r/unpopularopinion

I don’t just means the fans, the actors too. We got office podcasts, office commercials, the actors on the internet recreating scenes like a decade later, I know there’s never a full consensus in matters of taste but good lord it wasn’t that good, and damn near none of them have done anything noteworthy since just let it go. Parks and Rec was way funnier with more heart and all of those actors went on to better things after (a few stragglers aside.) I just don’t get the hype so many years later.

Even if the number of homeschooled children is 'low', I don't think children should be pulled out of public schooling without some level of oversight or standardisation the parents/caregivers have to follow.

I think the biggest problem with homeschooling is that its not regulated in most jurisdictions, and it often allows abusive, neglectful, or ignorant and uneducated parents to screw over a child's education, or set them back developmentally.

You can mix and match any combination of those poor character traits, and you'll still inherently understand that this person is not in any position to be responsible for anyone's learning. On top of the fact that many children are pulled out of public school by their abusers, simply so crimes and evidence of abuse can be hidden, with some even dying.

"Hurr durr, let me ignore the final point entirely and make it a single issue about the laws and education" - Basically your comments.

"Thanks for 300 likes."

"Edit: thanks for 700 likes."

Please just stop it. It reeks of low self-esteem and is nonsensical to say the least. If people like your comments, fine and good. But please keep your appreciation to yourself.

Regardless of gender identity, short hair just doesn't look good. I feel like both long hair and completely bald at least give off some kind of style or personality, short hair just feels bland, boring and easy. For almost everyone who chopped off their long hair I definitely preferred the long hair. Short hair makes people look more strict, less playful, even older.

You’ll never convince me otherwise. You absolutely don’t need to know where your partner is 24/7. Even if you‘re sharing locations just for transparency and not because of distrust, how do you know that your partner doesn’t use it to always track where you are? How do you know he or she doesn’t use it to constantly check your location? You can’t read their mind.

The most popular counter argument here will be that it’s for “safety reasons”. Well, if that’s the case, why can’t you just share your location with your parents or your best friend? Why does it always have to be your partner? A romantic partner is way more likely to escalate it into a controlling, obsessive situation than a good platonic friend is.

Also, being able to share locations through Snapchat and other platforms has only existed for ten, maybe fifteen years. How do you think the couples before us survived? I promise you that your parents who got married in the eighties and are still happily together have never had each other’s locations.

ICE (internal combustion engine) design wasn't based on this adulteration originally. They had to accommodate the design.

US government wanted to incentivise the corn growers. In the meantime, we have this propaganda about peak oil for 30 years. They didn't consider engineering innovation, using alternate fuel and electricity. Pushing more corn for motor fuel is an environmental disaster considering how much water is required to grow that corn with little fuel yield.

In recent years, it appears that the flex fuel fad is no longer strong. It is almost forgotten in many places. Very few cars can use that fuel. That is a good thing. The market force can simply reject a corrupt idea.

Let’s just use GameStop as an example for this, but it can apply to any store where you can sell them the stuff that they sell.

People complain about GameStop because you can buy a $70 game, then sell that same game to them and they’ll give you like $30 for it, then put it on the shelf for $60.

This is about right, though. What do you expect? That you’ll go in there and get what they’ll sell it for? Nothing works like that.

They figure out how much a used version of what you have should sell for based on the market and overall condition, then they give you about 50-65% of that so that they can put it on the shelf for the used price.

If you think you should get more for it, then don’t sell it to a place with a business model of reselling it. Go on eBay and put it up for what you think it’s worth, and wait for it to sell, just like what GameStop will do. Part of what you’re paying for is the convenience of getting cash for it immediately when you sell it to a store. If you want more, you have to put it in a place where people can see it, and you have to wait.

You can’t be mad at something for being exactly what that thing tells you that it is. If you know a store makes money by reselling games, then you have to accept that you aren’t going to get full value for your game you sell it to them, because by the nature of the store itself they will need to be able to resell it.

This app used to be original, with people sharing opinions and ideas.

Now every answer is the same, people seem to follow what they found here on previous posts.

Example:

Good person? Dolly Parton

Bad person? the famous Austrian painter ( yes we understand who you refer to and we know that he was terrible)

Best food? Pizza

Bad gastronomy? England

It's so terribly boring. I m not saying these are not correct, I m just saying that they are very very dull

yearning for someone you can't have actually fucking sucks. the idea of being in love is cutesy and beautiful until you're actually in love. and you are unable to be with them. the thought of me not being able to be there for them, to look after them, to admire them, to be their biggest supporter in life fucking sucks. nothing is fun about waiting. nothing is romantic about not being able to hold someone you love in your arms and having to watch from a distance. nothing is cute about not being able to see them for long periods of times and feeling your heart physically breaking into half when you think of them with someone else. nothing hurts more than the thought of losing them, never being able to see them again. what is social medias obsession with suffering?

I know my culinary opinion may not hold much value to most, because I'm Dutch, and Dutch food is usually not particularly good. However;

Sunday roast is phenomenal,

English muffins are probably one of the tastiest forms of bread,

Crumpets are fantastic and have a perfect balance of flavors when you put jam and butter on them,

A full English breakfast is by far the most nutritionally complete, energy dense breakfast any person can wish for, especially on colder or rainy days,

Pies are a great and varied. Hearty and filling meals and small pies are a quick and easy, portable lunch,

Millionaire shortbread is perfect,

Worcestershire sauce elevates any savory meal on a rainy day,

Beans on toast look horrible but taste super good, and it's super easy to make and very nutritious.

However, in my opinion, fish and chips are just very mushy and greasy, and not that great. Especially with mushy peas, like who the fuck... The vinegar cuts the fattiness but turns the fries into slop. No. Sorry England. You do you

Albums getting platinum because people stream just the popular single is nonsense.

For it to constitute an album sale surely each song has to have been listened to once. Just like if you bought a vinyl or cd. Everyone is listening to each song once.

Same should be true for streams contributing to album sales.

(Not arguing a 1 play of the lowest song is 1 album sale) but taking plays from all songs on the album is ripe for inflated album sales in comparison to historic or physical sales

Couple of things i think should go with it

- accurate labels on regulated products just like ibuprofen

- warnings about actual risk, with zero moral judgment

- educating guides about dosing for weight, and what effect you want

- same age limit as alcohol

- all crimes associated with alcohol are still illegal for other drugs, public intoxication, providing drugs to minors, driving under the influence, nothing changes except people can sell drugs they make, and stores can sell drugs like they sell alcohol, and adults can consume what they want in private

- also i think the world would be better off if we took all the funding for the dea (since they wont have jobs anymore) and put it into ending human trafficking, and rehab centers for addicts

His ego is too big to defeat . Maybe he can even win it . He already has everything in this world - money , wealth, fame , success, power. The one thing he lacks is a World Cup Trophy , and I think he will do anything he can to win it .

It’s so bad and I don’t get how anyone likes it. It’s so twangy and fake. They’ll sing about working hard and doing these blue collar jobs, meanwhile they are spoiled celebrities who live in mansions. It has to be the fakest music out there, and it doesn’t even sound good.

It basically has the same sound every time. They also use the same handful of themes just about every time. We get it. Trucks, a girl, working hard, drinking beer. It’s the same crap every time and it’s so lame. And unlike other genres the instrumentals are so limited, the guitar is never impressive and they just totally rely on cringe tales about fishing or riding in a truck. Some ghost writer probably wrote it and the artist is actually somebody from LA who fakes their accent. Anyone else think it stinks?

Money brings happiness. It has the capability to remove massive obstacles in your life in terms of bills, needs, etc. Those who disagree either are already financially well off to the point where having anymore money won't change anything, or are seriously trying to cope on not having money.

Especially for girls when we're children, when we see a neonate, we coo at them. Gushing over how cute they are. Are they cute? Sure.... They're small, chubby... All that. But not cute ENOUGH to deserve all the cooing. It's probably just something that got incorporated in the girl child's mind, potentially so that they grow wanting to be mother's one day.

Edit: guys, I don't particularly mean when they're born immediately. I mean even weeks or months after that.

A guy friend at work casually dropped a 200 IQ take today.

"Maybe we could drastically lower teenage pregnancy rates if we just used vending machines for condoms.”

He argued that it's not a lack of awareness; it's just pure, crippling embarrassment at the checkout counter.

Pure facts. I 100% stand by his idea. It's time to modernize how we approach safe sex! 💯

P.S We are from the Philippines, and it hasn't been implemented here yet.

It is such an underrated mechanic that I wish more games would implement, especially games where you're supposed to explore. Take Skyrim for example, there's a million different unique weapons and armors that you can find, but a guy like me is never gonna use anything but whatever has the best stuff. Because of this you have to make loot drops scale with player level, but if items break, you can have players find high level stuff early on because it's just gonna break.

Modern healthcare especially in strained systems like the NHS treats GPs as gatekeepers whose default setting is reassure and delay. You walk in under 50 with real but not emergency symptoms intermittent abdominal pain, bloating, fatigue, bowel changes, whatever and you get IBS, stress, go on a diet, come back if it gets worse. Honest, measured descriptions no bloods, no imaging, no referral.

Meanwhile, colorectal cancer rates in people under 50 have been climbing sharply for years. Same with ovarian cancer showing up earlier and more aggressively in younger women. Early symptoms overlap with benign" stuff, so without scans things get caught late. I've watched friends and family members dismissed for months/years until it escalated. Only when they started describing the impact louder.

The system isn't built for early detection in younger patients who shouldn't have these diseases. Guidelines prioritize cost control and reducing unnecessary scans over catching the rising exceptions. Polite honesty gets you triaged into the long grass. Learning to communicate severity in a way that triggers action without full fabrications is how people actually get checked before shit hits the fan.

I'm not saying fake seizures or claim you're coughing blood if you're not. But if your symptoms are legitimately affecting your life and worrying you, then exaggerate to your GP about the symptoms.

Doctors will hate this take. Patients who've been burned by delayed diagnoses won't. Fix the access problem and this hack wouldn't be necessary.

TL;DR: With colon and ovarian cancers rising in younger adults, don't let gatekeeping and "you're too young" bias screw you. Exaggerate the real impact strategically to get the scans that could save your life.

That feeling of emptying your bowels is so relieving. It’s like your body is cleansing itself. And once you get all of it out you feel even better. When I realize I have diarrhea I can’t wait to run to the bathroom and let it all out.

It’s also feels good having it come out like water.