Cultural Veto

Do you have a cultural veto?

Not too often, but every once and awhile I get my dander up about something	46.9%	[ 23 ]
Nope, if so many other people like it, I should watch it. That way I can keep up with the times	0.0%	[ 0 ]
If it's popular, it must be bad. People have no taste	10.2%	[ 5 ]
I'm still confused about the whole "dander" thing	12.2%	[ 6 ]
Other!	30.6%	[ 15 ]
Total Votes:			[ 49 ]

[Micamino]

Narnia. All things Disney Channel. Will Farrell and Adam Sandler.
Definitely not my thing.

[Your Protagonist]

Twilight, High School Musical, The OC, Gossip Girls, Sex And The City, American Idol, and Greek.

[Teslapirate]

I haven't seen any movies for the past...what, 2-3 years? Hollywood churns out more crap than a sewage treatment plant. I don't own a television, either, all it'd be good for is playing video games on, but I have my PC for that.

[Licho]

Teslapirate

I haven't seen any movies for the past...what, 2-3 years? Hollywood churns out more crap than a sewage treatment plant. I don't own a television, either, all it'd be good for is playing video games on, but I have my PC for that.

So basically you're vetoing all tv and movies? On the bright side you don't get as disappointed as often, but you do miss out on the "water cooler" conversation.

[Mogmi]

Harry Potter.

[Sharvail]

My list is long.

Dude Where's My Car
Napoleon Dynamite
Borat
High School Musical
Just about anything from the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network
Anything with Will Ferral, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Rob Schneider...
Hannah Montana (I can't wait for that fad to die... I'm sick and tired of seeing it everywhere)
American Idol
Juno
Family Guy
That 70's Show
Scary Movie (All of them)
Anything with Larry the Cable Guy
Meet the Spartans
The popular music these days (How in the world can people stand to listen to that garbage?)
The trendy clothes (What is with the pregnant teen from the 70's look?)
Tickle Me Elmo (I would love to see these burn)
Bratz (I hate seeing these around, are they trying to teach young girls to look like hookers?!)
Spongebob Squarepants
Simpsons episodes made after season 12
Any reality TV show
TV Guide Channel
Harry Potter

I can't think of any more at the moment. I know there is much more to my list.

[Licho]

Sharvail

My list is long.

Dude Where's My Car
Napoleon Dynamite
Borat
High School Musical
Just about anything from the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network
Anything with Will Ferral, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Rob Schneider...
Hannah Montana (I can't wait for that fad to die... I'm sick and tired of seeing it everywhere)
American Idol
Juno
Family Guy
That 70's Show
Scary Movie (All of them)
Anything with Larry the Cable Guy
Meet the Spartans
The popular music these days (How in the world can people stand to listen to that garbage?)
The trendy clothes (What is with the pregnant teen from the 70's look?)
Tickle Me Elmo (I would love to see these burn)
Bratz (I hate seeing these around, are they trying to teach young girls to look like hookers?!)
Spongebob Squarepants
Simpsons episodes made after season 12
Any reality TV show
TV Guide Channel
Harry Potter

I can't think of any more at the moment. I know there is much more to my list.

I think that these "cultural vetos" are things that you think of more as time goes on. I was on a road trip for 14 hours and we kept coming up with our "veto's" the entire trip back.

[FairyDragonWings]

I still havent watched Titanic (came out while I was in HS)...my little sister use to play it all the time and I would leave the house.
I was in Italy for the last 5 yrs so I missed alot of the retarded crap that has been playing on TV...
Ill stick with Law&Order and CSI 4laugh

[Teslapirate]

Licho

Teslapirate

I haven't seen any movies for the past...what, 2-3 years? Hollywood churns out more crap than a sewage treatment plant. I don't own a television, either, all it'd be good for is playing video games on, but I have my PC for that.

So basically you're vetoing all tv and movies? On the bright side you don't get as disappointed as often, but you do miss out on the "water cooler" conversation.

I haven't really heard much TV/movie conversation in the school I'm in, so I don't think I'm missing out on all that much. If I REALLY want to see something I can always rent it on DVD and play it on my PC, after all. That aside, I'm involved in the video game industry, so most of the time conversation revolves around games rather than TV/movies. =]

Now, if they had the same level of quality as they had back in the 80s, then I could be convinced to invest in a TV. Otherwise, forget it.

[Licho]

Teslapirate

Licho

Teslapirate

I haven't seen any movies for the past...what, 2-3 years? Hollywood churns out more crap than a sewage treatment plant. I don't own a television, either, all it'd be good for is playing video games on, but I have my PC for that.

So basically you're vetoing all tv and movies? On the bright side you don't get as disappointed as often, but you do miss out on the "water cooler" conversation.

I haven't really heard much TV/movie conversation in the school I'm in, so I don't think I'm missing out on all that much. If I REALLY want to see something I can always rent it on DVD and play it on my PC, after all. That aside, I'm involved in the video game industry, so most of the time conversation revolves around games rather than TV/movies. =]

Now, if they had the same level of quality as they had back in the 80s, then I could be convinced to invest in a TV. Otherwise, forget it.

True, a lot of the movies they put out are no where near as good as many of the older ones (or at least the ones we remember. We always have the benefit of forgetting the movies from back then that weren't really interesting.

You'r post also reminds me of another point. Subculture vetoing. Such as if you heavily into gaming, and you decide not to play halo. Something a little more relevant to how your focus. Like a mountain climber who skips one of the most popular climbs, or a stamp collector who forgoes a popular set (do people still collect stamps anyway?), or so on.

Or, are you less likely to veto something when you're a part of the subculture group that it's in? Even if you're not really excited about it, are you more likely to go along with because it's a bigger part of how you spend your time?

[Taa-Kun]

Haha, nice, now we're flaming things in real life!

Um, lemme see here, allow me to dig down into the deepest hatred I can manage and...

...

... 'Ere we go!

wahmbulance YOU WILL BE OFFENDED wahmbulance

Book: Twilight - Seriously, get the $%^&* over it. No one cares how AWESOME the series is, for all I'm concerned, it's the same god forsaken thing as Harry Potter. Do you know how many books out there are about wizards AND better than Harry Potter? A lot. Go read them.

Music: All of It - I sincerely think that all music produced after the 90's has just been the same crap, just sung by a different ugly front man.

Television: Reality TV - Yep, all of it. See, no one cares if you pretend to survive on an island for a month. You know why? You were a nobody when the show started, and you'll be a nobody afterward.

Movie: Indiana Jones - I. Swear. To. God. If I have to hear that overplayed, over dramatic, idiotic, repetitive "Theme Song" ever, EVER again... Okay, I feel the same way about this movie as I felt about the newest Rocky movie. Did you ever watch a television show, or read a book series, or maybe played a video game, and just wished it had ended at a particular point prior to when it actually did? Yea, someone should've done that with this.

Video Game: Xbox - REALLY! MAKE ONE DECENT GAME! GOD SAKE! MFISOUFHUSJOIDMKBCUJHI! ::Regains composure.::

Anyway, enjoy!

[ji-an]

@ TAK-KUN

THANK YOU! A MILLION THANK YOU'S! I can't believe X-box 360 sold so well when it has NO decent games. I have another cultural veto against halo and if I hear how wonderful it is one more time, i'll burning_eyes

[karmas lure]

Any news or entertainment article that involves: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, or any other skanks like them.
I wish the news was about real news with real people again.

[Baked Alaskan]

Sex and the ******** city.
That s**t pissed me off so bad, i can't go anywhere without seeing it.

The scary movie movies. :/

And I thougghttt the new Indiana Jones film was going to be crap because people wouldn't shut up, but I was oddly surprised when I went to see it and loved it.

[accontnolongerexists]

Twilight is s**t that could be written in a month by some emo girl and Juno was boring.