What is your unpopular opinion?

[rayzor]

14 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

Living in the country > Living in the city.

i spent the last 15 years living about as far out in the country as you could get. down a long dirt/dust/mud road on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere...20 minutes from anything with 8 acres to mow, trees all over the place (that were constantly falling down and needing to be cut up and hauled off, a 2 acre pond that needed trimmed around, no trash pick up so you have to haul your trash to the dump, well water that had a bunch of sediment in it that was nearly impossible to have completely filtered out (plus the constant cleaning and replacing of filters)...yeah i'm living in town now.

less than a minute to the gas station and 2 minutes from the nearest grocery store and under 5 minutes to any place we need to go. i sit out on my font porch when i get home from work and listen to life happening all around me. i've got water that is clean (even if it smells lightly of chlorine) and they come to pick up my trash. i used to have to drive a mile to get my mail. now i can walk out to my mailbox in front of my house in my socks and get the mail. 

oh...and it would take me between about 10 hours a week at least to just mow (using my zero turn) plus another 3-4 hours a week to run the trimmer. now i can get all that done in an hour using an 18" battery powered push mower. 

the only downside is that i could just let my dog run wild everywhere and now she has to be tied out a few times a day, but also i get to take her and my new puppy out for walks around the neighborhood on level sidewalks and get to see people walking by and talk to them. 

just for me and my family...town life >> country life. 

[pantherclaw]

26 minutes ago, rayzor said:

i spent the last 15 years living about as far out in the country as you could get. down a long dirt/dust/mud road on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere...20 minutes from anything with 8 acres to mow, trees all over the place (that were constantly falling down and needing to be cut up and hauled off, a 2 acre pond that needed trimmed around, no trash pick up so you have to haul your trash to the dump, well water that had a bunch of sediment in it that was nearly impossible to have completely filtered out (plus the constant cleaning and replacing of filters)...yeah i'm living in town now.

less than a minute to the gas station and 2 minutes from the nearest grocery store and under 5 minutes to any place we need to go. i sit out on my font porch when i get home from work and listen to life happening all around me. i've got water that is clean (even if it smells lightly of chlorine) and they come to pick up my trash. i used to have to drive a mile to get my mail. now i can walk out to my mailbox in front of my house in my socks and get the mail. 

oh...and it would take me between about 10 hours a week at least to just mow (using my zero turn) plus another 3-4 hours a week to run the trimmer. now i can get all that done in an hour using an 18" battery powered push mower. 

the only downside is that i could just let my dog run wild everywhere and now she has to be tied out a few times a day, but also i get to take her and my new puppy out for walks around the neighborhood on level sidewalks and get to see people walking by and talk to them. 

just for me and my family...town life >> country life. 

Went overkill on what ya maintained. 

I'll take country over anything. But then again, I Like my privacy and space. 

[CanadianCat]

Smoked meat...

I have a bunch of buddies that will smoke their meat all day with their different blends of wood chips on their fancy ass, wifi connected BBQ. 

The moment you add BBQ sauce, the hours and hours of smoking is useless.  

Meat smokers is really just an expensive hobby. 

[Ricky Spanish]

I finally read this thread for the first time.

There certainly are some spicy takes in here.

[Ricky Spanish]

Here's mine:

Little Caesar's is the best chain pizza restaurant simply based on the cost/quality.

I can get a hot and ready Large pepperoni pizza for $7.40, tax included, on the fly, and it is a perfectly fine pizza.

Does it taste better than other chain pizzas? Not necessarily. Are Dominos or Papa Johns twice as good as Little Caesar's? Absolutely not. Domino's Large pepperoni is over $14, Papa John's is over $15. They might be slightly better, but I can get two average tasting Pizzas for the price of one slightly above average pizza from anywhere else making Little Caesar's the Pizza of the people. 

[Day1PanthersFan]

We shouldn't annoint Riech untill we see results on the field 

I suggest that and am instantly personally insulted 

[rayzor]

37 minutes ago, pantherclaw said:

Went overkill on what ya maintained. 

I'll take country over anything. But then again, I Like my privacy and space. 

Probably. At one time we had horses so a lot was pasture type land...nothing that we'd want to hay, but still the horses kept it down. we also had a couple acres of that we replanted in loblolly pines (we had 25 acres of loblolly pines harvested and replanted a few years back) and i wanted to keep the new stands fairly clear of brush. i don't know why. but we also had people come over quite a bit and liked keeping everything looking not too overgrown in the several acres around the house. and if we let things get overgrown where it used to be pasture, we'd see an increase in mice and snakes too close to the house. had both of those come in from time to time (another benefit of not being out in the country is you don't have to hear your wife scream in the middle of the night because she found a snake in the bathroom while she was sitting on the toilet).

i used to like the privacy and space but the isolation got a bit much along with all of the expense in keeping it up and the expense in keeping up the equipment to keep it all up. long driveway = lots of gravel plus tractor to help deal with washout, etc. my kids were excited about being able to order pizza and have it delivered. simple pleasures.

[Stuart Smith]

On 1/29/2023 at 7:29 PM, Cdparr7 said:

What’s one of your core beliefs that get you shunned by the rest of the fanbase?

Here are mine. 

A) Brian Burns is overrated and will never be on the level of Peppers, Johnson, Rucker. Maybe Addison. 
 

B) Had John Fox been retained he would have had the same and likely more success than Rivera. 
 

C) I never really liked Christian McCaffrey. Was a playmaker but he really made our offense predictable. People rooting for him with the 49ers make me eye roll.

If SF is not careful they will become one dimensional with him as well. It will be interesting. 

[3838]

D) Our stadium should have been built (or our future stadium should be built) around/near Carowinds. 50 yard line on the state line. Half of the the stadium in NC, half in SC. Truly representing both states. ( Not to mention freaking EASY access to  Frugal MacDoogals)

Edited May 26, 2023 by 3838

[MechaZain]

On 1/31/2023 at 7:14 PM, DeAngelo Beason said:

Drafting CMC in the first round is one of the worst decisions in team history.

Mahomes going two picks later is pretty funny

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, MechaZain said:

Mahomes going two picks later is pretty funny

If we took Mahomes, he wouldn't be Mahomes.

Rivera would have ruined him just like he did Cam, he refused to let Cam loose, he clearly would have done the same with Mahomes and his career never would have taken off like it did with an innovative offensive play caller like Reid.

[PNW_PantherMan]

7 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Here's mine:

Little Caesar's is the best chain pizza restaurant simply based on the cost/quality.

I can get a hot and ready Large pepperoni pizza for $7.40, tax included, on the fly, and it is a perfectly fine pizza.

Does it taste better than other chain pizzas? Not necessarily. Are Dominos or Papa Johns twice as good as Little Caesar's? Absolutely not. Domino's Large pepperoni is over $14, Papa John's is over $15. They might be slightly better, but I can get two average tasting Pizzas for the price of one slightly above average pizza from anywhere else making Little Caesar's the Pizza of the people. 

If you’re not interested in a specialty pizza, there’s no reason to go to Papa Johns or whatever.  You can’t beat a pepperoni pizza for 7 bucks.

[tukafan21]

7 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Here's mine:

Little Caesar's is the best chain pizza restaurant simply based on the cost/quality.

I can get a hot and ready Large pepperoni pizza for $7.40, tax included, on the fly, and it is a perfectly fine pizza.

Does it taste better than other chain pizzas? Not necessarily. Are Dominos or Papa Johns twice as good as Little Caesar's? Absolutely not. Domino's Large pepperoni is over $14, Papa John's is over $15. They might be slightly better, but I can get two average tasting Pizzas for the price of one slightly above average pizza from anywhere else making Little Caesar's the Pizza of the people. 

You're not paying for a twice as good pizza by going with something else over a Hot-N-Ready, you're paying for a twice as consistent pizza that is also a little better (although I'd argue Dominos and Papa Johns are worse than LC anyways, if going with something else, you go with Hungry Howies or Jets square).

The Hot-N-Ready's are just wildly inconsistent, sometimes they're actually really good, and when you get those, it's worth it.  But sometimes they're borderline not edible and when you get one of those, it's a complete waste of money, even at that low price.

Yea, I'd go with Little Caesars over Dominos or Papa Johns, but there are many other pizza places (and obviously any local one-off places) over Hot-N-Ready's every time. 

[bythenbrs]

Harris Teeter has the best pizza on a price to size ratio. 

Western bbq slaw beats traditional mayonnaise based slaw.

Tesla’s are crap compared to the new EV’s coming from Europe.

Nuclear is the cleanest, most environmentally friendly technology available for reliable, economical base load generation.  Change my mind.

Edited May 27, 2023 by bythenbrs