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ENBB I have been upbraided for this choice, people are vicious

I mean in restaurants/hotels/hospitality etc. you definitely have it hanging in the front. The stuff sticks with you.

sometimes, esp on those harder jobs

toilet paper should unspool from underneath, so that the loose end hangs near the wall

― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:38 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

savagery

I feel like my real controversial opinions are way too assholish for this thread.

Honestly I couldn't give a shit how you hang your tp as long as it exists but I felt obliged

sir yes sir

being insensitive to bidet owners tbh

Aren't you supposed to wipe after using a bidet??? *googling*

I think the super-fancy japanese ones have a blow dry option

Yeah, I don't like that blow dry option on the Japanese ones. I like the music option and the oscillator.

It's really all about the heated seat and stream.

During the allegedly halcyon simpler smoking times, I remember using a totally separate coat for going to rock concerts in winter, because otherwise my normal everyday coat would reek for days. The smokers themselves were nose-blind to it, so couldn't understand why anyone might mind or think it unpleasant.

yeah, the last smoking bar i went to was in missouri and even though it was a freezing cold night i ended up going back out to my car and leaving my heavy coat in the backseat before heading back in, just so that i wouldn't have to send it to the drycleaners afterward

yeah. when i was a kid my parents smoked so much that hobos would accost us on the way to school, my little brother and me, begging to lick the rich yellow nicotine glaze from our chortling faces. it all seemed perfectly normal at the time, and the pocket change they sometimes offered did help extend our meager allowance. perhaps a bit odd in retrospect, i cannot deny.

anyway, my controversial opinion is that controversy and opinions both pretty much suck, and doubly so when combined.

i'm not sure how controversial this is here but i think a good way for humanity to survive climate change is to limit the amount of children anyone can have to two max via some kind of automated birth control mechanism installed in everyone. like birth control should be free and available to all women everywhere, but also after two everyone is infertile.

obviously that's impossible to do but damn it people need to stop having babies

if elon musk spent his mars money on giving women easy and free access to birth control we might actually make some progress on having a habitable planet 100 years from now.

geoengineering ourselves into quasi-conscious (semi-intentional?) extinction seems morally equivalent. you're taking something that works a certain way, changing it for almost everyone, and then hoping the results improve at some point in the future.

The easiest way to reduce birth rates to or below replacement is to lift large populations out of poverty, not engage in social engineering.

agreed. really i just want to socially engineer mormon baby-makers out of existence.

but seriously i think it's pretty obvious that the root cause of global warming and related crises is exponential population growth.

No, it isn’t.

ok

what's your solution

Baby farts be depletin' the ozone.

Who cares, I’m just some person. You said it was “obvious” that population growth was the “root cause” of global warming. I don’t think that’s either obvious or true. It seems more likely that population growth is the consequence of industrial exploitation of fossil fuels, rather than the cause of it. But climate change and human ecology are both famously nonlinear dynamic systems so I think it’s even more plausible to suppose they mutually cause and are caused by each other.

if we're talking about reducing carbon footprint impacts a few less babies goes further than anything? i guess i realize it would be a disaster to try and mandate it but at a personal level i think it's morally wrong to have more than two children. also i think our conception of the nuclear family as this blood-defined, sacred untouchable thing is holding us back.

xp ok that seems plausible

it's incredibly selfish and irresponsible to have kids

as all your parents proved

sorry, not controversial, I'll take it to the second thought about thread from here on out

ps y'all are drunk, right?

I don't drink

Me neither

I meant map and flappy. “why not just shrink the population in a humane way, like by forcing people to limit their family to a certain size?” just seems like Saturday night influenced talk to me

nah i'm not into that, i just think it's existentially irresponsible

I think the current war on plastic packaging, especially straws, is 90% about making people feel better that they are doing nothing about climate change.

could apply that to 99% of consumer-based efforts toward sustainability tbh

You’re all doing that Doug Stanhope bit now?

Hoppy IPAs are among life's few true joys and the hipster backlash is ridiculous in a world that is still ruled by Anheuser-Busch.

OK I'm going to have to fight you here

The backlash is a mere matter of taste. Some of us who have laboured under the tyranny of hoppy IPAs (ie tried to drink in pubs in England) are now increasingly free to choose other options and that is a good thing

I have to assume England is pretty different if hoppy IPAs have ever been anything close to mainstream, let alone dominant. Fans of mediocre lagers have never been at a loss on this side of the Atlantic.

some of us just wanna get drunk efficiently

mediocre lagers don't even register. often the hoppy IPA is the only conscionable choice

get some fucking Stella darn you, you hard water drinking metropolitan 'eete!

If you guys are looking for controversial opinions: sedentary, hierarchical human civilization is indefensible. Maybe there's a way to do it sustainably and responsibly but we'll destroy the biosphere before we find that solution.

not sure that's controversial. how about "I'd rather the world was destroyed than that my life was made less convenient or comfortable"?

Overhopped IPAS are the worst but I am not sure if they are worse than Stella.

xpost That works. Our trajectory seems irreversible so civilization is basically just hospice care at this point. Give me temperature control and a TV where I can watch my stories as I fade away.

Nothing is worse than Stella.