Wednesday, October 19, 2005
If you...
Jesse linked me to a SportsFrog message board thread called "If you don't like...We can't be friends."
People on the site were listing things like Dave Chappelle, a rack of BBQ ribs, snow days when you were a kid, first kisses, back massages, Barry Sanders, hitting on the bartender at a strip club, the beginning of "Babo O'Reilly", a self-depricating sense of humor, every Coen Brothers movie, breasts, puppies, and a host of sports moments, such as making the extra pass, a well-executed squeeze play, and so and so.
I think a few important clarifications need to be made. People are confusing or stretching or misinterpreting the word "like" in qualifying what they are putting on this list.
No one is not going to like someone just because they don't like a rack of BBQ ribs, unless maybe your name is Famous Dave. Your friend may have a parallel item to your ribs that you do not like, but they will still like you.
No one is not going to like someone just because they don't like every single Coen Brothers movie, although that may be a viable reason - except Intolerable Cruelty sucked.
Many of these things will depend on the gender of the friend as well. I'm not sure that someone's female friends would appreciate hitting on the bartender at a strip club as much as the author of that one apparently does.
I think there are two different categories here.
1) If you don't like...then we can't be friends.
2) If you can't appreciate...then we can't be friends.
There is a difference. You may not like naps, and that is okay, but if you can't appreciate how I love a good one, then we're going to have problems. You might hate the Libertarian Party, but if you can appreciate why I do like it, then we can be friends. You might not even like baseball, but if you can appreciate an extra inning walk off home run, then we can be friends.
Here is my initial list:
If you don't like Field of Dreams, we can't be friends. It doesn't have to be one of your Top 10 favorites of all time, but if you don't like that movie then I think you have issues with understanding humanity and that won't fly. I don't have friends who don't like that movie. I hate Donnie (Nobody needs to worry about that last sentence except for Adam.)
If you can't appreciate the differences between you and I, then we can't be friends.
If you don't like giving each other shit, then we can't be friends.
If you can't appreciate a really good argument over a trivial issue, then we can't be friends.
If you don't like mindless, witty banter, we can't be friends.
If you can't appreciate the evidence supporting evolution, we can't be friends because you are an idiot. You don't have to like it, but you have to appreciate that it exists.
That's all I have for now, I'm sure more will follow.
I want to hear from the masses on this one. The masses means you, Readers. What's on your list?
Until The Next.
People on the site were listing things like Dave Chappelle, a rack of BBQ ribs, snow days when you were a kid, first kisses, back massages, Barry Sanders, hitting on the bartender at a strip club, the beginning of "Babo O'Reilly", a self-depricating sense of humor, every Coen Brothers movie, breasts, puppies, and a host of sports moments, such as making the extra pass, a well-executed squeeze play, and so and so.
I think a few important clarifications need to be made. People are confusing or stretching or misinterpreting the word "like" in qualifying what they are putting on this list.
No one is not going to like someone just because they don't like a rack of BBQ ribs, unless maybe your name is Famous Dave. Your friend may have a parallel item to your ribs that you do not like, but they will still like you.
No one is not going to like someone just because they don't like every single Coen Brothers movie, although that may be a viable reason - except Intolerable Cruelty sucked.
Many of these things will depend on the gender of the friend as well. I'm not sure that someone's female friends would appreciate hitting on the bartender at a strip club as much as the author of that one apparently does.
I think there are two different categories here.
1) If you don't like...then we can't be friends.
2) If you can't appreciate...then we can't be friends.
There is a difference. You may not like naps, and that is okay, but if you can't appreciate how I love a good one, then we're going to have problems. You might hate the Libertarian Party, but if you can appreciate why I do like it, then we can be friends. You might not even like baseball, but if you can appreciate an extra inning walk off home run, then we can be friends.
Here is my initial list:
If you don't like Field of Dreams, we can't be friends. It doesn't have to be one of your Top 10 favorites of all time, but if you don't like that movie then I think you have issues with understanding humanity and that won't fly. I don't have friends who don't like that movie. I hate Donnie (Nobody needs to worry about that last sentence except for Adam.)
If you can't appreciate the differences between you and I, then we can't be friends.
If you don't like giving each other shit, then we can't be friends.
If you can't appreciate a really good argument over a trivial issue, then we can't be friends.
If you don't like mindless, witty banter, we can't be friends.
If you can't appreciate the evidence supporting evolution, we can't be friends because you are an idiot. You don't have to like it, but you have to appreciate that it exists.
That's all I have for now, I'm sure more will follow.
I want to hear from the masses on this one. The masses means you, Readers. What's on your list?
Until The Next.
