- Adam Sandler is the greatest, most successful filmmaker today.
- The only reason men want sex all the time is because women don’t. If women bothered men for sex every 15 minutes, men would turn them down at least twice an hour.
- Guns don’t kill people, God kills people.
- Barack Obama will be the first, last, best, worst, tallest, shortest, longest/shortest serving, strongest, weakest, most/least effective black president in the history of the US.
- One of the best kept secrets in the world is that there is one aphrodisiac that works on all women in every country in every culture in the world: Cash.
Unless of course one is Zaphod Beeblebrox.
The gain is control. With control, the fans are competing and able to affect the team’s fortunes. Without it, the fans are just customers; thinking that it is their team is a delusion.
- Joss Whedon is grotesquely overrated.
It’s not a delusion, it’s suspension of disbelief. Sports, after all, is a form of entertainment, and feeling loyalty to a team is no different from feeling loyalty to a character on a TV show. It’s pointless, of course, but it’s still fun.
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Most people are far more concerned with agreeing with whoever else happens to be in the room than actually holding an opinion. Watch any conversation. Someone makes a statement, and it doesn’t take more than the guy next to them to go “well…” for them to start backtracking and going “OK, well, but I only meant that…”
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Women act like this more than men. A heck of a lot more.
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Even Dopers do it.
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I never do it, which is reason nr. 473 why I don’t have any friends.
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There should be a standing brigade of clowns whose job it is to call people out on this, set off klaxons and sirens every time it is observed, and then pie the offender in the face.
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There are some experiences about which you should THINK VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT before offering an opinion if you have never been in the same situation. Dire poverty*, racism, and parenting fall into these categories. If you don’t have a child, please… just shut up before telling me how to raise my own. That two-year period where you took care of your sister’s kid for 3 hours every workday does not qualify. Thanks!
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Football is a nasty, brutish sport which should die. I do know if I had a son, I would never, ever allow him to play the game.
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Obama will go down in history as an “effective” President. Not in the top-10, probably, but no doubt in the top half.
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Ben Bernanke, Tim Geitner, and Hank Paulson saved the global economy back in 2008-2009.
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Comic book movies suck. There are too many of them, and people get WAY too involved in the story lines.
*“Dire” doesn’t include that time you were in college and had to eat Raman noodles for a week. It does include that time you had to choose between medicine and food.
- Citizen Kane isn’t all that.
- A-1 Sauce makes just about any steak better.
- JFK was among the ten best U.S. Presidents.
- The death penalty, with appropriate legal safeguards, should remain a sentencing option in states where it has not already been abolished.
- Religion has done and is doing, on balance, more good than harm in the world.
- Heavy Metal ballads should be illegal.
- 2 or more bicyclers together qualify as a a vehicle. 1 lone bicycler does not. The lone bicycler is a pedestrian and should be penalized for jaywalking when holding up traffic.
- Whenever the stay of an inmate given life instead of the needle exceeds the costs of an execution, that inmate should be moved to death row.
- Liberals should just accept that conservatives know how to manage money. Some conservatives are actually not overzealous tea partiers and make sense.
- Dogs rule. Your cat is stupid.
…in an artificial universe.
I’m not going to ask for a refund or anything, but several of these statements that you expect most of the board to disagree with seem like statements that most of the board would agree with.
Ok, thanks for the response.
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrongity-wrong. 
(It’s sort of like those disclaimers: “Half of the contents of this book are nonsense. Unfortunately, I/we don’t know which half.”)
True. Most of us (myself included) are approaching this as “if I make this statement, I will then have to constantly defend myself” and then ascribing this situation to “the most of the board.”
For example: my SHOCKING statement that Obama is an effective President. Most here would ignore (or agree), but I would expect to be immediately rebuffed by certain posters and, if I care to, spend half my life explaining myself.
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Religious leaders, each and every one, are shameless snake-oil salesmen who have found a way of manipulating people from behind a thin facade of good will.
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Football and movie making are both businesses that profit from the crushed hopes of countless young people who followed the dream and been cast aside. Those industries both push the “follow your dream” message because it profits them to have a huge pool of hopefuls.
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Gun violence in America is almost 100% the result of Hollywood’s (and TV’s, etc) fetishization of guns.
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The US Constitution is designed to play ambious men against each other, to entertain them with a taste of power while preventing them from gaining too much, not to make lawmaking an efficient process. The process is delibrately cumbersome and should be made even more so.
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Pootie Tang was one of the best movies ever made. A work of genius what will never be fully appreciated, except maybe, one day, in France. Sa da tay!
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I agree with Agent Smith: humanity is a virus. The bigger problem is that it’s a virus that can think and it still insists on destroying its host.
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Vegetables suck and there is no way I can choke down five fucking servings a day.
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Republicanism, in its current form, is evil.
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I am god’s gift to women, but the vast majority just don’t realize it.
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Sometimes, a cat needs to be declawed.
- The A Song of Ice and Fire storyline would be better if the screenwriters of the HBO series said “sorry, George” and forged ahead on their own as soon as the show hit the end of Book 5.
The logical conclusion to this is that humanity should be exterminated and leave the Earth to the whales, the pine tree borer and the cockroach.
The part where they wait until you’re dead and not try to get organs while you’re still using them
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The vast majority of Christians don’t actually believe the whole resurrection, deity of Jesus thing. They may like the “fellowship,” or “message” of the church, but they’re not buying the actual tenants of the faith. They are just too weak to admit it out loud.
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Large jury verdicts are an important tool to regulate corporate behavior.