I'd bite their ear off.

Respect his opinion and move on to another topic?!

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I'd just go like "Oh well" and move to another subject. There's bound to be some things you like that your friends think is stupid and vice versa.

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I laugh it off. And then I tell him not to generalize. Although actually what he says is that I'm rotting my brains reading comics....he's not so much saying that the medium is stupid, he's saying that it's really bad for me to spend so much time consuming it.....

But yeah, I laugh it off.

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They say it's the thought that counts, but then they tell you, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions......"

Will no one scanlate Takahashi Miyuki?! T_T

I'd ask them "Why would you say that?" But if they just think it's stupid for no absolute reason, then I guess I wouldn't really care. They're entitled to their own opinion after all, and I love manga, so whether they like it or not makes no difference to me.

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*__* I'll have what she's having... please~♥

Generally my friends make just jibe me once so often that i like jap comics (that's manga for em ). And I usually laugh and say its way better than most movies. If they are genuinely interested to find appeal in manga i tell em to read something like death note, monster, berserk, gantz etc. Most of those who have tried one of these are now regular Manga readers. Majority don't and that's cool with me, cause I never really watch the movies they recommend me.

However this one guy was there a huge twilight/Glee fan, was too irritating was poking me too frequently that i read black n white comics like a retarded 10 year old. My fuse just blew one day, and I called him a faggot whose fantasy is to be sodomized by a walking corpse, and we got into a fight, I got a cut above my left eye, cut around my lower jaw and a fractured thumb, and he got two fractured ribs and a smashed nose. Don't get me wrong I ain't a homophobic and neither was he a gay, just that stupid shit happened when we were both high in a party but the initial cause was over manga

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I would smack them in the face with said manga and if they keep on saying that, I'll tell them that they're outnumbered by the numerous manga/comic books and anime/cartoon fans in the school. Hmph. ;3

Well, this would never happen because I make friends through anime and manga. So they at least acknowledge and accept anime and manga. So... yeah.

Die and then revive myself yell at them saying "why did you kill me!?" be all overdramatic and then i would unpiss myself off and then be all like okay your loss then scoff and anime skip off!!

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dont start things

tell them that they are stupid

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No one gives a shit what trite garbage you write here.

Some of my friends already say that. I'm pretty sure my parents think it too.

Honestly, I couldn't give a damn. Their loss really xD

Agreed, every time I see a good anime or read a great manga, I wonder how people could hate them when they are just as good as some books....I mean they don't even give it a chance. At the end of the day, when I'm enjoying a good anime or manga, its their loss not mine

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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
-Oath of the Night's Watch, A Song of Ice and Fire

Just ask why but I won't pester them about them. We all have our likes and dislikes.

My friends could complain about a lot of other, weirder things about me than an interest in foreign graphic novels.

Anyone else who comments would just get 'the stare' before I started to laugh at them. People are free to dislike my personal interests and I am free to dislike theirs.

I suppose to each his own? .. I am too ancient to have friends like that and even my parents (who are grandparents now) don't bug me on my interests.

I think as long as its not illegal and its an interest, it should not matter what anyway says about it, if they cannot appreciate it, its one thing. Why condemn it? Are all their pursuits and interests "not stupid?"

We all grow up one day and very often its interests and passion that makes the most successful guys out there

Heck it... I love what I love and all my good friends (those that lasted and are trustworthy) all appreciate our differences, interests and passions, afterall thats what friends should be like.

in truth i don't really give a damn what other people think if they think it is stupid then to each their own as long as they do not try putting their ideals on me or try convincing me to think like them those are the only things that truly bother me i don't even care if people think i am retarded because of it which people generally do