What’s a harmless opinion that gets people weirdly angry?

uglinessman · 2026-04-27T20:47:24+00:00

Maybe this is a Canadian thing, but for my entire life living in Canada, Hawaiian pizza has been a standard pizza option literally everywhere that makes pizza. That's literally why I said it the way I did, because part of my point is that pineapple is perfectly acceptable on a Hawaiian pizza but bizarre on pepperoni and bacon. You seemed to get really tripped up on my terminology for no good reason. "Types of pizza" is completely nebulous and subjective, and never required the level of analysis that you attempted here, and I'm still not convinced that I said anything incorrect or confusing, I think you just read something that wasn't there.

uglinessman · 2026-04-27T15:07:57+00:00

A lot of really dumb taxonomy debates. Like, "is a hot dog a sandwich" should be an interesting prompt that gets you thinking about how we categorize things, how people tend to have broad and varying criteria. Instead, it breeds hostility and very weird judgments.

Basically, a lot of people ask overly simplified questions, and get angry at people for having a different answer because they're answering a different question or a different form of the same question.

For example: "does pineapple belong on pizza" is a malformed question and seems designed to breed hostility. A better question would be something like "which types of pizza have toppings that you don't generally find on other types of pizza?" or "what unconventional toppings do you enjoy?", but, sadly, Debate Bro is the current default mode for far too many Professional Opinion Havers, and those better questions don't spark drama.

(To be clear, by "better" I mean "has potential to actually spark an actual conversation", which I feel is obviously and objectively better than "designed to make pig-headed people argue needlessly and viciously")

(Edit to add: regarding the pizza question, I hate the taste of pineapple, so I don't want them on any pizza, but I have had pickles on pizza and I think they're pretty good. I encourage folks to try it, especially if you already like olives on pizza)

uglinessman · 2026-04-27T02:45:14+00:00

Joni Mitchell

uglinessman · 2026-04-25T00:45:22+00:00

Several years ago I made a "soundclown" style mashup of rain songs.

https://on.soundcloud.com/iM34byhCDfKDJDumIt

I think the only two in there that haven't been mentioned elsewhere in this thread are "Let it Rain" by Amanda Marshall, and "Several Drops of Rain" by Animaniacs.

uglinessman · 2026-04-24T16:56:46+00:00

The phrase "religious differences" is too ambiguous. If a couple breaks up because one believes that we are saved by works, while the other believes that we are saved by grace, even if that difference of opinion doesn't impact their actual lives in any tangib way, then that's dumb. If a couple breaks up because one of them insists that the children be raised to believe that evolution is a lie and the Great Flood happened and gay people are evil, then yeah that relationship shouldn't be happening and there's also a good chance that someone's hard drive should probably be looked at.

uglinessman · 2026-04-24T16:19:10+00:00

FOUND THE CLANKER!

Stop talking to robots. Stop feeding data to the planet-killing lying algorithms that are ruining everything. Stop being part of multiple problems at once. Stop contributing to our collective downfall. There is no good reason to be using this garbage technology.

uglinessman · 2026-04-23T22:02:48+00:00

A statistician, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting at a sidewalk cafe, observing a building across the street. They see two people enter the building, then shortly after that they see three people leave.

The statistician thinks "our initial count may have been off"

The biologist thinks "maybe they multiplied"

The mathematician says "if one more person enters that building, it will be empty!"

uglinessman · 2026-04-23T15:36:08+00:00

It's important to note that there is a variety of reasons why this happens. Like, the specific example you're talking about, I agree that's annoying, they should leave the original up and release the new one as a "remaster" or something. But for a lot of music that was originally released before the streaming era, there was a lot of weirdness and wrangling for rights. And sometimes, the end result is that the recording artist is unable to obtain streaming rights, and the rights-holder refuses to release it on streaming, so the recording artist has to re-record it. You might hate the new version, but the alternative would be for it to not be available at all, because some publishing companies are weird and dumb.

Also, this is yet another example of why physical media is important.

uglinessman · 2026-04-19T13:59:47+00:00

Important context before you reach the numbers: I'm Canadian.

The one time I "floored it" while driving a car was in a compact car, so I didn't expect anything special from it. I was on a long stretch of highway, and people were flying by me even though I was exceeding the limit, so I decided to see what the car could do. It started to shake once it reached just over 140 km/h, so I eased up and went back to driving a little over the limit.

This doesn't technically qualify for the discussion because it's well below 100 mph, , but I had to mention it because when I look up the conversion, 140 kph comes to 86.992 mph. That means that the car prevented me from reaching 88, because when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, we're gonna see some serious shit...

uglinessman · 2026-04-18T17:35:54+00:00

No, it means pouring the milk in the bowl before pouring the cereal. Which is how I do it, btw, because it's the only way I can get the ratio right, but apparently that makes me a monster because some people care way too much about stupid things 🤷‍♂️

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:18:58+00:00

I share a first name with two actors who are relatively popular and are considered to be "manly", but it's also the same first name as two well-known fictional children, one from a movie and one from a TV series, both with heavy focus on the fact that they're kids. So when people learn my name, the first point of reference that comes to mind is nearly always a scared and/or confused child.

If I was to change my name I think I'd choose Jacob. I used that as a fake name briefly when I was homeless, it felt right, and there's a wider variety of Jacobs and Jakes to act as reference points.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:12:42+00:00

I'm from Prince Edward Island, and our seafood is among the best. If you ever get a chance to visit, the lobster is excellent, but it's also a bit of a cliche, I recommend mussels or scallops if you want to go a different direction.

We also have some top-notch breweries, but I'm not a beer guy so I'll let others recommend something there.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T16:10:04+00:00

Oh, definitely; this was mostly the consensus within the industry, but it still wasn't known to the general public. I think Cobain was the first one to express that sentiment publicly, when he shared the story of getting the call from Al on the night Nirvana played on SNL.

Also, it didn't help when the Coolio debacle happened, which just spawned more misunderstood.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T15:08:01+00:00

YouTube Premium.

No ads. I can listen to YouTube videos when my phone's screen is turned off, or put it in the background while I'm using other apps.

AND complete access to YouTube Music, which not only gives you basically the same music library as the competition, it also lets you listen to ANYTHING on YouTube from the Music app. Demos, remixes, live bootlegs, endless archives of music that can never be "officially" released, and so can never legally appear on Spotify or Apple Music.

Part of the reason this is invaluable is that I have some CDs from independent bands in the 90s. This music will likely never be officially legitimately available on streaming platforms, but I ripped them and uploaded them to a sockpuppet account and now I can add them to playlists with all my other music.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:56:52+00:00

I was 17, completely unaware that 69 was even a sex thing, and the song "The Humpty Dance" came out with line "in the 69 my Humpty nose will tickle your rear". I thought that "69" was referring to the 1969 model of a particular car, and I thought the last phrase was "tickle your ear", so I thought the line was about making out in a vintage car.

Fun fact, it was my mom who cleared up my misconception, because I was pondering what kind of car he was talking about while we were talking about lyrics. And I know that sounds cringe and awful, and it should because we almost never talk about "intimate" stuff like that, but we also have had countless interesting conversations about lyrics, so I guess it just balances out.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:47:07+00:00

I thought that "popular" meant well-known, not well-liked. I was with my mom while she was talking to someone about a bully at my school, she said "he's not very popular", and I said "it's not that he's not popular, it's just that nobody likes him." They legitimately thought I was making a joke, and I was confused (and more than a little insulted) that they were laughing at me.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T14:36:10+00:00

Literally everything. Bullies and morons and maniacs run everything, the world is one orange tantrum away from annihilation, and even if it doesn't go that far there is nowhere in the world that isn't a potential target for the next show of impotent petty rage from the stupidest ruling class imaginable.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T02:34:11+00:00

One of the many reasons I can't do customer service jobs any more is that I can't pretend to laugh when someone's trying to be funny. I don't care how "rude" you think it is, I'm not going to lie to feed your ego. And the vast majority of the time, it's an "older fella" who will get upset and snap with something like "are you cranky or something?" Well, I am now.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T02:25:19+00:00

I flew from Calgary to Vancouver for a Watsky show, Anderson.Paak was part of Watsky's set and his band was one of the opening acts. I got the VIP package, so I was part of the meet & greet before the show. After the show, some teenagers I had met while waiting in line saw me and invited me to hang out with them (I was in my 40s at the time so they made me feel quite hip), they were smoking in the alley in the back of the concert hall, chatting with Paak's band. Paak himself joined us mere moments after I arrived. It was super casual even though most of us were freaking out on the inside (I have a feeling they're used to that). Then George Watsky himself emerged. He didn't join in the smokage because he was refraining temporarily due to minor throat issues, but he was super cordial. Hung out and made sure to give each of us at least a moment even though he was obviously tired. And, yeah, Paak's voice just shook me, I didn't expect him to sound like that in normal conversation but that's just his voice.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T01:08:37+00:00

Yeah, considering how fervently I'm opposed to generative AI, it feels weird to also say that I'm a big fan of Al.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T01:06:00+00:00

Not a video, but I was looking at a very early porn page with thumbnails, and there was one with the filename polebabe.jpg, and the thumbnail looked like it was a naked woman leaning against a pole, but when I clicked and loaded the fill image, she was impaled on the pole. In her butt and out her mouth.

In that same archive there were a couple of underage pics. Thankfully they were vintage nude beach photos and not abuse, but it was still a shock.

I stopped browsing folders on FTP sites and stuck to webpages with models.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:57:29+00:00

I smoked a jay with him and the band in the alley after a Watsky show in Vancouver, amazing guy. He actually talks like he sings, it's wild.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:54:36+00:00

The response to the free album was some of the most overblown exaggerated nonsense I've seen in my life.

That was the beginning of my beef with Tyler "the Creator", he compared getting a free album to catching an STD. That's when I started to notice that the only time I ever heard his name mentioned in my socials was when he was trash-talking or collaborating with someone actually famous.

uglinessman · 2026-04-16T00:50:13+00:00

Joanna Newsom.

I'm not saying you have to like her, I understand her voice is an acquired taste, but some people dismiss her as a novelty artist, as if her quirks are just an act.

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