Unpopular opinions about anything and everything

[MysticalChicken]

What do you hate that it seems most other people love? Or vice versa? It can be anything--food, books, music, movies, TV, etc.

I hate lobster, and always have.

I love--LOVE--broccoli. I'll devour it cooked or raw. I also love spinach, but only raw.

I hated the book Catch 22. I finished it but I struggled through it and it took me two weeks to finish.

I hated the movie Galaxy Quest.

I like Bright Eyes and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

I like Arby's. (But only their beef and cheddar, and those cream-cheese filled jalepeno (i forgot how to do the ~ over the n) things. Actually, I love those things so much that I'd eat them if they came straight out of Satan's asshole.

I refuse to watch Desperate Housewives.

I liked John from Cincinatti.

[triguy46]

1. Let me see if I can step on some toes...

1. Anything on network TV
2. Professional basketball
3. Popular fiction
4. Going to the movies. (I have to admit, I'm hooked on reading about movies, critique, academic evaluations, listening to directors and actors talk about their craft. Just
hate going to the movies. haven't been in 17 years.)
5. Latte mocha bocha skim double red eye fancy shmancy coffee. Just brewed coffee black.
6. Responding to requests for lists.

[MrCoffee]

2. i hate dogs

and movie theaters

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. i hate almost all sports (i have some tolerance for cricket and tennis)

i think the dem politicians are better than the republicans fundamentally even if we say they are not any better.

[IndianaJones]

4. unamerican. nt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. true nt.

[redqueen]

6. that can't be an unpopular opinion!

the dem politicians ARE fundamentally better...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. you been to gd lately?

[redqueen]

10. I've only dipped a toe in here and there...

I'm gonna have to check that out, though.

You know I love a good argument, and that one sounds right up my alley. :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. well its more the general sentiment. i have seen more anti-pick dem of your choice posts

than anti-republican post

[Courtesy Flush]

41. I don't hate live sports

I can't bear to watch any sports on TV. I have a blast when I'm at a game. I don't know what I'm seeing, since I know nothing about the sport or its rules, but I love being there. But don't make me watch it in TV.

My favorite sport is sailing (because I actually participate), but if I'm not actually on a boat, I couldn't care less about it. I've never watched the Americas Cup on TV.

[IndianaJones]

5. I hate George Clooney. nt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. tasteless nt

[flvegan]

11. I don't like big, fake breasts.

You know, the pornstar type?

I hate movie theaters.

Love raw spinach.

I hate almost any soup or stew, but loved chowdah.

Reality tv shows suck, except that Survivorman thing. That's pretty cool.

I like pro wrestling.

If it's played on commercial radio, it probably sucks. Classical, jazz aside.

LOTR and Potter...never bothered to see LOTR, didn't read any Potter.

I love pit bulls, and every other member of the "dangerous breeds" that I've met.

I hate coffee. All kinds. Even the ice cream.

[Pushed To The Left]

31. I agree with you on liking pro-wrestling and on preferring real breasts!

Fake breasts sometimes look good visually, but it's just not nearly the same as the real thing!

[redqueen]

12. I absolutely ADORE soccer!

:bounce:

And I love broccoli, too!

I also like Coldplay.

I'm not picky about food AT ALL. So... I'm sure my eating habits would shock or disgust many... but it works for me! :)

[plcdude]

14. I love

porn and what it does to me.

[mainegreen]

15. I think more people should try LSD.

I think most rock n roll is highly overrated, rockabilly aside.
Brussels sprouts are natures most delicious veggie, followed by Russian kale.
Onions are good raw.
I don't like cake nor frosting.
I think not supporting local farming/ranching is bad, like driving a hummer kind of bad.

[martymar64]

50. I agree on the LSD thing

Everyone needs to have their third eye squeegeed at least once in their life.

Then again, look at my avatar!!! :smoke:

[One_Life_To_Give]

16. A Mans place is in the kitchen

Shoeless and caring for his offspring.

[taught_me_patience]

17. I have too many

I love wal-mart
I think Conoco Phillips and Haliburton are good stocks to own
The U.S. needs to encourage population growth
California should secede from the Union
I love electronica
The Beatles are over-rated (Stones are better)
Nirvana was the most influential band in the last 20 years
I love big cars inlcuding Crown Victoria, LeSabre, Cadillac, Lucerne, Ford 500.
Spam (the meat) is not that bad
I don't like to travel very much
Toni Morrison is the most over-rated author in the history of literature
Good Will Hunting sucked
So did Borat
I love fake boobs
...Porn too
All men should wax or thread their eyebrows (I do!)
Men and women should wear jeans tight or not at all
Jazz sucks
Wine does not taste good

I guess i'm just weird :shrug:

[MysticalChicken]

18. I don't like wine either.

I've tried it several times and every time it's like "ick." I don't like the strong flavor.

[Va Lefty]

19. I love NASCAR

Around here that would seem to put me in a very small minority

[Throd]

24. I love NHRA

[MysticalChicken]

20. Forgot a couple

I hate tomatoes. Well, not entirely. You won't ever see me eating a tomato out of hand, but I love tomato soup and Italian food. Basically, the less a tomato looks like an actual tomato, the more likely I am to eat it. The only way I'll eat raw tomato slices is in those KFC wraps with the fried-chicken strips in 'em... I dunno, something about the tomato and chicken together tastes really good to me.

I also despise mushrooms and won't eat them in any way, shape, or form.

[Tafiti]

21. I've got some.

- I dislike almost every single kind of pie there is, yes, even apple and cherry. I can tolerate lemon meringue pie, but that's about it.

- I dislike almost every kind of cake as well, german chocolate excepted.

- Oliver Twist is the worst book I've ever read. :thumbsdown:

- I like John Mayer. :shrug:

- I think Heineken is garbage.

- I also think a lot of abstract art is garbage. (I'm talkin' Polar-Bear-In A-Snowstorm style) :eyes:

- I'm not anti-gun. (I'm not pro-gun, just not anti-) :hide:

- Similarly, as a matter of principle, I'm not anti-death penalty. Harsh, I know, but some of the people who commit ridiculously heinous crimes don't deserve to live. :hide:

- I enjoy watching soccer. :bounce:

- I hate whiskey. :thumbsdown:

- Starbucks' coffee is foul. Gas station coffee tastes better to me - maybe because I drink it black? :shrug:

- Bologna and green olives are among the foulest foods I've ever tasted. :puke:

- I think country music is an abomination.

[skygazer]

22. Stairway To Heaven is a tiresome song

nowhere near being the best of Led Zep.

I think JK Rowling is a lousy writer.

I hate Tarantino movies - they're like one long commercial for how great he is.

I loved the movie "Popeye."

I don't think JLo is all that good looking.

I think Julia Roberts is a mediocre actor.

I love Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. :P

[martymar64]

23. I'm a secessionist

I make no apology. We'd all be better off if the US breaks up into about 8 different countries. If it worked for the most part for the former soviet union, it'll work for us.

Hail Cascadia!

[achtung_circus]

26. Cascadia I get,

out of curiosity, what are the others?

[martymar64]

28. I'll claim as a Cascadian or a Californian

Althougn my vision of Cascadia would include California and BC and the Alaskan Panhandle as well as WA and OR. It would combine the economic powerhouse of Cali with the resources and natural beauty of the NW. For the most part there are culturally consistent.
The other nations could be the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy (the old south), New England (Maryland to Maine), the Upper Midwest based around the Great Lakes(Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, maybe Illinois, Iowa, Indiana). The Mountain West/Great Plains and New Mexico/Arizona. I suspect Utah might also become it's own entity.

I think that the regions would mostly congeal along common cultural lines and political lines, using some geographic features as possible borders. All the regions have their own disparate reasons to secede but they would agree on the idea that they all have the right of self-determination.
I think the potential for a peaceful dissolution is possible and definitely desirable. We can all go our own ways and live in societies that most reflect our own outlooks.

[achtung_circus]

47. Have you ever read Robert Heinlein?

Some of his work, and the novel "Friday" jumps to mind, include similar dissolutions.

[martymar64]

48. I haven't read Friday

I read Stranger in a Strange Land, Number of the Beast , and Starship Troopers, all many moons ago.
I came to the idea of secession fairly recently. I used to hold on to the idea of American exceptionalism, that we were this grand experiment in democracy. But as years went on, the more I saw going on in this country and its history began to disgust me. The cognitive dissonance between what I was taught and what I saw became too great and found that they could no longer be reconciled.
My first consideration was to leave the country and live somewhere that more closely conformed to my own worldview, like Holland or Canada. I also briefly considered the idea of revolution throughout the entire nation, but that is unworkable because of the deep gulf of cultural differences that exist between the regions. The only logical solution seems to be secession, where the regions can depart as amicably as possible, similar to the breakup between the Czech and Slovak republics in Europe.
When people here think of secession , it conjures images of the Civil War. Nobody wants another civil war. I think however, that the idea of peaceful dissolution will become more reasonable to average americans as the situation in the US worsens, which it surely will on our present path. I am also now convinced that whoever wins the White House will basically be our version of Gorbachev, a leader overseeing the dissolution.
As I said, I hope for a p[eaceful dissolution, but there are many practical issues that will need to be worked out including the division of the military, diplomatic relations within the former US and the rest of the world and with each other, the racial issues in the old south, and the writing of new constitutions for each new nation. These are no small tasks but I think that the alternative to dissolution will be much more painful to this once great country.

[TheMightyFavog]

25. Rent sucked shit.

I mean come on, ten goddamn minutes devoted to a song about a fucking candle?

[Jade Fox]

51. agree...

Some of the worst "songs" ever....

[femmocrat]

27. Sports. Most of them, anyhow.

I don't understand why sports results are on the "news". But then it's just men's sports. When was the last time you heard or saw the results of women's sports?

:shrug:

[cynatnite]

29. I hate Krispy Kreme donuts...

:puke:

[Cabcere]

33. The spelling of "Krispy Kreme" gets on my nerves, for some reason.

Not so much anymore, but my mom used to tease me for it. :shrug:

[Kutjara]

30. Poor people are just lazy.

Women are naturally poor drivers.
Most children would benefit enormously from a good hard slap.
The Dalai Lama is a shill for Big Buddhism.
Pets are for emotionally needy losers.
Democracy is favored by those too weak to compete in the real world.
Universal health care interferes with natural selection.
Recycling takes jobs away from landfill scavengers.
Billy Mays should be President.

[Cabcere]

32. I've sort of already posted this one, but...

I really didn't like Airplane! (the movie). I'm sure I'm just being oversensitive but it seemed to me that it was making fun of PTSD...I dunno. :shrug: I couldn't watch the whole thing because it was so off-putting and just not funny to me.

A few others:

- I like to eat raw green peppers (not so much red, yellow, or orange), raw green beans (for which I have been called "gross" by one of my mom's co-workers), and frozen peas. Unsweetened iced tea is one of my favorite drinks (I'm from the South, so that's pretty much unacceptable).

- I don't much care for John Lennon. :shrug: (I love The Beatles, but he's definitely my least favorite.)

- Lord of the Rings bores me senseless.

- I never understood what was so great about "reality TV." :shrug:

- I hate most "romantic comedies"/"chick flicks" (and I'm a "chick"). On a related note, Pam & Jim's relationship on "The Office" is not the reason I watch that show, and in fact I could totally do without most of the romantic crap. (I bring this up because one of my (male) friends yelled at me for that, lol, so I guess it's an unpopular opinion.) :P

I'm sure I'll think of more later. :hi:

[Pushed To The Left]

34. I better get my flamesuit ready!!

Here it goes....

I think infidelity is totally wrong.

I think MMA is the greatest sport in the world and it's the only sport that I follow regularly (pro-wresling doesn't count!)

I think it's okay to drive while using a cell phone in certain situations, and think that hands-free cell phones should always be legal while driving.

I don't think people in my living situation (living at home) deserve the prejudice we are subjected to. (I even wrote an article on Helium about it. Was ranked #2!)

I like to eat very plain sandwiches when I go to Subway (bread, meat, vinegar and oil. That's it!)

I truly wish closed-minded people would just shut up and stop closing the minds of other people. Like one of my bumperstickers says: "If Only Closed Minds Came With Closed Mouths".

[DarkTirade]

35. Elvis WAS alive

until he found out his daughter married Michael Jackson. Then he had a heart attack and died.

[Omphaloskepsis]

36. Well, MysticalChicken my personality is outlined in my links on del.icio.us.

I am in your network. You are in mine.

[MilesColtrane]

37. Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are great songwriters, sometimes approaching poetry.

But, you couldn't pay me to listen to them sing.

[martymar64]

49. I agree with the songwriting part, but . . .

I would listen to them sing as well. I would also include jimi Hendrix in that club as well. Great songs, horrible voice.

[cleveramerican]

38. I hate "American Idol"!

and I'm in a family of lovers of that terrible modern day version of the Gong-Show.

[taterguy]

39. I think cutting back on gasoline consumption is a viable way of protesting oil wars

[SarahB]

40. Just to piss everyone off.

I have four kids and drive an SUV (a relatively fuel efficient Honda Pilot, but still an SUV). I like porn and I talk about women in a less sensitive way than I'd want my man to. My husband's a feminist and so am I, but my primal nature can sometimes make me come across with the humor of a frat boy among ourselves and close friends. I'm, though, a girly girl who loves to wear dresses. Plus, I hate TV. I'd rather clean than cook. I like my martinis with Vodka (but Dirty Martinis, not those apple shitinis or whatever) I dislike sports (except for if my kids are playing them). I'm blunt, but don't gossip and able to keep secrets, so I'm often very quiet until asked for my opinion. My feelings about politics are so cynical that I usually feel like I have nothing left. I tell my husband that if my dad owned a liquor store, I'd be the perfect woman and he agrees.

I have now, officially, alientated everyone for something. :)

[taterguy]

42. Women who like porn get a special dispensation

You could say that Hannibal Lector was just misunderstood and we'd agree with you

[billyskank]

43. Without religion we are lost.

I win! :D

[cobalt1999]

44. Can I go the opposite? Without science & logic we are lost.

We'd be better off without superstitious beliefs.

[billyskank]

45. And you win the no sense of humour award.

[cobalt1999]

46. Oh I thought it was funny.

Just being a smart ass. :)

[LaurenG]

52. I cannot abide a certain democratic, presidential candidate and

I won't say who. ;)