That the true definition of insanity, which applies universally to all animals, is any behavior which tends to work against that animal’s own reproductive success.
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I believe that Oreos (regular chocolate and white creme) are delicious when dipped in hummus.
I found this out when I had Oreos, some hummus, nothing else to dip in the hummus, and I was bored. The salty and sweet are a great combo.
None of my friends will believe me or even try it. 
“29. The Pittsburgh Steelers are the most cheating, dirtiest, ref-aided team in all of sports.”
Totally agree - now we’re getting somewhere!
Preach!
Mm, there’s some room to debate over your categories, but even running with them, I disagree with how Adams and Vonnegut rate. My main problem with Adams is that he’s only really good at the third category, and never really tries at telling a coherent story in any of his novels. They’re collections of amusing vignettes that don’t add up to an interesting whole. I did think Last Chance to See was his one work where he was definitely firing on all cylinders, and I think it’s a bit of a tragedy that he didn’t do more travel writing, as I think that format played well to his strengths (observational humor and a bit of self-loathing for his own species) while avoiding his weak areas (the need to invent characters or creating an engaging narrative.
Vonnegut, on the other hand, could do okay with putting a plot and characters together, but his heavy handed messaging has turned me off of everything of his I’ve ever read. Reading his stuff is like listening to a really condescending lecturer at a community college. His insights aren’t deep enough to justify the attitude with which he delivers them.
I’ve never read anything by Rowling, outside of her amazingly on point Twitter game, so I don’t know how she compares.
The action sequences in modern movies are boring. I tune out until the get back to the story. If they have CG and tortured camera motion, that nearly puts me to sleep. And that fucking drop-in music, damn, could we have like a tenth of that, please? (Which makes me feel a bit bad for the musicians who put all that effort into it, but holy crap is that stuff annoying.)
Blasphemy, I tell you!! I cringe (and give her the evil eye) when I take Mrs. BLTC to a nice steakhouse only to have her order a filet mignon well done…
I had a tagliata one time that had a seared crusty exterior around a purple slab of flesh. It was a little odd, at first, but I ended up liking it.
For me, it’s not so much terrible as it is overrated.
Excluding opinions about food or art, almost all the unpopular opinions in this thread are unpopular for very good reasons. Having them doesn’t make you edgy, it makes you a dangerous sociopath who should be denied the right to vote. There are exceptions, but most of them aren’t all that unpopular.
This is a rather scary proposition. Those who do not hold to the popular sentiment on the issues should be banned from voting?
This sounds like the most dangerous opinion of the lot.
oh for god’s sake, I wasn’t serious. Jesus.
Dangerous sociopaths are actually not denied the right to vote. In reality, it seems as though they are the ones shoving the US into the toilet.
All joking aside, a sociopath (properly handled by the right advisors) is the ideal politician.
I believe:
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When a terrorist attack happens, some people hope the perpetrator wasn’t Muslim so that the flames of bigotry aren’t fanned. Others hope that the perpetrator was Muslim in order to rationalize their own bigotry.
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September 11 is now the Day of Perpetual Victimhood and Recreational Grief
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The Pledge Of Allegiance is a piece of crap and forcing children to recite it is no different than the Hitler Youth.
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I don’t owe Vietnam veterans anything. Yeah, you had to face some horrific shit over there but I didn’t send you and your going didn’t do any good. Some of you got screwed over when you got back and that’s too bad and if the government failed to keep any promises they made to you I hope you get made whole. I’d have more respect for you if you lay off the super-dee-dooper hyperpatriotism.
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Vladimir Putin wants to resurrect the USSR and retake Eastern Europe and now has a stooge in the White House that will allow it to happen if he can make money off of it.
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We don’t know that heaven exists, we don’t know that it doesn’t. Those that know can’t talk and those that talk can’t know.
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The Fatima kids didn’t predict shit, nor did Nostradamus.
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The entire health care system from hospitals to doctors to drug makers should be run by the government and all of its employees should be civil servants. No insurance needed, if you need something you get it.
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It isn’t bothersome that some people think that Obama is Muslim, what is bothersome is that some people think it should matter.
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If you’re over 35 and single, there’s probably a damn good reason for it.
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If take your wife to a restaurant and order for her, you’re a dick.
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Part of the reason that people vote against their own self-interest is that they believe anything put in front of them in Facebook meme form.
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If you buy a handgun, a little part of you really hopes that you will someday kill somebody with it.
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Going to live sporting events became much less enjoyable when they started to blast loud music for every instant that the clock was stopped or between innings or whatever.
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It isn’t the election tampering that will bring about impeachment, it’s the money.
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The Big Ten is far superior to any other conference.
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Libertarians aren’t 1 percent as intellectual as they think they are. There’s a reason libertarianism has never been tried anywhere.
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If Mexicans had lighter skin most people would have no problem with them slipping over the border.
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Not all Republicans are racist, but nearly all racists are Republicans.
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The police violence against minorities that we see on video is a tiny fraction of what has happened for decades.
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The Confederate states should be allowed to secede right now. The rest of us are tired of them leeching off of us and foiling the progressive agenda.
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The government should shut down fake news sites, especially on Facebook.
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The only fair way to conduct elections is by paper ballot counted by hand.
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Term limits would be a mistake and lead to more corporate control over Congress.
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The only decent Republicans nominated since 1956 have been George HW Bush and Gerald Ford.
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Patriotism is, in general, a bad thing.
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KFC is better than Chick-Fil-A.
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If you bring up the “give a man a fish, teach a man to fish” you’re probably racist.
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Voter ID is nothing more than disenfranchisement of minorities.
I’m a Redskins fan. Have been since I was a small child, will still be one the day I die. When the whole Redskins name controversy was at its peak a few years back someone asked me if I thought the name was offensive. My answer was, “Probably, but I don’t give a shit.”
In the fullness of time, a couple generations from now, it will seem self evident that MOST of the current acts of terrorism being attributed to Islam, are simply acts of the seriously mentally ill. We are already aware that a lot of mental illness can include delusions of hyper evilness.
It will become clear, these people are self identifying as aligned with Isis solely because it’s currently what the world trembles in fear from, will horrify their family and friends, and garner worldwide attention. And, of course, Isis is only too happy to claim responsibility for acts they had not the slightest hand in.
What currently looks like a crisis of terrorism, will become revealed as actually a mental health crisis. When fear mongering rules the day the borderline mentally ill somehow pay the price.
How many more times do we need to hear, from the perpetrator’s family, “Yes, he was very troubled. We tried and tried to get him help, but none was available to us!”?
(No, not specifically this latest thing. In general, not all.)
You should not be allowed to own land that you are not putting your feet for hours on end on on a daily basis. Landlords should live in the apartment buildings they rent out. Banks should not be able to foreclose on a mortgage until after they have a new owner to take over the property. And neighbors should have recourse to get you booted for being an egregiously inconsiderate asshole.
I agree with the vast majority of this.