Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
If your car has cruise control and you’re not using it on highways you should not drive on a highway.
Sure if you live somewhere flat. On curvy roads that would be dangerous
Idk what highways you have but ours can’t be called highways unless they’re specifically designed for less curve more safe.
for example this is the main highway where I grew up
Funerals are stupid. I don’t go to them and I don’t want one.
“It happened by accident” not “It happened on accident”.
Halo Combat Evolved is out-classed by PC shooters of its time, and before, and the “good” Halo games are incredibly overrated.
“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.
People should stop using the word symmetrical. Symmetric is the better word.
Let’s go with symmetry-adherent.
Making your bed every day is useless.
Nobody’s gonna see it and you can’t use it without messing it up.
Ah young one I was once like you until I realised, that by not making the bed, your fitted sheet ends up absorbing more dust and moisture during the day and you have to change them more frequently. For truly optimal laziness it’s best to at least throw the quilt over.
How and why is your bed absorbing moisture during the day? I get if you’re saying sweat from sleeping in it, but otherwise I’m confused.
Personally, I use a very thin, non-fitted sheet as my blanket, so I don’t think any of the bed is really more or less impacted than others on having stuff piled on top of it.
Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong.
People who watch love island/MAFS etc style reality need a head shake. They all say they watch it ironically, nah its just trashy and you are trashy for watching.
I remember when American Idol came out - far less trashy than reality shows, though still not my thing. I was in middle school and when the topic came up, the people who said they watched it “watched ironically,” that they don’t really care, they just “like to make fun of the bad singers.”
I would think, “But that’s worse than watching it sincerely. That’s just being a jerk.” I felt bad for the people who got embarrassed on national TV, the idea of watching a show just to laugh at someone is so mean-spirited.
Yeh i agree. I feel like it has evolved and the newer argument is the contestants know what they are getting into, and honesty some are good looking but the vanity combined with the lean into judgment just feels unhuman to me.
Even moderate shows, i liked the Great British Bake off but as soon as they started the whole “its my dying grandams recipe and she wants me to win” i was like nope turn it off. I am happy to chatch challenge, or genuine perseverance, but not emotional drama thanks. I quite like some of the dog adoption ones too.
My smartest friends like trashier TV but not the relationship oriented stuff
“Vegan” should be pronounced “vejan” because they eat vegetables not “veegatables’.
But vegan doesn’t mean “only eats vegetables”. You can be vegan and only eat bread (seriously, I met one of those a couple of months ago, militant dude too. Pointed out that being vegan is easy “because you only need carbs.”)
Vejan sounds better than “ve-no-animal-exploitation-and-cruelty-an” though
I’ll call it now - speak to that guy in a few years and he’ll be one of those, “I used to be vegan, but I stopped because I couldn’t stay healthy” people. He may even double-down and say that nobody can be healthy while vegan, because he personally couldn’t do it.
I’ve met plenty of those over my 20+ years of veganism. Learning about nutrition to make sure you get a balanced diet isn’t that hard - resources are everywhere. Honestly, such skills should be practiced by everyone, whether vegan or not. A lot of people don’t realize how unbalanced their diets are until they go to a doctor’s check-up in their 30s and get a surprising blood test result.
The world would function 100% better if we made everything autism friendly and behaved autism friendly
My hot take is that I get tired of people citing autism to excuse themselves from acting badly.
Quite. Autistic people are just as likely to behave badly as people who aren’t neuro divergent.
My fave line. That’s an explanation, not an excuse.
Define acting badly
Prefacing this with saying I’ve previously worked in wildlife conservation for years.
Limited hunting of big game in Africa is perfectly fine. Dipshits willing to pay $100K to shoot something fund entire villages, put kids through school, and define a value of the living animals that make it easier to define how much money anti-poaching efforts need, etc. Even if not well-managed, even with expected corruption, it ends up working out.
Absolutist conservation stances never take into account how ridiculously manipulated these ranges are already. There’s not much still natural about an ecosystem in a reserve. Predator/prey relationships are weird, tourism focuses only on charismatic megafauna, and tourist sites bring staff and place humans close to wildlife anyway. Absolutist stances end up being horrible for animals long term because the ecosystems are so messed up, so populations boom, then crash. Why would anyone want to watch hundreds of animals starve to death as a way to “manage” a population when someone is willing to pay to do the same thing in a specifically managed situation?
In most species, the most useless thing there is, is an older male. Humans let them run their counties, which is stupid. Elephants, rhinos, lions and hippos run them off because they get violent and kill their own kind. Humans haven’t recognized that’s what ours do, too. But when a rich dipshit wants to pay $100K to be brought 30 meters from an old lion and shoot it before it kills 3 cubs from a rival… I’m very OK with that.
Poaching is the real threat, and most people are too ignorant of stupid to know the difference because of an abstract fear of firearms, rather than logically looking at the whole problem.
This is refreshing to see. So many people are ignorant about conservation. These places like you said actually keep the population in check and the wildlife healthy, vs watching an old animal starve to death… because nature. Animal lovers can be some of the dumbest and most ignorant people out there. A lot of them would literally put animals through years of agony because they are “rescuing” them.
I agree but I still reserve the right to think the obnoxious, rich cunt posing with the beast that his African guide tracked for him (and probably loaded his gun and packed his lunch) is an insufferable twat and a leach on society.
That is the once nice thing about social media. All these insufferable idiots put their insufferable actions right there in public so we can identify them and ignore them. Nothing better than seeing someone’s social media and going “ah, I’m not even gonna waste my time”
That makes sense to me. permitted hunting to cull invasive animals in many places of the world is still going. I don’t see a problem with extending that to bug game hunting in Africa the way you described it. Like it or not humanity have changed ecosystems plenty of times in various scope and scale
I get annoyed when people describe the taste and flavor of coffee as “strong”.
“Strong” is just the concentration of coffee particles in water. An espresso is stronger than an Americano for instance.
Coffee tastes bitter, sour and maybe a little sweet. The flavors can be quite complex involving fruit, nuts, spices and such. Don’t just say “sTrOnG” like an oonga boonga caveman.
I’m glad to see another coffee lover
This is common to a lot of drinks, foods, scents if you haven’t been exposed to a variety over a period of time and all you drink is the same instant coffee each day then yeah, the flavour is “coffee” and all you really notice is the volume dial on how coffee it tastes. If you start intentionally drinking different types of coffee regularly and actually try to notice the flavours then yeah, anyone can start to identify the nuances. Its hard to identify those different components and qualities unless you try different things where they have them in different ratios.
I’m personally really into tea and similarly when people say “green tea tastes like grass” its the same thing. I try loads of different ones and am pretty good at noting the various notes, stone fruit, honeysuckle, muscatel, minerality, milk etc. Yet to most green tea tastes like grass, oolong is that weird weak tea you get in the chinese restaurant and black tea is best served with milk and sugar by the gallon in a Sports Direct mug.
And maybe I’m not entirely oonga boonga on coffee but I definitely don’t drink it enough to be good at being able to notice what exactly it is thats changing between them to be able to point it out.
the beans my favorite roaster uses taste slightly of cinnamon. i already add cinnamon to my coffee, so they are my flavorite
Despite the risks, raw cookie dough is better in every other way than the cookie it makes. Stop baking cookies and just give me the dough 😋
The riskiest part of cookie dough is the flour.
It will help one build their immunity, it’s fine. /s
“Fuck lawns” energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)
Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they’re still around to appreciate it. Once they’re dead, they won’t give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.
As someone who makes out with goth girls: no, we need cemeteries. They’re just really edgy parks
All post death stuff is for those still living, top help them cope
Functionally yes, but those partaking generally see it as a gesture for the deceased, not therapy in disguise.
I’m all for therapy, it’s just the way we go about it in this context is stupid and wasteful.
Graveyards are a waste of land. In many areas, embalming chemicals leach out and poison the water table. If you must use the land for mourning, cremate the body, bury the cremains, and plant a tree.
Human cremains are too acidic to make good growing soil.
Mulch the body, bury the mulch, plant a tree.
cremains, nice. Its not often anymore that I learn a legit new word. Thank you kid sir or madame.
we’re probably too salty too.
human composting has come a long way. it’s what i want them to do with me after the med school is done learning whatever they can.
I am tempted to agree with you, I mean we’re going to run out of graveyard space if we keep it up. We need something like crypts for all the graves from several hundreds of years ago to move into, and then we need to keep on moving people from graveyards into crypts ad infinitum - this way we could still provide graveyard space to people who are remembered by living relatives. I’d say the cut-off could be 3 or 4 generations.
Of more importance to peoples’ descendants long term is having good documentation of who their ancestors were, when they were born, married, and died (see websites like: https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/ , if you need this information yourself. this one is UK and i don’t know about any american one, sorry.)
As long as you have that information for your records, a grave for your great great great something is not important.
