Make your terrible confession here:

[milestogo]

Ok, here's mine. I've never seen Star Wars.

I don't know why, I just never got around to it.

[csziggy]

1. I've never watched any of the Rocky or Godfather movies

I dislike boxing and detest mobster movies so there is nothing in either of those two series of movies to attract me.

On the other hand, I am a sci fi geek so I've seen all but the newest Star Wars movie,all the Star Trek shows and movies and pretty much every sci fi movie made before 1985 I've ever had the chance to watch. But I haven't seen the Alien series - something about the thing coming out of the chest just creeps me out too much.

[milestogo]

3. I don't care for violence in film

although those are very good movies which have violence in context. But to each their own.

I have to admit I liked Sigourney Weaver in Alien... and I even enjoy old SciFi with terrible special effects.

[csziggy]

9. I especially love old sci fi movies with terrible special effects

One was running on the MGM channel last week - Strange Invaders.

[pressbox69]

32. That is so sad

you're missing so may Talia Shire and Joe Spinell scenes.

[csziggy]

36. I've seen lots of clips from both movie series

And saw nothing that would induce me to watch them. The few appealing parts are far offset by the negative ones, from what I have seen.

[FrankfurtCat]

2. Here's my confession...

...I saw Star Wars with my Dad when I was 14...

[Ron Obvious]

4. I've never watched Seinfeld or the Simsons

Nor do I care to.

[milestogo]

6. I've never watched Simpsons or South Park.

Seinfeld was awesome though.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Oh, and not South Park or Family Guy either n/t

[PoliticAverse]

5. "I've never seen Star Wars." - you're not the only one. n/t

[Auggie]

7. This is really terrible:

I registered as a Republican for the 1980 Presidential election. It was my first ever election, and I voted for John Anderson. Still kicking myself.

I have never seen an episode of The Simpsons.

[milestogo]

8. I first voted in the presidential election in 1976 and I voted for Gerald Ford.

My reasoning was "He's already been the president, so he knows how to be the president". That was the last time I voted Republican.

However I do realize there are people who never evolve beyond that level of voter reasoning.

[LeftInTX]

15. Me too!!!

I was living on my parents dime. Four years later, I was on my own and voted for Jimmy Carter.

Did you know that Gerald Ford did not know how to eat a tamale? He ate it with the husk on!!! Here's the pic:

[milestogo]

16. !!

I was in college... I didn't talk to my parents or do any research for the election. I had no clue. When I got back to my co-op some of the girls were talking about Jimmy Carter. After a few minutes I realized I had made a mistake and I started putting on my coat. I thought I could go back and change my vote...

I wouldn't know how to eat a tamale either!

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. He was from Michigan for Pete's sake.

I'm no fan of Ford, but I imagine there are some regional foods I wouldn't know how to eat.

[SCantiGOP]

28. I can top your Ford taco-eating

In 1984 poor old doomed Walter Mondale ventured down from Minnesota to South Carolina during the campaign (SC had voted for Carter in 1976, so it wasn't a totally futile effort).
In the coastal town of Beaufort he attended a fundraiser that had a shrimp boil. Boiled (usually pronounced more like 'bald') shrimp take a little bit of effort to remove the shell and dip in sauce before eating.
Mondale had his second shrimp in his hand but seemed reluctant to eat it because he was still chewing the first one. That was when he commented "they sure are crunchy" and we realized he had not removed the shell.

He should have taken a lesson from Strom Thurmond. I (twice) saw Thurmond at events that had boiled shrimp and he would ask some young intern to peel him some. After they had about 40-50 in a pile he would eat a couple, fold the rest in a napkin and put it in his pocket saying, "I'll take these home to Nancy." We could all imagine how, 4 or 5 days later, the smell would send someone to check his coat pocket in the closet.

[Danmel]

62. God forgive me for this

But that woman with him looks like Mrs. Doubtfire.

[pressbox69]

33. Like me.

I voted for Carter and I've been voting Dem ever since. Can't imagine voting for a deplorable republican ever.

[jack69]

51. Don't feel bad,

I voted for Nixon twice, not my most informed moments. Still thought my parents knew best, I guess. Was in Vietnam between those two elections, but still voted the same??

[briv1016]

54. I was a young republican in high school and through by sophmore year of college.

I was heavily influenced by my father. You live, you learn.

[Skittles]

11. I fell asleep during Star Wars, I thought it was stupid

still do

there you have it

[FrankfurtCat]

12. I stayed awake for Star Wars,

but I fell asleep 5 or 6 times during Rogue One. If my daughter hadn't kept jabbing me in the ribs I might have missed the ending, which was pretty awesome

[LeftInTX]

13. Mine is worse:

I couldn't understand it!!!

In the summer of 1977 the hottest guy on campus invites me to a movie. He starts going on and on during the movie, "Wow, this is the greatest" and so on and so forth. I was totally lost. Afterward, we get a bite to eat and he's still raving about the movie, asking me what I thought of specific scenes. I pretended to enjoy it and I tried to pretend I understood it, but I couldn't figure it out.

[Skittles]

14. THANK YOU

I knew I couldn't be the only one who was NOT IMPRESSED with that movie

quite frankly, it bored me.....I thought it was silly

[Ron Obvious]

19. By no means.

Dreadful movie and thoroughly idiotic mythology arc. And I love SF too. Of course, Star Wars is fantasy and not SF at all.

[UTUSN]

17. Whew, thought this was more "terrible". OK, never saw any of the

Shows mentioned, hate dallas cowboys, was in the band.

[FrankfurtCat]

24. Hates the Cowboys?!

[UTUSN]

25. so I made the terrible?

[FrankfurtCat]

39. Ding! Ding! Ding!

Seriously, where I live, few people like the Dallas Cowboys-I'm pretty used to it.

[OriginalGeek]

64. ouch!

But they love you!

[UTUSN]

65. They *do*?!1 Except for their DU fans here, the ones I've seen are ruffian barbarians!1 n/t

[OriginalGeek]

67. I promise Dak and Zeke would love you.

So would Too Tall Jones and probably Hollywood Henderson.

And Crazy Ray would welcome you into the fold




I don't remember a game growing up that he wasn't there. I think he was at nearly every home game from their inception until he died.

[UTUSN]

70. Actually, I know zilch about sports: I was IN THE BAND!1

Well, I know the basics, or rather what appears to me to be the ONE basic, that of invading enemy territory with some kind of treasured (a ball of various shapes and sizes) until it is on the enemy throne. It takes longer to do in football of the U.S. sort than in basketball, with the latter being all herdlike running back and forth. But actually, the most personally most enjoying sports viewing (on t.v., not in person) was a soccer game while in the buzz zone, without many fans, such that I was in a meditative state and I could see the choreography of the sweeping plays across the field. But I don't invest in any teams, don't know enough for that. But the best time is during the World Cup, the last few consisting of my obtaining the noisemakers - I have the what-dya-callums from South Africa/long plastic trumpets, then the carizolas from Brazil, and I have a replica plaster/painted gold World Cup!1

So what I really enjoy is to be in a sports bar during a Cowboys game, with it totally full of ONLY Cowboy fans, and let drop that I hate the Cowboys. Somebody told me that somebody was going to kill me some day.

[OriginalGeek]

71. I will sort of find out about that next season

I'll be attending the Cowboys-Broncos game in Denver with a friend who lives there. He's a long time Broncos fan and his family has season tickets so I'll be with them in all my Cowboys splendor. SOOOO looking forward to to it but not too worried lol. My friend will protect me even though we differ on who the best NFL team is.

I've gone down to see the Cowboys play in Tampa against the Bucs but there were seriously more Cowboys fans there than Bucs fans so it was like a home game lol.

I don't know what kind of bars you go to but I doubt the Cowboys fans are any more violent than if you did the same thing at any other team's fan bar.

A funny aside: We spent new years eve with a friend who was high school flag corp and marching band member. She always hated sports but, of course, I was watching the bowl games and whatnot and she started really getting into them. She thinks she might take up the watching of football as a pastime. Of course, I'm guiding her to Dallas and FSU so she'll have good teams to root for and/or I won't have to kick her out of my house for rooting improperly.

[FrankfurtCat]

77. I was in the band too;

the only football games I saw while in high school were the games our "spirit band" had to play at.
Became a football fan at 18, when my older sister and her husband returned from his home state of Texas. They were Dallas fans; that's when I started watching pro football and Dallas became my favorite team. Back in the Tom Landry era, w/ Danny White, Tony Dorsett, Randy White, Drew Pearson,and Ed "Too Tall" Jones.

Still a fan.

[UTUSN]

82. Ever thought about soccer?

[FrankfurtCat]

91. I really do like soccer as well-(the REAL football)

-two of my daughters played soccer as children, and I enjoyed playing it in high-school, though not on an official team. I don't have a team I root for. How about rugby?

[Ron Obvious]

18. W Bush once waved at me and I waved back...

We happened to be in DC in 2004 and were standing at an intersection near the White House when the whole motorcade came out. There were about 4 of us in the intersection, and someone with a familiar profile in the fourth limo looked directly at me and waved. I instinctively waved back and only realised who that was a few seconds later.

Of course I tell everyone I flipped him the bird. Truth is I never would have done that in any case.

[milestogo]

20. I was a few feet from the limo of Poppy Bush

but we didn't wave at each other.

[Tikki]

69. I turned my back to w while standing on Westwood Blvd in W. L. A....so did the thousands of...

us gathered there to protest that sorry pos.


Tikki

[Laffy Kat]

21. I hated "The Godfather".

Walked out of the theater.

[SCantiGOP]

29. Sorry Laffy Cat

but if I were President I would have to deport you.
Godfather is a tremendous cinematic masterpiece, and the great American movie.

[Laffy Kat]

48. I know it is! And I feel terrible about hating it.

This is a confession thread. I should get a pass for my honesty. No?

[TexasBushwhacker]

74. I walked out of Reservoir Dogs

The ear cutting scene was just too much for me and my mom. I can't even hear that song "Stuck In the Middle With You" without getting the willies.

I walked out of Popeye too.

[Laffy Kat]

79. Oddly, I use to detest Quentin Tarantino and his movies.

One day I rather incidentally saw an interview with him, was intrigued, sought out another, and another and started liking his work. It's odd how a person's taste can change. Still, I would never say his movies are for everyone, nope. I totally get not getting QT.

[TexasBushwhacker]

80. I like most of his movies since then

I can handle most violence in movies, but cruelty is different for me. I wasn't crazy about The Hateful 8 and I opted not to see Django Unchained. It sounded like more than I could handle.

[Laffy Kat]

81. He does use what I consider gratuitous violence.

And it's usually instilled with humor, but I don't know if that's good or bad.

[hunter]

84. I've never seen "The Godfather."

And I don't intend to.

[Callmecrazy]

22. I have never seen an episode of Breaking Bad...

Or Seinfeld.

[SCantiGOP]

30. Aarghhhh

I would have to deport you to.
Breaking Bad is one of the most addictive series I have ever watched.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

47. Mentioning Breaking Bad in the same

sentence as Seinfeld is pretty terrible.

[NobodyHere]

89. Yeah

Seinfeld is way above Breaking Bad

[moonscape]

86. Ha - I had not seen an episode of Breaking Bad either

until I binge-watched all 62 episodes in < a week.

That's my terrible confession!

[Jamaal510]

23. I think there

are too many Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and Superman movies.

[Orrex]

26. I killed my best friend in a trifling quarrel over a pocket knife.

My last thoughts are of my wife and my two dear little boys. I hope and pray that people will not slight them and compel them to go into low company.

[FSogol]

43. If only you had received good instruction as a child

[Orrex]

45. Oh, sure. NOW you tell me.

Where were you when I needed you?

(nice catch, by the way.)

[True Dough]

55. You're trying to one-up Ben Carson?

[Brother Buzz]

31. I can't Hula hoop

I lied for five decades that I could. I was so convincing at lying about it, I believed I could Hula hoop. I tried it and failed miserable a few years ago and realized my whole life has been a lie.

[milestogo]

34. I never dated Mark Harmon or George Clooney

They asked repeatedly but finally they gave up and moved on.

[femmocrat]

35. I hate football.

I live in the middle of a football-crazed populace. I have tried to watch it, but I just can't stand it. I actually root for the local team to lose.

I used to like the high school games when my sons played, but pro-football and all the hoopla makes no sense to me.

[milestogo]

40. I live in Wisconsin and I don't drink milk or beer

But I love football.

[femmocrat]

42. LOL

I drink milk and used to enjoy a beer on occasion, but never while watching a football game!

[Dulcinea]

57. I've lived in the deep South for 27 years...

..and I don't like grits, sweet tea, or Krispy Kreme donuts.

[OriginalGeek]

66. More for me!

Well, the tea is for my wife - she lives on Publix sweet tea.

A while back we decided to try a new breakfast restaurant. After a few minutes of perusing the menu we noticed there were no grits listed. The host happened to be walking by and we flagged him down and asked where on the menu could we find grits. In a thoroughly befuddled tone he asked "What is a grit?" :|

How you gonna open a breakfast place in FLORIDA and not have grits?

Sadly, the closest Krispy Kremes to me have all shut down. Not on my account though. They got all my donut money. Man, when that red sign lit up letting you know the new batch was just out of the fryer....Well, that's probably part of why I'm not allowed to have sweet tea any more. Not enough metformin on the planet to counteract what I'd do to a couple dozen Krispy Kremes.

NOT to be confused with the ones sold in gas stations and convenience stores. Only the ones from the actual donutteries are good.

[FrankfurtCat]

90. We just got our first Krispy Kremes here in Alaska a few months ago..,

...unfortunately, it's still 50 miles away, or I'd be visiting daily. Maybe that's a good thing after all.

[OriginalGeek]

92. I'd sure be thinking of excuses

to ride into that town. Maybe not every day but once or twice a month. Do they have a good hardware store? Something that you can't get more locally? I wouldn't want to tell someone I drove a hundred miles round trip for a donut (I'd do it, I just don't want to tell anyone) but If I needed that special framulator for the thingamajig and happened to drive by a Krispy Kreme to get it, well, that's perfectly reasonable.

Hell, my wife and I have seriously considered taking a long weekend to drive up to Tennessee where the only Taco Tico we know of still exists. I mean, I guess we'd look at something historic or beautiful while there but we all know it was Taco Tico what brung us.

A few years ago we went to Indianapolis for a convention and while searching for cheap hotels we found one with a Jack In The Box next door. Of course I picked that. Shittiest hotel I've ever been in but I had JitB every day for a week and would do it again. Super Tacos and Breakfast Jacks where the fuel of my high school days and they still have them but the tacos are regular size now. Still taste the same though.

[FrankfurtCat]

94. I would drive to Anchorage every day, if I could, and Crispy Creme would be my first stop!

Then the Natural Pantry, the best whole foods grocery store, vitamin store, and natural foods restaurant to balance things out!
Why would they take away Crispy Creme establishments? Is the economy suffering there?
I love the old Taco Time fast food restaurants-but the one we had in Anchorage left over 20 years ago. Now I have to travel to Washington or Oregon to get a Taco Time fix-not so crazy about Taco Bell.
Need to travel more!!! Goals for 2017

[OriginalGeek]

95. I have been asking myself that very question for years.

We used to have a dozen or so but we're down to maybe 2 I can think of and both further than I get on a normal day. I think they just have a hard time competing with crappy Dunkin Donuts tonnage of advertising. People will take an inferior product all day because the saw it on the TV lookity-box.

When I was growing up in Texas we had a ton of fast food taco places. All of them a million times better than Taco Bell. But then TB started springing up everywhere and the small singles and regional chain stores just died off. TB is everywhere. Bleah.

But just before Christmas Santy Clause shined his favor upon me and led me to a drive up taco shack in a terrible part of town but it's close enough to work I can go there and get a 4-pack of authentic tacos al pastor and a drink for like 6 bucks. The taste just blew me away and all through christmas dinner and new years eve celebrations all I could think of was getting back to this little taco stand. I tried to go yesterday but it's such a small, family owned thing they are closed on Mondays. Today had lunch with the boss so I couldn't go but I'm there tomorrow. maybe tonight on the way home lol. Its not what I'm used to as it's shredded pork on a double layer of soft corn tortillas with a little onion and cilantro and some red sauce with just the right amount of heat but I can't get them out of my head.

[FrankfurtCat]

96. There used to be 2 Dunkin Donuts in Anchorage, but they left years ago also.

I never even knew about Krispy Kreme donuts until I took my kids to Disneyland in 2002 and the cafe next to our hotel offered them early in the morning. They were always gone before 8 am!

Wow-for some reason I am getting really hungry-those tacos sound heavenly, right down to the cilantro!

[MountainFool]

56. I keep wishing both sides of every football game could lose ...

I'm impatiently awaiting the day when kids playing football would be cause for charges of criminal child endangerment.

[kairos12]

59. I remember hearing a line a movie once...

that football combines 2 terrible American customs--meetings (huddles) and violence.

[pressbox69]

37. Okayyyy here goes..

Never learned to swim, drive a car, never set foot in more than 6 states. Never broke a bone, never been arrested, too ashamed to admit some of the other things I've never done that I should have been doing over 40 years ago.

[smirkymonkey]

100. I don't drive.

I tried it a few times. Didn't like it. I'm just too high strung. Plus, one I got out of college, I have always lived in a big city with good public transportation. I could drive on Upstate NY or VT country roads where there were very few other cars, but the minute I got on a highway or in city traffic, forget it. I was traumatized.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. I shot a man in Reno,

just to watch him die!

[kairos12]

41. I lived in Germany for 6 years and never drank a single beer.

[milestogo]

44. Did they finally deport you?

[Skittles]

52. OK THAT'S IT

SCHEDULING KAIROS12 FOR ASS KICKING; *EGREGIOUS*

[kairos12]

58. Skittles--LOL

Even more egregious. I used to go to Munich Octoberfest for the pretzels and sausage.

Now that's the wurst.

[PassingFair]

60. Such a brat! nt

[eppur_se_muova]

53. That just leaves more for everyone else ... I doubt they minded. nt

[ploppy]

46. I gave Sister Grace Marie

the finger in church when I was in the 5th grade. I hate Seinfeld.

[Laffy Kat]

49. You're going to hell for the "Seinfeld" thing.

[Laffy Kat]

50. Just thought of two others, please don't hate me:

I detest raw tomatoes and have NEVER even tasted a pickle, can't bring myself to do it because they smell so bad. And DO NOT tell me that I would like the tomatoes that YOU grow because I won't.

[TexasBushwhacker]

73. I had a friend that described tomatoes as "embryonic"

Do you just hate raw tomatoes, like in a salad, or do you hate ketchup and spaghetti sauce too.

Pickles are sour. I like them in potato salad but that's about it.

[Danmel]

61. I live on Long Island and I cannot stand Billy Joel

Everyone thinks I'm a weirdo, but he just totally makes my skin crawl.

[Sunriser13]

63. I shot the Sheriff,

...but I didn't shoot the Deputy.

[Tikki]

68. I have 'big hair'.

I don't know why..I just do.

Mine is not quite as spectacular as the beautiful Ms. Parton's hair.


Tikki

[TexasBushwhacker]

72. That's only "hers" because she bought it n/t

[Sedona]

76. The higher the hair...

...the closer to God.

[Tikki]

78. Or the straighter, flatter the hair the bigger the curlers....

Yes, when I finally rest...there will be no more curlers.

Tikki

[TexasBushwhacker]

85. Like this?

Televangelist Jan Crouch

[milestogo]

102. I think she has hairy bugs growing on her eyelids.

[TexasBushwhacker]

75. I've never seen Fight Club

But I know I'm not supposed to talk about it.

[Yurovsky]

83. I once collected money for Jerry's kids...

and spent the money on weed instead. That was over 40 years ago. I donate every year now out of guilt ... well, and it's a great cause as well.

In the immortal words of John Blutarsky... "sorry..."

[steve2470]

87. The only TV shows I will watch are Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead

I was forced to get Sling TV to get TWD, and I will be forced to get the HBO add-on to watch GoT.

[alarimer]

88. I have finished Atlas Shrugged, but not Moby Dick.

I have no idea how I could get through the worst book ever written yet not be able to finish a classic of American literature.

I did read Atlas Shrugged before the internet was a thing, so I blame my ever-shrinking attention span.

[Doug.Goodall]

93. I really like taterguy's posts

[FrankfurtCat]

97. I'm watching "Fraggle Rock"...

...right now!

[astral]

98. I slept through it.

All of it. movie theaters tend to do that to me. That was the very first, original version. Don't remember a thing.

My big confession:
I like burnt toast.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

99. I hate The Eagles, Friends and Seinfeld.

I never saw a single episode of The Brady Bunch.

[smirkymonkey]

101. This is really bad.

I hate to shower. I do it of course, but I hate it. It's like going to the gym for me. I feel better after I get out, but I dread it. I don't know why, I think it's because I associate it with morning and getting ready for the day, so I hate it.

[HipChick]

103. I was tried to school the President...

It happened while he was still senator, I was being an arsehole, and trying to fly out of washington DC airport to Chicago. I normally travel first class because of my miles with the airline, but this one time, they did not have my upgraded First Class seat ready, and I threw a fit. I was giving the ticket agent a hard time at the gate, when this tall,handsome guy inserted himself into our conversation trying to make peace. I was irritated as hell at the time, and told him, unless he was going to give me his First Class seat, butt out of my business. He gave me a eloquent speech about how the airline folk had job to do,and I was not making it any easier, then I noticed his pin...I was non-political back then, and was one of those folks that never voted, but became a first time voter in 2008, when he decided to run for President. He tried to be a peacemaker that day even, and I had to seriously reflect how selfish I had been. To this day, if I get an upgrade on a flight to First Class, and a serviceman is onboard, I will request the attendants to give my seat to him. I am blessed and honored to have had this man as President for the last 8yrs..