What are your most unpopular opinions?

[Nippless]

Fun thread!

Some of mine:

People do not have a basic right to reproduce, but surely must have a right to suicide.

Females who dress like sluts can/should be treated as such.

Professional sport is for idiots. Oh you support that team from that place you’ve never been, and where none of the massively overpaid players are from. Good for you.
Most egregious offender: pro cycling, for so many reasons (isn’t it great that some slob who will never place in the top half of a race can spend a couple thousand dollars on a carbon part to reduce a few grams, but we still don’t have a proper turn signal system that doesn’t involve the cyclist reducing their control over the bike) but mostly for convincing millions that bicycles are toys for recreational activities, and not a serious mode of transport.

The USA has many loads of bad karma still to be delivered. 9/11, Boston marathon bombing etc… just appetizers.

Artists (painters/musicians etc.) should receive no compensation for their work - might cut the ratio of shitty art a little. This would exclude live performances.

The Big Lebowski was stupidly unfunny.

Parents should be liable for any and all of their children’s behaviour until the child is fully independent.

Families of criminals should be persecuted by the community in accordance with the degree of crime - no punishment direct to the criminal save cost of any damages and a tattoo on the forearm for each crime, tatoo size to correspond with severity of crime. Public humiliation ftw.

All salaries should be capped, with teachers at the top level.

Countries and borders should be eliminated.

Nobody should be able to obtain a licence to drive a car until they’ve spent several dozen hours riding city traffic on a bicycle, and then a motorcycle.

Men’s and women’s nipples should be treated with equal shame.

[Eutychus]

I’m a big Mark Twain fan, but I think “Huckleberry Finn” is greatly overrated as a work of literature. It does have brilliant parts in it here and there, but as a whole, it doesn’t stand up.

[mayaonfiya222]

I think The Wire was BORING. At least the first 2 episodes. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would call it their favorite show. Just thinking about it is making me want to take a nap. Also, I totally want a gun license. I’m obviously not cool with crazy people having them, but I want one for my own safety at home. I also think that Brad Pitt is fugly and the astringenty vinegar taste of kombucha is heavenly. I won’t date a guy who doesn’t like dogs.

[mayaonfiya222]

@Hampshire

Louis C.K. is not even a little bit funny.

WHAT?? Wow. Have you seen this video? I think it’s probably his best stand-up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA

I’m cool with people’s opinions about comedy. It’s very subjective. I don’t like Bob Dylan and think his music sounds like whiney chick music. When I tell people, they look at me like I just killed their mother. It kinda reminds me of that Seinfeld Episode where Elaine hates the movie The English Patient lol

[Cat_Whisperer]

@For You

So the stronger core of humanity at some point will survive as the marshmallow masses collapse and die off. Decades of negative selection (even the weakest among us are given tremendous support) will turn upon itself and the human race will be once again subject to evolution in its most natural form.

Of course, some of the strong will also be thick-headed, but history shows that great intelligence may not be all that.

I think we’re in the process of proving that big brains and self-awareness are not survival traits.

[ladyfoxfyre]

@Nippless

Females who dress like sluts can/should be treated as such.

What is included in “treating a female like a slut” just out of curiosity?

[Ambivalid]

@ladyfoxfyre

What is included in “treating a female like a slut” just out of curiosity?

I’m guessing that assuming her “no” means “yes” would be part of it.

[mayaonfiya222]

@ladyfoxfyre

What is included in “treating a female like a slut” just out of curiosity?

I was kinda curious too.

[Trinopus]

@Eutychus

I’m a big Mark Twain fan, but I think “Huckleberry Finn” is greatly overrated as a work of literature. It does have brilliant parts in it here and there, but as a whole, it doesn’t stand up.

THANK YOU! I like the book a lot, but it has severe structural defects. The fact that Tom Sawyer comes in and takes it over completely spoils the focus on Huck. It ceases being his book. Tom is simply too dynamic a character, while Huck is more reflective. It’d be like throwing Sam Spade or Mike Hammer into the middle of a Sherlock Holmes story. (“I say nuts to all this deduction; let’s go shake the truth out of Moriarty, with a gun if that’s how it has to be.”)

[ladyfoxfyre]

@Ambivalid

I’m guessing that assuming her “no” means “yes” would be part of it.

A small part of it, I’d suspect.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@ladyfoxfyre

What is included in “treating a female like a slut” just out of curiosity?

I’m guessing showing any ankle, wrist, or face is what he means by “dressing like a slut,” so treating a woman like a slut would mean stoning her.

[Rodgers01]

@For You

Did Skald say “most”? Is “a lot” a synonym for “most”?

I suspect that sexuality is kind of complicated. Not even the Kinsey Scale is sufficient to cover it. There are some people who are unequivocally monosexual, who are wholly unable to function outside their own perceived preference, but it appears to me likely that they are in the minority. Cultural and social influences and pressures may drive individuals into a monosexual mindset when they are actually nominally or absolutely bi. And some gays may well be bisexuals who are somewhat or largely attracted to their own in part because the “gay lifestyle” allows them to feel more comfortable.

But Skald the Rhymer’s key point is, suppose it is a matter of choice? So fucking what? Who are ‘you’ to decide that my choice is wrong? The whole biology-vs-choice debate is pointless unless you are some kind of uptight religious freak – and really, why should we be coddling their neuroses?

Fair enough, he didn’t say “most,” he said " a lot" and “frequently.” :rolleyes: I don’t care if people do or do not choose to be gay, so there’s no need to lecture. I just think it’s curious to think that a large number of people are confused about or misrepresenting or mislabeling their own sexuality.

[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer[/QUOTE]

I think that, practically speaking, homosexuality is frequently a choice…Put another way, I’d say that a lot of ostensible gays & lesbians are actually bisexuals who simply made a commitment to a person of their own sex rather than someone of the other sex.
[/QUOTE]

This is what I’m wondering about. I’m not sure on what basis you’d think people are not more or less what they say they are, but I’d be curious to hear more thoughts.

[kaylasdad99]

@Cat_Whisperer

I’m guessing showing any ankle, wrist, or face is what he means by “dressing like a slut,” so treating a woman like a slut would mean stoning her.

Reading the rest of his, umm, manifesto, I suspect it involves making her family members get tattoos on their arms depicting her dressed like a slut (but without nipples).

[Nippless]

@kaylasdad99

Reading the rest of his, umm, manifesto, I suspect it involves making her family members get tattoos on their arms depicting her dressed like a slut (but without nipples).

Hmm I like that.

No all I meant was no respect. So instead of “Excuse me miss, can I get past”, “out the way slut” would be fine. No still means no. But she’s got no excuse to complain about a lack of male eye contact.

[Krouget]

@Nippless

No all I meant was no respect. So instead of “Excuse me miss, can I get past”, “out the way slut” would be fine.

That sounds rather haughty and unnecessary.

If you’re normally respectful towards people, why not ask to be excused, just the same? You get by and she lives as she wants to.

[Troppus]

@Krouget

That sounds rather haughty and unnecessary.

If you’re normally respectful towards people, why not ask to be excused, just the same? You get by and she lives as she wants to.

Never underestimate the ability of the straight, red-blooded Western male to pronounce a nice set of grapes sour.

[ladyfoxfyre]

@Nippless

Hmm I like that.

No all I meant was no respect. So instead of “Excuse me miss, can I get past”, “out the way slut” would be fine. No still means no. But she’s got no excuse to complain about a lack of male eye contact.

Ah, I get it! You’re like, edgy, man! You can call a girl slut and it’s not even an insult because it’s ironic! And plus she’s a slut anyway so how can she get mad!

[Slypork]

Good lord, I don’t know if I should post this but here goes:

Bad/antisocial behavior should not be tolerated in any way shape or form. That includes glorifying it on TV, movies, music or live. Jersey Shore and Honey Boo Boo should be off the air. Music that makes it seem OK to treat women as nothing more than a sperm receptacle should be eliminated. Lindsay Lohan and her ilk should be locked away. If we stopped accepting this crap as “normal” maybe people would start acting better and not like animals. We have evolved, people!

Most atheists are as abrasive, if not more so, than the worst proselytizing preachers. You don’t believe in a deity. Great. So get out of the faces of the ones that do. I won’t preach to you if you won’t preach to me, OK?

Unless you just got here from Kenya, you are not an African American. In fact you couldn’t be one even in that case. You are a Kenyan-American. Your kids who are born here will be Americans. No more flipping hyphens.

They are illegal aliens. Let’s parse this. “Illegal” means that they do not have a legal standing in this country as a citizen, visa worker or a visitor who came through customs with a passport. “Alien” means they are not native to this country. Calling them “undocumented migrants” is like calling cow shit “processed bovine foodstuff”. It’s still a bunch of cow shit.

Anchor babies be damned, ship them back. Just because you dropped your crouch fruit across our border does not make him an American citizen entitled to all the benefits. Both you and your whelp go back to whatever country you came from.

Hire people and let them into schools based on ability, not on any one of the myriad categories. Why should a left-handed lesbian Eskimo with a hairlip get into college with a 12 on her ACT when a healthy, straight male of Irish ancestry and a 31 on his test get passed over? Not to mention her getting the money from scholarships. And at hiring time, I don’t care that you are a 1/16th Sioux and have a club foot. Can you do the job better than the other candidates? If I’m in a burning high rise, I want to make sure that you can carry my fat ass down the ladder. Will your quota do that?

Requiring an ID to vote is not a bad idea. I need an ID to cash a check, rent a car, get a library card, buy freaking Sudafed, and do a billion other things. Why shouldn’t you need to prove you are a citizen when you are casting a vote?

[colander]

people, this is why the cashier at 7-11 doesn’t smile at you: because the last time they smiled at a customer, the customer thought they wanted to be friends and launched into an animated monologue about illegal aliens and their filthy crotchfruit that lasted for like two straight minutes

[Slypork]

@colander

people, this is why the cashier at 7-11 doesn’t smile at you: because the last time they smiled at a customer, the customer thought they wanted to be friends and launched into an animated monologue about illegal aliens and their filthy crotchfruit that lasted for like two straight minutes

Nah. When I’m ranting to the 7-11 clerk it’s usually about those damn hippies who give me grief because I don’t recycle my used toilet paper or eat organic lichen and think the world would be a better place if we all lived in harmony with nature like some kind of animal. I’m at the top of the food chain, baby, and I’m not gonna let some spotted owl get in the way of me building a house. And if the ice caps melt, so what? I want to be able to surf in Wyoming.