interests or lack there of Options

[iRapediCarly]

lol@late bloomer,

heres a fun fact, i use to be able to play pokemon red and spin a hoolahoop nonstop for hours

[heyo-captain-jac...]

lol@late bloomer,

heres a fun fact, i use to be able to play pokemon red and spin a hoolahoop nonstop for hours

At the same time? If so, that's pretty impressive.

[Sandraaa]

That's another thing: I always shudder when people write something like "I don't read much" under the Favorite Books category on their Facebook profile

I agree on this and the music point. I don't see how your favorite music genre could be 'all sort of music'. Most of the time, it's a lie. Ask them if they like a particular artist (Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth) and most of them answer : I don't like that kind of music. I don't know but it's really confusing and annoying.
And I'm a little irritated by people who don't like to read. The only people in my entourage that read are my fiancé and my sister. I could live in a library.

Now what's worse : I study FASHION DESIGNING and it's obvious that as an aspiring FASHION DESIGNER, fashion magazines, fashion blogs, fashion shows should be your bible. Fashion becomes your world. It's more than 'a course' (if I can say that in English), it becomes a passion. Well, I've got a friend, who HATES all of that but wants to be a fashion designer. She doesn't know famous designers except the idiot Karl L. It annoys me SO much. How can you hate fashion but want to be a fashion designer? I'm pretty much she's going to end up a seamstress.

>< *sigh*

[tokyo-rose]

And I'm a little irritated by people who don't like to read. The only people in my entourage that read are my fiancé and my sister. I could live in a library.

I can't say that I'm annoyed by this, but I've never understood how some people dislike to read. There must be at least author or genre that they can enjoy; they just haven't found it yet. I love to read, and I love bookstores and libraries as well. Sandra, you should take me to places like those where you live. :D You don't live in France, right? I'm from New York. If you're ever here, let's hit up the New York Public Library and BEAUTIFUL Barnes & Noble on the Upper East Side--it's huge and pretty and gah, love it.

[Sandraaa]

I can't say that I'm annoyed by this, but I've never understood how some people dislike to read. There must be at least author or genre that they can enjoy; they just haven't found it yet. I love to read, and I love bookstores and libraries as well. Sandra, you should take me to places like those where you live. :D You don't live in France, right? I'm from New York. If you're ever here, let's hit up the New York Public Library and BEAUTIFUL Barnes & Noble on the Upper East Side--it's huge and pretty and gah, love it.

No, I live in Belgium. It's next to France, the Netherlands and Germany. And our official languages are french, dutch and german. Haha. It's like this very very tiny country BUT Brussels (the capital) is actually the capital of the European union and the headquaters of NATO. HAHA. But still people don't really know the country. Anyhoo, I'd love to come to NY. It's actually my dream city. Almost certain I'll be there summer time, next year. Can't waiiiiiiiiit. You're allowed to take me anywhere and everywhere. Just to tell you how I love NY, I bought a book yesterday called 'Harlem heritage'. OK. It is more about African american history in Harlem but still.

[tokyo-rose]

No, I live in Belgium. It's next to France, the Netherlands and Germany. And our official languages are french, dutch and german. Haha. It's like this very very tiny country BUT Brussels (the capital) is actually the capital of the European union and the headquaters of NATO. HAHA. But still people don't really know the country. Anyhoo, I'd love to come to NY. It's actually my dream city. Almost certain I'll be there summer time, next year. Can't waiiiiiiiiit. You're allowed to take me anywhere and everywhere. Just to tell you how I love NY, I bought a book yesterday called 'Harlem heritage'. OK. It is more about African american history in Harlem but still.

I have a friend who lives there; he was maybe going to host me if I had gone to France last summer. (I kind of feel like writing in French so that I can practice it; would you be okay with that? You could talk in English and myself in French; bilingual conversation. ) Je n'ai pas su que le Belgique est comme ça. Je sais que vous aimez New York car vous avez écrit que votre petit ami n'aime pas cette ville. >:( Chouette! Nous nous amuserons très bien l'année prochaine.

I ran that through Google Translate and it appears to be all correct, but please fix my errors if there are any. Par exemple (lapsing into French/English here...Franglish?), should I say "sue" because I'm a girl? My teachers and university professors have taught me different things about how you're supposed to write masculine vs. feminine forms, et maintenant je ne sais pas ce qui (lequel?) est correct. Thank you!

Also, I was unlazy enough to get the accents from Google Translate; normally I just forgot the accents because I don't know the ALT codes and I don't have a French keyboard.

[queen]

i think a big problem for me is that the people i come across are "so different" that they all end up being similar in my eyes. i feel like all these artists/ musicians/ creative ass people all slowly but surely evolve into beings created from the same mold, albeit with slight deformities. i find myself saying, "get off your pedestal; you're not that different."

so when someone asks me my interests, i rarely even answer truthfully anymore. i really hate the question "what type of music do you listen to?/ what's your favorite music" because i find it's a very uninteresting question. no one i know limits themselves to certain types of music, and neither do i believe in strict musical genres in the first place. what one person would consider "rock/hip hop/trance/pop/etc" would be something else to someone else. so yeah, if someone asked me that question, i would retort with the typical "i listen to anything./ i like all music." generic question deserves generic reply.

...although, i do admit that i usually give that answer to someone with whom i don't feel like having a deep conversation. i guess in that sense it translates as a shoo away.

[Sandraaa]

I have a friend who lives there; he was maybe going to host me if I had gone to France last summer. (I kind of feel like writing in French so that I can practice it; would you be okay with that? You could talk in English and myself in French; bilingual conversation. ) Je n'ai pas su que le Belgique est comme ça. Je sais que vous aimez New York car vous avez écrit que votre petit ami n'aime pas cette ville. >:( Chouette! Nous nous amuserons très bien l'année prochaine.

I ran that through Google Translate and it appears to be all correct, but please fix my errors if there are any. Par exemple (lapsing into French/English here...Franglish?), should I say "sue" because I'm a girl? My teachers and university professors have taught me different things about how you're supposed to write masculine vs. feminine forms, et maintenant je ne sais pas ce qui (lequel?) est correct. Thank you!

Also, I was unlazy enough to get the accents from Google Translate; normally I just forgot the accents because I don't know the ALT codes and I don't have a French keyboard.

ça ne me dérange pas si tu veux parler en français. Tu peux me tutoyer (I'm only 21, so you can use 'tu' instead of 'vous'. 'Vous' makes me realllly uncomfortable. haha)

Je n'ai pas su que le Belgique est comme ça.
Correction : je ne savais pas que la Belgique était comme ça. Alors, (je n'ai pas su = passé composé) mais pour cette phrase, le temps correcte est l'imparfait (je ne savais pas) parce que l'imparfait est utilisé pour des périodes de temps indéfinies. There's no particular time you thought Belgium wasn't like that. You've ALWAYS thought Belgium wasn't like that hence 'imparfait'. Hope I'm clear. Haha. Don't want to confuse you more.
Also, there is NEVER a feminin when you conjugate a verbe with 'avoir' when the object isn't in front of the verbe. HAHA. So freaking weird. 'Je n'ai pas su'. 'La pomme, c'est moi qui l'ai mangée. HAHA. Hope French isn't too confusing.

Other than that, BRAVO !

[Sandraaa]

i think a big problem for me is that the people i come across are "so different" that they all end up being similar in my eyes. i feel like all these artists/ musicians/ creative ass people all slowly but surely evolve into beings created from the same mold, albeit with slight deformities. i find myself saying, "get off your pedestal; you're not that different."

so when someone asks me my interests, i rarely even answer truthfully anymore. i really hate the question "what type of music do you listen to?/ what's your favorite music" because i find it's a very uninteresting question. no one i know limits themselves to certain types of music, and neither do i believe in strict musical genres in the first place. what one person would consider "rock/hip hop/trance/pop/etc" would be something else to someone else. so yeah, if someone asked me that question, i would retort with the typical "i listen to anything./ i like all music." generic question deserves generic reply.

I am someone who thinks that the kind of music you listen to shows a little bit of whom you are. I also believe that they way you dress shows a little bit of your personality. I understand someone who says 'I'm not really picky when it comes to music but I really like classical music'. Personally, I love soft rock. 70 and 80s rock. Doesn't mean I don't like other music genres. I listened to Young Forever by Jay Z and M. Hudson today and I loved it. But in general, I don't listen to that kind of music. I think the question 'what kind of music do you listen to' is absolutely valid. And I find people who answer 'everything' confused. I don't see how possible it is to listen and like everything.

I love music and I love talking about music. My neighbour and I who rarely talked are now 'close' thanks to music. We were both online late on facebook and he posted a youtube video. I replied and he talked to me on the chat. And we found out that we both loved Muse. I discovered music I never knew existed. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Excuse my English. I hope my errors aren't that many.

[queen]

^ yah, i can see your viewpoint, and in hindsight i see why my comment seems a bit irrational. however, i think it just comes down to what your spectrum of like vs love vs dislike vs hate is. for example, it is rare for me to find music i greatly dislike, but i know they exist out there. however, i cannot name from the top of my head some type of music i hate. there are songs that appeal to me less than others, but i wouldn't consider them songs i dislike. it is also rare for me to love a song. songs i love, i never take out of "collection", and this category probably holds less than 20 songs for me. so the majority of the music i listen to fall under my "like" category. therefore the easy answer for me is to just say i like anything. i edited my original post saying that i admit sometimes this is just a way for me to tell someone i'm not interested in holding a longer conversation, but i find myself doing that to practically everyone who asks.

the majority of people who ask me that question don't really care to know that i "like" so and so, but that i also listen to so and so, and that i keep so and so on replay everyday. i personally wouldn't care either (about their answers), unless i am already pretty close with the individual/s. but then by that time, it is safe to assume i already have an idea of the music they love vs what they just "listen to". usually when people ask that type of question, it's more of an ice breaker, and i'm just one of those folks who don't like to get into deep(er) conversation with people whom i feel don't really want to.

so to reiterate my thought, i hate "ice breaker" questions, especially if it comes from someone whom i feel is not ready to have an actual conversation. more often than not, i never talk to people who ask me those questions again (what are your hobbies? what's your favorite color? what kinds of movies do you watch? what games do you play?). my friends and even acquaintainces don't ask me those types of questions, because our conversations would usually flow naturally; one wouldn't need to ask what i like, they would just know through our discussions. but now, we're getting into the subject of speech, which is a little different from OP's rant. while he has a problem with people who like anything or nothing, my problem deals with how people ask the question to get that type of information from someone.

oh and, koennen Sie Deutsch auch sprechen?

[Sandraaa]

^ yah, i can see your viewpoint, and in hindsight i see why my comment seems a bit irrational. however, i think it just comes down to what your spectrum of like vs love vs dislike vs hate is. for example, it is rare for me to find music i greatly dislike, but i know they exist out there. however, i cannot name from the top of my head some type of music i hate. there are songs that appeal to me less than others, but i wouldn't consider them songs i dislike. it is also rare for me to love a song. songs i love, i never take out of "collection", and this category probably holds less than 20 songs for me. so the majority of the music i listen to fall under my "like" category. therefore the easy answer for me is to just say i like anything. i edited my original post saying that i admit sometimes this is just a way for me to tell someone i'm not interested in holding a longer conversation, but i find myself doing that to practically everyone who asks.

the majority of people who ask me that question don't really care to know that i "like" so and so, but that i also listen to so and so, and that i keep so and so on replay everyday. i personally wouldn't care either (about their answers), unless i am already pretty close with the individual/s. but then by that time, it is safe to assume i already have an idea of the music they love vs what they just "listen to". usually when people ask that type of question, it's more of an ice breaker, and i'm just one of those folks who don't like to get into deep(er) conversation with people whom i feel don't really want to.

so to reiterate my thought, i hate "ice breaker" questions, especially if it comes from someone whom i feel is not ready to have an actual conversation. more often than not, i never talk to people who ask me those questions again (what are your hobbies? what's your favorite color? what kinds of movies do you watch? what games do you play?). my friends and even acquaintainces don't ask me those types of questions, because our conversations would usually flow naturally; one wouldn't need to ask what i like, they would just know through our discussions. but now, we're getting into the subject of speech, which is a little different from OP's rant. while he has a problem with people who like anything or nothing, my problem deals with how people ask the question to get that type of information from someone.

oh and, koennen Sie Deutsch auch sprechen?

Oh, I see your point. Ice breaker questions. Like, 'how do you feel about the weather today?' kind of thing. Haha. I don't go around asking every person I meet what kind of music they listen to. Maybe it's me but I can sometimes guess the kind of music people listen to by their fashion sense, way of talking and all.
Since I love music, when I ask that question, it's because I want to get to know the person better. I don't ask my friends what kind of music they listen to ... they're already my friends. My neighbour and I, whenever I'm at his place, music is always on. We're always on youtube, showing each other a new song. If he hadn't posted that video, I'm not sure we'd have been this close at all. Ah well, people see things differently.

And, no. I don't speak German AT ALL. The only way I understood that is because I understand a little bit of Dutch. They say German is an official language here but really, English is spoken more than German. Haha.

[superstitious]

i think one of my biggest pet peeves is people who don't seem to be interested in anything. you ask them what they are interested in and they can't even hardly give an answer, or they can only think of one or two things. why are people so uninteresting? do you feel you are an interested person?

For me, I'm more dismayed by a general lack of interst in anything than annoyed. If you ask me what I'm interested in, I'd probably go off for days. Then again, I require a lot of entertainment (books, movies, television, music, games and so on). I find entertainment in cooking (and in particular, reading cooking books which has spawned shelves of cuisine related books). Anyone here that knows me at all, knows that I'm very much into comic books, particularly DC and Vertigo prints. I've never been ashamed of it, even though at times it feels like there's an intellectual (or lack thereof) stigma to it.

Then there's the kid. Autism is subject that can be easily discussed at length. Hell, having a kid period can be means of discussion or idle chatter.

I don't know, I never feel like I'm lacking in subject matter though I completely understand the feeling that it can seem challenging to find people to talk to because getting anything out of them is like pulling teeth.

Ooo edit: Hi Sandra!