Your unpopular opinions and creepy admissions

I really miss my 90s mostly Abercrombie & Fitch shirt wardrobe. My jeans were Gap or Old Navy.

 

I’ve worn Levi’s since I graduated from Toughskins.

 

Feeling nostalgic, I bought a pair of button fly 501s a few years ago. What were cool in my 20s are a pain in my 60s since I have to pee so often now.

 

I was absolutely obsessed with the old A&E true crime show "City Confidential" narrated by Paul Winfield.

The first half of the episode gave an interesting history/local color overview of an American town and then went into the true crime aspect of it (which I found far less interesting than the first half).

The writing was exquisitely bad, tying the crime to something specific about the city. For example, the Macon, Georgia one had lines like "That spring day, there was plenty going on in town...lots of fresh peach pie, cherry blossoms....and MURDER."

 

I still go with Gap for my jeans, especially the GapFlex Soft Wear. Uber comfortable.

 

NPR Veteran Takes Sledgehammer to His Current Employer’s Creeping Liberal Bias

Probably won't be popular in NPR office. But its pretty darn spot-on. They really need to even out their tone. Too many stories seem framed as "this will make you feel sad" and that is the only point of them. I'll ask myself after a story airs, what was the point of that? This sounds very harsh - but do we need to hear another interview with a Gazan going through the rubble of their home after an Israeli missile strike? Another story of someone talking about their struggles with mental health and grief. Tell me a story I haven't heard before, or tell me a story I have heard before in a new way. And I'm not saying they aren't newsworthy, but I'd much rather them spend 5-10 minutes on where things stand with the hostage negotiations, how much longer Israel expects to be doing this, plans for reconstruction etc.

 

I did not give one single flying fuck about the eclipse. No problem with anyone who was excited and made an event out of it. Hope it lived up to the hype and they enjoyed it.

But I just. Did. Not. Care.

 

I don't really want to shoot down what the guy is espousing. But if you are providing tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president, it naturally follows that you're going to be taking steps toward damaging or toppling his presidency.

Word salad.

A Critical Overview of My Reading Habits

I fully understand the necessity of even-handed coverage. I despise where advocacy journalism has brought us. But it's so prevalent now that I find my first reaction toward an "even-handed" story is disgust that any positive points are being made about Donald Trump and the Republican party.

I know I shouldn't think that way, but damn, journalism and society are making it tough.

 

I kinda cared - but it was a cloudy day. Other than pictures on the internet there wasn't much to see.

 

Planet Fitness gets a bad rap as a place for people who don’t take their workouts seriously.

I do see a lot of people in there who look like they’re in really good shape.

Planet Fitness is basically my backup gym. I also go to a locally owned powerlifting gym. You think the powerlifting place would have more serious lifters but no matter how busy it is there, I can just about always use whatever equipment I plan to use. I can always get a rack, a bench, a platform or whatever I might need at the time.
At Planet Fitness the only equipment that allows for any sort of heavy lifting are Smith machines and 45 degree leg press. Those things are pretty much constantly in use no matter what time I go there to train. I’ve seen entire dumbbell racks empty because every single dumbbell is being used. Apparently a lot of people do super sets, drop sets or circuits and they monopolize the dumbbells for them. One day I also wanted to use a seated leg curl. There were two in the gym. One was being used. The other was broken because of course. I gave up and did some dumbbell RDLs. A half hour later when I was leaving the guy was still on the seated leg curl. Who does seated leg curls that long?

 

This is likely to be very unpopular, but I don't get the hoopla over high school graduation. Is it really that much of an accomplishment for 95 percent of the class?

And why do so many family members need to attend the ceremony? We have people on social media asking for extra grad tickets so all 17 cousins can come. When I graduated, my parents and younger brother were there. No grandparents, no aunts or uncles, no cousins, no neighbors.

And don't get me started on preschool and grade school "graduations."