Popular things that, in fact, suck.
Jazz.
Soccer
Baseball
Game of Thrones
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As Snoopy has clearly stated: "Cats are the crabgrass on the lawn of life."
Soccer, Baseball (and all professional sports) along with Game of Whatever, but must disagree with you on Jazz. 
But I do like the car in that commercial, it's a Plymouth Duster, my first car which I inherited from my mother when I learned to drive, loved that car! 
Maybe throw tennis in for good measure. 
What is up with this site. Jazz and Tennis.
I am about to throw down!
Steffie was always awesome as well. But in general yeah. Baseline drove me crazy back then. The only one I always rooted for was Jimmy Conners. That US Open run in 1991 was so amazing. I have never wanted someone to be in the finals so badly. He was my dad's age at the time so of course I thought old... I am older now than he was then lol. My perspective is quite different
JAZZ!????
There's fightin' words.
With an inconsistent beat. We have a local NPR station that has a jazz Sunday show. Some of it I like, and then for some of it, I turn off the radio because it's just annoying.
Go ahead. I can take it.
Only a few are blessed with good taste that matches mine and it appears you didn't make the cut. 
I agree it got confusing and kinda boring. A whole buncha people wandering around Westeros and Esteros wasting a buncha time without really moving the plot forward. In a way, the show was better because it trimmed the lard...up until it got ahead of the books. The show writers did a lot of typical Hollywood BS (call it "plot armor"
and totally screwed it up imo. Characters who were smart became dumb; characters who were devious became predictable; characters who were unrepentant and bold turned into cowards; characters who were on a redemption arc regressed. Oh, and all prophecies and foreshadowing and historical importance of certain characters got tossed out the window, just so they could be "unexpected" and wrap the show in the requisite number of episodes. Gah.
The problem was, imo, that these books have been out for decades...and have been hyper-analyzed from the beginning. The R+L=J theory was first mentioned within a year of the first book. So then the author started dragging around a bunch of red herrings and side-plots and just got lost in it. And couldn't tie it all together. It's too bad.
Auto Racing
Facebook
Hockey
The Kardashians
Democratic Underground ... I KID! I KID!!! (it's really not that popular)
As for your list Goodheart:
Game of Thrones was great for 5 seasons (the last two were a bit meh), so, sorry, but you're incorrect
I don't like watching soccer but I don't think it sucks.
Baseball is cool if one of my teams (A's, to a less extent Giants) are in the playoffs but regular season is kinda meh. Not enough at stake in any one game.
Old, Classic Jazz is THE SHIZZ, but a lot of more modern stuff is pretty boring, I'd grant that.
And your earlier comment, that Jazz players are not talented enough to play a melody is a joke, man. Many Jazz musicians are among the best of the best at their instruments. It's just that the 'point' of Jazz is not 'melodies', per se.
Listen to 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis and consider that entire album was created in TWO DAYS in studio, with Miles basically going 'okay, here's the main chords, and the key of this song', with maybe a figure or two per song, and the rest is all made up on the spot over the span of a few takes. And it's amazing.
New Order, the Cure, Depeche Mode... now THERE'S music. 
The Cure is one of my top 5 all time fave bands ... but you probably knew that given how I'm their biggest pimp around here
And it was also the first Jazz album I really appreciated. We're probably far from alone on this point
...that is, the so-called Swing Era. The "Jazz Age" of the 20s was really more of a popular dance band era--Paul Whiteman was a lot more popular than Louis Armstrong, or for that matter Duke Ellington. After 1945 and the War, Swing gave way to Bop. "Modern" jazz was, in fact, fairly popular into the 1960s, but it didn't hold the center of our culture the way Swing did. Since the 60s--roughly after the death of Coltrane in 1967--jazz has become a small, but sturdy, niche music. But everyone has heard of Miles, Bird, Diz, Monk, Mingus, Brubeck, even if they don't know that much about their music apart from Kind of Blue, Take Five, and Round Midnight. Only a very few know today's jazz stars...
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you'd have to hose down a machine with LYSOL to get me to use it 
Love love love Gershwin, especially "Rhaposdy in Blue" - been a fan for many decades.
I would love to see them live if they are ever in the Boston area.
Get off my lawn.
My brother is a DJ. Program director of 2 locally owned (a rare breed) radio stations, one oldies and the other country oldies. And he does a lot of weddings, parties etc. He says there is an “age line” to whether you like rap or not; to most people older than mid-50s it’s like nails on a chalkboard. He keeps that in mind selecting music for a crowd. Incidentally we are both a bit above the age line.
Sushi. Again I think it’s an age thing, my millennial kids love the stuff. Even my 5 yo grandson (an adventurous eater for a kid) likes it.
