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Unpopular opinions—chances are, we all have them. Whether we voice them or not is up to us entirely, but of course, some people cannot resist a chance to share their thoughts in some online threads, especially if you can hide behind an avatar and a username that probably isn’t going to expose your real identity to anyone (unless you don’t care, that is).

A popular Twitter user by the name of @jzux aka ‘trash jones’ asked her followers to share their most benign unpopular opinions. As expected, the thread was too hard to resist for a lot of the bird app users as the tweet went viral, receiving over 21.4K quote tweets as well as a lot of entertaining replies under the original post itself.

With that being said, if you’d like to see what is this all about, then think no further and scroll down below to see if you agree or disagree with some of the statements these people shared online.

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Interestingly enough, the Georgia Institute of Technology has actually done studies in regard to unpopular opinions people have. Using the data found (that was based on a popular subreddit called R/unpopularopinion), Dasom Eom, Linh Hoang, and Gerry Oei came to some rather interesting conclusions based on their study.

Their research heavily links to a social phenomenon called the spiral of silence. To understand this better, first, you have to know what the theory of the spiral of silence entails. German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann developed the spiral of silence theory, which combines political science and mass communication. It claims that a person's desire to express their own beliefs is influenced by how they perceive the distribution of the general public's opinions.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Making your whole identity about your mental illness is weird too. I understand that being deep down in the hole that is clinical depression makes it hard to see anything beyond that, but you get perfectly functioning humans build a whole new personality and lifestyle around a diagnosis.

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The development of internet technology and online communication has recently prompted people to speak out and share their opinions in public online, shattering the barrier of the spiral of silence. Users can openly post and discuss socially undesirable opinions on the subreddit r/unpopularopinion. In this exact study, the forum was studied using the results from participant interviews and community observation. Then they also presented a descriptive analysis to demonstrate how the online space aids its users in overcoming the spiral of silence.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It works, just not for you. Or me. Or anyone outside a very small, very wealthy minority.

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In conclusion, one of the issues with online spaces (especially Reddit) identified in the study is the recurrent re-uploading of similar viewpoints on the same subject. After a while, users may believe the viewpoint is common and widespread after repeatedly hearing similar unpopular thoughts, thus it becomes the popular idea in the end.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed as someone who is planning to be child-free. BUT its also equally annoying when people make kids their whole personality and blame those who don't want them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree, pineapple belongs on pizza as much as all other ingredients such as pepperoni. Let people eat what they want to eat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like tattoos on other people. Can never think of anything I want that badly myself.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES! It's one of the best flavours along side mint chocolate chip and lemon sorbet

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d much rather have neutral cream walls. May be boring, but you can add colour with pictures, rugs and accessories. Then if you want to change colour scheme you don’t have to repaint everything.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, some people actually have problems eating certain kinds of food. It might be the texture that will make them gag or throw up. It might give them indigestion.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On one hand, I kinda get this, but on the other hand, a really awesome concert generates an incredible atmosphere that's all but impossible to not get swept up in. Also, it's a way of supporting your favorite artists :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been going to very different weddings. The weddings I attend are great - you spend time celebrating with family and friends. You eat, you dance, you chat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The idea is that you know a person so well, that there is little risk of buying the terrible gift. I you do not know that person that well, you should be allowed to bring a totaly generic gift. like a bottle of wine or the latest John Grisham.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhm ... that sounds like "I don't want it" to me. If I have burgers at noon I will not eat burgers at night.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think everybody feels that way, and most people thinks oh god no, I can't sing, when they are forced to celebrate a birthday this way, and even the birthday boy/girl will be embarished when everybody's eyes is turned on them. So why we do it is still a conundrum for me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not supposed to eat them. you are supposed to look at the package and then throw it out in a few weeks. then they get buried and 3 days before easter, the peeps come out of the ground and appear on store shelves.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Roundabouts and 4 way stops are insanely common across Europe. It’s only Americans that seem to have a problem with them since they’re more rare.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are not rare anywhere that I've lived in the US. Not sure where you are getting that info.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever arrives first, goes first. Simultaneous arrival? Wave 'em on.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when you arrive simultaneously, i think the person to your right has the right of way, but yes, i usually wave somebody on cuz it's easier than taking the chance that they'll turn in front of me going straight. lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe someone can genuinly be confuse by 4-way stops!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This! This is the problem I have discovered with roundabouts. Am I really the only person who knows how to recognize and understand the meaning behind a yield sign. It's maddening.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We don't have 4-way stops in my country. We don't want them in my country.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And those of us who can take on and work a traffic circle like a boss… we’d like everyone else to just park and watch for a while.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why? It was on the test you took to get your license. I think the problem for most folks who struggle with this is that they have to know when to yield the right of way and for many people these days doing anything that doesn't put them first isn't even a scenario they're capable of considering.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the Canadian combo of 4-way stops and turn right on red.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a question in the drivers test about what to do if lights are out in both directions… it’s called a 4 way stop… roundabouts are similar but without the stop signs!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Sweden, in a 4-way crossing, the one coming from the left should make way for the one coming from the right. In a roundabout it's the other way around. When you're in a roundabout, you make a signal when you want to leave it. I'm currently learning to drive (late in life) and this is what the teachers and textbooks are saying. It's probably similar in other European countries with right-hand traffic, but I don't know for sure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Four way stops? Does she mean intersections? You're not supposed to just blaze across intersections, and the right of way is excruciatingly obvious even without signage, despite being ABUNDANTLY provided for hundreds of meters before such an intersection.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds to me like you shouldn't be driving if you can't figure out a 4 way stop. Stop embarrassing yourself

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

dont worry I say left and mum goes right, so I say left and she is supposed to go right. But she goes left. Then yells at me for giving the wrong directions.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a semi sarcastic comment about people "not being able to drive" like the OP wants them to.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Give me a roundabout any day. Four way stops here are crazy - the rule (not sure if it is written) is, whomever was there first gets to go first. A driver sees another vehicle approach the intersection from the right or left roads they speed up to get to the stop sign so they can go first. Like it's some kind of race. However, roundabouts are pretty new here and a lot of drivers who don't know how to navigate them unless they are from the UK or EU. There are drivers who treat them like 4 way stops...race to the entry and if they got there first then they have right of way even if another car is IN the roundabout already.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While this isn't entirely related, I once worked at a grocery store with a sweet girl. She succeeded well academically. But she did the stupidest things..Like you'd wonder how she crossed a street safely. She became a doctor. I'm sorry, but I would never have her as my doctor...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should’ve seen me and my buddy driving our British wagons the wrong way round a roundabout in France, I turned left onto the roundabout he followed my lead, I was wrong, so was he. The French blokes sat at the cafe smoking their Gitanes laughed as we struggled to exit on the right but driving the wrong way around the roundabout. We were lucky it was a very quiet town well away from any traffic.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I'm from in Canada we had only four way stops and I didn't learn how to drive roundabouts till we got one in town. It's scared the heck out of me and I got honked at for doing it wrong. However I'm totally pro roundabout and think four ways are so less effective.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, the times I've wanted to get out of my vehicle at a 4-way cross and give people a dope slap. You'd think they were trying to solve some quantum math problem.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Easy easy, give way to the right, or in your case in the USA to the left. Then go.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And don't forget the left hand turn lanes that run the entire length of the streets all over the city. I don't get how people can't figure them out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol, try finding people in our neck of the woods in Spain, we learned to be happy that about 25% knows how to act on a traffic circle, the most people here are masters of disasters 😳😂

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I am approaching a four-way stop and other cars are coming up too, I deliberately roll up slowly and do an obvious brake after the others so they know I’m last.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the Netherlands we have 4 way intersections without any signs. Isn't that just the same initially?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find it vice versa. Soft covers won't stay open, you have to break their spines or hold the pages down with a ruler, or use both hands. Hardcover you can leave open on your desk without using hands.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i actually love good wine. everyone has different tastes. people can believe what they want.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They play like the adults around them - my older daughter copies my wife and me, and we look after a baby so she wants to look after a baby too. I don't know how different it would be if we had a boy, or we didn't have a second child. Our older daughter also likes playing with cars and diggers, FWIW

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Avocados are healthy and contain good ingredients. They taste good with pasta.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to think so too. Then I learned that instead of infusing it with boiling water (100°C/212° F), I should use slightly cooler water (70°C/158°F), also the leaves shouldn't be in cup for too long. The difference is big. I'm not saying that he HAS to like green tea but for many people it's a matter of drinking badly prepared one.

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