# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/81 "2019-02-27T12:25:31Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Regurgitating Monty Python quotes has been rendered vapid by endless repetition. Find a new schtick. I fart in your general direction! 😃 ---
**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:** [February 27, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/82 "2019-02-27T12:59:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > IWile E. spoke in one of the Roadrunner cartoons This is the one where he [pulls out the Roadrunner flavor chart](https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Zip_Zip_Hooray!), yes? ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/83 "2019-02-27T13:10:31Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Truffle oil, in general, is for tossers. Now that is some fancy wanking 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/84 "2019-02-27T13:17:30Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I have to disagree with that. Wile E. spoke in one of the Roadrunner cartoons… Yes, but he broke character, and the fourth wall, to do it. He stopped being “The Coyote” to address the two boys watching him on television. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/85 "2019-02-27T14:07:35Z")
The Eagles sucked. And I don’t mean the ones in Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/86 "2019-02-27T14:37:02Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Led Zep songs DO sound the same, but that’s just fine. They still rule. Hey, they admitted it themselves: [https://youtu.be/dRnKvXqti6M](https://youtu.be/dRnKvXqti6M) ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/87 "2019-02-27T15:44:06Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > 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. if Jimmy Carter had prevailed we would have had much better environmental laws and enforcement the last 35ish years. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/88 "2019-02-27T15:50:31Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 1. I SWEAR TO GOD, I will punch the next person who says Dottie, in A League of Their Own, dropped the ball on purpose at the end. It just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of her entire character and the film FFS. I’m thankful that I have never heard this theory before. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/89 "2019-02-27T15:56:41Z")
Moffat \> Davies Sriracha is bad. Rogue One is the second best Star Wars movie. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/90 "2019-02-27T16:00:32Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Rogue One is the second best Star Wars movie. Interesting take. It is,by far, the best of the Disney Star Wars movies. I tend not to compare the different Star Wars eras. It’s much easier to consider them as different periods. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/91 "2019-02-27T16:07:08Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > And now one that’s a little more current: I haven’t seen “Green Room”, not yet anyway, and I do not understand why Spike Lee is getting so much press for disagreeing with it winning the Best Picture Oscar. I mean, really? We have a dookiestorm going on in DC and people are reporting about THIS? One person’s opinion about a movie? Get real. If you go and watch “Green Room” you’re going to get a wildly different movie if you wanted to watch “Green Book”, which is the film that won. “Green Room” is a good movie with Patrick Stewart, but it’s pretty brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/92 "2019-02-27T16:17:48Z")
_Psycho_ is probably the most overrated American movie ever made, though _Vertigo_ may possibly have surpassed it in this regard by now. What’s more, I don’t think Hitchcock ever directed a great movie. He made a small number of good and bad ones and a larger number of entertaining ones, but no great ones. He is simultaneously a great director and the world’s most overrated great director. Harry Truman was a bad president. So-called “white chocolate” is illegal and immoral. Mark Lenard was a greater actor than Olivier. Did Lord Larry ever play a Vulcan, a Romulan or a Klingon, let alone all three? No, his fame rests on playing Shakespearean pretty boys with weird haircuts who talk funny. Mr. Lenard was one of our foremost interpreters of extraterrestrial roles and should be more celebrated. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/93 "2019-02-27T16:30:32Z")
Chicken and waffles do not go together. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/94 "2019-02-27T16:36:49Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > Chicken and waffles do not go together. I like chicken. I like waffles. I might even like them on the same plate. But that lumpy white sauce that usually goes with them is revolting, like someone puked on the plate. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/95 "2019-02-27T16:49:34Z")
The rise of classic rock radio parallels the rise of neanderthalish right-wing politics. People (of either sex) who don’t shave their pits should not wear sleeveless tops to restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/96 "2019-02-27T16:58:06Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 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. …how does that help? ---
**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:** [February 27, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/97 "2019-02-27T17:17:27Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > …how does that help? You clearly don’t own a pet or child with a propensity to spin the roll madly. Animals, at least, can only really spin the roll in one direction (as my cat has started doing, dammit). If the loose end hangs down the outside they will unspool the roll; if it hangs the other way it just goes around and around. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/98 "2019-02-27T17:25:13Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > _Psycho_ is probably the most overrated American movie ever made, though _Vertigo_ may possibly have surpassed it in this regard by now. What’s more, I don’t think Hitchcock ever directed a great movie. He made a small number of good and bad ones and a larger number of entertaining ones, but no great ones. He is simultaneously a great director and the world’s most overrated great director. I recently rewatched \*Vertigo \*and _The Birds_ and realized that, not only weren’t they the classics I had herd-believed them to be, they weren’t even very good. Still love _Psycho_, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Elliot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jane_elliot/32/6166_2.png) [@Jane\_Elliot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/99 "2019-02-27T17:35:03Z")
Most (not all) male comedians aren’t at all funny. Makeup isn’t for me, but everyone should be able to wear it openly, without judgment. There’s really no such thing as men’s & women’s clothing styles. It’s all just clothing. The only real difference is how the tailoring makes it fit on your body type. Tattoos are nice until they start to fade, then it just looks like mud. Authors own fans nothing. If they want to kill all your favorites, turn them into wankers, or make them Mary Sue’s, that’s their privilege as the creator. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196/100 "2019-02-27T18:02:34Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > I recently rewatched \*Vertigo \*and _The Birds_ and realized that, not only weren’t they the classics I had herd-believed them to be, they weren’t even very good. Still love _Psycho_, though. I know ‘Vertigo’ is a technically great film with high production values, and it is a good movie and I’m glad I saw it, but it’s seems so overwrought to me anymore. Whenever it airs, the only part I really enjoy is the beginning credits with it’s excellent music and myriad of images. Love that part. BTW, and for the record, there’s no way I would have recognized ‘Judy Barton’ as Madeline when she “remade” herself toward the end of the movie. I didn’t see the similarity at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-yet-controversial-views-what-are-yours/830196.md?page=6)