The unpopular opinions thread.

Wew lad.

Including dextro-chocolate? Turians everywhere are sad 

I hate SJWs.

I find body piercings of any kind to be repulsive and painful. I am also not too keen on tattoos for how painful the procedure is.

There is a discernible difference between patriotism and nationalism; we've discussed that in the political thread.

Patriotism is pride in your country. It is not inherently negative, though it can become negative when taken too far.

The product of that is nationalism, which is the belief that your nation (be it a country, ethnic group, race, etc.) is inherently superior to others.

The extreme forms of nationalism are xenophobia and racism, which are the outright fear and contempt for others different from you and your country, and imperialism and expansionism, in which you believe that your country/nation/etc. should expand into, subjugate, annex, or conquer others.

Patriotism -> Nationalism -> Xenophobia/racism/imperialism/expansionism.

I'm in that boat too; tattoo's are a deal breaker for me, hundred percent. I don't think less of a person for having them, but I find myself unable to find them attractive in any way, and indeed get repelled by them. It doesn't matter the meaning or position or why a girl has them; I agree entirely with a person who does something for a deeper personal reason, and that their tattoo means something for them. But that precludes any possible romantic interest I would have in them either. I'll be their friend, and I'll never think less of them, but it's what I am there. I don't ask about the tats of course. I'm simply not interested in their story for them. It's their business.

In some ways, it's been difficult for me; I had a girl I got along great with, and as we were making out, really about to go all the way, I noticed her tat (which before that, I had not known about.) It killed it for me; I had to make an excuse to leave. She was upset and confused (probably rightfully); I feel bad for letting her get that close, but really, what else was I supposed to do? I remember mentioning this experience once before on the old BSN and catching some hell for it, and I still don't really understand why.

Events like that, and differing attitudes and opinions on a great deal many things, as well as my many hang-ups and flaws are what really lead me to conclude that I'm just not compatible with people in a sense such as romance. I prefer it that way - it's somewhat enticing knowing that I'm alone in the world and that there is no fit for me. Show me a match for me, and I'll show you a target marker.

Not really my definition of Patriotism; Being pride isn't the core of what it is. Being willing to do things to improve things in your country regardless of your own interests and without thinking about it, being wiling to do public services, is being a patriot at its core. Any guy who wishs to enter into politics because he dreams to make his country better, to do great things for his people is automatically a patriot for example. You have common people ( most of them ) who don't care about that, who just care about themself and who just want to live their own life. How many heroes in each country in history because of that kind of feelings ? It's altruistic, it's absolutely positive. More people like that in Africa would certainly mean less corruption in the governments for example, and more people caring about their people and the advancement of their country. Things would be better. But as long as the governments will mostly count corrupt and selfish people who only care about their family, no big improvements, all the money stolen wasted. 

On the opposite, for nationalism. it doesn't necessarily mean that you want to subjuguate other people. There are plenty of nationalists iwho don't want to annex another country, who are pacifists. They just don't want to hear anything that  they feel is foreign to their identity and culture. No more EU, no more immigrants, no more tolerance to different cultures in the same society, more protectionism against foreign products, etc. They are focused on identity in an antagonistic way. It's negative, and that's why it's not the same.

A patriot is open minded, just willing to make things better, being willing to sacrifice himself for his country, caring and being passionate about the fate of his country, while the nationalist, in addition to these things, fears what he doesn't feel a part of his identity and rejects anything that is foreign and considers it as a threat. His point of view is antagonistic. 

Most socialists politicians in my country are as liberal as patriots. But never one of them would call themself " nationalists ", especially when they reject so much what it implies. 

I'm not really seeing what is so complicate to understand.

But to  remain on topic, I think the marvel serie tvs and movies are overrated. they are spreading in the media and it annoys me.

LOL this cracks me up because my beloved baby brother is covered in high quality ink from his neck down to his toes. (he is a charming handsome bastard and was able to trade with some fantastic ink artists). I just told him multiple times (since he started when he was 18) that while he might find all arguments that tattoos look horrible on the 80 year old physique to be completely irrelevant as it pertains to his path to body of ink glory- that he cannot deny that his attitudes/personality/preferences will alter over the spans of decades that he will hopefully live. We all do not like the same music or foods or just the SAME precise things our entire lives do we? 

As a 41 year old: I'm going to laugh my ass off if I hear of the regret a few decades in the future from all of the people completely covered like my brother. 

I can only imagine that my children now (aged 15-2) will go the opposite direction as the multitude of tattooed people today because it will be out of style 

This is absolutely unpopular:

No matter how well you take care of yourself, every part of you will stretch and sag. If you have work to get things tightened, then any art you have will be even more distorted and your features will begin to look unnatural.

The longer you live the more you will age. You can slow the process, but you can not stop it. And even if you have the cheekbones of Lena Horne, you will still age inside.

One of my favorite friends was trying to convince me to get botox (I don't think I'm interested) and we were having that convo about aging. She's in her 30's and I'm older than her- and she kept on telling me to "do it now! before it gets bad!" and then I reminded her: gravity- it exists. So even if you get all kinds of surgery or whatever it is you do, gravity is still gravity 

I think the leather jacket is the coolest piece of clothing there is - for both genders.

I think Big Mac's suck.



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