These Are a Few of Your Favorite Things

“Twilight, Rob Pattinson, Labrador photos

Slang of the British and stop-motion post-notes

Soft rock with pianos and synthesized stringgggggs

These are a few of your favorite things”

Between blogging for your enjoyment and reading your comments, we can't help but notice the topics that drive your little fingers to type out a response. Sometimes it’s to voice support for a book, movie, or band. Other times it’s to call out a particularly annoying parental quirk or social faux pas. What’s for certain is that you have opinions and we’ve been analyzing them. The results:

Things You Love:

Summer Vacation

Summer break is pretty uncontroversial. No Sparkler is clamoring to take it away or disparage the blissful two or three months between finals and orientation day, even if some of us do get a bit bored with summer jobs. It's also a great time to get some reading done.

Cute Things

Also pretty universally popular, and with good reason. There’s nothing like a litter of puppies to cap off a busy week (unless you’re the one birthing it).

Coldplay

Just kidding. Criticizing Coldplay seems to invite outrage from just about every corner:

DaisyGirl03: WHAT IN THE HECK?! I cannot believe you are dissing Coldplay! I adore Coldplay!

emily_b32: I’m sorry but you have got to be kidding me. The Scientist is an absolutely amazing song and music video. How could you possibly find that song bad?

Dazzlemeplease: coldplay is god sparknotes!

Things You Hate:

Coldplay

Oh, wait. It’s time for a rebuttal:

MarMarMar2009: Eeewwww Coldplay >_<
I’ve always hated them, without any actual reason.
If Chris Martin was under my bed, I’d move house.

53blackroses: oh yeah and thanku sparknotes 4 dissing ccoldplay CANT STAND THEM!!!

So the debate continues…

Twilight

Well, duh. Saying that is like saying that you love oxygen or free money. Even if we didn’t publish a blog specifically about Twilight, the series would still probably be mentioned in every third comment:

Sparklife: Would You Cheat?

Sparkler: Of course not! Unless he looked like Edward from Twilight, in which case I would not only cheat but also betray all of my family and friends.

Sparklife: Your Parents Are Full Of It

Sparkler: I KNOW! They don’t get me or Twilight, which I totally love.

Twilight

Twilight-love and Twilight-hate are like vampires and werewolves, locked in an eternal struggle, albeit one that plays out on blogs in a hilarious fashion.

Bad Conversationalists

Back-handed compliments and “helpful” reminders that someone finds your face alarming are about as welcome as bad grades and poorly thought-out parental advice, both of which might also have made this list.

Hate cute things or feel that bad conversation starters are unfairly maligned? That’s what the comments are here for…and as you can tell, we read 'em all!

By: Matt_Hunziker

Topics: Life

Tags: twilight, cute, coldplay, vacations

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