Post a controversial opinion

wrong thread lol

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In approximately 1981 I was picked up and shoved headfirst into a garbage can. Repeatedly. I have gotten over it but not forgotten it.

My children have never experienced anything like this. And, I can say with reasonable confidence they never will.

These days, kids have significantly more subtle ways to undermine and/or victimize one another. I don't fear a call from the school saying that someone beat up my kid on the playground.

My fears are more like doxxing, deepfakes, online brigading, and backchannel Discord ostracizing.

You get shoved in a 1981 trash can and it's over, it's done.. it may leave a scar but it's done

Some of this online shit will be around to haunt you for years to come

There is definitely thread drift afoot here but yeah, Andy speaks truth here.

it's my fault, i wrote a reply in keep notes and pasted it into the wrong thread.

i'll quote the above posts in the appropriate thread

Podcasts should come pre-eq’d to sound like AM radio broadcasts

Summer doesn't end at Labor Day weekend, it ends on September 21st

Not controversial here. For example, Christina Rossetti's poem In the Bleak Midwinter is set near the winter solstice. By the same token, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place on the night of summer solstice. Thus we are reminded that for most of the past centuries, summertime ended on the autumnal equinox at September 21st, which was also when winter began.

Summer doesn’t end until October here

in a few years...it will never end.

ack! i just scared myself...

I guess it's more of an American mindset that I'm talking about.. mostly with the traditional 'back to school' blitz. But public schools here in Oakland started on Monday Aug 7th
Unthinkably early when I was a kid

Kids should go to school 24/7/365.

I'm not sure when summer ends in Montana but I'm pretty sure it'll be snowing by Halloween.

School should def be year round with more breaks instead of huge summer chunk.

Charter schools do this. If you're willing to sell your soul, of course.

I think I've only posted on this thread once or twice. "Controversial" makes it sound like you're impressed with yourself...I'd rather just stick with the idea that it's an opinion you suspect is shared by very few other people. With that in mind, I think House of Cards (American version, with the discredited actor) is a much more compelling show about devious people than Succession. I don't know if either takes itself very seriously, but of the two, House of Cards is even trashier, which is reassuring on that front.

Now post your baseball opinions!

I couldn't get through House of Cards. we watched the first season and it just got increasingly stupid and we gave up on it at the beginning of S2, around the time Kevin Spacey pushes that journalist in front of a train and somehow nobody notices. we were just like come on this is absolute bollocks.

kevin spacey might be able to act but he has never demonstrated it

House of Cards (US) was ok, some parts were excellent, some were embarrassing (the train-pushing, agreed), the music was maybe the best part.

House of Cards Trilogy (UK) on last rewatch piled it on a bit thick TBH, still very much better than the US remake IMO though.

found that also unwatchable

from irish character on tbh, read into that what you will

Tru Blood’s “I’m a fairy?” moment, House Of Cards pushing Kate Mara in front of a subway, Homeland’s second season, the early 2010s were the heyday of trashTV not knowing the difference between “this is fun” and “this is stupid”

scandal knew how to do it but it never tried to have it both ways which is crucial imo

I remember enjoying House of Cards (US) for a while, it was trashy in a good way. Kind of seemed like a fun caricature of US politics a bit like Veep was. But by the time he became president there didn't seem to be much of a point to this show anymore so I think I quit sometime in the 3rd season.

I think the main reason I like it so much is all the memorable peripheral characters, beyond the Underwoods. I could name at least a dozen, some of whom are only there for a short time.

kevin spacey might be able to act but he has never demonstrated it

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I once wasted about $100 to see him in Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten, where he played Jim Tyrone like Keyzer Soze

My cousin and his wife, major theatergoers, still rave about his performance in The Iceman Cometh when they saw it in London about 25 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPafNZkpX9M