People who can't accept that you don't love the things they do.

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AIBU to be annoyed when people refuse to accept that something isn't for me?

A friend adores camping and is going on a camping holiday with a small group later in the year. I said how lovely. Have a wonderful time. She says you should come with us. I said you know camping isn't my thing but I'm looking forward to hearing about it. Cue a long rant/speech about the joys of camping and how wonderful it is and that I shouldn't let my first experience put me off.

I had the same when I read a book that a friend recommended which I didn't love but said it was an interesting read. This resulted in another conversation practically demanding that I admit how wrong I was.

Does anyone else know someone like this?

"I've got a try anything once mentality so struggle with people being closed minded"

try, just once, to accept that some people don't have a "try anything once" mentality?

TV comedies, DS2 and I will be crying with laughter watching something, whereas DH cannot fathom what we find amusing, however I don't make him sit with me to watch what I enjoy.
I get the frustration with people who will not "give things a go" My DIL was very anti "staying in a caravan". She visited us in one we were staying in and was amazed at the 5* accomodation we had, and has now booked her family a holiday staying in a caravan.
I've tried camping, never again!

I've known people like that too.

My colleagues love Love Island, I cant stand it, but I've never moaned about them talking about it.

Some members of MN's drone on about how gaming is for kids and you must be immature if you are a gamer. Just let people get on with what they enjoy. As long as it aint hurting anyone.

I don't want to and won't try:
-anal
-skiing
-camping
-coach trips
-liver

We were too poor as kids to have anything but camping holidays so I think that endeared it to me early on. Now I work festivals so I camp several times a year and think festival loo's have helped me out in life as I have a great squat position for public loo's so you don't touch the seat lol. However I have friends who can't even cope with youth hostels so I just accept my standards of comfort are quite low.

Agree Alan Partridge isn't fun. Not impressed by Monthy Python either.

DH is like this, if I don’t like something it’s becaue I haven’t given it a “proper go”
H - we should go sailing
Me - I hate sailing but you go
H- just try it
Me - I did, 3 times, I threw up a lot
DH - see, you were unlucky. I bet if you tried again you would love it
me - I really don’t want to and I’m not going to
DH - kids would love it
DC - no way Dad
DH - (to me,). That’s your fault
Every bloody book and film he likes I’m supposed to read or watch and if I do but don’t like them I “don’t get it” .

i really dislike alan partridge he's got the sort of face i really want to slap, like so many so called comedians now you just aren't funny to my ears. please don't get me on celebs and megan, ott baby shower, markle

I rarely admit it because I know most people love them, but I don't like dogs. My mum can't accept this and keeps alluding to us one day getting one. I tell her that neither of us really have the time or inclination, she always trails off with "well, maybe you could just get a small one" . No!

Ha, I know what you mean! I’m a vegetarian because I don’t like meat. I’m happy that others enjoy it, but I don’t!

Cue lots of people telling me that I don’t know what I’m missing. Only I do, because I’ve tried lots of meats and don’t like them. I could eat it if I wanted to but I don’t want to!

I really couldn’t care less what they eat so I’m not sure why they’re so interested in what I do!

Game of thrones, people seem to get personally offended when I tell them I couldn't get into it

With you on everything bar the liver halfwit. It’s delicious nutritious and cheap!! TRY IT DAMN YOU TRY IT

I'm like this about hot weather. Seemingly everyone in the world loves it when the temperature rises above 20C, but I loathe it and operate best at around 10C and below. I put it down to a combination of Viking genetics, pale freckly skin, and being fat. But if I ever express my preference for the cold, people just cannot get their heads around it. They accuse me of being "miserable" - usually the same people who spend all of winter whinging that it's too cold... it drives me mad!

Yanbu op. Camping, caravanning and the like - a big yucky no for me as well.

My mother was like this. Particularly in regard to food.

"Have some ham"

"Oh - no thank you. I don't like ham"

"Yes you do - ham's lovely"

"I don't. I've never liked ham."

"Everyone likes ham"

"I don't. Please - you just enjoy it. I'm fine."

"You can't eat just vegetables!"

"Honestly - they're lovely!"

"Rubbish! Look - -just have one slice of ham."

"Mam - honestly. I don't like it. I've never liked it."

"That's because you won't eat it"

"No! - I won't fucking eat it because I don't fucking LIKE it!"

Then she'd slam a lump onto your plate.

Then she'd complain about the "waste" because you'd left it.

Then she'd look all hurt and say how she "couldn't do right for doing wrong" and make you feel crap.

(And she would also sneak "ham" into dished with comparatively unidentifiable ingredients and strong spices flavours, and say "Did you like that curry." "Yes - it was very nice" "HA!!!! It was HAM!!!!! There was HAM in it!!!!! You say you don't like ham and there was HAM in there and you ate it and liked it!!!!! I told you you liked ham, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

It wore me out . . . . )

I hear you OP, I hate camping and I have no wish to go. I did camping as a child a lot, and I just remember being wet, cold and having to walk across a field to get to the toilet. No thanks.

I don’t like steak, and every time I have this conversation (including on mn), someone always tells me it’s because I haven’t had it cooked properly. I have. I don’t like it. Just accept it.

A friends mother wanted me to go to Florida with her and family because if I used a wheelchair they would get to the front of the queue at the theme parks.

I hate heat (I need air con in this country), I hate theme parks, I have been on precisely 1 rollercoaster in my life, that is enough.

I'm am very pale skinned, I have sun burnt:
through clothes
through windows
in the shade

I have quite a few medical conditions that make travel insurance expensive, so for the USA would be even more so.

But every time I saw her she tried to make me think it was a good idea.

My friend is NC with his mother, not about this, but I'm quite glad.

I dont like cheating bastard (soon to be ex) husbands, but maybe thats just me...

Some members of MN's drone on about how gaming is for kids and you must be immature if you are a gamer.

This irks me so much! DH is a gamer but that does not mean he is immature, or a bad husband. Its a hobby for him to enjoy in his spare time. Why should be so considered any different to watching/playing football? Or may Golf?

Bloody hell Sashh. That's terrible, what an awful attitude to have, as though you're an object to be used for their convenience and not a person.

I'm like this about hot weather. Seemingly everyone in the world loves it when the temperature rises above 20C, but I loathe it and operate best at around 10C and below. I put it down to a combination of Viking genetics, pale freckly skin, and being fat. But if I ever express my preference for the cold, people just cannot get their heads around it. They accuse me of being "miserable" - usually the same people who spend all of winter whinging that it's too cold... it drives me mad!

Me, too Grace - there is a small temperature window of about 5 degrees at the cooler end of the spectrum when I can do anything - I am like a super person, I have so much energy - then it warms up and I collapse like a wet rag.

I have never given a shiny shit about what people like doing as long as it doesnt infringe on my time and money.

I have a cost benefit analysis of any event or thing to experience I’m invited to. Of course actually expressing a preference makes me difficult in the eyes of some. I’m not rude I just say I’m sorry I can’t come. If continually pressed on the odd occasion I will spill the beans and say I loathe x. If people are evangelical about anything and can’t understand why you don’t like something I just think their a bit short of brain cells.

I've got a try anything once mentality so struggle with people being closed minded.
It's not closed minded to know what your likes and dislikes are.
We have limited money so can't afford a holiday every year. If I'm going away its got to be something I know I will enjoy.

Experimenting is for stuff which is free or very very cheap.

I must say, that I used to have a friend who you never knew what she did or didn't like because she changed her opinion depending on the people she was with! (Take a guess why she is no longer m friend...)

DH is a musician and for much of the time his musical tastes and mine do not coincide. Apparently I'm in the wrong, because he knows what he's talking about

I agree, there are plenty of things in life about which reasonable minds can differ. Real life isn't the AIBU board. You can disagree with me but still be being perfectly reasonable.

Someone not loving a book you recommended or not wanting the same type of holiday isn't a personal slight.