The hot takes and unpopular opinions
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MajorRage said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@JC said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
1 Every Fern thread will eventually turn into a discussion about the relative merits of a dozen or so 90s rock bands.
2 The most influential album of the 1990s wasn’t by any of the bands you’ve all been talking about, it was Jagged Little Pill.
3 There is no number 3You oughta know is a cracking tune.
Ironic is a massive mindfuck for me. Nothing she says is ironic, it's all just shithouse luck. So I wonder if the irony is in the song title being called ironic.
Rest is a bit meh for me, but I acknowledge it has it's place in history. My GF at the time absolutely worshipped the album so it does bring back a few memories.
Flea and Dave Navarro did a good job on that one.
Alanis still the star on it.
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Heath Ledger is a massively overrated actor.
Classic case of someone dying young and being lauded far beyond his actual talent and achievements.
Hate to say it, but there's a bit of this with Kobe Bryant. He's top 12ish for me, people elevated him up to MJ/LeBron posthumously.
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My hot takes:
- Tennis is overrated. If you need some indecipherable wank scoring system to create drama, then your game is shit.
- Car drivers are the bigger dickheads, not cyclists.
- Cats are awful. Dogs a bit better, but most people who own them indulge them too much.
- Fireworks are hugely overrated. People who film them are morons.
- Angela Rayner is unexpectedly attractive.
- Being able to ride a horse is a very underrated skill.
- Very few things are more satisfying than a well maintenened and freshly mown lawn (probably not a hot take really).
- Gavin & Stacey is the best sitcom ever made.
Also, agree that UK comedians once they do panel shows are on the downhill slide. And that Bob Mortimer + Would I Lie To You is a match made in heaven.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
My hot takes:
- Tennis is overrated. If you need some indecipherable wank scoring system to create drama, then your game is shit.
Used to love it, but now with time being sparse, as a sport to watch it's gone.
- Car drivers are the bigger dickheads, not cyclists.
Hows the Lambo purchase going?
- Cats are awful. Dogs a bit better, but most people who own them indulge them too much.
Correct.
- Fireworks are hugely overrated. People who film them are morons.
Harsh
- Angela Rayner is unexpectedly attractive.
Good god. I do get your point of view, but all those talks of the legs crossing a few months back invoked some images I never want to see again
- Being able to ride a horse is a very underrated skill.
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
- Very few things are more satisfying than a well maintenened and freshly mown lawn (probably not a hot take really).
I pay people to do mine. That removes some of the satisfaction.
- Gavin & Stacey is the best sitcom ever made.
Also, agree that UK comedians once they do panel shows are on the downhill slide. And that Bob Mortimer + Would I Lie To You is a match made in heaven.
Never watched G & S, but do enjoy a British comedian panel show.
All in all, not a bad list but your Rayner one is just sick.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
My hot takes:
- Tennis is overrated. If you need some indecipherable wank scoring system to create drama, then your game is shit. This is actually extremely accurate
- Car drivers are the bigger dickheads, not cyclists. Not per capita they’re not. Cyclists are cocks.
- Cats are awful. Dogs a bit better, but most people who own them indulge them too much. Disagree, cats are cool, Dogs are needy and annoying.
- Fireworks are hugely overrated. People who film them are morons. Excellent call
- Angela Rayner is unexpectedly attractive. I don’t know who that is
- Being able to ride a horse is a very underrated skill. For sure
- Very few things are more satisfying than a well maintenened and freshly mown lawn (probably not a hot take really). I just trimmed the hedges, I don’t have a lawn but I know how you feel.
- Gavin & Stacey is the best sitcom ever made. Unfortunately you’ve undone any positive points from ones made above. I hate James Corden more than Ed Sheeran. Fat, talentless fluffybunny.
Also, agree that UK comedians once they do panel shows are on the downhill slide. And that Bob Mortimer + Would I Lie To You is a match made in heaven.
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Frank said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
All women's rugby is shit.
Yes my chores are done and I have a free afternoon, I won’t be watching any of it I can assure you.
I watched the OZ v NZ game yesterday, skill level was very high. Was good to see some flowing rugby after watching Wellington and Magpies blunder around like muppets for 80 minutes.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Car drivers are the bigger dickheads, not cyclists.
I'd say some car drivers are but as a group cyclists take it. Every single time I ride in a car in Sydney (which isn't too frequent as I like to walk) I see a cyclist doing something fucking idiotic. Bike couriers are some of the worst and the greatest pleasure I've seen in recent years is two of them crashing into each other and then getting up and having a slap fight over it. I've too often seen them hit pedestrians to have any sympathy.
@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cats are awful. Dogs a bit better, but most people who own them indulge them too much.
I'm cats all the way but agree with you that dog owners indulge their dogs too much.
@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Gavin & Stacey is the best sitcom ever made.
I've only watched the first episode but will add it to a queue if I find it on a streamer.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Being able to ride a horse is a very underrated skill.
In the 19th century perhaps.
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@voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@TeWaio bang on (hur hur) about fireworks. Why do displays have to go on for so long???
You're lucky you don't live near me, it's fireworks every night from Darling Harbour - but it does help me timewise, I always know when it's 8:30pm during the week and 9pm on Saturdays.
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Food related.
South Africans do the best BBQs. Problem is they know it and go on about it.
Steak is HEAPS better than Lamb.
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Whitebait is too.
A really good Indian curry is, if anything, underpriced.
Thai curry is too.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
My hot takes:
- Tennis is overrated. If you need some indecipherable wank scoring system to create drama, then your game is shit.
Great to play but can be a tedious watch
- Car drivers are the bigger dickheads, not cyclists.
Don’t mind cyclists when they are on a velodrome
- Cats are awful. Dogs a bit better, but most people who own them indulge them too much.
Agree
- Fireworks are hugely overrated. People who film them are morons.
Never really saw the fuss when I was a kid, but have to endure because my kids like them.
- Angela Rayner is unexpectedly attractive.
Nah bro.
- Being able to ride a horse is a very underrated skill.
Agree
- Very few things are more satisfying than a well maintenened and freshly mown lawn (probably not a hot take really).
Haha.
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@Nepia said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Who pays for crayfish?
Some of us don’t have cuzzie bros with the sweet hook ups
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@Catogrande said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MajorRage said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Catogrande said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Nepia said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Have we had Nirvana is overrated in the thread yet?
Who's rating them overly?
History.
Same as Janice Joplin.
History is wrong on both counts.
I'm rating them overly on both counts.
But I'm ok with others having different opinions to me.
I don’t mind Nirvana to be honest but don’t see them as this seminal band. Joplin? Shouty, pre new-age hippy. You just know she’ll have very hairy armpits and BO. Less importantly I can’t think of anything she did apart from Piece Of My Heart that I’d care to listen to again.
More an anyone-Leonard Cohen at that Chelsea hotel.
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Food related.
South Africans do the best BBQs. Problem is they know it and go on about it.
Steak is HEAPS better than Lamb.
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Whitebait is too.
A really good Indian curry is, if anything, underpriced.
Thai curry is too.
All excellent shouts, especially crayfish. Do love me some lamb though, even if its a solid second to steak.
Oysters are a bit overrated. Scallops, despite being incredibly popular, totally justify it. And a feed of moules frites in France or Belgium is a near religious experience.
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@TeWaio said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Food related.
South Africans do the best BBQs. Problem is they know it and go on about it.
Steak is HEAPS better than Lamb.
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Whitebait is too.
A really good Indian curry is, if anything, underpriced.
Thai curry is too.
All excellent shouts, especially crayfish. Do love me some lamb though, even if its a solid second to steak.
Oysters are a bit overrated. Scallops, despite being incredibly popular, totally justify it. And a feed of moules frites in France or Belgium is a near religious experience.
I was possibly a bit hasty on the lamb vs steak call. I find lamb a bit too fatty sometimes but when it is lean at its absolute best it probably can compete with steak.
I would love to have some top notch French food one day.
I’ll also throw Avocados in the WAY overrated bracket. It doesn’t taste of anything and has a weird texture.
It’s also such a wanky food to have on toast. The kind of shit that cyclists eat at a cafe and laugh about while they pay $25 for the privilege.
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Food related.
South Africans do the best BBQs. Problem is they know it and go on about it.
Steak is HEAPS better than Lamb.
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Whitebait is too.
A really good Indian curry is, if anything, underpriced.
Thai curry is too.
Nah south Americans/Portuguese do the best bbq. At least they have good sausage other than
boereworsthat curly one that looks like old dog poo.You've never had good lamb
Crayfish is shithouse.
