United by dislike?
Negativity Friendships: it's one of the big ideas this year!
"If you ask a random sample of friends how they became friends, they will probably tell you that they like a lot of the same things and, perhaps more important, that they like the same people. So they may. But one of the surest routes to friendship is disliking the same things about other people...'It’s not that we enjoy disliking people,' Bosson, a social psychologist at the University of South Florida, says. 'It’s that we enjoy meeting people who dislike the same people.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-7.html?pagewanted=print
Whom can you and I dislike together?
"If you ask a random sample of friends how they became friends, they will probably tell you that they like a lot of the same things and, perhaps more important, that they like the same people. So they may. But one of the surest routes to friendship is disliking the same things about other people...'It’s not that we enjoy disliking people,' Bosson, a social psychologist at the University of South Florida, says. 'It’s that we enjoy meeting people who dislike the same people.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-7.html?pagewanted=print
Whom can you and I dislike together?