unpopular_opinions
raze i like "inception" just fine, but it's really just an action movie with a bigger brain than most. 230422
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epitome of incomprehensibility About movies, I didn't like Dead Poets Society that much. From what I remember, it seemed overdramatic in ways that didn't really suit the story.

Then again, I was 17. Also, the title gave me an idea for some sketches years later - little comic strips about Sylvia Plath at a writer's retreat in the afterlife.

I don't know if those would be any good either, but I'm proud of making an irritated William Wordsworth shout, "I am finding it increasingly difficult to think about daffodils!" 		230423
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nr i don't really like "ahead by a century" by the_tragically_hip. 230423
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raze "hail_to_the_thief" will always be my favourite radiohead album. 230501
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past apparently that it is important to read the details of your commitments. 230501
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raze chicago's "street player" is the greatest disco song of all time. 230509
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raze roger moore was as great a james bond as sean connery, in his own way. 230613
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e_o_i Self-discovery of the week: I am not a fan of recorded audio guides for museums.

Have a person lead a tour and say things, ideally giving people their own to look around afterwards too. 		230614
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e_o_i Or just have no tour guide, that's fine too, as long as I can read a little about what I'm looking at. But having recorded audio guides on top of that is overwhelming and alienating; I'm not sure what to focus on. 230614
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e_o_i edit: ideally giving people their own TIME to look around afterwards too. 230614
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tender_square rap and pop music nowadays is really lazy. producers and artists blatantly borrow old songs and don't reimagine them in a pastiche of samples to create something new. it's boring as fuck. 230615
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e_o_i No shade to anyone who does, but I don't like Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Not because it's overplayed or overrated necessarily; I just find the arpeggio parts boring. 231019
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e_o_i (Even the super fast part isn't as interesting as it could be. Sorry, Beethoven. I like your other stuff.) 231019
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raze the only movie sequels that can justify their existence are "grumpier old men", "the godfather part ii", "spider-man 2", "batman returns", "star trek ii: the wrath of khan", and "babe: pig in the city". pretty much everything else is just a cash grab. 231021
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Soma Milk is pretty gross and doesn’t taste very good. Beef too. And I don’t have much care for cheese. I don’t get loving them. Back in Oklahoma it was fighting words. Here in Washington everyone thinks I’m vegan. But I’m not. I just think they have a very distinct taste of rot that I can’t stomach. 231022
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raze the first two "supertramp" albums are ridiculously underrated. 231029
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raze maybe i only feel this way because it was my first jeff_buckley album, but i've always liked "sketches for my sweetheart the drunk" just as much as "grace". 240129
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e_o_i three_slightly_disliked_vegetables 240129
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e_o_i Classical music again: apparently, hating on Beethoven's piano compositions is a long-term thing for me. A blather search for something else brought me to why_I_never_got_my_high_school_yearbook, which confirms that at 16 and 25, I found Für Elise the second most annoying song in the world.

Then again, I've listened to all his symphonies (fair enough, there are only nine) and not been disappointed once. 		250112
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e_o_i Re Soma about food: it might be the animal-fat taste. Or with milk, that it's a base (as in the opposite of an acid), so it has a bit of bitterness. I don't much like milk by itself, but I don't mind the taste mixed with other things. 250113
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raze a grave sin was committed against humanity when production of the choclairs chocolate bar ceased sometime in the 1990s. 250121
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e_o_i I like the cold (as long as I remember my scarf). It's refreshing. 250122
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e_o_i Two I've been thinking of - one short, one longer:

1) Rats are adorable. They don't deserve their bad reputation. Not that you'd want them as uninvited indoor guests, but wouldn't that go for any species? Including other humans? And they're just so cuuuute.

2) People should be able to marry more than one other person at once, provided everyone agrees and is an adult. (This is coming from someone who's always been either single or in a monogamous relationship - and never married - but it just seems fair.)

I think it was last year when Hayley Juhl in the Montreal Gazette covered stories about families where there were three or four parent figures in a child's life but only two of them were given parental rights, which it made for complicated legal hurdles...if I remember right, there was a situation with a kid in the hospital, and it made a stressful time even worse.

Of course, changing the legal spouse situation wouldn't necessarily change the parent rights situation, but it might pave the way for more acceptance. And the cases she described included couples who split up and got together with other people later, not just poly relationships.

I get why people associate poly marriage with abuse, often religiously justified abuse, like in a lot of FLDS groups, but I don't think it's the plural marriage part that's the issue but the misogyny and child marriage.

So the important part would be to make sure no one can marry anyone under 18 or whatever the legal age of adulthood is in a given country or jurisdiction (provided someone doesn't make that artificially low for weird reasons). I don't understand why so many places still allow adults to marry kids - often men marrying girls. Make THAT shit illegal. 		251113
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ovenbird I whole heartedly agree with both your #1 and #2 unpopular opinions e_o_i so maybe they're not so unpopular after all! 251113
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