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50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes

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You have probably seen a person change their mind about disliking something the second they hear their friend, for instance, say that they love it. Or witnessed someone push through what looks like torture to them, all the while trying to squeeze out a sincere (-looking) smile.

For one reason or another, some people choose to pretend to like something when they actually don’t. And similarly to said reasons, the things they pretend to like tend to differ from person to person. Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what things they believe others lie about liking, and there were quite a few things they pointed their fingers at. Scroll down to find them on the list below and feel free to upvote the ones you agree with the most.

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#1

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Staff team building and bonding.

sicksquid75 , fauxels / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

220points

#2

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Flat earth theory.

I'm entirely convinced no one is that stupid and theyre just acting to be a part of something.

NippleMuncher42069 , Orlando Ferguson / wikipedia Report

Final score:

213points

#3

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Gender reveal parties.

kmga43 , 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝘆 / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

213points

#4

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Loud AF music at social events.

AdDifferent4711 , Marlene Leppänen / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

198points

#5

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Being sung by a group of people Happy Birthday to You.

QueenMaya2 , Kampus Production / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

168points

#6

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Ridiculously loud cars even when they are driving slow.

I know it's always going to be easier on the person making the sound but they got to find it annoying when other cars are loud to a corny level.

TheBatSignal , Pixabay / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

158points

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#7

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Watched it with my college roommates a couple of times and I was just like “I don’t get it” the entire time. I am really big into makeup and I found two of Kylie’s lip kits very discounted (ten dollars a piece when they were normally going for thirty dollars a piece) and I really didn’t get the appeal. I saw a conspiracy theory on a different subreddit saying that Kylie’s makeup line is a money laundering scheme at this point and that is something that I could actually get behind!

SuperKatie64 , JESHOOTS.com / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

155points

#8

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Stanley cups. The design is literally so stupid. It’s annoying to have to hold the weight of a full water bottle with your wrist. I would rather have a water bottle that has a handle on top so I can carry it comfortably.

wowza6969420 , Avery Arwood / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

151points

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#9

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes High heels. I’ve never been able to wear with without crazy pain - no matter which ones I’ve tried!

LostLadyA , Kristina Polianskaia / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

148points

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#10

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Freestyle jazz music. To me, it sounds like a bunch of guys with instruments, each doing their own warmup routine while standing on the stage together. Doesn’t feel like a tune as much as it does noise.

beeedeee , Brett Sayles / poexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

143points

#11

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Clowns. Just, clowns.

OIL_OF_OLAY , Capotina Entretenimientos / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

142points

#12

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Showering with your partner. Like I have things to do here and you’re in my way.

ERaye1994 , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

142points

#13

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Thong underwear and cheeky swimsuits.

Audiene , Estefanía Fernandez / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

137points

#14

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Their "glamorous " Instagram life.

anon , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

125points

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#15

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes NASCAR. I'm convinced people only watch for the chance of crashes, there's no way watching cars go in the same loop for 2 hours is actually entertaining.

bjuhl472 , Alfred GF / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

125points

#16

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Summer... the heat is unbearable!

firewingdale , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

124points

#17

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Yoko Ono's singing.

SuperMalarioBros , Get Back Documentary Report

Final score:

122points

#18

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Poly relationships.

thrilliam_19:

I have several friends who all tried poly relationships at some point in their life and every single one ended in disaster, and whenever they were all together in the same room at least one person looked like they were miserable and pretending to be ok with what was going on.
Someone always got jealous or someone cheated. Or it was an excuse for 3-4 people to fuck each other for a few months until someone got bored and the people that were actually into it got hurt.
I’m not saying it can’t work, but I have seen zero evidence that it does. I also feel like long-term monogamous relationships are hard, why would adding another person into that relationship make things better or easier?

Opening-Future3991 , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

120points

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#19

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Going to night clubs.

mrsock_puppet , Jerome Govender / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

117points

#20

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Influencer lifestyles.. especially things like van life. You see them all smiles in their pics, but you know they are hating every minute of it.

ZapatillaLoca , KoolShooters / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

115points

#21

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Pregnancy.

Hells-Bellz , Leah Newhouse/ pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

110points

#22

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Super hot stuff. A little hot sauce from time to time adds a fun kick to some foods. But at a certain point you stop tasting 90% of what you're eating and are just trying to withstand the ridiculous ghost reaper of death evil wing sauce that you put on your wings to look manlier I guess.

victorbarst , RDNE Stock project / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

108points

#23

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Getting black out drunk. I understand getting fun drunk, because it's actually fun. But black out drunk? Why? What's the point?

Arny520 , Hudson Marques / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

98points

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#24

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Small talk.

Cute-Owl-13 , fauxels / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

96points

#25

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Meet&Greets with celebrities.

"This was so life changing?"

You just met another human being. NOTHING changed.

SadlyNotDannyDeVito , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

87points

#26

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Smoking cigarettes.

imyoungever , Barik5ive/ pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

86points

#27

Pictures of other people's kids.

maddiemkay Report

Final score:

84points

#28

Pyramid schemes.

material_progress69 Report

Final score:

82points

#29

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Oysters.

gifjgzxk , Elle Hughes / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

82points

#30

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Matcha. might as well just dump some lawn clippings in a blender and drink that.

airr-conditioning , NipananLifestyle.com / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

77points

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#31

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes "Passion" for any corporate money-driven job. It's just not human nature to get longterm and worthwhile fulfilment from ephemeral sh*t like sales numbers.

Slush-e , Sora Shimazaki / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

77points

#32

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes 5 a.m. work outs.

Mrslee1317 , MART PRODUCTION / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

75points

#33

Bob Dylan’s voice (not his lyrics or compositions).

kewlacious Report

Final score:

71points

#34

Having BUSY Social Lives with always having s**t to do/attend to, etc...etc...

WARMASTER5000 Report

Final score:

69points

#35

Cigars.

SirDonDevito Report

Final score:

62points

#36

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Parades. It's just people walking by.

IrianJaya , Vlad Vasnetsov / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

61points

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#37

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Weddings, c'mon people be honest.

Shortcult , Asad Photo Maldives / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

58points

#38

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes The sitcom Friends.

Painfully unfunny.

fluffyphillips , Andres Ayrton / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

57points

#39

Long beards.

DangerousBudget2342 Report

Final score:

56points

#40

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Working out. The results are rewarding, but not the actual process of working out.

darlingyas , Pixabay/ pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

55points

#41

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Working.

Daclaud-Lee-1892 , CoWomen / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

52points

#42

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Listening to people at work describing their weekends, especially on a Monday.

Mediocre_Can_2701 , Alexander Suhorucov / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

51points

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#43

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Shower s*x.

closethewindo , Wesley Davi / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

49points

#44

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Running marathons.

sexiest_blondie , RUN 4 FFWPU / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

48points

#45

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Raising children. Nothing about it looks enjoyable.

Leipopo_Stonnett , Vidal Balielo Jr. / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

45points

#46

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Black licorice. It's hard for me to believe there are humans that find the taste enjoyable. The smell alone makes me gag. It's gotta be a genetic thing like how cilantro tastes terrible to some people. For the record, I like cilantro.

Ok-Tangelo4024 , The Nix Company / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

45points

#47

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Mr. Beast videos.

meenarstotzka , Vlada Karpovich Report

Final score:

41points

#48

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes First dates. I'm sorry. 9 times out of 10 they're awkward and boring.

Livid_Race_3086 , cottonbro studio/ pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

40points

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#49

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Caviar.

JessYouSayYes , Anastasia Belousova /pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

40points

#50

50 People Share Things They Don’t Believe Anyone Genuinely Likes Children’s birthday parties.

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Final score:

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Miglė Miliūtė

A writer here at Bored Panda, I am a lover of good music, good food, and good company, which makes food-related topics and feel-good stories my favorite ones to cover. Passionate about traveling and concerts, I constantly seek occasions to visit places yet personally unexplored. I also enjoy spending free time outdoors, trying out different sports—even if I don’t look too graceful at it—or socializing over a cup of coffee.

A writer here at Bored Panda, I am a lover of good music, good food, and good company, which makes food-related topics and feel-good stories my favorite ones to cover. Passionate about traveling and concerts, I constantly seek occasions to visit places yet personally unexplored. I also enjoy spending free time outdoors, trying out different sports—even if I don’t look too graceful at it—or socializing over a cup of coffee.

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Kotryna is a Photo Editor at Bored Panda with a BA in Graphic Design. Before Bored Panda, she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illiustrator. When not editing, she enjoys working with clay, drawing, playing board games and drinking good tea.

Kotryna is a Photo Editor at Bored Panda with a BA in Graphic Design. Before Bored Panda, she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illiustrator. When not editing, she enjoys working with clay, drawing, playing board games and drinking good tea.

What do you think ?

martin734 3 months ago

What a ridiculous article. It is just full of people saying that just because they don't enjoy "xyz" nobody else can enjoy it either and just pretend to. There are several things in this list that I genuinely enjoy and wouldn't do them if I really didn't.

20points

doredde 3 months ago

So you came here, read every post and put your opinion here. Gratulations! That´s the purpose.

11points

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Mike m 3 months ago

Some of them definitely sounded old or jaded.

1point

Bryn 3 months ago

That's what I was going to say! I will also add they don't understand it.

0points

Annik Perrot 3 months ago

So, différent people enjoy or despise different things. "Il faut de tout pour faire un monde" (takes all kinds to make a world) as we say here.

14points

Donna Peluda 3 months ago

Yea even the dumb forkers ;-)

-3points

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Elvira394 3 months ago

Politicians. I don't think anyone likes the candidates they vote for, they only like the other guy less.

7points

Duncan McCann 3 months ago

I do wonder why people come to Bored Panda expecting everything to be 'relevant'. It's just some silly wasting-time fun - go with the flow!

5points

ILoveMySon 3 months ago

Hear, hear!

3points

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Benj 3 months ago

I take from this that people don’t enjoy certain things so nobody else should.

5points

Cathy 3 months ago

Come on BP, the idea of this article is nice but you can't answer with just one word.

2points

Never Snarky 3 months ago

For the most part, I agree with these. However, I certainly don't think "everyone" feels this way about anything here.

1point

Matt Smith 3 months ago

"Love" how so many people here think that just because they don't enjoy something, nobody else possibly can >_>

0points

Scott J 3 months ago

Mint ruins the flavor of everything it touches. It should only be used for covering up bad breath.

-1point

martin734 3 months ago

What a ridiculous article. It is just full of people saying that just because they don't enjoy "xyz" nobody else can enjoy it either and just pretend to. There are several things in this list that I genuinely enjoy and wouldn't do them if I really didn't.

20points

doredde 3 months ago

So you came here, read every post and put your opinion here. Gratulations! That´s the purpose.

11points

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Mike m 3 months ago

Some of them definitely sounded old or jaded.

1point

Bryn 3 months ago

That's what I was going to say! I will also add they don't understand it.

0points

Annik Perrot 3 months ago

So, différent people enjoy or despise different things. "Il faut de tout pour faire un monde" (takes all kinds to make a world) as we say here.

14points

Donna Peluda 3 months ago

Yea even the dumb forkers ;-)

-3points

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Elvira394 3 months ago

Politicians. I don't think anyone likes the candidates they vote for, they only like the other guy less.

7points

Duncan McCann 3 months ago

I do wonder why people come to Bored Panda expecting everything to be 'relevant'. It's just some silly wasting-time fun - go with the flow!

5points

ILoveMySon 3 months ago

Hear, hear!

3points

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Benj 3 months ago

I take from this that people don’t enjoy certain things so nobody else should.

5points

Cathy 3 months ago

Come on BP, the idea of this article is nice but you can't answer with just one word.

2points

Never Snarky 3 months ago

For the most part, I agree with these. However, I certainly don't think "everyone" feels this way about anything here.

1point

Matt Smith 3 months ago

"Love" how so many people here think that just because they don't enjoy something, nobody else possibly can >_>

0points

Scott J 3 months ago

Mint ruins the flavor of everything it touches. It should only be used for covering up bad breath.

-1point

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