# Post your unpopular opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001 "2018-01-06T22:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/341 "2018-03-13T05:16:05Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Isaac Newton is more impressive than Sherlock Holmes. I don’t get it. Why would it be unpopular to say that one of the greatest minds in history is more impressive than a fictional detective? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/342 "2018-03-13T08:38:10Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Furthermore I think if Hilary Clinton were put under the same scrutiny as Donald Trump has been since being elected; I think she would have a lot more skeletons in her closet than him. This sentence gave me a start. It sounds like you wish that Congress had spent a little time investigating Benghazi. Or perhaps even had the DoJ investigate Clinton family dealings while Bill was Prez. Nah, the GOP is too good-spirited to do anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/343 "2018-03-13T09:06:44Z")
I think Bob Dylan is a mediocre song writer. He wrote a couple of good songs, and one great song. The rest are all forgettable. The great song: Blowing in the Wind. This was perfect for its time as a 60’s protest song. But it is much more: a timeless dream of hope.People will still be singing it a century from now. A good song: The Times they are a-Changing. It perfectly caught the atmosphere of its day, and was even prophetic about what would happen over the next 5 years. It’s a piece of history,and should remain there–in the history archives. It’s famous for a good reason,but nobody has any reason to sing it any more. Another good song: Mr. Tambourine Man. Good poetry, emotive imagery. Nice all the way 'round. You can still sing it today if you want to. Everything else Dylan’s done has been kinda average, and over- analyzed. Like Leonard Cohen…it sorta sounds deep, but really isn’t. But at least Cohen had a good voice and nice tunes. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/344 "2018-03-13T09:08:39Z")
I think Bob Dylan is a mediocre song writer. He wrote a couple of good songs, and one great song. The rest are all forgettable. The great song: Blowing in the Wind. This was perfect for its time as a 60’s protest song. But it is much more: a timeless dream of hope.People will still be singing it a century from now. A good song: The Times they are a-Changing. It perfectly caught the atmosphere of its day, and was even prophetic about what would happen over the next 5 years. It’s a piece of history,and should remain there–in the history archives. It’s famous for a good reason,but nobody has any reason to sing it any more. Another good song: Mr. Tambourine Man. Good poetry, emotive imagery. Nice all the way 'round. You can still sing it today if you want to. Everything else Dylan’s done has been kinda average, and over- analyzed. Like America’s “Horse with no Name” , or like Leonard Cohen…it sorta sounds deep, but really isn’t. But at least Cohen had a good voice and nice tunes. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/345 "2018-03-13T10:29:24Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Everything else Dylan’s done has been kinda average, and over- analyzed. You can say that again. Oh. Actually, you did. Sorry. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/346 "2018-03-13T10:40:30Z")
I like Croydon. There - I said it. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/347 "2018-03-13T11:53:17Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Oh, I’ve seen plenty of folks who like the ham-and-pineapple combo; some places, it’s a menu item; the supermarket down the street has ‘em ready to go. Pineapple&ham is a “Hawaiian pizza”, it’s one of the most common combos seemingly everywhere (outside the US) - almost every pizza place here has Margherita, Regina (that’s ham+mushroom), Hawaiian and Quattro Stagioni, regardless of what other exotic options they have (chicken tikka pizza is a personal fave) and I know Hawaiian is standard in Oz and the UK as well - it’s the most popular, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/348 "2018-03-13T11:55:53Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Isaac Newton is more impressive than Sherlock Holmes. Isaac Newton was an alchemy-believing nutjob. Yeah, he made some awesome scientific discoveries, but he was still a nutjob. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/349 "2018-03-13T14:04:14Z")
America deserved the Russian interference in its elections, as payback for numerous overt and covert acts of hostility against Russia and nations in its backyard. The CIA has done far more sinister things than placing misleading ads on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/350 "2018-03-13T19:12:40Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > One more unpopular opinion: the Prophet Mohammed and Adolf Hitler were about equally bad, morally. Both of them hated the Jews. Both of them killed lots of Jews. It is true that Mohammed’s body count didn’t rise as high as Hitler’s, but that’s just because he never had the opportunity to kill the same number of Jews that Hitler did. It’s definitely not because Mohammed decided that mass murder was wrong, because he never did. In fact Mohammed [said](https://islamqa.info/en/223275) that at the end of time, Muslim warriors will hunt down and kill the Jews, and that talking trees will assist in the process. Jews are still getting killed today because of the things he said. You know who seems to get a free pass when it comes to genocide? The Catholic Church. Before and during the Protestant Reformation and European Wars of Religion, they were complicit in the death of millions of Protestants. In 1209, Pope Innocent III ordered an edict to wipe out the Albigensians. Between 200000 to 1000000 Albigensians were killed. The Hussites. The Waldensians. The Anabaptists. These groups suffered thousands of deaths with the approval of the Vatican. Today most Christians (both Catholic and Protestant alike) seem to forget just how violent and bloody the history between the two groups were. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/351 "2018-03-13T22:43:20Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I think Bob Dylan is a mediocre song writer. . . . So, who is better? Just curious. You’re not going to say someone like Billy Joel, are you? > [@chappachula](#): > > . . . But at least Cohen had a good voice and nice tunes. Leonard Cohen had a “good voice?” … ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/352 "2018-03-14T09:53:49Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > America deserved the Russian interference in its elections, as payback for numerous overt and covert acts of hostility against Russia and nations in its backyard. The CIA has done far more sinister things than placing misleading ads on Facebook. To be fair, so has Russia - particularly in the last week in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/353 "2018-03-14T15:28:41Z")
In the US, and other “civilized” countries, holding unpopular opinions is fine, as long as you never state them or act on them. But let people know you don’t agree with current dogma, you could be in big trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/354 "2018-03-14T20:48:32Z")
Nobody born in 2005 or after should ever be able to legally buy tobacco. No penalties for holding it, just make it really difficult to form and feed the habit. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/355 "2018-03-14T20:50:09Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > In the US, and other “civilized” countries, holding unpopular opinions is fine, as long as you never state them or act on them. > But let people know you don’t agree with current dogma, you could be in big trouble. That depends on WHICH people hear about it. I believe that if/when Dumpster faces impeachment, he will commit suicide rather than step down. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/356 "2018-03-15T03:45:12Z")
No, my impression is that the Paralympics are competitive and contigent on sports/game skills and on body conditioning as appropriate for the sport in question. They certainly don’t hand out medals to everyone, or at least not meaningful ones, just for showing up. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/357 "2018-03-15T03:52:28Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Speaking of which: it kills me when people talk about professional athletes being there to entertain us. > > My unpopular opinion us that they play because it’s what they want to do, and they make a lot of money doing it. For 95% of then I doubt they give a shit if you’re entertained or not. > > They’re basically doing you a favor letting you watch them play. But the athletes wouldn’t be making all that money for playing with millions of us watching them do it. That money has to come from somewhere. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/358 "2018-03-15T04:04:19Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > But the athletes wouldn’t be making all that money for playing with millions of us watching them do it. That money has to come from somewhere. > > Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Then it’s nice of them to let you pay to watch. They’re not your dancing monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/359 "2018-03-15T04:11:33Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I agree. Maybe it’s time to let evolution have another crack at who gets to be on top of the food chain. Sadly, that’s not particularly rare. I support the goals of environmentalism but the argument that we wretched worthless humans are an infestation of vermin on “the planet” deserving only to be exterminated is tellingly close to the rantings of certain clerics through the ages who have insisted that everyone on the face of the earth deserved to die in a flood or spend eternity in the torments of hell. Referring to the world as “the planet”, in this context, seems to send that signal. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001/360 "2018-03-15T04:16:12Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Then it’s nice of them to let you pay to watch. They’re not your dancing monkeys. You don’t seem to get it. If they didn’t “let us watch”, as you put it, they would earn a pittance if anything, and probably have to hold down workaday jobs to pay the rent. They’re like actors. If nobody watches, there’s no money Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-unpopular-opinions/806001.md?page=19)