“Girls Just Pretend To Like It”: 38 People Reveal What Unpopular Opinions They Have About Our Society

I watch everything but music videos at 1.5x speed, and I’ll go up to 1.75x if it’s monstrously slow. Aside from the annoying off-topic stuff and “cute” stories, sometimes people try to speak especially slowly as if they’re talking to small children or slow adults, and I wanna tear my hair out, and I’ve bugged YouTube since Day One to allow us to set a default speed so I needn’t reselect the for every single visit. And if I need the instructions and simply cant get what I need even at 1.75x, then I’ll simply look at the transcript; even as annoying as YouTube has made them, they’re STILL better than listening to someone who takes 35 minutes to get a topic across that can be restated in 90 seconds. 🙄🙄🙄

I have no problem eating the same frickin' thing 5 days in a row. That's kinda what I do when living alone -- just make a big batch of something and eat it for leftovers the rest of the week. Then the next week I'll change it up -- so it's not like I don't have variety, I just don't feel the need for something different *every* day.

It’s not even a GOOD SONG; it’s just a holiday greeting repeated four times. Imagine “Merry Christmas to you! Merry Christmas to you! Merry Christmas, dear Binky! Merry Christmas to you!” or “Happy Halloween to you! Happy Halloween to you! Happy Halloween, dear Binky! Happy Halloween to you!” or “Happy newborn to you! Happy newborn to you! Happy newborn, dear Madison and Austin! Happy newborn to you!” Or “Happy Graduation to you! Happy Graduation to you! Happy Graduation, dear Nevaeh! Happy Graduation to you!” I’m gonna stop now because I annoyed myself, but anyone with a second-grade education coulda written that stupid, unimaginative, non-rhyming, dumb thing. 🤬

I dunno about “cute”; I’m thinking of pugs and bulldogs, and can’t imagine ANYONE thinking they’re anything besides “unfortunate-looking,” and I’m using that term solely for those people who own ‘em and would be bent out of shape if I used the words they truly deserve to describe their looks. 😰Boxers also have mashed faces, don’t they? If I’m right, then they’re in the same boat. I don’t get it. If breeders were making truly *beautiful* animals, I spose I could see their motivation IF the result is a healthy animal, but trying to “perfect” a genuinely homely dog who has physical problems making it difficult for him to STAY ALIVE, or even just to live a life free of CONSTANT MISERY, I don’t get it. At all. It makes zero sense. It seems so astonishingly selfish, thoughtless, and entirely lacking in empathy to breed an animal so it can SUFFER ITS ENTIRE LIFE. What the hell motivates these sickos? It cant *really* be trophies and ribbons, can it?

Ah; I’d thought I was the problem. Most of the people who’ve come off “SNL” in the past 30 years or so aren’t that funny (and some aren’t even as funny as a generic fart noise). Even Rob Schneider, who’s largely just mildly funny, is a laugh riot next to Farrell. But I’ll give Farrell credit for being funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, who I’ve never heard say anything amusing, let alone funny. Having said all this, Farrell has been excellent in straight-up drama movies; I think he’d be terrific if he dropped the “comedy” and just tried to copy Anthony Hopkins in his script choices.

Not just for themselves; I find it so odd and tiresome when every day, I read someone saying of a relative or a coworker, “He’s a narcissistic sociopath with a borderline personality.” When those words come out of a psychiatrist or psychologist, great! Excellent! But when it’s a relative, coworker, or just Joe Average posting on Reddit, a message forum, social media, or whatever, I just roll my eyes. I’m not taking an IT professional’s or a plumber’s word that the person they’re talking about has those things, as I don’t believe the speaker knows his a*s from his elbow and certainly isn’t qualified to make those diagnoses!

Ugh. I’ve yet to find a dog smaller than a Jack Russell about whom I’ve thought “This dog is so cool; I want one!” A neighbor had four untrained Yorkies who did nothing but yap nonstop and bite. When I was bitten for the fourth time (he nailed me in the Achilles tendon! Argh!) I finally said something and was rude, but she earned it with those little hellhounds. Not their faults she never taught ‘em how to behave, but I blamed her for all my misery and suffering with the bites (one of which was in my *groin*), and all my pent-up anger came out. She never spoke to me again, but she also always leashed those little balls of terror afterwards. A dog barking for a genuine reason is cool, but dogs who bark simply to make noise? Keep ‘em away from me as I’m at the point in my life where I’ll bite THEM.

So are “Apple vs Android” and “PlayStation vs Xbox.” Who fυcking CARES?! Use what you want and SHUT THE HELL UP about what other people use! Why do you care what other people use? Even if you’re a shareholder, ONE damned possession isn’t gonna change your dividends! Next time I hear any of this nonsense, I’m shoving a slice of pineapple pizza in your piehole!

I have a neighbor who LOVES the things I make, yet when I hold up a fork with a tiny amount of what I’m offering, makes a face as if he’s gonna gag and backs away. Drives me out of my mind. If I’m happily eating something, he’ll come along, look at it, and ask whether I have some for him and he’ll eat it, but a morsel on a fork? Especially if it’s something he’s never had (tobiko, salmon ceviche, etc)? He acts as if I’m trying to poison him. Jesus. Taste everything you can at least ONCE so you’ll know whether you like it! I remember my first time tasting eel; since I caught ‘em all the time when I went fishing and they’re annoying to get off the hook to throw back, I thought it was gonna be gross, but it’s DELICIOUS, and you won’t know what you’re missing if you don’t TRY.

I’ll only go to venues holding up to 1200. Over that and I panic I’ll be crushed by the crowd. (Saw Pink Floyd as a teen (hadn’t known who they were) and the venue was two hours late opening the doors. When they finally did, the crowd rushed in, and a girl’s pelvis was broken when she was pushed against a handrail.) More than that, though, I like to stand right under the performer. If perspiration splashes on me, so much the better! (Prolly the luckiest experience I’ve had seeing bands was Rammstein at a 1000-capacity venue! Not many [non-German] people can say that.)

Or the orange-colored peanut things. Don’t even taste of peanuts; they taste of bananas! They’re like Peeps without the sugar coating. Whyyy? Who thinks they’re great?

I think it's just pushing against all the parents who are constantly talking about their kids to childfree people. It gets to be a little too much, so why not balance the scales a bit?

I make a deal with the neighborhood spiders whenever I move to a new place. As long as they stay outside, they're safe. IF they venture to come into my abode, they must agree not to make themselves known, or put up webs anywhere -- I'm not going to go hunting them down, but if I see them inside, all bets are off.

80%, huh? Methinks this person has known a few people who treated their pets poorly and now thinks they account for the majority.

Maybe if you eat that c**p that’s a “dairy-like food product” that’s largely chemicals with air whipped into it? If you eat good ice cream with no more than cream, egg yolk, sugar, and your flavor choice (whether that’s vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut, pistachios, whatever) then you have excellent ice cream. Once you start removing that stuff and replacing it with vanillin, guar gum, and all those other thickeners, sweeteners, and so on, it’s become 💩 and just gets 💩ier with each additional replacement.

Heathen!

This person has somehow managed never to eat a good donut. Are there maybe countries that make yucky ones? How is it possible he’s never had a good donut? A genuinely GOOD donut is one of life’s great gifts! Sometimes when I need a snack and have nothing snacky, I get out the frying pan and get the oil the right temperature while I make the dough. I salivate the ENTIRE TIME waiting for those babies to come out of the pan and into my mouth! Criminy; I’m drooling on my iPad now,so I’m off to make some donuts!

This is how I feel about scotch and rye. Have people who drink those never tasted bourbon? Why would you elect to drink those when bourbon exists?