How to: Deal with contrarians?

By ignoring them.

The friend only told you his opinion, nothing else. -.-'

You might be the jerk?

Edit: For some reason I read the conversion the other way around, sorry. I would ignore him

I agree with your friend.

sounds more like you were annoying to your friend imo

There is no problem with your friend.

Im not seeing how this person is a jerk. You asked him a question and he answered it. I really really dislike people like you.

Such a good friend, yet you find him to always be "intolerable and annoying". Right. Well maybe you should apologize to him because it appears you are anti"everything that isnt inline with their thoughts".

Yes im mad.
Yes I deal with people like you all the time.

I do agree with him in that there is almost never anything worth watching on TV.
IN FACT, id love to know your friends name, or tell him to add me. Im sure we would get along smashingly!

Wait, if he have another opinion about a certain thing and he isn't afraid to tell it that makes him a jerk? You sir, you are an idiot who doesn't deserve his friendship.

Yeah, I really wasted my time.

ask how his mom is

I don't get why do you think your friend is a jerk, at least from this conversation...

It's same as dealing with me.

I just realized that I forgot to change the title, jerk wasnt the exact term I was looking to use.

So: Fixed.

[Ah... while I was typing my post you edited yours]

I think the most fitting term to describe your friend would be "a pessimist", not "a jerk".

A jerk is a person who doesn't waste a chance to prove that he's cooler than you or, the other way around, how stupid/inferior you are. As an obvious consequence, a jerk is presumptuous, selfish and has no tact whatsoever.

A minority of those jerks believe that they're being funny but, in truth, they're not because no one likes to be negatively criticized (if they didn't ask for it).

Anyway, to answer your question, yes I have met the "jerks" you speak of and I talk to them normally. I try to slip in some optimism from time to time so that they can either (a) sway the argument or (b) figure it out on their own and stop being negative.

If they just don't get it, and they're not a close friend of mine, I eventually make up an excuse and leave.

I dont get it you asked a question and he told his opinion

So, your friend does not enjoy an activity you like ? Un-friend him at once. Everybody knows friends have to always like whatever their friends like. It's how you know you're friends. </sarcasm>

At least from the conversation, your friend seems to be fine. He just doesn't share a popular opinion with others. Being a Contrarian means your friend is thinking independently and that's not bad at all.

TV is shit though these days. other than breaking bad of course

So wait, you're mad at someone for not liking something you like?

You're an asshole.

TV is terrible. How can people watch such crap?

There is nothing wrong in being critical towards society, as long as he doesn't really hate a human being, he actually goes a rather above than average way of intelligence. Because cultural pessimism might be something most people don't like to see, but to be quite frank about that and if you have some oil in your head tank, then you will realize that times today got fucked up, kids are fucked up because they get fucked up entertainment.
But if you swim with the swarm, it will not bother you, so enjoy the ride.

This is by no means being a contrarian. He just has a different point of view, and even pointed part of his reasons. To be honest I also share his opinion about tv, and quit it over 10 years ago.

Yeah it gets old really fast, every time you express any interest in anything these people will attempt to crush you with negativity, probably because they're insecure about their own tastes. I avoid them like the plague.