Unpopular or unorthodox views you hold

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Most Weird Al stuff is not funny, it’s just stupid. The reason he’s so liked among the nerdkind is that he offers a nerdceptable option to listen to popular tunes, albeit with a bit different lyrics.

“Blossom” was a good series.

12th season of Simpsons was genuinely and honestly bad. Not just bad Simpsons, bad television.

Yes, it was wrong, yes, it was senseless and no, it shouldn’t happen again, but I bet there were more than a few bullies who tuned down on their act after Columbine - and more than a few victims who survived through the school without killing themselves by idly dreaming about massacre.

If democracy is strong enough, it can survive an more authoritarian ruler who severely bends the rules - as long as he stops short of smashing them completely. After all, Finland survived Kekkonen. Such strongman can even do good. However, it shouldn’t be taken as a habit.

Hypocrisy isn’t nearly as bad as it’s made to be.

Whether “Homophobes are secretly homosexuals” is true or not, in most of the cases saying it in a debate against a homophobe is nothing more than a progressive version of “Ha ha your fag”.

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Actually, KJ, a lot of what you had to say makes a lot of sense.

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I refuse to give money to the pierced-and-tattooed-beyond-recognition goth freaks on the corner. You have made yourselves virtually unemployable because you can’t leave your body the fuck alone. Don’t expect me to subsidize your life because your need for personal expression is greater than your self-control.

I do not believe that Natives are capable of self-government.

I despise Bono. And Sting. Get the weight of the world off your fucking shoulders, already.

I think that one dog is worth 10 cats.

I have watched every episode of “The Bachelor” this season (while this is not necessarily unpopular or unorthodox, it is certainly embarassing).

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All right, I stand corrected. Second Amendment. [:o to nth power]
Other views that may be mine alone:
Abortion is the Pound of Cure.
I accept what is in the Bible about homosexuality and the origins of the human species. I also consider such matters outside the scope of Caesar to make laws about. (Cf. Romans 12:17-21.)
I see nothing wrong with seeking a legal career, the common sentiment against lawyers notwithstanding.
I think Pete Rose should be as eligible as any other famous player to make the Hall of Fame, solely by dint of his accomplishments as a player, the philosophy of that damned Yalie stiff A. Bartlett Giamatti notwithstanding.
Although I will give George Steinbrenner his due–in that he certainly has a solid sense of humor–for the most part I wouldn’t give him the time of day. Similarly with Dubya, Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, and a score of other celebrities.
I just finished working at TBN ( www.tbn.org ) for another week. I had fewer people call during this telethon spoiling for a fight…although I don’t share TBN’s religious creeds I have no objection to them conducting a telethon or financing new stations, missionary programs, or other church stuff–whatever the laws allow them to do.

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Oh yeah, I almost forgot my main unorthodox view:

I believe that there are a lot of unwanted side effects to genetically engineering, injecting growth hormone into cows, putting a bunch of artificial flavors in food to preserve it and make it taste better, and putting chemicals like flouride into the tap water. However, I believe that it’s worth all of that, because the only other practical alternative is to live in a place where you can’t even get enough food to feed everyone, and the drinking water will give you parasites. All that stuff is risky, but it’s economical. And the truth is, we (Western civilization) are seeing higher life expectancies than ever before, so we must be doing something right.

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I believe George Lucas should be ashamed of himself. But is too busy rolling in giant piles of money to notice.

I believe some people should come with a mute button.

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(1) Legalize drugs.

(2) Let people stay on welfare as long as they like, provided that they undergo voluntary sterilization and forfeit their right to vote.

(3) The government should provide drugs for addicts free of charge, but the druggies and welfare addicts must stay in segregated areas from the rest of society. Let them do whatever the hell they want to each other. Smoke crack and have promiscuous sex to their hearts content.

This will weed out the unproductive members of society from our ranks, and will provide them a utopian paradise which will probably be cheaper than prison.

(4) Those who want to be parents must have parenting licenses. To get a parenting license, you must have a job or regular source of income and be at least 21 years old. Those who are not qualified but still have kids anyway will have their children taken away by the state until they can qualify for a parenting license.

(4) The legal drinking age should be 18.

(5) Birth control pills, condoms, and abortions should be provided free by the government.

(6) Instead of the death penalty, force murderers to work in prison for the rest of their natural life, with that money going towards compensation for the victims.

(7) Stem cell research is perfectly all right.

(8) All bills that congress passes must pass by a 2/3 vote to prevent frivolous legislation from passing by the tyranny of the majority. All bills must be reconsidered after 2 years.

(9) The U.S should stay the hell out of other countries business unless it directly affects us, or there is mass genocide going on that needs to be stopped for the sake of humanity.

(10) Legalize gay marriages.

(11) Those who commit adultery, without the permission of their spouse, should not get any of their spouses property or assets in a divorce settlement.

(12) Softer drugs, like marijuana, should be legalized and taxed.

(13) Prostitution should be legal.

(14) The taxes on cigarrettes should be exactly the amount needed for the state to provide health care for smoking related illnesses, and all that money should go for healthcare.

(15) People with STDS must have tattoos placed on their bodies to inform the public of that fact.

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Well, except that a great many STDs are curable, and tattoos are rather permanent.

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the world population needs to suffer a huge loss through either war or disease, keeping people alive longer and the spiraling birth rate cant be good.

some animals are just an evolutionary dead end.

ren fairs are just plain sad.

the vast majority of people are total idiots for 98% of their lives.

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I believe people who are terminally ill and in intense pain have the right to end their lives by medicide/suicide rather than a long, drawn out, expensive, morally draining demise.

I believe that our soldiers should be replaced by the gun totin’ members of the NRA.

I second **Doctor J’s ** **Mandatory Birth Control ** platform.

I believe that people who chose sterlization (never having children) should be exempt from school/educational tax and get some kind of one time only tax break.

I beleive that parents whose children are grown or go to private schools should be exempt from school tax.

I beleive that sterlization should be free.

Stay at home Mom’s should still be able to have part of their husbands SS earnings put into their SS. ( This was a bit of a shocker to me.)

I believe that the Protestants and the Catholics of Ireland and the Jew’s and the Arabs of Israel should swap countries for awhile. Maybe all they need is a location change.

Or - Jews fighting Protestants and Arabs VS Papists. It’d liven things up a bit.

I believe that nothing will ever be resolved in N. Ireland or Israel in my life time or the life time of my great x5 grandchildren.

I beleive that there is some kind of balance between National Health Care and the Quagmire that is out there now. It will never be found in my life time.

I believe that every politician when they make it into office is *promised * away to whomever helped them to their power and therefore are completely and totally ineffective.

I beleive that ** IVF ** should be banned. It is merely greedy wealthy white people reproducing themselves ( and then stuffing their kids in daycare.)

I beleive that IVF will only hamper future generations. There is a reason, maybe not known now, but down the road, of why people cannot reproduce. It could be a faulty gene that cannot be detected by medical science yet and therefore, the IVF people are just making things really really shitty down the road for their kids/grandkids/et el.

**I beleive that the higher powers of all major and minor religions exist. ** but they are all playing cards in Heaven periodically checking in down here as we all just fuck with each other *killing each other for the sake of God/Buddha/Allah/Ganesh/Whatever. **

**I believe that we have two lives: the one we are born with and the life we make. **
i **beleive **that I have spelled beleivewrong several times.
Great Thread!

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I beleive:

Prostitution should be legal. (Tax the Ho’s!)

Gay marriages should be legal.
By Blalron

Then, once or twice a year, given them all loaded weapons and tell them it is open season. Kill whomever you want and after the hunting season is over, anyone still standing is given amnesty and a bag of coke. that should thin the herd out for a little while.

I beleive that Al Gore is animatronic. So is George W. Bush. Hell, they all are.

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Punk is not dead, and will likely never be. The people who say it is dead believe this because they have grown too old and are dying instead of living, and don’t want something they loved to outlive them.

No genre of anything – adventure games, SF, punk, etc – will ever die as long as there is art in these genres being created and people who declare themselves fans of this genre. I doubt any genre will ever be completely wiped out. The Chicken Littles who constantly see the death of genres are idiots.

People have every damn right to not like a genre of music if they want. But if they declare people to be stupid because they listen to a particular genre, they are, in fact, stupid themselves.

New music can be just as good as old music. Old music can be just as good as new music.

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I believe that Eddie Bauer and **L.L. Bean ** are one in the same company.

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i believe that nicholas cage is hot

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*Any piece of decontextualised modern art which is indistinguishable from its surroundings when replaced back in its original context is not art. In other words, artistic statements based solely on the recontextualisation of an object and the implications arising thereof, is not a piece of art. It is, to the contrary, a piece of shit.

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I believe the world revolves around ME!

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In urban districts of high vehicular and pedestrian traffic, it typically happens that drivers wanting to make right turns must wait and wait through multiple signal changes before they can proceed, because there is an unending stream of pedestrians crossing the street. The pedestrians never have to wait for more than one green light, but buses, trucks, and cars all wait, as they sit there idling their motors.

So they should set the signals so that every third time, let’s say, the pedestrians have to wait and the drivers can proceed.

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I’d almost forgotten.
My opinion is that Ralph Nader is handsome…

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I believe the Backstreet Boys and other boybands make great music and will be around as long as any other band that’s out now no matter how much you (the general you)say they’re gonna fade away in two years because you were saying that they were gonna fade away in two years, two years ago and two years before that…

I also believe beauty is not relavent to someone’s clothing size.

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Shirley_UIntolerant_Jerk!.

Oh well, at least it looks as if maybe you don’t bother to vote.:rolleyes: