Friday Five #14: Unpopular Opinions
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I thought I’d do something light following my last heavy post (and honestly I don’t have the mental energy for something more in-depth than a list right now), so today I’m sharing with you some of my unpopular opinions. If you read these and feel yourself getting all defensive, note that these are my opinions, not yours, and that they are just that: opinions. You are not required to agree with me (although, let’s face it, I’m totally right about these things).
Cargo pants don’t look cute on anyone. I don’t care how stores try to make them look updated and trendy and yes, even dressy; they are hideous and unflattering and dumb. Nothing will ever change my mind about it. I’m all about pockets, but let’s keep things in proportion, shall we? (I wrote this whole paragraph before remembering that I have already written about my disdain of cargo pants, but I feel passionately enough about this to leave it in.)
Football is the worst sport. I don’t remember a time when I did like football, but my parents watched it often when I was growing up, so at one point I did try to at least understand it. However, it never kept my attention, and over the years my disinterest in this sport has shifted to extreme dislike. It’s violent, causes lasting injury to players, has a painfully long season, and makes people act like complete idiots (and don’t even get me started on the fact that the actual playing time on the field is miniscule compared to the amount of time a game lasts).
Salads are stupid. Yes, they have vegetables, and vegetables are good for you, blah blah blah. But salads are overpriced lettuce, and they under-deliver every time. I have never eaten a salad and sighed with contentment after I was finished. (Usually I sigh in frustration because I am STILL HUNGRY.) As Ron Swanson puts it, salads are for rabbits!
Dust jackets are superfluous. Maybe I’m an outlier here, but I never read a hardcover book with its dust jacket on, unless it’s a library book and I have no choice in the matter. Dust jackets just get in the way of holding the book, and usually once I discard it, I typically leave it off. I know that artists spend lots of energy, time, and money to design book covers, but I really appreciate the nice, clean look of a “naked” hardback book on the shelf.
Dr. Pepper is gross. That’s it. That’s the whole point.
Now it’s your turn: what is one of your unpopular opinions? Which one of my opinions makes you the angriest?
Leggings are not pants. Corollary to Number 1. Loved your list, Erin.
I’m finally getting caught up on my reading and this made me laugh! I completely agree about football. And salads? It’s touch and go. I do prefer a good salad when it’s made by someone else and has the right amount of the right dressing. I definitely prefer salad to smoothies because I have a Traumatic Smoothie Story and things haven’t been the same since. But I do so love a good soup, and being vegetarian, you could make the case that I love a warm vegetable smoothie. That sounds incomprehensibly gross. Yet here we are.