Unpopular opinions
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spend time with your kids talking & doing activitives (take a walk, go to the park, play ball, etc.). imho folks have a tendency to substitute material things for basic interaction with their youngsters. i'm tired of folks not knowing their kids. if you can't tell me your kids favorite color or who is their best friend, what movies & tv shows they watch then the problem isn't the kid it's the parent. the more plugged in we become it seems alot of us are missing basic interaction with people trying to get that brass ring. oh & some folks just shouldn't have kids, let's be honest. you need a license for everything but they let any asshole have a kid. oh & marriage licenses, has any one ever thought why is it the only license i can think of where you do not have to renew it. i mean driver's license, license for your dog, all kinds of crap, but marriage you are hit. one time while you are insane with love then reality hits & you can not get a re do.
going to write my congressman about renewable marriage licenses & see what comes of it . . .
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Monday Rules
(is that an unpopular opinion? 
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It shouldn't be, what a great post MM.
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I think showing something like Friday the 13th to a child versus Jaws is much different…
I grew up on horror films when all the other kids were watching Disney, and I'm not a violent person. If anything, it taught me the distinction between the "make believe" of media, and reality. The only thing I think it affected was my taste in programming. Even as a small child, I thought Nickelodeon, TGIF, cartoons, etc. were for babies.
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As a boy I watched American Werewolf in London with my dad when I was 5 years old and it terrified me, but it also taught me a valuable lesson about separating fantasy and reality violence that I think is missing from a lot of kids these days. I'm not saying that my dad did the right thing, as I was too young, but the lesson worked. My father simply did not believe in censorship at all when it came to movies.
I guess I should have read the entire thread before responding. Mega illustrates my point much better than I did.
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spend time with your kids talking & doing activitives (take a walk, go to the park, play ball, etc.). imho folks have a tendency to substitute material things for basic interaction with their youngsters. i'm tired of folks not knowing their kids. if you can't tell me your kids favorite color or who is their best friend, what movies & tv shows they watch then the problem isn't the kid it's the parent. the more plugged in we become it seems alot of us are missing basic interaction with people trying to get that brass ring. oh & some folks just shouldn't have kids, let's be honest. you need a license for everything but they let any asshole have a kid.
This is one of the most refreshing things I have read in a while. Good on you, Monday.
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I seriously have no idea behind making SIM cards smaller, especially the micro SIM.
It just makes things more difficult. And I believe there isn't any real beneficial reasons why these stuff are getting smaller. Not like you are going to use the SIM Card without a PHONE.
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My last two phones have used a micro SIM card. I swapped out both of them for cards with more capacity. I like the micro SIM, sorry Ron.
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I agree rnr.
I'm not really a fan of shopping at Self Edge. It's cool to see all the stuff there and the workers are nice enough but it just makes for such an awkward experience perusing the clothing while its dead silent (no other customers) because you feel like the employees can basically hear everything you say.
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Why on earth wouldn't a jeans store have rock music blaring?
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There definitely was music playing but it was pretty low. When you went to the other SE's were there other people in there?
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Johan, Casey, and Tyler are more than nice guys but I feel like the uncomfortableness just can't be helped. Sad Tyler left, he was my favorite
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In honesty Ben, I think it'd be worth dropping this feedback to Kiya. If enough of his clientele let him know this, he'll change it.
Bahahahahahahaha.
Man, I wish that were true. I love your optimism, Snowy, but this is very doubtful.
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I look at pics of some folks footwear, which others compliment of being "beautifully broken in", and I just think it looks fucked. If I spend $400 - $600 on boots I am not going to want to take chunks out of the leather on a regular basis, this is surely insanity.
I wear my boots without much due care and attention (just normally I would say), so I have absolutely no idea what people are doing to their boots to get them in such a state. If it's work which does it (construction, mechanics etc…), then surely that would be better in a pair of actual safety boots rather than some horse hide semi dress or something like?
I don't get why folks buy expensive clothes, and then set out to fuck them up as quickly as possible?
I know I run the HWDC and HWBC, and it is a genuine worry for me that some competitors seem to think that the right thing to do is to prematurely beat the shit out of their gear, come on people...get real here !
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Further expansion….
I conclude that most folks are either far richer than me, or genuinely just want to make their $3k outfit look like clothes they borrowed from a homeless, former 18th Century coal miner.
A lot of the brands we're into make really nice stuff, which will look amazing over time of you have the patience. If you don't you will literally have thousands of $'s worth of rags, and boots that look like your dog has chewed them.