For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
Pringles are a superior snack
Automotive racing is a sport.
I feel like that’s a pretty common opinion, I’ve never heard of anyone railing against motorsports not being a sport.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot more hot takes on the topic, but none of them seem to be here today.
These days, I hear the line “it’s just people driving in circles” from F1 fans dumping on NASCAR, more than anything else.
But like, any sport sounds boring when you just break it down like that. Baseball, basketball, either kind of football, they’re all about a bunch of dudes just moving a ball around.
The people who say that are being willfully ignorant. If it was just “driving in circles” F1 drivers would have more success when they go to NASCAR.
But Rallycross is the only interesting one.
Like, is luge a sport but not automotive racing?
I’m not a fan of “bless you” after a sneeze.
May the sneeze gods grant you mercy.
When I’m alone with somebody and they say absolutely nothing after I sneeze, I have to process that for a moment and decide what kind of person they are. They are probably stoic & logical & they eschew bullshit meaningless traditions. I like it. But I’m a girl with a big heart and I still cannot bear to be silent after somebody sneezes, but I agree it’s meaningless & old-fashioned to say “bless you,” so
I learned Chinese a few years ago and they say “Yi bai sui” or “may you live 100 years” after somebody sneezes. So I say that in english after somebody sneezes. “May you live 100 years.” That way there’s no awkward silence showing that I’m cold and heartless, instead I’m a compassionate educated polyglot 😜
Yep I prefer saying ‘goes in tight’.
Took me a minute. Ah yes, German.
Teeheehee
Anyone can become an addict, it is not a genetic trait. If you use any additive substance long enough you will being addicted, there is no if, its just a matter of when.
This includes alcohol and more people are addicted to alcohol then they want to admit.
I’m not sure about this when it comes to heroin. I’ve tried it and it was meh, but others try it feel like they have never before felt ok. And pot too I can’t find the high at all, it feels yucky but so many people love it and feel high on it, so in some ways there are “two kinds of people in the world” situations.
I do agree that anyone can become an addict if they try hard enough, though. Coffee for me, caffeine.
This is 100% true for heroin. If you pressed through and still did it enough times even if you thought it was meh, you would eventually become addicted, because that is how brain chemistry works. It is not the high people are chasing when they get addicted, its relief from the withdraws.
Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.
Not sure where you got that from? You are free to become addicted to anything you want.
My unpopular option is that addiction is not genetic, if you take an addictive substance long enough you will become addicted, no one is exempt from this.
Things aren’t actually all that bad. Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, yo, we doing OK. Antibiotics. Hot water. Sunscreen. Whiskey. Coffee. Shit, we’re frying things with the air now, man. As a species, we’re doing kinda OK. We could be doing better, but we’re learning. Some of us, anyway. There’s a lot to love out there in the world, and every day something beautiful can happen to you. Yes, even you, you crabby-ass bitch.
Most Mac ‘n’ cheese from scratch is poorly made and not good. You have to make a goddamned cream sauce base first. It’s not hard, it just takes giving a shit.
I agree with this sentiment. Life is actually a-okay. Mostly.
People and groups generally are not inherently evil, and if you pay a little bit of attention, their actions are almost always logical to them (even if they are evil actions).
A lot of people might think they agree with that…but start naming people and groups and they will call you names pretty quickly.
Green skittles should have never switched away from lime flavor.
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Something about politics. It shows one has no life and follows what other people on the Internet say.
Christianity has a large user base but is unpopular. Jesus is the living God and through him is the only way to the Father. He didn’t come just to forgive us and get us into heaven, but for the kingdom of God to break into every area of life here and now - health, peace, justice and more. We won’t see the fullness until his return but he already came out of the grave once and he said he is coming back. Biblical timelines say we should expect him relatively soon.
I think he goes by Mamdani now
Your first sentence is self contradictory.
Christians are a large group of people and at the same time a global minority. They can be at the same time a significant group and also looked down on by the majority.
They’d be so much cooler if they followed their boss’s example.
If billions of followers doesn’t make something popular, then nothing does. One of the beauties of Christianity is the a la carte menu and they all get to pick what they want to believe and still call themselves Christian. Christianity is both popular and ridiculous.
Yeah, hasn’t it been a few centuries of this guy coming “relatively soon”. At that point I have to ask, relative to what? Human civilisation or the motion of entropy?
Biblically there was 2000 years between Jesus and Abraham, and another 2000 years between Abraham and Adam. Two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion is coming up within a handful of years. That’s six Biblical “days”, and God rested on the 7th day. There’s more to the timing people look to based on old prophecy but a lot of things line up for the next maybe fifty years. I’m no expert, but a lot of Christians believe this.
A lot of Christians believe a lot of things, most of it silly and untrue.
Your calculations are based on something that has already been thought of way back in the 1800s. And these guys are still waiting around for the second coming and the end times, despite every prediction they made never coming true.
That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.
I got hit with this by an elderly person one day. They went on about how there’s so much food out there that they could just forage for, but they choose to beg for it. I was working, so all I could do was smile and nod, but that smile was just frozen in place like a grimace.
During this whole rant my boss and I kept glancing at each other like they were insane. I can’t remember the exact details, I cleansed my brain of that garbage, but there were a few times my boss’ eyes flashed and I thought he was going to flip out.
They left like they were the avatar of mercy and understanding. I may have forgotten what they said exactly, but I’ll never forget how they looked, because that went right down in my mind under “people I’ll never become”. I mean… you have to actively try to become that ignorant, right?
…Right?
Remember that their generation were the same ones who beat black protestors and spit on drafted Vietnam vets. They’re also going to die off soon and the world will be better without them
Unfortunately that generation is doing a pretty good job of screwing up everything so there won’t be much left to enjoy when they die off.
Even if people did choose to do so, it should be a huge red flag to happen then. If people would rather sleep on the street than participate in society, maybe shit is fucked up.
Diseases of Despair
Just because someone choose something does mean they deserve to be in that position in the first place
Think that one, the opinion itself, varies in boring/interesting depending on where you live. Likewise varies in truthfulness.
What do you mean by “depending on where you live?”
It (edit: the idea you’re quoting) has more credence or less depending on your town.
- Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use? Couple that with a notably generous population and you might see actual wilful homelessness.
- On the other hand, I don’t think homelessness is ever a choice or comfortable in very car centric city with gang violence.
I suppose nobody is “gaming the system by being homeless” because even if it’s comfy, you’re not gaining more than you would be by not gaming the system of homelessness. But i think it’s undeniable that, in certain places for various reasons, people choose/pretend to be homeless.
Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use?
Depends on the type of homeless. Folks who were just evicted and need someplace safe so they can get back on their feet? Sure. People with severe mental health issues or drug addictions? not so much.
Going to a shelter involves giving up certain freedoms that living outside affords you. If you’re dealing with a heroin addiction, they won’t let you bring your drugs in. Got a pet dog companion? No dogs allowed. Going with a friend or partner? Expect to be split up. Also shelters often fill up and the next shelter with space may be an hour walk away.
It also doesn’t help that the shelters are all separate charities and don’t really coordinate.
So as miserable as it is, many people prefer living in tents and won’t even accept a shelter when they’re offered help as their tent encampment is being cleared by authorities.
As someone who works with homeless people in an area with a generous population, lots of charities, and free services, you are repeating one of the most dangerous types of misinformation. It’s the kind that draws our attention to 0.1% that is technically true, while diminishing the conversation about the actual problem.
The “tourists”, as we sometimes call them, are the 0.1%. They come and go and there is always one or two around, but they are not the ones with the serious problems. Some might think of them as outliers in the group, but I wouldn’t even group those 0.1% with the other 99.9%. We still make sure they are okay, but they are not the problem when people talk about “homelessness”.
I’m assuming you are good hearted. All intelligent good-natured people have mistakenly repeated points before understand the nuances. I just hope you and anyone else reading might consider a different way of thinking. Repeating this talking point makes it very hard for the people trying to fight homelessness. Funding drys up and people die because public discussion often focuses on the “tourists” and not on the actual problem.
Responding to any kind of misfortune with “They deserved it.”
eg. People struggling to pay their rent should have budgeted better. People whose uber eats wasn’t delivered shouldn’t have used uber eats. People with medical debt should’ve had health insurance. etc. etc.
Isn’t the just world fallacy a pretty popular opinion?
Popular is not the same thing as interesting. It’s boring in an ancient and odious way, but there is something interesting about how every time people bring it up they think they’re giving a hot take.
I wasn’t talking about people bringing it up as a psychological theory, I was talking about people holding it as an actual belief.
There are tons and tons of people who subscribe to it. It’s a pretty good hint as to why people support billionaires and villainize the poor.
No, I understood you. I was referring to the same thing as well. They just usually can’t help but tell you when they believe it
Not even an opinion, but the response of someone callous and deeply ignorant about how the world and people work. 😔
People killed by political violence
Edit: I’m adding to the e.g’s because political violence is where I most commonly observe “they deserved it” remarks
Pediatric cancer
Clover lawns are pretty.
Seems kinda unpopular based on just the sheer amount of pristine lawn grass there is. But is also so incredibly low stakes it’s boring
In my experience there seem to be four types of people: those who don’t have a lawn; those who have never heard of clover on lawns; those with clover on their lawns; and those who live under the unrelenting glare and iron thumb of a homeowner’s association.
Clovers are great, they give bees something to land on in the barren wasteland of lawns that is my neighborhood. I also usually let whatever random plants/weeds that pop up grow in the peripherals. If they can manage to thrive in my nonexistent gardening then they deserve to be there.
PiNeApPlE oN PiZzA eWwW!!!1one
I’m so sick of pretend pearl clutching over this non-issue. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it. If you do, that’s fine too.
And for the record, my stance on pineapple on pizza is… drumroll
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Who the fuck cares!
That’s not a boring unpopular opinion. It’s a boring popular one.
Charred fresh pineapple is completely different than pale bland lumps from a can too. Hawaiian style pizza can be good but blandness is death.
I’m about to do ham and eggs on a pizza.
Breakfast pizza is amazing. Replace the tomato sauce with sausage gravy, sprinkle on the scrambled eggs, diced ham, and any other toppings of your choice, add the shredded cheese, and bake at 400F for 10-15 minutes (depending on your oven).
That’s called an Aussie, and it tastes great.
The one thing I tried on pizza that was unexpectedly gross to me was broccoli. I actually really enjoy broccoli but on a pizza it made the whole thing taste nasty.
Tell me more. How’s the egg cooked? Whole?
Crack them right on top of the ham. We used two this time because one is not enough. Got the idea from a Neoplitan pizza place in Florida.
My mouth is suddenly all watery. Looks so good.
My wife likes pineapple on pizza. This is absolutely not a non-issue for me! We get half pineapple and half pepperoni and sometimes I get a pineapple on my side of the pizza!
<insert popular contemporaneous media> isn’t as good as the stuff from <distant time period>. Yeah, obviously – they made bad media back in <distant time period> too, we just don’t talk about it any more because no-one cares. All you’re saying is “survivorship bias exists.” No-one’s out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren’t good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.
At work we had the radio on in the workshop, and we were discussing my preference for 90s music.
Then some shite song came on that I remembered from decades past, and I had to add “but as you can hear, there was plenty of garbage back then too”
Been listening to a lot of 90s music recently but hearing the lyrics properly for the first time on modern equipment… yeah. A lot of them don’t deserve to be remembered fondly.
Hmm… I actually can explain why certain things were better in the past compared to today. It comes down to market research, consumerism/saturation of capitalism.
Take modern music, for example. The 60s and 70s was a time where the music industry hadn’t flattened out in any way. The labels and publishers were trying to work out what people responded to. And people were responding to all kinds of stuff. It was just a mishmash of tastes and people liked what stoked their imagination.
And with regards to the artists and musicians, they were mainly just making whatever the hell sounded good and felt good. No one quite had any idea what they were doing.
Almost everything was really original for the above reasons.
You had bands who released albums, containing what you could vaguely call rock but with many other influences, containing three tracks, one of which was 20 mins long and the other two being 10 mins each. And such a band would go on tour selling out stadiums and selling millions of copies of said album.
Of course, there was bad music then. But the sheer proportion of amazing music was insane.
And it was because we hadn’t yet been market researched into oblivion. It was like the wild west; anything goes.
I’ll give another example… car design. Market research has managed to narrow car design down to a very generic form that is not the most beautiful but the least offensive and somewhat pleasant to the most amount of people, to guarantee sales.
Back before such deep market research, designers were artists who would take a risk and design something in their vision. Not everyone would like it. Perhaps the design would be divisive. Ok, some bad ugly cars would come out but there would be some incredible designs. Now, almost every car looks like a generic blob.
IIRC a lot of the generic blob design is driven by aerodynamics
And optimizing for maximum interior space and comfort for aerodynamics
Of course there are practical elements to design. That hasn’t changed. We didn’t suddenly discover aerodynamics when cars became blobs toward the 2nd half of the 90s. It’s been a factor in car design for a very long time, so this does not negate my point at all.
My original point was to negate the notion that the claim of things being better in the past was unfounded.
Of course, there are examples of mediums and things being better more recently, such as animated TV series. The quality of today’s far outshines that of 30 years ago, for example.
But some of the most culturally important areas were better previously. Music and film clearly are important elements of culture.
You realize there is incredibly varied, deep, impossibly different and complex music being made all over the world at all times right? In my small-ish city I can see a different show every single night, made up of mostly local and touring artists in small DIY venues that are 100 people or less. And just to show you I’m not bullshitting: https://arcane.city/
The advent of the internet has exploded creativity in so many different ways. Bands starting out can connect with other artists and fans in a DIY sense and play local gigs or tour without any kind of funding or record deals from corporate interests or private equity. Hell, I’ve gone to “clubs” that were like an old auto body shop ran by my friends, absolutely way past capacity in the hood, to see my partner open for acts from Kenya or at a tiny bar that had a really sick grindcore band from Brazil. It’s hard to say things like that happened regularly back in the day but who knows
And it’s not like people still don’t get big. I saw Alex G play in like backyards and tiny venues 12 years ago and now he plays one of the biggest venues in my city when they tour.
The view that music is washed up now just because the radio plays the same songs is pretty narrow. There was plenty of crap same-y boring music on the radio back then too. There’s a reason why all the rockers you’re talking about hated disco lol.
The creative types are always going to keep seeking out this type of thing and flourish. You could say the same about underground hip hop and rap, the club scene, punk, hardcore, jazz, EDM, folk, etc etc.
Yeah! This one has always bothered me!
That cave painter really must’ve thought he was The shit.
No-one’s out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren’t good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.
I mean, trashy sentimentalist is like half of Shakespeare tbh. Its all jokes about women, dick jokes and violence.
Shakespeare didn’t write novels in the 18th century? I’m referring to a particular literary movement that started like 200 years after Shakespeare’s death.
