Not my thing

[beetiger]

I was reading theferrett today, and came to a realization: I have never, never had any interest in going into a mosh pit. I love music, and I've been known to thrash around or go all tranced out and whirling dervish if it strikes me right -- but if I run into people while I'm doing that, it's not a feature.

Hell, I'm claustrophobic enough that when I was at a (not that crowded, honestly) standing only Ben Folds concert at Roseland, I was doing magic to increase the apparent size of my personal space, and having my girlfriend threaten anyone who got too close to me with her backpack.

What thing that some people you know seem to really like do you have zero interest in doing?

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[lediva.livejournal.com]

Drugs (as in, the less-than-legal ones) - combination of being a wuss when it comes to breaking the law and just generally being concerned about health issues. Similarly for smoking, except without the whole legal worry thing.

Bloodplay - I prefer my blood to stay on the inside. I don't enjoy getting random cuts from things, the idea of doing it intentionally (for erotic effect, even) doesn't flip any good switches for me.

Voting Bush - I just don't get it.

(Once again proving that I can't do anything these days without making it political somehow.)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Scrapbooking.

Voting Bush also :)

[blither.livejournal.com]

Casual sex. =)

Also, voting Bush, also. ;)

Raising children to be test takers.

Being married.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

NaNoWriMo.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Besides eating nasty-looking foods like, oh, cottage cheese?

Hmm....watching a hockey game; PLAYING hockey; anything hockey-related, really, with the possible exception of riding the zamboni. In general, the only use I have for ice is either as a 'berg or in tiny cubes in my drink.

Oh, playing poker, smoking cigars, and combinations thereof.

[m0nkeygrl.livejournal.com]

IRC

Online RPG's (tried it...couldn't make myself be interested)

Again, voting for Bush.

[cloverr.livejournal.com]

I like aerobic exercise, but NOT DDR

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Larping!

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Bruises as part of sexplay. Let alone bloodplay. If it hurts too long past the point of the endorphin rush, it's not fun for me any more. It just hurts.

Mosh pits are another one for me, too. Slam dancing is not dancing. It's socially condoned mayhem.

Knitting. I barely use the crochet skills I have. Why learn another needlecraft I won't use?

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Caring about, much less watching, really boring professional sports like baseball or cricket. At least people run around in soccer. It makes a bit of sense.

Vegetarianism.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Alcohol - I understand wine; I don't like it but I acknowledge that someone else could like the taste. I don't understand any other type of alcohol at all ... it smells so awful, and it makes you act like an idiot. Not that I can drink alcohol ANYWAY on a right-hand path, but hey.

MMORPGs - With a M* I can understand the appeal, even if I'm not willing to invest the time myself. It's like an RPG with rotating player groups. But this ... this is just an overcomplicated video game that you have to play multiplayer, often with idiots. Most have no stories worth mentioning. And they CHARGE MONEY, not the one-time fee for a PS2 disc or an RPG book but a monthly FEE! What is up with THAT?

Incessantly Quoting Movies and TV Shows - If I haven't seen the show you've quoted, then your statement will make no sense. If I have, then I have already heard the joke. It's one thing to put an old quote in a new context and make it funny again -- like responding to someone's speculation about Nader 2004 with a drawled "A man's got to know his limitations" -- but when over fifty percent of your conversation is borrowed, or begins with the phrase "Remember the episode when," it's time to take that sense of humor in for an oil change.

[kai-ta-loipa.livejournal.com]

Having children. I like other people's kids, and can understand how people are happy with kids, but... I've just never wanted any.

And ditto on the NaNoWriMo.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

If it involves sticking a needle into myself, I'm not there. If it involves inhaling something warmer than room temperature which did not just come out of an oven in a casserole dish, I'm so not there. For that matter, I don't even drink very much or very often, so I suppose you could say I avoid every kind of drug.

shut down

[allessindra.livejournal.com]

actively turn one's brain off for pleasure. Sitting vegetating in front of a television is the most frequent behavior. People who say, "Why would I want to do something that requires *thought*? Thinking is for work!"

I only know of one way to shut my brain off, and that is so completely altered a state that I can't do it for myself, and it doesn't last, and I'm still actively working on something, it's just not *my* something, it's someone else's.