# What subjective opinion are you most unshakably certain of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198 "2013-11-18T19:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/141 "2013-11-21T22:25:30Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Offal is awful. But falafel only makes you feel awful. ---
**Author:** ![YoungKusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3e96dc/32.png) [@YoungKusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoungKusher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/142 "2013-11-21T22:33:54Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It is almost as if I have a subjective opinion that I am unshakably certain of. But yeah, American football is dreadfully slow and predictable. It is almost as if you think having a subjective opinion that you are unshakably certain of makes you right… Lol silly baseball fans. > [@andros](#): > > [Well, it’s a shame that’s not the case for baseball.](http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_stba.shtml)😃 I’m glad you agree since there is an avg of less than one base steal attempt per game 😛 ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/143 "2013-11-22T09:08:14Z")
I have no subjective opinions. Each and every one of my opinions is precisely accurate. In point of fact, I don’t actually have opinions. The way it works is that I discover truths, and then choose to share them. There are many fools who pretend they aren’t carried away with my intellect, but they serve a useful purpose - How would I know how right I was if nobody else was wrong? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/144 "2013-11-22T16:23:54Z")
> [@YoungKusher](#): > > It is almost as if you think having a subjective opinion that you are unshakably certain of makes you right… Lol silly baseball fans… I’ll try again: the name of the thread is “What subjective opinions are you most unshakably certain of?” If you get all butt-hurt over an opinion someone else posts here, you’re kind of missing the point. And yeah, football is boring. It’s also kind of racist. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/145 "2013-11-22T16:32:56Z")
Neither _Starship Troopers_ nor _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ has ever been adapted for the big screen. Never, do you hear me?! _sob_ **Never!** ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/146 "2013-11-22T16:36:34Z")
I think my fiancee is the sweetest and most loving woman I have ever met in my entire life. That is the subjective opinion that I am the most unshakably certain of. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/147 "2013-11-22T16:43:34Z")
**The Wire** is the best-crafted show on TV, ever. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/148 "2013-11-22T17:19:22Z")
In honor of Jon Stewart … I strongly believe NY style pizza is far superior to Chicago Deep Dish Pizza and National Pizza Chains all suck. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/149 "2013-11-22T17:50:10Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **The Wire** is the best-crafted show on TV, ever. True, that. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/150 "2013-11-22T18:12:34Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > The only acceptable use for whiskey is to add orange juice and make a whiskey sour. Or add Coke and make a Jack & Coke. Straight whskey is hideous. You might as well be drinking paint thinner. As someone else on this board once said, straight whiskey is for people who want to wake up on the floor. First off, whiskey sours aren’t made by mixing whiskey and OJ. Second, you’ve got it backwards. Straight whiskey is for people who don’t want to wake up on the floor. Anyone, especially inexperienced drinkers, can down whisley a whole lot faster when it’s mixed with something. That’s why those terrible fruity concoctions are the norm at college parties. ---
**Author:** ![YoungKusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3e96dc/32.png) [@YoungKusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoungKusher)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/151 "2013-11-22T18:31:14Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’ll try again: the name of the thread is “What subjective opinions are you most unshakably certain of?” If you get all butt-hurt over an opinion someone else posts here, you’re kind of missing the point. > > And yeah, football is boring. It’s also kind of racist. No where in the title does it say you are provided immunity from other opinions on the same matter. And just to be clear, I’m not butt-hurt. I’m not offended. I am dumbfounded! I wouldn’t have said anything other than, “I disagree,” if you had said simply, “baseball is better than football.” But I felt obligated to address your audacious claims against football! I suppose it seems to be your way, detract from the opposition rather than simply advocate your own position. An inferior and counter-productive technique generally used by people who can’t support their own claims. Let’s just agree to disagree. Unfortunately, this isn’t the board for debates. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/152 "2013-11-22T19:44:30Z")
> [@Taber](#): > > What other options are there? I find platform/sidescrolling games to be mostly dull. I don’t really like puzzle games. Casual games are mostly dull for me too. So are sim games. And then there’s those kind of games where the camera floats in the air and gives you a diagonal view of the characters. The official name for this type of POV is “Isometric View/Games”. This is done in a LOT of games, to give just a few examples: Torchlight, Magicka, Diablo, Bastion…the list goes on. By and large, I hate these kind of games the most. I cannot play them, as they seem to be not only (usually) boring but the set-up, movement and camera angles for me is extremely annoying too. [Here’s what you get](https://www.google.com/search?q=isometric+games&safe=off&rlz=2C1CHFX_enUS0537US0537&espv=210&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=u7OPUpLfMJXgoATavIGABQ&ved=0CEMQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=978) if you look up “isometric” and “games” on Google images. Lots of examples there. I was defining third person video games as ones where the camera is pretty much right behind the main character (like in Dead Space, Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, Psychonauts, Splinter Cell games, Darksiders, some Legend of Zelda games (OoT, MM, and TP), some Prince of Persia games, etc), not any other kind than that. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/153 "2013-11-22T19:48:32Z")
nm: missed your last line. I was including isometric in third person. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/154 "2013-11-22T22:07:18Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **The Wire** is the best-crafted show on TV, ever. I’ve never seen it but I’ve read similar comments. I think I’ve just added another series to my ‘Must Watch’ list. ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/155 "2013-11-23T02:09:50Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > All beer tastes terrible. > > Every sport is boring to watch. > > All country and most rap (in music) sucks. > > Billy Joel doesn’t have a bad song. > > Stephen King doesn’t have a bad book (not even Tommyknockers). > > The best comic strip ever is Calvin and Hobbes. > > The only video games worth playing are first and third person games. > > A lot (but nowhere near all) of older and classical movies and books are boring, dull, and overall just uninteresting (movies and books made, say, before 1965). > Dickens? Boring. > Hemingway? Boring. > Austen? Boring > Tolstoy? Boring. > Shakespeare? Most boring of all. > _Casablanca?_ Boring. > _Gone With the Wind?_ Boring. > _It Happened One Night?_ Boring. > Anything starring Humphery Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Betty Davis, Spencer Tracy, or Cary Grant (with the exception of Arsenic and Old Lace)? Boring, Boring, Boring. > > Lewis Carroll, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain (and any of their books), Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart (and any of their movies) are all great, though. Many more, as well… > …but most seem to be just…boring… Good thing they’re idle. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/156 "2013-12-01T03:37:27Z")
_The Prisoner_ and \*Lost \*were well acted and written. … Riiiight up until the point where the writer(s) said “Screw it. We have no idea how to end this. In fact, we care so little that we’re not even going to explain any of the mysteries we’ve set up.” \* _Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld_ and _The Office_ are still funny, but _ **The Dick Van Dyke Show** _ holds up better than all of them put together. \*eta that this applies to many “aren’t we oh so existential” shows, like _Nowhere Man_ and _Coronet Blue._ ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/157 "2013-12-01T04:21:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Joe Morello was the best jazz drummer who ever lived or ever will live. Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Gene Krupa was the best jazz drummer who ever lived or ever will live. Benny Goodman was the best jazz clarinetist who ever lived or ever will live. > [@](#): > > Thelonious Monk was a towering, staggeringly brilliant genius of the piano. Ellington was better. So was Jess Stacey. > [@](#): > > The soprano saxophone is not a musical instrument; it’s a Chinese torture instrument that was too awful for Torquemada or the Marquis de Sade to consider using. Hitler outlawed it from the labor camps. [**Hitler and the sax**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smN_jFxUkss). > [@](#): > > Dante dared not delve to a level of Hell that contained it. Modern “artists” who insist on forcing air through this honking, squealing instrument to produce a cacophony of noise that turns people into twitching, gibbering lumps of helpless flesh, moaning in a helpless heap on the floor, should be hanged. [**You’ve never heard this**](http://www.amazon.com/Sax-o-phun/dp/B001GPMJ9I/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_8/183-3829041-0396064?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1385870500&sr=1-8&keywords=sax-o-phun). Though it’s not a soprano, I’m certain it will change your mind. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/158 "2013-12-01T19:48:17Z")
I like chocolate. I’m absolutely certain of that. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/159 "2013-12-01T20:25:09Z")
I don’t understand the chocolate fetish. Apparently it has drug-like affect on a lot of people and I’m envious of that. I’ve bought 80%+ cocoa solids Lindt chocolate and it’s very tasty but I don’t notice any particular psychotropic effects from it. I know it has PEA (phenethylamine) which a precursor to various chemicals and neurotransmitters, I think, and I don’t expect to get a buzz from it but I never notice feeling any different. I guess I just don’t have the right metabolism for it - which would definitely explain my strange response to other psychotropics like certain medications I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198/160 "2013-12-01T20:26:14Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > I don’t understand the chocolate fetish. Apparently it has drug-like affect on a lot of people and I’m envious of that. I’ve bought 80%+ cocoa solids Lindt chocolate and it’s very tasty but I don’t notice any particular psychotropic effects from it. I know it has PEA (phenethalyamine) which a precursor to various chemicals and neurotransmitters, I think, and I don’t expect to get a buzz from it but I never notice feeling any different. I guess I just don’t have the right metabolism for it - which would definitely explain my strange response to other psychotropics like certain medications I suppose. Cool story bro. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subjective-opinion-are-you-most-unshakably-certain-of/674198.md?page=9)