Robin Williams was annoying and not very funny.
Another unpopular opinion: I am ***not ***impressed, generally, when young children perform in talent shows, especially if it’s an unimpressive act/show, and they and their parents are obviously banking on the “Isn’t that adorable/impressive?” factor to take them all the way to 1st place. As a judge I would more inclined to vote *against *a contestant who is trying to play up that angle.
I do not understand or care for the hoopla around professional sports.
Does anyone disagree with this?
I don’t think most parents go to an elementary school talent show thinking “ok, I’m expecting to be blown away by some seriously talented performers”.
I agree. I stayed in a large hotel a couple of years ago that was hosting a Honey-Boo-Boo level amateur beauty pageant with a talent section. It was free for family members so my father and I just pretended we were among them and admired the tackiness and (lack of) talent. However, the parents take that stuff deadly seriously and almost all of them had traveled to go to compete at a business hotel on a Sunday morning. In the end, it is just young girls doing more and more difficult routines while injuring themselves (sometimes badly).
Lots of other people make similar mistakes though. It is incredibly unlikely that your child is going to get a baseball, hockey or football scholarship to college. Even if they did, the money could have just been better invested in a college savings account. The only people that I have known that strategy has worked out for is black high school football players with extreme talent whose parents just didn’t give a damn. Most of them don’t make it either but football requires a very large team and is extremely popular while most sports aren’t.
My daughter is a very good competitive gymnast at the medium age levels. She trains 18 solid hours a week with professional coaches and it is expensive and time-consuming as hell. As I tell everyone, I am proud of her work ethic and dedication to the sport but there is no way that it will ever work out financially even in the likely event that she gets a college scholarship. The only reason she gets to do it at that level is because she has four rich grandparents that pay for it and parents that are willing to work around her schedule. I have always told her that she can drop at any time if she loses interest because it is just a time and money sinkhole but she wants to stick with it for now.
Some people see the prospect of a $50,000 college scholarship and think it sounds like a lot of money. It isn’t. You would be much better off banking the money it takes to participate at all and telling your child to hit the books. Let’s face it, even if Little Billy does manage to score a scholarship to Division I or II school, he isn’t going to get a great education because of time constraints and the chances are outstanding that he he won’t ever play for any sort of professional team.
I mean more like, the American Idol/Britain’s Got Talent type of show - or, a talent show in which typically teens or adults compete, but someone enters a child into the contest specifically trying to play up the “he/she’s just a kid, how amazing!” factor - and the kid is *not *impressive.
If it’s a true child prodigy, great, but if just an ordinary kid, no, and the beaming parents know full well the judges can’t do anything other than coo and awww, due to public pressure.
Ditto Kathy Griffin.
I don’t think David Sedaris is funny either.
I hardly think that’s an unpopular opinion.
Most humor is subjective.
Personally, I don’t think Monty Python and Saturday Night Live are really as good as most people think
Sure they had some funny sketches, but if you binge watched whole seasons of
either show you realize they fall under the old adage of 95% of everything is crap.
There is just too goddam much entertainment. We should learn how to handle boredom, and to entertain ourselves and each other.
That Israel has a right to the land it has occupied since before I was born, and that any American who feels differently should either produce their tribal enrollment or buy their land from its original nation at market rates.
Cats are better than dogs.
Kittens are cuter than puppies.
(Zombies are better than cats or dogs, but not as cute as kittens)
I don’t care about your kids, and I don’t want to see their pictures.
That’s certainly a WRONG opinion, but not sure it’s really unpopular. There are plenty of cat people.
Both are infinitely cute, therefore it is wrong to say that either is cuter. (Both are FAR cuter than human babies, however.)
I’m going meta with my opinion that zombie threads are usually entertaining.
The only elections should be for your local town/ward/neighborhood council, as low-level as possible. The right to vote would not be a birth right (by neither the status of one’s parents nor the location of one’s birth). No application would be needed to become a permanent resident eligible for employment; merely physically being present in the country would give you all the qualification you need. The right to vote could be applied for by any resident, and the process would require 5 years for those 14 and older, and until one is 18 for those younger (in reality, this means applying when you turn 13, given the next sentence). The application would be denied for failure to be sufficiently educated in the governmental structure and the current affairs of the last five years, but only on those grounds. Full citizenship, i.e. being able to hold political office, would require an additional 5 year waiting period after application, with a more strenuous test of the same things.
Why do we license beauticians and drivers, but not voters or politicians?
I find myself increasingly inclined to support capitol punishment for all presidential aspirants, as anyone who would want the job must be crazy.
I know this is a thread for people to tell their unpopular opinions, and not a place to debate them; but you asked
“Why do we license beauticians and drivers, but not voters or politicians?”
so, consider:
who gets to decide what the qualifications are?
do these qualifications change as society and society’s priorities and values change?
who decides when and how the qualifications change?
do these qualifications have a liberal or conservative bent?
How do ideas from “outside the box” figure in this training?
Can anyone be on the qualifications committee?
what qualifications do THEY need?
etc
mc
Dogs that can be heard barking excessively should be shot on sight, if you can’t find their owners.
if you can find their owners, can you shoot them too? 