Quoted from DaveRam

Maybe there all in the closet , i suspect there are a lot of closet Beatles fans ?

I bet there are. Funny, if you say you like The Stones, you're OK. A sadder caricature I couldn't think of. There are apparently tribute bands doing the rounds that are better than them!

Quoted from BlueMeanie

Funny, if you say you like The Stones, you're OK. A sadder caricature I couldn't think of.

It's just the conventional thing to do, I think. A lady friend of mine who is probably the least rock-and-roll sort of person I've ever met saw them a year or so ago with a couple of her friends and told me she thought it all was great. But she'll say the same thing after seeing a revival of a Lloyd Webber musical, too.

Quoted from douglasleee

I justthink to myself, "alright, just 'shut-up' and let them lose themselves into "American
Idol" / "Britian has Talent" (or what ever the current "thing" is - thank God I work
nights and miss this "stuff". Sorry to "fans" of those shows - I didn't mean to step
on toes - just not my "cup of tea".)

Since you mentioned  American Idol...  

American Idol: Top 3 (Yawn)
by Ken Levine

The fun weeks of American Idol are over. All the interesting stoners, tattoo ladies, hayseeds, emotional wrecks, biker chicks, foreigners, cretins, cheerleaders, divas, endomorphs, satyrs, and future serial killers have been voted off. Now it's down to three and you know who's going to win so it's kind of like dragging a dead horse across the finish line to shoot it.

More here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-levine/emamerican-idolem-top-3-y_b_101681.html

That about sums it up, I think.  

Quoted from BlueMeanie

I am constantly amazed at the lack of Beatles fans around. I mean, if sales for '1' are approaching 30,000,000, where the hell is everyone?

eveyone is downloading songs.
or everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers, but that happens with everyone.

Quoted from DaveRam

Maybe there all in the closet , i suspect there are a lot of closet Beatles fans ?

In this case - I've been "out of the closet" for years!!

"Hi, my name is Doug and I'm a Beatle-fanatic - and I DON'T need help - unless
it's the Beatles movie." (Lord, this could go on forever, hope it does, seeeeeee!!!!)

Why all of this hate for the Stones?

I just go on about them...they can choose not to listen.

Quoted from tkitna

Why all of this hate for the Stones?

If there was something about "hating" the Stones - I didn't see it - maybe I skipped over it?? I like them myself, but than again, we are in a Beatles Forum.
Thanks for The Stones still touring that I can say I've seen them between 5 & 10
times - I have to laugh when I try to remember whom the "warm-up" band that came out before the Stones was and think - "Is that group still around like the Stones?"