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we live at a T intersection at the bottom of a hill, and bicyclists will always race down the hill and turn either right or left through the stop sign. considering how many cars blow the stop sign at the intersection at 50 MPH, i'm imagining someone will get killed one of these days. i like most cyclists around here, though. we have a lot of ladies with the nice hats and the jingle jangle warning bells and the baskets laden with fruit who go by, looking like they're off to work at the british munitions factory, doing their part and what not.

One time my grandpa accidentally ran over my snotty best friend's skateboard and the wheel came off and he quickly put it back on but we didn't tell him right away and then he grabbed the board and we shouted "no!" but he did anyway and the wheel came off and he fell on his ass in the middle of the street.

Idk what that has to do with anything carry on.

here guys let's be scientific about this

POLL: A Clear Hierarchy of Traffic

That's why I hate grandpas

great, now the air is clear for a new controversial opinion

portishead lyrics are awful

ducklings can be total assholes btw

a duckling killed my mom

is that really an opinion

I thought they were portishead lyrics

really think we need the duckling's side of the story tbf

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portishead lyrics are awful

― Karl Malone, Monday, April 24, 2017 11:44 AM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My controversial expansion on this premise would be: most lyrics are awful. Like probably at least 90% of them.

Seconding the Tig Notaro opinion. Beyond the "Hello, I Have Cancer" live album, she has dismal material and timing. She seems like more of an identity politics performance artist, with the comedy a distant second.

My controversial expansion on this premise would be: most lyrics are awful. Like probably at least 90% of them.

― Crackers and Snacks (Old Lunch), Monday, April 24, 2017 1:28 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I concur. Weirdly, Portishead lyrics have never especially bothered me, which isn't to say they are awesome, just that I rarely notice them

this is one of my major beefs. If a car was holding up traffic by traveling at the speed of a bicycle, a cop would pull them over, and rightfully so. It causes congestion and generally makes city driving even less pleasant than it already is.

damn you really live in a police state.

Once, while driving in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, a bike courier rode into my blind spot from behind me and, as traffic slowed due to a red light, banged his hand on the side of my car while passing me in my lane to zip past the two cars in front of me and run a red light to beat oncoming traffic. It has been my mission in life ever since to find that particular bike courier and strangle him with his white-boy dreadlocks.

I have no general beef with cyclists but don't ride up behind me, sit in my blind spot, and then hit my fucking car. Take the fucking lane like every other vehicle on the road has to.

did he sue you for the injury to his hand or something?

If he had, he would actually be dead and I would be in jail.

Do not touch my shit, particularly like that, or I will end you.

There's just this assumption/presumption of anonymity in cities that give people psychological license to be assholes. Dunno if the prevalence of social media shaming via phone pics has had an effect.

my personal pet peeve are cars that use popular bike lanes as makeshift right turn lanes because they can't be bothered to sit in the actual right lane, because they have some special sense of entitlement, idk, and so the cyclists end up in the lanes with cars that the bike lanes were made in order to avoid.

Oh definitely, there's absolutely a baseline opinion of "I will never see you again so I don't necessarily need to invest in emotional capital in showing you the slightest modicum of respect" in urban areas, particularly in the Northeast, that enrages me when I come into contact with it.

Many areas of Boston have done the super-smart and not-at-all-contributing-to-the-problem solution of having the bike lane TURN INTO a turn lane. Every time I drive past one, I get very stressed.

As a bike courier, it's really impressive that dude is not aware that some drivers get really upset if you do something like that to their cars. I've seen incidents like that turn super ugly, and that's just from the perspective of a passerby/cigarette smoker who frequently stands on the sidewalk and observes these things.

"I will never see you again so I don't necessarily need to invest in emotional capital in showing you the slightest modicum of respect" in urban areas, particularly in the Northeast

San Francisco and Oakland definitely have this too. It's weird when I go visit my parents in their small town (which has gotten more suburban), and you almost never see this.

a couple of former coworkers of mine accidentally road raged one another once on the way to work and then it slowly dawned on each other they were going to the same place and oops they kinda know each other.

This thread has become the uncontroversial opinions thread.

We should a new one. Rolling threads are done.

I needed a verb and it wasn't there

posters should be temp-banned for grammatical errors in posts.

New challops: white conversations about mindfulness are class-signifying and that is, I dunno, ~80% of their function.

1 in every 15 customers should be served poison instead of their latte at STarbucks

in before someone says "hur hur don't 15 out of 15 already get that"

my personal pet peeve are cars that use popular bike lanes as makeshift right turn lanes because they can't be bothered to sit in the actual right lane, because they have some special sense of entitlement, idk, and so the cyclists end up in the lanes with cars that the bike lanes were made in order to avoid.

― sarahell, Monday, April 24, 2017 10:13 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think that's how it's supposed to work, so you don't just turn right across the bike lane: http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/

Elon Musk has a long record of really good work and people should laud him

(perhaps controversial only on ILX and my FB feed)

I couldn't find a single controversial opinion in this thread.

maybe the odd challenging one

Drumstick Squashies are a serious contender to bacon's throne as best food ever.

dirt is good food

I couldn't find a single controversial opinion in this thread.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 9:47 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how controversial

OK I got one:

Rocky V--while not being anything resembling a great or even very good movie--is nowhere near the abortion its reputation would have you believe

Ferris Bueller was an asshole. What did he know about life? He was a privileged straight white teenager who couldn't even be bothered to do the one thing expected of him, that is, go to school. Maybe become slightly educated; maybe some day not depend on others for his cushy lifestyle.

He didn't just "stop and look around once in a while." Stopping - and doing whatever he felt like doing - was literally all he did. He has a saxophone but has not taken lessons and doesn't seem interested in learning it as a craft. He has a computer and we only see him use it to get himself out of trouble. Which is fine - I would have done the same - but he's not exactly applying his skills for the betterment of humankind or the alleviating the suffering of the downtrodden.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." That may still be good advice, but I do not regard Ferris as a moral authority. He destroyed a nice car; I'm not even going to mention the time he almost started a nuclear war. So done with him.

hardly controversial. bueller is one of the great annoying prick protagonists of cinema.

yeah "ferris bueller is actually a total dick" is a realization many people make

it's basically the singing and dancing version of catcher in the rye where high school students read it, think the protagonist is sympathetic or kind of cool, then come to the realization once they get older

in a paper I presented last week, I called him an adorable asshole who would have worked with Ed Meese or Mike Deaver.

xpost: well except bueller is really nothing like holden, he's more like his evil date-rapist roommate stradlater

controversial opinion: I wkiw Ferris

I do not regard Ferris as a moral authority

he was a moral authority where it mattered, to his friend cameron! who needed to hear what ferris had to say in order to become a more self-realized person.

Kendrick' records are boring

cameron one of my least fave movie characters of all time. wanted him to die so bad.