or when people say "no offense" and then does something offensive.
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Dunkirk was boring. Like, really, really boring.
Clover lawns are pretty.
Seems kinda unpopular based on just the sheer amount of pristine lawn grass there is. But is also so incredibly low stakes it's boring
The most boring, I dunno. My most boring unpopular opinion? Licorice is absolutely delicious.
Also - music now is certainly as good as at any time in the past.
Gravity Falls was kinda okay. I feel like it had more potential with how fun the characters were but then again it's a Disney cartoon so there's limitations
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"Marvel/DC movies BAD."
They're products aimed at children with the intention of selling other related products. The fact that some biological adults love them excessively in certain communities/cultures says something about those groups, but doesn't change the nature of the films themselves. What exactly did you expect?!
Maybe it’s just me, but I also find it weird to see adults with t-shirts or stickers on their cars of what are essentially kid’s shows and comics.
"Racism good?"
Folks shouldn't wall on grass. It kills it eventually if too many do.
Lawn grass is an invasive species in the Americas and should be removed whenever possible
PiNeApPlE oN PiZzA eWwW!!!!1one
I'm so sick of pretend pearl clutching over this non-issue. If you don't like it, don't eat it. If you do, that's fine too.
And for the record, my stance on pineapple on pizza is.... drumroll
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Who the fuck cares!
That's not a boring unpopular opinion. It's a boring popular one.
Charred fresh pineapple is completely different than pale bland lumps from a can too. Hawaiian style pizza can be good but blandness is death.
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I dunno. But my personal most boring unpopular opinion is that people care too much about "proper grammar" and shit, especially online. Originally they were all made to be guidelines, not rules; even capital letters were optional. Get creative with it. Fuck the rules… use ellipses, start with prepositions, have tiny or longer sentences, make it more interesting to read. Otherwise everything reads like it was written by ChatGPT
That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.
I got hit with this by an elderly person one day. They went on about how there's so much food out there that they could just forage for, but they choose to beg for it. I was working, so all I could do was smile and nod, but that smile was just frozen in place like a grimace.
During this whole rant my boss and I kept glancing at each other like they were insane. I can't remember the exact details, I cleansed my brain of that garbage, but there were a few times my boss' eyes flashed and I thought he was going to flip out.
They left like they were the avatar of mercy and understanding. I may have forgotten what they said exactly, but I'll never forget how they looked, because that went right down in my mind under "people I'll never become". I mean... you have to actively try to become that ignorant, right?
...Right?
Remember that their generation were the same ones who beat black protestors and spit on drafted Vietnam vets. They're also going to die off soon and the world will be better without them
Even if people did choose to do so, it should be a huge red flag to happen then. If people would rather sleep on the street than participate in society, maybe shit is fucked up.
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Responding to any kind of misfortune with "They deserved it."
eg. People struggling to pay their rent should have budgeted better. People whose uber eats wasn't delivered shouldn't have used uber eats. People with medical debt should've had health insurance. etc. etc.
Not even an opinion, but the response of someone callous and deeply ignorant about how the world and people work. 😔
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But the bigger car makes me feel safer
And so should the deadlier gun but at some point you risk becoming a danger. Ofc if you have no morals you won't care but if you do, then you'll think about it at least twice.
Automobile rear window tints should be banned outright
Illinois is crazy. So here you have two main options, you can black out your back window and the side back windows if it's a 4 door or those little side backseat windows in a 2 door. Or you can do 35% all around, besides the windshield.
One of the most memorable examples of bravery I've witnessed was my Italian coworker who straightened his back and said with firm conviction that he enjoys pineapple on pizza.
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isn't as good as the stuff from . Yeah, obviously -- they made bad media back in too, we just don't talk about it any more because no-one cares. All you're saying is "survivorship bias exists." No-one's out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren't good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.
At work we had the radio on in the workshop, and we were discussing my preference for 90s music.
Then some shite song came on that I remembered from decades past, and I had to add "but as you can hear, there was plenty of garbage back then too"
Been listening to a lot of 90s music recently but hearing the lyrics properly for the first time on modern equipment... yeah. A lot of them don't deserve to be remembered fondly.
No-one’s out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren’t good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.
I mean, trashy sentimentalist is like half of Shakespeare tbh. Its all jokes about women, dick jokes and violence.
Shakespeare didn’t write novels in the 18th century? I’m referring to a particular literary movement that started like 200 years after Shakespeare’s death.
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How about...
"I don't like politics." Proceeds into political rant about why.
It almost always means "I don't like to have to defend my lack of morals/humanity" but since they feel found out they feel pressured to lie about it to keep up appearances.
Something something car culture.
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