What are your most unpopular opinions?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m looking for things that you really believe and you suspect you wouldn’t get a consensus on, especially if they are things you are not quick to admit under normal circumstances or if you think it will really make some blood boil around here. I’m not looking for trolling, devil’s advocates, or any serious arguments outside of a light joking context. I wouldn’t complain if some BBQ Pit threads ultimately resulted though. :slight_smile:

I’ll go first, and if there is some participation I’m sure I’ll think of some more to come back with.

I think the Star Wars prequel are really good, maybe even better than the originals.

Professional Wrestling is a seriously misunderstood and underestimated art form.

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Beer tastes like shit.
Coffee tastes worse than beer.

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Fast food is delicious

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I guess we’re unpopular together, then.

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I don’t like beer or coffee either. And fast food is good. You guys’ unpopular opinions are popular with me.

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I don’t really care about kids, and I sure as shit don’t want any of my own.

saying such things in “polite company” is sure to attract countless comments about how wrong I am and how I’ll change my mind and so on.

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I’m basically cool with GMOs. My main concern is less about their impact on humans (directly), but the risks to environment and food supply by over emphasizing monocultures and single species of crops. For an example, GMO corn oil or corn syrup, with the BT protein non-existant in the oil itself, for example, concerns me not. Frankly I worry more about all the pesticides and insecticides used on non-GMA crops (which incidentally they don’t have to label on foods either) worries me way more.

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I don’t like coffee and I’m not real fond of bacon.

I like dogs better than cats.
I like cats, I just like dogs better.

I don’t have warm fuzzies for animals who look at me as lunch.

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I didn’t like the Harry Potter books, and feel the movies are much better.

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I hated Reservoir Dogs. It sucked.

It pisses me off that kids don’t have year-round school or at least a far shorter summer break, both because kids lose half the stuff they learned after being off that long and because it takes hours of poring over brochures to figure out what the hell the kids are going to do this summer. “Summer school” in my area is only three hours long every day with no child care afterward.

Velveeta is awesome. Mix it with Rotel and you have cheesy Nirvana.

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I’m also not convinced that homosexuality isn’t a choice.

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I’m all right with this.

I don’t personally enjoy drinking, going to night clubs, and that sort of thing in general so I find it very difficult to sympathize with people, especially women, who…end up victims and in bad situations due to their entirely avoidable high risk lifestyle choices.

Of course on an intellectual level I’m as concerned about their well-being as anyone else and rightly so, but really, Stay in for the evening with some friends, watch a movie, play some video games, read Das Kapital, something rated PG instead of getting blackout drunk in the company of random skeevy strangers. Works like a charm for me because I haven’t been roofied and/or raped even once!

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I like white chocolate… I like Sanka…

I don’t enjoy any variety of Rock and Roll – and that can generalize to a lot of genres of music that are very distant descendants. Give me Vivaldi or give me silence…

I don’t watch any sports. Once every couple of years, I’ll watch the Super Bowl, but not with any great enthusiasm.

I like anchovies on my pizza…

Politically, I’m one of the few remaining liberals who still supports Israel. For the past few years, support for Israel seems to have become a very conservative idea. I don’t really understand why.

I’m also a Freudian (well, neo-Freudian.)

I march to a different alpenhorn.

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I hate Michael Bublé.

Many of my friends like him, but I hate him. I think that he can actually sing very well - so why in hell does he use Autotune or Melodyne or some pitch-correction software that makes his voice sound like a damn robot? :mad:

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I agree with so many of the expressed opinions on this thread that a tear came to my eye, <<mon semblable, mon frère>>.

I hate bacon, Michael Bublé, the Harry Potter books, love anchovies on my pizza, I’m a liberal who supports Israel, GMOs bother me less than pesticides, professional wrestling is misunderstood and underappreciated.

I really really really loathe bacon and romance stories.

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I’m an atheist surrounded by christians.

I’m not all googly about infants.

Twilight sucks ass on soooo many levels.

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Oh, yeah. Serious far left liberal who supports Israel. My peeps!

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Poor people, by and large, choose to be poor. Not consciously, of course (that is, they don’t wake up and say, “I’d like not to have much money”), but because they don’t reality-test their perceived limitations and don’t struggle to build up adequate frustration tolerance. This leads them consciously to choose things like not going to work all five days of the workweek,; grinning and bearing it when constructively criticized by their supervisors instead of sassing him or her back; taking out a payday loan instead of postponing unnecessary indulgences; being out of work for a long time, finally getting a job, losing it due to “time management issues,” miraculously getting another job where they try to accommodate all your demands, and then quitting that, without having anything else lined, up cause “just ain’t feelin’ it”.

BOOM!

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To quote the OP (emphasis added):

So, citing the very tired old chestnuts that 90% of the board constantly boasts about to each other actually is the opposite of what the OP was looking for.

Better luck next time.

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard a David Bowie track that I cared to listen to a second time. Also, I thought Labyrinth was lame, although I guess that’s not his fault.