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People Are Sharing Their Unpopular Opinions On This Online Group, And Here Are Their 50 Most Interesting Posts
Some people like to keep it low-key. Others are eager to spark some open-ended conversations. The remaining love diving deep into the burning zone where statements uttered are so controversial they get the discussion sizzling in no time.
And what for? Let’s say if you have a burning unpopular opinion, you’d know why. And there’s a safe corner of the internet known as the UnpopularOpinion subreddit that has had the most disputable points of view flowing since 2012. By disputable, I mean things like water with cereal is better, and clapping for healthcare workers who are only doing their job is cringy.
So let’s see what the community of a whopping 1.9M members is living for right below, and be sure to hit us in the comments in case you have an opinionated bomb to drop that will likely stir some reactions.
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#1
Like come on, people who work their assess off have to struggle more so than people who are good at a sport? It's just like how Doctors are paid less than NBA Players... one saves lives, the other plays basketball competitively.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Agreed. And football athletes shouldn’t have huge stipends compared to track athletes
Niffler_13 4 years ago
It's all about what brings in more money. My College was a huge Football and Hockey school. Those sports were regularly sold out for games, students would wait hours in line to get tickets to the student sections. Compared to other sports like Basketball & Track, which were usually only half capacity (unless they were having a really good year)
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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago
I'm happy i live in Europe, i got scholarship purely on my grades, because unis are not sports obsessed like in USA
Gareth Graham 4 years ago
Saw this on Twitter. 'Colleges are saying that if they can't resume sports during the pandemic they are facing financial closure which proves they aren't schools. Just sports teams with a side hustle'
Thindy 4 years ago
Tuition hasn't gone down in price even though a large majority of classes are being held virtually.
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Bored Panda Poland 4 years ago
How about lowering the costs to all education for everyone and it is based on ability, not the ability to pay?
Hermione 4 years ago
Not ability, hard work which leads to gaining skills. Many people with ability are lazy.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I completely agree. I don’t understand how sports stars, celebrities etc make more money entertaining us than people who actually help improve our lives like Drs, nurses, firefighters, paramedics etc. They are the ones that deserve the money.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
It wasn't always so. Football and hockey players were paid little, and had regular jobs pre 1970. Only when tv and advertising revenues came in, did they get paid better.
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Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
Agree with this. Scholarships should be for those who succeed academically, but cannot afford the fees.
Jeff K 4 years ago
"The NCAA reported in 2016 that the average Division I school lost $12.6m annually on athletics if they don’t have a football team, and $14.4m if they do. In Division II, the annual loss per school as of 2014 was $5.1m if they had a football team and $4.1m if they did not. For Division III, football schools lost $3.1m on athletics while those without football experienced a $1.6m loss. Largely, student fees and hiked tuition subsidize these costs at smaller private universities." https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/16/college-sports-revenue-loss-making-programs-academics
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
College sports, and the millions spent on stadiums and salaries for coaches and other faculty, are part of what has put tuition costs through the roof. You may say they’re moneymakers, but if that’s, then why aren’t the lion’s share of those profits passed on to students in the form of reduced tuition? I’ve also worked my butt off in classes where athletes arrive late, if at all, fall asleep or otherwise don’t pay attention, don’t turn in half the assignments or pass the exams, yet still end up with passing grades so they can still play. And a lot of them were on full ride athletic scholarships. Where are the full ride scholarships for the academic, non-athlete students? Virtually non-existent.
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#2
Yeah sure, it’s futuristic and all, but a lot of them are just becoming a hassle and a hazard. I shouldn’t have to spam tap a screen to change the climate controls, whereas a dial would be so much simpler and easy to use. The screens are basically impossible to use with gloves on if you live in a colder place. And frankly, most automakers just suck at making them. They are super laggy and hard to use. Cars can still look modern with a clean button and dial interior setup, and perhaps a smaller screen to display information. The infotainment system should not have to constantly take the drivers attention off the road.
Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
Yes! I could change the time on the clock in my "old" car by turning one button. On my new car I have to access two menus and press multiple screens. I don't see how that's an improvement.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
You can memorize the placement of dials and buttons, and never have to take your eyes off the road to adjust the heat or A/C, turn on the radio or put in a CD, turn headlights on, etc. Plus, since you are not completely static sitting in a moving car, you may aim your finger to a specific spot on a touchscreen, but hit a bump and have it land on another part of the screen—-leading to a potentially difficult situation and the need to pull over and fix it—-whereas dials and buttons give your fingers something to grab while bouncing around in your seat. Now voice control, instead of touch screens, would be a solution, though I would like it to have a low tech manual backup in case the voice programming should fail. If we ever perfect driverless tech to the point where we don’t have to keep our attention on the road, then touchscreens can make a comeback if still viable.
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James016 4 years ago
This is a common complaint in UK car review sites and magazines. Burying the air controls in a menu is stupid.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I am a firm-believer in the 3-dial (fan speed, relative air temp. & blend-door configuration), 2-button (recirc./no recirc., A.C./no A.C.) HVAC layout. Anything more complicated is really just a waste of energy as it doesn't improve the experience.
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Robert T 4 years ago
Functionally, screens are a lot more flexible and can allow you to access information from the car in a much better form than the simpler displays of old. However, you really shouldn't be using them whilst driving. Any controls which the driver might need to adjust whilst driving should still be knobs and buttons that you can navigate by touch alone.
embarrassed american 4 years ago
My husband hates all those bells and whistles. Says that the more they "update" the features, the more that can go wrong and be difficult to fix.
Will Cable 4 years ago
Ok, I am old enough to have been using a mobile phone with buttons, you could walk along and watch where you are going and type a message, you didn't have to look at the screen. It is the same with cars with physical buttons/controls. You know and feel the control without having to take your eyes off the road. Texture/shape/location all play their part in a simple and fast way of doing the task you need to do.
Billie Templeton 4 years ago
Extremely good analogy showing the logic behind why we need the tactile experienc. Like this very much.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Its so frustrating, the more dials, buttons, technology etc the more that can go wrong and the more it will cost to fix it. Why does everything need to get more complicated as technology advances. Shouldn’t technology be making our lives a bit easier.
Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
Amen to this a thousand times. I'm holding on to my 2013 Honda Fit/Jazz as long as I can. Simple, functional and efficient. Sad that economical hatchbacks are nearly extinct here now.
David Retsler 4 years ago
Agree 100%. Touch screens don't provide the tactile sensation of adjusting something so you MUST take your eyes off the road to make changes. Plus, the glare on the touch screen is crap.
#3
Like breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, first degree murder, terrorism, etc... the coordinating police chief in charge of the raid should be held responsible for whatever happens.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And the department should pay for any property damages. Just to avoid spending money they would be more careful
Doubleheader 4 years ago
This issue is really because of the police unions though. They protect cops from murder and destruction, so they don't feel any fear in making a wrong choice. A lot of them have become brazen, even doing dirty deeds while still wearing bodycams, because they know the union will always back them up. This is a scary reality we live in, and in police reform people need to focus on dismantling the police unions. (Police Unions also aren't like a regular worker's union, so I don't want anyone to confuse the two - Worker's Unions are necessary for workers in so many cases)
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A Head 4 years ago
It absolutely should not. It puts EVERYONE involved at risk. Cops, the people in the house, neighbors...it's a stupid practice.
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Johnny 4 years ago
When judgements against police are paid, it should come out of police pension fund or bonus pool. There's little incentive for police to week out the bad cops if the lawsuit payouts come from the city's budget. Or just have police purchase their own liability insurance, rates will rise in departments that have a lot of payouts.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
This happened in an air bnb while i was sleeping... Very nice to be woken up by police forces in the middle of the night. This option was not on the air bnb listing...
Happiness is Hippo 4 years ago
That must have been terrifying - I hope you got a refund!
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
That’s not an unpopular opinion. At all. It just isn’t done that way by the cops, who represent so few of anyone’s opinions.
Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
In my country, they have to pay for damages caused by official police action (including psychological violence, just like any other citizen), but the process for getting them to do so is just so long and obscure that they end up never paying for anything. Sure, they're in a much better standing than those in the US, but there are still stuff to be ironed out.
Sarah Stalder 4 years ago
I just saw a show about this. Making sure it's the right address is less than a bare minimum expectation.
#4
I deleted Facebook in 2011 and since, never looked back and if anything so glad that I did.
The issue now, FB is so integrated into day to day life people only use that for advertising.
I hate getting emails about "Win this product" then you read how to enter and they say, Like Us/Follow Us and re post Us on Facebook to be entered.
Or a restaurant which is FB only and clicking the link you are greeted with a million log in screens and limited information.
IMO this is a rubbish way to get to your target audience and I avoid companies who solely use FB.
Bored Panda Poland 4 years ago
Ok but for a small start up it is an inexpensive way to reach an audience. Having well done website can be expensive and even more expensive to advertise.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Yup, anyone can set up a facebook page, but most of us would need to pay someone else to set up and maintain a website.
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Johnny 4 years ago
And their Facebook page is usually so out of date that you're not even sure the restaurant is still in business, like their last post is "Come to our Cinco De Mayo celebration! Saturday May 5th 2007!"
Mark Schilling 4 years ago
And you think a business that doesn't update its Facebook page would manage to update its website?
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Don't see the problem with Fakebook. I have a fakebook account and the data I entered are pure nonsense. According to my Fakebook account I have a daily commute from Machu Pichu to New York and I died 40 years ago.
#5
I see a lot of posts on Reddit of people whom have gone through traumatic experiences in their lives; be it war, rape, suicide, depression, that sort of stuff.
Usually, 50% of a comment thread consists of 'man up' and 'X can't happen to men!'. It's annoying as all hell, and yeeah often those comments do get downvoted, but not enough to send them straight to the bottom of the list.
KatHat 4 years ago
Your answer is in how often this line is still used. It's a common approach, the idea that men can't be vulnerable and should be "tough" at all times. If your life isn't like that, congrats, but you are rare.
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Random Anon 4 years ago
Yeah I was told this a lot growing up. Getting pushed around by older kids? Man up! Needing somewhere to cry on? Grow a pair! It did make me quite the cockroach, in terms of resilience but I don't think society would benefit with more people like me.
Vic 4 years ago
I am truly sorry for what you had to go through, my friend..
Load More Replies... Curry on... 4 years ago
Another interpretation is telling a man to man up is similar to telling a woman to get over it already.
Mark Schilling 4 years ago
Not sure why this would be unpopular. Boys are victims of toxic masculinity as well. And, if you raise your boy this way, he'll grow up to maintain the toxic cycle, impacting on future partners and children.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
This is sad that this even has to be considered an unpopular opinion. Toxic masculinity does indeed exist and can be extremely harmful to young men. Men have every right to feel sadness, frustration, hurt, pain, and feel vulnerable. All of these toxic stereotypes for both sexes need to be thrown out of the window.
Joseph OReilly 4 years ago
I once had a classmate who genuinely believed that you could not be sexist towards men. Like she couldn't comprehend that anything bad could ever happen to a guy. Yeah, she was fun to be around
NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
All humans of all races, genders and ages can go through trauma. I hate when people say to me that PTSD is only for military people. Uh, no. Trauma disorders are for everyone.
Loki odinson 4 years ago
I hate it when people tell women to go back to the kitchen Why? CAUSE ITS F###### DISRESPECTFUL AND UNKIND
Janoel Murrey 4 years ago
I hate it when people tell men to man up. Why? Because its disrespectful and that's why you have these stone cold men who don't cry or talk about their feelings because they need to "man up"
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#6
You see it all over the internet these days, people recording themselves giving food or money or whatever to homeless people. All it is for these people is a personal boost, a way to get views on the internet and make themselves feel important. I think these actions should be shot down not praised and receive 10 million video views. If you’re really this good person you claim to be you would give to the homeless, give to shelters, help people and not tell anyone else about it, it’s that simple.
River Webb 4 years ago
its not a good deed if the reason you do it is to blurt it out on social media
IcyRedWaffle 4 years ago
Yeah i'm friends with someone of facebook and she posts this kinda stuff all the time and it just doesn't feel like it's a good deed, just for clout
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Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
Counterpoint - I agree that the people doing it are doing it for all the wrong reasons but it also means that homeless people are getting help they probably wouldn't otherwise get. These kind of people probably wouldn't give anything to homeless people if they weren't getting something out of it themselves.
Star 4 years ago
It’s also good to have people who might be reminded or inspired to help others because of these videos.
Load More Replies... Gyro Pilot 4 years ago
On the other hand the proliferation of these self-aggrandizing vids is the appearance of normalized charity. Perhaps viewing these videos inspires meeker souls to also give?
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
I don't think the people receiving the help care if it comes from pure altruism or a wish to be celebrated. If getting video views gets help to those in need, I'll watch the video.
N G 4 years ago
If someone else films it and puts it on their channel it becomes "I saw someone awesome do something nice". If you film yourself doing it, it's closer to "I have low self esteem so I'm being nice to someone WHO HAD BETTER BE GRATEFUL in order to get likes". Note that the shouty bit is often a key feature in these videos and that's what makes them so insidious.
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Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
How is this unpopular as an opinion? It's just a small item, in a venn diagram mostly disappearing in the obvious truth, "influencers are scum".
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Another thing is that some of these have been found to be fake and the “homeless” people have been actors/friends etc. So I no longer believe those videos anymore.
Anthony Picco 4 years ago
I like them posting it, because it inspires others and keeps the homeless from becoming invisible.
Leodavinci 4 years ago
No it's not that simple. I don't care why someone does something to help another. Motivation is not relevant. Would you rather have people get no help? Sounds like that it is more important to you that people not be praised for doing something, than it is to actually help someone.
#7
Graduates and school leavers already have an extremely hard time finding work in todays economy, most of which are forced to do jobs that had nothing to do with their fields because companies are too lazy to train and too cheap to offer training, they always want some other company to train them. Also if you require 3-5 years experience then the salary of those jobs should be considerably higher and NOT the basic entry level salary, they just want more for less. So long as your qualifications meet the required job they should be considered.
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
I will agree to that 100%. Entry level jobs should not require previous experience.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
It's as unpopular an opinion as that HR droids are a plague. And purely coincidentally write these job specs.
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Sherryist 4 years ago
This right here. As someone struggling to find a job, this is so offensive. We're planning to pay you 40k for your masters degree. Hey, but you can work your way up, you know? Give me a break.
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
This is so true. Entry jobs should not ask for years if experience. Also minimum salary jobs. I was asked three years exp to be a cleaning lady. Sure! It has gotten so far that they ask for experience even for unpaid internships. The first place where I worked long term (for free of course) got so arrogant that was asking minimum a master in biology/vet and six months experience to work for free. All to clean monkey s**t. Caregiving is a wonderful job but it can be learned with zero experience and no degrees.
Michael Sanders 4 years ago
I think unpaid internships are complete BS anyway. You are providing value and producing work for the company. You deserve money. And people need to quit with this “it’ll look good on your resume” crap.
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How can they expect a 22 year old grad to have 3-5 years direct experience in the field they were in college to train for? The point of an entry level job is to give them those 3-5 years direct experience. I’m also rather disgusted with the overly heavy reliance on metrics. So many excellent candidates are not even given a chance—-and most are probably much better than those passing the metrics—-because there’s no human judgement involved. Hiring managers used to be able to tell who would be the nest choice of applicants, because of their training and experience. But you have to actually talk to people to make that judgement call, not throw their resume away because they’re not formatted to fit your algorithm. And yes, companies either overtrain for simple jobs, or give short term, haphazard, or no training for the more complex jobs. I’ve even had the person who was supposed to be training me tell me they’re too busy and to just ask them what I need to know—-no buddy, I’m new here, I don’t know what I need to know. It’s YOUR job to show me what I need to know!
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Employers need to realize that even with a college degree, some real world training is still necessary
Amanda Reicha 4 years ago
My husband has a bachelor degree in business AND computer technology specializing in security. He ended up working at the post office and recently transferred to the Denver Mint. The only reason he got those jobs is because he served 8 years as a Marine in the military. Any IT job gets rejected because he's overqualified (with no experience) or is offered with no or only minimum pay. He's 41 years old.
Gyro Pilot 4 years ago
Wanting to pay the least amount possible is a natural predisposition. My guess is that if your husband's experience is purely military then those skills may not translate to civilian situations. He knows obsolete systems maybe, or he just hasn't proven himself in a non-mil environment. My free advice is that he breaks into the business at whatever wage he can get. Get civilian experience, learn how business works, then go on to a position where they'll pay what he's really worth. I too changed careers and worked for a while at depressingly low wages while I learned the new industry. Today I have no complaints but in retrospect I realize that being at the top of my game in the first line of work didn't translate into being valuable when I started in the second.
Load More Replies... NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
You must have 5 years experience to work as a cashier at Burger King. No, f**k you, BK.
Thomas Register 4 years ago
I like the ads that require 8-10 years of experience - with software that was created 3 years ago.
#8
I've been going to baseball games my entire life. I have well over 1,000 games attended. One of my life long dreams is to catch a baseball in the stands. To me that is a chosen from the baseball gods moment. Lately I've been seeing more and more when someone catches the ball a parent will send a kid over to collect their prize. Everyone boos the person who caught the ball for not giving it to the kid. The person who caught the ball has likely been waiting since they were that kid's age to catch one and now they have an entire section if not stadium bullying them to give it to some little kid that will have 0 appreciation for it because they just did what their parents told them and went and asked for it.
Obviously if I ever catch a ball I will break it to the kid that inevitably gets sent over gently that no, I will not give them the ball AND I will take my boos. But to the parents who send their sex trophy over to collect something that they aren't entitled to, you are horrible parents/people and I don't feel bad that your kid is sad now, it's your fault.
Daria Z 4 years ago
Parents should not expect other people to be their kids' providers. If they want their kid to have this ball, well, catch it yourself!
Jonathan Klaus 4 years ago
yea put some effort into it. lazy bastards haha
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Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
I only feel bad for the kids who had a definite shot at getting it themselves but are pushed out if the way, or overtaken by an adult to get the ball. And anyone who watches baseball has seen it. Its coming straight at the kid, he either just misses or fumbles the catch & some douche adult shoves them out of the way to get it first. Those adults deserve the shame & boos.
Hermione Granger 4 years ago
Yeah when I was 9 I was at my first base ball game and I had the ball IN MY HANDS when some 40 year old dude grabs it out of my hands and gives it to his kid
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
That is so wrong, you should not be bullied/pressured into doing something you don’t want to do. You keep that ball and I stand by anyone else that chooses to keep the ball that they catch.
Eduard Korhonen 4 years ago
The parent who sent the kid over will probably put the ball on eBay anyway
Jamma 4 years ago
Part of the excitement of catching a ball in the stands is the sheer odds of being in the right place to do that. Unless the stands are empty, if you have to go 10 meters away from your seat and ask someone for the ball, it was never your ball to have. It diminishes the value of having the ball if it didn't come to your spot in the stands. At that point you might as well say, "some guy on the street handed me this baseball."
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
It is a good life lesson for the kid when the catcher of the ball says no.
#9
Why on earth would ANY adult want to have their ass wiped by their children? I can think of nothing more humiliating or dehumanizing.
I never understood why nursing homes (pre pandemic) were always such an awful thing.
My bfs grandma would get up an wander around the neighborhood and forget where she was. She would trash the house. She would need to be bathed and fed by others because she couldn’t function. His aunt had to quit her job to look after her, all while having kids of her own. What mother would want that for their children?? What person would want their own health and safety in the hands of someone who is trying to juggle their own lives and children and work instead of a person who takes care of others as their chosen career?
There is a HUGE difference between changing a 6 month old’s diaper and an 80 year old’s. And imo there is a HUGE difference between having a medical professional see you naked and clean you than your grown kids seeing you naked and cleaning you.
I would not want my children to remember me as an invalid who needed s*it wiped away from their vagina because of diapers.
As soon as a person is unable to function alone, they should be put in professional care and NOT be shamed for that decision.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago (edited)
Likewise, but I guess not everyone comes to that point in life with enough money to pay someone to look after them. Or the arrangement is - I won't spend all your inheritance on old-age care if you care for me in my old age.
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Truth Monster 4 years ago
This was written by a person who has never seen the neglected elderly in homes. There's a lot.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
That can be true, yes. But you need to remain active in their lives. Maybe not every day, but visit them, check-in on them, and bring your concerns to the manager of the facility immediately. I was very sad when it became necessary for my grandmother to move to a memory-care facility. I visited her every single week, without fail. It was the only option to make sure she had access to the level of care that she needed. Even if our entire family moved in under one roof, we wouldn't have been able to do it all ourselves.
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May 4 years ago
This might be an actual unpopular opinion, but if I live long enough to be unable to take care of myself, I would like to be given the option of just opting out of life, please. I'm an extremely private person, and being dependent on help to use the bathroom or clean myself sounds like absolute hell. I would literately rather die.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
You have no idea how many medical professionals share your opinion.... And are listed as Do Not Resuscitate. Life is sacred. Death is part of it. Let us go, please, if we so choose. (Note: If the person chooses. Not someone else.)
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Rissie 4 years ago (edited)
It can be combined. You can live in an assisted facility and still have family take on some of the care when visiting. Also some people find meaning in taking care of a relative. Some don't have the financial means to choose. Some people require care that's impossible to give as a family member, some people are healthy as a horse up till a hundred and die in their sleep. Don't even think about judging any of those options and how individuals follow their path until you experience it yourself. Because that's what it leans towards, not the, I don't want others to go through it and more the I don't ever want to do that myself so here's me saying don't help me when I'm older. It is not how life works.
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
I agree with Rissie. Every family will take the steps that is best for their situation. Care homes can be very, very expensive.
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Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
When you have no training and no access to additional help you will get overwhelmed and frustrated at some point and often let your frustration out on the one you care for. That's human and the very last sign to seriously consider looking for a care facility. Neither you nor your loved one profits from you running yourself ragged.
Curry on... 4 years ago
Unfortunately, the cost of many of these places is ridiculously expensive. Some are easily over $4000 per month.
Hilary Rudd 4 years ago
I looked after my mother at home as having worked in care homes for nearly 20 years I wouldn't want someone I love in most of them. It can be a good home but one bad carer can make their life unpleasant and unsafe! She was such an anxious lady it would have shortened her life and been most distressing for her
AY1984 4 years ago
I have had two experiences. A very close family member died as the result of neglect in a home. However, my sister and I were extremely traumatized when we ended up taking care of my mother until she died. I burned out from my job, emotionally damaged my kids, I was a hot mess and I personally couldn't keep my mother safe the last three days of her life. I was in the process of moving her to a home right next to my house so I could be with her during my non working hours, but she died before that could happen. I never want to experience that again. What are your recommendation for what we should look for to determine the correct fit when we can't take care of our elderly and dying parents at home? I feel like for our family member who passed away we could have looked at more things that would have given us a red flag.
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HelpdeskFrog 4 years ago (edited)
A huge problem is that some countries don't have decent/humane nursing homes that offer the services needed, especially for old people who need constant watch like in advanced dementia. They might be few and cost an arm and a leg... Edit: this is a different issue though from people who need advanced care insisting to be cared for only by their children and refusing professional help. As others have said, it's a complicated issue with multiple factors and what works for a family doesn't for another.
Bill Evs 4 years ago
After my mother died my father moved into sheltered accommodation (in the UK this means he was still in a house of his own but had help visit a few times a day). As the years went on his mobility became worse and worse to the point he was virtually housebound. Even though I went to visit him several times a day to cook meals, clean etc, I had a full time job and two very young children so trying to do all of this took a toll on me (I has no siblings to help). I knew deep down a nursing home would be the best option for him but I felt guilty for even thinking about it so I never once suggested it. Luckily one day he himself said he'd like to go into one as he wanted company and knew he needed the help. I thank god he said it as I don't think I could've maintained that lifestyle for much longer but I would have forced myself to do so.
#10
Firstly i want to mention that i have worked with both physically and mentally handicapped people and among them were the most lovable, loving and truly inspiring people I've met in my life. Albeit i don't think it's fair for parents to be required to sacrifice their chance of a normal life for their child. To those who do, whether by choice or not, give birth to handicapped children, you have my deepest respect and I don't doubt that parents will do anything in their power to provide the best life for their children and love them the way they are, but i don't think it's wrong to assume that such a life is more emotionally taxing than raising healthy children. As previously mentioned these people often exhibit a love for life most of us couldn't compare to. Still i don't think you should be required to give up your own life and sanity for someone else because of societies morals. Honestly i wouldn't be strong enough to handle such a situation.
Morgan Carpenter 4 years ago
Luisa, abortions are painful, expensive, and emotionally exhausting. No one uses them as birth control.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I cannot agree with this more. Doesn’t matter what reason, if a woman doesn’t want to be pregnant whether the foetus has no issues, or disability etc then that is her choice.
Uncommon Boston 4 years ago
The man has equal responsibility. After all he had sex too. The care and financial needs of the child must be taken care of equally. Leaving the child to be cared for solely by the mother, without financial assistance is wrong. If you have sex, are you prepared to take over?
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Jarno Flinkers 4 years ago
In my opinion aborting a child is the parent(s)' decision. I won't judge you, because you obviously have your reason to do so. No one will terminate their pregnancy "just for fun".
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
People are entitled to choose if they want to be parents or not. Period.
Uncommon Boston 4 years ago
Eric, I assume you take full financial responsibility of any child you create. If the child you accidentally created has serious handicaps you are prepared to pay half of their expenses. If the mother cannot care for the child, as equal parent you would. If you have sex, are you prepared for the consequences? After all, you agreed to have sex.
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Aliquid A 4 years ago
If my parents terminated the pregnancy of me before I was born... I wouldn't be upset or offended. It wouldn't bother me at all, because it is really hard to be bothered by something if you don't exist.
Momma Panda 4 years ago
A friends baby was misdiagnosed with a heart condition that gave her 6 months to live, tops. She died 10 days old, with 3 operations. Both my friends and her boyfriends family went banktrupt because of the procedures, funeral etc... and the couple separated . She has told me that if she had known of the baby's condition while pregnant, she would terminate the pregnancy. I am embarrassed to admit that I live in a country that wants to forbid abortion even for medical reasons.
May 4 years ago
I've worked with severely mentally and physically handicapped people. Some of them were reasonably happy, but for many of them life seemed to be mostly pain. One had several seizures every day - another had to be restrained so that he wouldn't slam his head into any hard surface he could find or tear his hair out. Neither of them ever smiled or seemed to recognize us or their families when they came to visit. I didn't last long in that place - they received the best care possible, but I couldn't bear the suffering. I'd choose abortion every time if I thought I was bringing a child into a life like that.
Megzymonsta 4 years ago
I have never agreed personally with abortion but I absolutely believe that any woman wishing to have an abortion should have the right to do so. Especially when the child would have a greatly reduced quality of life due to a developmental disability etc.
Ali MacK 4 years ago
What do you mean you don't agree with it. I think what you are describing would come across less judgmental worded 'I wouldn't make the decision to have an abortion'
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You were the adult when they were a child. If their first instinct, as soon as they get out from under your thumb, is to completely ignore you forever, you need to own the fact that you messed up as a parent at several, consistent, points along the road throughout your child's upbringing. They hate you for a good reason, and they're probably better off without you in their lives.
There are a number of forms of abuse that range from over-parenting, to neglect, over-discipline to straight up negative enabling behavior.
I have friends who don't talk to their parents because the strictness was so suffocating, and friends who don't talk to their parents because they were lazy bums who never took an interest in their child's life. There are tons of other reasons kids abandon relationships with their folks, but the one thing that stays true through all of these experiences for me is that it's always the parents fault.
This is mostly about relationships that end as soon as the kid leaves the house, not necessarily relationships that break down during adulthood, although the same reasoning could be applied in a lot of these cases too.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Agreed! If kids feel the need to distance themselves completely after they grow up, something must have happened in their childhood that messed up their views towards them.
Octo 4 years ago
Don't agree... First: 'always' .... it's never 'always.. second: in my profession I see a lot of people and hear a lot of stories. I really KNOW that some of my patients who's adult children don't speak to them did nothing wrong and did absolutely everything to have a good relationship with their kids. But as a parent, you can't always be 'a friend'. And sometimes, in very difficult situations, with very big problems (psychiatric, drugs, ....) you have to make a decision against what your child wants. This can lead to a very difficult relationship later on. So please: this statement hurts people. People who love their children, lie awake at night, have seen horrible things at home, have to make choices in the most difficult dilemmas. From some age on, you have to let your kids do their own thing and sometimes that brings a lot of trouble with it. Kids are just like other people: sometimes things do happen to them, which you don't have any control over as a parent.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
So not true.... even adult children can be manipulated by the other parent, a possessive new GF/BF, social media, etc... You can do everything right and someone can still choose to go down a bad path and decide it is easier to blame a parent instead of an honest look at themselves.
BlooNoosh 4 years ago
My mentally ill younger brother is no longer speaking to our mother because he married an emotionally and financially abusive woman who bankrupted him and forced him to "prove his love" to her by cutting off contact with his entire family, basically anyone who could at any point try to protect him. She even made him dump his beloved dog (luckily we found out in time and he was rescued). Of course I'm also angry at him--psychologically fragile or not, he is an adult, and it's horrible how easily he was persuaded to throw us all under the bus. But, also, that's how emotional abuse works. But this situation is not our mother's fault and she is suffering horribly as I and our other brother support her.
Curry on... 4 years ago
I don't agree with this 100%. Some adult children have their own issues not created by parents..
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
I ended my relationship with my dad a few weeks ago because I've had enough of his temper and how he treats everyone around him like they're nothing. One question and a fuse will blow. I've dealt with this for 26 years and it's gotten to the point of me just being done.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
I'm sorry :( but if it means that you can avoid negative emotions and toxicity by staying away from your father, please do it! It's okay to cut off people that don't let you grow!
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markthomasc 4 years ago
I used to have a friend that alienated his mom and brothers because they grew up poor (his mom was a widow with 4 boys). He got very involved in the Southern Baptist Church and moved several states away. He was embarrassed by his humble childhood. His mom worked hard to support the family and get her GED but he couldn't "forgive" them. So no, some kids are just self centered and care more about what other people think of them than the feelings of their own family. His mom and brothers wouldn't join his church either so..cut completely out. One of his brothers died and his wife had to talk him into coming home for the funeral. Not always the parents.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
If you have a family member who abusive, you have the right to walk away. It doesn't matter if it's a parent, a sibling, an uncle, a child. Just because you share blood is not reason enough to sacrifice yourself so that person can repeatedly destroy your life. It's heartbreaking when it's a child, but it happens. This is one of the reasons why senior abuse is not identified or dealt with. People deny it exists.
Natalie Kudryashova 4 years ago
In most cases, but not always. The child may have severe mental illness or addiction issues. Or they may hold against their parent something that is not the parent’s fault, etc.
Leodavinci 4 years ago
Not even in most cases. This entire proposition ignores the inherent independency of human nature that manifests itself almost from day one. Many times children just hate their parents without cause... and when I say "without cause", I mean without rational cause. This entire proposition is simple ageism brought up by someone who appears to fit the bill of an entitled brat of arrested development who won't accept responsibility for the consequences of their own life choices.
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Got a call from the school saying my son punched a girl in his class. I was mad and ready to ground him when he got home when it occurred to me that I should ask why he hit her. The principal told me that the little girl pushed him and took his lunch money and continued to take her folder and smack him with it when he got fed up and punched her in the shoulder. Now, if they knew that the little girl had done all this and was continuing to do it, they should have intervened. They didn't so my son defended himself. Not in trouble. When I told the principal that it seemed justified, she told me that I shouldn't make it seem okay to hit little girls. I let her know that my children know that it's not okay to hit anybody. But that it's also not okay to stand there and just be hit either. It's totally okay to defend yourself against anybody and everybody that is attacking you.
Anarchy (they/them) 4 years ago
Agreed, my parents rule was to try to de-escalate and if that didn't work try to get a teacher, if they hit you hit them back. So basically don't throw the first punch but throw the last one
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
If you can give it then you can take it. Better yet, don’t hit anyone in the first place.
Commander Rex 4 years ago
Equal rights, equal fights! Nah, jk, don’t hit people.
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Simping for the wrong kind 4 years ago
As a feminist, no gender should be above one another. So the little boy was just defending himself, and the girl should have gotten in trouble.
DogMom 4 years ago
Agreed. If you are going to strike someone, expect them to return the blow. A valuable lesson will be learned: keep your hands to yourself and, if you can’t, at least don’t start a fight with anyone bigger than you
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Julius Martin 4 years ago
equal rights equal fights, equality also comes with women giving up those bullshit rules, lie dont hit girls
von Funnyname 4 years ago
that's not hitting, that's hitting *back*. 1000% agree with this one. You don't hit people, no matter who they are, you sure as f**k hit someone back though
Louloubelle 4 years ago
I'm 61, you would think I was raised in a similar world, which I was for the most part. However, when I was about 5, I kept hitting my best friend who was a boy. His father told him to never hit girls. So he didn't, and I kept it up. Until MY father told him the next time I hit him, hit me back (and yes, my father did have a lengthy conversation with me about not hitting anyone). Finally he hit me back. Apparently I was quite shocked and never hit him again. Not the way to resolve those issues, but I'm glad my father never treated me like a princess.
LuckyL 4 years ago
I really like the way your father solved this. You knew what would happen, the boy knew your not supposed to hit him and that he's allowed to defend himself
Load More Replies... LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I was raised to never hit a lady. The instant you assault me, you are no longer a lady. I believe in equality. Your sex has no bearing on my self defense.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Self defence is self defence. If you attack me, I'm not looking to see if you're big, small, old, young, male, female or any other factor. I'm just going to put you down in defence of myself. We should not be teaching 'it's not ok to hit girls', we should be teaching 'it's not ok to attack people' and 'IT IS OK to defend yourself against anyone that attacks you'.
Rob Seymour 4 years ago
I have three daughters. They are taught to be kind and helpful to everyone around them but the second someone touches them in a not nice way they know they will not be in trouble for punching them in the nose.
#13
I don’t understand why it’s illegal in some places and under many circumstances to sleep in your car. Your car is your property and you should have the right to sleep in it without question. For any reason whatsoever. It could be that you can’t afford an apartment or you just decided not to drive home drunk and sleep in your car. Or any other damn reason. I understand if you park your car on someone’s property illegally and try to sleep in it you should be forced to find another spot but sleeping in your car should be legal. It’s property and no one should be telling me that I can’t sleep in it.
Amy S 4 years ago
I never knew there were parts of the world where this is illegal! That seems so unfair.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
In Washington State, the cops ticket the owners for staying overnight in a parking lot. (aka Trespassing.) They arrest people for it and then lock them up. The persons car gets impounded and they usually can't afford to get it out. Now they're homeless and on the street. Lovely, right? This crap has to stop.
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Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
Meanwhile in Korea, we have the so called 졸음쉼터, it's some kind of a parking spot equipped with a bathroom and maybe a cofee/food vending machine or shop, specifically designed to take naps in your car when travelling to help reducing car accidents.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
It really is a stupid law. Unless you are trespassing on private property or doing anything reckless, then just let the person be.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
It's to keep homeless people out of "nice" neighborhoods. My mother kicked me out when I was 17. She was afraid that I'd go to the police after my father beat me again, and she'd rather have seen me starve than risk the neighbors knowing what he really was. ...////.... I was in university at the time, and working two jobs, but I couldn't get a student loan at first because my parents had too much money. I spent a semester in university sleeping in my car in mall parking lots.
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Haunting Spirit 4 years ago
In our country it is only illegal if you had alcohol. Simply because the police cannot check that you didn't drive at all beforehand. If you are sober, then it is fine.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Or as you were planning to (or will hours later when still half drunk and groggy). It can also be locally illegal, e.g. in touristic places or regions, to avoid RVs parking up; adding to the pressure on local infractructure/environment without contributing to the local economy. Basically, to avoid what cruise ships do on a massive scale.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I would much rather someone pull over and catch a couple hours of sleep in their car than make them either pay money they don’t have for a motel, or worse, drive tired, risk falling asleep at the wheel, crashing and maybe taking who knows how many other people with them. On a similar subject, trucking companies need to pay drivers enough to keep them from taking new loads when they’re already tired from delivering the previous load. Either that or require long distance truckers (whose trucks have a sleeping cubicle built in) to drive in pairs, so they can take turns, and have one drives while the other relaxes and sleeps.
Elizabeth Newton 4 years ago
Councils in NSW Australia just love it when people do this as they can fine them for it. They call it illegal camping. I call it homelessness and/or travellers on a tight budget so give them a break
JESSE REED 4 years ago
in some cities its illegal to walk a chicken on Sundays or to swear at a football game.
#14
No music is worth actively giving a rapist money no matter how much you like his songs. I can't understand the logic of continuing to support an artist that did something so terrible. He admitted to it in a court of law, how people still support this man is beyond me.
Darko Pešić 4 years ago
A... 13 year old... HOW THE F..K CAN SOMEONE GET SEXUALY EXCITED BY A KID!!??? HOW?? THAT IS JUST SO SICK
Full of Giggles 4 years ago
Idk. Classic rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin. She gave birth to their first kid at 15.
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BoredRaccoon 4 years ago
Not to mention his music is straight up s**t. Who wants to listen to a song that goes “Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang” and has like 5 lyrics? That’s not music. It sounds more like the ranting of someone who’s having a psychotic break.
NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
I don't even know this rapper but who the f**k get's all of those tattoos all over their face? That's so f*****g ugly.
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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Mick Jagger all had sexual encounters with the same groupie when she was 14-17 and they were in their late 20s. I was genuinely shocked by this, even though I’m aware of groupie culture- that is just too young and so gross and wrong
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Call it what it is, rape. Sexual encounters can only be possible by two consenting adults, otherwise it's rape.
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qwerty 4 years ago
I know a middle school that put one of R. Kelly's songs as a choice for graduation music. It wasn't chosen, because all the students knew exactly what he did, and reacted to it better than the admins.
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IcyRedWaffle 4 years ago
Some people were doing a documentary on him and one guy said he was the worst person he ever met
Truth Monster 4 years ago
I believe he also raps about raping women in general. Awesome human. #sarcasm
#15
Now if you plan on having an open relationship, I don’t care, and disregard my title, but so many monogamous couples see this an opportunity to get their d**k wet one last time or a hot nude man to strip for them. Just saying this is unpopular, because it was on the front page of a relationship. I always thought my Eastern (cannot bring up which one because Bot thinks I’m racist) Wedding Traditions were unnecessarily long and padded out, but it’s better then hiring an escort to pleasure you on the last day your “single”. Why get married if you’re going to miss the life of casual hookups that much?
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
If you watch "comedies" you get that impression, yes.
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Not Proud British 4 years ago
Never understood this either. If the person you want to spend the rest of your life with is happy to objectify someone sexually for one night whilst their mates egg them on..... that person is NOT a keeper.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Exactly. I am ok with an open relation. But if we are going to be monogamous I would never understand if my partner sees stripers, prostitutes or sexualises women (like sharing porn pictures like a lot of married men do). If you are that interested on other women then do not pretend to be monogamous.
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Karl Baxter 4 years ago (edited)
Years ago I went to an old friend’s stag night and had a few drinks but, when the best man revealed that the plan was to visit a lap dancing club I was disgusted and said I wasn’t up for it. Quite apart from the sleazy aspect it would have been really disrespectful to my (& anyone else present’s) missus. If you feel you have to cheat on your bride-to-be then you shouldn’t be getting married in the first place. It was interesting to see that after I’d said this, other people in the party admitted they weren’t keen either and eventually everyone agreed we’d have a better time getting drunk and having a late night curry instead. It seemed it just needed one person to call this “tradition” the bullshit it is for the spell to be broken.
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
it's not unpopular. But also not that common. of all bachelor parties ever. But a stripper is not a prostitute. i don't think it's to get your d**k wet. So maybe this is an unpopular opinion : Calling a stripper an escort probably means your fiance got one for his bachelor.
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Ex stripper here... I was once booked to do a show at the reception! Really fkd up situation. But typically the bucks shows have strippers based on tradition. Some of them are just a bit of fun, taking the pss out out the groom, others are a whole other level of fkd up. Best ones are where they'd just dropped molly, seriously I could of done the Macarena and bought the house down
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
You know there's a difference between an exotic dancer and a sex worker, right?
René Studer 4 years ago
Who does the bachelor party the night before the wedding? Do you want to be hungover at your wedding?
Megzymonsta 4 years ago
Never got the attraction of a stripper anyway. Lots of easier and cheaper ways to see naked strangers. Can't imagine anything less sexual than sitting in a room full of your friends and family and watching a naked person galavanting about whilst everyone stares at them
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Easier and Cheaper way #49: Time travel to a Roman bath house.
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Simon Cataudo 4 years ago
I told my best man not to hire a stripper and he f*****g did it anyway. Ruined my stag night. Then I had to find out her kid was outside waiting for her in the car with his dad. As if a woman having to degrade herself for money wasn’t bad enough.
#16
Every time I open my phone, look at a newspaper, watch TV, or go onto my computer, all I see is news about the United States of America. I don't give a single s*it about that country, its infuriating. I couldn't care less about who is running the USA any more than I care who is running Zimbabwe or Denmark.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago (edited)
I like memes about the USA... Where else should I get my news from?
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Although some things can be funny...like the post on here about Trump memes. The old lady that said the Trump Library Burned down. The fire destroyed both books. He hadn't even finished coloring the second one.
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Coleonema 4 years ago (edited)
Same here, I mean don't get me wrong, but why should I know what's happening in the USA all the time? People are usually shocked when I tell them that I don't know. But come on! If I quizzed you on South African politics and how many people fell asleep in the State of The Nation you wouldn't know what I was talking about.
Sara Rosen 4 years ago
I'm American-born, used to live in Asia, now live in Europe. It is really really weird how much other people know about my birth country. They know about mayoral races, small town disputes, details from recent press briefings, etc. Occasionally I've met people who know more about American politics than their own. I think many Americans find this weird and would never expect others to be so familiar nor would they impose this type of news coverage on others. But I also think that a lot of people love to hate America. It's fun; it's a juicy sort of reality TV. It is a flawed country and a powerfulel one (or rather, those few at the top are powerful) so it makes for a good punching bag. But it is like everywhere else; it has good people, bad people, culture, history, politics, and nuance. It's perfectly reasonable that you don't want to hear about America but there's no need for the hostility. BTW, the PM of Denmark is great!
May 4 years ago
We all love Mette ;) You've got to admit that the last four years has been a barrage of constant updates about the US - most of it Trump and pretty much all of it bad news. I got to a point where I had to stop looking at news for a few weeks, because if I had to listen to Trump say one more preposterous thing, I'd have to go on blodpressure medication. That's not a criticism of the US, it's a criticism of the news outlets. It's gotten much better now that Trump is gone, the coverage has gotten down to a much more reasonable level.
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Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Honestly, even as an American, the fact that American issues often dominate foreign news is ridiculous. Its not like the fate of the whole world depends on the United States anymore.
Taibhse Sealgair 4 years ago
Fellow American here. Born and raised and love my country. I also think it's weird.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
You got it add the riots, racism, bloodshed, shooting school shootings, drugs police and criminal murders and poverty etc etc....!!Who really wants to know those vast tragedies?
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Shalini Pabreja 4 years ago
Really? Try living in present day India for a change. America will look like paradise!
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
Well... I have no interest in this country either, but my news feed isn't filled with it. Change your preferences settings!
#17
Watching yourself lose all of your hair and not being able to do anything about it is an agonizing process and no one deserves to be made fun of for it. It is just as bad as any other form of body shaming and people who do it should be called out on it. If you think making fun of people who are fat, skinny, small, big etc etc is bad, but making fun of bald people is okay, then you are a hypocrite.
BorPand8 4 years ago (edited)
I've never heard people making fun of bald guys. Now comb-overs, that's another story... Y'know what though, I have heard something similar when he's hitting on a girl who's, like, 20 years younger than him. And in those cases, it's not about being bald, it's about being a pervy creep hitting on women young enough to be your daughter.
Rod Egret 4 years ago
I started to shave my head when I was 28, not because it's cool but because I was getting bald. You have no idea how often I would hear jokes about that, it was constant.
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Jon Steensen 4 years ago
Ironically it is a high testosterone level that causes the baldness, and why it only happens to men. So if anything, it should be considered manly to loose the hair at an early age.
Chelsea Shimell 4 years ago
It definitely doesn’t only happen to men. Women just don’t lose their hair in the same way.
Load More Replies... Megzymonsta 4 years ago
100% agree. Male pattern baldness is just something that happens to men in adulthood and is not a reason to judge or bully someone. It's not linked to lifestyle or age and is simply something that some men have to go through, I fail to see why so many people find it humorous to tease people with baldness. My dad went bald at the age of 27 and was teased so much about it he wore a hat pretty much 24/7 for over a decade. The amount of people who bought him those "bald head buffer" kits for Christmas was actually pretty shameful
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yes and I see so many people (specially other men) doing it. It is something totally natural and that a person cannot fix. Its already bad to shame a person for being chubby but usually they can fix it. But this is unsolvable. It is the adult equivalent of bullying the kid with glasses
BorPand8 4 years ago
Men make fun of other men for being bald? They're just jealous of your high testosterone, dude.
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Deborah B 4 years ago
Baldness is out of your control, but bad comb-overs are a choice, and should be mocked as relentlessly as any other bad fashion decision.
Evan Martin 4 years ago
Aren't you a judgmental one...who says your fashion decisions are "correct" mocking anybody relentlessly about anything is a d*ckhead move anyway you slice it. What is your end goal? To make them feel bad about themselves. Does making people feel like crap make you feel better about yourself...that's sad Deborah
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
This is a bigger problem the younger you are. My friend was almost completely bald by 21, and yes people did make fun of it. He had it a lot harder than I did when I started thinning a in my early 30's. I have an advantage of not giving a sh*t what people think about me, but when you try to take care of your appearance you do think of the "jokes" that people made.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Yes it is. And it's all untrue. My husband is bald and he's a sexy beast!!
#18
Unless you’re adopting them, there’s no reason why you should have 10 kids. Especially if you’re struggling with your other kids. Just absolutely no fu**ing reason why. Four kids(biological) should be the maximum and even that’s pushing it.
Robert T 4 years ago
Two should be enough. That way you are replacing yourselves and without increasing the overall population, thus adding to the problem of an overpopulated planet that is struggling to support the life already on it. And yes, I fully expect to get flamed for this!
Michele Gustafson 4 years ago
I agree. Two is enough. Because of overpopulation & the strain on our natural resources. I'm also opposed to fertility treatments that can result in multiples & I think adoption should be made more accessible financially. Yeah, I'm a big hit at parties.
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Charlotte A. 4 years ago
My step-sis has 7 kids, born over a span of over 20 years. I think she did just fine. Me on the other hand, have none. I think it's good for the planet if we don't keep increasing the population but to tell people there's a fixed number of kids to be had, seems harsh. If you're well off and educated you're less likely to have many kids. So focus on education for women, and the general issue of over population will be resolved. Eventually.
Barry Parker 4 years ago
I don't think it's that harsh. It's like telling someone who is littering to stop littering because it is harmful. 10 kids rapidly pushes our overpopulation forward and endangers everyone and everything.
Load More Replies... Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
I don't disagree, but as a 5th child myself, I find this one a bit harsh.... Especially if I had read this not so long ago when I had irrational self-guilt issues. And thanks, I got all the love and attention I need(ed) and I've turned out fine.
Barry Parker 4 years ago
But if you hadn't been born, you wouldn't know the difference anyway. The issue is overpopulation is a serious problem and so are oversized families where parents can't attend to them properly emotionally or financially. You were the 5th and of course every family is going to have different circumstances. A 5th child where are the children have been spread out is different than 5 children of similar age, a well off family will have an easier time attending to children's needs, etc. But I think it should be a generally accepted and understood guideline to not get crazy with the number of kids for the wellbeing of everyone.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
One of my ex best friends has 10 kids, the eldest being 13 and the youngest being 2. 2 girls and 8 boys. Both parents do not work and rely on government payments.
ƒιѕн 4 years ago
I see that here in the US quite a bit. Families with many children that can't afford to feed themselves and rely on welfare to survive. Meaning my tax dollars is paying for them.
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Nic Dudley 4 years ago
Especially when the world population is over 7 Billion....how long is the planet going to be able to sustain the human race?
Laura Sorensen 4 years ago
No one's business how may children someone has. If they are not being ignored or abused then back off. If they are cared for and loved then who cares. Quite trying to guilt us and tell us we are being selfish and that it's a drain on society.
Nora Rain 4 years ago
The problem though, is that more often than not, kids are not getting all their emotional needs met. There's no abuse or physical neglect but there's just not enough of the parents love, connection, and support to go around. Older kids are often given duties that the parents should have, and that has a huge impact on kids. Kids should be allowed to kids, not substitute parents. Kids can develop attachment disorders in non abusive homes too.
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Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
A cousin took in everyone else's children--neighbours, relatives--her children's friends.. She said that after five, the numbers could grow exponentially without a huge difference to her life. Granted, there were very few babies. People assume they should have children because that's what society says you should do but there are many who are not equipped. I guess, if you don't want a child, don't have one, and don't feel pressured to and in the meantime, I'm thankful for people like my cousin.
#19
I never answer my phone if its caller unknown and that could be a problem in an emergency. At the same time I can get up to 10 unknown calls a day from two separate numbers attached to a single device. If your calling me I should have a right to know who you are and yes that should influence if I will answer or not.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
IKR. I keep getting a call from the most evil human being in the world, and she hides behind 'Private Number'. What a b***h!
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
You can block her, even if you can't see the number.
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Emily Deaton 4 years ago
Okay, but as a teacher who sometimes has to use their personal cell phone to call parents, I'm not going to call them without using *69. I don't want parents to have my phone number.
Robert T 4 years ago
Even worse than this are the fake Caller Ids. It is one thing allowing a company to set the Caller Id to a number for their main switchboard, quite another for someone to pretend to be calling from an entirely different number than their own. At the moment I periodically receive calls from entirely random numbers - some of which wouldn't event be valid - and there is very little I can do to block them. In respect of nuisance calls that hide behind private/unknown number, you should be able to report the date and time of those calls to the police and your provider should be compelled to give the actual calling number over to them so that they can be prosicuted.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
If it is spam, etc. say nothing and press ## on the pad, then hang up. Most autodialers will mark you as a bad number and not call back. - Have a better day.
Load More Replies... markthomasc 4 years ago
The penalty for spoofing numbers should have a much higher penalty than it does. Had a guy at work get an "extended warrantee" call and they accidently spoofed his own cell number.
Thomas Register 4 years ago
There's a penalty? The least the government could do is flat out ban spoofing wherein a foreign number pretends to be from inside the country. Most of the crap we get even pretends to local.
Load More Replies... Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
I dont answer them. Period. Everyone who knows me (and would know how to contact me) knows this. If i give you my number, i will tell you this & say "if i dont answer, leave me a message so i know its you or text me" and dont get many issues. If its something actually important, they'll either leave a message or call me back immediately.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I ALWAYS answer a private or unknown call. Most of the time I get those calls it is for appts, hospital, my mum etc. My mum has hers on private because she uses her private number for her work. Especially now she is working from home most of the time. She works for the government so she doesn’t need people calling her day and night.
Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
When I get a call from a number I don't recognize I pick up and hang up so it doesn't even go to my answering machine which makes me listen to messages before I can delete them. Picking up and hanging up saves me those steps. The few times I do think I recognize the number and it's a solicitor I tell them off saying, "Why are you calling me? I'm on the No-Call list and if you can't respect that then why would I do business with you?" and then hang up without waiting for their reply because I don't care what they have to say.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
My dad comes up as caller withheld as does my GP surgery. It works both ways and withholding their number protects them from having their number registered by companies/individuals.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
My GPs surgery says who it is. They don't withhold it. No real reason to do so. Their number is published in many locations and not private. Your dad is an individual which is different.
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julia 4 years ago
just TODAY i got 3 calls from a arizona (3 states away from my own) and then 11 No Caller ID calls (i swear this is true). it’s INSANE. i should be able to know who is calling me at least
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
same here. It's getting crazy. I cannot block because they keep changing phone numbers. It's always about my Visa being stolen (I don't even have a Visa card) or my social insurance number being stolen or "quick, call us back, someone stole money from you" etc... Insane
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I am not American, but my country's tv channels play a lot of American shows and all these kids always complain about how utterly disgusting they find broccoli and how they would rather die than eat it.
Well if you're gonna salt and boil it, what else do you expect? Add some spices, red chilli powder, olive oil, turmeric or some sauces, and it tastes absolutely godly. Even without too much spice, it still tastes so good and I love gorging on them.
Vic 4 years ago
I like it lightly sauteed in olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper..😋
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is one of my favourite veggies. Boil it or steam it until it is still a bit crunchy. Add some salt, pepper and good olive oil. Delicious.
Mushroom Garden 4 years ago
I once heard that some people's mouths actually produce a certain chemical that breaks down broccoli into something that tastes really bad. Luckily, that isn't me. Broccoli tastes great! XD
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
I love broccoli, but some kids have been conditioned by TV to believe it tastes horrible and not even try it.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
I loved broccoli as a kid. My kid loves broccoli. I think kids like broccoli. But TV repeats the same clichés ad infinitum and one of them is that kids don't like broccoli.
#21
Wikipedia is a practically unlimited source of free knowledge which is constantly being monitored by an army of nerds.
The fact that we do not have to pay for access is a miracle.
(Near enough) every article has a full and reliable list of references at the bottom.
I understand that students should be encouraged use the references at the bottom for true research but this is not taught. Students are simply told ‘Stay away from Wikipedia, anyone can change it, it’s completely unreliable’.
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
I do use it sometimes to get factual information that would generally be undisputed. However, I agree that everything should be double-checked if using the information for anything serious.
Mike Ward 4 years ago (edited)
and the wikipedia article contain the sources for you to check, makes it really easy. But people forget what Wikipedia is when they say it is unreliable, it's not a compendium of facts, it's a summery with listed sources. It should be compared to encyclopedias, and compared to all major encyclopedia brands, wikipedia is consistently far more accurate and errors are corrected far quicker.
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Jessica Bertram 4 years ago (edited)
um, Educator here. Wikipedia is an unreliable source, but an EXCELLENT place to get TO real sources. Read the article to get an overview on the subject, the go to the source list for the real goods. Because literally anyone can write anything on any page, Wikipedia itself *can*, depending on the subject, be unreliable. The more controversial the subject, the more suspect it will be, and likely to bias and frequent modification the landing article will be. But it is an excellent RESOURCE, NOT SOURCE.
Thomas 4 years ago
Try to change it nowadays and see how fast your changes get reverted. I edited a few tiny mistakes I've seen and I've had to back up those edits with reliable source of information. It's not like in the early days.
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로희 4 years ago
Fortunately my graduate professors never discredit Wikipedia. I've been told over and over that we may use it for initial stage of research although we can't quote anything from it. They encourage us to refer to the original sources of reference used by the page and do cross-checking.
Rissie 4 years ago (edited)
Wikipedia is not an unreliable source if you know how to use it indeed. It's a great starting point. The fact that anyone can change it, is its greatest merit. A basic skill should be to learn how to think critically. Our educational systems are very much failing a whole generation.
Hans 4 years ago
It is important to explain to students the proper way of citing sources, and the way of understanding sources. Wikipedia simply is a secondary source, not a primary one, and should therefore not generally be cited. It is perfect as a startng point for research, though.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Agreed! Citing Wikipedia is identical to citing the World Book Encyclopedia. You're assuming that the page writer's understanding of their cited material is correct, and that the information is complete. Wikipedia is an absolutely amazing resource for research but it is the starting point of that research, not the ending point.
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Col BatGuano 4 years ago
Tell me any lie and I can point you to a reference that says it's the truth.
ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago
Science/tech articles are generally reliable. Anything to do even slightly with politics IS unreliable in Wikipedia.
Barry Parker 4 years ago
I don't know where you're getting this information because if something is in politics and related to actual events, it's likely sourced.
Load More Replies... Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
There are as many errors in Wikipedia as there are in print encyclopedia. However, the big difference is people with agendas can get into subjects and change them--for mischief or malice. Moreover, you have be aware of the bias and position of the people writing about the subjects. Readers just have to be aware of this.
Shelp 4 years ago
If someone changes something into a Wikipedia article, everybody who's contributed to it gets a notification. In other words, nobody can just modify a Wikipedia entry unnoticed. It will most likely be there for a couple of minutes, before the modification is reversed. Plus, a lot of controversial Wikipedia pages don't allow users without a certain amount of editing experience to modify the articles.
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Sorry a lot of the articles are written by people with zero specialization in the subject and it shows. I DESPISE pretty much everything there on Soviet history as it is either the result of cherry picking ( like when they cite the one sentence about repression in my book) or a rehash of outdated literature. Its ok for things like dates and basic facts, and good for starting to mine the bibliography, but for any serious research you need something way more specialized and better vetted than wikipedia. And a lot of books can be downloaded for free either through university subscriptions, your local library's subscriptions or sites like Z library and Libgen.
Barry Parker 4 years ago
And yet, if you look at a physical encyclopedia from 20 years ago, it would have been considered a perfectly acceptable source and likely had far less information and sources for that information.
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As of right now I am 18 years old and looking into the future is depressing. I figure I’m gonna have to work 8 hours a day, sleep 8 hours a day and then have 8 hours a day to myself. This does not include things like getting ready for work, commute or shopping/cooking. At the end of the day I’m only going to have a few hours to do what I want... for over 40 years. It seems like my entire life is just preparing me to follow directions and then putting me into a factory where I’m a brick in a wall (reference intended). When I tell other people this, I get a response along the lines of: “That’s what everyone has to do,” or “That’s how its always been.” Why? Even if it is how life works. How it has to be to maintain quality for everyone. What is the point in living? This is existential crisis material. Thanks for reading.
tl;dr - People think I’m crazy for thinking working 1/3rd of your life is crazy.
Amy S 4 years ago
Agreed, the retirement age is 67 where I am (and it keeps rising) so by the time I retire I probably won't be in good enough health to do the things I enjoy.
Gyro Pilot 4 years ago
This is why it's important to find and make beauty in every day. It's not always easy but it must be done.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
60, that’s lucky. It’s 66 in Australia and they are thinking of upping it to 70. One of the biggest problems is the government don’t consider people doing physically demanding jobs. There is absolutely no way my hubby will make it to that age working the job he has. We are just drones for the government. We go to school from the age of 4-5 then leave school and go study at uni or Tafe or get a job and work til your almost dead.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Exactly. When I was able to work I was an animal caregiver in a shelter. It was my dream job but its really hard. You cannot do it at 50 and least 67.
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Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
I agree and used to think the same. Now that I'm 31 and have a full time job, yes, I do wish we had more time for ourselves, but it's also true that this life isn't as no life as it seemed back then. You eventually get to experience a not so miserable life, and you do get the off-work personal/family quality time as well. Unless you end up in a toxic working environment with abusive rules. And that happens to many people, so be careful out there.
Gyro Pilot 4 years ago
Unless your profession is as a laborer in a gulag camp there is always the choice to seek a different emploer or even career.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
The 8 on-8 off-8 sleep you mention is a concept that’s only a little over 100 years old—-and is now the norm only because of unionization! There actually is talk right now of a shortened work week, as people generally have about 6 good hours of work in them before they become mentally exhausted, physically exhausted even before then. Take that up as a cause, get your friends to do the same, and maybe your generation won’t have to spend 40, 50, 60 or more hours per week on the hamster wheel. It’s the duty of each generation to question the status quo, and change the world for the better. I have faith in you that you will succeed.
KiwiBubbles 4 years ago
I know there are people saying that this sounds "lazy" or "entitled", but I agree with you!! If we could just for a second stop considering the very engrained idea that "this is the way it's always been, the way it has to be, and the way it always will be" I feel like a lot more people would see that there are problems with it. (Perspective: I live in America (and I know I've seen people around the internet and on this site commenting on the unhealthy workaholic culture in the USA) so that's where I'm coming from...) Surely there are ways we could improve it?! Because it seems like the importance of things like happiness and mental healthiness is no match for just getting up before the sun and going to work all day and then coming home and possibly having even more work to do. (So maybe some of the commenters are from countries where it's a little better? I don't know, I just feel like the aspect of different perspectives is coming into play here.)
Parmeisan 4 years ago
It really is a crazy mindset, the "you work most of your life" mindset. Because as more and more things becomes automated and there is not enough work to go around, we should be *happy* and everyone should be able to work a little less. Instead, anyone who doesn't work "full time" is degraded and those who can't find work are assumed to be lazy. WE DON'T NEED TO BE DOING THIS ANY MORE. Living wages + normalized shorter work weeks would solve a *lot* of problems.
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2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
You don't "have to" do anything, however, if you wish to have money and have some control over your own destiny, you need to do something you get paid for. What exactly do you think should be offered in place of work? That you play video games all day and some random entity pays you for doing nothing? Or we create a money-less society where all basic needs are met by the government? That's been tried, it doesn't work.
Ripley 4 years ago
Someone still needs to grow the food, build the trucks that get the food to places, build the equipment that cooks the food, build the houses for the people to live in, and the clothes people wear. Even just covering the absolute basic necessities means that people have to work.
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The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
And this is why me, my husband and my boys live and travel in a bus around the country full time. We were tired of being on the hamster wheel, paying a mortgage and feeling stuck. So we sold pretty much everything we own and now, we work enough to sustain this lifestyle (which is minimal) and we live life. We’ve learned not to measure our success by the side of our house, number or make of our cars or the “acceptable” amount of credit card debt. It’s glorious
Nora 4 years ago
Few people in history have had the luxury of being able to do "what they want" for several hours a day, stone age people had to work all day hunting and gathering. Most animals spend all their lives "working" to provide for themselves and their young. That is just life. You wouldn't be happy anyway if you didn't have a purpose and a reason to get out of bed. That being said, I know there are a lot of shitty jobs and a lot of people who are practically enslaved, having to work more than 12 hours a day. You having 8 hours to do "what you want" every day is a luxury to a lot of people.
#23
The last war that was really about “our rights” was the civil war. Vietnam, WWI, II, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan were really about global power dynamics. The soldiers that fought in these wars were not defending our rights, because our rights were not really being threatened.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
They are usually fighting against an army that were once financed and backed by their government anyway. And if that war is won, the side the soldiers fought for, risked their lives for, could easily become the new enemy and they end up going back and fighting them again. It's pointless.
DWP 4 years ago
Many wars are questionable for sure, but in WW2, our young soldiers gave their lives to stop the massacres and attempted takeover of the world by Hitler and Japan.
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
We fought WW2 for all the right reasons, however some of the choices we made are questionable if not straight up monstrous. Yes, I'm talking about how we decided to drop an atomic bomb on civilians in Japan for no real reason. We had them cornered, we cut off all their supplies, and had the resources to keep them cornered indefinitely, they would have surrendered. The bomb was just unnecessary overkill.
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Robert T 4 years ago
This is a very American perpective. There are many more wars, some still going on, where people are fighting for their right just to exist.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I will strongly agree with this. The US hasn't been under a real threat from a foreign power since the Mexican-American War of the 1840's. Every conflict after that (with the exception of the American Civil War) has been because we were obligated to defend a military/economic ally, as a furtherance of US imperialism, or some other aspect of global geopolitics. You can argue that wars have begun from direct actions against the US by foreign powers, but those actions have hardly been a threat to our citizens at large.
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Wyn Williams 4 years ago
I joined up to fight for and defend my country not sure that ended up being what I did.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
That's not your mistake if you were brainwashed by propaganda.
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dukethedog 4 years ago
Okay WW11 was about are rights the largest massacre happened there and every country who fought against germany and japan were protecting everyone's rights just because america was not being that affected by it never meant that we should not of joined in.
J. F. 4 years ago
Don't want to be that guy, but the USSR should be exluded from that. Unpopular opinion: People shouldn't focus only on the Nazis but ALL sides of extremism
Load More Replies... Karl Baxter 4 years ago
The US has a certain worship of the military that doesn’t exist in other countries. Not every soldier is a hero and not every soldier joined for noble reasons.
Barbara Cochrane 4 years ago
Hitler had plans drawn up for taking over the US and Canada after wiping out the UK. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Study a little history before you start pontificating about past events of which you know nothing
Jon S. 4 years ago
Right with you. People forget Germany declared war on the USA, not the other way around. The USA had every reason to be involved in world war 2. And pearl harbour was a side show compared to annexation of US territories in the pacific which commenced on the same day. They took land and people captive.
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#24
Even with all this stuff going on. I don't believe that Racism is as bad as the early 1900s. With the way technology is advancing today, we're able to see people for who they really are and called them out. Say what you want but atleast people from other races are fighting together. It isn't perfect, but I can say, atleast we're trying.
I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago
Racism back in time was more worse since they slave u, Lynch u etc
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
That still happens. We just get to find out now when it happens
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Daria B 4 years ago
Racism is split into the traditional shameless hate for those who look different, and the ones who believe they're doing these people a favour by patronising them (bonus points if they themselves are hating on a different ethnic group). It shouldn't be a question of colour to start with.
Laura Maeflower 4 years ago
I don't think it matters if it used to be worse or if it's getting worse. The problem is if it exists at all, and the best thing we can do is change and move towards having no racism at all, however long it has to take.
Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
I have a problem with political correctness. I've seen it used too many times to hurt people, usually with a wink, nod, or smile. Someone coined 'dog whisle' to describe this behavior. Yup.
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Grady'sRaider 4 years ago
The media hasn't been worth much since the 70's. It's become editorialized, gossip, or opinion. You can't tell a whole truth in a 6 second sound bite. The part that burns me up; they don't retract when wrong.
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Bama Belle 4 years ago
Not only that, any time someone other than a caucasian is treated rudely or assaulted, the victim's race is automatically assumed to be the motive. I can honestly say I've had numerous, unprovoked run-ins with rude, sometimes aggressive people throughout my 40+ years. Had I not been white, I would have probably assumed my race played a factor.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
You can thank all the Woke slime and their identity politics for that
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Son of Philosoraptor 4 years ago
The holdout racists are being backed into a corner. So they're getting worse.
#25
The only exception is if you cannot donate an organ for medical reasons, I've heard people say that they would accept a donated organ (but they wouldn't be happy to donate one) which is the height of selfishness in my opinion, letting people die so that a dead religious person can keep their organs (which will be cremated or buried) is insane.
Wyn Williams 4 years ago (edited)
Fully agree, where I live in Finland it's 'presumed consent' so you have to opt out, relatives may be consulted in certain circumstances but can't object because they don't like the idea. 90/95% of those needing transplants get them
Pamela24 4 years ago
I still have a problem understanding why you would not want to donate your organs in the first place. And I'm strongly pro opt-out systems with organ donation so that people who are not willing to do that have to go the extra mile to make sure it's known, not the other way around. Luckily this is now more and more common throughout the world.
Robert T 4 years ago
In my case it is concern that having had metastasized cancer some years ago, that my organs are not in the best condition, and a possibly misplaced fear that they could cause similar health problems for any recipients, which I would not wish on anybody. Otherwise I would have happily have opted-in - after all, I'm not going to be using them!
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Aubrey Oleandereie 4 years ago
In my country everyone is donor by default. You have to personally change the status, which is unnecessary paper work for most. Nevertheless the rule no giver no receiver is right.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I just don’t understand why anyone would choose not to donate their organs and save someone’s life when they certainly won’t need them. I would love to donate blood or my organs but unfortunately I am not allowed to. There should be a register where you can choose to opt out of organ donation instead of one where you have to register to be one.
M Rattray 4 years ago
Culturally, I won't donate organs. In turn, I will never take an organ either. Unless it's my immediate family & it's a kidney or something they can live without. But no, my people don't do that. I was upset they wouldn't let me have my gallbladder to properly dispose of according to our traditions.
Laura Maeflower 4 years ago
Our law in Canada just changed to automatically being a donor and having to opt out, instead of having to opt in. People made a stink about it. Opt out then!!!
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
There can be many reasons why someone wouldn't want to donate organs, including selfish ones, but I wouldn't want to consign them to death because of it. I would happily donate any organ i have that I no longer need to a person who risks lifelong suffering or death, regardless of their age, race, gender, political or religious beliefs.
Alex De Leon 4 years ago
I'm opting out of donating my organs because all of mine are failing or underdeveloped. Why should I put someone through the same hell I've been living with the last 18 years? My heart is underdeveloped, my lungs are failing, as is my liver, I have no spleen and one kidney. Anyone who gets my organs are going to be put through hell.
Jessica Bertram 4 years ago
yours would never be harvested. no one will be harmed.
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I've found people with less social media presence tend to be less narcissistic and worlds more interesting. It seems like everyone wants to be an influencer nowadays or needs to feel validated for whatever reason. Don't even get me started on influencing. You can be a catch and not put yourself out there so much. Idk, maybe I just enjoy my privacy. I don't like having selfies of my spouse and I posted every day and to have my personal life plastered across the internet. I doubt I'm alone with this opinion.
engineer_nope.avi 4 years ago
That's why I nearly never hang out with people who posts selfies every 5 minute or not. 1 per day is already a maximum for me but only if they do it for themselves.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
My hubby and I don’t do selfies. We are pretty private when it comes to sharing photos.
N G 4 years ago
Hubby and I do holiday selfies - because that's how we can get both of us in the picture along with whatever touristy thing we're in front of. We dont own a separate camera, so a phone selfie is the only way to go. And then the pictures get uploaded - to our digital photo frame for enjoyment afterwards. A bit like how it used to be done, just digital. Few photos go on the internet, and there are almost none of us on social media (group photos and some from our wedding where far flung relatives were unable to visit and social media was the easiest way to share - even these were set to Private as far as possible)
Load More Replies... Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
My first clue about someone is how much time they spend staring at their phone. It's actually kind of of benefit of the cell phone age. You can weed people out pretty quickly without ever exchanging two words with them.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
This may sound like outdated advice, but it really isn’t. When I was a teenager, my mother told me not to put anything in writing or on film if I don’t want the entire neighborhood, state, or world to know about it. Basically, she was telling me not to overshare my personal life, and to be very careful with storing personal letters and photos that could potentially fall into the wrong hands. This can translate right to the internet. Think about the person who was a party animal all through college, and had a Facebook page that documented it all, including pictures of them obviously sloppy drunk and/or totally wasted, and entries talking about all the outrageous stuff they did at every party. Now think about that person graduating and applying for jobs in their field. Now think about the hiring manager googling their name—-which I think is highly invasive, but believe me, they do it—-and pulling up that Facebook page. So we should all be very protective of our online presences.
WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
I told my grandkids never to post anything online that they'd be embarrassed about if their Gramps and I see the post. I hope they'll remember.
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Lucy Skinner 4 years ago
Yes! The couples that document every little act of affection have no relationship outside of Insta and TikTok. IMO at least
I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago
Social media influencers and addicted people r annoying and cringy
Lili 4 years ago
I have 1 fb account just to keep contact with everyone and I haven't posted anything for about 5 yrs now. I don't use any other social media.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I'm the same, I was forced to get fb because of companies having their websites on there, and I use the messenger function to stay in touch with my sister overseas. And one time I accidentally posted a link to derpy dogs, that's my only post XĎ
Load More Replies... Ian Taggart 4 years ago
I mostly do social media for the sole purpose of being able to hang out with people like me in spite of the quarantine.
#27
Staying up late feeling like you got all the time in the world the night before a day off is 10x better than the actual day off where you need to be asleep by a certain time to get up for work the next day
Bill Evs 4 years ago
I've always felt like that too. Nothing better on a Sunday evening knowing you're off on the Monday.
Galactik 4 years ago
This is why i like saturdays more than sundays... sleep in, sleep late :)
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Curry on... 4 years ago
Plus, the day off goes so quickly and is filled with thoughts about the next day.
TheGirlFromTheNorth 4 years ago
Agree, but how is this an unpopular opinion? More common sense to me :P
#28
Now i know that this is a REALLY unpopular opinion because Elon Musk is a poster boy for zoomers because he posts and likes memes on twitter. Right at the start of the world pandemic he was posting on twitter how the panic is stupid and that people are panicking without a reason, even though people were falling and dying like flies into thousands of numbers, he belittled the virus and said how it was not that bad, and even compared it to a common flu, now he posts tweets to free the country and that people have lost their freedom, other than that he is praizing Texas on twitter for openning up stores and businesses, this is a great example of a billionaire that doesn't care about people and only cares about his money, i don't know how i feel about him at the moment, i am sad because he was one of the billionaires that were doing good for earth.. but this is just a big disappointment, i wonder where will he take this. What are your thoughts on this?
Tiredpossum 4 years ago
Zoomer here. I don't really get how people are obsessed with him. TBH I find it cringey how he's trying to behave like a teen on social media like sit down you have 7 kids that need to be taken care of. I don't give two craps about what you did yesterday. (IDC if I get downvoted)
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
He is a terribly unstable and irresponsible boss. I have a close friend that worked for Tesla (but as selfemployed). His employees are terrified of him because he pretends to be "cool" and mingles with the workers but if you disagree with him or dont answer as he wants he fires you.
DC 4 years ago
He wasn't dping good for the earth. He was doing good for Mr. Musk, alone and only Mr. Musk.
Scyth 4 years ago
Well duh, he is a billionaire. All billionaires are like that, else they wouldn't be that rich.
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Alex Luiz 4 years ago (edited)
He also alienated the whole caving community by providing an ineffective device to rescue the trapped Thai football team, and then acting like a toddler when an experienced cave diver explained why it wouldn't work, and THEN calling that cave diver names on social media. What a t****r.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Like most billionaires, he's eccentric-as-f**k. Probably not a guy I would want to have dinner with. This is a case where we should consider "separating the art from the artist" because he has driven tremendous positive change in multiple industries.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
He literally supported the Nazis. Musk comes from South African Aparthied money so I guess it is similar.
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sxnshine-- 4 years ago
Sorry I'll get downvoted for this, but I hate it when people diss about other people they hear about on the internet, you can't say someone is a bad person if they haven't actually done anything bad. "actions speak louder than words"- he didn't do anything wrong. Side Note: You can't say he doesn't care about something... because your not him... just FYI
An Honest Merchant 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/tesla-workers-factory-conditions-elon-musk He's a bad person
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SCP-096 4 years ago
I don't think that he is the second coming of christ and he will save us all, but i also don't think that he is an absolute asshole who is the antichrist and he will eat your unborn baby. Sure, he can be an asshole, and he can have controversial opinions, but everybody has their flaws! Downvote me all you want, but this is my opinion, you have yours. No need to get angry at everybody for having a different opinion.
David Retsler 4 years ago
No need to get angry for different opinions? You're new to BP, aren't you?
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If true gender equality comes to fruition, then what it will mean is that people will stop giving a f*ck about one another's gender. Everyone would have equal opportunity, treatment, respect and appreciation, while being judged based on character, ability, personality and other proper grounds based on the situation. There would be no need for gender-based celebrations, since all related hurdles would have already been crossed. What will be celebrated though, is mankind coming one step closer to overall human equality.
James016 4 years ago
The gender reveal for our son was when people asked us if we knew what we were having. “Yes, a boy”
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Same goes for race, age, and all the other groupings. MLK’s dream of being judged by the content of our characters and not the color of our skin, our age, our gender, and the rest. Looking at someone and seeing them as a human being. Just. Like. Yourself.
Random Anon 4 years ago
Call me a jaded old fool, but when I see men not expecting the wife to clean and women not expecting a free meals, then I believe we are truly heading some where.
von Funnyname 4 years ago
i would argue that this goes for all forms of equality. There's a need for recognition, and acceptance, to be sure. But in order for it to be a sustainable quality, it has to be able to become commonplace, background noise, no different than traffic sounds or birds in trees.
Laura Maeflower 4 years ago
I don't think the path to that goal is always to not talk about I though. I agree with the end result, but I also think things need to be surfaced and fought for and spoke about first, before we can reach the goal of these things being normal and commonplace.
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Billy Bob the 4th 4 years ago
Same thing with racism. Was raised everyone was the same and treated people that way, but all this racism talk might be giving me a bias. Not saying their ISN'T racism, but that the only way to eliminate it is to treat everyone the same, then forget about it. It'll eventually become the norm.
embarrassed american 4 years ago
Seriously! I don't care who you are or what you identify with or as. Just adhere to the life rule "thou shalt not be a d**k" and me and you... We gon be ok.
#30
In my opinion, math is the most beautiful of any "traditional school subject," but the thing is schools are set up in a way that encourages teaching math as a bunch of formulas to memorize. And real math is seldom about memorization. I heard a friend describe math as "the most useful game humanity has ever created" and I have to say I agree with that. Math is like a game, it's a playground where you try to extrapolate truths from a set of rules. I will now spend the rest of this post explaining parts of math that are ignored in schools but are super interesting to me. My explanations don't use any technical math terms, but some of the videos linked will require some thinking.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Not everyone can comprehend math no matter how it is taught. Numbers literally confuse me, I still have to at least use my fingers to do the basic of sums or I have to write it down coz in my head it is all over the place and often nonsensical.
Don't Look 4 years ago
oh I promise you you can. Not threatening or debating you . I really do mean promise. It could take ages but once the key is found to how you learn something.... endless possibilities. Also, you have to have an open mind. If you say you can't, you won't.
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger 4 years ago
I like English more. I like writing its more creative and reading is a tv where you can imagine what is happening. 📖📖📖
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
I was useless at maths at school, but have found interest in it at a later age and it is amazing. Just google the divine proportion or the Fibonacci sequence, maths in nature and in space science. When I was taught Maths it was taught as here is the problem, here is how to solve it, here are problems of ever increasing difficulty for you to solve. There was no teaching of why it was useful or what it actually meant.
Shalini Pabreja 4 years ago
Can I upvote this a million times? Math is so amazing with all the patterns and capability to solve complex problems with a simple step-by-step approach. Teachers and schools tend to make it sound scary cause honestly they might be GREAT at math, but lousy at teaching it!
Lori T Wisconsin 4 years ago
I’ve seen many people who suffer from math anxiety. They fear what they don’t understand and had poor experiences as kids in school. I remember kids being laughed at when they did calculations wrong in front of their classmates.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Math is useful and pervasive in our lives. Embrace it. Also, learning it properly involves learning how to *think* things out and problem-solve, identify variables, etc., which is hugely helpful in life in general. ....
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
Agreed times a thousand. Remember and regurgitate can be different than understanding... I would ask why, and was told it didn't matter, just to remember the answer
I want cake 4 years ago
Yep, same here. "it's too complicated, you wouldn't understand it anyway so I'm not going to waste everyone's time".
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This one makes me rage sometimes. So there you are, having made some sort of mistake. For hypotheticals lets pretend you forgot to put your mask on before going into Walmart. (This isn't about masks dont make it about masks, just using an example). "Sir you need to have a mask on." (Acceptable) "Why yes here it is, I'm so sorry I forgot. You're right." (Puts on mask) We are officially done here. "Well you see theres a pandemic going on....." (wrong. The conversation is over) "Yeah, you're right I'm sorry man." (Acknowledged twice now, problem corrected! We are done now.) "When you dont have a mask on you can infect other people...." (why the hell are you still talking)
just your average introvert 4 years ago
what*** sorry i just had to do it-
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 4 years ago
Agreed. People do not need a lecture when they have admitted their mistake!
Lisa Wiseman 4 years ago
This! Once, I accidently cut someone off in traffic. They honked. I waved sorry. They followed me to the gas station and started screaming at me. You cut me off! "I know. I am so sorry. It was accident." You almost hit me! "I know. I'm very sorry. I'm so glad I didn't hit you. I'm glad everyone is OK." They continue to scream at me about how awful I am and how I almost hit them. I finally said. "I know. I agree with you. I said I am sorry. No one is hurt. What do you want? Do you wat to just scream at me? Will that make you feel good about yourself. Are you not used to people saying they are sorry? What more do you want? I said I am sorry, so let it go and get on with your life.
Dahungryfella 4 years ago
I am sorry that happened to you. You were the victim of road rage and it is essentially assault.
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D. Pitbull 4 years ago
Yeah - the urge 'I gotta break you down until I think you're crushed' - that makes you the a$$hole
Sarah 4 years ago
This. This causes sooo many arguments, especially in intimate partnerships. "Honey, you said you were going to unload the dishwasher." "Oh, right, I totally forgot." [Starts to unload dishwasher.] "It's so annoying; you forget all the time. I shouldn't have to remind you. Do you know how much work I do around here? Do you even care??" [Sound of dishes being smashed and heavy footsteps stomping out of room. If you're lucky. If not, screaming ensues for the next two hours.]
CatWoman312 4 years ago
Yeah at that point you’re just being a know it all jerk and you’re going to make someone angry. There’s a reason they say don’t poke the bear
Gerry Higgins 4 years ago
I UP VOTE THIS! related to this idea is if I do something wrong and apologize for it, shut up and stop complaining about it. You are right, it's over! Continuing to whine makes me want to smack you.
#32
My words might be all over the place, just trying to gather my thoughts.
It’s crazy to me how in this day and age we advocate for women’s mental health, we advocate for people to be understanding of women’s needs. But i noticed with the whole Will smith debacle (His wife jada was sleeping with someone while they were still married but taking a break) anyways in the video he looks really sad and like he’d been crying - might’ve just been tired but nevertheless, the internet wouldn’t stop with the jokes. If the shoe were on the other foot it would be people banding together calling others insensitive. I know that it’s popular right now to say “men are trash” and i just think if people went around saying “women are trash” everyone would be up in arms. We should be advocating for good mental health for ALL people. I know statistically speaking men commit more crimes and stuff like that, and it’s more of a reason to lift men up and advocate for their mental health.
Isolde Leeuwen 4 years ago
Double standards due to sexism are a loss for all sexes, no matter who seems to profit at first glance
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Exactly. Altought it is not true that nobody cares. Feminism has been fighting toxic masculinity for a long time. We do care.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
It’s ridiculous. I wrote an article on BP a while ago about Men’s mental health and there was absolutely f**k all interest yet the day before was a post about women’s mental health and it was going off. Although it could be because I wrote it. In saying that though I see it all the time. And it is very upsetting, these men are our partners, fathers, sons etc.
Isabella R.W. 4 years ago
Yeah, I read that post you made. It's a very nice post, thanks for speaking up about. You're wonderful, foxxy.
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Blair Toblan 4 years ago
I was asked to present something (in a business context) to a widely diverse (age, ethnicity professional background etc.) group that was made up almost entirely of women. The lady introducing me said "He doesn't just have something to say, he's great eye candy". It didn't particularly bother me, but all I could think of was wow, if someone said that about a female professional, it would be ugly. Double standards are everywhere. Also to your post: I'm a dad of two boys, and yeah, I don't think boy's/men's emotional state gets enough support.
Shalini Pabreja 4 years ago (edited)
Mom of three boys here. They’re people too, they have feelings, they get their hearts broken waaaay too often, and then they’re told to not show it. I feel so bad for Will, Johnny (Depp), and all the other men, decent human beings crapped upon by society’s very sick double standards. If you don’t see your dad, brother, best friend, husband, boy friend as people, I feel bad for your loss. Not all men, yes, but most of them are decent people. Stop demonising them!
NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
I hate posts where the author is placing EVERY HUMAN EVER ON THIS PLANET into one box. Stop making base generalizations. It's obnoxious and rude as f**k.
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago
Hell yes! Feminism was great but some elements have decided it's okay to label all men as predators, perverts, and generally awful people because of their gender. Feminism is still a great movement but some within it have seriously lost sight of the need for equality, not man-bashing.
Bianca Du Toit 4 years ago
My husband was recently diagnosed with bipolar II... HE recognized the signs, HE went to a psychiatrist and HE was admitted to a hospital for treatment. He is now a completely different man because he WANTED to be treated, to not make everyone's lives miserable, same as he felt. Next week it's my turn. I'm being treated for postnatal depression and severe anxiety syndrome because I WANT to and I owe my husband and children that. People who label men as weak for crying or seeking help for their mental issues are weak. It takes a lot of courage to stand up, step up and say "I need help". Kill this stigma asap.
#33
This is something I seriously want people's opinions on. I saw a post of Leo DiCaprio taking a selfie with a young fangirl (looked like 12yo or something) at the US Open and just sitting there chatting to her. The first comment I see is "Idk this makes me uncomfortable" I can't tell you how much it pissed me off. Someone in my eyes doing something so fu**ing cool as giving a fan the time of day and chatting to them can INSTANTLY be associated with pedophilia. It makes me sick. And then we call out celebrities when they don't want to take a selfie with us? I love kids. I love listening to them, I love escaping reality with them, I love teaching them, I love watching them grow. How does someone see that and think "Well then you must love having sex with them too" How fu**ing disturbed are you as a person for your mind to take that route? In this picture Leo isn't touching the girl, he's not sniffing the girl or doing some other creepy ass s*it. How is talking to a young person instantly associated with pedophilia? We desperately need to change this attitude, because the people protecting and making young kids feel comfortable are being shamed and wrongfully accused of pedophilia. By all means, at all times be wary. But don't just jump to pedophilia. That is f**ked up and we need to change that mindset.
Cynner 4 years ago (edited)
I agree! I have a soccer play field in front of my house and sometimes i see old men watching the kids (all ages) play soccer. I always melt, thinking of my father who loved soccer when he was Young and played in the street he grew up in. He also loves to watch the kids play and make a chat. I know the men that are watching the kids are remeniscing their fond memories, but i can't help to think that i hope the kids know that too and that it's not a Creep watching them.. hate it that it always Comes to mind.
Ian Taggart 4 years ago
Of course, some of those men might be grandfathers showing support for their loved ones.
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Rustyn Birch 4 years ago
There was a post on here about kids having a picture taken at a supermarkets with a superhero actor, fairly common in the 70's and 80's. EVERY picture had a pedophilia comment or fear baiting post. This is just as unhealthy.
Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
I could be wrong about who it is but i think its Keanu Reeves who said it. He said that when he takes pics with fans, he always keeps both hands visible in the pic. Like 1 arm will be around the person's shoulders & hand can be seen on it. His other arm will be to his side & also visible. That way, the fan stays comfortable & doesnt feel hes being (or attempting to be) gropey with them. He still gets to make them feel special by having an more "intimate" pic with him. And it stops anyone from trying to use the photo against him, by claiming something was happening when it truly wasnt. Its a weird thought process but makes total sense when you think about it.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I've noticed in pics of him with fans his hands are hovering they don't actually make contact with the fan
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Kristof De Smet 4 years ago
You should see the looks I get when I go to the swimming pool with my 3 daughters. Or the time my brother went on a city trip with his minor daughter and they took one room in a hotel, with separate beds.
Gata Nick 4 years ago
I'm really sorry you have to go through all that. Keep being good dads 👍
Load More Replies... Aunt Messy 4 years ago
I never had kids, but the neighbor's kids like me. Why? I talk to them like little adults, I don't use stupid voices, and if they ask me a question, I will ALWAYS give them an honest answer (unless it's an awkward question, where I refer them to their parents). Kids appreciate that.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
It really is a sad situation and unfortunately I don’t see it getting better anytime soon. But I do have hope.
Ross Hamilton 4 years ago
I got glared at by some random old woman for 5 minutes straight when I chaperoned by (then) 1y/o nephew around a soft play area - I was doing so because he had not long learned how to walk, and I wanted to make sure he did not get accidentally bulldozed by a bigger kid. And also because you don't just leave a child that small unattended. But I'm a 220 lb bald white guy, so yeah I must be a pedophile.
doty1111 4 years ago
Worked as a photographer @ Glamour Schlotz(name changed to protect a shitty company) as a teenager. After one session with a tween girl, her mother accused me directly following her photo session of touching her inappropriately(molesting). As a young man this threw me WAY out as I had done NO such thing. Thankfully my manager was as badass as she was, & rightly defended me. To this day my actions towards anyone under eighteen is muted. I have never recovered.
2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
I am so sorry. I can imagine that would be absolutely terrifying to know that mom could easily ruin your life.
Load More Replies... Curry on... 4 years ago
I also love talking to kids, because they have such interesting opinions.
Chelaine Hoffer 4 years ago
I agree, and I think it's part of society's distrust of men around children in general. A lot of fathers have a hard time taking their own children to parks or movies or anywhere in public without their wives because they get a lot strange looks.
#34
I think backstories influences the judges' decision unfairly. Who would you rather choose, a kid who got cancer or an actually talented person but has had a good life. It's called America's Got Talent for a reason. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not some sympathy-less person. I certainly feel bad for them and do hope they have a better life in the future. I just feel like talent shows should be judged on actual talent.
Anarchy (they/them) 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, I always say that they pick the singer with a sob story because it's always a singer
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Eggwithaleg 4 years ago
No one: Americas got talent backstories: "My great times 3 grandfather died in the 1800's. I was born 1 second early, and my goldfish just died. And then somebody hits the golden buzzer.
Aly The Bisexual 4 years ago
The backstories: My fortnite gf broke up with me 1 month ago plz make me winner
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John Louis 4 years ago
It's why America's Got Talent is a contrived work of fiction and not a true talent contest.
Sarah O'Dwyer 4 years ago
That's why my mum said I never got anywhere with talent shows like this...not fat enough, not skinny enough, not rich enough, not poor enough...no sob story, just my voice. A guy with a harmonica, dressed in a tiger onesie who didn't have a note in his head got through over me.
Rosie Hamilton 4 years ago
Ugh, so sorry. I hate those shows because of people getting the sympathy vote or worse, the comedy one which is what the tiger onesie sounds like.
Load More Replies... Nordic And Sneezing 4 years ago
It's a reality show, like the rest of them. It's not about talents, but views. If they get twice as many viewers showing someone who can't sing/act/whatever than if the person is actually good, they'll go with the talentless
Billy Bob the 4th 4 years ago
Yeah, it's a pity show now, showing inspirational stories, not talent.
Piper McLean 4 years ago
Agreed. There was this man who lost his son and went on agt, I felt bad for him but he got more points than another person who was a better singer than him
Lys Chen 4 years ago
The only purpose of a casting show is the show. The point is to develop a seemingly personal bond between the audience and the candidates so that the program will continue to be viewed. We humans react to emotions, not to talent, which is interchangeable.
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
I beg to differ. It's not only a show, but a competition. If you (I mean people in general, not you personally) want a sob story competition just go for it and invent it, but Ninja Warrior or America's Got Talent advertises a contest and I don't see why I have to endure 10 cancer treatments, pep talks, homelessness stories, dead family members or car wrecked friends "for whom I do this" instead of just see the performances. Also with less drivel I'd see more people performing. Sorry, rant over :-)
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It's so hard to find a news outlet that will just present the information without spin. Without trying to push you one way or another. I just want to know what happened so I can decide whether I like it or not. Why is that so hard to find? Quit telling me what to think.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Seriously where do you live that you think Europe doesn't have the same problem?
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Peppermallow 4 years ago
At a local university I found an archive of newspapers from the 1800s. The lack of spin and presentation of just the facts was sobering. Even a law being debated was simply printed word for word with names of objectors listed alongside. If an opinion was stated it was stated as who said it and declared as an opinion.
Thomas Register 4 years ago
The U.S doesn't have news on TV. Plenty of propaganda, gaslighting, rabble-rousing, argumentative yelling, manipulation, and distraction, but very little in the way of news.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
There is no such thing as unbiased news. All news is biased by it being interpreted and reported by humans.
Bill 4 years ago (edited)
"kids in Cages" became "Youth Centers" in the transition between Trump and Biden in the headlines for example
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Irina Deneva-Slav 4 years ago
This is not an unpopular opinion, this is a plain, although unpopular, fact.
troufaki13 4 years ago
Press and media can manipulate, shape and form opinions, judge and convict out of court and so on. No wonder it is called the fourth estate.
David Retsler 4 years ago
Never trust a single source for your information. Read a story in at least 3 different sources. Where they overlap are facts, the rest is spin and bullshit. Also, read "How to Lie with Statistics" so you can understand how the media can report facts and still be full of s**t.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I couldn't agree more, you have hit the nail on the head. One single news source is never a good idea
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
It used to be like that, but corporations stopped leaving their news departments alone to report unbiased facts in the later eighties. We now have had that meddling in the news get so bad you don’t even know if what’s being reported is truth or spin. I’m old enough to remember watching Walter Kronkite and being able to trust that what he was saying was just the facts. I was free to draw my own conclusions from it, and form my own opinions of it, with no one trying to influence me one way or the other. I miss that. I now have to read several difference news sources, look at each one’s spin on the same story, and try to weed out the bullshit to get to the facts. That’s a lot of work to do, just to find out what’s going on in the world around me, and it shouldn’t be that damn time consuming.
kjorn 4 years ago
news is a s**t show now. we could see it with Trump. every media hated him (with reason yeah) but journalist it's about the IMPARTIALITY! we don't have that anymore... so... how can we believe them if we know sometime they have an agenda? i don't believe in media anymore. i don't trust them anymore!
Donkey boi 4 years ago (edited)
The BBC news 20 years ago is so different from today. They don't interview anymore, they attack. They are supposed to be non-bias but definitely lean towards certain narratives. The BBC news 20 years ago is a far cry from what it was 30 years ago. News seems to be devolving while social standards are evolving.
#36
Don’t find fulfillment in your career. Find fulfillment in the hobbies you have, adventures you go on, and people you help because you have the financial freedom to do so. If you love your job that’s awesome, but this isn’t realistic for many people.
Wyn Williams 4 years ago
Pretty much, I had a well paid career I was not particularly happy in but it paid the bills and allowed me to support family and friends
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Yup, that's all my job ever was. A way to pay for my real life.
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DarkLumiya 4 years ago
agreed, my job sucks ass but it pays well and gives me the opportunity to do the stuff I enjoy. My previous job i "enjoyed" more but paid the fraction of this one and I was always stressed about making ends meet. They say "money doesn't bring happiness" but it's wrong, financial security can take a huge burden off your back
markthomasc 4 years ago
Your "passion" doesn't pay the bills. There's no market for a lot of things and even if there is - there are millions of good singers, actors, and artists that are already doing what you do and are much better at it. Besides, if you turn something you love into a job then you suck the joy out of it. Tiger Woods hates golf. It's has job. He doesn't golf for fun. Maybe you're one in a million. Maybe not. That's OK. Most people hate their job. I'm over 50 and have never met anyone that looks forward to going to work.
White Paper Tsuru 4 years ago
I was always taught some people work to live and some people live to work. Nothing wrong with either as long as you know which one you are.
Lili 4 years ago
I understand the concept, but I will not give up and just tolerate bc my career takes up 1/3 of the best period of my life. Imagine tolerating for 1/3 of the time just to finance some very little time left I can spend on what I enjoy. Some find it worth it and that's ok, but I can't accept such a life.
Orillion 4 years ago
Like the post said, most people just don't have the opportunity to do a job they are absolutely passionate about. I don't "tolerate" my job, I quite enjoy it. But I do it because I'm paid, I wouldn't do it just to enjoy it.
Load More Replies... El Dee 4 years ago
If you liked doing it so much they wouldn't pay you. I've seen many people in businesses that started out as hobbies - not a good thing - they become TOO attached to the business and end up bankrupt when they could've sold up years before. They forget that business is literally a money making scheme..
#37
I’m just one guy. I try to be a good person; I try to treat everyone equally; I try to be kind and compassionate; I try to be a force of good.
But I’m just one guy. I have problems of my own. I have a life of my own. I shouldn’t be expected to constantly wade through the s*it that is the political and societal hellscape of 2020. I’m not a racist because you don’t think I’m angry enough. I’m not uneducated because I don’t pour through hours of toxic political commentary. I’m not privileged for wanting to distance myself from hatred.
I’m so sick of being alternatively mocked and hated for not living up to other people’s freedom fighter fantasy. I’m trying my best but I’m just one guy.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
IKR. It is so annoying when people expect you to give a flying duck about their nonsense.
Hehehehehehehehe (ve/ver) 4 years ago
As long as you’re respectful to everyone then it’s fine by me
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
That is true. We all must try to be respectful to others (working on ourselves). But when it comes to more direct action you must pick a issue. The world is too horrible to worry about everything at the same time. For example I volunteerd and donate to animal rescues and welfare organisations. I feel a lot for poor children but I cannot focus on everything together.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
Ergo charities. I would love to give to you all and I hear that your charity is the best, a great cause, etc but there are only so many charities I can support before I become a charity case myself.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Yes. I feel guilty when I turn a charity down but I guess that is their tactic to get people to donate/sponsor, but we already sponsor a charity and give bits and bobs here and there. We can’t donate to everyone that asks no matter how guilty we feel.
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Lantana Howell 4 years ago
I told my therapist years ago that I don't watch the news because I cannot handle how it makes me feel. She called it self-preservation.
... 4 years ago
Best to keep these things to yourself. Because if you say that you donated to animal care, someone will say that you should rather donate to children. If you donate for starving children, someone will say you should care for domestic issues first. If you say you recycle and use public transportation instead of private car, someone will say that you should be vegan and stop traveling. It's endless cycle of judgement.
#38
It is so frustrating to shop on Amazon with the Chinese sellers and manufacturers on the site.
The fake reviews are overwhelming (think 50-90% fake reviews on FakeSpot or ReviewMeta), plus the products are cheap and break and when you go back to the manufacturer, most of them don't exist after 1-2 years. I would assume it's the same group of people making crappy merchandise and cycling their names over and over again and buying the same fake reviews.
Beyond this, I'm always worried that they've put some pollutant or carcinogen into the manufacturing process because their regulations are so lax. The examples in the media are countless--toothpaste with diethylene glycol, pet food that kills our dogs and cats, toys with lead paint, make up with lead, beryllium, bacterial contamination, cheap hardware that self destructs after a year.
And it can be so hard to tell because they often manufacture for companies like Mattel and Nestle so you think you're getting American or European.
This has been going on for decades and we just turn a blind eye to it because they're cheaper. Business ethics wise, they're about where the US was in the 1920s. This is an example of how capitalism can result in deadly consequences without strong governmental regulation.
Please feel free to downvote me into oblivion, whatever, I don't care, I'm just sick of the nonsense.
ch 4 years ago
Everything is from China and yes the fake reviews are horrible. It shouldn't be allowed. I reported some fake reviews and nothing was done. You get to where you don't trust any of them.
Todd Hunter 4 years ago
I've reported so many bogus products and sellers and absolutely nothing is done about it. Amazon tells us to "Deal with the seller", no if it's being hosted on your platform you should bear some responsibility over it. I stopped buying from 3rd party sellers a few years ago.
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Not Proud British 4 years ago
I hate it when you've ordered something, Amazon makes it really quick and easy to order and pay, the company has a UK sounding name, no alarm bells until after you've paid and you get an email to say it will be with you in 3 months' time after it's been shipped from China - make the delivery times bigger and more noticeable, particularly on your mobile app!
LOttawa 4 years ago
If you use the prime filter, you'll avoid (most of the time) those orders that come straight from China as you'll get the products that are fulfilled by Amazon (which are shipped from their warehouses in your country).
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Amazon is so overrated and certainly not that cheap, well in Australia anyway. I only get my kindle Ebooks from Amazon. EDIT: sorry I lied, I bought a makeup kit from amazon for my daughters birthday a couple of years ago.
Paizleypie 4 years ago
I actually contacted them and asked them to do this very thing . . . No reply.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
I have been avoiding Amazon like Chernobyl for years. There are lots of sites where you can find the items you need. Then there are "old-fashioned" brick-and-mortar stores, where what you see is what you get. You can check the country of origin instantly!
Load More Replies... Tuesdays Child 4 years ago
Amazon should only show me fountain pens when I search for them. Not convection ovens, kayaks, or anything else they want to get rid of.
Demon Child 4 years ago
its like when im trying to enjoy a bp article and then in comments somebody is like ¨I got 10,000 dollars in a week from this!¨ and has a link. I just wanna read an article, i will downvote you and move on.why cant i look at cats wearing hats or dumb stuff like that, leave me alone
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
I avoid Amazon and try and buy local, or at least from the UK- Etsy or music magpie is good for doing this. Better for the environment and local businesses. Jeff doesn't need my money.
#39
Swimming is like walking, but for water. It's part of the few basic means of movement we, humans, have at our disposal, along with running, crawling and climbing. Not knowing how to swim puts you at a HUGE disadvantage, as you pretty much can't avoid water. Any mildly interesting / fun activity might turn into a potentially lethal one, should you not know how to swim. Going fishing? Better not fall into the water... It's like permadeath for video games: instead of ending up wet, and maybe slightly (or very) cold, you just friggin' die if you fall into deep water. I know, swimmers can drown too, but if you can't swim, you're guaranteed to have to be rescued. On another note, it's so weird to see healthy people being incapable of performing the most basic human activities: I've seen grown men injure themselves trying to climb over a 3 feet fence (not drunk), women twisting their ankles and tearing tendons when running towards a bus stop, etc. Now, I'm not saying that everybody needs to be a world-class climber like Adam Ondra or swimmer, like Michael Phelps. But learning how to... I don't know, not die when navigating anything but flat terrain seems like it should be part of being a grown human.
NaruTheCollective 4 years ago
I can float and I can tread the water. This saves me from drowning. Teach kids swimming, they might get something out of it.
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Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
Im back & forth with this one. I do agree with the top. I think everyone should learn basic swimming because you never know when you may need it, either to save yourself or anyone else. But im sorry, i cant agree with the bottom. I know how to jog, run, & "not die" (as he put it) doing normal every day things. None of that will prevent my shitty ankles from rolling out whenever they feel like it, even if that unfortunately is on my way running to catch a bus or cross a street. Thats a combo of weak/damaged bones & bad timing. Not much i can do about that
Randomcthulu 4 years ago
I feel your pain, rolled my ankle walking down the three steps at the front door of my house, thought it was just sprained, 2 years later and it still isn't right. Something shifted wrong and either broke, cracked, or popped out of alignment. Slipped in the shower last summer and slammed that same foot down to catch my balance, it's now "better" but still isn't right. I've been fairly active my whole life and think I'm in ok shape for someone in their late 30s, but I'm still the same klutz I've always been. I will say that learning break falls in karate class during college helped me keep from doing any further serious harm to myself during the initial fall.
Load More Replies... Valley Girl 4 years ago
Here's another idea....If your kid can't swim, don't drop them off to a birthday pool party! If you stay and monitor your kid that's fine. Don't just leave and expect a busy parent throwing a party to have eyes on your brat during the whole thing!
Melvin Dragvelk 4 years ago
Why? I am 60 years old and have never been in a situation where I would have had to swim to stay alive. So what good has it done me to know how to swim?
C.S. E. 4 years ago (edited)
If not swimming, those who are able should, at least, learn how to float. If you can learn to float on your back, that leads to learning to float and use your arms as paddles. Swimming on your stomach is advanced stuff - but it takes comparably very little energy to learn how to stay calm, float, and move yourself to safety
Sentinel 4 years ago
From where i came from, a small town, we only had 1 public swimming pool. Not everyone had the chance to join the school swimming club (the only chance to learn that i know of) since places are limited. I couldnt join then & then tried to learn as an adult. Im just saying, not everyone has the same chance & resources. I imagine probably a lot of people not from advanced countries 10 or 20 years ago share my opinion.
Krista Daniel 4 years ago
I agree about swimming, but your other points are just ridiculous. You have no idea why anyone might not be able to do those things or if there are extenuating circumstances. My guess is you are a healthy, active person with no physical issues. That is not the case for everyone, even if they look normal to you.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
I mean, I love swimming, but most people will never be anywhere near water.
RayAnna Wilson 4 years ago
I liked this untill the end. Sometimes humans get hurt in stupid ways. It's not their fault for not being a professional athlete. S**t just happens. And you know? Swimming is important but sometimes people aren't taught the things they should be taught. It happens. Not being taught something and refusing to learn are two different things.
Lorelai Purvis 4 years ago
i'm learning how to swim sorta... i can float on my back and doggie paddle pretty well... i'm not great tho
#40
The company is avoiding the following costs by selling digitally:
Sourcing materials
Manufacturing
Shipping
Shelf space
Employee wages
YET IT STILL costs the same price as a digital copy. Anyone who buys digital is absolutely being scammed.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
You are not paying for the manufacturing of the physical disc/packaging. Copying games onto physical media is cheaper than hosting that amount of data online and downloading it through the internet. You are paying for development and marketing.
Rod Egret 4 years ago
I don't agree : burning a CD costs nothing and most of the budget is development.
Robert T 4 years ago
It doesn't cost nothing, but the costs pale into insignificance when compared to the cost of development.
Load More Replies... Anthony Picco 4 years ago
The packaging is a tiny tiny bit of the actual cost. Whoever wrote this opinion has no idea what goes in to creating something.
Susan Wilson 4 years ago
You're not paying for the media; You're paying for the expertise and training that went into designing and writing the game.
#41
It is disgusting. If Will had cheated on Jada the entire internet would turn on him and crucify him. Except because he is a man he is the one being mocked and memed.
Firstly, we don't have a reason to be involved in their relationship, and if they choose to make it work then good on them.
However, that doesn't mean Jada should be proud of her actions. She abused the trust of a great man. I'm kinda surprised the internet isn't backing Will on this to be honest.
I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago
Not sure if it's true but isn't that he cheated on his first wife w/ jada? Plus, Will is really good hearted man to forgive his wife
CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago
I didn't know any of this and I don't care to know any more.
JESSE REED 4 years ago
Nobody was making fun of him. In fact Jada took a lot of heat for that.
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Sexism and toxic gender norms affect both men and women. We're all human, what right do we have to tell each other how to live.
#42
I hate always being teased for ordering vanilla ice cream or buying a vanilla cake. No, vanilla is not plain. It is a flavor, and there is such thing as plain ice cream (nasty btw). If anything, chocolate is more plain than vanilla since literally everything can be chocolate.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
A good vanilla icecream (with real eggs and so) it probably the best flavour that I ever tried. I usually ask chocolate, nugat or coffee but if there is homemade vanilla it is really better.
Ms.GB 4 years ago
I just bought some all natural vanilla ice cream, 3 ingredients(you know the kind where you can see specs of vanilla bean) and oh my god it was amazing!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Vanilla has more flavor compounds, subtle and gorgeous. Vanilla, from natural vanilla bean, is glorious. And I say that as a choco-holic!
Islandchild 4 years ago
As a child I saw vanilla as a waste of ice cream now I appreciate it. A good vanilla is heaven. Though this reminded me of ordering my lattes. 'Do you want a flavor with that?' 'Coffee is a flavor.'
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
Yes, but I often ask for vanilla with toppings. It just tastes good with most toppings, and other flavors might not.
just your average introvert 4 years ago
EXACTLY!!!! WHAT DOES PLAIN ICE CREAM TASTE LIKE!?!?!?!??! I NEED TO KNOW!!
Koolkat 4 years ago
It taste like ice cream without any vanilla. So like sweetened cream. It is very yummy. And not at all "nasty" like the poster claims. I mean what's wrong with sweetened cream?
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Timmy Pillinger 4 years ago
Plain clotted cream flavour is amazing. Although it's a SW England thing...
Nymphadora Tonks 4 years ago
Confession time: I like the taste of water more than any juice (except apple cider).
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
The place we lived when I was a kid had it's own water pump and the water was freakin delicious. It was crisp, clean, and slightly sweet. After I moved out, my sister and I would bring empty jugs when we visited so we could take water back with us. I was so sad when my parents sold that property.
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#43
Most people I've talked to say they avoid giving money to homeless folks because they think they will use it for beer, cigarettes, and/or drugs. They would rather give them food or some other tangible item to help them out. While I understand the thinking behind it I'm also not naive enough to think that my $5 is going to magically get this person off the streets and back on their feet. These people are already down on their luck and have enough to worry about. If my $5 helps get them a pack of cigarettes or a beer and that's what they need to get through another day with the sh**ty hand they've been dealt then i'm OK with that.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Thank you. I am, at his moment, doing an overnight shift at a homeless shelter. Most of our guests are alcoholics or addicts. Right now, it is 25 F outside. Maybe some of our guests will get clean/sober someday; maybe they won't. Either way, they aren't freezing on the street tonight.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Thanks for your service! I hope those homeless people aren't homeless anymore someday :')
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I used to have this thinking until I started learning more about homelessness and discovered the complexities that come along with it. I used to think a lot of people that were homeless were that way because they were druggies or alcoholics but the fact is many people who are homeless are that way due to mental health, family breakdowns and unfortunate circumstances. Many homeless people turn to drugs and alcohol after they become homeless as a way to deal with their situation. I got schooled.
Ross Hamilton 4 years ago
It was actually my mother who once told me "Well if you were homeless, you'd want a f*cking drink too." and I just stopped and thought about it, and I'm like "Yeah, I would."
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago
Many people use this for an convenient excuse to not have to give anything. Like a collegue once told me that she does not give money to any kind of animal - shelter or animal-rescue fund because there are so many poor/sick/abused children on earth who need help first. The thing is - she doesn't give to them too. All mouth.. no actions. Hypocrites!
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
when you give someone money, it's none of your business what they do with it.
christie lowe 4 years ago
I could not agree more. If i were living on the street, the last thing i would want is to be sober
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
Yes, they should spend it on what they need, even if it's a brief respite from their woes or an ebbing of their pain.
Julie C Rose 4 years ago
At this point, I’m only interested in hearing what people who have been through homelessness think we should give. I’ve given cash but then I saw someone say they had been homeless and that they’d rather see people donating to or volunteering at shelters. It made me wonder what else is just speculation on the part of people who’ve never been homeless (I’ve also seen homeless people saying that they can’t be choosers when it comes to the narcissists with the cameras, although I think it’s still harmless to refuse to give the camera toters attention.)
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
If I give money to someone, anyone, I can't tell them what to use that money for. I would never do that. If they need it and I can help, that's it. It's none of my business if they want to eat, drink or do whatever they want.
#44
As the title says. I’m so sick of this virtue signaling on social media and cities where everyone is clapping and praising us. When you apply to medical school you apply to these terms and it’a just our job. Sure, it’s tiresome and the situation isn’t really great but still. A lot of my coworkers are pumping their ego with this and enjoy the attention. I don’t
Pamela24 4 years ago
I can understand why you don't want it but I think in this case, the pumped-up egos might help your coworkers with the motivation and strength that they need for working (especially nowadays with the pandemic) and I don't see anything wrong with that. If they enjoy the attention and it gives them more energy...? What's the harm.
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
Its when they start getting arrogant that you know there's a problem. Some medical workers take the attention not as appreciation but as confirmation that they are better than others, they start to think they're some sort of hotshot.
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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Majority of people who clap don’t have the power to give them a raise.
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Whimsy 4 years ago
I think healthcare workers need to be paid better and given better tools and conditions to work in.. Not just them, either, but those working in the food industry with deliveries, shop keeping, factories, tech repairs.. They all risk a lot and are the most overworked right now.. As nice and uniting as clapping can be, it's nothing more than a gesture. Sure, it's great morally but people forget doctors, nurses, repair-men, sellers, delivery people, etc, all have families, homes.. and if something happens to them, their families will need help as much as anyone's.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
If you don’t like it then ignore it but I am sure there are many that appreciate the thought/action.
Johnny 4 years ago
"A lot of my coworkers are pumping their ego with this and enjoy the attention" - why deny them of this small token of appreciation? My sister is a nurse, normally she worked in the NICU but got pressed into service doing COVID triage. She works in an area that was hard hit by COVID and she got to decide who got one of the limited ICU beds and who did not. She said it was the worst time of her life and is definitely not the job she signed up to do. She wanted to quit but knew that she was needed.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I'm going to add to this that, as a healthcare worker for the NHS, I get paid very well and (At my place of work at least) we have more than enough equipment. Yes there is a worldwide crisis, and yes I'm working more hours to help out, but I'm getting paid well for it! I don't consider us as 'Frontline workers', that title goes to the people working at the supermarkets and convenience stores, they are the ones who need the support. Crap pay, long hours and putting up with A-holes all day. I would happily defer a pay rise in favour of support for shop workers.
Anxiety 4 years ago (edited)
Thsi is how my dad feels about people thanking him for his service, ever since I can remember he tries everything to not wear anything related to the Army, because they’ll just start thanking him for doing his job. He didn’t even want to join the army, he joined because it was his inly option since he came from a poor family and had bad grades in school, because as he always puts it “I was to busy dicking off”
Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
On a side note, the same ideal applies to when a plane landing (what is that in 2021, anyway?) and everybody is clapping.
#45
It’s impossible to watch something nowadays that’s aimed towards teens without these portrayals. This is creating massive delusions for young teenagers in terms of what they think they will look like or should look like and it’s terrible. It should be banned. They are designed to be idolised or even sexualised and displayed as desired so what do think it does to a person who doesn’t look like that.
Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
Very irritating. The worst example I've seen of that was in "The Birdcage" (one of my favorite movies) where Robin Williams son was supposed to be 19 and he looked 30.
Koolkat 4 years ago
The worst example I've seen was "Grease", and that's not even remotely modern. They have like 40 year-olds playing teens, and its just so weird.
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Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)
I wish I could upvote you more. Not only how obviously adult they look but also how sexualised they are. Most media about teenagers portrays them as if they are constantly attractive, always dating and always having sex. It teaches kids a very wrong idea about what others do and makes them feel bad for not having sex or not being extremely attractive. From all my friends and colleagues I only know three that had sex before college. It is not as in the movies.
Elena Ktmr 4 years ago
It is also infuriating when you see those so-called teenagers going to school (in the movies) with high heels, short and tight skirts, designers' bags, heavy jewellry and heavy make up. I am grown woman and do not dress like this for the office!
Alexis draskinis 4 years ago
Its mostly because of labor laws but yeah, they definitely push the envelope with it. Anyone under 18 can only work so many hrs per day, tutors need to be hired depending on their hrs, break & filming times are more strict, all that. Its easier to work with "adult" 18+ actors. That doesnt mean they should be casting 30yrs though. Looking at you Andrea Zuckerman, Beverly Hills 90210! Lol!
Laura Maeflower 4 years ago
I understand that there's those rules, but hire an 18 or 19 year old then, not a 25 year old, yknow?
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person (i think) 4 years ago
it is not something happening "nowadays". It has been happening pretty much as long as there have been movies and tv. For instance, just watched "Rebel Without a Cause". James Dean was 24 and playing a teenager.
Csilla Kaszas 4 years ago
Perfect skin, confidence, on-point make-up and fashion-sense. Just like when I was a teenager (said no one ever).
k1ddkanuck 4 years ago
As a guy who has always had a baby face and has never been particularly buff or hairy, I agree with this. To this day, people make (albeit good natured) jokes about how I "look like I'm 12". Variously suggesting I should grow a beard (I hate how I look with a beard, and how itchy it gets), that I don't look "man" enough, and that anyone attracted to me must be some sort of pedophile. I'm a 33 year old man dammit. I might not look like what TV portrays as a 33 year old man, but GTFOH with that sh*t already. Personally, I don't even find the muscle bound, rugged guys and "perfect bombshell" women the media holds up as beauty standards to be attractive. Gimme someone cute and a little nerdy over some "knockout", fitness crazed, statue of a person any day.
Laura Maeflower 4 years ago
I feel soooo strongly about this! Riverdale is my prime example. They are fully grown, filled out, 25 year old adults,(males are usually thick and fit), they're characters are sexually experienced and confident, own businesses, and manage to get valedictorian while everyone around them is being murdered. And they're all supposed to be 15-17. Not to mention they never wear the same outfit twice and are dressed to the nines every episode and scene. This is terrible for actual 15-17 year olds to watch, and gives them a completely misguided idea of what it is they're supposed to be like as teenagers.
markthomasc 4 years ago
It's really bad when they kid is really years older and the mom is actually almost the same age. In Orange Is the New Black, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Dascha Polanco played mother and daughter, but in real life there's less than a two-year age gap between them. Angelina Jolie played Colin Farrell's mom in Alexander, but they’re a year apart. Estelle Getty (62) was younger than Bea Arthur (63) when she played her mom in Golden Girls. But I agree - people in their late 20's playing teens is cringeworthy (especially when they glam it up for a prom or dance).
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Its because media see women as hags as soon as they have mode than 25-30yo. So yoi go from main character/hot girl to only being able to play mums roles :(
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Every single day we are getting away from being human, what we've learned in thousands of years..... We are getting more and more just materialistic beings........ I don't see a bright future here ....... Well, not too optimistic.
Nymphadora Tonks 4 years ago
I don't think my mom has it, no one has called me Dora yet.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I do notice many people getting more and more coarse, rude, uncouth, and disrespectful of others. And stupidly proud of it. But then I see just how nice other people can be and wonder if it wasn’t always this way, and we’re just noticing it more because the rude ones post their lack of couth and etiquette on the internet because they’re proud of it, and other people, including the rude ones’ victims, do it to call them out, shame them, and have the video on hand as evidence of that behavior (if they need it in court). I liked it better when you only heard them if you were unlucky enough to be within earshot of them.
uber mensch 4 years ago
Ding! Ding! Ding! Good answer, good answer! "We have enough youth - what we need is a fountain of *smart*".
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
The work ethic of some of the younger generations is terrible, I've worked in the hospitality industry for seven years and the new young hires (mostly 18-20 year olds) are often inept and do poor quality work. The moment you say anything they start moaning and groaning about all the reasons why the work they did should be good enough. If I wanted "good enough" quality work I'd go to a cheap fast food joint with a low health department rating.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Kid over here! Yeah, some kids in my class are destined for trouble. I can just feel it. But others really do deserve a better world than what the world is now. I just slowly watch as their innocence is crushed--especially for fresh middle schoolers.
Mandi Johnson 4 years ago
I’m not sure what kids they are talking about but the 18-25 year olds I know or come in contact with are some of the kindest, accepting and giving people I know. This is the generation who accepts people for who they are and embraces individuality. I’m so tired of reading about how “bad” our youth is. If you believe that you clearly don’t have anyone in that age group in your life.
Morgan Carpenter 4 years ago
Studies have actually indicated a sharp decrease in empathetic concern since the 1970s, at least up until 2009. Things may have gotten better over the last ten years, though.
#47
I get that they are historically important, but some people think these guys from 200 years ago were incredible at predicting the future. As a non American, this always seems weird to me.
Víctor Alfonso García Olmo 4 years ago
And, the today-us-citizens don´t remember don Bernardo de Galvez. Check the Wikipedia ;-D
whodunnitfan2013 4 years ago
And don't forget that rock formation was sacred to the Native Americans.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I'm an American and it's weird to *me*. if they could've predicted the future, they'd have written the Constitution differently.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
And they talk about the constitution as if it's the commandments from god...xP
Ella Greenman 4 years ago
I agree as a american. Where they cool and part of our history? Yea. But there is a point of too much
Nymphadora Tonks 4 years ago (edited)
Mount Rushmore was an unessasary picture. Rosevelt and Lincon weren't founding fathers.
Sue Prewitt 4 years ago
The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, etc. These are some pretty remarkable accomplishments. Let's see you do it.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Not sure what kind of people they were, but collectively they actually were quite brilliant
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
They were wealthy merchants, for the most part, who created a system that would benefit them.
Paul K. Johnson 4 years ago
We love to do that with ancient people as well as if they were supremely wise and had all the answers and somehow it all just got lost except for some hermit tribe someplace that holds all the knowledge. And I love when people say they did things that we can't do today. That's not true. We could build pyramids or anything else. It doesn't get done because nobody wants it badly enough to pay for it, not because we can't do it.
François Carré 4 years ago
Also, their faces were sculpted on what was once a sacred mountain for the Lakota people, which is quite disrespectful.
#48
I have been getting so much grief from my gamer friends for playing games on easy mode. They are calling me “not a true gamer” because I don’t play on hard mode. I just want to enjoy a game for the story line and not get frustrated dying endless times not being able to defeat a boss or making a simple mistake. Does that make me less of a gamer?
M.A.D. 4 years ago
Yeah, but then it turns out the true ending is available in hard(est) mode, which sometimes isn't available at first playthrough!
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ZombieGirl 4 years ago
I always play a game on easy first...so I can enjoy the game like you said. Then if I ever play it again, I play on hard for a new challenge. They should stop making platinum trophies require playing the game in all modes though! I have a few games that I never platinumed because I didn't feel like playing in permadeath mode
Sarah O'Dwyer 4 years ago
Nothing makes you "not a true gamer". You play games? *Boop* You're a gamer my dude, simple as.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
What if said games are Farmville Bootleg #8361 and Candy Crush?
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I always do the easy mode and even then I can sometimes struggle lol.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I think a true gamer play the game for the enjoyment of the game. If you are enjoying the game, you are a gamer.
Aethelwyne 4 years ago
YES, I play minecraft on peaceful mode when I'm on survival, I like enjoying the vibes and building my own little world without being on guard constantly. It's my favorite game to come to when I need a break from reality :)
ChimeraBubbles 4 years ago
Nope, not less of a gamer. I've been a gamer for over 20 years (gulp) and I've played and re-played games in different difficulties depending on what sort of experience I want. We call easy mode 'fun mode' in our house. Play on whatever difficulty setting you like and ignore the gatekeepers.
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago
Agree.. I have played games when even "hard mode" was too easy.. and other games when "normal" was really a challenge to me already. Everyone should play as he/she sees fit.
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It takes a lot of balls to admit that you're attracted to children. If they are trying to get help, they shouldn't be attacked by people for being a bad person. A pedophile is not a bad person until they actually commit an offence.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
This is spot on. People experience attraction before they act on it. It is possible for a person to experience attraction to children and seek treatment. Shame and stigma prevent people from getting help.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
So true. There is a difference between pedophiles that get gratification and excitement from their thoughts and urges whilst there are pedophiles that are distressed, ashamed and disgusted with their thoughts. They can’t help it but they can help how they react to those thoughts. If they want help then they should be given it without shame or judgement. They are taking the steps to stop feeling that way. I am someone that was sexually abused and used to think every pedophile should be castrated and left to rot in jail. Bit that was until I watched the doco the pedophile next door. It made me understand that not all pedophiles are the same.
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Eduard Korhonen 4 years ago
I often wondered how different the problem would be if we started treating it as a genuine mental health problem and actually tried helping them. Demonizing it certainly isn't helping, it just pushes them deeper underground.
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago (edited)
Medicine and science have studied pedophilia for years, trying to find a cure or something to help. So far, they haven't found anything to help them
Load More Replies... BorPand8 4 years ago (edited)
I read that most child sexual predators aren't particularly attracted to children, it's just that kids are easy prey. And most pedophiles (people who are attracted to children) don't actually do anything about their urges because they have a functioning moral compass.
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
It's a mental illness. They have studied them for a while. Modern medicine have found that these men are turned on by images of children. When they show them women or men, these pedophiles don't get aroused. They are only sexually aroused by children.
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Laurel Eddy 4 years ago
I was sexually abused as a child, which may or may not be the reason I have a wrong attraction to kids. Ive done therapy for years and am about to try some alternative spiritual healing. Does anyone who posted here, especially @matthew owen, have any idea about resources. ps. im in the wrong thoughts category, not wrong actions, although before i realized that ive stood on the edge of a cliff trying to decide if it was my duty to throw myself off. ive also learned that giving myself hell for the wrong thoughts is counterproductive bc i obsess about it more. so i walk the other way, say a quick prayer for God to protect the kids, and try to think about something else.
NinjaWolfy94 4 years ago
Good for you seeking help and not acting on those thoughts. I hope you're able to find the help you're looking for, and wish I could give you resources to try out, but sadly I don't know of any, sorry :( Good luck on your journey though ^^
Load More Replies... Aliquid A 4 years ago
Looking at the comments, I think there is some confusion. There are two different things (1) Pedophiles and (2) child molesters. The Venn Diagram would have them overlap, but they aren't the same. A Pedophile might not ever act on their urges. And a child molester might not even be a pedophile, for them it might just be about power and sadism. -- This thread made me think... I doubt we would ever even know what percent of the population has tendencies to think that way... because nobody would actually admit it.
matthew owen 4 years ago
If you don't help someone resist the urge to rape, you drive them underground I've worked for years with sex offenders and I'm very proud of that. Anyone that says they'd attack one is an idiot and the reason so many leave support programs, go into hiding and reoffend. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
El Dee 4 years ago
As far as I know Germany is the only country running a programme to bring in those who feel this way prior to offending. It's very obviously a good idea but not taken up elsewhere due to an overly macho opinion about what should be done with 'paedos' I truly believe that men say these things so as to broadcast that they are not one themselves, like a kind of fear response..
David Retsler 4 years ago
Just a reminder that women can be pedophiles as well. It's not just a male thing.
Jon S. 4 years ago
As my friend in child protection tells me, 1/3 by victim reports, 1/10 by conviction. Although often victims report being abused by a complicit couple, which accounts for some of the disparity in those numbers.
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WolfGirl23 4 years ago
It's not always your fualt that your attracted to kids. It could be mental or the way you grew up. If they have never done anything bad, they are perfectly A ok. They are brave for admitting that and trying to get help.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
It’s a real mental disorder. It’s when they actually act on those impulses that they become a serious threat. It can be born with it or it can be developed due to trauma.
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#50
Whenever I hear someone talk about a restaurant where the menus have pictures of the food on them, they talk about it as if it’s a red flag. Bullsh*t!! I want to see pictures of what the food I am going to order looks like!! It’s so much easier to decide what you want to eat that way. Oh and I don’t understand how people can think it’s tacky then look at the food at the table next to them and be like “oh that looks good”, then ask the other table what they ordered so they can order the same thing. I don’t care if it makes me seem like a dumb small minded person. I wanna see more pictures of food. It rules!!
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
But crushing disappointment follows when your meal looks nothing like the picture.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
Yeah, that should be illegal, when they just post googled pictures.
Load More Replies... Not Proud British 4 years ago
Cause usually the image on the menu bears no resemblance to what gets served to you.
markthomasc 4 years ago
I hate it when they don't put clear descriptions of the ingredients and I have go google their menu items. Taco Pastor - pork cooked in a pineapple marinade. Good information to have instead of just a pic and a menu item.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Especially if I’m trying something new I’ve never seen before. Visualization of something unknown. Same thing with trying out a new recipe. I want a picture of the finished product so I know I got it right!
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
It's a HUGE red flag. It means they're running the restaurant with only a freezer and a microwave in the kitchen.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Only if actually THEIR food on the menu. I'm so sick of photoshopped, fluffed, or from some stupid image library. That should be considered false/misleading advertisement.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
I see photos of food is a red flag for me. Most of time it just makes their food look cheap and tacky.
#51
The dude is a prick and an as**ole flat out, yeah maybe being bipolar is why he is an as**ole but it doesn’t make him any less of an as**ole. Everyone has problems some people are as**oles because of how they were raised, some people are as**oles because they hate their job. They are all reasons but not excuses. Kanye rushes the stage at the VMA’s and took over a speech I don’t care if he’s bipolar he is a f**king asshole. He has also acknowledged he is bipolar accepts his diagnosis but still goes off his meds! F**k that dude he is an as**ole.
N G 4 years ago
If you want to know whether being bipolar is an "excuse" for being an a-hole, consider other people who are bipolar. Stephen Fry - if you agree that he is NOT an a-hole, you must therefore accept that Kanye just IS an a-hole and bipolar doesn't enter into it.
Something 4 years ago
He may very well still be an assh*le, but that isn't proof. Not all cases of bipolar are equal.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I can be an absolute bitch coz I am a reactive and emotional person but I would never use my mental illness as an excuse.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
He’s an arsehole of the highest magnitude. As someone who is bi-polar, I’d really have to do a 7 year PhD at Dickhead University before even approaching his level of arseholery.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
As a person that suffers greatly with mental health (Schizophrenia, DID, Aspergers) as well as other conditions that can put me in a bad mood (Fibromyalgia, Endo). NOTHING excuses you from being an asshole. Kanye is just an arrogant piece of s**t.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
True. But bipolar doesn’t have anything to do with that I don’t think. I’m Bipolar and while I admit I’m not the best to be around while manic, I’m not an asshole. (At least I don’t think) my bipolar struggles have made me stronger and I’ve found that my art while manic is actually really good and portrays my feelings perfectly. I agree that he should be on his feckin meds. Meds keep us stable.
Carol Alanis 4 years ago
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel a lot of celebrities use mental health as an excuse for being horrible people. For example how Justin Bieber treats women and how he treats his wife, it infuriates me how his fans inmidiatly defend him and justify his behavior because of his lyme disease. It's like he could literally be the worst a**hole to her and if you call him out for it you're inmidiatly attacked by a swarm of people ready to vindicate all his actions.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
It’s the going off his meds that makes him an asshole. He’s got an army of an entourage, which means plenty of people to coordinate with each other and ensure he stays on his meds schedule. Like. Clockwork. So, either he’s got an entourage of assholes just like him, or no one has the balls to make him stay on his meds and get back to acting right. You have to be strict with someone in his condition. You cannot coddle and give multiple passes to someone who is bipolar; I don’t care WHO they are. He might not like it at first, but when he’s back in balance again, he’ll realize that’s the one person he can trust the most, because they were there to help him, not leech off him.
Demon Child 4 years ago
You are not raised to have bipolar disorder, but you are raised to be a jerk
Bianca Du Toit 4 years ago
Unmedicated bipolars usually are assholes. My husband was one up until fairly recently. Now he's medicated and in complete control of the hamsters running on his wheel.
#52
This way anyone falsely accused does not get their name dragged through the sand until they have been convicted. We have made it too easy to destroy people's lives on false accusations. I believe protecting the innocent is just as important as prosecuting the guilty. The only downside would be if someone had evidence on the accused, but this could also be found as a part of the investigation process. So maybe a better definition if the initial hearing is not dismissed and the judge wants to pursue the case further. I just don't think its fair to lose your job over something that's dismissed in 5 minutes in court, because that's all someone with a false accusation wants.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Another one I agree with. I don’t think a lot of these are unpopular opinions, unless I have been living under a rock.
Holly Smethurst 4 years ago
And if the accused is found innocent Tej accuser should be named and shamed for the false accusations. Here in the UK we have had a few high profile men accused of rape only to be found innocent of all charges yet the women who lied remain anonymous.
Kaseylulu 4 years ago
Except just because someone is found innocent doesn't mean a crime hasn't occurred, they just weren't able to prove it legally. It doesn't automatically mean they are liars. Forcing the identity of the accuser in that situation would result in victims not wanting to come forward because of the risk of not winning their case, silencing victims and allowing predators to continue their crimes. In the US, accusers are nearly always known except if they are minors though. I can't think of a case where anyone who is high profile or otherwise that was accused anonymously so maybe that's a difference in our legal systems.
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Rob 4 years ago
I guess this is something American that I am too Dutch to understand... In the Netherlands the portrait and name of suspects are anonimized until they are proven guilty. This is not a law, it is just something that all media respect. The police will only deviate from this if they need to, to find the person in question.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Reparations should be made to those falsely accused whose lives are ruined as a result of it. Millionaires can retreat back into their money, but working folks don’t have that luxury. Try resuming your career as a teacher after being falsely accused/falsely identified and arrested for molesting a student, but not convicted of it. Not going to happen, even if the court exonerates you, so there’s your education and career—-and your pension—-down the toilet, totally undeserved. I know those falsely imprisoned are paid reparations for miscarriage of justice, but those who are wrongly accused and not imprisoned are just as ruined, and have to go back out in society while the memory of their ordeal is fresh.
DWP 4 years ago
And don't glorify mass murderers by giving their names and faces tons of press after their massacres.. they want the fame.. don't give it to them.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
Dont agree, but being found innocent should be just as public and reported on than just being arrested. Also, being found not guilty because of reasonable doubt does not mean innocent. Be very careful of the slippery slope off equating not guilty and innocent.
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
US phenomenon. Here (Germany) people - accused as well as victims - are anonymized when their cases are reportet.
zims 4 years ago
Counterpoint: seeing them be prosecuted can cause their other victims to come forward and get help.
Jon S. 4 years ago
This is what I was going to say. There have been high-profile rape convictions in the UK that were only possible because the publicity around the cases brought other victims forwards. Though I can see the argument from both angles.
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#53
When browsing on some shady websites that aren't centered around pornography, I'm sure we've all had porn ads with either partial or full nudity pop up out of nowhere or on the sidebar. Just because you're on a website that requires 18 plus does not mean that it should be perfectly fine to show porn without the consent of the viewer. For example on Spotify I don't listen to any sexual content or sexual podcasts, however I get recommended a show called "hentai with senpai," and I have to deal with an extraordinarily sexualized hentai face on my home screen. I'm not even the only person who deals with that specific show showing up on their home screen unsolicited. So to reiterate, if exposing yourself to someone without their consent, even if they're 18 years old or up, is a crime, then it should also be a crime to show nude or sexual contents to people in pop up ads without their consent.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I have never had a porn pop up ad, what shady websites are you even looking at?
Lili 4 years ago
Any kind of websites on entertainment tbh. I will go to a porn site if I want porn. Don't assume I like porn just bc I'm reading Japanese manga, or news about some sexy celebs.
Load More Replies... Carol Alanis 4 years ago (edited)
This happened to a friend of mine, we are both teachers and we all use ipads and projectors for our classes. One day she opened up a page about maps and a porn pop up came up, she immediately closed the page but all the kids had already seen it. Hell broke loose, the parents wanted her fired, some threatened to sue the school and wanted her in jail, a lot of these parents claimed that she must of used her iPad to watch porn in her free time because they said it wouldn't of happened if she didn't, which wasn't the case because those ipads where strictly used for school activities and were monitored. Some of the parents even went so far to harass her when they saw her in the store or some other place outside of school. Long story short, the school provided therapy for her whole class, so the kids started to open up about porn and how their parents had magazines, and videos in their phones, a lot of these parents were present that day. It was so gratifying seeing them leave in shame.
Curry on... 4 years ago
I think you can change your computer settings to control that, can't you? What I dislike are movie trailers(in commercials) for main stream movies that show the X-rated scenes, especially when children are likely to be awake.
Fred L. 4 years ago
Pop-up ads shouldn`t be a thing, regardless of content, as simple as that. Whoever invented this annoyance deserves to be slapped over the face with a fish.
J. F. 4 years ago
The guy that invented them actually said sorry for inventing them
Load More Replies... Combine Elite Soldier 4 years ago
This makes a lotta sense especially with the sudden rise of porn ads on youtube. Adblockers all the way my dude!
#54
Random opinion I just thought about from past experiences. By this I don't mean absolutely freezing/sizzling climates, I just mean from mildly warmer/colder weather than normal. I've seen myself be really stressed during warmer weather, with no real way to cool myself at all. On the other hand, with colder climates, it's really easy to cool yourself down; get under a warm blanket, get a hot drink and just vibe there I guess. It's really comforting too, probably one of the best feelings ever. Though this doesn't really make sense if you're outdoors and not inside, it's technically inside I'm talking about. Being outside is a whole different story, though it's technically the same answer on that side in my opinion. So in conclusion; I don't like going outside because it's too warm.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
Does warmth nauseate and fluster you as well? I have told my parents that, yet they swaddle me unnecessarily and I hate it...
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
I can't stand heat it's like my body can't cool down. I had a holiday in a slightly warmer climate in another city like an hours flight from home, the place I went to was averaging 20C every day and I got heatsick in the second week, I went to see a Dr who informed me to rest and keep cool, and I went home early. Heatsick from 20C *facepalm*. But I love the cold. Edit: the holiday was ten years ago just so u dnt think I'm a loon travelling during these times
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Emily Getty Phillips 4 years ago
I have been saying this for years! Bundling up is so much easier to tolerate than stripping down and still sweating.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
you can always put on more clothes for warmth, but you can only take off so much to get cool
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I hate the heat, it makes me feel sick and makes my mood so freaking low I end up snapping at everyone. When you're hot, it's harder to cool down than it is to warm up if you're cold, too.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Especially when you are trying to sleep. Being hot is a lot more intolerable than being cold.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I don’t mind hot, within reason, but I sure do mind the damned sweltering humidity! At least with dry heat, you don’t drown in your own sweat, because it dries off you so fast—-and you can dehydrate just as badly in humid conditions as in bone dry. I lived on both coasts as a child (sixties and seventies), and just do NOT remember humidity like we now have on the East Coast in the summer. Haven’t been back to Cali in a long time, so don’t know if it’s gotten more humid there or not in the past 30-40 years.
Random Anon 4 years ago
I agree but I am biased living in high 30s, low 40s degrees C, 80% humidity.
#55
Stealthing was rather prominent in the news not too long ago (over here in the UK),
our laws cause this to be classified as rape.
If someone female lies about using birth control, they should face prosecution.
Furthermore, any child should not be the financial responsibility of the father.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
Children should be the legal responsibilities of their parents. No matter what.
Markus Holstein 4 years ago
How do you define "parents"? Purely biologically?
Load More Replies... Amy S 4 years ago
I agree, if both parties did not consent to have that particular type of sex then it is rape. However it is not fair to punish the child by making the father not financially responsible. It's very difficult to prove though, you can take birth control correctly and still get pregnant.
Jro308 4 years ago
Here's a thought, even if she tells you she's on birth control use a condom anyway! 1. You're protecting yourself from STD's 2. If she's lying you're still covered. It should be just as much your responsibility to protect yourself from an unwanted pregnancy as it is hers
Mu B 4 years ago
Yes, totally. I never understand men being 'scammed'. Wear a condom and unwanted pregnancies are dramatically reduced!
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Eric George 4 years ago
Although I agree, I think that stealthing is a more serious offense, since it can spread life-altering disease, while lying about birth control cannot.
Bama Belle 4 years ago
Nah, a guy can't get a deadly STD if the woman is lying about oral birth control. Besides, a man should take personal responsibility if he doesn't want children. Only a fool would take a woman's word for it, and I say this as a woman. Just 3 missed doses basically voids the entire month.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I agree. It is rape in both cases, altough I dont know how you could prove it because bc fails sometimes. In any case I am q firm defender that all people should have acess to bc and abortions. A man cannot decide if the woman aborts or not because it is her body. But if the woman does not want to abort and the man wants there should be a way to sign off any legal and economical responsibility over an unborn child. As a "legal" abortion. Of course the dad wouldn't be considered anymore a parent (like when you are a sperm donor).
N G 4 years ago
Abdication of parental rights and responsibilities might be the phrasing?
Load More Replies... Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
I'm torn on this one. I feel like adults should understand that choosing to have sex with a person comes with lots of potential unintended consequences, even when you use appropriate precautions. That said, I think entrapment is a form of violence against another person and should have consequences.
Laura Sorensen 4 years ago
A woman who lies about being on birth control to purposely get pregnant should not be entitled to anything from the father. Blood work would be able to prove her wrong and this should be considered rape. This happens all the time and the guy is at the mercy of the mother whether he wants a roll in his child's life or not.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
Every time you CHOOSE to have sex, you CHOOSE to risk a pregnancy. I'm sick of little boys who whine about a pregnancy that they CHOSE to risk. You know what? You have choices. You can CHOOSE to wrap it up. You can CHOOSE to get a vasectomy. You can CHOOSE not to have sex with someone that you don't know well enough to know if they're on birth control. >..///... Little boys who whine about this are sick little puppies.
Hugo Raible 4 years ago
You slept during the class on "informed consent", did you, Aunt Rape Apologist?
Load More Replies... #56
You may not want to admit it. But it's the truth. With having no knowledge of the outside world except through what was allowed in through propaganda, you'd most likely be swayed to join. They were humans just like us. And if you grew up during that time there, you would most likely be one of them. When the option is join or be labeled as an enemy with the threats of death, most people will join.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Unless you are a Jew, person of color, LGBT, physically or mentally impaired in any way, communist, socialist, alcoholic, known political activist or maker of any form of art, literature &c that the Nazis didn't approve of. Many people who were not in any of the above categories spoke out against the Nazis and/or actively opposed them.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Look at how many fascists are there today even with internet and globalisation. It scares me how many there are.
J. F. 4 years ago
Extremists would be my word - facists, socialist/communists and religious fanatics. We have access to nearly every historical event of the last century and yet people still worship ideologies that are responsible for millions of deaths. And the worst is that all sides get more and more radical in their methods
Load More Replies... Radek Suski 4 years ago
Not necessarily a nazi but it is pretty probably you would accept what happened and chose "not to know" what's going on
Henry Cheves 4 years ago (edited)
There was a teacher who didn't actually teach about fascism, he taught its values, and pretended to encourage that behavior. The students believed it, and it spread, and it was only barely contained when the teacher told them.
Elena Ktmr 4 years ago
The problem is that people grew up in the 80's, 90's or 00's and are still a Nazi!
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Even if you disagreed, as the Nazi Party got stronger and more powerful, and Hitler more unhinged, it was extremely dangerous not to keep your mouth shut and your opinions to yourself. You had to fix your face (can’t look upset or horrified at violence against Jews or other persecuted groups), and just bide your time trying to stay alive, and keep hoping for the nightmare to end soon, if you weren’t able to leave the country. Not only in public, but also in your own home! Remember, they encouraged the Hitler Youth to tattle on their own families and turn them in if they said anything against Hitler or the Nazi Party. So there were plenty of people who just did their best to stay under the radar and survive—-even if they’d been drafted (i.e. given the choice between the Army or a bullet to the head in the alley behind the recruitment center) and sent to freeze at the Eastern Front.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago (edited)
Some in the UK like to entertain the fantasy that, had the Nazis invaded, we wouldn’t have collaborated in the way sections of the rest of Europe did. Living on an island meant Hitler couldn’t just roll his tanks in overnight and occupy.
#57
As a man in my late 50s I wish I had the courage to walk off a job when I was younger. After starting my own business and spending years in upper management I have to say I love millennials and think they will change the work place for the better. Seeing a 22 college grad say that's not my job and not in my job description always gave me a envy boner, watching a middle manager retort with if you don't like the job leave and having a millennial fire back I'll send out 100 apps on indeed tonight and have a new one tommorow bye! Wanna know what that makes me do? Think hard about how my employees are treated and how well they are paid because on today's day and age my job is just as replaceable as they are. Keep ghosting and walking away my young friends I get it!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Ghosting is not okay. It's disrespectful to your fellow employees, who now have to take up your job, b/c you couldn't give two weeks' notice.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
You have absolutely no idea if this person is dyslexic, didn’t have education opportunities like you, has a disability etc. Punctuation does not equal intelligence.
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#58
If Lizzo could look like Gabrielle Union, she would. If James Corden could look like Ryan Philippe, he would. I realize everybody’s body is different, but being overweight is… OVER, what your weight should be. For your body. This changes for every person. Full disclosure, I’m about 60 pounds overweight and I’m included in my statement. I don’t like the way I look and feel. But I’m not out here like “ahh I love my curves”. Now cue all the anecdotal, medical-anomaly rebuttals
Hera20 4 years ago
I agree with you I think the main thing is changing your weight for you to be healthy and not to conform with the so called ideal body type.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
The “ideal” body type is itself extremely unhealthy. Better to be well fed than starving. However, since this magic pill doesn’t exist, people have to do the best they can with what they have. So loving your body just the way it is sounds like a mentally healthy attitude, and one that will have you concentrate more on being healthy than being a size 0.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I am obese and I absolutely hate my body but I wouldn’t put someone down if they were obese and loved their body. It is their body and we don’t know the persons circumstances. It is between them and their Dr. It’s not like we don’t know the risks associated with excess weight.
ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago
There was once a weight-loss doctor that helped an obese woman reach her ideal weight. Some months later, when he met her....he was shocked to learn that not only had she regained her weight, but had gained so much weight that he thought was medically impossible in such a shot period of time. On probing, he learned that she was raped as a child and being obese made her feel safe - she felt being obese made her 'invisible' to the society and not attract unwanted attention. This triggered a study that is known as the Adverse Childhood Experience (or ACE) Study, which found that people who experienced some tragedy/trauma were far more likely to have health issues, be obese, have addictions, than general population. People may take the magic pill to lose weight, but they may gain it back. Same reason why people who live in trashy homes in those cleaning shows go back to living like pigs and trashing their home back. Mental health is complex.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Eh, I would take this pill, yes. BUT I accept the fact that in real life, weight loss is a hard journey (especially so given the meds and stuff I am on), and whilst I am actively trying, it's slow progress, so for now, I remain positive and try to have confidence about my body being the way it is. Ego, body positivity. I also agree that no one should have to conform to the standards the media presents them with. As long as you are healthy, you do you. xP
JESSE REED 4 years ago
A millionaire can love his bank account but still take a pill to make him twice as rich, The Rock could love his body but still take a pill to give him a six pack (which he has never had). We can all want to be better
markthomasc 4 years ago
Plus size models are hard to look at - especially when clearly overweight. Underweight is awful too. I also feel frustrated that there aren't plus size male models and all men are expected to look super buff. No healthy - ripped.
Jenifer Riggs 4 years ago
I will never understand people who deliberately try to become overweight human whales. I get it if you have a medical problem that makes you obese, but to intentionally make yourself that big is just insane.
#59
Like, you can't say that you support male victims and then only bring them up when people talk about women being raped. It's not talked about enough but the fact that most of the times it's just a counterpoint is disgusting.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
It isn’t a zero sum game. If women are talking about the fears instilled in them by predatory men, they aren’t taking anything away AT ALL from male victims of such predators (whether those predators were male or female). It’s just giving voice to an issue women have in common, which deserves to be discussed without having to defend ourselves against a man’s attitude—-yet again. Guys, do some research and write an article about rape and sexual assault of men, and start the discussion. I think you’ll find most women in those comments sections will be empathetic toward you, rather than argumentative and/or playing tit for tat or zero sum games.
*hippie*witchy*bitch* 4 years ago
I agree. It's only brought up when a woman talks about rape, and then every man chimes in and is like "MEN GET RAPED TOO". we know, and we genuinely care, but people who only use it as a counterpoint seem to not really care that men are also victims of sexual assault, they mostly care about starting an argument for the sake of it. It's disgusting. care about all victims of assault, male, female, or other.
Cian Thomas McHugh 4 years ago
Let's just all agree: rape and sexual harassment is bad no matter which sex you are.
#60
I've always thought the idea of "equals" for a novel would be incredibly interesting. To read the exact same story, but from a different perspective. I imagine this would be great for the Harry Potter books, as there was so much depth shown in certain characters that it's a shame we only got to read it from Harry's perspective. This idea of "equals" would also allow readers to see depth and traits in a character they may not have seen before just by reading the main character's perspective.
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
Have you heard of fan fiction? It's actually awesome, go to archiveofourown.org and give it a try.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Some fan fiction is excellent, but not all of it is, and sometimes you want to hear that side of the story as it played put in the imagination of the original author—-remember, before and during the time they were creating the original, that story, with all its twists, turns, and subplots, was alive inside their head, not some fan’s. If they’re going to spend time writing a prequel or sequel, maybe writing an “equal” from a totally different character’s perspective might be more interesting.
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trans_ylvania 4 years ago
Becky Albertalli (of Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda) does a fantastic job at this in her Simonverse series, highly recommend.
James016 4 years ago
She did and reviews claimed it was too similar to the original books. One moaned that the dialogue between the characters was the same. Well duh.
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
I love when author write stories set in the same world as their original book but set in different times, locations or with different characters. Like Robin Hobb does in the Realm of the Elderlings or the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson. It is a great way of having more books without becoming repetitive.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
Idk about “instead of” because sometimes continuing a story and building a lore or a kind of universe is awesome! But I’d love to read some of my favourite stories from another character’s perspective!
#61
Social media was introduced as a way to communicate with friends or classmates and other strangers. Now, it seems that social media is one of the worst things ever. Twitter has become a prime place for lots of beef and drama and other nonsensical conversations. Tiktok really is just for people to simp over hot girls doing dances. Instagram is where everyone likes to post their whole life story, and these people always have problems with stalkers and other complications with the lack of privacy. I could go on but I'm really over it. Social media will never be the same and this really sickens me because there's a lot of good on twitter and instagram, but these platforms get completely drowned out by all the bad.
John Louis 4 years ago
Never have lives less lived been more thoroughly chronicled (Dennis Miller).
Claire the Bear 4 years ago
I agree and disagree, like yes social media can be toxic and hasn't "evolved" in a way that it should've, but also your account only focuses on the bad if that's what regulates through your feed. My Instagram (which i rarely go on- it's kind of boring) is full of cats and dogs, my twitter.. ok so twitter will always have drama, but like my Tiktok isn't about dances it's mainly about mental health recovery, pets, and gay stuff. I agree with you but also there are ways to filter your content and make social media a pleasant environment for keeping in touch with your friends and just having fun :)
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
I remember slowly feeling a drift between me and all my friends when Facebook first came out. I was a senior in high school. It's because we spent more time talking to each other on Facebook instead of calling each other on the phone like we used to do all the time. It put an invisible wedge between people because they weren't seeing each other in real life as much anymore, or talking on the phone as much...calling turned to texting as well. It did this slowly until friendships became "hey, lets catch up...its been a while". At least this is what happened to me and everyone I know personally who have said the same thing. I look back at a time before Facebook and really miss how people interacted with each other
Jessica Nametz 4 years ago
This should be higher up on the list! I post pictures of our family for family and friends that live out of state or too far to visit, but I don't find myself looking at actual content on my homepage much. I am part of FB groups for my hobbies (smoking meats/BBQ, sewing, crafts, toddler activity ideas, etc.) so I can get ideas and find similar interests, and my IG is filled with crafters and recipes. I tried to avoid all the drama and political BS that is out there.
Kristine Phillips 4 years ago
With this Corona Virus going on, it is safer communicating to your friends and family either on the phone or social pages.
anarkzie 4 years ago
Super unpopular opinion but I think all this moaning about Social Media is more annoying than social media. If you don't want to look at it then don't but please stop telling the world how much better off your life is because you went the weekend without it.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
It's not going the weekend without it: some of us just don't like it or use it. Bored panda would be the closest thing I use that you could call social media.
Load More Replies... WolfGirl23 4 years ago
I guess I agree not with tiktok. Tikroks a place where you show your talents to be recognized. And I love to go on tikrok for some memes and laughs.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
But the recognition is synthetic. People are being recognized disproportionately to the value of what they are being recognized for, and that causes issues with their idea of self-worth moving forward.
Load More Replies... I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago
Everything ever humans has made always has both Merit and demrit
#62
That's right. Salt and vinegar are the superior chip. Sour cream & onion chips just have an overly sweet yet salty taste that is just overwhelmingly disgusting. Barbecue chips leave your mouth feeling dry and bitter because of the awful taste. Salt and vinegar are just a perfect combination of flavors that is just overall better than other chips
Nevena 4 years ago
I love salt and vinegar chips, but in my country sadly they are really hard to find
John Louis 4 years ago
This is ridiculous. If you like a particular food, then you do. Respect individual taste.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Yes! I like chips with a chips flavor, potato, oil, salt. I don't buy those with chemical powders flavor but i'm ok with the people who like it, more regular chips for me.
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lucy dale 4 years ago
mine too. i hate the taste of both barbeque and sea salt and vinegar chips
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Isabella R.W. 4 years ago
Omg yes! Sal & vinegar is actually my favorite chip flavor. (And by reading this I am now wishing I had some right now 😂😂😂
#63
I’m talking the ones that have been bred to an early grave with deformed features and problems that make them suffer their whole life, with breathing problems, walking problems, brains that are too big for their craniums etc. Like Pugs, King Charles spaniels, Bulldogs, Great Danes and others. Some might be saved by cross breeding and a complete change to the breed standard, but we shouldn’t go on like we are now. Dogs shouldn’t be born just to suffer and die for our entertainment.
Zoe 4 years ago
They shouldn't be allowed to 'die out' but breeding for certain traits should be stopped.
River Webb 4 years ago
you're so right, animals are not accessories they are living breathing animals and have all the right to a happy life free from pain and cruelty
Silas O'Connell 4 years ago
To clarify: "dying out" doesn't mean killing, it means no longer purposefully breeding them (I think a lot of people assume it means killing because we say the dinosaurs "died out").
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Maybe not die out, but be bred back to their original, healthy, and generally way more distinctive, forms.
Scarlett Fox 4 years ago
Fun fact: the next generation of English Bulldogs wouldn't exist if it weren't for breeders. The female dogs have to be artificially inseminated in order to get pregnant, and they need to have a C-section in order to give birth. They've been bred in such a way that they can't even reproduce naturally anymore.
#64
He was a black, retied police chief who was murdered in the protests after he tried to defend a pawn shop that was getting looted. No coverage from anyone and any mention of him on the big subreddits get instantly taken down. There should be a giant outrage from this, but its getting buried and 99% of people will have no idea it happened because the media want you to think that all the protests are peaceful.
Coleonema 4 years ago
Go to Youtube and type in the words "China Muslims" and watch one of the videos. The media will not likely cover it, ever. And the thing is, its still happening, and no one seems to care
Sushi Monster 4 years ago
Yes, and technically, the person who wrote this is covering it on the media.
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Jetty (He/Him,She/Her) 4 years ago
i found a link to it i didnt read it but this is a link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/david-dorn-st-louis-police-shot-trnd/index.html
Coleonema 4 years ago
Hey heres something you might also be interested in go to Youtube and just type in, "China" and "Muslims" watch one of the videos. The media most likely will never cover this
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I'm British, from a small town in the middle of England, nobody EVER says "Y'all" here and i don't get why. When i first heard the word i thought it was stupid, but the older i get the more and more i realise how much i would easily use "Y'all" in every day life. I'm a manager in my office so i often have to refer to multiple people at a time, "You all" or "You lot" or "All of you" is fine for now but can come off quite harsh, i've now rotated "Y'all" into the mix and it just FITS so well. Its soft, comes out friendly. Everyone knows what i mean, it rolls off the tongue nicely and i get to put that sweet southern accent on when i say it. I think we should all adapt to it because honestly, it works.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
You can get ‘yous’ used in uk as a plural of ‘you’, that’s a bit like it. I love y’all too.
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
But in the US, some people say "yoose" to mean you, so it could be confusing.
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Christine 4 years ago
You probably need "all y'all," as well. For example, you tell a group to quiet down ("Y'all quiet down now."), but only some do. Then you say it again, with emphasis. "I didn't just mean y'all [point to people who complied], I meant all y'all [gesture to the entire group, overemphasize the 'all']."
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
When my mum lived in the US she started using y’all and loved it, so she still uses it now even though she is back in Aus.
#66
As a British guy, I shouldn't have to know everything about the US or have to introduce myself as "The British guy" every time I talk to someone online. I also don't want to be treated like some mystical being from lands afar just because I speak a little differently. The internet (unless you are playing a game where you can pick the server location) is a worldwide thing, that isn't based in one location. It can be used by anybody. Most people on the internet aren't even from the US. And my biggest pet peeve through all this has to be when Americans say "the world" but really just mean "the US". The world is all countries, not just all the states.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Right? Some USA users are extremely arrogant. Usually if a person says a generalisation without mentioning that this happens in their country they are from USA.
Enamelcamel 4 years ago
... anyone else get the irony of generalizations about how much USA users tend to generalize?
Load More Replies... Buttered_Crumpet 4 years ago
And often a post gets criticised for bad spelling/grammar when the writer is statistically probably not a native English speaker.
Susan Green 4 years ago
True. I’m not sure why some people feel the need to correct others spelling errors.
Load More Replies... Coleonema 4 years ago
I once told someone I was from South Africa, they asked if Africa was a country
René Studer 4 years ago
When I spent some time in california, some drunk guy asked me if I was from Kansas. I‘m swiss and my accent sounds a lot like a german accent. I’m not judging him, I just think its funny.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Hey, Americans, quick question. How many countries play in the 'WORLD SERIES'?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
A maximum of two. Implying the Toronto Blue Jays have made the series.
Load More Replies... I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago
Remind me of that meme where's 1st person say Biden is not my President and 2nd guy reply to me if he's Trump supporter
Martin Forbes 4 years ago
One thing here that makes me smile is hearing someone talking about the World Series Baseball, which is really just the US and Canada.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
Ikr! It’s hard to have conversations when people assume that you’re from the US and when you’re talking about anything they get all upset if you say anything different bc you’re from somewhere else
#67
I think a good example of this is the show Riverdale. If you don’t know, it’s a show using the characters of Archie comics in a teen murder drama ish show. In that show their lives are about whatever big mystery is going on, their relationships, and their friends. The characters in the show are high-school age (16 I believe) but a majority of the cast are actors in their mid-twenties (one actor is almost 29). In the show, or as much as I’ve seen, being an actual high school student occupies very little of the character’s lives and the aspects of high school we do see the characters participate it could more or less be translated into a college setting. So why even make them high school students? I know to reach a youth audience and whatever but seeing how a lot of this shows content displays varied sexual relationships between characters, I feel like it’s a bit weird seeing all these high school age relationships so graphically being acted by much older people. And I’m realizing now that Riverdale isn’t the best example (a plot point of season 1 is an inappropriate teacher student relationship) but there are a lot of shows like this out. I think Hollywood should stop fetishizing high school sexual relationships when they really don’t have to. My issue with it isn’t so much the displays of sex, more that the show creators are leaning so heavily into all the displays of sex of people who are supposed to be minors. Gives a weird voyeurism vibe. If the plot allows, just make the setting college, it would even make more sense with the plots sometimes. TLDR: I have no issue with sex being a plot point in teen-oriented television but the mentality of “We have 27 year olds playing 16 year olds so let’s shoot this soft core porn scene because we can 😎” is very problematic and approaching borderline pedophilic
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And it traumatises a lot of kids for not being sexually active in school. Look at inceks and how they seem to believe that everybody f***s from a very young age. It is all a lie from media guys.
Baby Panda 4 years ago
people are like "yOu HaVeN't lOsT YoUr ViRgInItY yEt?? wHaTTT???" like seriously wtf I'm only a sophomore damn
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Steve Goodman 4 years ago (edited)
This one blows my mind every time... the show All American features HS kids and the youngest one on that show is 23... the oldest is 30!!! How can HS kids relate or have a positive body image if they are comparing themselves to a actor that is more than a decade ahead of them in physical and mental development. Super irresponsible and detrimental.
#68
"In 2015, 6ix9ine pled guilty to a felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance and received a four-year probation period and a 1,000-hour community service order. In 2018, he was arrested on racketeering, weapons, and drugs charges. He pled guilty to nine charges including conspiracy to commit murder" Yet somehow all his videos get 100s of millions of views. He is the Roman Polanski of hip hop. There are tons of hop hop artists who are better than him, both musically and as people. He is the very definition of someone who should not be celebrated. A disgusting, child abusing sicko.
Aj Grimes (they/it)🦄 4 years ago
As I was talking bout this kid earlier at my church, he tried to abuse a girl at the place he goes to after school. He also tried to make a girl suck his d*ck. He almost got arrested for being a sex offender, but he didn't. I think he should be arrested because this is terrible. He is also younger than me.
#69
Until this year, I thought of China just as the closest contender for America’s heavyweight superpower belt, especially in the next couple decades. Recently, however, after reading article after article about the brazen systematic detainment, and torture of a conservative 1.5 million people from a single ethnic group I’m getting serious fascist Germany vibes. At least the United States hides its ethnic mass incarceration under the veneer of mandatory minimum sentencing laws (I’m kidding, this is not the same thing, obviously) One article published just today presented evidence that the Chinese government had been collecting involuntary samples of DNA in order to map faces. Are you f**king kidding? Also disturbing has been China’s active use of existing technology to repress dissent in Hong Kong. China has repeatedly demonstrated they have no qualms about shoving racial minorities into concentration camps, and a brutal capacity to eliminate opposition. I don’t see any reason why China will not continue to get worse in these regards. It seems that if any country is soon to reach ww2 Germany levels of power and fascism it will definitely be China.
River Webb 4 years ago
I get what you mean, but a lot of people don't seem to understand that its the government who are doing all these terrible things and not the people. most of the Chinese people have done nothing wrong and yet get blamed for the governments doing.
Coleonema 4 years ago
Concentration camps where they are killing and torturing people of a certain religion. Check. No one paying it much attention or even knowing its happening. Check. Trying to stamp out a minority. Check. Forced labour. Check. Been going on for years without much notice. Check. No one knew about or thought it was that bad till they found the first camp in the war. Cant exactly check that off till ww3 starts
Coleonema 4 years ago
It's the government doing this, much like how it was in WW2. Not everyone was/is doing it so you cant blame an entire country. But that doesn't make it any less horrible
Load More Replies... Bianca Du Toit 4 years ago
Dude, they own Africa, and my damn country included. The citizens of my country were sold out to the Chinese and they control us now. Pretty soon, South Africa will be just like China. Completely communist and its people suppressed, controlled and silenced.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
China isn't the "next" Nazi Germany. China is China, and it is currently involved in the real genocide of the Uighers. And once again, America is standing by and letting a country round up its dissidents and shrugging when they go missing.
Coleonema 4 years ago
Go to youtube and type in "China Muslims" in the search bar, its evil and hardly anyone cares.
Lili 4 years ago
That's actually how China has been for the last few thousands of years. Its neighbors have always known its true colors. It just got disrupted by guns when the West enter Asia a hundred years ago, now it has recovered and back on its old track.
Fred L. 4 years ago
Chinas has also been conquered several times by some of said neighbours (e.g. Mongolians and Jurchen/Manchus). It´s not as if China is the wild one inside a peaceful paradise.
Load More Replies... Ian Milne 4 years ago
They say they’re kidding about incarceration in the US, but it’s true. The US has more of its population (both overall number AND as a percentage of the overall population) than any other country. It gets even worse when you dig deeper in to some of the facts. The prison population are basically slave labour - they make a lot of household items and military equipment. If they refuse to do so they are placed in solitary confinement. You’ve got the three strikes rule in some states, whereby if you have two previous felonies and the commit a third offence you get a life sentence - it could be for something trivial like stealing a loaf of bread.
The Dave 4 years ago
Here's some more. If you don't acknowledge that the Chinese Government has some level of culpability in the spread of COVID, you're foolish. At the very least, they delayed action and let the virus spread. At the very worst they created it in a lab deliberately. Maybe somewhere in between. But they do bear responsibility for the way the virus spread.
#70
My ex has women telling her on social media how amazing she is for raising kids in her own and how strong and independent she is for picking herself up after the divorce (that she caused with her affair) and being a mom. I have none of that. Its not that my friends don't think I'm a good dad, its that as a society, we have made the single mom a sort of unsung hero. What about single dads? We do the same s*it. I work and take care of my kids the same way but I don't get celebrated like I'm doing something amazing. I just get the recognition that almost all dads get... Nothing.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
I support you, sir. :). You are probably doing a better job than that cheater.
Nymphadora Tonks 4 years ago
Don't ask men if they are taking care of the child for their mother. It is their child of which they are perfectly capeable of caring for.
Laura Sorensen 4 years ago
I have seen some amazing single dads out there. Nothing but respect to you.
Ulrike Sponagel 4 years ago
Share your worries. Ask for support. Show your feelings. If you don’t feel recognized, complain.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Being a single parent is always hard. No matter your gender or how many kids you have.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
I support you. My brother is a single dad with part custody also it’s hard. I’m proud of you!
#71
I hate hearing people say, "oh, he bought a Corvette because he's balding and needs to feel younger." No. No no no no NO. As someone who's never earned much money because I made the spectacular decision to do what I love rather than what was lucrative, I'm finally in a position in my late 30s where I can actually save up to buy my dream car. I get it if cars aren't important to you. I get it if you dislike the impact they have on the environment. I get it if you think sports cars are too expensive and a hassle. I get it if you see a forty something guy in a BMW M3 and assume he's compensating for something. But realize that automotive enthusiasm is a huge part of life for a lot of people, and can often be the biggest connection they have to family members or friends. As a car enthusiast, I look forward to increased electrification for a lower carbon footprint (and ridiculous torque for better acceleration). I accept that my budget will have to increase for a cool exotic car and decrease for other pursuits. It's worth it to me. Just like you might enjoy collecting stamps or having a closet full of nice clothes. It's also the first thing I talk about when I call my dad since he used to race cars and motorcycles in the 70s. We bond over cars and car news. So the next time you see some guy with graying temples and a widow's peak driving a Ferrari, understand it might be the realization of a dream from childhood and try to, you know, not crap on that dream because it's not YOUR dream.
Doggo Froggo 4 years ago
Yeesssss! This girl is gonna get a sweet sports car one of these days
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That Screaming Hamster 4 years ago
I actually never thought of it from that viewpoint, you’ve totally changed my mind about this!
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
Yet most adverts feature much younger people who would never be able to afford such a car at that time of life (unless they won the lottery)
Fred L. 4 years ago
Being able to buy it doesn`t equal being able to afford it. Which is the danger some people, including younger ones, often don´t see.
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Christianity is a "safe" punching bag on this website for some reason; it can freely be mocked and derided. But you dare to make equally derisive statements about other religions and your "problematic" comments will immediately be met with disapproval. This is bizarre and to me it shows that a lot of the anti-religion "views" expressed on this website aren't fueled by reason or conviction but simple parroting.
Radek Suski 4 years ago
As an atheist I absolutely agree. There is a great episode of Bill Maher's show with Sam Harris and Ben Affleck where Affleck shows the typical hypocritical defence of Islam completely ignoring most basic facts and accuses Bill and Sam of being, hold on, racists.
anarkzie 4 years ago (edited)
As an atheist, I don't have a fear of talking about Islam but I live in a western country, Christianity plays more of a role over here. If you look at America it's mostly politicians using Christianity to pass laws banning people rights, which is why it gets more flack than Islam. If Islam becomes a force in the west then that dynamic will change.
Aria Singh 4 years ago
Same im a Hindu. I never understand why that specific religion always gets mocked.
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
I suspect it's because Christians can be some of the most vocal hypocrites imaginable.
embarrassed american 4 years ago
All the religions are bull. Killing in the name of is still killing.
#73
Our $250 range microwave broke. Repair guy came out and cracked it open and said it was a bad door switch. He wanted $389 to fix it. NFW. Besides, he already pointed out the bad switch, so I figure, how hard can it be. I take out the switch, and jot down the four digit alpha numeric code on it. I go to a locally owned appliance parts distributor. The lady at the counter was very nice, but said that number means nothing to her or her computer. She says she needs more information. I tell her the make and we kind of come up something similar that will (probably) work. But... it’s not in stock and they are moving their warehouse, so two weeks minimum. I ask for suggestions, and she gives the name of three other places in town. I call those places. The first two are total assholes to me. Very condescending, and telling me I need the model number. Again, the four digit code means nothing to them. I give what’s in the confirmation email from Sears. Not enough. Kenmore doesn’t manufacture their own goods. She needs to know the manufacturer. I’m not at home. I’m sitting in my truck on the phone. Second call goes just like the first. Treated me like a child. At this point I go home, get the info on the manufacturer, and call the third place. Very nice. They don’t have it, but can get it that afternoon. For the low low price of $40. I can’t get there in the afternoon, and $40 seems outrageous for a door switch. I take a last ditch effort on Amazon. I put in only the four digit code that nobody could work with at four different distributors. 158 sellers. Most expensive one was $9. It will be here tomorrow. KW3A. Look it up yourself. Unbelievable.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Word of advise to DIY appliance repairers: Most appliances use parts which are as generic as possible because economies of scale keep costs low. Often what you are paying for with ridiculous replacement part prices are the special bracket that mounts whatever it is to the machine. Switches, relays, solenoids, valves, etc are not made by the appliance manufacturer, but are catalog items bought from someone else. Dishwasher pumps, washing machine solenoid valves, any sort of clicky switch, etc. can usually be had for just a few dollars. The only expensive components are the ones which actually are custom: membrane keypad, flat flex ribbons, controller boards, etc. Before throwing any appliance away, at least take it apart and give it a shot. If its still broken, at least you tried.
John-Paul Cote 4 years ago
It’s not just Amazon but eBay as well. I was looking at buying sound chips (type for birthday cards, etc). The closest or cheapest I could find was in Ottawa, Canada for about $8 a piece. On eBay, you can get the same chips from the manufacturer in China, to spec, for $1.25. No shipping. What are you supposed to do?
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I live in a rural area, so you can imagine the dire lack of choice and diversity on store shelves. Between Amazon, eBay, and Poshmark, I can at least find items I need or want, without sacrificing all day and a tank of gas to do it.
Benjamin tatham 4 years ago
Well amazon is a huge company, hence they can probably afford to sell things cheaper, whereas a small business may not have as much money
markthomasc 4 years ago
Same with the dryer door switch for us. And the tailgate gaskets for my car. Makes me wonder how many of these part stores order from Amazon and mark up the price. Bought a pool vacuum brush for $20 on eBay. Not available in the big box store website where I bought the vacuum.
lara 4 years ago
It isn't Amazon that is making this work, it is the fact that disparate businesses that would NOT be available to you are on Amazon. My husband is now a convert. He wants something, he gives me the info, I type it in and voila, several options all delivered free, even heavy items.
#74
I am senior and the number of adults that have told me that these will be the years I’ll miss for the rest of my life is disheartening. I feel I have a lot to look forward to in life and I think the message we should be sending to kids is not “it’s all downhill from here.”
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
High school was one of the worst experiences of my life, something I wish I could forget. Sadly my daughter is understanding how crap highschool can really be.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
High school were the four WORST years. Tell kids, as my mom did, "You get out there, and the world is so amazing!".... And that gave me such hope for life.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
I hated school and my life has improved immeasurably since I left 35 years ago. Reliving those days would be cruel and unusual punishment.
Spam Emails 4 years ago (edited)
High school is a horrible nightmare of toxic culture, body shaming, bullying, false prospects, under-trained teachers all while your hormones are raging .... its really just little a smorgashborg of all the bad sterotypical life things that happen you. It hardens you to life, not make you better....
Fiona Buoninfante 4 years ago
I'm 41 and my own experience is those who considered high school the best time of their lives were the assholes in high school for whom high school was their highlight in life. The statement i think is more about how when you are high school age you don't have the responsibilities that you do as an adult at least that's how i read it. I actually like my age now, as a woman i have never felt so comfortable with myself as i do now and cared less about what others think. If you hated high school i think it will get immensely better :-)
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
High school was the worst time of my life, plain and simple. Luckily, 30+ years on, life is immensely better.
Silas O'Connell 4 years ago
This is especially important now, during the pandemic, when so many teens are losing their high school years. I'm a senior, and if these are supposed to be the BEST years of my life, it's gonna be an absolute nightmare in the future.
#75
Seriously, this s*it needs to stop. So many people, with nothing wrong with them other than gluttony and laziness. So many people walk in to walmart, plop their fat asses in the chairs that are for older people and cripples, then just leave them in the middle of the parking lot like the waste of space and resources that they are. Let's be upfront and honest. You don't get to be 500 pounds due to "genetics". 95% of people you see that are that size on a daily basis had NOTHING wrong with them before turning in to a drain on society.
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
There are illnesses that cause weight gain...and people can be both overweight, and have an injury that is invisible but is very painful for the person to walk. Like my dad...he wasn't overweight, but he broke his heel, and it never healed properly. He was always in pain and couldnt walk or stand for long. But looking at him, he looked young enough and "healthy" enough that people would glare at him if he took a motor chair. Just sayin :)
Truth Monster 4 years ago
As we study obesity, we find it has remarkable similarities to drug use. Unlike drug use, however, the burden of treatment for obesity is left strictly to the individual person. If a drug user wants to get clean, they can go into a program with medical support. If you're lucky, your insurance will even cover it. Obese people are told to "just get moving!" and to join a gym.
Clare McDuff 4 years ago
I agree. It’s also WAY more difficult because you can’t go cold turkey. Imagine telling a coke addict he has to only take little hits three times a day. Or an alcoholic can have wine, but only at meals. It’s insane.
Load More Replies... Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
I'd wager that a large portion of individuals who become that obese have a serious mental health issue or some form of PTSD. Maybe try to put yourself in their shoes. Suggesting they suffer because they are obese is pretty cruel.
AnRi 4 years ago
This is true. I have watched my 600 lb life and it seems that almost everyone on that show has severe traumas from childhood like being molested or beaten up or had no emotional support from a parent figure. Labeling these people as just lazy and gluttonous is beyond cruel. These people don't need more bullying, most of them need medical and psychiatric help.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Depending on the effect of the weight on a person’s extremities, they may not be able to use a completely manual chair. But I can see some variation of this actually being beneficial. A person might not be able to stand and walk very far or for very long, but they might be able to sit and move the chair using their feet—-kind of like Fred Flintstone driving his car—-thereby not having to walk standing up, but getting some exercise walking while seated, and maybe having a powered option for when they get too tired or winded from “walking”. Listen, I remember the first neighborhood my husband and I lived in when we got married. There was a rather heavy woman we’d see every day, on a bike, half riding, half walking (mostly walking at first), with her dog walking slowly on a leash beside her. She kept at it and we watched her go from barely making it around the block to cycling like a pro, with her dog having a blast running beside her off leash. Takes patience and perseverance, but it can happen.
Coleonema 4 years ago (edited)
Wait... please help me understand. The shop, provides those chairs that the overweight people sit in to do their shopping that move around... are provided by the store? I'm not American, you just walk in to the shop, grab a bag or trolley and get your groceries. No shops do that here.
Biana Vacker 4 years ago
They are, but I think they are primarily intended for older people? I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong
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If i could, "Just be confident" don't you think I would be already?! I hate being nervous around new people, but I can't just decide to not be. I already understand how important confidence is. I can't explain why I don't have any because I don't know. A depressed person may want to cheer up, but they just can't will themselves happy. There is more to it. This is how I feel about it. I know I can't be the only one.
Daria Z 4 years ago
I pretend being happy and confident. Sometimes I can even fool myself... for a while.
Aj Grimes (they/it)🦄 4 years ago
I feel u. I pretend to act that way at school so people won't be bothering me and asking me what's wrong.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They should be telling them to just be themselves. If the other person isn’t the right person for them, they’ll be better off for having dodged that bullet—-even though it may not feel like it at the time. Just be there for them. They’ll meet someone someday soon who will love them just the way they are.
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
I think most dating advice sucks. Every person is different, and people are attracted to who they're attracted to. You aren't going to form a good relationship with anyone by pretending to be someone you're not.
Amy S 4 years ago
Agree with this one too, and we should totally normalise being nervous in situations where people are usually nervous (e.g. first dates, job interviews, first day of new school). People think they're weird or wrong in some way because they can't just stop themselves being nervous but 99% of people would be nervous in those situations.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
Fake it till you make it 😅 I was ridiculously shy but forced myself to constantly step out of my comfort zone. Overcome one hurdle and then next time try for a bigger one.
Ulrike Sponagel 4 years ago
Admitting to nervousness and fear IS confidence. Tackle your bad feelings by acknowledging them, not by acting upon them. It’s like seasickness. It goes away.
Not Proud British 4 years ago
Confidence comes with being happy with who you are. Stop trying to impress others, embrace yourself. You are unique, a one-off, there is no one else in this world like you. So learn to like yourself, enjoy what you do and your interactions with others. Once you stop looking for relationships you will find they will come to you.
Aliquid A 4 years ago
no, it is way more complicated than that. Social anxiety isn't something that is rational or logical and can simply be "confidenced away"
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Unless you like drinking bitter dark liquid. And if you don't, you add milk or creamer, which just makes it slightly bitter but still not good. And for those who add sugar, it gets too sweet for there to be a real taste. So I don't understand. I will have the occasional cup in a group setting or at my mom's, but I can honestly say I've never had a cup of coffee and said "Oh this one is actually good." People say if you buy super expensive ones, there's a massive difference, but I don't see myself making that investment, nor knowing anyone else who would in order to try theirs. It's just not good, man. Again, it smells amazing. But can coffee lovers just admit they drink it for the poop regulation and caffeine energy boost? This is a safe space.
BorPand8 4 years ago
Yeah, this one is annoying. "I don't like it therefore anyone who says that they do must be lying."
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Yuck, I can’t stand the smell or the taste of coffee. Awful stuff, I really don’t get the appeal.
Birgit Merkentrup 4 years ago
Tastes are different! If I had to choose one thing I would never give up it would be drinking coffee (straight black) because I really love the taste!
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I live the smell of coffee too, to a point. However, I agree that, on its own it’s foul. I prefer a flavored coffee with a little sugar and half and half. On weekends I often have time for a second morning cup. But I would have to be pretty desperate to drink it black with no sugar.
markthomasc 4 years ago
If people really liked the smell or taste of coffee then they'd order it black instead of loaded with other stuff to hide the taste. If your Starbucks order is more complicated than a rocket launch then you don't like coffee.
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
No-one really drinks alcohol for the taste either - they just choose the least vile tasting brew that will get their buzz on.
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
add a pinch of salt to cut out some of the bitterness. you add less sweet stuff while doing that too :)
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
you can add a small pinch to your coffee cup, or add a larger pinch to the coffee grounds before brewing...either way helps
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#78
I don‘t care how big that bag would be, just hang it onto the horsesaddle somewhere. I absolutely hate slaloming around those piles of s*it while riding a bike somewhere.
DC 4 years ago
Yeah, but tell that to the people riding horses in today's inner city and they accuse you of being hateful towards their profession. Which is one of the reasons people are hateful towards the police ... not that I am, but I understand people who are.
lara 4 years ago
Are you saying that people hate cops because horses take a dump?
Load More Replies... Sarah O'Dwyer 4 years ago
In Dublin, there are quite a few carriages that you can get that ride around the city, and I've noticed that they all now have this little.........canopy, for want of a better word, hooked to the (I'm showing my absolute lack of knowledge of equine gear/accessories) harness attaching the reins to the carriage, that catches any...expulsions, for disposal at a later time.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
You can actually get special sacks that catch the poop as the horse is walking. Maybe that should be something that horses must have in public places.
#79
I'm not even sure this would be an unpopular opinion on Reddit however I feel in general videogame composers don't get enough credit from everyone. Composing music for a video game can be significantly harder than for a movie because during a movie the composer knows what will happen and can compose the music so that it sounds perfect for the situation this is not the case in a video game. As someone who has played over 170 hours of ori and the blind forest, hollow knight and Cuphead it disappoints me to see that although they get lots of recognition by gamers the music industry really just snubs them
Random Anon 4 years ago
Check out Jeremy Soule. He did games like Guild Wars, Baldur's Gate and Elder Scrolls. I think his music is right up there with people like Hans Zimmers.
Mallowmelt Tardis 4 years ago
I am actually playing a piano piece from Minecraft right now! It's really beautiful and one of my favorite pieces (if you want to search it up, it's called Wet Hands)
David Williams 4 years ago
Completely agree, non-linear music and the design of this is a nightmare.
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago (edited)
There are so many game-soundtracks that I adore. Like the Skyrim music .. Its a dream! Or Witcher, Mass Effect soundtrack.. amazing master pieces
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I'm not much of a gamer, but I'd like you to recognize Daniel Indart (who wrote the excellent music in the game Tropico) and Jeffery L. Briggs & Christopher Tin (who wrote the also excellent score for Civilization IV).
#80
Burgers that require you to unhinge your jaw to take a bite is not an enjoyable eating experience. For people that worry about making a mess and getting food all over their face and hands, there’s nothing worse.
Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
Yeah, somebody should invent some tools that you could use to put food in your mouth.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
My thoughts exactly. If it's too big to bite, fork it.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
A little messy is tolerable, but the OTT falling apart because it’s stacked too damn high to take a good bite crap just turns enjoyment to punishment, and has to end. Instead of one 6 inch high burger, how about three 2 inch high burgers? Anything, just as long as it’s manageable.
Javiera Gotelli 4 years ago
Same goes for pizza. Italian pizza has few ingredients, unlike that crap they eat in the U.S
Honu 4 years ago
I've had some good American pizza, but usually it has way, way too much cheese (and I love cheese). It's greasy. To me, the pizza should be about the bread. The toppings should accentuate that. I'm ok with American pizza being its own thing and different from Italian pizza. There's room for both.
Load More Replies... Susan Green 4 years ago
I hate it when there is a burger that has 3 patties, huge slice of tomato, lettuce, onion rings on it etc. How can you possibly fit that in your mouth?
Karl Baxter 4 years ago
I always thought the point of a burger is a convenient snack you can eat one or two handed while on the go. At the point where you have to take it apart to fit it in your mouth it’s really stopped being a burger - and just turned into a pile of meat and bread.
#81
I know a bunch of doctors and celebrities and pretty much everyone else is all for giving just about everyone the number to the suicide hotline and pretending they are helping. They aren’t. I’ve called them myself, spoke to countless other individuals about there first hand experiences, and read the stories. Most of the time the suicide hotline ends up doing more harm then good. They have been known to hang up on people in crisis, prematurely call the police on their callers, and use very scripted methods that usually don’t help. I’ve brought this up to multiple mental health professionals and they know the line sucks but they still send it out. It’s over glorified so people can feel like they are making a difference or helping when in reality they are recommending something that does more harm them good.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
The idea is 'distract them from the s-word', but the best way to get through to me in those periods is to asy, 'okay, so let's discuss what suicide means to you..... do you really want to die, or just not have to live this BS anymore?"....
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
The biggest issue we have for Lifeline is that they are always so busy that it is hard to get through to talk to anyone.
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
What is the alternate suggestion? Don't call because it's not good is OK, but without an alternate all you are saying is "go ahead and die".
#82
There are 0 scenarios where I should receive an email from a god damned manager that reads 'take a look at these, there both for you'. I have to go behind my 2 colleagues and 'clean up' the work they fill into communal spreadsheets because I'd be embarrassed if other people thought I contributed such dreck. Just today my workmate had put the simple input 'Mr & Mrs Smith' into a spreadsheet as, and I quote, 'mrq ans mrs smih' and then just moved on with his life with nary a care in the world, like what the F**K, people?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Different people have different things they focus on. I regularly deal with engineers who can't spell or have terrible grammar, or won't punctuate anything. I can do those things. They can do deeply complex electronic circuit design.
TheGirlFromTheNorth 4 years ago
What about people with dyslexia, or if the language in said country isn't their mother tongue? This opinion to me is rather small minded. Maybe you're the problem if your not able to read this stuff...
J. F. 4 years ago
That's somewhat excuseable, but if a job requires the national language to be used fluently it should be done by people who are able to do so
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Okay, so people with dyslexia or other learning difficulties are never allowed to work in an office or hold positions of power. That’s a big ableist don’t ya think?
Joonscrab 4 years ago
It's terribly ableist... Also not all people speak English as their first language so they will be making mistakes... This opinion should stay unpopular
Load More Replies... Dark Pearl 4 years ago
My mum forgets easily, but she is great at her office job, so hecc off, Joe.
trans_ylvania 4 years ago
I can admit that I am a grammar freak. And if you have no good reason not to know these things and you still don't know them, that's admittedly a bit questionable. But seriously consider that people with conditions such as dyslexia can still prove to be instrumental when it comes to office jobs.
#83
It doesn't make sense to me why we have so many cemeteries, some of which are huge. We could be using that land for homes, businesses, agriculture, etc. Even if a person wants to be buried, there's no need to pour cement into the ground or to bury the body in a casket that won't decompose after a few years.
Random Anon 4 years ago
I just want my ashes spread in a nice location like a nice beach or mountain side. You wanna talk? Take a nice trip and relax, then we talk.
Zoe's Mom 4 years ago
Unpopular opinion here but I disagree. I prefer to see a full green lawn even if it's a cemetery than a concrete jungle unless it would be use for agriculture, then I'm in but no more housing or businesses. There are so many empty office spaces (in the US anyway) that we don't need to built more.
Kimberly Payne 4 years ago
Or better yet, just donate your body to science after donating any useable organs. I carry a card in my wallet that I want my body donated.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Soo. This is a religious thing. Christians traditionally don't cremate because they are waiting for Christ to come back.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Many Christians do cremate, b/c we recognize that the idea of a bodily resurrection is freaking George Romero territory, and no thanks, and God will manage.
Load More Replies... Thomas Duncan 4 years ago
How about the fact that many archaeological discoveries come from grave sites, or the fact that the spread of disease or genetic research have been mapped from samples taken from graves centuries old?
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Any use or preservation of green space is a necessity. Cemeteries are also very useful historical documentations of the lives of people long gone. I'd rather have that than a Starbucks anyway.
#84
I get it, you are vulnerable if you have a mental disorder, however that does not give you the green card to expect people to be automatically sensitive towards you or your needs. Sure, when others try to help you because they know of your disorder, they are doing this out of their own kindness not because they owe you anything.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
People should at least try to be more sensitive. You know how easily people get riled?
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
On the flip side, using me as an example, my mental disorder shouldn't be ignored either. I don't want to be catered to, but I would like my anxiety and depression acknowledged and not brushed aside. By my alcoholic mother.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
Again the difference is reason vs excuse. For example, if one of my patients misses an appointment because they had an anxiety attack, that is a valid reason. If they are abusive to my staff because they have a personality disorder, that is an excuse and is not acceptable and will not be catered to.
K. 4 years ago
People can be jackasses with mental illness without the mental illness being the cause of their personality....what’s your take on this?
Load More Replies... Paizleypie 4 years ago
And it doesn't give you the right to treat and talk to people like crap.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And if you are basic-level kind to someone with a psychology/psychiatry issue, that does not make you a superhero.
Lili 4 years ago (edited)
Nobody owes anyone kindness, it's what a decent human does. People with mental disorders, most of the time, wish they could be normal and didn't need that special treatment. Mental disorders are a real handicap, just like any physical ones. If they are using it as an excuse to be a jerk, that's a different story.
Becky Moore 4 years ago
As someone with a PD I'd say if someone with a PD uses it as an excuse to be a d**k and expects to be treated differently because of it then they're probably just a d**k anyways.
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
Of course it doesn't mean people "have" to cater to you. However, if you are a person who has compassion for others, you'll likely be considerate of another's circumstances when you interact with them. Being human doesn't come with compassion as a requirement, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing to have some. You should try it.
Toothless Feline 4 years ago
Everyone should be sensitive to the needs and feelings of the people around them. You are correct that those with disorders shouldn't be "special" in that regard, but the solution is *more* empathy, not less.
Mario Gonzalez 4 years ago
The solution is the lowest common denominator should conform, not the other way around.
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Like we already know the upper limits of natural human strength and fitness and that should be the main focus. But it’d be really ducking cool to see what we can do at the peak of human ability + drugs. IMO that’s like the combined might of sheer f**king will and determination and whatever drugs add to the mix.
Markus Holstein 4 years ago
The point is that these drugs come with in some cases immense health risks and side effects and most professional athletes don't take them because they think it might be a good idea but because they are pressured into it by a highly competitive system
Eric George 4 years ago
I think that professional sports should also be similarly segregated. If someone doesn't object to performance enhancers, then they can watch a different league, MLB-Unlimited.
#86
No. I’m not gonna say “hE’s CrEepY tOwArDs MiNorS” or anything like that. I just think he’s genuinely off-putting. He’s this tall, extremely thin older man without eyebrows who prances around and wears the personality of a shallow, “yas kween” teenage girl. Everything about him sends me into defense mode and I don’t get why he’s so worshipped. Yes, his makeup skills are phenomenal but Jesus Christ his actual personality is so cringy and creepy to me. Sorry for the ramble, just wanted to express it.
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
Especially after everything that’s come out about him. I don’t like him. He’s not a good person
#87
Disney obsessed people tend to say they enjoy the magic and fairytales, but that just feels like denial of how terrible real life is. So instead of working together and fixing life, they spend hundreds, even thousands going to parks, buying merchandise, and watching movies over and over. All the while that money goes to a mega corporation that contributes to the worsening of real life.
Also, Disney is pretty much geared towards kids and being crazy about it is sorta creepy. It just seems like these people have experienced a failure to launch. People should grow up and stop expecting life to be a fairytale.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
***Meanwhile, on Bored Panda, "I Draw Pregnant Disney Princesses!" lolol
Jessica Nametz 4 years ago
Exactly! Sometimes people need a break from the stress from real life and Disney is a great place for that escape (until you bring your kids haha)...
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I Love Disney movies but I am not obsessed. I don’t buy merch, or spend hundreds etc but I do get excited when a new movie or stage show comes out.
Marianne 4 years ago
How does the fact that I like animated movies make me a creep and escapist? In general, I do like movies with happy endings. Does that make me an escapist, too?
Joonscrab 4 years ago
No please don't pay attention to this! This is just a sad human trying to not let others be happy lol
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I love animated films, because many have adult-oriented themes and jokes underlying the kid-focused story. I don't buy merch, I don't have princesses memorized, etc., but I enjoy 90 minutes of denying the shi* of real life. Others escape watching sitcoms, and can tell you everything about every season of Friends, but that's not weird? BTW, I've never been to Disney-whatever, don't wear mouse ears, etc. I had a childhood. No need to relive it. No desire, either. *shiver*
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
It’s OK to like Disney, since most of us were raised on it, but obsession is pretty “out there” for anyone over the age of 10 (and that’s even stretching it). I haven’t been to a Disney park in ages, but I always enjoyed spending time there; it’s always good to let your inner child come out once in a while. But when it was all over, I’d go back to adult mode, refreshed and happy in the knowledge that I haven’t lost my sense of fun and wonder.
Claire the Bear 4 years ago
I'm not in the right "age" for Disney, but ngl I still really like watching the movies because they're pretty good! Also, how do people watch Disney movies and think: "wow I want my life to be like this". Half of the time their parents are dead, they probably should seek therapy, and they spend most of the movie falling in love or being traumatized. I like the parks and the movies, but I've never wanted to have the life of a girl who's parents were dead, got poisoned, died, then had a stranger kiss my corpse, only to wake up and marry them. Nuh, I'd rather go on a bad date
#88
There are a lot of whiny articles recently about how men don't go to university at the same rate as young women, don't work as many hours as they used to, and in general participate less in society and rather play video games or something. This naturally comes at the expense of traditional life attainments such as working yourself to death, having an insanely expensive wedding, and being the sole provider for a family that will eventually kick you out.
Random Anon 4 years ago
I still sometimes get ridiculed for playing computer games being an older person. But but but you're not a kid anymore. Eh but screw em. I like my RPGs.
Holly Smethurst 4 years ago
Or it will result in grown men who create families and think they can not provide equally for them and can stay home playing video games and the cycle will continue as their chidreb decides not to contribute to society and welfare increases as they stay home playing computer games.
Fiona Buoninfante 4 years ago
I think Bill has the right idea. I have no problem with people doing what they want but how are they paying for it? Mooching off their poor parents? Having a trust fund? You need money for rent, food, transportation not to mention said Hobbies! Hobbies cost $$
#89
It may be just the nostalgia talking, but I very much liked the "quality" of the content you could find on the internet back in the day, when the majority was created by people who had real jobs (or schools) and could only create content in their spare time. And I'm not talking only about YouTube videos, but also about general blogs and more "specialized" sites. I'm not 100% sure what it is, but to me it's either that the content was not so much money-driven and people could fully express themselves without caring for the "brand" or "monetization" or what not, or that they were much more connected to the everyday issues of everyday people. I'm also not saying there are no good content creators right now, or that all of them are disconnected from the reality, but it's kind of sad that it's not the norm anymore.
ZombieGirl 4 years ago
I've never thought about this, but I agree! I got to be a teen and young adult before "social media" and "content" became a thing...it was a much simpler way of life!
Julie 4 years ago (edited)
It might be jealousy or just disdain, on my part. But it just sticks in my craw that adolescents and young adults are becoming millionaires on YouTube. Watching them play video games as they comment on the games, warrants millions of dollars of income? How did this happen?
markthomasc 4 years ago
Commercial at the beginning, two minute plug and a reminder to LIKE, video purposely made longer to add addition commercials, one right at the end that you have to watch to see the last 30 seconds...yeah, it's frustrating.
#90
It just makes me so angry to see someone say s*it like this because the person was trying to be considerate and you ruined it. It bother’s me so much every time I hear it. I would consider myself agnostic but I don’t go around flaunting it. I think this goes well with any religion, really.
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
It bothers me that people feel the need to baptise sneezes, yet here we are...
Baby Panda 4 years ago
The reason they do that is because a long time ago they thought when you sneezed it meant you were going to die(because it was a symptom of the plague) so they said "bless you" so they would be protected from death.
Load More Replies... Billybobjoe 4 years ago
Im atheist and thankfully I have never done this. The only reason why I say Im atheist is because if someone ask me about my religion or start questioning it.
Kiss Army 4 years ago (edited)
Me too. If some tells me to have a blessed day or says they will pray for me (like when my father passed away), I just say a polite thank you. I don't want my beliefs mocked so I will not mock someone else's when what they are saying is coming from their genuine belief and goodwill towards me.
Load More Replies... Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Me too but I think it sounds stupid and I only say it to strangers because they like to hear it. To my family I just say something else. I adopted that from Seinfeld, he tells everyone “you are soooo good lookin!” So I tell my fiancé “you’re so amazing.”
Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Religion aside i find it really odd to say something when someone sneeze. I France it's "your wishes". What if i fart? "your wishes", i burp? "your wishes", my belly gurgle? "your wishes"... that's really strange i never told "your wishes" in my life.
Batwench 4 years ago
Or announce the stero typical “ I am a vegan “ every time that food or clothes are mentioned.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
Dude I just had the best quesadilla! “I’m vegan”
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#91
Emojis shouldve just stayed yellow colored. whats the point of choosing a certain skin color. for each emoji you manually choose the skin color that applies to you, but why is it important? just shows how obsessed people today still are with skin color and how they have to differentiate between each other by all means.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
No, they just like feeling seen and represented, like all of us do. For so long the “standard” was all white, as if no other race even existed, so it’s nice to see it totally busted. Because there is no “standard”. People come in all shapes, sizes, and skin tones, and those who were never represented before like feeling included, and deserve to finally see themselves in something, even if it’s only an emoji. Or a Band-Aid. Or makeup. It’s no skin off any white person’s ass if there are non-white emojis, FFS. So just shut up, mind your own business, and let people be happy.
Whimsy 4 years ago
It's not about being separated, but 'represented'. I know how much it meant for my friends, who are poc. Everyone should have that option, to feel represented.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yes. We should stop dividing people in gender and race. Your genetic background is only relevant if you are talking about racism. The rest of the time it is not needed.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
What colour should the emojis be then?? White? Black? Asian? .... The standard for everything is white. They just brought representation to emojis. This is just being inclusive. Accepting all races doesn't mean that you stop acknowledging it.
Load More Replies... JESSE REED 4 years ago
or it just shows that people like to customize things and show individuality.
Hurrem Haseki 4 years ago
It's not about being obsessed, it's about representation, and the fact that anyone (or, at least more and more people in each upgrade) can choose an image that represents them. That's not bad, and it's not "too much".
Lia Hamilton 4 years ago
True. I haven’t really thought about it like that really. I guess I just thought it was cool to have an emoji that looked (barely) like me. But it does seem to be counterproductive
#92
And no, I’m not vegan or vegetarian. Meat on pizza is fine, great even. A pizza loaded down with so many different meats that chunks of sausage fall off when I’m trying to eat it is not even appetizing. There are so many contrasting meat-flavors and I really don’t understand why it is so popular. I truly think some of its popularity stems from some weird place of machismo and anti-veganism. Many of the same people who order meat lovers pizza turn their nose up at even the mention of vegetable toppings. And you know what? There are some bomb ass pizzas with veggies on them.
John Louis 4 years ago
Ridiculous, if you like a particular food, then you do. If not, that is fine also. Respect individual tastes.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
So don't buy those pizzas. And calm the hell down. Your opinion isn't important.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
People are allowed to like whatever kind of pizza they like. I personally don’t find pineapple on pizza particularly appetizing. But if someone else loves it and enough of it, more power to them. I’ll eat my pizza (whatever flavor I’m in the mood for), and leave them to eat theirs. And there shall be peace-ahh in the land.
Donkey boi 4 years ago
I like the flavour of all the mixed meats, it blends well to me! This is personal taste. I'm a self confessed carnivore and just because I love meat but it doesn't mean I don't like veggies or I'm anti-vegan. You do you and I'll do me.
Melanie King 4 years ago
I kind of don't agree because sometimes, i absolutely LOVE the meat-lovers pizza, and other times i literally just want a cheese pizza. It depends. I don't really like veggies/pineapple on pizza, but thats just my opinion.
Lady Snowfall 4 years ago
I love meat-lovers pizza, and I love veggie pizza. It's just what mood I'm in. Who cares?
#93
I mean that’s pretty much it but if you post about your problem in your marriage or with substance abuse or difficult parents for the love of GOD get a second opinion from an actual professional - who will tell you that, fun fact, your husband not making you a sandwich is not spousal abuse.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
More often than not they will agree. A lot of partner and relatives are abusive. We just hide it before under the rug.
Ian Koch 4 years ago
HOW DOES SOMEONE THINK A HUSBAND NOT MAKING THERE WIFE A SANDWICH IS SPOUSAL ABUSE!?
Load More Replies... Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
If someone is asking the internet for advice on whether they should stay married, i suspect they already know the answer and are just looking for validation.
#94
Pretty much what the title says. Not my opinion, but my husband’s. In college my husband and I would make oven pizzas and he would run his slices under the water fountain to cool it down faster. He says it didn’t change the taste and was still good.
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago (edited)
You feel the need to get a divorce just because their partner runs their pizza under water?
Load More Replies... Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
Who eats soggy pizza? Can't you just wait a minute for it to cool?
#95
I am a true believer that cereal with water is better. The taste of milk conflicts with the taste of the cereal, whereas water does not. While still getting the same texture, water does not ruin the taste of cereal. My friends crucified me when I told them this...so for this reason I am coming here in search of others who share my beliefs of water being better than milk.
WiTchY_WoMaN 4 years ago
Lol all those down votes. People must feel really strongly about what they put in their cereal :)
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I always though cereals were designed so that milk would enhance their flavors, even if the flavor dust comes off and turn the milk whatever color the dust is.
Curry on... 4 years ago
Hmm, this made me hungry for one of my favorite snacks - dry cereal...dry honey-nut cereal.
What do you think ?
Carrot dude 4 years ago
"unpopular opinions" This entire post is just chock-full of popular opinions. If you're going to take the most upvoted comments, they're going to be popular.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Yeah I gave up. They were all popular opinions and all the comments are “yes I so agree! Here’s a long explanation of why!” And then we can’t even vote down the popular ones for some reason.
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Computernaut 4 years ago
I can't either. Maybe it has to do with the whole "unpopular opinion" thing?
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brukernavn340 4 years ago
This article (or whatever you call it), should be flipped on its head, so that the most unpopular opinions came first. Most of the (upper) entries seems in fact to be popular opinions.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
You can’t even vote on the items in this list. It’s just a sounding board for people to agree with each other lol
Load More Replies... uber mensch 4 years ago
A college degree is NOT the answer for everyone. Many, many kids would be better off going to a trade school. Colleges are dispensing so many degrees that the degrees have lost most of their value.
John Louis 4 years ago
The ones about what food tastes good or better are ridiculous. If you like a particular food then you do. If you don't you don't. Respect other's personal opinions in the same way you would want them to respect your own opinion. No one needs to post that chocolate icecream tastes better than vanilla.
d bradley 4 years ago
i was continually surprised by the big hoo-rahs for cilantro in everything. IT TATSES LIKE DISH SOAP. then i found out it is in your genes whether you like it or not. now i think i was right when i told my mom "i don't like those, or those or that"
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Carrot dude 4 years ago
"unpopular opinions" This entire post is just chock-full of popular opinions. If you're going to take the most upvoted comments, they're going to be popular.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Yeah I gave up. They were all popular opinions and all the comments are “yes I so agree! Here’s a long explanation of why!” And then we can’t even vote down the popular ones for some reason.
Load More Replies... Computernaut 4 years ago
I can't either. Maybe it has to do with the whole "unpopular opinion" thing?
Load More Replies... brukernavn340 4 years ago
This article (or whatever you call it), should be flipped on its head, so that the most unpopular opinions came first. Most of the (upper) entries seems in fact to be popular opinions.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
You can’t even vote on the items in this list. It’s just a sounding board for people to agree with each other lol
Load More Replies... uber mensch 4 years ago
A college degree is NOT the answer for everyone. Many, many kids would be better off going to a trade school. Colleges are dispensing so many degrees that the degrees have lost most of their value.
John Louis 4 years ago
The ones about what food tastes good or better are ridiculous. If you like a particular food then you do. If you don't you don't. Respect other's personal opinions in the same way you would want them to respect your own opinion. No one needs to post that chocolate icecream tastes better than vanilla.
d bradley 4 years ago
i was continually surprised by the big hoo-rahs for cilantro in everything. IT TATSES LIKE DISH SOAP. then i found out it is in your genes whether you like it or not. now i think i was right when i told my mom "i don't like those, or those or that"
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