# Trivial, yet controversial views (What are yours) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196 "2019-02-25T19:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/1 "2019-02-25T19:04:21Z")
1. “Try acting dear boy.”. Laurence without that accent, you’re Tyrone Power or somebody. Not too shabby, but a lot of people are still going to say ‘who’? Meanwhile Dustin has reeled off a hell of a career. Try not dying Laurence.\* 2. Clint Eastwood is misunderstood and you’re an idiot for thinking he’s a Republican dinosaur. Get your head out of Huffpo, He’s pro-choice. He’s pro gay marriage, and most importantly he’s anti-war and has been for a long time. Obama looked the gestapo compared to him and if his Republican chair speech was misused, well blame your stupid two-party system you prop up every four years. \*I’m actually of the opinion that Dustins story is correct. That they were talking about his divorce, not being method. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/2 "2019-02-25T20:20:17Z")
[“Any religion that embraces carob is not for Carl Carlson”](https://imgur.com/AzaXM9a) Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/3 "2019-02-25T21:49:41Z")
Films today are way too long. 90 minutes to 2 hours is the perfect length for a film. Unless its an epic you should edit your film down to 2 hours minimum. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/4 "2019-02-25T21:57:33Z")
Clint made a fool of himself. Fanboy spin can’t make it go away. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/5 "2019-02-25T22:37:30Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Obama looked the gestapo compared to him and if his Republican chair speech was misused, well blame your stupid two-party system you prop up every four years. …:rolleyes: Cool story, bro. Boiled eggs are disgusting. It’s a lie agreed upon that they are edible. Robert Altman’s “Popeye” is the best comic book adaptation and one of his best movies. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/6 "2019-02-25T23:00:50Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > …:rolleyes: Cool story, bro. > > Boiled eggs are disgusting. It’s a lie agreed upon that they are edible. > Robert Altman’s “Popeye” is the best comic book adaptation and one of his best movies. The greatest lie Satan ever pulled off was fooling people into eating deviled eggs ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/7 "2019-02-25T23:16:06Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 1. “Try acting dear boy.”. Laurence without that accent, you’re Tyrone Power or somebody. Not too shabby, but a lot of people are still going to say ‘who’? Meanwhile Dustin has reeled off a hell of a career. Try not dying Laurence.\* Laurence had a hell of a career, too—it was just mostly in the theater, not in film. I mean, they made him not just a Knight but a LORD, fer corn’s sake. Trivial yet controversial view: I don’t care if it’s due to union rules: the TEENSY TINY font they use for movie credits these days is AN ABOMINATION. Also, all-caps is underrated as a form of expression. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/8 "2019-02-25T23:40:50Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Films today are way too long. 90 minutes to 2 hours is the perfect length for a film. Unless its an epic you should edit your film down to 2 hours minimum. Books today are way too long. 300 to 400 pages is the perfect length for a book. Unless its an epic you should edit your book down to 400 pages maximum. (Lookin’ at you, J K Rowling) ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/9 "2019-02-25T23:44:04Z")
Also … iceberg lettuce is the best lettuce. Crisp, juicy, sweet. Ok, all that rocket/salad green/kale shit may be GOOD for you, but they taste nasty! That’s why people slather them in oily salad dressing - so you can’t taste what you’re eating. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/10 "2019-02-25T23:47:49Z")
Does my dislike of _ **The Big Lebowski** _ and _ **Young Frankenstein** _ count? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/11 "2019-02-25T23:50:33Z")
xkcd just ain’t funny! ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/12 "2019-02-25T23:51:33Z")
If Spike Lee didn’t win an Oscar because of racism, then Alfred Hitchcock didn’t win an Oscar because of racism too. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/13 "2019-02-26T00:21:26Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > Does my dislike of _ **The Big Lebowski** _ and _ **Young Frankenstein** _ count? You should add The Princess Bride to that list; at least I do. We should have stuck with the conversion to the metric system. If Jimmy Carter had prevailed, we’d have two generations of kids who were comfortable with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/14 "2019-02-26T00:31:02Z")
Anyone with inventive children and dogs understands why the toilet paper can’t unroll off the top. You find one roll of tp completely unrolled and stuffed in the toilet, the next one goes on the roller the other direction and that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/15 "2019-02-26T00:52:01Z")
Cereal is better soggy, ice cream is better melted, soda is better flat. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/16 "2019-02-26T00:52:13Z")
Every time I hear someone lament that it’s too hard to be a small business in the US because X% of small businesses fail, I have to hold my tongue to keep from pointing out that that’s probably about the %age that are completely ill-equipped to be a business owner in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/17 "2019-02-26T00:58:40Z")
Ice cream, all of it, sucks. So do all its ice creamish relatives that are dairy based. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/18 "2019-02-26T01:02:27Z")
there needs to be a law about what kind of music a 12 year old child can sing in public or tv or social media ……. sure she can almost sound like whitney but the words “I wanna feel the heat with somebody” shouldn’t come our of her or his mouth for another 3-4 years at least ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/19 "2019-02-26T01:15:22Z")
Every Led Zeppelin song sounds alike. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/20 "2019-02-26T02:48:12Z")
Mayonnaise is the devil’s ejaculate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196.md?page=2)