I was at a BBQ quite recently and we had roast chicken for lunch. Everyone started shrieking about what parts of the chicken they wanted most. Me? I’m a wing gal. Others, they like a leg. Each to their own. My aunty likes the Parsons Nose which is essentially the chicken’s butt. It’s gross (I’m not entirely convinced that it’s even edible) but it’s her weird thing that she loves that everyone else hates.
This got me thinking about some of the things that I like that other people hate.
You know those things that you tell people you love and they go ‘Ewwwwww!’????
Here’s my top 6.
1. Burnt food
I prefer most of my food to be over cooked, with a nice crispy side of charcoal thank you. Chips that have been over-cooked in old oil until they’re the colour of butterscotch and they hurt your gums when you bite into them, sausages that are unrecognisable black, turd shaped logs and chocolate chip cookies that are dark brown and crumbly at the edge. Delicious!
2. The bottom bunk
I think most adults are savvy enough to choose the bottom bed in those unfortunate but necessary grown-up-bunk-bed-sleeping situations but even as a child I’ve been a massive advocate of the bottom bunk. For starters I’m a chronic toilet go-er AND a heavy sleeper which makes a full bladdered stumble-down-a-ladder very dangerous in the middle of the night. I also just find it unessessary to sleep up that high. All my teachers in primary school thought I was very mature for not fighting over bunk beds but I think the term they were looking for was ‘evolved.’ The top bunk sucks and I just figured it out way before everyone else.
3. Looking at gross things
I love all gross things. Plastic surgery documentaries, pimple squeezing YouTube videos, roadkill, Embarrassing Bodies episodes where they show bulbus diseased body parts that are completely unidentifiable. Most people dry retch at the word ‘pus’, but me? There is nothing that will make me click a link faster than if it contains the phrases ‘world’s grossest’ or ‘most infected’ in it.
4. Tequila
I must be the only person in existence to have not had a bad night on tequila. I’ve got friends who can’t even SMELL the stuff lest they prematurely end their night with their head in a toilet. I adore tequila. It’s liquid sunshine. If someone is offering tequila slammers, I’ll be second in line… right after Mama Smaggle who would have thrown small children out of the way to elbow her way to the front of the queue.
5. Ke$ha and Pitbull’s song Timber
This song popped up on Spotify when I was on the treadmill one day and I started bopping away to it and I MAY have added it to my favourites list. I then discovered it’s one of those songs that’s really daggy and only pathetic people like it but by then it was too late. It was already added to my Pump It Up Carly! exercise play list so… soz about that.
6. Throwing up
I do not understand people who say they don’t like throwing up. There is no relief in the world more satisfying than a good spew after you’ve been feeling wretched for 6 hours. Obviously the act of throwing up isn’t all that pleasant but it’s usually so quick and the subsequent relief is extraordinary. If I’ve been bent over a toilet for the better part of an evening with food poisoning, it’s pretty safe to say that throwing up would be my favourite thing in the world at that precise moment.
Over to you…
What things do you like that other people hate? Which of your favourite things makes people go ‘ewwww’?
22 Comments
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Vomiting is my least favourite thing the world! I cry every time!!!
Ironing however is up there with my favourite things to do on a Sunday, I set up my laptop with some sort of fabulous tv show like real housewives and a cup of tea and I can happily iron for hours.-
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I quite like ironing, it’s getting the ironing board out that I hate and then packing it up again! Urgh!
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Stale Twisties and biscuits. I have been known to open a packet of twisties and leave it untouched until the next day. I also like ironing.
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Ha! I love that you plan it and don’t just eat them when it’s a happy accident!
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I like anchovette paste on fluffy white bread with margarine. I too don’t mind a spew.. Fixes many ills. I like deadlines. I like vanilla ice. I like spiral perms…
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I LOVE deadlines and anchovette paste! Twins! Not so much on the vanilla ice – the convection and the rapper.
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*confection*
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I’m with your Aunty. The parsons nose is delicious! I also love picking out the chicken livers. I love eating the lemon after I’ve finished my fish & chips.
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Impressive. I hate all of those things. Win for you!
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For me it’s country music (as in listening to the country music station and loving every song that comes on) and chips that have gone a little bit cold and soggy. I’m with you on tequila, I’ve had some of my best drunken nights (a few years back) on tequila.
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I’ll pass on the country music and cold chips but I’ll totally share my tequila with you!
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I love this post, big time. Almost as much as I love burnt chips and sausages, the bottom bunk and tequila.
Other things I love but others seem to hate – at the movies I dip my popcorn into my frozen coke, love the movie Waterworld (don’t know what all the fuss is about), prefer eating cold pizza over hot, country music and anchovies, which I secretly cook in everything).
I hate vomitting, especially when it feels like its coming out your nose. Don’t particularly like having the runs either, but geez you feel light and clean after its all out.-
Nope. No dipping popcorn in frozen coke. Blergh. But YES on Waterworld I LOVE that movie!
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I will only ever eat sausages if they are super burnt, especially on the BBQ (& then smothered in tomato sauce). I never would have thought to say that about throwing up, but now that you mentioned it, it certainly can make you feel a hell of a lot better!
I’m trying to think of things that I like that others dont. I like a lot of daggy music myself, and will happily spend my days listening to 5ive & The Spice Girls. I prefer my lemonade to be heated then cold.
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Heated then cold lemonade. I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of that before.
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The soy chicken from my local, daggy Chinese restaurant, often fairly undercooked to first world standards – I’m talking red at the bone ( i.e. blood) and super soft texture is most delicious – no salmonella.. so far., I too love anchovies – recently, at a lunch table of 5, I was the only one to revel in their salty goodness – the hairier the better!
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Oh no! Under cooked chicken in the worst! You win! Gross!
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I am the most aversive-to-vomit person I know. Haven’t done it since 2007 cos that shit is gross.
I also kinda like that Timber song.
But my worst and most shameful one is that I like the Batman movie with George Cloony.
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Yeah lets talk about the George Clooney Batman… we’ll pretend you didn’t just say that. 🙂
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Your list –
Burnt Food: I love burnt lasagna, cookies, and brownies. The chewy, hard bits on the edge are the best!
Bunk Beds: We didn’t have bunk beds growing up, but this weird two bed set where one was high and the other low, but weren’t attached. The low bed went under the high bed at a right angle, it was weird. I often found the top one weird. It’s not normal having your face so close to the ceiling.
Looking at gross things: I can only look at gross things that are happening to me. I’m a narcissistic gross thing looker, I guess. Like ingrown toenails and such. It offers a odd type of relief.
Tequila Shots: Getting them while waiting for your “proper” drink is being made, that used to be my fave.
Timber: It’s horrendous, but so good for working out.
Throwing Up: I’ve always been freaked out by vomiting. Especially the kind that comes out without warning. TMI time. In 2011 I got a UTI that had gotten so bad it had spread to my stomach. Before going to the hospital, I was vomiting all night and my heart felt like it was stopping beating while I did. Hooray Fun!My things, hmmm…I like laundry, just the simple act of it feels relaxing, but also physical at the same time. I especially like folding laundry.
The smell of the petrol station. When I was a kid I would sniff the air really big when my mum was getting petrol. That might explain a few things hahaha -
I don’t mind laundry but filling my car with petrol is my least favourite errand.
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eating a whole punnet of raw mushrooms. god help me.
