SOL 19- Uncommon Opinions

This is basically just a list of me talking about opinions I have that many people don't share with me.

1. Starbucks. I don't get it. I will never understand spending an insane amount of money on a beverage that barely even tastes good. I think that Starbucks has managed to create an impressive customer flow for what they actually offer, but how addicted a lot of people are is kind of insane.

2. Coffee. This is kind of carried over from my previous point, but I think coffee is bitter bean juice that tastes abysmal and is overpriced. I get needing caffeine for additional energy, but to me coffee just tastes gross and unpleasant. Also, I find the smell especially nauseating.

3. Soda. Personally, I am not a big fan of carbonation. Personally, I think it leaves a bitter aftertaste and there is no reason for me to spend an entire afternoon feeling like I need to regurgitate bubbles out of my nose just because I drank something filled with sugar.

4. Taco Bell, Chipotle, Qdoba, etc. I am not a massive fan of most, if not all, Mexican fast food restaurants. I feel like most of them are non authentic, overpriced, and overall I just don't like the food very much. I get the appeal, but personally it is just not for me.

5. Pop music. I have never understood the appeal of many of the radio songs that have the same four chords, same three notes sung by the singers, and the themes of anything relationship based. I know not all pop music is about relationships, I just say that because a lot of the mainstream music played is about relationships and/or sex. To me it is just boring and repetitive.

6. Fortnite. I have never actually played Fortnite, but I think the addiction many people have to it is stupid. This goes for most every video game. I understand having a game you like and playing for a reasonable amount of time, but when you need to charge your phone when you get to school because you have already been playing a video game the entire morning, I think it is ridiculous. In some ways it counts as an addiction, and I have never understood how people get so hooked on games like that.

7. Pools. Personally, I really don't like pools. There is something about the entire process of getting soaked, having to dry off, feeling gross, and then having your hair be gross and your skin feel weird that I am not a big fan of. I understand competitive swimming as a sport, but I have never understood hanging out at pools and just casually spending time in a massive pool of urine contaminated water.

8. Technology advancements. In my opinion, humans are creating their own demise by coming out with more and more massive advancements in technology. If we wanted to be smart about things, in my opinion, we would not make things that can literally think for themselves and recognize our faces. To me, that sounds like a massive recipe for disaster. Hopefully I survive the robot takeover. On a lighter note, why are people so lazy? Is it really so hard to type something into your phone or set an alarm that you need to have a piece of technology sitting in your house do normal things for you? I have just never understood why humans are so against work that they would go to great lengths to make easy things even easier for themselves. Solving world hunger should definitely be a priority. Duh.

9. Famous people. This opinion is two sided. The main side is that I don't understand why civilization as a whole has picked certain people to praise and give a ton of money too. It makes no sense why we randomly dote over celebrities. The second side of this is why people hate celebrities so much. I will never understand why people like the Kardashians get so much hate for just existing. I get being hated on for saying or doing bad things, but I don't think we should think so poorly of them for using what they have been given. In some ways, it just shows how smart some people have been in terms of using the system society has set up for their own gain.

10. Lastly, Football. From an outsiders perspective, it is a bunch of athletic men running into each other repeatedly and injuring themselves instead of actually using their skills and playing a sport that is equally physically taxing but more entertaining to watch. I am a much bigger fan of sports where everyone is actively doing things and the clock is not paused every two seconds because one person did something that no one but the ref could tell was illegal.