Whats the most boring unpopular opinion?

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?

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.

Think that one, the opinion itself, varies in boring/interesting depending on where you live. Likewise varies in truthfulness.

Isn’t the just world fallacy a pretty popular opinion?

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

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.

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.

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!

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"

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.

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.

And so should the deadlier gun but at some point you risk becoming a danger. Ofc if you have no morals you won't care but if you do, then you'll think about it at least twice.

Eh I think they are more aimed at adults just by the way they are marketed including the toys which mostly make money in the adult collectors market. They just give the excuse to bring kids.

Agree, and as an adult who enjoys comic book movies. I also like really good cinema. Liking good movies does not mean movies that aren't winning Oscars are all bad. It means you're just a gatekeeper.

I can sit down and watch a movie like the Brutalist or the Whale absolutely lose my shit at them.

But sometimes I don't feel like being emotionally destroyed and just want good guys punching bad guys with predictable plot.

Humans are complex and sometimes you may like one and other times the other, there is no "you can't like X movie". Only gatekeepers think that way.

Hi,

I’m only commenting to show something… Seconds ago I read a comment about Ukraine and pornography with which I completely disagreed. I left the thread, came here, read a comment I completely agree with.

Both are made by the same commenter.

See, we can agree on some things and disagree on others. There’s more than two personalities available.

I mean yeah i think that's evil to market towards kids and use them as a hook to make parents overspend, that's like the primary definition of "bad". It's bad for the kids they market to and it's bad for society too.

Maybe it’s just me, but I also find it weird to see adults with t-shirts or stickers on their cars of what are essentially kid’s shows and comics.

Agreed, with the caveat that the Zack Snyder DC films were genuine trash. Not even on a comic book reader and fan level, just on a Zack Snyder level, we need to stop letting that asshat write and make movies.

To be fair, i just hate pineapple as food in general.

Yeah I also don't like pot. Mainly because it smells bad tho... I've never actually used it before since I can't imagine putting something that smells like that near my nose.

Same. Cannabis just makes me fall asleep.

Sounds boring to me. Not boring would be "I dont like pot so I am going to craft a bipartisan police state and erode nearly every civil liberty in a pursuit to enforce my way of life upon others from a barrel of a gun."

I kinda feel that "plain black coffee" in it's various forms - Americano, drip brew, whatever - is the only way to actually drink coffee. That's not to say I don't approve of milk coffee or lattes or whatever - I love them - but they're drinks which have coffee in them, even if it's a dominant flavor. A banana smoothie isn't a banana.

People tend to think that dark roasts/more bitter coffees are "stronger". They actually have slightly less caffeine, as the longer the beans are roasted and higher temperatures they are cooked at naturally cooks off some.

For the most part a lighter/darker roast is all about what one likes to taste.

Ah. I see we found a masochist.

This is just such a bad way of thinking.

Why does everyone thing that fresh fruits and vegetables are the only way to eat healthy? Fresh is good, but there are plenty of healthy foods that are not fresh. Until we had refrigerators, humans didn't eat a lot of fresh fruit or vegetables for half of the year.

You can be healthy eating rice and beans, using frozen or canned vegetables too add even more nutrition. All of which can be obtained pretty much anywhere, including food deserts, and stored for long periods of time easily.

You can literally dump a bunch of shit into a crock pot, go work a double shift, then come back and have dinner ready. So don't give me "it's too hard to cook."

It's cheaper than fast food by a significant margin.

People buy fast food because it tastes good, full of fat and salt and sugar. Food deserts exist BECAUSE people choose not to prep their own food.

I mean thats not a bad opinion its just a false statement/premise from every angle.

Of course stopping to eat fast food won't solve obesity since there are other steps you also HAVE to take, but if you don't stop eating fast food then it's on you if you have problems with losing weight;
The problem with fast food is that it's very caloric compared to how much it makes you feel full so you will eat more food which does not help with losing weight, remember that fast food is not the only problem though

It almost always means "I don't like to have to defend my lack of morals/humanity" but since they feel found out they feel pressured to lie about it to keep up appearances.

When is going? Bc I am actively not fine.

I doubt it. We have a very large fossil record of extinct species. Nothing says we won't end up as yet another.

Yeah, we all die eventually. No life, no problems.

This and people complaining when they only listen to the top 50 songs. "Nobody makes good insert genera here anymore! They do, their just below 1k listens. The insane amount of talent below the 100k and even the 1k listens mark is insane and I often find myself going "how the fuck does this perfect to me song only have 1k listens!"

Motown is real music.

Real music, made by real people, at the very least. Is all of it great music? By no means, but I've got piles of 45s that prove it is real.

Unless... I'm not real, that is. A distinct possibility, to be sure.

Meh. I don't have this. Just feels like modern music hasn't evolved since 2008. I've listened to annoying pop songs from back then, and annoying pop songs from today, and it's just... The same.

There's a distinct difference between 80s, 90s, and 00s music that also seems to follow what technology is capable of. That has grown stagnant.

But then hey, my favourite genres are jazz and funk. Those can get wildly creative with limitations.

At least he died looking good.

I recall some Roman writer complaining about the worthlessness of the youth and how Rome was doomed.

Just before a boom of conquest.

Moralising elders waxing nostaltic have probably been around longer than preserved writing.

Edit: it was Horace:

aetas parentum, peior avis, tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem.

Our parents' era, worse than their ancestors, bore us still worse, and soon we will give more wicked offspring.

Text and translation obtained via Wikisource: Horace, Odes 3.6, published 24 or 23 BCE, during the earlier years of the reign of Octavian Augustus.

We could argue about the quality of a youth that bowed to what would be a monarch in all but name, but it's hard to deny their courage and effectiveness in battle, which would have been an important virtue in Rome at the time. That "wicked offspring" stabilised an Empire wracked by decades of civil war and unrest, expanded it and by Horace's standards should have been quite honourable.

(Note: this is not an endorsement, just commentary on the mentalities of the time)

Kids seem so much nicer than when I was a kid. My kids' friends would sit and talk to me, when I went to get them from school I would get random kids saying stuff like "you are x's mom? They are so cool!" "Your outfit is pretty!" I would never, ever have said that to a mom at school.

I don't just think they are not worse, I think they are better than we were.

Everyone wants a plague, but nobody wants to be the plaguee

I kind of miss the plague.

This is definitely an unpopular opinion. Have an upvote.

Now thems fighting words.

C# may be ok, but fuck wpf.

It's the best thing Microsoft has ever done.

Illinois is crazy. So here you have two main options, you can black out your back window and the side back windows if it's a 4 door or those little side backseat windows in a 2 door. Or you can do 35% all around, besides the windshield.

God forbid anyone have privacy.

Especially dark leafy green veggies

So is Comic Sans for anything related to comics or comic-like things.

Lol fair enough but I'd literally rather never listen to music again

I feel like that's a pretty common opinion, I've never heard of anyone railing against motorsports not being a sport.

Like, is luge a sport but not automotive racing?

But Rallycross is the only interesting one.

"Democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people... But the people are retarded."

The issue is who decides on what vote everyone gets? I assume the idea is that experts should decide? But there plenty of "experts" with qualifications that I wouldn't want to make decisions.

Taken to the extreme this would basically be Plato's philosopher king, which sounds nice in theory, but I don't see working in practice.

Equal vote might be bad, but it's the lesser evil in practice.

To throw in my unpopular opinion (not sure if it qualifies as boring or not). There should be no age requirement for voting (in that sense it's already the case that not everyone has an equal vote because children do not have one).

Similar, mine is every "coffee" that has something more than coffee and water is some kind od coffee-based beverage.

"You like cream and sugar, not coffee." Just, I couldn't stand to try and argue with the guy because it matter so very fucking little to me but enough for me to remember the inanity of the argument.

My friend says - if you don't like unsweetened baker's chocolate you don't like chocolate.

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'.

May the sneeze gods grant you mercy.

it gr moo lah forever!!

Edit: I'm pro grunt apparently lol

A dawrf planet is still a planet. Free Pluto.

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.

Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.

What do want to see different with them? Share or appearance? Do you want more saloon-styled doors or should they have more texture and decorations? Or should they open in different way?

Pivot doors, sliding doors, rotary doors pocket doors, lifting doors, double doors, screen doors, storm doors, front doors, back doors, garage doors, The Doors, Mordor...

Gull-wing doors, scissor doors, morphing doors, iris doors, hidden doors.

Lots of doors. What more innovation do you want?

Aw common The doors are a grade above Status Quo. Gonna go listen to Roadhouse Blues.

It's not broken. Don't fix it.

It's okay when it's not raining.

Yeah. I was interested for the two viewings it took to understand the time line. Once I got that, there was nothing else interesting left. Nolan's films tend to be like that for me.

Lawn grass is an invasive species in the Americas and should be removed whenever possible

I added pineapple to kimchi jigae I cooked last week, now all Koreans most likely hate me, but it tasted so goooooooooood!

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True but it already has a lot of adult jokes, I wonder what stuff would the creator make with free rein

You're not wrong, we just love them anyway.

I agree with this sentiment. Life is actually a-okay. Mostly.

Which ones?

This. There's a lot people who cant seem to tell apart a light "stop, this is bad" spank from from Wrestling dropping your kid.

Lemon is always best, except when it's lime. But I don't eat limes, just squeeze them for juice, so lemons still rank higher.

Rind and all.

As a dutch guy I'm going to stand by my Finnish buddies and sy you are wrong, plain wrong..

They might as well say "you may not react".

I love pineapple on pizza, but I only get it if getting slices for my self or with someone else that likes it.

If ordering blind for a group, it's 1 cheese and 1 pepperoni. If I'm giving the group options it's pick between cheese, supreme, meat lovers and pepperoni (if any one can't eat meat, cheese is forced). If they can't decide, fuck it we're getting pineapple /s

That's not a boring unpopular opinion. You're just an asshole.

For me it's the abominable breeds, some can barely breath and actively choke and people think it's cute?

Wait, that's not boring, and it's the first time I read this

I don't agree that dogs suck, but your right about the domestication of animals in general

I see more influence from Jazz, and other genres of black origin, than anything the Beatles have come up with.

Still overrated. Right place, right time. If it wasn't them, it could have just as easily been someone else.

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?

Your first sentence is self contradictory.

I think he goes by Mamdani now