That’s why, if I ever build a house, it’ll be as much concrete and alloy as possible. Because the only reason I can imagine I’d own a house is if I had a family, and I know how my brother and I treated the house we grew up in. I wouldn’t expect my own kids to be much different.
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To me, that’s natural, self-evident, obvious. But yeah, the consensus wisdom, especially if you listen to broadcast weatherpeople where I live, is that anything other than sunny and 70 is bad. Let it snow!
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Also don’t let tim allen do them for you.
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Worth knowing - the genetic mutation that allows people to digest lactose long after they should have been weaned is European in origin, and fairly recent. Most East Asian, African, and Native Americans are lactose intolerant by adulthood (up to 98% in some populations). I’m fully American, but have enough native in me that I became quite lactose intolerant as an adult. Milk is poison to me, and cheese is just rotten poison. It’s kind of natural to see something that gives you the running shits everytime you eat it as repulsive. That’s not so much culture as nature.
Me too! It was something about how with railroads, it could be bought cheap on the east coast and served expensive in the midwest as a luxury (because the midwesterners didn’t know that they were eating gross ocean roaches).
100% agree. Let’s hide the scrollbar, confuse the backspace and delete keys, make the editing keys work differently in every single program, have a mouse with no buttons, and make shortcut keys require 4 hands to type! That’ll make things easy to use! (Real unpopular opinion: Apple was never easy to use though. Their GUI was more difficult and confusing than the command line even in the early Mac days.)
Me too! That’s a 30-year commitment, and a lot can change in 30 years. Maybe if we had 30-year job/pay guarantees we could consider a 30-year commitment, but that’s never going to happen. Besides, if we’d bought a house big enough for the kids, we’d have too much house by the time it was paid off. And who knows where we’ll want to be then anyway? On average, I think I’ve moved about once every 3 years in my life. My parents owned one house that we lived in for 4 years and one that I lived in for 6 years. Signing up for 30 years of payments when you know you’re only gonna be somewhere for a few years just seems wrong to me.
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What happens if I tell you she’ll be starring in a lavish new production as Queen Victoria? (Maybe you knew this already, in which case, keep slavering and carry on.)
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Which got me wondering if something like a lobster even has adrenaline or perhaps the inventor here is using a golden shovel. Couldnt find anything that says they do and this that says they don’t
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Surely they have stress chemicals though? That opens up a door of plausibility that requires research.
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Why? Since were talking unpopular opinions, who actually cares about this?
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Whaaaat? That’s just crazy pants. It ain’t the food of the gods (well, maybe some minor god who likes halfway decent chain pizza) but their medium 2-topping pizzas are $6 on the regular and that’s cheaper than pretty much anything else.
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I pay taxes not exactly happily but without grumbling.
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I liked this because it’s unpopular*, not because I like it.
* and wrong. WRONG.
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It’s not the paying taxes I mind. It’s the “doing tax returns.” They have my information. They can take the right amount without my input and let me dispute it they get it wrong. If not for the tax prep lobby, the US could have a system to rival New Zealand’s. 1040EZ my ass.</rant>
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Word.
I think Benedict Cumberbatch is really quite unattractive, but has a voice made of silk. I’d greatly prefer it if he’d get off the movie screen and dedicate the remainder of his years recording books.
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This is not an opinion, it is a fact. And you’re right about his voice!
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Not according to all the swooning women I know who watch Sherlock and his movies just to stare at his large hatchet shaped face.
I couldn’t get past the freaky ass triangle smile he kept doing in Star Trek.
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Some people do eat spiders.
I love lobster, but don’t like dealing with the mess of eating a whole one.
I think what has become “fancy” about lobster is not the eating of it per se, but the eating of the tail and claw meat without wearing a too-small plastic bib, cutting yourself on jagged shells, sucking on legs, avoiding gross guts and generally making a huge mess.
Once stopped at a place in Fitchburg, Mass. where you could get two lobsters for under $20. You had to go to the counter, order, then sit down in the fast-food seating (all plastic, all bolted down, McDonalds-style) and wait for your number to be hollered. Food came out in thin cardboard containers loaded on plastic trays. From the location (a depressed NE mill town) to the restaurant to the clientele, there was absolutely nothing fancy about any of it, not even the lobster. (Which I didn’t have that night, fwiw.)
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I used to piss Apple Kool-Aid, but the progressive and drastic deterioration of iTunes is probably the single biggest thing that brought me back toward sanity.
Somewhere, deep in the heart of Apple, is an invincible Bad Idea: that iTunes best serves the user as an all-purpose media store, media library and device manager. The damn thing even needs to be running if you’re playing, say, a movie stored on that computer on your Apple TV. This stupid program needs to be bust up into a dozen pieces.
Meanwhile on iOS, the Music app is an epic shitshow, as are the various overlapping or only-apparently-overlapping Apple music services.
But these are hardly unpopular opinions.
The part about Apple not having a special claim to ease-of-use, sure.
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Some of the native New Englanders I know delight in demolishing a whole lobster, including the tiny legs and the tomalley (aka its guts). Myself, I’m just fine with “lazy man’s lobster”, piled in a dish and topped with buttered Ritz cracker crumbs.
The best lobster isn’t at restaurants where you pay $20/lb, but at crab shacks in fishing towns like Gloucester MA, where your lobster was caught a few hours ago and is served on a paper plate with some butter, a plastic fork, and some wet naps, eaten on a picnic bench overlooking the pier and fishing boats.
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Even then, my husband held his previous job for 12 years, but we moved twice because they relocated their offices! And then, when the company was clearly floundering, the best offer we got was in another state, so we up and moved again. I’ve got 3 different friends who all bought houses and then had to relocate and still can’t sell the houses they own in different states. My best friend bought a house in Oklahoma City almost 10 years ago, she’s been living in Germany for the last 5, and now she’s back in the states but planning to live in Boston. Still trying to sell that house.[quote=“renke, post:232, topic:83415”]
I pay taxes not exactly happily but without grumbling.
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I enjoy filling out tax forms. Or any forms, really. So nice and organized! Everything has a place!
I also think public speaking is tons of fun. That’s one I know is unpopular; most people would rather be in the coffin than giving the eulogy.
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As a guy who’s been an Apple fanboy and been bought into the ecosystem for a good 20 years now (and a shareholder), it saddens me to agree. I’d like to think I’m fairly tech savvy but I’m baffled by iTunes/Apple Music on a daily basis. It’s nearly impossible for me to tell at any point in time where the music I’m listening to is located, if it’s streaming, if it’s a mp3 I bought or ripped, etc.
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