Post a controversial opinion

wrong thread

lol

so not controversial, qualmsley

I'm watching Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time in 16 years and the English dub is honestly great.

American culture is so shot-through with narcissism and exceptionalism that there is nobody-who-is-raised-in-USA who is not a sociopath

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^^^ this is great. Although the Legally Blonde one is truth and not controversial.

Legally Blonde is better than at least 95 percent of all movies

^^^ this is great

otm

I am glad that sensitive, personal admissions have been turned into content. I have eaten nothing but corn for the past two weeks.

Tom Petty has never made anything close to a great album and even some of his hits are just plain lousy

Petty was very mercurial, like the Who -- the peaks were very high but a lot of bad/wtf stuff

id run over tom pettys peak/s without raising a heartbeat. shite.

u heartbreaker u

Paul Ponzi OTM! and rip I agree about The Who, but imo Petty = No tracks

America is substantially more evil in every conceivable dimension than Canada, and to suggest anything else is silly hyperbole. it would take a lot more than Ontario electing Doug Ford or Trudeau nationalizing a pipeline to change that

controversial? you could put that on a petition and 90% of ILX would sign it.

opinion probably controversial amongst leftist Canadians

i use this thread bc i'm too chicken to subtweet yea

Our superiority complex is such that we can't stand feeling inferior to our neighbours when it comes to evil deeds.

I used to like to watch Anthony Bourdain and I've always admired his advocacy for food and cultural experiences. I've also struggled with depression since adolescence. But I could never get over how Bourdain talked about vegans like they were a plague. He never once showed any understanding or respect for the idea that some people consider not harming animals to be more important than traveling around the world and eating seal eyeballs with the Inuit. So when I heard he committed suicide... I felt nothing and I still feel nothing. I don't know why.

canada is made to look good merely sitting beside the asshole bully that is america, and has very much benefited by america's assholeness . . . but yeah otm anyway

I used to like to watch Anthony Bourdain and I've always admired his advocacy for food and cultural experiences. I've also struggled with depression since adolescence. But I could never get over how Bourdain talked about vegans like they were a plague. He never once showed any understanding or respect for the idea that some people consider not harming animals to be more important than traveling around the world and eating seal eyeballs with the Inuit. So when I heard he committed suicide... I felt nothing and I still feel nothing. I don't know why.

― cr.ht (crüt), Friday, June 8, 2018 9:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sad about Bourdain's death, but I admit, I had a similar thought. Reading people talk about his wide-ranging compassion made me think about how little compassion he had for the animals he cooked and ate, and his open contempt for a lot of people who did care.

don't use napkins

don't use disposable, paper napkins

He did really appreciate India's ability to do good vegetarian. I am mostly vegetarian/spouse reformed decades vegan but vegetarians/vegans are super annoying as a class so I get his thing. It's like religion; it's fine to believe whatever you believe but please, I don't need a TedTalk on it. And if you are going to eat an animal I do appreciate people eating every single item on the animal.

vegetarians/vegans are super annoying as a class

my typical experience as a vegetarian is everyone else manufacturing a crisis about the possibility that i might not be able to eat something at a restaurant and how that's gonna piss me off, while i say "it's cool, i'm not worried about it, there's always something for me to eat, seriously, don't worry about it"

karl otm

admittedly, though, i have occasionally ran into the kind of veggie person that makes everyone else go way out of their way to satisfy their own eating preferences, and it easy pretty annoying. but honestly, for every 1 person who is like that, there are 40-75 people who are just loudmouth dipshits who ruin dinner by their mere presence at the table

Yeah, my spouse was vegan for over a decade and now eats fish and won't refuse butter or a little ricotta in pasta. People used to try to make accommodations for him but we've always told them it's fine, bring our own dish or just make sure he eats a lot beforehand. I eat veg at home but will eat anything that someone prepares for me because meat and organs are delicious (except kidneys, but I would still eat them). Being able to strictly stay veg or vegan in a lot of places with not much income is a privilege, although it's gotten a lot better in the last decade.

yeah the strict part is key, i guess. not being as strict definitely makes things a lot less of a hassle. one time i was a little out of it and got really fixated on the word "bleu" and ended up ordering a burger, forgetting that the patty would be meat. i was by myself and was too embarrassed to send it back when i realized my mistake, because they didn't do anything wrong. so i ate the burger and went home. nobody's perfect

I had a friend who has been vegan/freegan for 2 decades and I get it. It's kind of a good way to be.

America is substantially more evil in every conceivable dimension than Canada, and to suggest anything else is silly hyperbole. it would take a lot more than Ontario electing Doug Ford or Trudeau nationalizing a pipeline to change that

― flopson, Friday, June 8, 2018 5:10 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking as an American, I don't understand how this even a little bit controversial.

(It might be more controversial if you'd used 'America' to describe all American citizens rather than our default approach of attributing the actions of the rich + powerful to an entire country full of people.)

America sucks.

As a Canadian it’s annoying how your country is more news worthy and all we hear about.

Apologies. Just a bitter Canadian.

vegans vs paleo

Paleo eaters are waaaaay more vocal and obnoxious

xpost Dude, you think YOU'RE sick of hearing about America. People here won't fucking shut up about it

One thing the rest of world may have to thank our current president for is what will surely be our rapidly-diminishing influence on pretty much everything.

American does suck (speaking as an American) I thought it was random that I am in a SA country and they covered that racist NYC midtown guy on the nightly news here. And then segued into Trump.

I remember getting on the completely wrong bus in India once (for a 2 hour journey) during the Bush years. Of course everyone made us take one of the seats because we are white and I tried to put some kids on my lap so they wouldn't have to stand because I felt so terrible about it. And then the question "You are American??? Do you like George Bush???" The answer is always no. no. no.

If it’s any consolation I hate Vancouver. City of cunts

Lots of performative wealth here.

Dude, you think YOU'RE sick of hearing about America. People here won't fucking shut up about it

― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:59 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theres no tension in this statement fyi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHSjv9gxlE

I rly want to visit Mexico sometime, I’m sure they still talk about los EE.UU. all the time but at least they do it in Spanish

i don't think there is anything wrong with veganism per se, i have lots of vegetarian/vegan friends who are fantastic wonderful people in addition to being completely and totally reasonable, and then i had relatives on the facebook who were constantly pushing fucking "forks over knives" at me. so vegetarians and vegans are cool but i will never find the mass freak-out by hippie vegans discovering that the impossible burger contains gmos not funny.

As a leftist Canadian, I only find flopson's opinion controversial insofar as idk what it means to evaluate and compare the overall level of evil of entire countries.

I could say a lot more on the Canada VS America sweepstakes of evil but for now I'll just say: give it time.

Trudeau’s a tool

i don't think there is anything wrong with veganism per se, i have lots of vegetarian/vegan friends who are fantastic wonderful people in addition to being completely and totally reasonable, and then i had relatives on the facebook who were constantly pushing fucking "forks over knives" at me. so vegetarians and vegans are cool but i will never find the mass freak-out by hippie vegans discovering that the impossible burger contains gmos not funny.

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:37 AM (nine hours ago)

anti-GMO people are way worse than vegans/vegs, it's not even close

my ex-girlfriend is vegan, feels very strongly about it but never gives any other person a hard time. (she's jain, which explains both the veganism and agreeableness.) my experience overall with vegans and vegetarians has been pretty positive actually. and even as a ambivalent meat-eater I totally sympathize with their position and can understand why the issue means so much to them. the way we treat animals is pretty disgusting tbh