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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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    @TeWaio bang on (hur hur) about fireworks. Why do displays have to go on for so long???

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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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  • MN5M Online
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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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    @MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.

    Who pays for crayfish? 😉

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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 boerewors that curly one that looks like old dog poo.

    You've never had good lamb

    Crayfish is shithouse.

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    @Bones 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.

    Nah south Americans/Portuguese do the best bbq. At least they have good sausage other than boerewors that curly one that looks like old dog poo.

    You've never had good lamb

    Crayfish is shithouse.

    Screenshot_20221009-194418_Photos.jpg

    Thats Argentina. A mate of a mate who we had never met before hosted 5 of us for a feed at his house.
    Spectacular.

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    Of all the seafood, I reckon prawns are the most overrated for flavour. Just dull unless you send them to Mr Wong's and get him to put his special salt and pepper batter on them. Balmain bugs in the other hand rock.

    Crab is also a complete waste of time. You can spend an hour dissecting one of those things, and you'll consume about 50gms of meat for your $100.

    On veggies, what's with the resurrection of brussel sprouts? They were shit when I was a kid, and they're still shit now. They're basically Kale rolled into little balls.

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    @voodoo when was that? That photo looks familiar...

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    @Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @voodoo when was that? That photo looks familiar...

    Sep-18

    Boys trip to see the ABs in BA.

    I've probably posted it 10-20x 🙈

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    @voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @voodoo when was that? That photo looks familiar...

    Sep-18

    Boys trip to see the ABs in BA.

    I've probably posted it 10-20x 🙈

    Hah I was supposed to go on one same time, a bit of a reunification of the 'bra boys, I couldn't make it. Don't suppose someone lost a bet and had to wear a Waikato jersey?

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    @Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    @voodoo when was that? That photo looks familiar...

    Sep-18

    Boys trip to see the ABs in BA.

    I've probably posted it 10-20x 🙈

    Hah I was supposed to go on one same time, a bit of a reunification of the 'bra boys, I couldn't make it. Don't suppose someone lost a bet and had to wear a Waikato jersey?

    my friends aren't heathens

    (Edit, this is clearly a lie. They're just not Hamilton heathens)

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    @MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

    I’ll also throw Avocados in the WAY overrated bracket. It doesn’t taste of anything and has a weird texture.

    Agree, and if you eat it with other foods it takes away the flavour of those foods.

    Not sure about cyclist food though, in my experience 15 of them rocked up, blocked the footpath, took all the seating, and two had a coffee.

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    NZ is overrated.

    Most of the North Island interior is boring as fuck farmland.
    Beaches are good in that there are fuck all people on most of them, but a lot are inhospitable, windy and dangerous to swim at.

    Small town NZ totally lacks soul - full of prefabricated housing, beneficiaries with nothing to do, and often an aggressive bogan vibe.

    The average Kiwi is friendly enough, so long as you say like to do Kiwi things, don't criticize NZ in any way, and don't think too far out of the box.

    The mountains and lakes in the South Island are good, but better examples exist in Switzerland and the Canadian Rockies.

    Finally NZ, is expensive without the pay to support the cost of living and lot of the population are either smug liberals or small town hicks (with the one thing they have in common is that you can't criticize precious NZ)

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