Unpopular Opinions Society

[Wolfie]

I get ticked off about the artificial sweetener hate that some people express...of course some websites will say it causes cancer and tornadoes, but that's the internet for you.

If it is shown to be safe for most people, then it might become a health food, because it doesn't provide empty calories in quite the quantity that ordinary sugars do, leaving calorie room for more nutritionally dense foods.

I haven't found a single artificial sweetener that doesn't leave an aftertaste. I'll take sugar, thanks. But I don't think if people like to use them they are going to drop over dead or anything.

 

[Blobbenstein]

It's fine if you don't like them. They taste fine to me....but it annoys me when people lecture morbidly obese diabetics(me) that 'sweeteners are bad mm kay...', which some people have to me...so they read an article in a news paper that said sweeteners tricked the mind that there was sugar on the way, and get the pancreas to produced insulin, which lowers blood sugars and makes you hungry and therefore eat more....I haven't found that to be true personally, and the actual scientific research I have read is decidedly inconclusive....but papers must sell ad space, so scaremonger..

 

[ledboots]

Country music doesn't always suck.

True. Not my kind of music, I will dance to it when I see a country band live. But then again, it's hard to keep me off the dance floor.

 

[Dropkick]

I was reading Blobbenstein's post about how some people claim artificial sweeteners make you hungry (like Blobbensein it doesn't do this to me either) but I do have one strange hunger reaction to another substance:

Drinking more than 3 cups of water at a time makes me hungry.

 

[Moll Flanders]

Eating an apple makes me feel hungry.

Not sad about Fred Phelps. Actually pretty happy.

I'm glad Fred Phelps is dead. I can't be as gracious as George Takei and hope the man finds peace in the afterlife. If there is a hell I hope he's rotting there. He was an evil man and while his death won't be the end of the WBC, at least there is one less monster in the world.

Yes, good riddance to him.

 

[Dropkick]

True. Not my kind of music, I will dance to it when I see a country band live. But then again, it's hard to keep me off the dance floor.

I used to like country music much more than I do now. I grew up listening to it, as it's very popular in the area I grew up in.
Though my family was somewhat different from the neighbors as my Dad only listened to Big Band and 40's Pop, my Mom was a little broader in her listening preferences as she also listened to 60's and early 70's Pop (Dad called it garbage).

I grew up to be a Head Banger (Heavy Metal), who also enjoyed long hair music (Classical), along with a smatering of (mainly) Pop, R&B, Blues, Southern Rock, and Country.

I used to go to a country bar to dance and drink.

However, later I took over a kitchen that was attached to a bar that had a jukebox..... filled with country music.... I was force fed country music 8 to 10 hours a day almost every day - for years. I started to dislike it. Then I moved on and got a job managing a restaurant/bar. I bartended several evenings a week, and the jukebox in the bar was mainly country (I had to argue the owner out of making it completely country).
It's taken me years to get back to liking ANY country music (I had to slowly work my way back through folk music).

As a side note: the style of music that was Pop music in the 1970's (and at that time considered completely different from Country Western Music) is now modern country music.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I used to hate country music when I was younger but I quite like it now. It reminds me of my Grandmother as she used to like listening to it and it reminds me of visiting her.

My unpopular opinion that I forgot to say in my earlier post, I do not understand ambitious people, especially people who want to go into the corporate world and become a high flyer. I don't have a competitive streak.

 

[thefadedone]

Eating an apple makes me feel hungry.

All fruits do this to me. I don't find them filling at all. I can a ton of fruit and not feel satisfied and still hungry. I would suck as a fruitarian.

My unpopular opinion that I forgot to say in my earlier post, I do not understand ambitious people, especially people who want to go into the corporate world and become a high flyer. I don't have a competitive streak

Same here.

 

[Dropkick]

All fruits do this to me. I don't find them filling at all. I can a ton of fruit and not feel satisfied and still hungry. I would suck as a fruitarian.

If I eat a lot of citrus daily for over a week, the most foul odor you could ever imagine will wake me in the middle of the night gagging.
(I'm not going to speculate where that odor comes from, as I don't wish to believe my body could create a gas that vile - besides I could get in trouble with the Geneva Convention people - WMD).
This is why I'll never be a fruitarian, and also why I don't buy grapefruit and bags of oranges at the same time.

 

[FortyTwo]

I'm glad Fred Phelps is dead. I can't be as gracious as George Takei and hope the man finds peace in the afterlife. If there is a hell I hope he's rotting there. He was an evil man and while his death won't be the end of the WBC, at least there is one less monster in the world.

George Takei's insistence on peacemaking probably has to do with his visibility in the public eye. At least, I think so. I don't know, though, he might just be a really nice person who genuinely views all death as negative and doesn't feel any death could ever be celebrated.

 

[ledboots]

George Takei's insistence on peacemaking probably has to do with his visibility in the public eye. At least, I think so. I don't know, though, he might just be a really nice person who genuinely views all death as negative and doesn't feel any death could ever be celebrated.

I think it's the second, he seems like a really nice guy. I laughed so hard reading his book Oh Myyy, There Goes the Internet.

 

[kibbleforlola]

True. Not my kind of music, I will dance to it when I see a country band live. But then again, it's hard to keep me off the dance floor.

New life goal: dance with Ledboots before I die.

 

[cornsail]

New life goal: dance with Ledboots before I die.

That sounds difficult.

 

[Danielle]

All fruits do this to me. I don't find them filling at all. I can a ton of fruit and not feel satisfied and still hungry. I would suck as a fruitarian.



Same here.

beans are a filling fruit js
I wouldn't want to be fuitarian either.

 

[ledboots]

New life goal: dance with Ledboots before I die.

Any time!! I danced today at the Renaissance Faire!

 

[thefadedone]

Children should not fear their parents. There is no "healthy fear" that children should have their parents.

 

[hungryraccoon]

Children should not fear their parents. There is no "healthy fear" that children should have their parents.

Is that unpopular?

 

[thefadedone]

Is that unpopular?

Yes Around here anyways. Some people believe that children should fear their parents (their fathers specifically). It "keeps them in line" and they know never to **** off their father.

 

[hungryraccoon]

Yes Around here anyways. Some people believe that children should fear their parents (their fathers specifically). It "keeps them in line" and they know never to **** off their father.

That's sad

 

[Danielle]

I don't see the point of avoiding bone char sugar.