Someone just asked the opposite of this question here and I was wondering if there are cases were you’re just not interested in something but you know the community is great nonetheless.

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Rugby players.

    I don’t care for sports so much, but a ton of my friends play rugby. Several of my exes play rugby. I’ve got cousins who play rugby. I live in the States and, while rugby is popular, it’s no where near the levels of enthusiasm where like 90% of the people a person hangs out with plays it (and you not also play or have any real interest in it). Mostly to support people I was dating, I’ve been to like ten games in my life and, while I understand how the game is played, I’m just completely uninterested in sports and following sports as a hobby or interest. I don’t know why, but rugby people love me and I love them.

  • AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I FUCKING HATE ketchup. I can’t tolerate the taste or the texture. But I recognize that people that love ketchup are not evil, just misguided.

  • Reyali@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Sex. Neurodivergent/nerd social circles often have a lot of kink/BDSM and otherwise sex positive people, so my friends group is pretty open about sex.

    I’m on the asexual spectrum and would rather forget that sex is a thing, but I love my friends and as long as everyone is consenting and safe, I’m happy for them. I sometimes get awkward when sex convos happen around me, but hey, I get awkward with many other convos too.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I’m a part of the wrong nerd circles. Most of mine consist of one token furry, a couple lbgtqia+'s, an aging jock who clearly hasn’t grown up since highschool(but they were pretty in highschool as well) and a weirdly successful dude who you would never guess it. I don’t think any of them talked about sex with one another.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        No, not really. Do you need a diagram and flowchart?

        (Come to think of it: An awesome use case for gen AI would be a bot that generates memes and weird images on demand)

        • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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          9 days ago

          (not my meme, but I’ll add) Some missing context - Professor Chang, pictured in the meme - is also shouting at something that clearly isn’t gay.

          Professor Chang is essentially a continuous uncomfortable non-sequiter of nonsense.

    • Plum@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Did you ever get into audio books? It’s nice to have someone else read to you at bedtime or during a commute.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Ooohh ooh audio books are my bag baby yeah.

        Podcasts too.

        It’s all about timbre and accent. I could listen to the right voice read the phone book.

        • Theo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 days ago

          See, I have ebooks I want in audio, so I have to settle for ‘robot’ android voice when there is no ‘audiobook option’

          Any good podcast recs? Any genre/subject is fine.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I am not a fan of the hardcore heavy/death metal music itself; but the metalheads are awesome people. The more unintelligible and scary/evil sounding the music, the nicer the crowd. It’s weird and cool and funny.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    Meat-eating and political apathy. Few people are vegetarians at this point in history, and activism tend to attract defective personalities.

    If it sounds like I must be a misanthropic bastard that hates everyone, unfortunately, yeah, I think I do at this point.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    Pineapple on pizza. You’re wrong and I wanna fight you but we can still be friends and have a good time over drinks.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 days ago

        This is gonna be just like my buddy at my old job where it became an office-wide (joke) rift and everybody took sides and anytime someone new joined we’d ask them which side they were on and there was much hemming and hawing on Slack.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    One that’s less relevant now, but throughout my life has been relevant: Juggalos.

    I was a big metalhead in school, and i had a bunch of juggalo friends. I liked a couple of their songs well enough, but I found the “culture” grating. Still, those mothafuckas were the most accepting and tolerant people I knew. Tolerant of anyone’s way of life, except they fucking hated bigots. In the 90s, being accepting of queer peeps really wasn’t in vogue (to put it lightly) but juggalos welcomed queer peeps as friends with open arms.