Potentially Contentious Opinions

What are some of the potentially contentious opinions that you have? You can list things you feel are wrong, overrated, silly, annoying, or things you prefer, ect.
Please no political post! Don't take offence, after all it is just someone's opinion! Keep it nice!

Here are a few of mine.

Toilet paper rolls should roll over the top not down the back.

The sound in movie theaters is too loud, especially action scenes.

I'd rather drink a cold Coca-Cola than any kind of alcohol.

 

lol - this will get HBT in no time
- People who don't say 'hello' when they walk into any small shop
- People who don't say 'thanks and goodbye' when they leave
- People who take/make calls or send texts when in a checkout
- Able bodied people who don't offer a seat to the less able on public transport

 

Not if people don't go political and just express opinions but don't attack and keep it nice!

Network Sports commutators talk too much about everything but the game that is being played.

 

I rarely go in movie theaters because of a pet peeve I have. I always manage to sit behind or in front of the couple who feels the need to chat incessantly throughout the movie.

 

Heinz Tomato Ketchup is the best ketchup!

 

Toilet paper should roll over the top, not down the back, unless you have a dog or a cat. They just love to play with the roll.

People who never learned righty-tighty and lefty-loosey with bread twistees.

Heads of lettuce packaged with clear tape. Why can't they use red or green so you can actually see the end of the tape.

 

People who tear through traffic, cut you off, etc and then take 10 minutes trying to back into a parking spot.

 

Funny! I had one of those cats once. She would get ahold of the toilet paper in the bath in the back of the house and run to the other end of the house unrolling it as she went and never tare it off the roll.

 

People who tailgate.

People who are on their phones texting/facebooking when they are supposed to be working.

People who drive slowly in the passing lane, as if it was their own personal lane.

People who have no concept of how to merge into traffic.

People that ask you a question, then ask "what do you mean" and repeat what you told them.

 

People who chew with their mouth open or talk while chewing/eating.
People who slurp their soup.
People who fart in lifts or on crowded trains or buses.
People who drive their car after drinking too much alcohol.

 

Painting beautiful cherry or walnut wood antique furniture is just wrong!

 

People smoking while people are eating. There is nothing worse than enjoying a nice glass of red with a big steak in a restaurant with someone's stinky cigarette smoke wafting around your head.
I am really pleased there is no smoking inside restaurants in Australia but if there are tables outside on the sidewalk or a balcony or a deck people can still smoke.

 

This. SO MUCH this!!!

Also, people who for any reason do not stay out of other people's personal space.

People who double-park on purpose.

People who do absolutely nothing to stop their over-eager dog from enthusiastically jumping at strangers because "he's just sooo friendly!"

 

YES! One of the reasons I don't watch cricket on TV. It's a relatively slow game and the commentators talk the biggest load of cr@p outside of a sewerage works.

You haven't tasted All Gold tamato sauce...

 

the "older" people that pull onto a merging ramp see a tractor trailer 5 miles down the road and wait till it gets 200 yards from them to pull out because they can't judge distance,tractor trailer has to slam on the brakes ,jack knife ,or run off the road to keep from killing somebody !!!
DON'T GET ME STARTED the list is tooooo long!

 

And then they give the person next to them a dirty look...

 

Can I take the fifth on this one?

 

You can... or blame the dog.

 

I do not think All Gold is sold in my grocery store. Brands are sometimes only available in some regions.

 

It's very difficult when you're on a crowded rush hour commute train - the odour of some who don't wash and the overpowering cologne of others is bad enough.

Oh Amazon sell All Gold Tomato Sauce!

 

Holy mackerel! $12.91 / 350 ml bottle? That's daylight robbery.
For those interested... $4.99 / 350 ml bottle at African Hut (California). There should be other importers.
http://www.africanhut.com/product.asp?id=1114

BTW
The regular price in SA is less than $2.00 / 700 ml bottle.

Sorry katkat. Not my intension to derail your thread, but when people get unashamedly ripped off... I get p!$$ed off.

 

Starbucks is overrated!

 

Yes! Their 'espresso' gets bad reviews everywhere - tastes bitter and burnt. I avoid them like the plague.

 

Guess that is why it is called Gold.

 

Maybe it is an acquired taste but too strong for me. Even their regular coffee is too strong for my taste and I truly love a good cup of coffee.

 

I went to Starbucks once. That was enough for me. I make better coffee with Folgers coffee and a cheap coffee pot.

And back on topic: WTF does Starbucks not have large/medium/small sizes? I hate goofy made up names for simple things.

 

http://blog.dictionary.com/starbucks-trenta/

 

Really do not like standing in the checkout line FOREVER, meanwhile there are more registers closed than open.

 

I have to reply to
"folk who bullshit in work that they think they can do the job"
Worse yet are those who know and can do the job but try to supervise instead. They hire too many of those who do not know so the job fails even though the guy in charge could have done it well. Greed is the driving factor here.

 

Couples, mostly middle aged, that meet up in the supermarket and block an aisle while trying to score points on where they've just been/are going on holiday.

 

I have a female co-worker who thinks it's perfectly fine to out of nowhere appear very close to me, from behind, and put her hands on my shoulders. The way the Guy touches me when he means to give me a shoulder rub. My co-workers does this as her way of saying "I'm right behind you, don't freak out".

I'm very sensitive about invasions into my personal space, and this is beyond annoying for me. A man who touches me that way would be facing a severe HR complaint at best, and some serious physical injury at worst. But this is a woman doing it, so consensus in the culture I am stuck with says it's not a big deal.

IT'S MY PERSONAL SPACE! Why does not one get why this matters?

I've discovered, from similar experiences in the past, that if you get really excited the next time your team scores and accidentally spill your drink all over the body part that is past the person's seat, can make this problem go away.

Yes. I know. But I have to work with her and every one who likes her. That requires me to be overly selective when I pick my battles.

 

Mimsy, male or female does not matter, touching is not allowed. Even being too close can be a problem.
Tell her and if she does not stop then tell your boss to explain the rules to her. After that you have to choose to put up with it or do a formal complaint.

 

And once again, since I have to work with this person every day, and have for several years, I save that energy for other battles, and simply keep my distance and make sure she doesn't sneak up behind me. Formal complaints are for people who are creepy, and intend something sinister or sexual. This woman is just dumb.

 

Back to movies, I show up early pick a seat, then in the last minutes before the show starts everyone crowds in.
People who don't read the MERGE left / right signs and drive straight, cutting you off - no signal & stare you down!!

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."-Nigel Powers

 

Mimsy, I just spoke to Dr. Phil and the consensus is you are suffering from Stress.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/got-a-funny-pic-post-it.314660/page-2#post-1983592
It's The Lounge... I can have some fun.

 

@Eldon

I'm confused... does that link go to the condom post or the alcohol post?

 

It's supposed to go here.

 

I don't agree with many positions Max expounds, but these tenets are logical and universal.

 

Fruit Cake

 

Sorry I meant to say Fruit Cake If there is such a thing as a good one I have never had any.

 

[QUOT Sorry I meant to say Fruit Cake If there is such a thing as a good one I have never had any. [/QUOTE]
My mom used to make un-cooked fruit cake an it tasted like caramal and was super sweet .I had to have a lot of milk after eating a piece.

 

Especially for you katkat!
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