Post your unpopular opinions

[azgreg]

Who is she and why is she famous and where do you see her to get a sense of her “hotness”

[CalStateTempe]

She looks/reminds me of my first college gf.

[ByJoveByJingle]

I posted a video of her being interviewed while eating hot wings over in the media forum. Needless to say, another failure of an unpopular opinion.

[ASUHATER!]

She's crazy in all the good kind of ways

[Chicat]

I thought for sure I’d get some push back on this. But you nerds know what’s up.

[ASUHATER!]

I thought she was younger than she is too. She's 35 and I thought she was like 29.

[dovecanyoncat]

I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

There's a reason it's called currency. Use of treasury notes of immediate maturity is an intimate transaction and a more holistic reckoning than the use of revolving credit. The system hates you, of course, because it can't attach you digitally and charge you for the privilege of making errors while using them as short term loans while you fight with it about them. If you use currency you're a scofflaw, a burden, an asshole ... unless it's in the form of a tip, then you're a man of the world!

We recently joined a heath club and once again had to go through the whole fucking song and dance about refusing to allow automatic monthly debits. It's a dealbreaker, go fuck yourself, you fucking clone, no one is going to have access to my accounts but me and mine. What? a check for the entire year befuddles you? Does your mother know you have a job that requires you to ask me for my birthdate?

Even though they're not anywhere as bad as Wells Fargo I'm starting to get pissed at BOA. No, BOA, I don't want a debit card and even if you make it a required form of customer ID. Here's my passport, if that don't fly I'll go find some place that doesn't require it.

Payment by check is next: No, HOA, Ute, Telecom, Insurance, your bean counters are board certified imbeciles and your sites get hacked, so I'll pay in the form that suits me, thank you very much, now fuck off.

There should be a tax credit for being a curmudgeon.

[scumdevils86]

I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

There's a reason it's called currency. Use of treasury notes of immediate maturity is an intimate transaction and a more holistic reckoning than the use of revolving credit. The system hates you, of course, because it can't attach you digitally and charge you for the privilege of making errors while using them as short term loans while you fight with it about them. If you use currency you're a scofflaw, a burden, an asshole ... unless it's in the form of a tip, then you're a man of the world!

We recently joined a heath club and once again had to go through the whole fucking song and dance about refusing to allow automatic monthly debits. It's a dealbreaker, go fuck yourself, you fucking clone, no one is going to have access to my accounts but me and mine. What? a check for the entire year befuddles you? Does your mother know you have a job that requires you to ask me for my birthdate?

Even though they're not anywhere as bad as Wells Fargo I'm starting to get pissed at BOA. No, BOA, I don't want a debit card and even if you make it a required form of customer ID. Here's my passport, if that don't fly I'll go find some place that doesn't require it.

Payment by check is next: No, HOA, Ute, Telecom, Insurance, your bean counters are board certified imbeciles and your sites get hacked, so I'll pay in the form that suits me, thank you very much, now fuck off.

There should be a tax credit for being a curmudgeon.

As someone who works in retail digital banking you're the guy that makes everyone I work with roll their eyes!

[ASUHATER!]

I like paying for everyday purchase with cash.

Gas, groceries, coffee, restaurants, take out, etc etc.

Fuck it, i love it!

It gives me control of my purchases and my budget in a way that my debit card never could. For me something about physically seeing myself pay paper money for items has made me a more discerning shopper and values my hard earned paycheck a bit more. Sure i still splurge on some items (European preserves) and it makes me appreciate them that much more. It makes me appreciate the stuff I have more. It makes me limit my gas spend on errands, been riding the bike more to the local market for stuff.

And we are spending so much less over the week saving that for other longer term goals.

I thought my wife was crazy when she suggested this idea, but so far one month it it’s working really well and sustainable.

I guess this is my one throwback hipster rage against the machine thing that I do these days. Lol real rebel, I know.

There's a reason it's called currency. Use of treasury notes of immediate maturity is an intimate transaction and a more holistic reckoning than the use of revolving credit. The system hates you, of course, because it can't attach you digitally and charge you for the privilege of making errors while using them as short term loans while you fight with it about them. If you use currency you're a scofflaw, a burden, an asshole ... unless it's in the form of a tip, then you're a man of the world!

We recently joined a heath club and once again had to go through the whole fucking song and dance about refusing to allow automatic monthly debits. It's a dealbreaker, go fuck yourself, you fucking clone, no one is going to have access to my accounts but me and mine. What? a check for the entire year befuddles you? Does your mother know you have a job that requires you to ask me for my birthdate?

Even though they're not anywhere as bad as Wells Fargo I'm starting to get pissed at BOA. No, BOA, I don't want a debit card and even if you make it a required form of customer ID. Here's my passport, if that don't fly I'll go find some place that doesn't require it.

Payment by check is next: No, HOA, Ute, Telecom, Insurance, your bean counters are board certified imbeciles and your sites get hacked, so I'll pay in the form that suits me, thank you very much, now fuck off.

There should be a tax credit for being a curmudgeon.

Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

[CalStateTempe]

Dove, You are awesome and I mean that in the most platonic Middle Aged male drinking camping fishing buddy kind of way. Spot on curmudgeon!

Wife loves her checks, she’s old world like that.

[ByJoveByJingle]

Europeans are completely befuddled by the concept of checks. “Here’s this piece of paper I wrote on. I swear I have this much money in my account and will transfer it over to you. And I promise not to withdraw too much in the interim so I won’t have enough to keep this flimsy promise to pay you the stated amount.”

Well when you put it that way it does seem sort of . . . quaint?

[TucsonClip]

Does nobody watch Legion on FX? There was a scene last season where..... oh wow. If you are an Aubrey Plaza fan, you need to watch Legion. Also a great Marvel series.

[dovecanyoncat]

As someone who works in retail digital banking you're the guy that makes everyone I work with roll their eyes!

Like I said: I'm an asshole.

[dovecanyoncat]

Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

I'm certain there are stats to prove you correct. But I've never had even a minuscule security issue with them.

[ASUHATER!]

Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

I'm certain there are stats to prove you correct. But I've never had even a minuscule security issue with them.

Other than you inconveniencing the hell out of everyone you give them to haha.

[dovecanyoncat]

Dove, You are awesome and I mean that in the most platonic Middle Aged male drinking camping fishing buddy kind of way. Spot on curmudgeon!

Wife loves her checks, she’s old world like that.

IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

You married well.

[scumdevils86]

As someone who works in retail digital banking you're the guy that makes everyone I work with roll their eyes!

Like I said: I'm an asshole.

You may be an asshole but not in the way many of the people I dealt with for a decade are. There's a difference. I've worked for the same financial institution for 12 years now and have moved up from the lowest level to quite a bit higher in the corporate world. I've seen it all.

[UAEebs86]

IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

I love a good Midnight Run reference. Bravo!

[ASUHATER!]

Dove, You are awesome and I mean that in the most platonic Middle Aged male drinking camping fishing buddy kind of way. Spot on curmudgeon!

Wife loves her checks, she’s old world like that.

IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

You married well.

In the 17 years I've been in the workforce...the main thing I've learned is that it's almost always the customer's fault and that the customer is almost always wrong.

[dovecanyoncat]

Checks are far far far far less safe than debit/online banking/ACH payment. Checks are probably worse than cash even and are the worst and least secure form of payment to use in today's world.

I'm certain there are stats to prove you correct. But I've never had even a minuscule security issue with them.

Other than you inconveniencing the hell out of everyone you give them to haha.

A man's gotta be good for something. Seriously though, they can just say no, but in the end nobody does. It's as specious and ephemeral as the insistence on providing your zipcode or phone number when buying a coffee. I didn't opt-in to that shit. I understand the value in acquiring and then selling my information; I understand the efficiencies of automation in retail transaction, but I bet if you were to drill down into the numbers the safety advantage is diminishing with time. There's so many more lambs to slaughter in digital transactions .... that's where the meat is. Albanian scammers view my checks as chiseled into stone tablets. Why bother?, says Marco from Tropoja.

[dovecanyoncat]

IIRC every single issue I've ever had was the fault of the vendor, the bank, the website, the software, moron #1 and moron #2. With a few god habits, all the risks posed by the postal service or check washing seem to accrue to other people who don't have much sense. But people are generally irresponsible. Curmudgeons never make mistakes, noooo.

I love a good Midnight Run reference. Bravo!

Dennis Farina also does Moron #1 and Moron #2 in Big Trouble. @6:15


Big Trouble is exquisite. Ben Foster as a kid. Bombshell Sophia Vergara as a young unknown hotness. Tom Sizemore. Stanley Tucci. You can see it all in separate parts on Youtube.

[CatsbyAZ]

Too many micro breweries are push their worn out IPAs well past their welcoming. Particularly out West. The drinking era of self-congratulatory IPA prowess is well past its prime. You are not any more interesting as a person because of you tried five new IPAs last week.

[scumdevils86]

Too many micro breweries are push their worn out IPAs well past their welcoming. Particularly out West. The drinking era of self-congratulatory IPA prowess is well past its prime. You are not any more interesting as a person because of you tried five new IPAs last week.

Agree totally

[ASUHATER!]

Too many micro breweries are push their worn out IPAs well past their welcoming. Particularly out West. The drinking era of self-congratulatory IPA prowess is well past its prime. You are not any more interesting as a person because of you tried five new IPAs last week.

True craft beer is normal now. I say just drink whatever you want. I used to be into the ipas a lot now though I like drinking the craft lagers and pilsners and session beers.

[ByJoveByJingle]

I much prefer good craft beer over any large brewery, but . . . IPA just tastes awful to me. Much like Scotch, which started out life as a horse liniment, IPA wasn’t invented to taste good.

[scumdevils86]

Yea I really don't like scotch or IPAs.

[Chicat]

I much prefer good craft beer over any large brewery, but . . . IPA just tastes awful to me. Much like Scotch, which started out life as a horse liniment, IPA wasn’t invented to taste good.

No it was not.

I always tell my IPA snob friends that it was originally brewed to make it from England to India without spoiling and no one gave a shit how it tasted. Now they’re lapping it up like it’s the culmination of expert brewers with advanced palates. Sorry my man, but you’re drinking what convicts pressed into service on an English ship drank 200 years ago because they couldn’t drink the fucking water.

[Merkin]

I much prefer good craft beer over any large brewery, but . . . IPA just tastes awful to me. Much like Scotch, which started out life as a horse liniment, IPA wasn’t invented to taste good.

Same here. The older I get, the less hop I want my beer.

Reminded me of something my marketing professor said back in the 1980s when I was a student. He came from Falstaff, and they found men generally stopped drinking beer around age 40, and switched to mixed drinks, usually involving whiskey. That's probably a little dated, looking at all the old TV shows and movies.

Now 98% of my drinking is red wine.

[ASUHATER!]

I always like some hop in the beer, just not overpowering. Most good craft lagers or pilsners do have a little hop. Hazy east coast ipas are pretty good and not overpowering hoppy.

[CalStateTempe]

That’s me merkin, late thirty’s and rarely drink beer, prefer red wine or a good cocktail.

[ASUHATER!]

That’s me merkin, late thirty’s and rarely drink beer, prefer red wine or a good cocktail.

I don't think I'll ever like red wine. It all just tastes awful to me. Room temperature red wine is just blech.

[dovecanyoncat]

pilsner>any other beer
red wine>pilsner
single malt whisky>red wine/water/breath/sex/life itself

[Chicat]

pilsner>any other beer
red wine>pilsner
single malt whisky>red wine/water/breath/sex/life itself

Bourbon over everything.

[CatsbyAZ]

*especially unpopular with the older gen*

Cursive writing is the snob's excuse to write illegibly; not being able to "read cursive" is 90% time not being able to read somebody else's half-assed handwriting.

[azgreg]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

[ByJoveByJingle]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

This definitely belongs in the Random Thoughts or Venting threads. Who ever thought this was a good idea? At most they should come in periodically and refresh the rolled up towel bowl and clean the counter.

[Longhorned]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

[SCCats]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

And THEN what?

[azgreg]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

And THEN what?

Have them wax my balls?

[SCCats]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

And THEN what?

Have them wax my balls?

Oh. A full service place.

Later on your and Longhorned can be like “what are you in for?”

“Dick out at the bathroom attendant. You?”

“Same.”

[dovecanyoncat]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Give them a job to do. Walk toward the door with your wiener still hanging out of your fly.

Have you no compassion at all? Dude already works in a pissoir and you want me to break his heart past care. That's cold.

[Chicat]

Bathroom attendants make me uncomfortable.

Think about how they must feel.

[CatsbyAZ]

If you live with only your pets, and you die in your home, your corpse is fair game as food for your cats and dogs during the weeks or months it might take extended family and authorities to discover your body.

[Longhorned]

If you live with only your pets, and you die in your home, your corpse is fair game as food for your cats and dogs during the weeks or months it might take extended family and authorities to discover your body.

This seems not so much an unpopular opinion as it does a fortune cookie saying.

[ByJoveByJingle]

Yeah, this is my life (and inevitable death). Whatever, I’ll be beyond caring. Just hope somebody finds the cats before they finish off my liver and starve.

[CalStateTempe]

I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

[azgreg]

I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

Those are prefect for smoothies.

[Merkin]

I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

Those are prefect for smoothies.

and banana bread!

[azgreg]

I don’t care how fresh, I will not eat bananas with brown spots.

And if I get into the banana and it’s brown down the core even in one small spot and the rest of ok...into the trash with you.

Those are prefect for smoothies.

and banana bread!

[Longhorned]

I mix up the black bananas with milk and sugar and pass them off to the 3-year-old as "banana pudding."

Another thing you can do is just spread the soft, dark banana on bread is a substitute for jelly in a PBJ.