Things That Make You Cringe

[En_Route]

Jazz, I don't claim to get it, maybe bits of it.  Sometimes I may judge those enjoying jazz as looking a bit dicky but it doesn't matter though really, to each his own.  Musicians I like have delved into jazz and bring bits back, I'm glad they did.

I entertain this theory that nobody really likes it but that a small minority either pretend or persuade themselves that they like it, precisely ecause it is such a minority taste and has intellectual associations. Actually, it is really the other way round- the theory entertains me, because although improbable it is more amusing than the probable reality that there are people who do genuinely find appeal in what is to me an amorphous, discordant racket .

I genuinely find entertainment in it. I don't care about it being a 'minority taste', nor do I the intellectual associates. I just enjoy it.

I don't get how it is so hard to understand that somebody might find entertainment in it.

It isn't.

[Synapse]

For some reason I tend to remember episodic details rather well. So I really hate it when something memorable happens and there happens to be some crappy music in the background. I cringe when I remember an event, followed by the horrendous music that accompanied it. Many a book's ending was sullied by some random stranger's playlist while I was reading on a bus.

[DeterminedJuliet]

People who let their demon-children run wild. 
Holy hell.

[Stevil]

People who let their demon-children run wild. 

Unfortunately it is not always a choice.
Our 1.5 year old all of a sudden now gets frustrated at feeding time. She won't sit down, high chair restrainers do not work. You can't reason with her.
She just fights, struggles, screams and tries to jump off the high chair.

Needless to say, after a couple of fun filled family outings, we now eat in.

[DeterminedJuliet]

I wouldn't call that "running wild", though. I'm sure if she climbed up on a perfect stranger's lap and started screaming/throwing things, you'd interject. That's the difference.

[Firebird]

I find the "indie" label kinda useless. 
I suppose independence from major record labels is of some interest but it doesn't tell you much about the music.

Agreed. Honestly, I have found very little indie rock that I can stand. It all seems so whiny and noisy for no purpose.

But jazz, I'm a fan, at least certain artists. But that's partly because I used to play sax. More the big band/swing stuff along with the more bluesy, darker styles like Charles Mingus. I'll concede it's an acquired taste and jazz fans/musicians can be pretentious and arrogant, though I think that's a problem with most big music fans.

I doubt everyone on this board will ever agree on muscial taste. Except Creed. Everyone knows they suck.

[Amicale]

My over-active imagination keeps making me cringe, particularly when I'm reading a scary book/watching a horror movie/walking alone at night. I imagine all kinds of creepy stuff that never actually happens. My mind plays tricks on me, and convinces me that something really freaky will happen, even when it rarely does. So I'm sitting there, or strolling along, getting all creeped out, just cringing... 

[OldGit]

Tony Blair.  Worse than Rolf Harris and Cliff Richard tied together.

[En_Route]

Tony Blair.  Worse than Rolf Harris and Cliff Richard tied together.

A snake oil salesman who just can't come to terms with the fact that he's been found out. Cherie is not too far behind him. We are told she has a brilliant mind but then we were also told Saddam had WMD.
Tying Cliff Richard and Rolf Harris together is a very beguiling notion; a fate both would richly merit.

[Tom62]

Angela Merkel for squandering taxpayers money, because she thinks that if you throw enough money in a black hole all problems disappear

[Stevil]

I wouldn't call that "running wild", though. I'm sure if she climbed up on a perfect stranger's lap and started screaming/throwing things, you'd interject. That's the difference.

Because she would sit down, instead she would be running around the restaurant, while the rest of us tried to eat.
Running wild, running free.

[Ali]

I doubt everyone on this board will ever agree on muscial taste. Except Creed. Everyone knows they suck.

Yeaaaah.  (I said that like Creed.  You know how they do.  "Yeaaah".)  Haha I crack myself up.  Also, Creed sucks. 

[Sweetdeath]

I doubt everyone on this board will ever agree on muscial taste. Except Creed. Everyone knows they suck.

Yeaaaah.  (I said that like Creed.  You know how they do.  "Yeaaah".)  Haha I crack myself up.  Also, Creed sucks. 

Oh boy, let's not bring up Creed or Nickelback xD

[Non Quixote]

I wouldn't call that "running wild", though. I'm sure if she climbed up on a perfect stranger's lap and started screaming/throwing things, you'd interject. That's the difference.

Because she would sit down, instead she would be running around the restaurant, while the rest of us tried to eat.
Running wild, running free.

Speaking for the silent majority I would like to personally thank you though for having the good grace not to subject the rest of us to it.

I've often thought now that smoking isn't allowed on aircraft or in the majority of restaurants in the US these days they should turn all of those old no smoking sections into the "families with small children" sections, replete with noise cancelling glass.

[Firebird]

I doubt everyone on this board will ever agree on muscial taste. Except Creed. Everyone knows they suck.

Yeaaaah.  (I said that like Creed.  You know how they do.  "Yeaaah".)  Haha I crack myself up.  Also, Creed sucks. 

Oh boy, let's not bring up Creed or Nickelback xD

So every year, the National Football League (aka US football) holds a game on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit. Last year they decided to have Nickelback play at halftime, and in response, a bunch of Detroit Lions fans started a petition demanding that Nickelback not be allowed to play. Over 55000 people signed it. Sadly, Nickelback still played, but at least Detroit tried.