Probably. I imagine I’m the opposite. I love bitter beer, chocolate, coffee: the bitterer, the betterer. However I really started thinking after a trip to India: I always loved spicy food, but the guys kept trying to find spicier stuff for me, and I outdid all of them. A culture renowned for spicy food had nothing on me
Sauces on foods. No, hear me out! Since I was young any kind of sauce on my food really bothers me. I just can’t enjoy it and usually don’t eat at all or pick around it if I can’t get it removed.
Nearly every menu item and nearly every cuisine includes a sauce, and it’s often prepared with the sauce in an unremovable state.
Fortunately it’s easier these days than when I was young to order it on the side, so I can just not eat it. But it’s a mild inconvenience that I’d never wish on anyone (except my enemies).
Fascinating. How do you feel about soups? Is it something about liquid food?
Going to the gym… I know it’s good for me, I know I should be going but I can’t help but feel that I’m wasting my money, only to be doing something less productive that I don’t really enjoy doing…
Also watching shows, ik one-piece is probably good, I’m not watching 1000 episodes of anything, no matter how good it is
I agree with the gym. I hate being in the environment of the gym, way too many people and I hate working out but if I could do it, it would solve so many problems.
I hate the gym too. But I need to exercise. So I joined a soccer training thing. So happy.
Try a combat sport instead. I got bored of the gym, so I started BJJ. It’s fun, and it basically gives me a skill I’ve learned.
Onions. I wish to God I liked onions. Food is so hard for me sometimes because I can’t stand them in almost every form. I travel a lot, and the hardest places not to offend anyone food-wise has been southeast Asia. So. Many. ONIONS.
I don’t know what it is but onions just overpower everything for me. I love the flavor onions give to other foods so I use onion powder when cooking, but anything that has actual onions, it’s all I can taste.
maybe your taste buds are just different to most people and much more sensitive to onion flavor
Could be. I know I would love to not have to ask for no onions or pick them off everything.
Programming. I have a bunch of ideas that are actually useful for my job, but I can’t seem to keep track of the necessary steps to write the code. ChatGPT has helped me create a couple of programs: a discord bot and a very complex (for me) application that brings in NASA data that automatically runs through Stable Diffusion. The code interpreter is amazing… but there’s too much context I’m missing for these things to be truly fun the way I imagine them to be.
Depending on what your level of experience is, it might just take more time and practice. When I was doing my degree, it took two years, an internship, and multiple serious programming courses before I truly felt comfortable programming.
Look up UC Berkeley’s CS61A, B, and C, then start looking deeper into the CS curriculum to find the pieces you are missing. For me, it took trying to optimise the CPU scheduler for single threaded processes in Linux, specifically complex assemblies in FreeCAD. That lead me to a few lectures about the scheduler in the OS principals course. I’ve done a bunch of little embedded projects but struggle with complexity. The concepts around a scheduler are what I was missing. There are a lot of things like this that are readily available for free online if you just go searching for them specifically.
If you want to really free yourself, I run a offline Llama2 70B with GGML 4bit to code. It works well for snippets and can do better than 3 tokens a second on a 12th gen i7/64GB and 16GBV 3080Ti. It can run at around 2 tokens a second on just the CPU, but you’ll need a Linux machine with an additional 8GB swap partition just to initially load the model. It takes around 43GB to run after init.
Weed. Every time I try it, I regret it. I feel like with alcohol, I might be uninhibited, but feel in control internally. With weed, I feel like I can’t complete a thought internally and I hate it.
