Rolling CHALLENGING OPINIONS thread 2008

damn son i thought we was fam

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:11 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

minstrel

-- Arms, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:12 AM

there's no reason for religion to exist anymore, we should agree to can it for civics instead.

-- darraghmac, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:38 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This really is the Rolling Darraghmac thread, huh?

dell is pretty insane.

ban entire pakistan ip range

-- sanskrit, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

didnt that already happen

Obama is pretty "clean," for a black! He's got my vote

-- Vichitravirya_XI, Monday, 31 December 2007 21:27

'Hen fap' has never been funny.

-- Matt DC, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:40 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:42 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

...he getting ready for the race war in a shack in montana.

Yeah, but I love this look.

-- Laurel, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:37 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

'Hen fap' has never been funny.

-- Matt DC

It wasn't funny to start but when it started irritating people, it got rather amusing!

'Hen fap' has never been funny

unibrows have never been funny either

who is your faviourite western philosopher from this list?

Challenging opinions rally

When was the last time I said "mah niggah?"

The only one i like all the way through is Goldfinger. Most of them are a bunch of action sequences without any effort put into connecting them.

-- abanana, Sunday, 10 February 2008 18:02 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

But voters from the deep south who would be susceptible to the racial politics dog whistle abandoned the Democrats in 1980 or so. So no, I don't think racial bias contributed at all significantly to Hillary's win among whites in LA.

-- Dickerson Pike

vince vaughn is better than dane cook

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, February 11, 2008 12:45 PM

ya think?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FpeBBIkhL._AA240_.jpg

# Whites a Minority? [Started by Bo Jackson Overdrive, last updated 2 hours ago] 33 new answers

oh for fucking fucks sake

What IS emo ? Are Sebadoh, Superchunk emo? If so, emo is a synonym for crap, isn't it?
-- Dr. C, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

"emo is a synonym for crap" isn't really a "challenging" opinion though, is it? Like, if you went on that assumption, would you be missing out on awesome music? I doubt it.

Someone should start a rolling "ILXors whom Dom has beef with/grudge against" thread for lulz.

Hmmmm - I don't care about Dr. C calling emo crap but he's very very RONG with the implication that Sebadoh and Superchunk were either emo or crap.

Agreed

i thought "challenging opinions" was not actually a place for challenging opinions to be listed, but a place for things to be listed that the poster themself falsely believes to be a challenging opinion

Exackly.

i thought "challenging opinions" was not actually a place for challenging opinions to be listed, but a place for things to be listed that the poster themself falsely believes to be a challenging opinion

-- roxymuzak, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 15:01 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^correct

pish i was stating FACTS

not u sunny

:-( sorry.

those political threads are chock full of challenging opinions from ilxors

see "ban burt stanton" on mod req

Since when has journalism ever been about being talented? Anyone with a university education has the skills to turn out decent copy.

-- Zelda Zonk, Friday, 15 February 2008 12:29 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

He's so pretentious. It's amazing how, even though I don't really care to keep up with his career, every time I see him he manages to do something incredibly arrogant and self-indulgent that shocks me. That Grammy speech where he acts incredibly rude and conceited (the recent 2008 version) is another example of this. Telling the band to stop playing the music because he wants to go over the allotted time restriction and talk about his mother is a another example. If he hadn't started out his speech talking about how he "owned" the Grammy's and made the awards show his new home he'd have enough time to talk about how his mom is proud of him in heaven when she watches rap videos of her son, but he didn't think it through. Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.

-- Cunga, Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:28 AM

Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.
Kanye West is like Flava Flav with a college degree.

flava flav is like kanye west with a big fucking clock

lol, that uppity negro!

It's mostly personal opinion for a lot of these.

-- our work is never over, Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

...

there no fucking wrong personal opinion.

-- our work is never over, Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

I think there is an environmental cause eg a toxin that causes depressive thoughts. Plenty of places have deprivation and associated social problems and unemployment. Nearly everyone can access the internet. So they should be looking for a environmental cause specific to this area. Why is nobody doing this?

-- Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:37 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

not so much "challenging" as "this guy is pretty twee for a heavy crack user."

Environmental cause = living in fucking Bridgend

there no fucking wrong personal opinion.

-- our work is never over, Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

RONG

"there's no wrong opinion" = something idiots say to justify saying something idiotic

could the US navy use one of its satellite-killing missiles to take out the primaries thread? just a thought.

People are hating this movie for the rong reasons. They're getting worked up about the "issue" of abortion, when the movie isn't a morality tale or an after-school special. It's a comedy about a singular person in an individual situation. Then they're mad because of all the "indie signifiers", because they are still under the delusion that they somehow possess the magic key to jaded enlightenment and non-mainstream culture, as if these music / artists / or ideals will never cross over. Like, "Hey, other assholes are listening to MY MUSIC, and to add insult to injury, they're thriftshopping too!" Get over it. I don't hear clear arguements against the script, performances, production, etc.

And so, I ask again, what exactly is the bar for Teen Dramedy if not Juno?

-- Bobbi Peru, Friday, February 22, 2008 3:25 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

could the US navy use one of its satellite-killing missiles to take out the primaries thread? just a thought.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 21 February 2008 17:22 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

daria-g morelike daria-godsake, stop posting, amirite?

daria-g morelike daria-godsake, stop posting, amirite?

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, February 22, 2008 10:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

In its mass-market designs, it represents the oversaturation of a particular "indie" aesthetic that had started to grow stale by the end of the 1990s but somehow took on a new place by being subsumed into the mainstream in the early-to-mid 2000s with Seth Cohen wearing ringer tees on The O.C. and Modest Mouse in car commercials and such.

-- jaymc

fair trade thread is getting pretty fuckin' intensely challenging.

It's a little snotty to make "duh" comments that imply that an understanding of the Bretton Woods system is part of the obvious baseline of any casual discussion of trade among non-econ people.

Duh.

re: this:

Bretton Woods was a cashcow for the west really

-- laxalt, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:01 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

maybe we need a "breaking news" thread for "western states will use every weapon in their armoury to their advantage whatever the consequences"-type challenging opinions.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:06 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Nottingham Forest boss Stuart Pearce is "not a great coach, not a great tactician and not a great motivator", says former England defender Danny Mills.

challopian levels of stating the fucking obvious from Danny Mills

why are you being so rockist about pop?

― the discussions, the slanging matches, the banter, the lot (imago), Wednesday, June 10, 2015 11:05 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The best argument for Armisen not being a horrible person is his friendship with Carrie Brownstein, tbh. Hard to imagine her being best buds with the predator that Gawker article made him out to be.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, September 14, 2015 4:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at this point i think people voting leave just hate all migrants/anyone who looks like a migrant, and that everyone voting to remain, just dont want to be seen to be hating migrants/anyone looking like a migrant. the people spoiling their ballots or not voting are the only ones you can trust.

― StillAdvance, Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:32 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Look at that. Look at it good and hard. This is where we're at.

Look at what they make you give

#Brenter

grawlix (unperson) wrote this on thread Anniversary poll: How many good songs are there on Sgt. Pepper's? on board I Love Music on May 25, 2017

Fuck the Beatles. Zero.

Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten) wrote this on thread Anniversary poll: How many good songs are there on Sgt. Pepper's? on board I Love Music on May 25, 2017

These are all great songs.

C&P from blog view is always confusing to me at first

MST3K isn't very funny

Has it been noted that ilx basically discovered hot takes before they were called hot takes?

dead celebrities dont keep accumulating birthdays

im sorry its just how i feel

2008 was 12 years ago. Sorry that’s just how i feel

MST3K isn't very funny

― Karl Malone, Sunday, August 13, 2017 7:32 PM (four years ago)

i forgot about this, but still agree.

+ pulp is not a good band

It may be a challop but def agree, I think maybe you had to be there or I haven’t seen the right ones, I’m always like this is pleasant enough & has a low effort low energy vibe to match the boring 50s sci-fi films but given the affection ppl have for it… where are the laffs

The skits in between the movie bits are dire

pulp is not a good band

The skits in between the movie bits are dire

and baffling, if it weren't for those i might have been more inclined to give this show more than the one and a half chances i did.

def agree, maybe you had to be there or whatever but whenever someone got me to watch MST3K I was like this isn't funny at all and I'd rather just watch the b-movie without these annoying unfunny idiots talking all over it

i just assumed i was on the wrong drugs vs the fans

space mutiny is still funny to me but i completely understand anyone who finds the show unfunny. it’s pretty inconsistent

dirk hardpeck

gristle mcthornbody

Film parts: this comedy show isn’t haha funny but it’s quite nice, don’t get the obsession but I’m chuckling

Skits: alright this is some of the worst shit I’ve ever seen

I've seen many (and even love some) of the featured films but I still have yet to watch a MST3K. I dunno, if a movie is quip-inducing I guess I just prefer to generate the quips myself alongside whoever I'm watching it with.