Post a controversial opinion

dunno, maybe the bit where rolf tells you about the time he played the wobble board for the queen?

i'm so fucking proud of my thread revive

my controversial opinion is that saying "catcher in the rye" is a good adult book isn't actual a controversial opinion, it just contradicts one of those bits of "received wisdom" that people believe only because it's so obviously wrong. like "whatever does not kill me only makes me stronger", everybody loves to quote that even though it's patently fucking obvious that very frequently whatever doesn't kill you will make you weaker. (i will derail this fucking thread away from "catcher in the rye" if it kills me.)

(i will derail this fucking thread away from "catcher in the rye" if it kills me.)

read that in Kathleen Hanna's voice (sorry anticipation for 120 second song poll)

Just inanely cackling at my own shitposting paedo humour before i go to bed

be fair now, he assaulted women of sexual maturity all the way into their 50s

Oh man I forgot 'new radio' that song slays

controversial opinion: "lol paedo" jokes about people who assault teens and adults are erasure and part of the problem

lol CP

a lot of hate for the book might be people seeing a bit too much of their teenage selves in him

This is known in lit crit circles as Smelt-it-dealt-it-ism.

oh totally my basic original take this poseur douchebag is you is me- that’s not insight IT’S FUCKING OBVIOUS, my lil twin, doppelganger, hypocrtite lecteur!!! 14 y/o Hunt3r says fuck that SADDOS *puts on c-60 with New Day Rising and JFA and minor threat*

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.
Most books 200 pages.

> Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.

autechre

Exceptions are permitted. Their track counts are usually pretty tight!

https://www.discogs.com/Gescom-Minidisc/release/43153

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.

god i long for this

peter jackson, so much to answer for

Pretty sure the only controversial opinion along these lines is 'video games should be shorter and emphasize quality over quantity'.

Jazz albums should be 5-6 tracks/40-45 minutes.
Autechre would be better if their albums were only 45 minutes long, and I say that as someone who bought that 8CD NTS Sessions box and loves it.
Books can go as long as 300 pages; after that, you're mostly just jerking off.

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.

OTM on films. Albums should be under 40 minutes or GTFO.

I tend to gravitate to long books. But books worth reading are extreme outliers, and so what's true of 'most' doesn't necessarily apply.

OTM on films. Albums should be under 40 minutes or GTFO.

I almost put 40 but Violator is my idea of a perfectly timed album and it's 47, couldn't go too far under that.

xxp
tell that to Anthony Braxton whose latest release is almost 11 hours long of "Ghost Trance Music" - weird experimental vocal music in plain speak!

Ach I hate these hard-rules for running times
Books films albums can be as long or as short as they need to be but their length (or brevity) should always be justified
In general most albums longer than 40 minutes feel too long to me, for sure

Ach I hate these hard-rules for running times
Books films albums can be as long or as short as they need to be but their length (or brevity) should always be justified

I'm not advocating for cutting down Godfather II or anything but good christ fuck LoTR and Harry Potter for every comic book movie w/an hours worth of plot being bloated up to 2.5 hours

yep

"Night mode" is useful and worthwhile in the context of coding in an IDE or text editor and utterly masturbatory in every other app/website/entire OS.

Dang, white on black is so much more pleasant to me.. can't imagine ilxing without it

Most films should be 90 minutes or less.
Most albums 10 tracks/45 minutes.
Most books 200 pages.

― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, April 15, 2019 8:45 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most of these things just straight-up shouldn't exist in the first place, is my controp.

Roasted root vegetables are played out. I’m sick of that shit. Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

Fuck a tomato

Who wants to eat a whole ass tomato

it’s true 9 out of 10 tomatoes kinda suck

or even half of an ass tomato

Roasted root vegetables are played out. I’m sick of that shit. Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 9:20 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure but what will i do for the other 10 1/2 months of the year?

We need some winters vegetable disruptors

Bring me a tomato for god’s sake.

otm

yes, the best vegetable (fruit) after fresh picked corn

Corn is trash. Love good tomatoes.

We need some winters vegetable disruptors

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:00 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do some quick pickling to freshen things up

I've heard the disdain for corn, but I can't erase my childhood memory of the corn my father picked from the garden that we ate within minutes

the corn hybrids that he cultivated were amazing

Pls explain pickled root vegetable, I do not understand

Like pickled sweet potato? Brussels sprouts? Parsnip? I don’t think so.

xpost Corn has too much post-eating maintenance. I also don't favor sweet vegetables. Or chewing things off something that I am not eating. I do like things made with cornmeal though.

Hmmm maybe this is also why I don't like popcorn.

Pickled carrots rule

re: pickling, idk if you slice any veg really thin you can probably quick pickle it. it's not like i've tried them all but i'd be open to it as an approach

I’ve tried pickling a lot of different vegetables and they've pretty much all come out amazing - carrots, red/yellow onions, turnips, unwaxed cucumbers, jalapeños, green beans, okra, beets, bell peppers, cauliflower…

Were the pickled jalapeños spicy?

tomatoes are great, peaches are better. they also are the only fruit with greater disappointment potential than tomatoes, since great peaches are greater than great tomatoes, and terrible peaches are way more terrible, and also peaches have a higher failure rate.

peaches, people. this post, it grates.

my favorite fruit is peach and my favorite vegetable is eggplant if u know what i mean

xp the best tomatoes from sun-drenched gardens can't be beat, but I agree that the best peaches are amazing. those sold in supermarkets today seem to be some kind of hybrid with nectarines, without the taste, the juiciness, peach fuzz on the skin, or fruit clinging to the pit