Tastes
(For people that I like and dislike, see 👉 People)
Things I like
- In people:
- People who read a lot
- People who are very curious, eclectic
- Introverted people
- Food:
- Marmite™
- Chocolate (pure, dark, no milk or nuts, little or no sugar)
- Giving massages
- Running
- Radio 3
Things I do not like
- In people:
- People who talk to themselves out loud
- People who chew gum with their mouths open
- People who cough, or exhale air heavily, without realising you're close to them
- People who interrupt others too much when they're speaking
- People who talk a lot, all the time (ie, people who don't seem to be able to be quiet or to just listen for a while)
- People who are very extroverted (people with a very intense, expansive personality)
- People who talk too much about themselves, unprompted; and who keep on trying to surpass your own comments or anecdotes
- People who gossip
- People who insist on communicating with me using tools that don't respect my privacy, eg GMail
- Food:
- Watermelon
- Strawberry flavour in things (but I quite like strawberries)
- Coconut
- Marzipan
- Music:
- Flamenco
- Ska
- Reggae
- Trap
- Music by:
- Caetano Veloso
- AC/DC
- Rufus Wainwright
- Songs:
- Culture Club's “Karma Chameleon”
- Emilia's “Big Big World”
- The colour pink
- Sending/sharing images, videos or chunks of text when there's a public URL to that instead
- Bullfighting
- PETA videos
- Soccer
- Receiving massages
- Swimming
- The weather forecast (I'm incapable of paying attention to it)
- Sloppy grammar, spelling or punctuation
- Unnecessary buzzwords
- Faulty logic
- Debates viewed as competitions
- Unnecessary barbarisms (ie, when valid equivalents exist in the native language)
- Celebrity culture (celebrities whose job is to be celebrities, “journalists” that swarm around them, media outlets that live off of them both)
- Religious weddings, baptisms, first communions
- The regressive left
- Social justice