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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.

new kendrick album is SO not boring. tons of fun.

unless cameron was supposed to represent the united states and how it should die. then that would be okay.

john hughes peaked with my penis/my vagina in 1979. that's my controversial opinion.

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.

After Ferris stole his Dad's car in the first place?

I do think it's a classic comedy and probably the only thing I've enjoyed by Hughes, btw, but I think you need to be able to buy into a fairly indefensible character. Even Jack Black's character in School of Rock is less rotten. Sometimes I like to root for the VP to be perverse.

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.

― okey-dokey, gnocchi (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, May 1, 2017 8:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THANK U

Rhianna's music is agonizingly boring, except "Umbrella."

I've found disagreement as to whether that opinion is controversial or not.

its not

and shes still not as boring as beyonce

personally i thought ferris bueller was a sort of mandela figure.

I like Beyonce as a person and I WANT to like her music, but man, except for the big hits (e.g., Single Ladies, Independent Women) it is sooooo boring.

I'm just gonna come out and say it: Radiohead is overrated. I'm sorry.

that is just how you feel

some bands are not good

Especially Radiohead.

almost all musical acts are bad but are tolerable live if you have a few drinks

Don't think anyone should create new material for DC, Marvel and Disney.

the most important cultural form--in terms of its aesthetic, political, and economic effects--is pornography

I am tempted to agree with ryan.

Small-c classicism (broadly, excellence exhibited within preestablished forms) has always been at war with small-r romanticism (broadly, rejection of formal concerns in favor of the unbridled expression of passionate emotions).

Apologies for generalizing wildly, but. These broad categorical distinctions can be roughly dramatized through pairings like Mozart vs. Beethoven, Dionysus vs. Apollo, Jacques-Louis David vs. Theodore Gericault, Malevich vs. Kandinsky, Mondrian vs. Picasso, cooked vs. raw, Pound vs. Eliot, Woolf vs. Joyce, Beatles vs. Stones, Philip Johnson vs. Frank Gehry, Wynton vs. Branford, "be still and know" vs. "in the destructive element immerse," French gardens vs. British gardens. Et petercetera.

Anyways pornography might appear on the surface to be romantic, because it exhibits outward markings of passionate emotion - moans, bodily fluids, appeals . However, pornography is also rigidly formal; it exhibits persistent conventions. Its best practitioners deferentially observe the overall forms while subtly engaging in elegant variation and occasional subversion of the forms.

"rejection of formal concerns in favor of the unbridled expression of passionate emotions"

that very much doesn't describe James Joyce.

i watched the first 10 minutes of Ferris Bueller a couple times and it's not even funny.