Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Day 17: Confess Your Unpopular Opinion

A few months ago I saw a hashtag for “Confess Your Unpopular Opinion” trending on Twitter. I read through a lot of the tweets that followed. They almost seemed like people coming together and forming a support group and sharing things they'd been afraid to admit before. In that spirit, here are some of my opinions that I’m sure will be unpopular with certain circles. Just remember: They are just my opinions, and nothing anyone would need to take personally. You can agree or not.

Outside is nice, but I prefer inside. Outside is where you find the skin cancer and Lyme disease.

Sometimes movies are bizarre and confusing because they were made by lazy storytellers, not brilliant ones. This happens frequently with independent movies.

“The Big Bang Theory” is nothing but a collection of one-dimensional cartoon characters exchanging cheap one-liners.

Just because things are out of fashion doesn’t mean they don’t have value: I still get a daily newspaper, I still carry cash, I still buy entire albums instead of streaming music, and I think "Saturday Night Live" is still worth watching.

Baseball is boring.

I have nothing against the Beatles. But I have nothing for them, either.

Too many teachers don’t read enough, which is sad.

Unless it has enough extra ingredients to pass for a Dairy Queen Mini-Blizzard mixed in, coffee doesn’t taste very good.

Linkin Park’s album “A Thousand Suns” is a masterwork of its genre.

I disagree with the idea that “boy books” are the only way to get boys interested in reading. Boys are not so hopeless or special that they deserve their own genre.

People in Minnesota take hockey way too seriously. Youth hockey is less of a sport and more of an athletic cult.

Chris Hardwick is intelligent, hilarious, and remarkably insightful.

Video games are a legitimate art form and are too often used as a scapegoat for everything wrong with kids today. 

Country music could cease to exist tomorrow, and I wouldn’t notice.

I don’t get the appeal to fishing.

"The Hunger Games" would have been better as just one book instead of a trilogy.

Kids can get through life just fine without sports.

Neither onions nor cilantro serve any real purpose.

Trying your best to reach a goal doesn’t guarantee you’ll ever reach it. 

My school is not beyond hope.

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