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Post your most controversial opinion. Any subject. Only rule is that you should actually believe it.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i believe the subwoofer should be destroyed and banned forevermore

― Queen G (Queeng), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Bright Eyes is one of my favorite bands.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

If we were in 30's Berlin we'd all be Nazi's.

― Sylvestre, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

oil spills are good for the environment -- they're jsut something to keep it on it's toes (and it's had it way too easy of late if you ask me)

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

By the time I finish this sentance, three children will have died of starvation. Food worldwide is too expensive. Solution - eat the dead children.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

some nights the moon is actually so close you cd reach out and touch it

but don't, as its surface temperature is zero kelvin and yr fingers wd shatter into an icy dust

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Bobby Brown is the king of R&B.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Keanu Reeves is perfectly cast in both Much Ado About Nothing and Dracula.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

You should have 3 C's or above at A-level in order to get into ANY university course. No exceptions.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I fucking rule!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

That story in the New York Times about some universities (University of Georgia?) giving out scholarships to rich kids who already have big, fat college funds & parents who earn over 200 000$US/yr & have achieved a dazzling B average....perfectly justified.

*cough*

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Kittens are so All-American

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

2002 is the best year for music EVER thanks to the Von Downbeats, the Music, the Noise, the Light, the Tapes, the Buses and the Damnable Atrophies!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Avril Lavigne is the greatest star in music today.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Avril lavigne is carrying on with sonic youth's good work in mixing rock and avant garde influences.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's very naughty of me, but I would like to set an examination paper at Dover, and turn back every tourist who couldn't pass it."

"What would you ask us?"

Miss Lavis laid her hand pleasantly on Lucy's arm, as if to suggest that she, at all events, would get full marks."

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanessa Carlton is the new Prince!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think Robert DiNiro's bits in Godfather II are necessary or an improvement on the movie.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The 2002 World Cup suffered from bribery of officials.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, with these two posts I forgot that I had to BELIEVE them!

OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Non-United States nationals who bitch about how their country is so much better than the U.S. should take a few minutes and consider why so many of their compatriots want to live and work here.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The Sopranos really is the most overrated pile of dreary cack.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

michael keaton was mesmerizing in "multiplicity" *

*does this controversial opinion necessarily have to be mine?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

''OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.''

that's something I WANT to believe.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

hiv might not cause aids
in jokes are not jokes

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

None of these opinions are controversial (including this one).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

it is difficult to discern which stoops to more decrepid methods of pimping it's own putresent ass - lord of the rings or missy elliot.

― Queen G (Queeng), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Ewing's pro-pop anti-indie stance is a phase.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I envy almost everyone on ILE who I claim to dislike.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

(dunno if I already posted this, but I thought I'd better rephrase)

The people who sometimes annoy me on ILE are on the whole the ones whose talents I most envy.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The 'pro-pop' stance seems like more of an excuse for intellectual dishonesty every day.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ouch. There's a lot of pop I'm utterly unthrilled by, but that seems harsh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The American government faked the 1969 Moon landing

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"Disabled people are paying for their sins in a past life"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the last part of subject line questions aren't worth reading

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanilla Coke just tastes like cream soda.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

* Vanilla Coke tastes just like cream soda.
* Coal Gray is better than black.
* Mail should be delivered on Sundays.
* Private schools should be made illegal to bring money back in to the public school system.
* Down with the Death Penalty!
* Freaks and Geeks was one of the top 5 TV shows ever.
* Billy Corgan looked better with hair.
* Turkey should no longer be the focus of Thanksgiving dinner. The 'side' dishes are far better than the main dish (sweet potato casserole mmm...).
* A Dog, though cute, will never make as good of a pet as a cat.
* Having children in hopes of continuing your own legacy is selfish.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Can't handle my opinions, huh?? Everyone in shock?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I approve of Michael Jackson dangling his child out of a window. More parents should follow his example.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I approve of Michael Jackson eating his young in front of a live audience. More parents should follow his example.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Compulsory medical testing and research should be carried out on prison inmates. I like the thought that a serial rapist or murderer could be used as a guinea-pig in helping to find the cure for cancer.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

it is difficult to discern which stoops to more decrepid methods of pimping it's own putresent ass - lord of the rings or missy elliot.

I believe the Harry Potter industry is even more guilty of this.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"* Billy Corgan looked better with hair."

But he DID!

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I'm going to get a lot of flack on this, especially at this time of year, but...I don't think that sweet potatoes/yams are fit for human consumption. Even topped with marshmallows.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

It all seems funny, kinda like a dream, things ain't always what they seem.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think that sweet potatoes/yams are fit for human consumption
That's ok.
I am a food connoisseur. It's so hard for me to relate with the common folk!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I have moments when I think the death penalty might not be a terrible idea. It sometimes seems really expensive and, well, fundamentally perverse to incarcerate someone for life or even for a decade or two.

I don't have a firm opinion on whether abortion should be legal. I've yet to see a totally convincing pro-choice argument (not that I've been reading in depth). My main reason for being sort of pro-choice is that it's a controversial topic and since I don't have a firm decided opinion I want to leave it up to personal choice.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Muppet Show was more annoying than anything else.

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

George W. Bush is a big poopy-head.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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right hand guitars should be called left hand guitars since the left hand does all the complicated stuff while the right hand is just idly banging away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 29 January 2026 22:45 (seven months ago)

This depends on the style of music you’re playing

― trm (tombotomod), Friday, 30 January 2026 00:17 (seven months ago)

There are loads of left-handed people who play righty. Me, for example.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 January 2026 00:22 (seven months ago)

Same with violin, other way round with piano.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:35 (seven months ago)

... I mean fiddly (excuse pun) with left hand.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:36 (seven months ago)

... fiddly stuff.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:36 (seven months ago)

“Idly banging away” you said the quiet part out loud

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 January 2026 07:50 (seven months ago)

This depends on the style of music you’re playing

^^^ this. if you're doing music that requires complex picking then the left hand is doing the easy work.

― visiting, Friday, 30 January 2026 07:55 (seven months ago)

even if you're not picking it's the right hand that controls tempo, volume, etc.

― visiting, Friday, 30 January 2026 07:58 (seven months ago)

... rhythm.

― Wearing red lipstick and maintaining a neutral expression (Tom D.), Friday, 30 January 2026 08:10 (seven months ago)

the only important thing these days is rhythm and melody

rhythm

and melody

― Dance Yourself Dizzy To The Music of Time (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 January 2026 08:45 (seven months ago)

a good use of ai would be to recreate kermit the frogs voice on any new muppet ventures.

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 16:43 (seven months ago)

lol I too have felt it sounds all wrong

― Gentler Death Squads Please (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:23 (seven months ago)

like i'm instinctively pro live-voicing and reinterpretation of roles but this role just doesn't need or benefit from it, to me, a nostalgic fool. i mean, maybe the voicer is great and i just need time to mourn.

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:30 (seven months ago)

Bbbut Henson died decades ago. Wasn’t Kermit subsequently voiced by a shithead dude who had a dramatic firing, iirc?

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:34 (seven months ago)

wasn't that Elmo?

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:35 (seven months ago)

No, Steve Whitmire (who played Kermit) was apparently just kinda an ego-maniac, rather than a potential abuser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Whitmire#Dismissal_from_the_Muppets

― peace, man, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:41 (seven months ago)

Kevin Clash was the OG Elmo, and had a fawning documentary done about him, just before a series of accusations of inappropriate relationships with minors.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 17:50 (seven months ago)

Ugh, I forgot about the Elmo guy.

Sometimes it feels like the scene in Wild At Heart when Laura Dern flips out over the increasingly horrible news bulletins on the radio.

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:01 (seven months ago)

For a second I thought you were saying Elmo voiced Kermit

― Bertolt Blecch (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:35 (seven months ago)

Meta-Muppets

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:36 (seven months ago)

No, I was thinking of Whitmire. I thought he was amazing at voicing Kermit, note perfect. But I read Brian Henson’s statement upon his firing and remember Whitmire seemed off-the-rails. Funny, too: Brian Henson’s statement was the first time I’d encountered the word “brinkmanship” and I just remembered that upon rereading

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:14 (seven months ago)

Even as an adult, The Muppets remain educational

― ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:15 (seven months ago)

two weeks pass...

right hand guitars should be called left hand guitars since the left hand does all the complicated stuff while the right hand is just idly banging away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, January 29, 2026 4:45 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

if, as a guitarist, you had to choose between having a great right (picking/strumming) hand or a great left (fretting) hand, you'd be much better off with a great right hand in terms of actually making music

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:37 (six months ago)

What if you're okay with sucking at both?

Asking for a friend.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:40 (six months ago)

that's the best actually

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:42 (six months ago)

Yea the reason I'm a shit guitarist is i pick like shit

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:54 (six months ago)

I can move frets like a motherfuckin riot

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:54 (six months ago)

*bad solo*

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 February 2026 21:55 (six months ago)

I have mostly been playing drums and mandolin/bouzouki for a decade plus. Recently I had to pick up a guitar to record something for a friend and it felt weirdly huge.

Mandolin has a lot in common with drums; indeed in bluegrass it functions as such. Interestingly the bodhran (which I am trying to play) requires a motion weirdly like playing rhythm guitar.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 February 2026 00:35 (six months ago)

five months pass...

you should only be allowed to say you "climbed a mountain" if you started at sea level

― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Monday, 17 August 2026 04:23 (three weeks ago)

― mookieproof, Monday, 17 August 2026 04:55 (three weeks ago)

Why draw the line at sea level? They really should start from the bottom of the ocean.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Monday, 17 August 2026 05:16 (three weeks ago)

you should only be allowed say you've climbed a mountain if minimum 10% of the ascent was crampons or some other sheer navigation

otherwise you walked. you took a walk.

― Wichita Referee's Assistant (darraghmac), Monday, 17 August 2026 05:59 (three weeks ago)

also

you shouldnt be allowed to climb mountains, really

― Wichita Referee's Assistant (darraghmac), Monday, 17 August 2026 06:04 (three weeks ago)

all professional sports should be banned

― out of the cradle endlessly party rocking (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2026 11:14 (three weeks ago)

all sport should be recognized only when participants are amateur gentlemen fulfilling their own objectives or obsessions without promise or expectation of compensation— possibly without even notice by the public. competing for one’s own love of country or nation is permissible. as we move into the 20th century these rules will only become more necessary i must think.

― viking voyages were all inclusive: leg irons, murdered children (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 August 2026 16:10 (three weeks ago)

the losing team should be executed, like the Aztec ball game

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 August 2026 16:16 (three weeks ago)

(i don’t actually believe what i wrote, except for USA football, which should absolutely be banned)

― out of the cradle endlessly party rocking (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2026 17:45 (three weeks ago)

US football and golf courses should be both banned and a lot of harm would be prevented.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:05 (three weeks ago)

officially sanctioned sports options for young people should be a lot less team-based: dance, martial arts, gymnastics, parkour, etc.

― shaking babies (map^2), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:14 (three weeks ago)

football is obviously horrible but i think flag football is kinda ok.

all golf course lawns should be ripped out and replaced with native plants and turned into frisbee golf courses.

― shaking babies (map^2), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:17 (three weeks ago)

I kinda can't believe boxing is still legal.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 17 August 2026 20:22 (three weeks ago)

The only sports I like are ones where people participate at the risk of their own lives: boxing, bullfighting, cliff diving... football almost makes the cut, but they should go back to the old leather helmets.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:29 (three weeks ago)

i'm sorry, bullfighting is disgusting. those poor animals have no agency. i feel the same way about rodeo sports tbh.

i think the question of violence in combat sports is nuanced and needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis. i don't think we can legislate violence out of people and that these things are good outlets when properly regulated.

― shaking babies (map^2), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:42 (three weeks ago)

The only sports I like are ones where people participate at the risk of their own lives: boxing, bullfighting, cliff diving...

... cricket.

― Happiness is a warm gurn (Tom D.), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:55 (three weeks ago)

Competitive hot dog eating

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 August 2026 20:57 (three weeks ago)

I've seen some interesting women's sports history tidbits, and from a quick review it looks a lot like various kinds of firearm shooting contests--skeet, rifle, pistol among them--used to be co-ed until women starting tieing or beating men at them, and then the regulations would get changed. I think there's a lot to think about if we question why most "sports" are things men excel at and might have advantages.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 17 August 2026 21:07 (three weeks ago)

I would be OK with bull-leaping replacing bullfighting.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Monday, 17 August 2026 21:09 (three weeks ago)

they should do freestyle sport where you do whatever you're good at

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 17 August 2026 21:13 (three weeks ago)

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