I’m referring mainly to international travel where checking bags is still mostly free and people are usually traveling for at least two weeks. Someone doing a weekend trip to San Diego? Sure, that’s easy to pack for with just a carry on. But, for a trip where you’re gone for a while and likely to need a variety of clothing, there are those who still take ‘pride’ in how light they can travel. Maybe they’re happy wearing the same three shirts and two pants for a three week trip that they paid thousands of dollars for. But, I’m an adult and I’m not washing my underwear in the hotel sink!
Another political one that annoys me is the people who complain about politicians who are out of office. I’m talking about people who still complain about Obama or George W. Bush. Obama’s been out of office since 2012. Bush since 2008. You need to move on and focus on the future elections; not dwell on the past.
It’s totally out the window now that we have a toddler and have to pack larger bags, but in my younger globe-trottier days, I’d certainly attempt to pack everything into a carry-on. Not to save the $25 or to have some kind of pack-light smugness, but because carry-ons don’t get lost!
Ever have a checked bag get lost when you went through airports in three different countries and don’t speak the native language at two of them, or where you are? Not fun.
Um.
My mistake, 2016. But I think my point is still valid
Oil. The kind of oil you use in a car engine.
If you are a car person never go onto a car related site and ask, “What brand of oil should I be using?” You will find religious levels of commitment to a particular brand, witnessing, and after several pages a mod will have to lock the thread and refer you to the multiple previous threads on the same subject.
What kind of oil should you be using in your engine? Clean oil. That meets your cars specs. That’s about it.
And Hillary. Jesus, I could never understand why she’s still inciting such rage.
I did care about my HS and College teams.
I dont give a shit about any Pro sports as most of them care nothing about their fans.
Look, anything that gets kids lined up to read a BIG fat book book with great excitement is good for me. I worked a little at a bookstore when one of the HP books came out and on midnite (we stayed open late) there were scores of kids (and their parents) lined up to buy a large thick book with no pictures.
Leaning back in your airline seat. wow.
Another one I’m surprised nobody has mentioned yet: newborn male circumcision.
Fire away.
I used to own a Hyundai. Hyundai boards are full of people insisting that if you use anything other than the insanely expensive Hyundai-branded transmission fluid, your car will explode. They know this to be true because it totally happened to a friend of a cousin of a neighbor’s friend.
I admit I roll my eyes a bit, but peoples are weird with their food, so whatever and meh.
Pizza - New York vs. Chicago or whatever. I like pizza. I don’t care if it’s thick, thin, or somewhere in between. If it’s tasty, I’ll like it.
Computer operating systems. Mac, PC, whatever. I have both. I like them both for different things. I get so sick of someone saying they have a problem and everybody chiming in with “Get a <PC/Mac!>”
Edition wars in gaming (Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun, etc.). Play what you like, and leave everybody else to do the same. How is this hard?
Well, no: they are against abortions, period. Also, the ‘pro-life’ movement’s interest in protecting life, aside from a few edge cases, largely stops at birth. #notallprolifers, of course, but as a movement, yes.
Pro-choice people aren’t pro-abortion. Pro-choice women don’t think, "I think I’d like to have an abortion. Let’s see: first I’ve got to stop taking my birth control pills, then I’ve got to find someone to knock me up, and then, yay, I can have an abortion!!"
Nobody wants to have an abortion. It’s always a lesser-of-evils thing, from the POV of the person getting the abortion. (From the POV of the pro-birthers, it’s a greater-of-evils thing. But even that reinforces the notion that NOBODY thinks abortion is a good thing to be sought out.) The position of the pro-choicers is that each individual woman should have the right to choose whether abortion is, for her, the lesser evil. Pro-choice is in fact the right descriptor.
Corollary: how one cooks a steak or a hamburger on the grill. “YOU MUST ONLY FLIP ONCE!” Nah, I flip about every 90 seconds. Makes it a whole lot easier to gauge how done it is, and keeps the heat even. Plus it gives me an opportunity to move stuff around so some burgers don’t sit in hot spots too long and burn.
They call me Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…
“Abortion isn’t a necessary evil. It’s great.” (article)
Lena Dunham:I wish I’d had an abortion
“My abortion was fabulous, thanks”
I really don’t understand the people ‘surprised’ that humans tend to get really passionate about sporting events. This is something that’s happened with humans since pretty much the dawn of recorded history (Notably, the Eastern Roman Empire had major empire-shaking revolts started by riots over the results of chariot races). It’s like being surprised that people use knives as tools, even if you don’t like knives you shouldn’t be surprised at their use.
My example: In a thread on here about the TV show Better Call Saul, people on this board got really passionate about using a weird definition of the word ‘knows’. They would argue vehemently that since the show was about lawyers you could some weird ‘layman’s legal’ definition of the word that they couldn’t clearly define or point to anywhere else that used it (and was at odds with the relevant definition from legal proceedings that I did cite). And even though I’d explicitly stat that I was using the usual dictionary definition of the word and not their weird one, they’d refuse to accept that and disrupt discussion of the show insisting that the definition they couldn’t even specify is the only one that could be used for the show. None of them even contest that the character knows (in the normal sense) about the situation under discussion, which would not surprise me, they just insist that it’s completely wrong to use the word ‘knows’ to describe that the character is aware of another character’s actions.
Adults who argue about movies based on comic books, getting into passionate arguments about DC vs Marvel.
Yeah, I’m kinda not thinking that changing one word in the title made any difference at all. Absent some sort of convincing evidence I’m going to believe that the book would be pretty much equally palatable, and popular, either way.
Castrol is a popular brand. But if you are going to be a purist, it has to be German Castrol.
It gets worse.