In college I made the mistake of buying this toilet paper, I thought I could splurge and get something nice. My mom only ever bought super cheap brands.

It was so dusty in my bathroom within a week of having that Charmin toilet paper. Those bears are liars.

I had paper flakes/dust in every crevice as I wiped. We went through the pack and then ended up buying something else, I only buy Kirkland or Sam's club toilet paper now. Solid choice.

I'll start this by saying I'm a socialist I oppose billionaires fundamentally. But them doing vanity projects like making a car fart powerfully for no reason, or spending millions to recover Saturn V rocket engines at the bottom of the ocean, or making a 10 000 year mechanical clock is better use of their money than 99% of other shit they do.

If there's anyone who's actually lived in a extreme Northern climate I'm sure you get what I'm talking about. The problem with synthetic alternatives to fur coats is that they make you sweat. And then that sweat makes you freeze. The only alternative is to use layers of real wool underneath a synthetic coat. But real wool is itchy as hell. And even if you do all that it still doesn't work as well as a fur coat. It sucks for all the rabbits out there but nature really did create the perfect substance for surviving the winter.

Then there's the aspect of indigenous culture in Canada. Sustainable and monitored fur trapping has been part of their culture for thousands of years. It's a bit of a messed up colonizer mindset to tell them they have to change. Personally I think it's fine as long as you're not using animals that are endangered in some way like wolves. And as far as fur farming goes I think it's okay as long as you can buy from a ethical farmer that treats their animals well. Micro Plastics really are choking the life out of this planet it's kind of the Lesser evil to purchase from a fur Farm. What do you guys think?

I have seen a not so recent trend where people identify with a subculture but dress nothing close to it. I’m not talking about ones that are more explicitly fashion like gyaru, but here I’ll use the example of punk. The kind of homeless and patchy look is core to it. Sure you don’t need to go to the extremes or always dress differently, but at least try to look somewhat out of the ordinary from time to time. Even if this just means adding a few spikes to your jacket or sewing on a band name.
Considering how a lot of what has been considered alternative music and politics is now more mainstream, the fashion is less affected in comparison (beyond black band shirts and baggy jeans).

Even if it makes you uncomfortable to dress that way, just try it out in a low stakes environment. The fashion isn’t always going to be something you like, but if it outwardly displays that you’re not conforming to standards you may wear it anyway for this reason**.

Edit: Gotta understand i’m not forcing people into dressing a certain way, but if you don’t show some sort of visible commitment to the culture, whether that’s through fashion or local shows or protests, then it can be an issue.

They have a full strength sweetness very consistently depending on the breed and have a crispy fresh crunchy yet utterly delicate snappy light texture and pop that no candy or other fruit or vegetable can replicate.

You know the commercial I am talking about.

I saw this commercial when it was first aired and have seen it dozens of times since. Not once did I think it made the brother and sister look like a romantic couple. I am from the U.S. for reference.

I feel that western society has a perverted take on the family unit, as well as a perverted sense of humor on a lot of things.

I grew up with a brother and a sister as well as a mom and dad who stayed married. We were typical of U.S. families I would say where me and my siblings would fight and tease each other. My parents were too stressed at work to be fully emotionally present with all of us. They did their best to provide, and we had good times, but we were never a wholesome family unit.

But that wholesome family unit was all that I ever wanted. I resented my brother and sister for how much they mocked and teased me, and not once did we ever say "I love you" to one another. Now as adults, we never developed a healthy relationship with one another. In ways they feel like strangers to me.

The brother and sister as depicted in the commercial is a wonderful example of how siblings should support each other and genuinely care for one another, and how parents should be relieved to see their child they haven't seen in a while.

Many cultures do have family units that behave in such a way, and we should strive to emulate this. This is what makes them strong.

Why are you so averse to a brother and sister who are not afraid to say "I love you" and who consider it a gift to see each other after so long?

The torque whenever you want it, the coasting, the lack of noise. I like it all.
I used to work for Mercedes and BMW and have driven about everything they make, along with a lot of competitors’ cars. Overall performance and connection of a high end vehicle is hard to beat, but for everyday drives around town, I’ll take the electric drive motor.

Maybe there's a policy that sort of covers this in some countries, but my view is that outsourcing service labour to cheaper countries is doing untold damage to the economy. Speaking from experience in the MSP world, the quality offshore is usually worse so the customer ends off unhappier for it. Why not impose levies on companies that do this to incentivise local hiring?

Having no friends can be a good thing. You have more freedom, save money, and can spend your time however you want without worrying about messages, meetups or maintaining relationships. For some people, having their own company is more enjoyable and less stressful than socialising.

Society constantly pushes the idea that humans are social creatures and that everyone needs friends to be happy. I think this is taken too far. People assume that having no friends means you're lonely or miserable, and some even act as though having toxic friends is better than having none at all. I'd rather be alone than maintain relationships that make my life worse.

Ultimately, everyone is different. Some people can't go a day without socialising, while others can go months without it and be perfectly content. There's nothing wrong with having no friends if it's what you genuinely want. You're not hurting anyone; you're simply living differently. Society needs to accept that being happy alone is just as valid as being happy around others.

On top of not knowing how to drive a majority of people don't know how to check/change their oil and transmission fluid, check tires for tread depth or even change a flat tire on top of other preventative maintenance that can keep your vehicle from breaking down and causing an annoying or even dangerous nuisance to other drivers.

I know everyone loves binge-watching, but I genuinely think releasing an entire season at once ruins half the fun of watching a good show.
When episodes come out weekly, you actually have time to think about what happened, come up with theories, and talk about it with other people. A good cliffhanger stays in your head for days instead of being resolved 30 seconds later because you immediately hit “next episode.”
With binge releases, a show can be the biggest thing on the internet for one weekend and practically disappear from conversations by the following week.
I get that people want to watch things at their own pace, but I think we’ve become so obsessed with instant gratification that we’ve forgotten how enjoyable anticipation can be.
I’d rather spend two months looking forward to a great show every week than finish the entire thing in one Saturday and forget about it by Monday.

Honestly it's kind of crazy to me where ill see people end a relationship (understandbly so) for disrespect but then will have a friendship displaying the same level of disrespect and go "oh but we've been friends for years".

like some people will have a partner theyve known for 5 years and then a friend thyeve known for 3 years. if the partner starts to grow in different directions "we need to break up". If friend is a thief, liar, cheat, and doesnt present the values the person has "oh but they are my friend i love them".

Im not justifying staying in a shitty relationship. Im arguing with why stay in a frinedship with someone who doesnt share your goals in life. You are who your friends are.

Like ill see people who post "my friend owes me 500 dollars and gets mad when i bring it up. Im going to her bachelorette party tomorrow should i wait till next week to bring it up".

Like no, ending a friendship should be viewed inthe same light as ending a romantic relationship.

Edit:

Just want to add that i understand that you should have higher standards iwth your partner.

What i am saying is i see people let friends treat them poorly in every sense of the wrod and then try to defend the friendship. And when you ask them "hey that's not ok why are you still friends with them?" they go "oh we've been frineds for years i can't end it".

Think aobut the worse thing a friend can do to you, you're telling me youd still stay frined siwth them like nothing happened?

So as the title says, I genuinely think collector's edition of games should release after launch cause at launch nobody knows if he is a big fan of that game. Maybe even multiple times cause some people don't really preorder.

I saw a recent reel of these 11 year olds with their names on their jerseys. I had to wait until a fairly high level to get a jersey with my name on it. I wore jerseys that had been in circulation for a decade and turned them in every season.

The problem is the death of the house league. All the local kids used to play against each other in a local league and only the best made the travel team (4 house teams -> 1 travel team). The local league was for people who wanted to play but wouldn’t make it to the next level. You needed to earn a spot on the team; not pay for it

Now there is only travel teams, regardless of how good you are. The cost for parents has spiraled out of control for kids that suck and just want to have fun. There is no more cheap option.

Parents also have some of the blame for trying to live vicariously thru their kids, which I believe kills their love of the game.

I won’t even talk about the horrid treatment of volunteer refirees.

Edit: the hobby part of sports is gone. If parents spend $1000s of dollars they expect a return. It isn’t fun anymore.

Making a travel team used to be a big deal. There were try outs and not everyone made it.

Also paid coaches? I never made a dime when I coached. Not even gas money; purely for the love of the game.

Maybe I was a bit intense when I said that rec options don’t exist anymore, there are def less tho

I've been seeing this more frequently lately, and the pedestrian always seems to be at least a foot away from the curb, and usually walking the same direction as the vehicles (which in itself is unwise).

It's dangerous. Haven't heard any solid reasoning for NOT using the sidewalk.

Honestly it just seems like intentional rage baiting. I'll be the first to admit that I get peeved on residential roads where I'm stuck waiting behind the guy who KNOWS I'm right behind him and can't pass because of parked vehicles or oncoming traffic.

I think being able to give other unbiased opinions and advice is one of the biggest sign of intelligence

It's very easy to defend what you already believe in, but the ability to recognize someone you dislike is right, recognize when you are wrong and even give advice without letting your personal feelings interfere with the advice.

You can be very knowledgeable and still have your ego and your biases be the control of your judgment.

To me, intelligence is not about how much you know. I don't think that's what it should be about ever. In one way, it's also about how do you react when your own lifelong beliefs and judgments are challenged.

Also, I believe this is something that unlocks tremendous amounts of growth if you can be one such.

Ribs suck, they take forever to make, they have little meat on them, and they aren’t worth the time it effort it takes to make.

Also not worth at a restaurant, just get sometime good like a solid steak or brisket.

Ribs are absolutely inferior to every other meat option.

Maybe I’m just particular about things like this, but personally no matter how beautiful, no matter how fun, no matter how great the food or culture is- if I read that you can’t flush toilet paper down a toilet I’m never coming to your country and I literally will not even feel a twinge of regret.

It’s 2026, not having modern plumbing in what is otherwise a developed nation is ridiculous and should be a source of national shame. I phrase this as an unpopular opinion due to the fact that by definition it has to be, since millions of people seem to not be bothered by this and still travel to these places ever year.

I don't know where we went wrong but it probably went wrong when we let streaming services take over the entire market. At first this was great. You can save 100s of movies on your play list and they still sent movies to you in the mail. But when blockbuster left, a all video stores went out of business. They stripped the movies In the mail away. But we accepted it. It was still convenient. Slow boil.

Now most have to buy into several services to get access to all the movies that used to be on one service.

Now you can't even save a movie to your list , and decide to watch it next month. It might be gone, off the playlist. It could be gone the next day. Because you just noticed it right before it was scheduled to be erased. Now you have rent it? And sometimes it's $9.99 Just to watch it once for 2 days? I can't get a week? Maybe I get distracted and watch half . Now im fked and have to pay $9.99 again to finish the other 30min i missed? Why? Or I can buy it for double the price. I don't want to buy it forever. Just for you to tell me a year later that they have to erase it even though I bought it to own.

They made it so bad that we actually need blockbuster back. I pass 100s of stores a day driving. I stop for coffee, maybe lunch, items from the supermarket etc. I don't fking mind stopping for a movie that I really want to see and not having to worry about it being stripped out of my ability to watch it if I didn't watch it the first 2 days I had it.

And I don't even have to stop. People order off Amazon, temu and all sorts of shit. If we can wait for packages the next day or 2. We can wait for a DVD to come in the mail the next day too.

Also you can't even find all the older movies you want anymore.

I'm tired of getting robbed out of my enjoyment to watch a movie.

- 80% of all trips are single person

- the average truck driver uses the bed of their truck twice a year

- the birth rate in America is around 1.5 births per woman, so having 3 or more kids is rare

I swear to god, most of the time when I’m seeing trucks on the road, there’s nothing in their bed and their truck is sparkly clean. Escalades and suburbans have just one person in them

The majority of people for the majority of tasks just need a small sedan. A Toyota Corolla, basically. It would be more efficient to rent a truck from Home Depot when you need it than to buy a truck that costs $50k when a Corolla costs <$30k (and has better gas mileage)

People just buy cars for image and because it’s the car they think they should buy, not an actual measured and practical choice. They buy a truck cause they want people to think they’re rugged, not cause they need a truck. The most obvious example is jeeps. Those cars suck at what they’re advertised for, but people don’t even know that because they never take it off road

Realistically, at least 80% of passenger vehicles should just be small sedans. It should be kinda rare to see SUVs, jeeps, etc

As someone in the skin care space. I see how devastatingly fear mongered people are with sunscreen. How much money people spent on it. And how much people fret over it. I’ve heard about people literally avoiding going outside or running back home to reapply it.

Firstly given how much it is advocated by doctors and stuff. I’ll admit it holds much significance.

But given people who have the capacity to really care about this, live in the west. Probably above average in disposable income, which intern means they probably stay indoors most of the time. For job/school/their hobbies.

I’m your run of the mill 20yr old I go to uni, work retail live in Canada . Even w my 2-3hr daily commute. I maybe get sub 20 minutes of sunlight. W fall and winter even less.

The weather apps UV index says we should wear sunscreen maybe 2-3x a week and only for a few hrs and in time periods when most ppl are indoorss(work, job, home resting).

And w my andectdol experience. When I seek sunlight for 15-30 mins a day to tan or something. Even though I don’t achieve tan, my skin looks significantly better and ironically lighter.

So I believe this sun is just unnecessary fear mongered. We are humans and supposed to get sunlight. And in modern living we are most likely deficient.

Rap as a genre is all about rhyme, rhythm, and flow. If you understand the language the artist is speaking, you run the risk of hearing a lyric and thinking the words don’t quite work (put you in a mansion, somewhere in Wisconsin, anyone?) But if you don’t know the words, you can appreciate the music without thinking

A fork is better for what… maybe spaghetti? And even then, folks usually use a spoon in addition to the fork. You can just eat so much easier and more efficiently with a spoon. Forks are almost never the better option when eating.

Even when I was a collage runner obsessed with running tech and fancy running gear, I hated those tech tees. The ones you get from signing up for a race like a 5k or half marathon that are supposed to be like athletic wear. I hate how the fabric feels, I hate how they fit, and I'd rather not get a shirt if that's the option. I'd rather 100 basic cotton Tees, at least I'll wear them to do yard work or upcycle them. I'm not making a race shirt quilt with those terrible plastic-feeling tech tees, though. I can't even run in them because they just stick like I'm wearing a garbage bag and they chafe something terrible. I wish races stopped thinking it was preferable. They're always like "we've upgraded to tech tees!" No, you downgraded to crappy plastic fabric.