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Guilty Displeasures

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Re: Guilty Displeasures

#91

Alice in Chains for me. I developed my taste for music in the 90s and love the grunge and punk from that era, but just not AIC. I can't explain way exactly, just drives me batty.

For me it's Soundgarden. All I can hear are songs that are almost brilliant but then they seemed to deliberately ruin them.

Re: Guilty Displeasures

#92
post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to have one to understand the unconditional loyalty, love, and the bond. You come to appreciate it even more once you lose them. Having a dog is the best and worst thing in the world. Just lost our fur baby a week ago...

The unconditional loyalty and love is what disgusts me about dogs. Unconditional renders it meaningless and worthless.

Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you could alienate a dog.

Re: Guilty Displeasures

#93

Dogs - I know they are good for humanity with getting their owners for walks, loyalty, etc. But have no idea how people get hooked on them with the picking up hot feces and 25% chance of getting a barking/jumping lunatic that you have to rearrange your life every 6 hours around their bathroom habits...

The same reason people generally don't regret having kids even though the commitment and overall change of your life are much greater than what you described for dogs.

You're comparing actual humans to a pet?

Re: Guilty Displeasures

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post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same reason people generally don't regret having kids even though the commitment and overall change of your life are much greater than what you described for dogs.

You're comparing actual humans to a pet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism

Re: Guilty Displeasures

#96
post #90

I wouldn't say I feel guilt about all of these necessarily, but I do have a list of things I don't like that I would expect "someone like me" to like: - The Lord of the Rings (try being a geeky Catholic who finds LotR tedious) - Fantasy stories generally (though I love sci-fi) - Chess - Scrabble - Rubik's cubes - Video games - Listening to music (I sing in a choir, but I don't like listening to music--any of it--even…

I've never been interested in contrived puzzles like Rubik's cubes or even crosswords - but an actual real puzzle like "why does this call fail 1% of the time" could keep me enthralled for days/weeks until I either found the cause or was told to stop... Sadly no longer in that kind of work.

Re: Guilty Displeasures

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post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same reason people generally don't regret having kids even though the commitment and overall change of your life are much greater than what you described for dogs.

You're comparing actual humans to a pet?

What are you asking? Nchagnet is just acknowledging the existence of people who regret having kids, not making a value comparison

Re: Guilty Displeasures

#99
Politics. I used to be really into them but they just make your life miserable and most discussions are pointless since the topic is always very broad, which makes it have a ton of side effects which then need to be ignored since everyone's trying to solve political issues that have existed hundreds of years in 20 minutes with extreme policy swings.
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