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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy

. You don't need to shower everyday

. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

. Monty Python is very overrated

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[โ€“] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)
  • Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and gimmicky industrial design failures.
  • Humans are not good by nature. They are taught to be good but even babies cry and get angry without anyone teaching them.
  • The Cat in The Hat movie with Mike Myers was not as bad as critics claim and actually had good undertones patched together with modern humor that is more profound in recent times than when it was originally released. It was actually ahead of its time.
  • Apple/MacOS isn't actually a better platform and is only designed to give the impression that it is simpler even though people still have to learn how to use it.
  • Adult services should be legal in all countries and the workers involved should get paid with benefits/protections just like everybody else. This is assuming capitalism cannot be removed from the picture.
  • VTubers shouldn't be showing their actual bodies. It defeats the purpose of using the moniker in the first place.
  • Education should be free without any debt involved. There is legitimately no good reason why education and knowledge should be pay-walled.
  • Euthanasia should be legal where the person no longer wishes to subject themselves to failing health is granted control over their body. Forcing such people to keep living is selfish and pertains cruel and unusual.
  • Hollywood should not be idolized and is actually part of the problem with things being f'd up rn. There is no good reason why actors or any kind of artist should be making all that money while the rest of society gets by with the scraps we toss around while the rich get richer. The same goes for any kind of celebrity, really. I don't even leave out sports people in this.

This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.

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[โ€“] Nighed@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

The hill upto the finishline on my local park run this morning was way harder than usual, so (almost) that one today!

[โ€“] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I'm not taking you seriously.

[โ€“] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I didn't think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here... I don't even have a clue what it is.

I'm picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.

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[โ€“] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

that's why I use my city balls to explain stuff

[โ€“] molten@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Misuse of their there and they're.

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[โ€“] cattywampas@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.

[โ€“] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Sausage is meat, just ground up. People use the term "american cheese" to refer to a variety of products, ranging from almost all real cheese with a small percentage of emulsifier added, to shit like Kraft singles which is mostly milk protein concentrate and emulsifier with a small percentage of real cheese added (allegedly). The latter is usually labelled "pasteurized process cheese food/product" or something similar, US law forbids actually calling it cheese if the cheese content is less than 95% iirc

[โ€“] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

Iโ€™ve never heard anyone suggest otherwise. Who are you having this argument with?

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[โ€“] ChexMax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh boy I originally read this as that we needed to pick one of your listed hills and get behind it, and I liked the concept

[โ€“] proudblond@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I was 100% in agreement with all of them until the last one.

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[โ€“] 7empest@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

The one with eyes

[โ€“] Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Thongs aren't uncomfortable

[โ€“] Fondots@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my ~~life~~ wife once

It's not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it's certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city's naked bike ride to bike around in.

[โ€“] Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.

Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it's because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.

[โ€“] Fondots@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Small typo in my comment, was supposed to say get a laugh out of my wife

It served its intended purpose. It was for Valentines or our anniversary or something, so I was waiting in the bed for her to come home in my leopard thong, rose petals scattered around, and some funky 70s porno music playing, and she cracked the fuck up.

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[โ€“] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The feet ones or the butt ones?

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[โ€“] Nemo@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (12 children)
  • spelling "catsup" as "ketchup" is as juvenile as spelling "night light" as "nite lite"

  • Ohio isn't part of the Midwest

  • all of Rory's boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst

  • using a slur "because it's not a bad word in my culture" still isn't okay

[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For the first one... Not sure I get it. It was originally ketchup, and has been predominantly spelled that way for hundreds of years. It was spelled that way before ketchup even had tomato in it.

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[โ€“] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Question about the first one. Do you consider English a living language that evolves over time?

To that point, do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun? Which way do you spell it? How do you (personally) pronounce Worcestershire sauce? How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?

I would argue that words evolve with vernacular and sometimes the spellings become antiquated. In the case of Worcestershire sauce, pronunciation can vary greatly from spelling. If ketchup bothers you, are onomatopoeias even words to you?

Eventually, insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer. Since you spell it catsup, can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57 hoping to get it to ooze?

Seriously though, since this is the hill you'll die on, convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling.

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