I believe that there is a species of large insect larva that lives inside bananas, it is nearly impossible to find as it’s flesh has the same taste and texture as banana and when disturbed, it stops moving.
Also, I think short, femme, unmuscular punky boys and boys with glasses are damn hot.
huggles his short femme punky boy
Any thread where we share our “unorthodox views” is doomed to end as a train wreck.
In a debate over gender relations, the first person to accuse their opponent of rape, stalking, wife beating, and/or compare them to people who do such and/or accuse them of having the potential to do such automatically loses the debate.
The Internet is 99% shit, and most people would be better off without it.
There are two possible outcomes for catching Osama bin Laden: 1)We find his skull, and discover he died of kidney failure, or 2)We capture him 20 years from now after 9/11 has become just another event in a history textbook.
I feel that qualifying your opinions with a “no debate” is a sign of a weak person. I believe that one should only hold and voice opinions that they feel are justifiable in an open forum. If you aren’t confident enough in your opinions to defend them, shut up.
There is no excuse for whining about ones weight unless one has a genuine glandular disorder (which, lets face it, most fat people don’t have). If you’re fine with being fat then that’s cool. More power to you for ignoring the facile, superficial whims of western consumerist media. Just don’t whine. Please.
Forcefully relieving the worlds 200 richest men of 10% of their fortunes and using it to eradicate 3rd world debt would be a perfectly moral act.
While there are many good reasons to protect ones right to bear arms, the idea that we all have some sort of civic duty to be armed to the eyeballs to protect ourselves from our own government is paraniod and delusional. Also, people who support this argument and point to the holocaust while saying “Look, look at that! That could be us one day” are all complete morons. Each and every one of them. They undermine all other pro-gun arguments.
Anyone who thinks that marijuana should remain illegal, should be thrown in jail regardless of whether or not they’ve done anything wrong. They should come out after a year or two with an indelible criminal record and a lifelong stigma.
Some people really genuinely do deserve to die. The concept of human lifes sanctity is an imbecilic delusion.
Since some of you are incapable of following the simple IMHO rule of giving your own opinion without criticising the opinions of others, and since this thread was obviously bound for the BBQ Pit to begin with, that’s where I tossing it.
I think people (read: the Ms. Fatty McSkanks of the world) should stop complaining about how “society” dictates all women should be thin. AREN’T YOU NUMB FUCKERS PART OF SOCIETY? So have a cry about the “majority” if you want to really get pissy because you can’t find any clothes that fit you, but don’t claim “society dictates” anything.
Btw, I’m surprised at the number of people who cannot tell the difference between a poll(which this obviously was) and a debate(which this obviously wasn’t). If you need a clue, take a good look at the title. It didn’t read “What is wrong with other people’s unpopular or unorthodox views?” now, did it?
I actually only see one person who attempted to engage another poster on their opinions, Czarcasm. If you would be so kind, would you point out the rest of “the number?”
Gee, how about your last snide little post? Did you suddenly forget what forum you were in when you posted that people should defend their positions or shut up? This thread was a poll about unpopular opinions, NOT a debate about said opinions.
I believe that Socialism and yes, COMMUNISM is a historical inevitability. It certainly won’t be pure, but pure form anything is non-existant.
I believe that mental illness is far too trivialized, but I also believe that those who claim to have mental illnesses just to sound cool or different or whatever should be stricken with a REAL mental illness and I don’t mean depression either. I’m talking about fucking Manic Depression or something worse!
I believe that I’m the only person on this forum who has yet to read Harry Potter. HEehehe…
I believe that all people who wish that money and property didn’t exist should give away their stuff.
Filing a lawsuit found to be frivolous should result in criminal charges and jail time for the filer and the attorney.
I hold all organized religions to be factually wrong about the important stuff. I also hold that belief in something factually wrong doesn’t make one crazed or stupid.
I believe that a person’s right to their body is absolute. A fetus, therefore, has the right to life, provided it can live once its mother has withdrawn her uterus.
I find some of Lynn Bodoni’s administrative decisions to be overly harsh.
I hold that once you own something, you own it. If you own a CD, you can rip the songs. If you own a piece of software, you can reverse-engineer it.
I join the popular opinion that this thread will end badly, either with people attacking Czarcasm for trying to keep the peace, or with people moving to a debate-enabled thread.
I believe that good driving has a lot more to do with skill and practice than with age. I think you should be able to get a full license at 16 in any state, but the test should be a legitimate road test (not a ring around the parking lot, like in NJ) that is not easy to pass. Also, drivers should be re-tested every five years after, and including, age 70.
I think that political systems other than our own could be better solutions. I am not an avowed Marxist, anarchist, or what have you, but I am willing to listen to and consider arguments from those and other viewpoints.
I think that UFOs and other paranormal phenomena are intellectually interesting and worthy of study. This is not the same as saying “I believe that UFOs must be extraterrestrial visitors,” but I am more willing to listen to people who do believe that than most people are.
I think cars from the '70s and '80s are cool. Most people either like new cars, or cars from the '50s and '60s. Personally, I love Pacers, Pintos, Datsun B210s, and such.
-Andrew L
I should have qualified that statement, obviously, with an “In my opinion”. As it was, I assumed it was implied.
Are you saying this thread was moved because my opinion ran contrary to other opinions in the thread? That seems a little out of sorts. To my mind, opposing opinions does not a debate make. The attempt must be made to engage a specific point.
As an example in this thread, one poster stated that most prisons should be shut down. Another posted that chain gangs should be reinstituted. Although these opinions run contrary to each other, both you and I agree that that conflict is not reason enough to move the thread.
I believe I am never going to eat a banana again, even if I am stranded on a desert island with nothing but a banana tree. I will eat sand.
In other news,
I believe the “Out To Lunch” test is the best way to determine the success of a mayor of New York. All the good ones were completely and totally out to lunch at least 90% of the time. Normal, nice guys do not make for good NYC mayors.
I believe someone should do away with exit polls on election day. Mostly, because they annoy the heck out of me, and I cannot stand the constant, meaningless updates. Now that we live in the modern era I think we can handle waiting a couple more hours for official results, they ain’t coming by pony express any more.
As I have mentioned before, I believe everyone should get the Mark of the Beast sooner rather than later, because I can no longer remember home#, work#, cell#, home email, work email, 12 hundred assorted other emails and various other contact numbers for everyone I know.
I believe the blame for the Superbowl defeat of the Buffalo Bills by the New York Giants rests squarely on the shoulders of Jim “What? They’re not going to just hand me a Superbowl ring? You mean I have to work for it?” Kelly.
I believe the Redskins part of the Washington Redskins has got to go. Call your neighborhood pick up football team anything you want, heck, call your high school football team anything you want, but a racial slur should be no part of a national, professional sports franchise.
I believe that everyone who talks about jazz in descriptive terms is participating in a conspiracy to speak in a pretend secret language with each other, because it all sounds the same.
(This one is going to get me kicked right off the SDMB, I know it, but …) I believe that somewhere, way down deep inside, way way down deep inside of Geraldo there is a still a decent investigative journalist trying to claw its way out.
I think Mother Theresa was a fraudulent, useless whore.
I believe that Virginia Tech will win the BCS title game this January.
I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauty they possess insiiiiiiide…
Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man, who even now, fight to survive, somewhere beyond the heavens. ::cue theme music::
Jack Batty, White Pride isnt racist.
Is Black Pride day racist?
I am proud to be white, im not saying i hate asians or blacks or arabs.
Nothing, but it’s another 10 years that innocent people aren’t being murdered, raped, whatever by that person.
I believe there should be a cap on personal wealth.
I think the show “Friends” sucks.
I cheer against the USA during the olympics.
I too despise Christmas.
I think exit polls are good, and I’d like to see results projected even earlier in order save late voters from wasting their time.
I think that paganism and Wicca are every bit the crock of shit that Christianity is.
I think there should be far more sex and violence on television.