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This is for research, so please answer honestly. Don't be embarrassed by your likes and dislikes. Also, try not to elaborate much on what you don't like about a particular thing. A little description is okay, but let's not go on for three paragraphs about how much you hate Celine Dion. We all hate Celine Dion.
Remember, this is a list of things you really hate, not stuff you can tolerate. These are the songs that make you grind your teeth, the textures that make you want to vomit, the films that make you want to flee the room. Also, this is really research for a story, so please don't provide joke answers.
Thanks for your help.
1) List up to three of your least favorite songs. I don't mean songs you can tolerate, I mean songs that drive you up the wall and make your eardrums bleed.
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathesome:
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:
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December 29 2005, 12:48:30 UTC 6 years ago
1. "Let's Get It Started/Retarded" by Black Eyed Peas -- don't have a problem with songs that don't really have something to "say" or anything, but jeez, it's a bad sign if you spend less time writing the song than the song actually plays for.
2. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones - Over schmaltzy and maudlin crap; we can figure out the "twist" about half a verse in. HE'S DEAD. WE GET IT.
3. "That's My Job" by Conway Twitty - Did someone say schmaltzy? At least Jones is a slightly better vocalist.
Movies:
1. Go - Pretentious, badly made and deeply unlikeable characters that don't realize they're deeply unlikable.
2. Intolerable Cruelty - Deeply unlikeably characters that DO realize they're deeply unlikeable, but not in a particularly charming or funny way. Also, the Coens are capable of SO much more.
3. Magnolia - All style over substance.
Color:
Some of those 70s shades -- that 1970s Orange that shows up a lot, particularly next to the Particularly 1970s Pea-Green and Brown. Ecch.
Food:
I'll probably have to think on this one.
Confinement:
g) I like being able to see. The constant lights wouldn't bother me, but flickering would drive me nuts. Especially if the blackouts were extended..
i) Ick.
December 29 2005, 13:43:13 UTC 6 years ago
4) Coconuts. Almost all nuts in general. And the big one: Mayonnaise *shudder*
5) g) Flickering light - It doesn't seem like something that I would get used to after a couple of hours, and it would sufficiently constantly interrupt my thought process.
k) I might be able to hold out for a week, but that's just not sanitary. If there was no lid, defiantly.
m) The inability to communicate and know what is happening with the outside world. That and not being able to pace around.
December 31 2005, 14:40:00 UTC 6 years ago
December 29 2005, 13:48:06 UTC 6 years ago
2. Only 3? Hmm. Jim Carry's The Grinch who Stole Christmas. Ace Ventura. The Mask. (Sense a theme?)
3. Bright sunshine yellow. Or certain shades of green (avocado in particular)
4. Liver (due to texture, smell and taste)
Veal (texture, and the thought of baby animals)
Hot peppers (taste - I can't tolerate overly-spicy foods)
5. g. I hate flickering lights - they give me a major headache
i. Gah. Moldy smell makes me nauseous.
l. I hate being cold for extended periods of time.
January 3 2006, 05:20:14 UTC 6 years ago
I seriously thought about editing one of my Sesame Street videotapes because it has "Elmo's Song" (the precursor to the EW theme, the tune is the same but with even simpler lyrics) in it and it makes me want to tear my hair out.
December 29 2005, 14:32:56 UTC 6 years ago
a: Jessica Simpson's cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking"
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.
a: Crossroads
b: Hitch
c: Cheaper By the Dozen 2
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathesome:
Salmon Pink
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.
a: Onions
b: Kimchee
c: Stewed tomatoes
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most?
a: the sound of water dripping
b: every surface is hard, including the bed
c: cell temperature too low
December 29 2005, 14:55:29 UTC 6 years ago
(2) "Hitch," "Titanic," "Spider-Man 2"
(3) Canary yellow
(4) Cheddar cheese, American cheese, Parmesan cheese
(5) E-same food or drink, F-institutional cleaners, I-smell of mold
Good luck!
December 29 2005, 15:22:08 UTC 6 years ago
2.) Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Meet the Parents 2.
3.) I never liked purple much. Like people are trying to be the artist formerly known as Prince or something.
4.) Mushrooms, raw tomatoes, green beans.
5.) The construction noise, the smell of institutional cleaners, and every surface is hard. That list makes it sound like you've been to my grandparents' house.
December 29 2005, 15:40:03 UTC 6 years ago
Three movies I'd rather slash my wrists than see, hmm? Well, I can't take that literally, but let's see: Chicago, Titanic, and Kindergarten Cop.
Loathsome color: puke green.
Foods: I have always involuntarily gagged on mashed potatoes for some reason. Otherwise, I guess I'll say liver and marshmallow peeps.
And for your final question, I will pick intermittent construction noise, flickering light, and water dripping.
December 29 2005, 16:03:52 UTC 6 years ago
December 29 2005, 16:07:38 UTC 6 years ago
1. Sometimes When We Touch, the Patrick Swayze song from Dirtty Dancing, and Feelings.
2. Outrageous Fortune, Forrest Gump, Top Gun.
3. None.
4. Oysters, fish heads, avocados.
What do I win??? :-)
We should have coffee next week!
December 29 2005, 16:09:49 UTC 6 years ago
December 29 2005, 16:11:29 UTC 6 years ago
- "Fly" by Sugar Ray. When I first heard it, I was all like, "Ha! Those lyrics are so bad! White boys doing bad reggae in the middle of it... that's kind of funny." Then I found out they were serious.
- Those "Kidz Bop" CDs, where they take popular songs and have kids sing them.
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.
I have a high tolerance for crappy movies. The closest I can get is Thomas And The Magic Railroad (with Alec Baldwin as "Mr. Conductor"), and there's a good chance I might rent this one eventually just to see how bad it really is.
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathesome.
None. sorry.
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.
- Beans. They taste and feel like tiny blocks of wood.
- Honeydew mellons. Like eating chilled snot.
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:
a) piped-in muzak
c) lights on 24 hours a day
a) piped-in muzak
December 30 2005, 05:01:48 UTC 6 years ago
I'll save you the money and loan it to you. Someone bought it out of a $5 DVD bin for the kiddo.
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December 29 2005, 18:28:01 UTC 6 years ago
I also don't like some of the latest covers that are created for movies (car wash, boots are made for walking).
And then there's mashups. GAH! GAHGAHGAH! Nobody does it RIGHT! I mean there's the Public Enemy/Herb Alpert whipped cream mixes and some stuff by People Like Us and I think there was this one okay Beatles one and it seems like almost everything else sucks.
In solitary, I'd say sanitary smell, lights on, and either of the noise ones.
I'm not sure about the others.
December 29 2005, 18:51:55 UTC 6 years ago
2) "Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" (or whatever it's called). "The Notebook".
3) Neon pink.
4) Stew (I don't like my food to touch). Eel/unagi (side-effect of a Japanese porn incident). Liver (ew).
5) m) other (please explain)
The glug, glug, glug of pouring liquid, like when someone dumps soda out of a two liter over-fast. The sound of it turns my stomach for some reason.
December 29 2005, 21:23:02 UTC 6 years ago
2. Fargo, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction are all bullshit.
3. that pukey peach colour of street lamps is the worst, fluorescent green is pretty intolerable, and walls should never be painted black.
4. chicken, cantaloupe, some unpasteurized cow's milk cheeses
5. are you serious? any one of those things would be hell. Bush should hire you to lead one of his torture squads.
December 29 2005, 21:45:50 UTC 6 years ago
Movies I Hate: anything that's of the splatterporn horror genre. "Saw", "Wolf Creek", etc.
Foods I Hate: beets (color and taste), brussels sprouts (smell and texture) and liver (an organ universally referred to as the body's filter probably isn't worth eating, people.)
Color I Hate: rust. It's a sickly, diseased color.
Solitary Confinement Hate: the intermittent construction noises, no soft surfaces, and lights on all the time.
I'm looking forward to the story this little survey produces.
December 29 2005, 22:12:56 UTC 6 years ago
~That one by New Found Glory that goes "What's your problem." I hate that band with a passion.
~"My Humps." Eww.
~"Hollaback Girl." I just don't like Gwen Stefani alone.
~Pretty much any rap, because I'm biased like that.
Movies:
~The Producers. I walked out of it.
~First Daughter. I had to watch it on an airplane. It was amazingly bad.
~Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Color:
~That one color of green olives with the darker green flecks in it. It's gross.
Foods:
~Yogurt. It's just all slimy and... augh.
~Stuff with lots of spinach in it is just really unappetizing.
Solitary confinement:
D, H, K (and G) the most.
December 29 2005, 23:06:32 UTC 6 years ago
2) Ammadeus, Blair Witch Project, Seven
3) Neon plaid?
4) pickles, blood sausage, soggy bread
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:
b) a really rough wool blanket with no sheet
g) overhead fluorescent lighting that flickers because the bulb is going bad
j) every surface is hard, including the bed
l) cell temperature too low
I chose four. ha.
December 30 2005, 00:36:16 UTC 6 years ago
2) Passion of the Christ. Pink Flamingos. Jackass the Movie.
3) that ghastly hot, throbbing pink they use in biology text book inserts to illustrate the large intestine.
4) sushi. nouc mam sauce. [sp?] squid.
5)
a) piped-in muzak
g) overhead fluorescent lighting that flickers because the bulb is going bad
l) cell temperature too low
other: insects! bed bugs, fleas, cockroaches, palmetto bugs, water bugs, buzzing mosquitoes, shit-scary black wasps
Thanks for helping me out!
December 30 2005, 03:53:14 UTC 6 years ago
- Anything by Carly Simon
- Anything by the Bee Gees
- Anything by Ace of Base
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.My hatred of sucky music is cross generational.
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Life is Beautiful
- Anything starring Tom Greene
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathesome:- Mauve
- Fuchia
- Periwinkle
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.I'm a straight male, I see the Windows 16 default colors.
- Brussel Sprouts
- Dog (not hot dogs, I mean DOG)
- Tofu (does that actually count as food?)
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:a) piped-in muzak
MAKE IT STOP! FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAKE IT STOP!!! *sob* It wouldn't even have to be constant, the long periods of silence as the songs play over and over again in my mind would drive me insane. I can't believe I lasted so long working with the guns & ammo at K-Mart
b) a really rough wool blanket with no sheet
I'd sleep
c) lights on 24 hours a day
I'd still sleep.
d) intermittent construction noise from outside
I'd STILL sleep. I'm a very heavy sleeper.
e) the same food and drink for every meal
Difficult, but bearable.
f) the smell of institutional cleaners
You don't notice them after a while.
g) overhead fluorescent lighting that flickers because the bulb is going bad
I'd wait it out. It's bound to die before I crack.
h) the sound of water dripping
I'd sleep.
i) the smell of mold
Get used to it after a while.
j) every surface is hard, including the bed
But I'm not.
k) no toilet seat, just bowl
SQUATTER'S RIGHTS!
l) cell temperature too low
Painful, but bearable.
m) other (please explain)
Intermittant smell of poo gas (crud vapors) strong enough to make you retch. Still not as bad as the muzak.
December 30 2005, 11:29:59 UTC 6 years ago
"Anything by" doesn't cut it. If you can't come up with even one song title, you can't hate them that much.
For question 5, I'm not sure what your answers are, apart from "a" and "m." Please clarify.
Interestingly, I tried to be as specific as possible in my directions because I knew there was one person I could count on not to follow the directions, regardless of how clear they were. *affectionate nudge* Try again. =)
6 years ago
December 30 2005, 04:47:11 UTC 6 years ago
1) MmmBop - Hanson
2) I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meatloaf
3) We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters
Crappy movies:
1) Cellular
2) Alexander
3) Wake of Death
Loathsome color: florescent green
Nasty food:
1) Squid
2) Strained anything
3) Runny eggs
Solitary confinement issues:
j) every surface is hard, including the bed
l) cell temperature too low
m) other (please explain) BUGS!
Hope that helps... can't wait to see what story this is for! :)
December 30 2005, 05:05:01 UTC 6 years ago
Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel
If it Makes you Happy by Sheryl Crow
2) Cheaper by the Dozen
Ella Enchanted
Lion King 1 1/2
(I hate Books -> Movie and butchered sequels for Disney)
3) Maroon
4) Odwalla bars
Potato Salad
Lamb
5) C, G, and J
December 31 2005, 07:49:58 UTC 6 years ago
Ceciiiiiiiiilia, you're breakin' my heart....
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December 30 2005, 06:39:48 UTC 6 years ago
1] My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas
2] Heaven by Los Lonely Boys
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.
1] Brittany Spears' movie
2] Mariah Carey's movie
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathesome:
I don't really have a specific color...I do have color combination issues, however.
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.
1] Not to be completely cliche: Liver
Otherwise, I'm half Italian...we eat anything. ;)
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:
b) a really rough wool blanket with no sheet
g) overhead fluorescent lighting that flickers because the bulb is going bad
j) every surface is hard, including the bed
December 30 2005, 11:01:38 UTC 6 years ago
2) The Stallone remake of The Italian Job; Pearl Harbour; Cold Mountain.
3) Chlorine-gas green (like Lime but more yellow and garish).
4) Fish; Pasta; Cheese.
5) a, h and i I guess, but I really don't want to be in a position to know for sure.
6) Waiting to find out what the story is that the research is for ;)
December 30 2005, 18:53:44 UTC 6 years ago
B) I Drove All Night - Celine Dion
C) Merry Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon (sorry, John) and a hoarde of off-tune undead child creatures demanding "what have YOOOOOU DONNNNNEEEE?!?!?!?". Irritating any time of year but especially at Xmas.
2) Captain America, The Doom Generation, Manos: The Hands of Fate (w/o MST3K to make it bearable)
3) That putrid vaguely pink color - mauve? The color of dried Pepto Bismo
4) Mangoes, olives, sour cream
5) c, d, g with h, j, and l very close runners-up.
You should also know that they did a study where the most annoying thing, sound wise, were screechy things (dentist drills, bad violin playing, nails on chalkboard) & loud arrhythmic noises (like construction work) played at irregular intervals. Regular intervals let anybody get used to noises, no matter how annoying.
January 3 2006, 05:15:36 UTC 6 years ago
1. "Lucille", Kenny Rogers.
2. That gawdawful song from Titanic.
3. "I'll Be a Little Sunbeam for Jesus" (I saw Tammy Faye Bakker singing it on The Ruby Wax Show and I almost broke the TV trying to make it stop oh sweet jesus make it stop my ears are bleeding)
2) Up to three movies you'd rather slash your wrists than see.
1. Beaches.
2. Pretty In Pink. (I've been forced to watch it, but I'm blocking it out.)
3. Runaway Bride. (If my sister sings that "where were you on my wedding day" song again in my presence, I will gouge at my ears with a sharpened pencil.)
3) A color (or specific shade of color) you find particularly garish or loathsome: chartreuse.
4) Up to three foods you can't force down your throat due to texture, smell, or taste.
1. Mangoes, taste. Also, I'm allergic to it.
2. Poached eggs, texture. The last time I described their texture, Vogon almost puked.
3. Chorizo, smell.
5) You're in solitary confinement for one week. What would drive you crazy the most? Here's a list. Pick up to three options:
g) overhead fluorescent lighting that flickers because the bulb is going bad
i) the smell of mold
m) other (please explain): no reading material
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