Hot takes (no sports or politics) (1 Viewer)

[zoobird]

I don't think we have a thread like this already

Please avoid politics for obvious reasons

Also avoid sports, since EVERY sports thread ends up as a hot takes thread

There's plenty of other stuff that we can disagree about and plenty of other areas where we can offend each other with our opinions

 

[zoobird]

One of the reasons that Americans associate stinky cheese with Europe is that we go to Europe, buy cheese to bring home, and leave it in our hot bags without any source of cooling for many hours while we travel home. By the time we get home...it's stinky.

 

[zoobird]

It's reasonable to believe that working in-office is more productive than working remotely. It's also reasonable to stay off-camera on Zoom calls. But if you think in-office is better AND you frequently stay off-camera on calls, then you're not just part of the problem...you ARE the problem. You wouldn't hide behind a barrier for in-office meetings, so you shouldn't do it for video calls either. Doing so is just sabotaging the quality of communication and relationship building that's possible on calls.

 

[zoobird]

The goal of cooking chicken should not be to make it 'moist'. Too many fancy restaurants make bad chicken, because they're overly afraid of drying it out. Chicken is kind of gross unless it's cooked almost to the point of overcooking.

 

[RG623]

Primus is the worst mainstream rock music by far. True ear pollution.

 

[WVU Alum]

SportsCenter is still good TV the day after football.

Regarding medical research, people with a terminal disease should be allowed to opt into utilizing experimental options. It should also be free. Not covered, just offered for free.

Along similar lines, specifically health, monitoring technologies should be free to those that want it (like the Oura ring, watch, etc). But if you get it free you cannot opt out of sharing that data with medical researchers.

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

There should be a personal wealth cap that increases with inflation. $500 million to start seems reasonable. Is this mandated redistribution of wealth? Hell yes it is.

The rail system should be nationalized, repaired and expanded. It would provide a cheap and safe alternative to truck transport of goods. Also, for mass transit.

I would never win if I ran for office.

 

[rockaction]

That whole no politics thing didn’t last past the OP. Jeez, Huggy Bear. What else you got cooking at WVU

 

[rockaction]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

 

[rockaction]

Oh, and everybody should have closets that double as full-length mirrors for when they go shopping at Circuit City.

 

[djmich]

SportsCenter is still good TV the day after football.

Regarding medical research, people with a terminal disease should be allowed to opt into utilizing experimental options. It should also be free. Not covered, just offered for free.

Along similar lines, specifically health, monitoring technologies should be free to those that want it (like the Oura ring, watch, etc). But if you get it free you cannot opt out of sharing that data with medical researchers.

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

There should be a personal wealth cap that increases with inflation. $500 million to start seems reasonable. Is this mandated redistribution of wealth? Hell yes it is.

The rail system should be nationalized, repaired and expanded. It would provide a cheap and safe alternative to truck transport of goods. Also, for mass transit.

I would never win if I ran for office.

In Russia you would.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Primus is the worst mainstream rock music by far. True ear pollution.

Primus Sucks

 

[Captain Cranks]

Bill Burr isn't funny.

 

[Gatorade]

Primus is the worst mainstream rock music by far. True ear pollution.

Primus Sucks

Never heard of this so it must be bad

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Primus is the worst mainstream rock music by far. True ear pollution.

Primus Sucks

Never heard of this so it must be bad

Primus is a top 10 band for me, Primus Sucks is fan shtick. It’s definitely not for everyone, but there’s really no other band quite like them

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The rail system should be nationalized, repaired and expanded. It would provide a cheap and safe alternative to truck transport of goods. Also, for mass transit.

I like this one because travel is a pain for me. Long drives have never been my thing and airplanes/airports are a total mess these days.

 

[snellman]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

10? You must be young. Wait until anything caffeinated after 5 keeps you up all night.

 

[Runkle]

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

I never buy flour, rice, beans, or milk

 

[Captain Cranks]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

10? You must be young. Wait until anything caffeinated after 5 keeps you up all night.

I've been at 2 PM since my 20s.

 

[HellToupee]

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

I never buy flour, rice, beans, or milk

Same , we’re screwed in Huggiy’s world

 

[TripItUp]

Dune 2 is the greatest Science Fiction Film of all time

 

[Quint]

Hazy IPAs are wildly overrated

 

[El Floppo]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

10? You must be young. Wait until anything caffeinated after 5 keeps you up all night.

I've been at 2 PM since my 20s.

3 pm is my cutoff. After that I switch to meth or what i call "crank".

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Strawberry shortcake is an abomination. Strawberries are good. Cake with whipped cream on it is delicious. They should never be brought together, though. The whole is much worse than any of its parts.

 

[pollardsvision]

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

WIthout getting into the realm of the forbidden, have beans and rice really gone up that much?
(I detest milk and don't bake, so I wouldn't know about those).

But I eat a ton of rice and beans.

12 lb bag of pintos is still $10 at Sam's.
20 lb bag of basmati rice is $18. Jasmine a little cheaper. And if you're going so slum it with gringo white rice, that's a 50 lb bag for $24.

I mean this across political lines, the affordability problems most Americans face with food has nothing to do with the cost of rice and beans.

The affordability problem is that people aren't eating enough rice and beans.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

10? You must be young. Wait until anything caffeinated after 5 keeps you up all night.

I've been at 2 PM since my 20s.

3 pm is my cutoff. After that I switch to meth or what i call "crank".

I heard of a guy named Jesse that has this blue colored stuff that is super good. Said his high school chemistry teacher taught him how to make it. But that sounds a bit far fetched to me.

 

[djmich]

Paying for staple foods is bonkers. Everyone should get a portion of flour, rice, beans, milk, frozen vegetable for free every week/month. Want other foods, you still pay, but simple staples, free.

WIthout getting into the realm of the forbidden, have beans and rice really gone up that much?
(I detest milk and don't bake, so I wouldn't know about those).

But I eat a ton of rice and beans.

12 lb bag of pintos is still $10 at Sam's.
20 lb bag of basmati rice is $18. Jasmine a little cheaper. And if you're going so slum it with gringo white rice, that's a 50 lb bag for $24.

I mean this across political lines, the affordability problems most Americans face with food has nothing to do with the cost of rice and beans.

The affordability problem is that people aren't eating enough rice and beans.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I had a rice and bean burrito yesterday, $23 delivered by Uber Eats from Chipotle. I don't know how they expect us to live like this.

 

[Jayrod]

Strawberry shortcake is an abomination. Strawberries are good. Cake with whipped cream on it is delicious. They should never be brought together, though. The whole is much worse than any of its parts.

This is madness. Shortcake is no good outside of this dish. Maybe you just had some crappy version?

 

[TripItUp]

Taylor Swift is not even a 7

 

[TripItUp]

1978 Superman is on the Mount Rushmore of Superhero Movies

 

[Runkle]

Taylor Swift is not even a 7

True story, a friend offered to fix me up on a date with her. I turned her down.

 

[WDIK2]

Taylor Swift is not even a 7

True story, a friend offered to fix me up on a date with her. I turned her down.

I think she wrote a song about you.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

Taylor Swift is not even a 7

True story, a friend offered to fix me up on a date with her. I turned her down.

this is hot takes, not make up lies

 

[Runkle]

Taylor Swift is not even a 7

True story, a friend offered to fix me up on a date with her. I turned her down.

this is hot takes, not make up lies

they even offered to pay me

 

[Scoresman]

Jaywalking should go back to being an enforceable crime. Cross the street at crosswalks. Traffic is bad enough. I dont think it's safe making cars stop in the middle of a road where there is no stoplight or crosswalk.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Hazy IPAs are wildly overrated

Thank you!

I’d extend that to almost all IPAs. Seems like it’s a contest to see who can be the most bitter. Yuck.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

The Beatles are terrible

 

[Runkle]

The Beatles are terrible

So was Elvis

 

[scoobus]

Bacon on stuff sucks, it's only good alone.

And even then it's wildly overrated.

 

[Jayrod]

Bacon on stuff sucks, it's only good alone.

And even then it's wildly overrated.

This is the hottest take of all time. My man coming straight out of the center of the sun with this one.

 

[Galileo]

ALL Rom-coms suck.

 

[Max Power]

Bacon on stuff sucks, it's only good alone.

And even then it's wildly overrated.

Brah... this is a family forum

 

[AAABatteries]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

For 30 years I thought caffeine just didn’t affect me and my sleeping - I could down a soda and then roll over and go to sleep. In the last two years I’ve been told I most likely have ADHD and some people with ADHD don’t have problems with caffeine and sleep - for some it has the opposite effect.

 

[AAABatteries]

Primus is a top 10 band for me, Primus Sucks is fan shtick. It’s definitely not for everyone, but there’s really no other band quite like them

And that’s a good thing.

 

[dozer]

The left lane is for passing, the right lane is for travel. If you ain’t passing you’re traveling and you should move over. We're living in a society here...

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The left lane is for passing, the right lane is for travel. If you ain’t passing you’re traveling and you should move over. We're living in a society here...

And if the left lane is open for passing don't tailgate the guy in the right lane because he's not going fast enough for you.

 

[SWC]

My hot take is a personal one: I need to treat caffeinated drinks after 10 PM like Mormons treat brewed beverages. They’re just awful for me and I stay up all night.

same but after 10 pm brohan I am asleep at 10 take that to the bank rockchacho

 

[zamboni]

Bacon on stuff sucks, it's only good alone.

Clearly you didn’t see the original Friday the 13th flick.

 

[SWC]

people complain too much if we spent one tenth the time we do whining instead thinking about the great stuff and people we have in our lives wed be miles ahead personally and as a society take that to the bank brohans

 

[AAABatteries]

Bacon on stuff sucks, it's only good alone.

And even then it's wildly overrated.

He said hot, not insane.

 

[AAABatteries]

Hazy IPAs are wildly overrated

Have agree with this one (mostly). I love IPAs but most hazy ones are too much like watered down alcoholic juice