What things attracted your attention when you were young, that don't garner any interest to you now?

[Baitball Blogger]

With me it's beefcake or the quest for straight hair. If there's a movie plot that is based on pure physical attraction, with nothing deeper to bring two people together, I have no interest at all. Well, the one exception might be Princess Bride. And as for straight hair, if the main protagonist has straight hair I figure I'm watching an old seventies movie. No hair envy at all, anymore.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Professional sports.

Of any kind.

[My Good Babushka]

2. Spinning around until I fall down.

And Candy.

[Lochloosa]

3. The Pratronis Twins

High School. You had to be there.

[femmocrat]

4. Horses and baton-twirling.

I still like horses, of course, but know now that I will never own one. As for the baton...... one does eventually outgrow it.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. So true.

[Phentex]

23. I was a baton twirler early on...

I have good and bad memories of it. Moved on to drill team in high school and gave up twirling.

I wasn't even sure it was still a thing until I heard some people talking about it on the radio recently. They were talking about the "beauty" portion of baton competitions and again, I didn't realize it was still a thing but I knew exactly what they were talking about.

Strange thing really.

[femmocrat]

25. There are still some twirlers around here.

They march in local parades. Cute activity for little girls, IMO.

I wasn't great, but I was persistent! I remember having black and blue elbows where the baton would hit me! LOL

[Phentex]

26. I still remember the pain on my wrists!

Remember the fishtail? I could do that for hours. Very good for an ADHD kid.

[femmocrat]

29. Yes!

I think that is the one that kept hitting my elbows. When you think about it, there are a lot of coordination skills that develop.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Corvettes

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. My ex husband.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. LOL!

[lunatica]

32. I soooo agreeee!!

puke!

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. Oh, I see you knew him too!

[Blue_In_AK]

9. It was so long ago, I don't remember.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Popular music

But that's because it's crap now, not because I've changed. Not at all. AT ALL. This is a scientific fact. SCIENCE.

As proof, two of my young nephews like the same music I do/did, and I would have sooner superglued my ears shut at their age than to listen to my parents' Big Band music. The other nephews and nieces are degenerates. Probably adopted.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. My son, when in his late teens, educated me to some of his music

Fortunately, unlike his ( probably adopted) brother, he has good taste, and so I learned of Pink Floyd and Bob Seeger and Queen.
All of which I still listen to happily.

but...greater joy.....he continues to educate me AND happily, likes the blues, so we share back and forth, me in the South, he in the Pac. NW.

[47of74]

11. Most comedy

From 12 up to about 15 years ago I was the one who liked telling jokes. Not so much now. I just don't have the time or energy for it anymore.

[NJCher]

12. Music

My parents started me with piano when I was only 4 years old. I detected a pattern after the first lesson (the scales) and came back the following week and showed the instructor I could play the entire first book she'd given me.

After that I moved on to play the church organ. It was three keyboards with stops plus foot pedals and also carillons. I taught myself. I was a church organist at the ripe old age of 11.

I went on to the bassoon. Also played the oboe. Dabbled with the sax.

Was a failure with the drums. Could not do marching band.

As an adult, I play nothing. If in a room with a piano, I can pick it up just like it was yesterday, but not interested.

I barely listen to music. I listen to podcasts.



Cher

[underahedgerow]

22. Agreed. I was in the music industry for some 20 odd years. I can still pull random

factoids outta my butt about just about anyone who was someone in the industry. Who, what, when, where, why and why not. My exposure was 24/7, in studios, on tour, on shows, listening, breathing, working on, socialising, it was ALL about music. Mostly rock n roll, the hard stuff, AC/DC on down through the girly stuff, Heart, Stevie, Go-Gos, etc.

Now. Oh hell no. I can't stand listening to new music, or much music at all. If I turn to anything for enjoyment it's opera or pure classical. Sometimes I go looking for stuff online to chase a memory, but rarely.

These kids on the talent shows saying ''music is my LIFE" in between soft sobs; I just want to knock them up side the head and tell them to get a real job and contribute something relevent to society.

'Get Offa My Lawn!"

Post menopausal. That could explain a few things. Or maybe I've always been a bitch and hid it well.

[NewJeffCT]

13. I'm a lot less interested in sports now

not sure if that's from marrying a non sports fan or just me having other interests.

[a la izquierda]

37. I loved baseball when I was a kid.

You couldn't pay me to watch a game on TV anymore. I'll go watch our local minor league play, but mostly because they have a great craft beer garden.

I do love soccer, hockey, and college football though. And cycling. I'm pretty sure I'm actually a European or Canadian (minus the football).

[NewJeffCT]

39. I have not seen professional sports live

since the 1990s. In the 70s and 80s as a child and teen, I would go to a few major league baseball games/year, and then in the early to mid 90s, I would go as a 20 something with friends several times per year. Not sure if one of the strikes or lockouts turned me off, or just things changing overall in my life, or maybe a combination of everything? And, while I still root for my team, I just don't watch on TV or listen on the radio to the games anymore and I don't look at the box scores and standings, etc.

And, while I have followed college basketball since the late 90s, I have not actually gone to a game since my alma mater - the University of Connecticut - won the men's NCAA title that year and beat Duke in 1998. Looking back, my marriage to my now ex-wife was in its death spiral at the time, so any joy I would normally have felt at UConn finally winning it all felt hollow as my marriage was falling apart and I was depressed and stressed out over that.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I'm also much less passionate about music

I can't remember the last time I went to a concert or bought an album for myself. I've never bought a song off of iTunes or any other service, either. (I've never had an iPod, either)

Every once in a while, I'll see something on youtube that will remind me of a song I liked in the 80s or 90s and play a bunch of songs in a row, but that'll be about it.

[cemaphonic]

52. I've actually rekindled my love of music over the last couple of years

I played classical guitar for a few years during high school, but it fell by the wayside with adult responsibilities. But I've got my kids taking music lessons, and one of the big things that their teacher discusses with them is that music used to be something that people did together instead of just consuming music made by professionals. So now, I'm learning guitar and banjo, and my teacher is a treasure trove of all kinds of genres that are new to me, bluegrass/oldtime/stringband, acoustic blues, Cajun, Tierra Caliente, and so on.

I don't often go to concerts though, although even when I was younger, I always felt like the big arena rock shows were usually disappointing.

[NewJeffCT]

53. I still enjoy music

but, i went to a lot of concerts in my late teens and through my 20s - big arena events all the way down to small local clubs. The only concert I've been to since the late 90s was with my daughter a year or two back, which was more performance/concert/comedy act than the traditional concert I used to go to. (Lilly Singh - Superwoman - was what I saw with my daughter. She's some youtuber with a huge following.)

That said, since my daughter is into Broadway, I do know a decent amount of stuff from many top Broadway shows from the past several years just so I can know some of her references. (Me: "do you want some advice?" Daughter: "umm, ok" Me: "Talk less, smile more..." (a line from Hamilton that Aaron Burr says to Alexander Hamilton) Daughter, "Dad!&quot

[Aristus]

15. Video games.

We got an Atari 2600 game console when I was 12 or so. Played games like a fanatic for a couple of years. Then I dropped it, and never re-gained interest in gaming.

[GOLGO 13]

16. Big Breasts, Aliens, robots,bench pressing over 300+, playing guitar like David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

~ Breast implants make me suspicious of anything over a C cup. Fool me once shame on you< Shame me a dozen times..well then I'm shameless.

~ Robots. Only Austin Powers fembots would get my attention now.

~ Aliens. I now only want them to be like exactly like "Roger" from Family Guy. So yeah I want them to be selfish, extroverted, binge drinking party types with a penchant for show tunes & costumes.

~ The bodybuilder look is disgusting to me now.

However, I still want to play guitar like David Gilmour. Not ever giving up on that.

[Iggo]

28. "...playing guitar like David Gilmour..."

Don't ever give up on that.

[Laffy Kat]

17. High fashion.

Now I just want to look presentable, I don't care about clothes anymore. What a waste of money that was.

[GOLGO 13]

41. That's Funny Kat. I've gotten more fashion conscience about my appearance as I've gotten older.

I've been hitting the gym fairly consistently which has necessitated me having to buy new clothes.

So because of my weird build I've had to get most of my new clothes immediately tailored. But instead of chasing trends, I'm sticking with timeless/classic basics & stressing quality or quantity. S L O W L Y my new wardrobe is taking shape.

I'm also haunting men's fashion blogs/youtube channels more & more. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how clever & fashion forward Millennials are. I used to sneer at magazines like GQ, Esquire, Playboy but now I'm changed my tune.

[oldandhappy]

18. football scores

[Art_from_Ark]

20. The Pittsburgh-Cincinnati score

might as well be the Verkhoyansk-Vladivostok score, as far as I'm concerned.

[oldandhappy]

27. You mean you are not a Vladivostok fan? I am shocked.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. I'll let you in on a little secret-- I'm a Volgograd fan

Go Volgies!

[shenmue]

19. Being awake

[Populist_Prole]

21. Sports

I used to follow baseball and hockey and would near agonize over my favorite teams or leagues fortunes as if it actually mattered. Somewhere around 17 or 18 it began to matter less.

Today's mass media deluge / carpet-bombing coverage of sports is a big turn-off. Football and basketball ( especially college ) are the worst. I blame 24/7/365 media.

[Phentex]

24. Shoes and sports...

I used to love really wild shoes but my feet now require comfort only.

I still watch sports but when I do, I'm not interested in who wins. And sometimes the whole thing seems really stupid.

[catbyte]

30. Watching figure skating and mocking beauty pageants like Miss America.

However, I think it has more to do with my mom passing than me aging. It was something we loved to do together, and it's no fun now that she's not here.

[Arugula Latte]

31. I was reeeeally into horses as a kid/teen. Like, obsessed.

And I actually got a pony and later a horse. Now I still like horses ... from a distance. I'm just not that interested in them anymore. Also, they are super dangerous, and I'm too chicken (and not wealthy enough) to deal with the whole horse world anymore.

Cue Seinfeld ...

[a la izquierda]

38. ...

I love Seinfeld. Hated it when it was actually on TV, but then I was a teenager. I hated everything.

[WinkyDink]

36. Nothing. I am interested now in the subjects and activities I was interested in as a kid, including

but not limited to:

D.C. comics.
Stars.
Rocks and gems and fossils.
Seashells.
TV.
Mysteries.
Macaroni and cheese.
Rock and Roll.
Bicycling.
Fairs and carnivals.
Bingo.
Being dramatic and funny.
Autumn leaves.
Books.
Quiz games.

[LanternWaste]

40. Renaissance Faires.

Renaissance Faires.

I used to hit up the local ren fair every summer when I was in HS and college and has a blast every time. After last weekend, I realize they're not for me anymore-- a carnival ground of hipsters, over-priced t-shirts and sweaty people pretending that Irish brogue is Elizabethan English.

[Codeine]

43. Same here.

We finally went back to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire last year after me being a decade away from it; it was awful. Hot, dusty, overpriced, full of slack-jawed yokels and loud children. Part of it was the venue change, but mostly it was just such an obvious money suck.

Why the fuck did I enjoy that so much once upon a time?

[LanternWaste]

48. My guess: we're old. Being sweaty, drunk and tired was fun once upon a time.

"Why the fuck did I enjoy that so much once upon a time?"

My guess: we're old. Being sweaty, drunk and tired was fun once upon a time. I'll defer to Shakespeare in this case (for me)

"...but doth not the appetite alter?
A man loves the meat in his youth
that he cannot endure in his age"

[NewJeffCT]

44. Weirdly

I was (and still am) a nerd into fantasy & science fiction literature, movies & TV shows, fantasy role-playing like Dungeons & Dragons. I should have been tailor made to love things like Renaissance Faires... but, I've never gone and have only had a mildly passing interest in going.

[LanternWaste]

47. You should go... just once at least. Like eating raw fish, just to get the experience.

I still play D&D. I think that may have been the original catalyst for going to ren fairs way back when in '82 or '83. But at the end of the day, D&D is what four or five people sitting around a table makes of it, while ren fairs are nothing more than what they give us.

You should go though... just once at least. Like eating raw fish, just to get the experience. Some people like it; but in TX during the summer months (100+ in mid-afternoon), it's just become miserable to me.

Signed,
A Fellow (4th Edition) Nerd

[Codeine]

50. 4E, man -- that's where it's at.

Never understood all the Fourth Edition hate; it really hit all the right spots for our group.

[NewJeffCT]

58. It had some good points to it

but, as somebody that has been gaming since the 70s, it was too big of a change from previous editions for me. Plus, one thing I've had problems with starting with 3E was that it keeps getting easier & easier to Raise Dead. In 1e/2e days, it was something available to only clerics level 9 or above... in old school games, the campaign was usually ending around level 9 or 10, so it was only something done at the very end of a campaign. In 3E, the campaign was designed to go up to level 20, but Raise Dead was still for level 9 and above, so only halfway through the campaign. Not quite as special as before... and, then with 4E, it was level 8 and the campaign was now designed to go to level 30... so, less than 1/3 of the way through a campaign now - pretty cheap

[closeupready]

42. You mean sexually? I'm gay, and white guys do NOTHING for me. ZERO.

And I'm as whitebread, all-American as you get. To be honest, though, they never really did - except perhaps when I was a teenager and lived in a Midwestern village that was super-white, and there really weren't many minorities there.

Also, men who talk about vagina and breasts and how they score 'chicks' or whatever all the time ... these men are as disgusting to me as the skanky Kim Kardashian types who think every single man wants to see their naked flesh. I see that from even 1000 feet away, I'm crossing the street away from you, even taking a detour. Either the man or woman.

Give me a gay man who doesn't lie, telling everyone he's "confused", or ogling at bouncing boobs for which he has absolutely ZERO interest.

[Paladin]

45. Guns and hunting.

Way too many right-wing assholes involved in both areas. And the wildlife looks better to me alive than dead.

[Throd]

46. I once was an avid skier.

Now I see it as not worth the effort or expense.

[Fla Dem]

49. At one point I just knew when I grew up I was going to subsist only on cheeseburgers and ginger ale.

Oh and the occasional bowl of pasta with Italian sauce. It never happened and in fact only have a cheeseburger about a half a dozen times a year. I do still like my ginger ale.

[Grantuspeace]

51. Women with big hair,

and wore their underwear on the outside. LOL

[hunter]

55. Apple Computers.

The last interesting Apple was the IIGS. I have one rescued from the e-waste stream, including the monitor, but not a Woz...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS

Brand new Apple computers have always been beyond my means and sensibilities, but I thought the IIGS might evolve into something interesting. Alas, Apple killed it in favor of the Macintosh.

My favorite personal computer is still the Atari 800.

I used to have some interest in automobiles and aircraft, but now I mostly find them loathsome and hope the age of petrochemical automobiles and airlines will soon end.

[Baitball Blogger]

56. That's not a model that can fetch $100,000 is it?

[worstexever]

57. Craft beer

I used to enjoy going to different breweries and trying all kinds of beer but my tastes seemed to have changed and I don't care much for beer any more. People are obsessed with craft beer these days, too, at least where I live.

[sofa king]

59. Cars.

I am embarrassed that I have to drive a gas-guzzling pollution hog, simply because it fell into my lap and I can't afford to replace it.

In my youth I would have pet it on the hood and cried out to the world, "it's a monster fuckin' V8, man!"