People shouldn't have animals/pets.I don't see what is so unpopular about this opinion, when it is in fact correct.
I don't see what is so unpopular about this opinion, when it is in fact correct.What is your reasoning for this?
People shouldn't have animals/pets.Dang, Marq coming out strong in the first round.
People shouldn't drink baby bovine growth drink.the Red-Billed Oxpecker—a bird that can perch on the udders of an impala and suck its milk. Besides the Oxpecker, birds such as Seagulls and Sheathbills have been reported to pilfer milk from elephant seals’ teats directly. So, while it’s quite rare, milk stealing does happen between certain other species in the wild.
Why are we the first animal in the history of the planet to just chug down the milk of another animal? It's WEIRD.
Pickles suck.You are wrong~whatever~Ole
People shouldn't drink baby bovine growth drink.What's the difference between that and eating a steak - except that one's cheaper and not nearly as delicious same creature
Why are we the first animal in the history of the planet to just chug down the milk of another animal? It's WEIRD.
What's the difference between that and eating a steak - except that one's cheaper and not nearly as delicious same creatureThat's normal. Some animals eat other animals.
What's the difference between that and eating a steak - except that one's cheaper and not nearly as delicious same creatureYeah I don't see it as being any better or worse than actually eating another animal.
Yeah I don't see it as being any better or worse than actually eating another animal.I'm going to send you some tiger milk and see how it tastes on your Cheerios.
That's normal. Some animals eat other animals.
We're drinking their natural milk to nourish and bulk up their babies as quickly as possible.
We take what the baby cows drink and drown some cooked, flattened grains in it and call it breakfast.
If half the animal world did it, fine.
But apparently it's us and like 3 birds that do this.
I'm going to send you some tiger milk and see how it tastes on your Cheerios.We weren't drinking milk from a Tiger or chopping Ribyes from it
Most cats are lactose intolerant.
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Most cats are lactose intolerant.So now drinking the milk of another animal isn't enough, they have to be able to digest it without flatulence?
..and I love, LOVE being criticized on the UNPOPULAR OPINIONS thread.
Wake up, guys.
Basically every state is some degree of fine, depending on preference and where you are. Although if you don’t like Chicago, I could see the argument Illinois has little redeeming about it.If someone asked me where to visit in Illinois, I'd have a hard time telling them to go anywhere.
What is your reasoning for this?I think it's OK for people to have pets. One thing I've noticed is that down here, people bring them everywhere - including dinner.
Gotta cut down on the methane somehow - let's go get a Ribeyebone-in ribeye
I think it's OK for people to have pets. One thing I've noticed is that down here, people bring them everywhere - including dinner.Kind of on the Restaurants to say no,unless it's a guide dog the health departments should have a huge problem with this.Obviously depending on pet owners ability to control and clean them. I've a tub next door who moved in that occassionally waitresses and she comes home at 2-3-4 in the morning and let's her two large dogs out who start barking right by my window.I've literally jumped out of bed get woken up after repeated warnings i told he rhusband this is it,This has been going on for 6 yrs now,and her husband actually understands and holds down a decent job in his mid 30s and approachable how they got hooked up I'll never know
That is NOT OK.
1. Some of us (like me) are allergic to them.
2. I wouldn't dine with an unwashed hairy naked man. Why should I dine with a dog?
3. It's TOO F'ING HOT out right now. Leave them home, happy in the AC.
Bread is overrated and unnecessary.Have an actual bakery in town makes all sorts of artisan loaves - based on it's business that's false
Pickles suck.Yes they do, yet people are always trying to add them to a hamburger whenever I order one. I can't stand those things.
so, yer a cat person?actually I had one and he was outside 90% of the time. Wanted to get a dog but they're sociable and Cindy and I had seperate homes at the time. Plus the neighbor had some rescue cats and they got along great. Fed him every day but he ate a lot of chipmunks,moles,blue jays so pretty maintenance free
Basically every state is some degree of fine, depending on preference and where you are. Although if you don’t like Chicago, I could see the argument Illinois has little redeeming about it.If it wasn't for Chicago, Illinois would be a pretty nice place.
If it wasn't for Chicago, Illinois would be a pretty nice place.Have you been to Illinois?
Have you been to Illinois?If not for Chicago the rest of the state would be very different.
Golf is not a sport.Good walk ruined
I consume more beer while playing or practicing golf than in the rest of the week combined. So yeah, I concur.I get more steps in while playing golf with a gas powered cart than I do in the rest of the week combined.
Golf is not a sport.Agreed- at least at the level I play it. More like a great hobby with mild exercise attached
Have you been to Illinois?I have some good friends from Illinois, some in the Chicago area, others downstate. However, I also have a few friends in Wisconsin and I am familiar with the term FIB. :)
Mustard is the most foul tasting condiment there is
Animals do not belong in restaurants
Everything taste better with cheese. Corollary, there is no such thing as too much cheese
Animals do not belong in restaurants
Animals do not belong on airplanes.
STAR WARS is UNFORGIVABLE TRASH!I “ liked” this post- but probably don’t have the right to. I have never seen any of the Star Wars movies.
May the FORCE F**K OFF
I wish Luke never found out who his father was.
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Even so, I'll add the probably-popular opinion that animals don't belong in grocery stores, either.
Why do people do this? I'm not talking about service animals, I'm talking about every Tom Dick and Harry deciding it's okay to bring Fido to the grocery store and walk that dirty mutt past all of the food that's eventually going into peoples' faces.
It all started with animals at Home Depot or Lowes. Which is weird but at least it's not a health concern, other than allergies for those affected. But the grocery store? And restaurants? Sheesh. What a bunch of weirdos, thinking they need to bring their animals to those locations.
why not just use Sriracha?Because sriracha ketchup tastes better.
I have mixed opinions on the rest of the movies though, and would never argue passionately in their defense.Rogue One is one of my favorite movies. The rest of the non-original trilogy movies suck.
Even so, I'll add the probably-popular opinion that animals don't belong in grocery stores, either.Attention whores gonna whore.
Why do people do this? I'm not talking about service animals, I'm talking about every Tom Dick and Harry deciding it's okay to bring Fido to the grocery store and walk that dirty mutt past all of the food that's eventually going into peoples' faces.
It all started with animals at Home Depot or Lowes. Which is weird but at least it's not a health concern, other than allergies for those affected. But the grocery store? And restaurants? Sheesh. What a bunch of weirdos, thinking they need to bring their animals to those locations.
Rogue One is one of my favorite movies. The rest of the non-original trilogy movies suck.Yup I liked Rogue One.
Penn St. has the best uniform in all of sports.You've definitely got the spirit of the thread!
Penn St. has the best uniform in all of sports.I love their all-white roadies.
I love their all-white roadies.We've always referred to them as the "Stormtrooper uniforms."
For Texas too. And for my team.
Mustard is the most foul tasting condiment there isMost Chinese food would be weird with cheese.
Animals do not belong in restaurants
Everything taste better with cheese. Corollary, there is no such thing as too much cheese
The other scam is politicians and SCOTUS Justices writing books and getting $$$$$ book deals, and payment for speeches.why call it a scam unless you think its a coverup for bribery
I'd call it buying influence, if not bribery, but it's "legal".you could be right is some cases but to simply say they cant write books or give paid speeches is too general
This notion of service animals is WAY over done. Most of them seem to be dogs wearing some kind of coat, they don't seem to provide ANY "service" to anyone. It's a scam 99% of the time. I had friends who got that "status" for their dog, they said they paid $40 or something and filled out a form and were sent the "coat".This is something I have fought in my school. The ADA has made it very easy for just about anybody to get a "service" dog. There is little to no actual training or certification required and owners can actually train the dogs themselves. It is also exceedingly difficult for anyone to deny the owners their right to have their service animal in public spaces. They don't even have to be visually identified as a "service animal" (the "coat" you referenced). There are only three questions that we can ask the owner regarding their service animal:
I didn't say they couldn't, nor suggest that should be the case, but I do think it should be more closely regulated for ex-public "servants". They get book deals for books "nobody" reads and give speeches to folks who don't care or listen, and then the company buys books to give to their employees who largely throw them out.if they ex public servents they are pretty much free to do as they wish
Star Trek > Star WarsAccording to Spock "I Find your Illogic And Foolish conclusion A Constant Irritant."
Most Chinese food would be weird with cheese.weirdly better
The other scam is politicians and SCOTUS Justices writing books and getting $$$$$ book deals, and payment for speeches.your book sales haven't been as lucrative?
If someone asked me where to visit in Illinois, I'd have a hard time telling them to go anywhere.Is there a nice lake anywhere?
Galena maybe? Starved Rock maybe?
I'd tell them to keep driving and go North, most likely.
The Corn Palace istake out the "probably" and you'd have an unpopular opinionprobablythe top tourist attraction in the US.
Most Chinese food would be weird with cheese.Place near me does high concept ramen that involves some cheese.
Most Chinese food would be weird with cheese.I stand by my statement :)
I stand by my statement :)Hey theres no cheese in Chinese
I'd rather hit my blade 2 iron than a rescue club from 240 out.3 wood for me
Rogue One is one of my favorite movies. The rest of the non-original trilogy movies suck.The Darth Vader hallway scene....
When's the last time anyone here saw a 1-iron?Years…LOL. The hybrid club and Driving Irons have dominated.
Is there a nice lake anywhere?Sure, but unless you're on the North Shore you are risking your life to get to it.
When's the last time anyone here saw a 1-iron?I carried one in the late 90s but have since moved to a 2 iron and have had the same one for over 20 years. It was a Ping eye-2 1-iron. The 2 is a Mizuno
The Darth Vader hallway scene....I love that the movie is just darker and a little more edgy than previous Star Wars movies. It's not the campy, happy stuff. War is dirty and cruel in Rogue One and the good guys aren't always good.
You can put cheese on a rat or snake and call it authentic Chinese food....or a bat.
The theory of evolution is just as well proven as the theory of climate change ....Mendel was a fraud
Mendel was a fraudThat apparently is true, he cooked his books.
Oh that reminds me, this is probably the correct thread for it-- I really can't stand Ozzy. I'm okay with most of his Black Sabbath stuff, but his solo stuff is not my cup of tea.Wrong.
"Crazy Train" makes me want to scrape my ears off my body.
Wrong.Journey, good.
Journey, good.Yes.
Ozzy, bad.
I have spoken.
Alternative rock in the 90's was neither revolutionary nor innovative. It was just rock music marketed well.That's kind of pan-genre statement is horse paste but this is exactly the place for it.
But I still love it.
Alternative rock in the 90's was neither revolutionary nor innovative. It was just rock music marketed well.
But I still love it.
Alternative rock in the 90's was neither revolutionary nor innovative. It was just rock music marketed well.It wasn't until Nirvana that bands stopped cosplaying the Rolling Stones
But I still love it.
I wouldn't call Nirvana alternative. It's grunge.Grunge is a subset of alternative.
Grunge is a subset of alternative.
Is there any current music worth listening to?I like a lot of current music.
I listen to a lot of 200+ year old stuff.
Grunge is a subset of alternative.Wrong.
Wrong."Alternative rock" is by definition an alternative form of "traditional" rock.
;)
"Alternative rock" is by definition an alternative form of "traditional" rock.I guess you could argue that an offshoot subgenre like Punk persisted long enough to have its own name and its own standing, and not be categorized underneath Alternative Rock.
If grunge isn't a subset of alternative, then it's just "rock" and doesn't need to be called grunge.
I guess you could argue that an offshoot subgenre like Punk persisted long enough to have its own name and its own standing, and not be categorized underneath Alternative Rock.Tough to do that when everyone is dead.
And then you could argue that Grunge did the same thing.
But Grunge didn't have nearly enough staying power to earn that distinction, and even though Punk arguably has, it's STILL generally classified as a subset of Alternative Rock.
Therefore, Grunge is a subset of Alternative Rock.
Tough to do that when everyone is dead.Speaking of which, it's a miracle Kurt Cobain lived as long as he did. That man had many, many issues.
I did see Soundgarden live shortly before Chris Cornell killed himself.
Baroque (don't fix it)
Classical
Romantic
Jazz
Blues
Big Band
Lawrence Welk
Then the music died...
Tough to do that when everyone is dead.Pearl Jam's not dead.
I did see Soundgarden live shortly before Chris Cornell killed himself.
Big Band is a subset of Jazz. Lawrence Welk is a subset of Big Band.Some might say Rock is just alternative Blues.
Baroque is a subset of Classical.
The blues are the blues.
Pearl Jam's not dead.One of the few.
Although everything after Vitalogy sucked, hard. And even Vitalogy is half questionable.
Some might say Rock is just alternative Blues.I wouldn't argue if someone wanted to say that. :)
I mean, I'm not saying that... Jus' sayin'.
Big Band is a subset of Jazz. Lawrence Welk is a subset of Big Band.Folks (like me) usually divide what folks call "classical" music into those three periods (and then include 20th century, most of which is garbage to me, but not all).
Baroque is a subset of Classical.
The blues are the blues.
Folks (like me) usually divide what folks call "classical" music into those three periods (and then include 20th century, most of which is garbage to me, but not all).It's a bit misleading because there is a period called Classical, and then the entire genre is referred to as "classical."
I'd say Baroque is about as different from Classical as blues is from jazz.
I wouldn't argue if someone wanted to say that. :)Yep. And many actually do argue that rock itself is Blues/Country fusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly).
You could also say Rock is Alternative Country.
Yep. And many actually do argue that rock itself is Blues/Country fusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly).Oh I don't think that's an argument. I'd say that's HISTORY.
XM 34 Lithium, or as my kids and I say, the Dead guy station.
That's my go to. Although they wear the same songs out.....over and over.I've actually switched back to mostly terrestrial radio for that reason. They don't overplay the same songs as much as the genre-specific satellite radio stations do.
I've actually switched back to mostly terrestrial radio for that reason. They don't overplay the same songs as much as the genre-specific satellite radio stations do.wheres Johnny Fever when you need him
I've actually switched back to mostly terrestrial radio for that reason. They don't overplay the same songs as much as the genre-specific satellite radio stations do.
Agreed.
The only problem where I'm at is, the terrestrial stations are R&B, rap, or country.
We only had a few rock stations to begin with, and now they're all rebranded to country.
How many stations in one market really need to be playing Luke Bryan?
My answer to that specific question, would be... zero.
I love country music, was born and raised on it, but don't like much of the new mainstream stuff. Especially not the so-called "Bro Country."
Luckily for me, we have two country stations in Austin that play mostly the older stuff.
The only proper way to prepare a steak is a ribeye cooked medium rare over charcoal with hickory chips sprinkled in. The steak must be seared in a hotter-than-hell cast iron skillet with melted butter, garlic, thyme, and onions before throwing it on the grill. It must be lightly spiced with a combination of salt and lemon pepper seasoning.Not going to say I agree that's the "only" way to cook a steak, but it is certainly a damn good one.
3 Doors Down is an underrated band.I agree. I'm curious to see if the masses will render this an unpopular opinion. :)
I agree. I'm curious to see if the masses will render this an unpopular opinion. :)The acoustic version of Landing in London is great.
I agree. I'm curious to see if the masses will render this an unpopular opinion. :)Nope. Some great tunes.
Jessica Alba is not, and never was....hot.Well, that's certainly unpopular in this man's humble opinion.
Lock It - that one won't be topped,did gvol fall out of the Hindenberg? ;D
Jessica Alba is not, and never was....hot.But now I'm curious, what popular actress, model, or singer, do you believe actually IS hot?
But now I'm curious, what popular actress, model, or singer, do you believe actually IS hot?
I'm still a fool for Jennifer Aniston. Even though she is old.Interesting. Most people think Gal Gadot and Jessica Alba look strikingly similar.
Margot Robbie -- holy sh*t.
Gal Gadot
Interesting. Most people think Gal Gadot and Jessica Alba look strikingly similar.
Uh no.No wonder you don’t like Alba. That’s the worst pic of her I have seen.
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Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but certainly very unpopular with my peers.and remember if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
The United States should adopt a universal health care system, similar to most Western European countries, and end healthcare as a perk of your job.
Caveat: I’m hugely against government deficit spending. I’m also hugely against more taxes, unless those taxes offset the costs we pay now.
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-02-2018/Ij77Vn.gif)I’m not that picky. Lol.
You could be picky and want bigger jugs, but that's it.
Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but certainly very unpopular with my peers.I actually kind of agree. It's a tricky subject. And what we're doing here in the US, well....it ain't it.
The United States should adopt a universal health care system, similar to most Western European countries, and end healthcare as a perk of your job.
Caveat: I’m hugely against government deficit spending. I’m also hugely against more taxes, unless those taxes offset the costs we pay now.
Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but certainly very unpopular with my peers.I know on this issue I'm fervently against the employer-based system. It creates inefficiencies that make being a business harder, starting a business harder and being an employee who wants to chase something different hard. It also only works if you use government subsidies anyway.
The United States should adopt a universal health care system, similar to most Western European countries, and end healthcare as a perk of your job.
Red fescue is better than Kentucky blue grass in the Midwest for your lawn.I think I used a blend, but the KBG needed watering a lot.
Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but certainly very unpopular with my peers.Swiss model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland).
The United States should adopt a universal health care system, similar to most Western European countries, and end healthcare as a perk of your job.
Caveat: I’m hugely against government deficit spending. I’m also hugely against more taxes, unless those taxes offset the costs we pay now.
Swiss model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland).Explain?
Explain?Sorry, it was a link to the Wikipedia article on the Swiss healthcare model, which I think is a far superior model (and far more amenable to Americans) than a typical government-run (i.e. British NIH) or a single-payer (i.e. most of Europe) model.
Yeah, Seinfeld was the worst! Making the colorful friends the actual focus and the boring comedian just kind of the hub. Some of the greatest side characters of all time (J.Peterman, Puddy, Soup Nazi, etc) and endless quotes.There were a few episodes that were good and the soup nazi was indeed one of them "don't push your luck little man". One show about going to a funeral and had to take a flight out of town and going to the after funeral gathering/dinner and a ruckus breaks out because someone double dipped - using the other side of the same chip. That waspretty good.
One point that can't be debated "SEINFELD" SUCKED and while we're at it "FRIENDS"was the worstAgree on Seinfeld. Friends too.
Yes, tethering HC Benefits to our employment was a direct result of the Stabilization Act in the early 40s. Efforts to fight inflation and encourage women and others into the workforce.Capitalism always finds a way. We capped prices but left other avenues for competitive comp open, and there it was.
Agree on Seinfeld. Friends too.
Friends created a lot of bad.
Unpopular opinion: Chick-fil-A is a terrible chicken sandwich. Damp, soggy, and tasteless.Maybe just a bad employee who slapped it together. The limited times I've had grub there it was decent bordering damn good
chic fil a hype?Popeye's? FFS that place started out as cheap alternative but somewhere along the line they figured they were upscale. The menu didn't change but their prices did - before things spiked the last few years
Popeyes?
me either
I never go there
like other fast food
Maybe just a bad employee who slapped it together. The limited times I've had grub there it was decent bordering damn goodGranted it's only the locations around MSP, but I've gotten them from multiple places in multiple formats (drive thru, sit down, and Coffman Union hot case). Every one of them has been soggy and tasteless.
One point that can't be debated "SEINFELD" SUCKED and while we're at it "FRIENDS"was the worstIf I had a glove I’d smack your face with it.
I've gotten to where I just can't and won't watch reruns of anything. Not enough time in my day. If I'm going to spend time watching television, then it has to be something new.I’m basically the exact opposite. I feel like I don’t have the time or energy to invest in anything new. I basically flip to something I know I like and watch that.
I don't watch much television at all, anyway.I only have over-the-air antenna now,not paying for streaming. If everyone dropped them we'd find out almost immediately how necessary they actually are. The only problem with the OTA reception as I spend prolly 5-10% of the time adjusting the damn thing
I’m basically the exact opposite. I feel like I don’t have the time or energy to invest in anything new. I basically flip to something I know I like and watch that.This is what I do with The Office, but only seasons 1-6. I can't go past Jim and Pam's Wedding in season 6 and I can barely make it there most of the time. The show was already in it's death spiral well before Steve Carell left. How's that for an unpopular opinion?
Andor was quite good IMO.Concur. Loved it.
Indian food is the best asian food ...Hmmm, I'm trying to decide whether this will end up qualifying as unpopular, or not. Lots of people love Indian food.
Hmmm, I'm trying to decide whether this will end up qualifying as unpopular, or not. Lots of people love Indian food.I love deer,rabbit,squirrel,elk,bison,turkey - the 3 sisters(corn,beans,squash) sweet potatoes,wild rice........
This is what I do with The Office, but only seasons 1-6. I can't go past Jim and Pam's Wedding in season 6 and I can barely make it there most of the time. The show was already in it's death spiral well before Steve Carell left. How's that for an unpopular opinion?Nah, I would largely agree.
Indian food is the best asian food ...
Hmmm, I'm trying to decide whether this will end up qualifying as unpopular, or not. Lots of people love Indian food.
I enjoy it, but the opinion that is the best is just plain wrong.I think the issue most people have with Indian food is that it's "weird" and has "weird names" and sauces that they don't know what anything is. We've been inundated with American Chinese so a lot of people know Chinese food (or the American facsimile anyway). Japanese is pretty well known as well. Thai is very common, and at least if it's not well-known, what you're getting is identifiable.
Indian food is the best asian food ...Is this a trolling thread now, or still unpopular?
I love deer,rabbit,squirrel,elk,bison,turkey - the 3 sisters(corn,beans,squash) sweet potatoes,wild rice........Never heard that before.
Indian food is the best asian food ...To me Indian food all tastes the same. Some of it can be quite hot which I like.
I've tried eating Indian food on multiple occasions. Every one of those times has found me passing water for three days afterwards.Is it unpopular to say I don’t consider that too much of a downside? I mean, assuming the three days is a bit of an overt statement.
...Exactly.
However, I will say that the opinion that it's the best Asian food is one I do not share. There aren't enough beef dishes :57:
Is this a trolling thread now, or still unpopular?Is there really any difference? :)
Is there really any difference? :)Mine is either Indian or Vietnamese, primarily Banh Mi. That might be because I haven’t lived in a town with good Chinese food in what feels like forever.
I'm still thinking about what my favorite Asian cuisine is. I really like Indian food, but it's probably not Indian food.
My favorite single dish might be a Vietnamese pho, I crave that stuff.
I’m basically the exact opposite. I feel like I don’t have the time or energy to invest in anything new. I basically flip to something I know I like and watch that.Same here. At night before going to sleep the wife and I watch 2 episodes of one of sitcoms that we are rewatching. We generally rotate betwen Friends, Seinfeld, Last Man Standing, Fraser, Cheers, etc.
Same here. At night before going to sleep the wife and I watch 2 episodes of one of sitcoms that we are rewatching. We generally rotate betwen Friends, Seinfeld, Last Man Standing, Fraser, Cheers, etc.one of the benefits of getting old is when you watch a rerun its like seeing it for the first time
In the evening we may be binge watching, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Sopranoes, Justified and others
You know you are going to like them and rewatching is just as good as watching the first time
We had Indian for lunch yesterday and I was pondering this point. We both really like Asian cuisine, a lot, there isn't one we don't like. Really good Chinese is really good, to me, a fair bit of it is just "sort of OK good" to me, but some is superb. Japanese, sign me up. Korean? Bibimbop del sol, yup. Vietnamese? Yup. Phillipine? Yup. Malaysian? What I've had was really good. Thai? All day.
Globally, I'm all over Mex, south American, Tex Mex, Frrench, Italian ... the kinds I don't care for is a shorter list. We have two excellent Indian places near us so that is a factor, and to me, it all tastes quite different from each other and is superb. We get something called thali sag often for lunch and it comes with five very different dishes and naan (which to me is not the greatest).
Indian food?Man, our water system is great
There are several sorts... India is a big place. Eastern Indian can be much like Chinese. Southern Indian is what I think folks here think of when Indian food is mentioned.
Mumbai is a place you best be careful... I effed up in a major way, there... I drank a glass of water at a swanky restaurant and paid dearly- case of "Mumbai shit pie" ensued and I made it worse when I took unisom instead of imodium ad...
That was a bad couple days.
The worse ever though was after risking it for a week during Ramadan and eating nothing but rotisserie I "think" goat sold at a roadside stand in the desert of Qatar.. it was the only place open selling any kind of food during the day and the only time I had to get out... I think "they" looked the other way and left it open for the workers from elsewhere who weren't Muslim. That food was fine as can be, but when I made it to a Starbucks just before they closed one morning and got a chicken salad pita? Hell broke loose.
It was pouring from both ends for two full days and I was forced to decide which I'd rather clean off floor... fortunately, the villa I was in had the bathrooms ceramic tiled from ceiling to floor with a drain in floor... and had what was intended for spraying your ass when finished "wand", which was the same thing as a kitchen retractable sprayer, hanging on the wall beside the toilet. I went back in there with a bottle of dish soap which I slung everywhere and sprayed everything down the drain... I had a little Pakistani dude who cleaned for us, but I couldn't do that to him. It was bad. I've hated Starbucks everywhere since.
Portland, Maine >>>>>> Portland, OregonWrong thread. Very popular opinion. 😂
Maybe unpopular opinion?
Pretty much all sushi is made from frozen fish anyway. As such, it doesn't really matter where you are. You can find good sushi almost anywhere, and in most cases there is no actual benefit to finding it near a coastline.I don't know that this is true, at least, places here claim they are using "fresh fish", but maybe that means "freshly frozen"....
I don't know that this is true, at least, places here claim they are using "fresh fish", but maybe that means "freshly frozen"....
Portland, Maine >>>>>> Portland, OregonI feel like Portland, Maine has about a 100 percent approval rating. So hard to top that.
Maybe unpopular opinion?
I don't know that this is true, at least, places here claim they are using "fresh fish", but maybe that means "freshly frozen"....https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-from-the-deep-the-deep-freeze.html
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No he's right, these days almost all fish is flash-frozen on the boat when it is caught. "Fresh" doesn't mean much.Yep. And this is one reason I like to buy seafood frozen from the store.
I've had fresh from the boat sushi many times. It's really good.Sure, you can get it. Right on the dock from a charter in fact.
Pretty much all sushi is made from frozen fish anyway. As such, it doesn't really matter where you are. You can find good sushi almost anywhere, and in most cases there is no actual benefit to finding it near a coastline.This is true... and its false.
We get cobia at our farmer's market here. It's really good too. Fresh Catch is the company.Cobia has become my favorite ocean fish. Second in fish overall- only to the king- Walleye.
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German food is awesome.In the last town I lived in, every local church/house of worship held an annual food fest to raise money for the youth group trip.
German food is awesome.There is a local tavern that has done a brisk business on the food side of things. They made this German/Hungarian/Czech combo in the Fall with cabbage & noodles,spicy potato pancakes complete with apple sauce and cottage cheese and your choice of a variety of sausage types. I'm telling you it was the the most delicious balance and combination and so simple. I'm slobbering like a St Bernard just thinking of it. One of the regulars who ordered it said they rotated it out/off the menu bring may bring it back. According to him there was plenty of back lash - Here's hoping 🍺
Hamilton the play is boring garbage(https://media.tenor.com/pcwrCIGb__oAAAAC/boo.gif)
Hamilton the play is boring garbageI admit that I only saw the recorded version on Disney+, and even then it was a pirated version. But I was pretty underwhelmed
I admit that I only saw the recorded version on Disney+, and even then it was a pirated version. But I was pretty underwhelmedI was done about ten minutes into it when they started doing hip hop
Baseball is objectively the worst sportTHIS is how you do this thread.
So you prefer high-scoring with lots of errors? lolSure. Mostly I'm just not into the millionaire playboy laundry league stuff. I prefer the college version of EVERY sport, to the professional one. College football is king, but I also like college basketball over the NBA, which I find to be completely unwatchable.
College football is king, but I also like college basketball over the NBA, which I find to be completely unwatchable.I agree on NBA but I don't even think CBB is all that much better.
My first wife was a fan of Hall and Oates, I was basically indifferent. She asked me if I wanted to go to one of their concerts in Cincy once, and I said, quite clearly, no. She bought tickets anyway. I protested, and she said "They were $$$", so in a vain attempt to maintain some sort of marital humor, I went. It was atrocious, small venue, no drinks, hot and stuffy, no chairs anywhere, packed. I went as far away from the stage as I could and sat on a step and plugged my ears (I don't like loud music at that level). Some gal saw me and asked if I was OK and I waved here away.
Some women don't understand what NO means. I've since learned to be emphatic. (I didn't say NO to Hamilton because my wife and daughter wanted to go, OK fine, I thought it would be OK and "everyone" said it was fantastic. At least they had seats, I sat with my ears plugged for most of it.)
I really think "we" are akin to sheep, we're social creatures and want to go along to get along. It's necessary for societies to function, from small to large. Remarkably, when it comes to Presidential options, we end up in my view with two choices that range from awful to worse perhaps because of this. It's the worst possible form of government ...
I think Churchill said it ...
Baseball may be the only sport where the in person experience dwarfs the TV experience.Ice hockey is better in person.
Oh, and NASCAR....if you consider that a sport.
Baseball may be the only sport where the in person experience dwarfs the TV experience.Yeah, but that might just be due to the fact that the TV experience is horrible.
or just eliminate the 3-point line
To get back to a game that is more dynamic, I think that two changes should be made:
- Raise the rims to at least 11' and 12' might be needed (maybe 10' HS, 11' CBB, 12'NBA).
- Move the three point line further back such that the %drops thus making midrange shots worth the attempt.
I dislike the phrase "asking for a friend". I have no clue where that arose, or why, I think it's stupid, don't you? (AFAF).I think it arose for the exact reason that it's used for humor today... People wanted to ask a question about something potentially embarrassing or personal but didn't want to expose that they were asking because of their own need.
or just eliminate the 3-point lineAt least that would end the chuck up long shots offense but I do like rewarding lower percentage shots to some extent. Another solution would be to make it more gradual:
Cucumber is my favorite fruit.Shocking. The guy who is usually the most noncommittal to any position in just about every debate thread ever, has the most tasteless possible favorite fruit. :57:
Shocking. The guy who is usually the most noncommittal to any position in just about every debate thread ever, has the most tasteless possible favorite fruit. :57:I often can be somewhat commital at times, it may seem like I'm not always because of how I tend to lean on parsing positions slightly so as to consider all sides of any discussion.
I often can be somewhat commital at times, it may seem like I'm not always because of how I tend to lean on parsing positions slightly so as to consider all sides of any discussion.
Cucumber is my favorite fruit.You just made the list, buddy.
Have we done one of these before? I feel like we might have, but perhaps not.Well this subject thread has been on the shelf for 2 yrs but just thought I would splice in
I'll start.
Pickles suck. They taste bad. In fact, anything cucumber related sucks and tastes bad.
I realize I'm in the minority here and that this is an unpopular opinion. Hence the thread.
Go read Hooky's(RIP) "Ya Know What I Hate" Thread on the Big 12 Board definitely worth perusing - a page flipper in archaic termsYeah this thread exists because not many of you B1G folks bother to venture down to B12 land.
good reasons why it wasn't the front porchWell, yeah. You didn't want the whole street to be able to see when sooners or ags were visiting. It's okay to interact with them out of the public's eye, but nobody wants to be TOO closely associated with either one.
Yeah this thread exists because not many of you B1G folks bother to venture down to B12 land.Must be too busy trolling Michigan Boards or Life - it actually got into the '70s around here
Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.You sure about that?
Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.
You sure about that?Ok, the ring is destroyed at the end of Frodo's quest. He makes it to Doom. The Ring is destroyed. Happier now?
Books or movies?BOOKS.
My knock on the books is that they're very tedious to read. However enjoyable I find them, a description about a leaf that goes on for three pages can be a slog. (Ok, that's an exaggeration and not really in there, but you know what I mean.)
I read the trilogy back when I was 13 or so... Then re-read it in college when they started doing the movies.
I found it an entertaining read.
But @SFBadger96 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=51) -- isn't that a template for a HELL of a lot of stories? How many stories are there in literature of an unlikely alliance between disparate forces of good, fighting evil, building suspense as the odds [and danger] to them rises, and then they miraculously [or conventionally] prevail? It's the central arc of most good storytelling.
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That is quite the unpopular opinion.
My knock on the books is that they're very tedious to read. However enjoyable I find them, a description about a leaf that goes on for three pages can be a slog. (Ok, that's an exaggeration and not really in there, but you know what I mean.)
That's when my friend's wife, who was a schoolteacher, looked at her and said, "Oh, you don't want to do that. Those books are hard.":smiley_confused1:
It's not the structure that is noteworthy in LOTR, it's the detail, the writing, the characters, and the world building.
I ended up dating one of the gals for a year plus, but it sort of fell apart once I went off the UNC. So there was that.
except for the distain for SDI mean, it's understandable. SoCal weather sucks.
I read the trilogy back when I was 13 or so... Then re-read it in college when they started doing the movies.Yes, and the Fellowship was pretty good. The problem I have with trilogy is that it doesn't do much different from the Fellowship. The obstacles, twists, disasters, and crises are essentially the same in each of the three books.
I found it an entertaining read.
But @SFBadger96 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=51) -- isn't that a template for a HELL of a lot of stories? How many stories are there in literature of an unlikely alliance between disparate forces of good, fighting evil, building suspense as the odds [and danger] to them rises, and then they miraculously [or conventionally] prevail? It's the central arc of most good storytelling.
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Speaking of, we both disliked New Orleans immensely. I've posted the reasons before and I know "we missed it" somehow, I would pay money in lieu of ever returning for any reason.Went to NO once in the 90's when I was about 19/20 years old with some friends. Back then the drinking age in La was 18. That was cool. I didn't really care for the city, it seemed dirty and old, but not the kind of old that's good. More like decrepit. Then I went with my wife in July 2005, while we were there there was brief mention about a storm forming in the far Atlantic that turned out to be Hurricane Katrina. Anyways I didn't like it the 2nd time. We witnessed open drug use, everything stunk and smelled like piss, it was dirty. Not really my cup of tea. We're supposed to go back this year for a convention so maybe I will get to see some stuff I didn't get the first two times. Or not.
Cities I do like include San Francisco and Boston and DC and a little bit NYC. I thought Chicago was pretty OK. I used to go to LA a fair bit on business and found it mostly OK but for much of that I was being feted.
Paris is my least favorite city in France.
Because I'm indulgent, I just went and reread my review of War and Peace. I'm happy with it (p.5 of the books thread, if you want to indulge me).
But yeah, his contemporary Dostoevsky has way more interesting reads. If you're looking for a 19th century Russian novelist, skip LT and go straight to FD.
On the other hand, I really liked Crime and Punishment. It had a plot, an actual story arc, and while the characters weren't particularly relatable to me, I could at least see something universal in them.Agreed on Crime and Punishment. I wouldn't say "really liked", but it was an entertaining read. I'd suggest that perhaps a lot of the lack of relatability might be a cross-cultural and cross-temporal thing... The protagonist suffered from shame, and that's something that modern Americans seem to have lost the concept of :57:
I agree that Dostyevsky (sp?) was more compelling. I liked Crime and Punishment, though it was also a bit of a slog.If there's one thing I wouldn't call it, it would be a "slog"...
I'd suggest that perhaps a lot of the lack of relatability might be a cross-cultural and cross-temporal thing... The protagonist suffered from shame, and that's something that modern Americans seem to have lost the concept of :57:Well he also killed a couple of folks just to see if he could get away with it, so it's possible that he was unrelatable for me, for that reason...
Atlas Shrugged was "OK" if one skips over the long speechifying.If you do that, you miss all the philosophical underpinning of the novel. At that point, you've read ~1100 pages and all you have are shittily-developed cardboard cutout characters and the basic idea of producers and moochers/looters without the understanding behind it.
Well he also killed a couple of folks just to see if he could get away with it, so it's possible that he was unrelatable for me, for that reason...Well, there's that.
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I think Heinlein was more Individualist, than Libertarian.Well if we boil it down... Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein did have one similarity in their writings...
I actually disliked his more philosophical works because of it. Stranger In A Strange Land was a wildly masturbatory over indulgence in self, and it really turned me off his writings for a good long while.
Ok well...the LOTR triology is mediocre and extremely repetitive. They adventure, some non-human group that is suspicious of humans decides to help because the evil threatens them, too; the protagonists face almost certain ruin in a climactic battle at the hands of stampeding hords of evil, then a savior comes from far away and turns the tide of the fight. Frodo suffers and struggles along his path, but always manages to escape certain doom. Eventually Frodo destroys the ring. The end.I have read lotr probably 30 times. I have read everything fiction that Tolkien has written and a bit of his non-fiction. I love his writing, world building. His short stories are great. I love "leaf by niggle" he would probably deny it but a good allegory of his writing and life.
I have read lotr probably 30 times. I have read everything fiction that Tolkien has written and a bit of his non-fiction. I love his writing, world building. His short stories are great. I love "leaf by niggle" he would probably deny it but a good allegory of his writing and life.
I like his supplemental works and his letters, which delve into the history of Middle Earth. It's crazy how much effort he put into world-building over the years. He never stopped, in fact. He kept developing Middle Earth well after the publication of his LOTR novels. His creation myth and history of the First and Second Ages would make fantastic books (or films) if someone could do it right.This is what Amazon is trying to do with Rings of Power. But unfortunately they don't have IP rights to EVERYthing, just SOME things, so they are diverging from the canon. It has a lot of nerds angry. But not this nerd, I'm cool with what they're doing. Not every part of that series is a winner but there are some really good nuggets in there.
I despise that show. If that makes me an angry nerd, I'm cool with that.If you dislike it because it's "not canon" then yes you're an angry nerd.
I dislike it for multiple other reasons, but I'm also against unnecessarily changing canon. Some things inevitably have to be changed when adapting from books to film. Even Peter Jackson's movie trilogy did that, and I love those movies, despite their differences with the books. But you should do what you can to be true to the source material.Yeah, the Tolkien family's uneven sale/distribution of IP rights, has made it such that no one studio owns all of the IP. So there's no way it's going to reflect exactly what's in the various appendices, letters, and the Silmarillion.
Wow, that's definitely an unpopular opinion. I know that many folks consider the second to be as good as or better than the first.Yup--Godfather II is allegedly the best one. III is a throw-away for all of the Godfather fans.
My unpopular opinion-- I don't like either one of them. I hate mob movies in general. I just sit there wanting them all to get killed and/or thrown in prison. Scum of the earth.
Dear Lord please save us from angry nerds who believe they have ownership of the material and insist that canon be followed at all costs.Well,then turn the damn cannons around and let them have it - problem solved. ::)
My unpopular opinion-- I don't like either one of them. I hate mob movies in general.Junior - you get a Yuengling
Unpopular opinion: Godfather III isn't really that bad....in a vacuum.2 hours of your life wasted
When lumped in with the first two it can't help but disappoint fans because tonally it's just so different. The first two movies do a thing, and then the third comes along and doesn't even seem like it's trying to do that thing, let alone succeed.
But on its own merits, divorced from comparison to the other two, it was okay.
soaking up rays, drinking wine, eating cheeseWine and cheese are much, much better in France.
sound much like San Diego
I used to be friendly (through my wife) of the top French chef in Cincy. Sadly, he passed away fairly recently, but we have reservations at his one remaining restaurant in August when we go up. It is really good IMHO. Anyway, he told me the one food item better in the US is beef. He chatted about how tough it is to get the right kinds of basics like flour and spices here that emulate French "cuisine" (which literally means kitchen, not food).
Le Bar à Boeuf - Bistro at Edgecliff Condos - East Walnut Hills - Cincinnati (https://www.decavelgroup.com/locations/edgecliff/bistro)
I still have a hard time understanding why French restaurants almost don't exist in a city the size of ATL. There are a handful that claim to be French, but the two that were close to French both closed. Maybe I'm too persnickety.
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Also, on any restaurant menu, the burger is probably a weak link unless it’s not a very good restaurant.I completely disagree with this statement. A restaurant without a good burger is not a good restaurant.
French Bistros are mostly very expensiveSome are, and they have that reputation, but the one's I've liked are priced the same as other "ethnic food" places of the same overall quality. A "bistro" literally would be an a smaller place serving modestly priced foods. Obviously, the term has been "Americanized" like "cuisine" and "entree".
that's the only reason I can see that they don't do well
Beef in Europe in general is well below American standards. The high-end French steakhouses used to import Argentinian beef due to its better quality, no idea if that's still what they do as I haven't eaten steak in France in many many years now. But the beef going into the standard French braised dishes was still just the low-grade Euro fare.Yes, but Tuscany. Man, they know how to do it.
I can imagine that it's difficult to get the exact types of spices and staples. For example flour could certainly be milled differently there, to a different final size/grind, or from different strains of wheat, and even some slight variation could manifest as a difference in the final product. Not necessarily "worse" but also not the same as over there.
French restaurants do pretty well here in Austin, we have a few that have been around for decades, and a few more that are more recent but solid contributors to the scene. It's interesting to me that Italian food is so much more ubiquitous. And not just checkered tablecloth Italian-American, but true Italian. I think people just find it more accessible than French cooking for some reason. And it's not necessarily price because the top "true Italian" restaurants in Austin, are at least as pricey as the French ones.
If someone asked me where to visit in Illinois, I'd have a hard time telling them to go anywhere.
Galena maybe? Starved Rock maybe?
I'd tell them to keep driving and go North, most likely.
People shouldn't have animals/pets.
i'm suspicious of ppl that don't love dogs.I'm suspicious of people when dogs don't like them.
cache river areaIt's Northern Alabama.
it's no yellowstone but southern ill is pretty.
I completely disagree with this statement. A restaurant without a good burger is not a good restaurant.If I have to order the burger, usually it means I’m giving up on the rest of the menu.
Piggybacking on brad and SF's earlier comments about War and Peace....I read several of the "classics" in my 30s and enjoyed them much more than I did as a high school student when I was forced to read many of them. The perspective of (a little more) age mattered. But I still couldn't stand War and Peace or Moby Dick. :-) (I think I read those in my 40s.) As for Jane Austen, I just never saw the point, so I never tried her again. I did reread the Scarlet Letter, and while I can hardly remember it, I was much more impressed with it as an adult than I was in high school.
Most "classic" works I've ever read (or was required to read) sucked. I love reading, love many, many books and authors. But a bunch of supposedly great works bored me to tears. Great Expectations, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Grapes of Wrath, all come to mind. Maybe I was too young to appreciate them....I dunno. I didn't enjoy them in the least.
There are books by Jane Austen which are considered classics, and Little Women, none of which I've read, nor do I suspect I'd enjoy any more than any of the others listed.
I see Dostoevsky's are listed as classics, those were fine. I liked The Count of Monte Cristo. Most of that stuff tho, just makes me think it's for pompous people who want to get together at aristocratic parties, sip tea with their pinky fingers out, jerk each other off about the fancy schools they attended and pretend to be cultured and deep and thoughtful and better than the plebes. Give me Harry Potter any day over that stuff.
I read several of the "classics" in my 30s and enjoyed them much more than I did as a high school student when I was forced to read many of them. The perspective of (a little more) age mattered. But I still couldn't stand War and Peace or Moby Dick. :-) (I think I read those in my 40s.) As for Jane Austen, I just never saw the point, so I never tried her again. I did reread the Scarlet Letter, and while I can hardly remember it, I was much more impressed with it as an adult than I was in high school.
Are you spying on me?
I see Dostoevsky's are listed as classics, those were fine. I liked The Count of Monte Cristo. Most of that stuff tho, just makes me think it's for pompous people who want to get together at aristocratic parties, sip tea with their pinky fingers out, jerk each other off about the fancy schools they attended and pretend to be cultured and deep and thoughtful and better than the plebes. Give me Harry Potter any day over that stuff.
A book I loathed in HS was "Red Badge of Courage". I really hated it. I reread it decades later and thought it was pretty great literature.
I picked up some of Heinlein's stuff lately and thought it was mostly garbage.
If I have to order the burger, usually it means I’m giving up on the rest of the menu.See that's the thing. I like burgers, a lot. And whenever I go to a new place, I order the burger if they have one. If it is not good, neither is the restaurant. Making a good burger is a test. They are easy to F up - kinda like an omelet.
See that's the thing. I like burgers, a lot. And whenever I go to a new place, I order the burger if they have one. If it is not good, neither is the restaurant. Making a good burger is a test. They are easy to F up - kinda like an omelet.Yeah I hear ya. First time I go to a Tex-Mex place, I order the standard cheese enchiladas with brown chile gravy con carne.
You need head meds, good sir.Well, we felt the same way about it in high school. I don't remember why I read it again, or even anything specific about it other than the highest level of what it was about, but I do remember thinking it wasn't terrible.
I only attempted in high school. Couldn't pull it off. Worst book of all time. Went the "Cliff's Notes" route and, of course -- failed the test, as I also did for every other test where I attempted the "Cliff's Notes" shortcut.
One that I remember "liking" in high school was Ethan Frome. Can't recall much about it now, but remember not hating it.
Most "classic" works I've ever read (or was required to read) sucked. I love reading, love many, many books and authors. But a bunch of supposedly great works bored me to tears. Great Expectations, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Grapes of Wrath, all come to mind. Maybe I was too young to appreciate them....I dunno. I didn't enjoy them in the least.I do think some of those might be in the "too young to appreciate" arena. Some I might actually decide to reread--not Great Expectations though.
I read several of Heinlein's books and enjoyed them, but I was a kid. I wonder if that would change now. They were pretty readable for a kid so I thought he must be consider YA fiction. I've been a bit surprised to learn he's considered the author of some "classics" and is taken so seriously. I figured he was for 'tweens.Heinlein's work is layered IMHO. Kind of like Pixar movies--in one sense they're "for kids", but there's a lot to appreciate in there as an adult.
See that's the thing. I like burgers, a lot. And whenever I go to a new place, I order the burger if they have one. If it is not good, neither is the restaurant. Making a good burger is a test. They are easy to F up - kinda like an omelet.I agree. If you don't put in the effort to make your burger good, I don't necessarily trust you as a restaurant.
I agree. If you don't put in the effort to make your burger good, I don't necessarily trust you as a restaurant.
My wife is like that with Italian food. First time at a new place she'll order the lasagna. If the lasagna sucks, we're probably never going back.
Other opinions:Wow. That is a hot [mild, actually] take. While you are entitled to eat what you like, that would not be my choice.
1. My go to "hot sauce" is Tabasco green.
Getting back in the spirit of the thread...This may be realize that a called strike three is almost a judged outcome.
Gymnastics is not a sport. In fact nothing with a judged outcome, is a sport. They can be highly competitive athletic events requiring tremendous individual skill, but still, not a sport.
Golf is not a sport.Nope.
Are any track events judged?There are judges, but not to judge form, just distance or time etc. Golf could be a sport for those who carry their own clubs and walk ...
A book I loathed in HS was "Red Badge of Courage". I really hated it. I reread it decades later and thought it was pretty great literature.I love heinleins "the moon is a harsh mistress" great concepts excellent story and love the political philosophy. TANSTAAFL
I picked up some of Heinlein's stuff lately and thought it was mostly garbage.
What if in the near future all judges were AI based so that all biases were removed and all scoring was done fairly?Bias can be programmed, right?
horse racing is a sport for the horses
I've totally quit watching any activity that involves complex judging, I just don't care.Figure skating, gymnastics-- judged, not sports.
It's akin to reading a review of a recent concert, it's someone's opinion, not mine.
College football wasn't a sport until 1998? hahaNope. At least as far as determining a national champion.
Is golf a sport?
Of course it is finely tuned, stream lined specimans that require very specific physical attributes like BWARB/FF reflect dedication, discipline, and a commitment to fitness. Shunning alcohol,high fat intake,fried foods and BBQ....oh waite
Nope.
Chicken sausage sucks. Turkey sausage sucks.well, ya
That is all.
I prefer bacon with my biscuits and gravy.I like Polish Sausage, and not much else. I can stomach a brat from time to time, I suppose.
And actually, I don't really love any sausage. It's all fine, I'll eat it if it's all that's offered, but I really consider it to be filler.
Smoked sausage is a big deal around these parts, but I just don't care about it. I'll skip it in favor of more brisket and ribs, thank you very much.
Chicken sausage sucks. Turkey sausage sucks.
That is all.
Chicken sausage sucks. Turkey sausage sucks.sausage is almost exclusively good or bad based on the spices and not the meat.
That is all.
sausage is almost exclusively good or bad based on the spices and not the meat.I'm no sausage aficionado as I noted above, but I don't think this is true. A large part of the taste/appeal of a sausage, is related to the amount of fat, and type of fat, used in the grind. One reason the chicken and turkey sausages are less desirable to many folks, is because they are so much leaner than beef/pork sausages.
I decided to be a "sunshine fan". If "my team" isin't doing well, I stop watching.So maybe 3-4 seasons in the last 30 years at most? MMMMkay.
(https://i.imgur.com/mfVaMOu.png)That man has never had to tailgate for an 11 AM start in his life.
sausage is almost exclusively good or bad based on the spices and not the meat.Ya the local guy makes a chicken/pork blend sausage, fused with jamaican jerk spices. And his prices have skyrocketed as he can hardly keep it on the shelves when he has so many other specialty sticks he's whipping up.
The cheaper pork sausage to me are high in fat and low in taste. The better ones still have plenty of fat but a good balance and I like the flavors.there is nothing better(IMHO) than oiling the sausage cases with olive oil(I roll them around together in a corn cobb serving dish) and slow roasting them indirect on the cooler side of the grill. Slowly bringing them up to just below the bursting point and pulling them 😍. Topped with just Stadium Mustard and raw diced onion on fresh seeded Pepperidge Farm Sausage Buns (or similiar). The fresh bun fits snuggly around this delite holding it together and in itself is tasty
The stuff at cheaper restaurants is pretty ... boring, often over cooked and dry.
I think ground beef in general is a decent cut of meat like chuck or round ground up without fillers or additives but with some level of fat added. Sausage to me is different.well, you've heard of pink slime
as with any ground meatGot 6 & 3/4 lbs for 6.71 total yesterday at the Grocer where I work part time on the docks. My buddy who runs the back warehouse tips me off when the lady in the meat dept tips him off. Anything approaching sell by date is reduced priced to move,getting great excersize,deals and paid too 😎 . After a day anything still there goes on a cart and into the deep freeze for the Cleveland Food Bank.Some of it appears at the food pantry give away where I volunteer on thursdays - also great excersize - gotta do it if I wan't to keep tossing back some suds eating dawgs and living like Ralph "Now I Know Why We Play Golf, to Get Away From Our Wives" Kramden
I really don't like paying $4/pound for ground meat
Yup, I stopped. Losing is one thing, but they are losing and looking bad doing it. It's depressing.What do you want from a 212 million dollar payroll? Picky - jeez. Try following the Indians for 5 decades
as with any ground meatOn sale here.
I really don't like paying $4/pound for ground meat
That man has never had to tailgate for an 11 AM start in his life.Ya and CFB GameDay is a clown show suckfest (in my best Mdot) and is a no go
Heh. I don't mind the 11 AM games but not in August/September. There should be nothing but night games in Austin until October.
My "beef" with Tito's is the label claiming it is gluten free. Find me a vodka with gluten.But they're not lying are they?
I basically ignore most labels like "free range", "gluten free", "organic", "hypoallergenic", whatever, as marketing ploys with little substance behind them, or meaning, or advantage.HA! find me a free range Chicken also you can but not by the masses that claim to. Great book if you're curious enough that really delves in to a lot of this stuff in the food and farming industry is "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Much poultry has been herded like cattle and are free to walk around massive structures with small openings to go out of but they hardly ever do as they been been funneled to the feeders and water and slightly recoginize the outside as an option. All this charade just to slap the "FREE RANGE" tag on their package.
My "beef" with Tito's is the label claiming it is gluten free. Find me a vodka with gluten.
But they're not lying are they?Well how good is corn for you really? ya know with the exception of corn chips of course
I suppose some people might think that vodka distilled from wheat could have gluten (it doesn't, the distillation process removes the gluten proteins).
Tito's is distilled from corn so I imagine they're just reassuring the public that it's all good.
(https://i.imgur.com/mfVaMOu.png)Which makes it either 9 or 10am here. Only good thing is the late games are over in the evening instead of late at night
Which makes it either 9 or 10am here. Only good thing is the late games are over in the evening instead of late at nightYeah, noon games are 9 AM here. But since I like to get up early, that works nicely for me. It would be weird now to actually be back East where noon games don't start until... well... noon.
In my head, the Biggest Games are at 3;30, which I know isn't always the case today.
Yeah, it's all weird. I used to watch UGA playing Charleston Northern on Jefferson Pilot with picture quality from the 1950s at noon and then watch a big game at 3:30.Yeah here in Texico we had "RayCom" which was very much like Jefferson Pilot.
Yeah here in Texico we had "RayCom" which was very much like Jefferson Pilot.
ABC used to have its national timeslot at 2:30 and regional was 11 AM, and they also just about never ran a primetime game. They reversed all that in the early 2000s, around 2003 I think I once pinpointed. That's when TX-OU which was usually a national game in most years, switched from being at 2:30 most years, to 11 AM.
So outside of the SEC on CBS when that was a thing, 2:30 Central is actually the weakest timeslot for over-the-air broadcasts.the SEC owns the 2:30 timeslot and they get better ratings, so............ FOX & ABC went to 11am/noon because they can't compete
the SEC owns the 2:30 timeslot and they get better ratings, so............ FOX & ABC went to 11am/noon because they can't compete
Probably true for Fox but ABC did it 20 years ago, they figured out that more people are sitting around at 11 AM but are out and about by 2:30.And us.
Except in the Dirty South where all the Jaspers and Cletuses just sit around drinking moonshine in front of the TV all day long.
I didn't think Tom Brady was as bad as everyone piled on him for being last year as a first-year broadcaster.
Lots of room to improve--and he needs to--but for a first crack at it I thought he was better than he was getting credit for.
My wife thought he was awful and frequently voiced her displeasure with trading Greg Olsen for him.
We had both, JP and Raycom, at one time or another here in the mid-south.Probably a sell-out in either stadium - Stark-vegas is tiny and Carolina has a rabid fanbase.
They did crappy SEC games better than ESPN.
I guess because they were happy to have it, and happy to be there. They at least injected some life into an 11:00 South Carolina vs Miss St. tilt.
How long until we get an AI Keith Jackson calling games live? I'd like an AI Franklin and Patrick night game, personally.
Or an old Frank Broyles AI color commentary, always citing the "safety man." lol
I'd like an AI Franklin and Patrick night game, personally.Thought ya wrote AL Franken,I'm thinkin' throw in Jesse the Body and make it an all Gopher booth
AI Fran Drescher and Gilbert Gottfried?as long as we're imagining how about King Arthur and taunting French Knight from MPs Holy Grail. Along with Scotsman Tim the Enchanter (warned of the killer Rabbit) as a sideline analyst
Thought ya wrote AL Franken,I'm thinkin' throw in Jesse the Body and make it an all Gopher boothand the golden boy?
Gottfried***Jesus, my brain is broken. Made the same mistake when Patrick died. FFS
Now I'm picturing Al Franken and Danica Patrick calling a college football game. THAT would be interesting, as a car wreck is.
Am I the only one who really REALLY misses Franklin and Gottfried night games?
Now I'm picturing Al Franken and Danica Patrick calling a college football game. THAT would be interesting, as a car wreck is.I remember catching a few of the games and he(Franklin) was solid but he got shit canned after calling different female sideline reporters a couple of X some weird remarks. One of the games he called(for Houston Oilers radio) I do remember is the '79 Steelers/Oilers AFC CCG on NBC where Dick Enberg (a classic also)for the right to go to the Super Bowl. The Oilers got jobbed but there was no instant replay back then. But NFL Films rehashing that classic, chimed in with his Franklin's radio remarks
Am I the only one who really REALLY misses Franklin and Gottfried night games?
AI Fran Drescher and Gilbert Gottfried?
We get hummingbirds up here, my wife has a feeder.We have three feeders... Because hummingbirds are apparently territorial assholes.
Scorpions ain't no big thing. And rattlesnakes are good eatin'.
Unpopular opinion: Alfred Hitchcock sucks. They literally never show his movies on any mainstream channel, and nobody under the age of 60 even really know what all his movies are. The only one I can name is Psycho. Meanwhile I have seen a lot of other movies from that era and they get played on TV all the time.i was in a house rental last week and had some limited streaming options and my wife and I were walking some of the old Hitchcock shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents.' (I think it was hulu. i can totally see how inspirational/influential he was.
I'm under 60, and I really don't know his work.My case in point exactly. If he was so great, wouldn’t we know his work? I think his peak was the 1960’s. By the 1980s I never recall his stuff being aired. 50 years later and were still talking about somebody like Stephen Spielberg.
So I can't either support or dispell anything about whether or not his work is brilliant or sucks.
Unpopular opinion: Alfred Hitchcock sucks. They literally never show his movies on any mainstream channel, and nobody under the age of 60 even really know what all his movies are. The only one I can name is Psycho. Meanwhile I have seen a lot of other movies from that era and they get played on TV all the time.His weekly tv show was very good
The Birds is excellent. Like messed up, but excellent.messed me up as a kid watching it
I think his plots are too slow to develop, I realize that is part of the tension, but I get bored easily.Definitely an older kind of movie for sure. (although perhaps the movie I mentioned had a solution for that)
The others that I think are often mentioned are Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Notorious, and you would probably recognize the names of several others (Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief...)Never seen any of them. I've always heard how good they are, but again....if they're never on TV, how good can they be?
They tend to plod, then have very quick resolutions or changes in the plot, but I think that's typical of movies from that time frame. Curiously, Psycho is one I haven't seen. I should remedy that.
Never seen any of them. I've always heard how good they are, but again....if they're never on TV, how good can they be?I guess it just depends on what your definition of "on TV" is. Because there are usually quite a few Hitchcock programs available on the streaming services.
I may be just fulfilling my own bias because maybe they've been on TV and I simply chose to pass.
I guess it just depends on what your definition of "on TV" is. Because there are usually quite a few Hitchcock programs available on the streaming services.I was referring to broadcast TV like we had in the 80's and 90's. I watched a lot of TV shows and movies when I was younger including things on cable and I just simply never caught any of the Hitchcock flicks except maybe Psycho and I really wasn't all that impressed with it.
- Netflix: Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Family Plot, and The Birds.
- Amazon Prime (US): Rope, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho.
- Tubi: The 39 Steps, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Foreign Correspondent, Young and Innocent, Sabotage, Strangers on a Train, North By Northwest, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
- Peacock: Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
I was referring to broadcast TV like we had in the 80's and 90's. I watched a lot of TV shows and movies when I was younger including things on cable and I just simply never caught any of the Hitchcock flicks except maybe Psycho and I really wasn't all that impressed with it.Ah I see, you're saying "back in the day" it doesn't seem to have been on much.
In Houston we do it a lot sooner to avoid the gun fight when folks wont let you in
If a sign says traffic should merge into 1 lane in one mile, then traffic should use 2 lanes for the next mile. No need to merge into 1 lane before the actual merge.
And people do not act rationally.That might be a popular opinion.
People shouldn't have animals/pets.I'd vote for this one.
I always leave 3 or 4 car-lengths when I'm in the right lane. And then miraculously, after we've been in stop-and-go bumper to bumper traffic for a mile, after we get up to the actual merging point, and I'm allowing cars to enter the freeway and merge freely in front of me, all of a sudden the stop-and-go ends and traffic speeds up and moves smoothly. That's just from ONE driver-- me-- doing it correctly. Imagine if EVERYONE did it?I think you said it perfectly....too many people think traffic is just something they can win. They can't give an inch even if they're too stupid to realize they would literally gain miles.
Of course, invariably there's some tailgating jackwagon behind me, who gets so very angry that I would dare allow people who need to get onto the freeway, to do so in front of them. I mean, how dare I allow other people to "win" the freeway race in gridlock??
Those jackwagons often tailgate the hell out of me, then when they get a gap to the left they slam on the gas, scream around me to the side, then move swiftly over in front of me, only to have to slam on their brakes as they approach the stopped traffic ahead of them flying at 50 mph. All the while I just keep on moving slowly along, giving 3 or 4 car-lengths, allowing people to merge, solving problems. While the speedy gonzales in front of me is just riding his brakes, tailgating the next guy in line.
What's the least popular opinion that's been shared in this thread?45 pages worth....we should get an AI summary and vote.
Clearly, the thread spans beyond just sports topics—venturing into broader, even political, debate.:93:
AI retains the inherent issue of all computer-based problems: the information it cranks out is only as good as the inputs. Garbage in, garbage out.My god, the first time I heard that was around 1987. Garbage in, Garbage out. 7th grade computer class on the Apple II. It's also the first time I heard the word "Spreadsheet".
Unpopular opinion: AI can be a useful tool, but it is still pretty limited.I sure hope AI cannot browse the forum, that's kind of scary.
Example: ChatGPT's summary of this thread:
"I wasn’t able to directly access or crawl the full 46-page “Unpopular Opinions Thread” on CFB51, as the site requires manual browsing and I couldn’t retrieve its entire content. cfb51.com (https://www.cfb51.com/big-ten/unpopular-opinions-thread/)
However, I found a few publicly visible replies that can give us a small window into the type of discourse happening there:Clearly, the thread spans beyond just sports topics—venturing into broader, even political, debate. But without broader visibility into the rest of the pages, this is only a very partial snapshot."
- One user simply wrote: “just beat Michigan, OK????” which likely speaks to frustration around rivalry outcomes. cfb51.com (https://www.cfb51.com/big-ten/unpopular-opinions-thread/168/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
- Another user chimed in from a more political stance: they criticized the employer-based health care system and stated they’d prefer a slow shift toward something closer to universal healthcare, grounded in market solutions for the uninsurable. cfb51.com (https://www.cfb51.com/big-ten/unpopular-opinions-thread/168/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
- A third user expressed skepticism around government-managed systems: “allowing the government to manage ANYTHING is a nightmare—not just an inefficient problem.” cfb51.com (https://www.cfb51.com/big-ten/unpopular-opinions-thread/168/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
I'll take the title. Pets suck.I wouldn't invite a hairy naked man - who doesn't bathe or wipe his ass - into my home.
I wouldn't invite a hairy naked man - who doesn't bathe or wipe his ass - into my home.Your loss. It’s good that you’re honest with yourself about it. Saves misery for both sides
So...
I was using Visicalc in 1981. It was fascinating, an early version of Excel and Lotus 123. I don't think we called them spreadsheets until later.We had Lotus something or other when I first graduated college at my first two jobs. I think we had lotus 123 at AMAT, but the next job it seemed like it was some kind of email client.
Lotus 123 was fancier, and I used Symphony a lot because it was basically Lotus 1-2-3-4-5. I could interface equipment with Symphony with an RS232 link.
This was major stuff back then.
I was using Visicalc in 1981. It was fascinating, an early version of Excel and Lotus 123. I don't think we called them spreadsheets until later.It was fun using format codes and not seeing how it looked until you printed the spreadsheet. Wysiwyg was one of the best things to come along. Originally used visualc then quattro pro then to lotus 123 didn't start using excel until well in the 90s. Hated Microsoft and avoided their products as long as i could
Lotus 123 was fancier, and I used Symphony a lot because it was basically Lotus 1-2-3-4-5. I could interface equipment with Symphony with an RS232 link.
This was major stuff back then.
| [th]Category[/th] [th]Most Unpopular[/th] [th]Best Opinion[/th] | ||
| Overall | "The world would’ve been better off had Germany won WWI" | "People around the world are more alike than not" |
| Food | "Chick-fil-A is terrible" | "Everything tastes better with cheese" |
| Entertainment | "STAR WARS is unforgivable trash" | "Original Star Wars is the greatest movie of all time" |
| Sports | "Gymnastics is not a sport" | "Shohei Ohtani is the greatest baseball player in history" |
| Travel | "San Diego is terrible" | "Land set aside for parks is nearly always desirable" |
| Pets/Animals | "Donate pets to zoos to feed predators" | "Animals do not belong in restaurants" (defensible) |
| General Society/Ideas | "Germany winning WWI would be better" | "Good enough is better than perfect" |
My wife's been wanting a laptop, and she's all in on the Apple ecosystem. Costco is currently running a sale on Apple products, so I ordered her a Macbook Air yesterday.and golf clubs for the eldest son???
Then I realized... Wait, they probably have a sale going on the watch too, and her Series 4 Apple Watch is getting SERIOUSLY long in the tooth.
I was right, so I ordered one of those 5 minutes ago.
And that was after spending $425 for my grocery haul at Costco this morning...
and golf clubs for the eldest son???Well, not Kirkland irons!
See it agrees with me everything is better with cheeseEverything except Chinese food.
So, what you're getting at is that the US should have stayed out of WWI?Not really, it's just musing as to what might have happened. The US did impact the outcome, but might not have been pivotal. France might have held out in 2018 with the BEF because the Germans were so short of supplies. But it is a plausible scenario that the US did not enter and Germany took so much land that France sued for peace.
So, AI seemed to miss my point about Germans winning WW One, entirely, which in part was, a German win avoids Nazism, I think.Obviously.
https://twitter.com/CFBRep/status/1954607498809503784Me too.
This is one of the best National Championship Games of all time.
I was heavily rooting for Auburn.
The fallout from the end of World War I is more responsible for the current state of world affairs than most realize.Someone here recommended "Paris 1919: 6 months that changed the world" I am enjoying it
What if Auburn sided with the Germans?What do you mean “if”?
Someone here recommended "Paris 1919: 6 months that changed the world" I am enjoying itI did, I learned a lot in that book.
I think the Germans in 1933 largely thought "Anything has to be better than this". Hitler told them things they wanted to hear, basically that Germany didn't really lose WW One, they were a superior people, and he generated a lot of public works projects with considerable fanfare to put them to work, initiated high tariffs on imports, convinced the wealthy folks like Krupp he didn't like communists who they viewed as a significant threat. When a country is really down, they will more likely go along with an extremists, especially one who appears to be making good on promises and controls the media.A great deal of what occurred in Europe post WWI was in response to the fear of communism spreading beyond the USSR. Different populations had different reactions to it, but much of the support for far right fascism stemmed from the concern about far left communism. Curiously, just as there were many things that had to break a particular way for Hitler to come to power, there were also many accidents of history that allowed Lenin to take power, then Stalin to keep it. One of the tough things about history is that it never stops. And there are "accidents of history" all the time that lead to one thing, and then another, always compounding on each other.
One of my hopes is that we do not return to interstate violence of the kind that was fairly common throughout most of the world until 1946. Another is that we do not retreat from the personal freedoms that much of the "developed" world has come to see as the norm. Yet another hope is that my saying these things here doesn't throw this thread into the chaos of that now-retired politics thread. :-)You're doing it wrong.