Unpopular Opinions

The Unpopular Opinions thread is too popular.

More women have rape fantasies than you'd think (at least 1/3 of the girl's I've ever known, wooooo, it's crazy out there! or maybe I'm only meeting the craziest ones?)

A dog humping someone's leg isn't funny; that's interspecies rape!

National Geographic glorifies rape in the wild. I've seen way too many videos of animals raping each other, I've concluded that rape is a natural animalistic instinct for some species. They lack higher brain functions and emotions to know any better. It's just survival of the strongest serial raping animals sometimes. Scary...

Honda doesn't make the NSX, that's Acura. The Honda's S-2000 is the awesome car, but the 'cockpit' layout is terrible.

Death metal would sound so much better with banjos heavily distorted.

The only reason Virtual Reality wasn't further developed was for the addictions it would eventually create. It'd eventually get to the point of being just like a lucid dream, stimulating the right parts of your brain, almost Matrix style. Just hook yourself up to a machine for intraveneous food and get lost inside...

Refined sugar really is a poison to our bodies, and should be illegal.

Most other natural herbs are placebos.

If time is not linear, so must be space. If space is not linear, then the "accelerating/expanding" universe isn't really getting further apart... it's coming around full circle for the Big Crunch to create that one big super singularity thing, then another Big Bang will happen... that's the cycle of the universe.

We do not live in a yellow submarine.

RE: NSX- Acura is a fully owned subsidiary of Honda (high end). Look at the progression of Accords and Integras. The same hand is in the design; it appears to get handed down.
RE: Distorted banjos- Perhaps a bit of Butthole Surfers would be in order here...

There's a reason why people are elite...

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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny

Refined sugar really is a poison to our bodies, and should be illegal.

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This isn't really an unpopular opinion, but it's probably important to add here that refined sugar is nothing compared to the evil of high-fructose corn syrup, which is far more damaging metabolically and dietetically. Everyone in our country needs to steer clear of high-fructose corn syrup, and it's an ingredient in nearly every processed food we eat. Our country professes its concern about our diabetes and obesity epidemic, yet our government incents and subsidizes the growing of tons of corn so it can be made into a non-nutritive sweetener. Makes no sense at all.

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

This isn't really an unpopular opinion, but it's probably important to add here that refined sugar is nothing compared to the evil of high-fructose corn syrup, which is far more damaging metabolically and dietetically. Everyone in our country needs to steer clear of high-fructose corn syrup, and it's an ingredient in nearly every processed food we eat. Our country professes its concern about our diabetes and obesity epidemic, yet our government incents and subsidizes the growing of tons of corn so it can be made into a non-nutritive sweetener. Makes no sense at all.

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Yeah! that stuff too, it's such horrible crap. They should be using all that corn to make bio fuel instead. But there's more profit to be made in slowly killing the population...

And I always forget who owns each car company subsidary, thanks for the correction Stinky.

I'm bored so here are some more crazy ramblings...

Click-it or Ticket should be canned.
Introduce a new law to enforce every car to be equipped with run flat tires instead.

The most convenient, but time consuming, tool to clean our teeth comes built in. It's our fingernails.

Dentists should give you a free surgical stainless steel scraping tool like they use, instead of a lousy cheap regular toothbrush.

Agent Orange treatments should be an option if you don't wanna go through the ordeal of having cavities and teeth pulled. Ok, that's definitely an insane opinion right there, call me a sadist. But having full sets of dentures or surgically implanted fake teeth sounds cool.

Adult diapers are very fashionable. I really do think so, I can't wait to get old to shit my pants in style!

The drive-thru menus at fast food joints should have brail. The drive-thru ATM already does...

At a restaurant, the cooks are the only ones that deserve the tip. The waiting staff have nothing to do with the quality of your food, they just suck up and act nice... that only deserves the same curteousy in return.

Waiters should work for regular hourly wages, and tips should only be given at the discretion of the patron/customer. Still then, tips should go to the cooks.

Same goes for food delivery.

Oxygen is a gateway drug.

The first Hulk movie was awesome, the second one looks totally retarded.

Howard the Duck was one of the greatest movies ever.

Tim Burton should have stopped making movies a long time ago.

A photograph will steal your soul.
An x-ray will give your soul mutant powers.

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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny

Dentists should give you a free surgical stainless steel scraping tool like they use, instead of a lousy cheap regular toothbrush.

Waiters should work for regular hourly wages, and tips should only be given at the discretion of the patron/customer. Still then, tips should go to the cooks.

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RE: Dental tool- I have one, and use it weekly. (Daily if you count its utility as a bowl scrambler) and epoxy sealant on my molars- I've never had a cavity in my life, and only go to the dentist every 2 years.

Waitstaff should make standard minimum wage, not restaurant minimum, and be offered a benefits package that reflects hours worked per week. I dare anyone to go apply for a front-of-house job and ask about benefits at the interview. you're not gonna get that job. Line cooks should be either tipped out or given commission on meals prepared.

Man, your unpopular opinions are working for me today!

I've got another restaurant one- I support many many levels of management at box restaurants. If the management (and corporate) level at chain restaurants were eliminated, they'd be able to sell their crappy pre-fab food at competitive prices, and hurt the local places even worse than they do already. So keep those big unjustified salaries going, folks! :thumbsup:

Waitstaff at chain restaurants is primarily hired for their *cough* flair. C cup or above. Don't you want to EXPRESS yourself? :wtf:

Anorexia is not 'pretty'.

People who use pot as an excuse for laziness or stupidity should pay an extra $100 per oz.

Drinking isn't fun.

'American Idol' is more boring than stale toast.

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Originally Posted by psteve

'American Idol' is more boring than stale toast.

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Seconded! These huge crowds of hysterical screaming dimwits makes me realize why human progress has been so slow.



Now I'm gonna get hated for this one: Hunter S. Thompson is not the genius people make him out to be. I'm sick to death of this Hunter cult following, I'm sick to death of people glorifying this idiot who just did a lot of drugs and talked about how fucked up he got. I've never heard a real, remarkable insight from the man.


Holding up your cell phone at a concert is not a replacement for a lighter! :mad:


Conservatives are sheeple who think Liberals are sheeple. Liberals are sheeple who think Conservatives are sheeple.


Replacing letters with numbers is bloody stupid, and makes it harder to read, not easier just because it's shorter. God I h8 people who do that.

Murphy's Law I tells ya! 10 minutes after writing the above post, I turned on the tv and lo and behold, a movie about Hunter S. Thompson played by Bill Murray is on. It's pretty decent too!

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Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey

Now I'm gonna get hated for this one: Hunter S. Thompson is not the genius people make him out to be. I'm sick to death of this Hunter cult following, I'm sick to death of people glorifying this idiot who just did a lot of drugs and talked about how fucked up he got. I've never heard a real, remarkable insight from the man.

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I will not spew hate on your opinion because this is the Upopular Opinions thread, and you are entitled to your unpopular opinion.

MY opinion is that Thompson was doing more than just writing about his drug freakouts. He was doing some ironic social commentatry in a very unorthodox way. If you ever read any of his political commentary, it is very insightful.

He also was a great writer in terms of his use of language. That's really the best thing about him. I enjoy reading Thompson more for the WAY he says things than for WHAT he says. This is why the Fear and Loathing movie did not work for me at all. Seeing the scenes acted out is really kind of sad and depressing. It just seems pathetic. All the language is gone, and it really loses all the humor in the interpretation.

The other thing about Thompson is that he opened up a new way for journalists to present information. Conventional journalism is supposed to take the journalist out of the story. A journalist is supposd to present the facts and let them speak for themsleves, or at least make clear the distinction between raw data and his or her own perspective on a story. Thompson knew that there was really only so far a journalist can go in keeping his or her perspective out of a story, so he just threw that idea out the window. Thompson just reported his own subjective experience as fact. I think probably a lot his drug experiences were a lot less extreme than what he reported, and the things that happened while he was loaded were not as strange as he described, but they SEEMED that way to him, so he reported them as fact.

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Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey

Murphy's Law I tells ya! 10 minutes after writing the above post, I turned on the tv and lo and behold, a movie about Hunter S. Thompson played by Bill Murray is on. It's pretty decent too!

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Where the Buffalo Roam! I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I enjoyed the Fear and Loathing movie. It's not an accurate adaptation of any of his books --- it's more of an "inspired by" kind of movie. But the humor is better. In a way it is truer to the HST style than the straight adaptation of Fear and Loathing. It's funny that you see a lot of "quotes" by HST on this site that were actually drawn from this fictional movie --- I don't think he ever actaully said most of the things attributed to him from this movie.

lookout its a whole bunch of drama queens... run!!!!!

Fair enough DragonRider; I've only seen Fear and Loathing followed by a few random youtube videos my friends were gawking over like a sermon from Jesus Christ himself. Seems my view of his works may be too limited; I figured Fear and Loathing was typical of his doings.

You cannot judge Hunter S. Thompson's work by a movie, especially one he didn't write, and most especially not one starring Johnny Depp.
Read 'Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail' before passing judgment.

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Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey

Fair enough DragonRider; I've only seen Fear and Loathing followed by a few random youtube videos my friends were gawking over like a sermon from Jesus Christ himself. Seems my view of his works may be too limited; I figured Fear and Loathing was typical of his doings.

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Yeah, some people do take their HST worship a bit far, and mostly for all the wrong reasons. He's great, but not for the drug use, or for the movies, or for the interviews.

Here is my Unpopular Opinion on the subject: Fear and Loathing is not a very good movie, and people who think it is great are just into the drug scene aspect of it. They are really missing out on what Thompson was all about: writing, language and social commentary. Very little of that comes through in the movie.

Some books just do not adapt well to the screen. Did you read Dune, and did you see Dune the movie? The book was great, and the movie sucked by comparison. The reason is that all the action in the book is internal. It's all about what different people are thinking as a scene plays out, not about what they are doing or saying on the outside. They are constantly playing mental games, trying to outwit each other, guessing at the enemy's motives, so there is nothing to show on screen.

Fear and Loathing is not as good as a movie as it is as a book, because the best thing about the book is how things are described, not the actual scene or setting itself. The same thing is true for Hitchhiker's Guide. If you strip out the description and just show what was described it comes off weak.

I also think Thompson does not come off well in interviews. I've only seen one or two, and I only really remember seeing him once on Letterman. He doesn't deliver as well in person as he doen in his writing.

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Originally Posted by psteve

Read 'Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail' before passing judgment.

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Yes! This one was good and so was The Great Shark Hunt. If you weren't around for Nixon or Watergate, then some of the stuff in some of these books is hard to grasp. I don't remember any of it firsthand, but I learned a lot about it (in a twisted kind of way) from reading some of HST's books. In the late 80's Thompson wrote a weekly column in the SF Chronicle, and I remember some of those as being absolute genius, but maybe it had more impact because it was all current, instead of reading about something I didn't live through personally. Some of the articles were compiled into Generation of Swine, which was an OK book too, but maybe not as good as earlier ones. If you like the artwork of Ralph Steadman, then The Curse of Lono is also entertaining, but it's not really a serious commentary in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

He was doing some ironic social commentatry in a very unorthodox way...... I enjoy reading Thompson more for the WAY he says things than for WHAT he says.... Seeing the scenes acted out is really kind of sad and depressing. ... All the language is gone, and it really loses all the humor in the interpretation.

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I feel that the most valuable part of the DVD is the interview with HST in the 'extras' at the end. You get far more of a sense for his intelligence. Just as I never paid much attention to Marilyn Manson before seeing him actually do a proper interview on that Bowling for Columbine movie.

And for the record... this thread is called 'unpopular opinions', not 'bash other races, sexual orientations, and cultures; and hell, other members while we're at it'.

Ahem.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

I feel that the most valuable part of the DVD is the interview with HST in the 'extras' at the end. You get far more of a sense for his intelligence. Just as I never paid much attention to Marilyn Manson before seeing him actually do a proper interview on that Bowling for Columbine movie.

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I missed that HST interview. I would have liked to have seen it. But the best way to appreciate him is to actually read someting he wrote.

And I agree on Marilyn Manson. I had no use for him at all unitl I saw that interview, and he came off as one of the smartest people in the whole movie.

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

on Marilyn Manson. I had no use for him at all unitl I saw that interview, and he came off as one of the smartest people in the whole movie.

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I don't know if this will be popular or unpopular, but I was the same way about George Michael. I had less than zero respect for him until I saw this video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXHic5cmq9w[/youtube]

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Originally Posted by psteve

I don't know if this will be popular or unpopular, but I was the same way about George Michael. I had less than zero respect for him until I saw this video.

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OOPS!
Sorry for posting a crappy, edited version of that video!
Here's a better copy so you can actually HEAR the words.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KVy3LGIIQ&feature=related[/youtube]

-eating nothing but fruit and playing ps2 all day will make you lose alot of weight

-all professional athletes should be required to take steroids

-if entering another persons personal property without permission you lose all rights within said property

-i have heard almost no classic rock or any music of the 70's-80's and i don't really care to

-sometimes it's hard not to believe stereotypes when they're thrown in your face almost everyday for the last 7 years

-making money is easy

-the only real sport is in 'the most dangerous game'

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Originally Posted by kuyutha

-i have heard almost no classic rock or any music of the 70's-80's and i don't really care to

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I know this is an unpopular opinions thread, but I feel compelled to ask WHY? All the modern music you love and appreciate wouldn't have been made without the influences of the artists that came before.

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Originally Posted by katyowns

I know this is an unpopular opinions thread, but I feel compelled to ask WHY? All the modern music you love and appreciate wouldn't have been made without the influences of the artists that came before.

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Oh noez, don't question anyone on this thread. People can't handle it.

;)

circumsision is not necessary, it is cruel and painful, and just because the baby cannot remember it does not make it ok.

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Originally Posted by jrv128

circumsision is not necessary, it is cruel and painful, and just because the baby cannot remember it does not make it ok.

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I completely agree with this

I take it my post was deleted? It wasn't bashing anyone, it was stating my opinions. I have no problem with anyones race, sexual preference and I don't have any hatred towards anyone that may disagree with how I feel.

So here is my unpopular opinion post again, yet this time I will shorten it to one opinion.

This thread is pointless and should have never been started.

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Originally Posted by JaySin

I take it my post was deleted? It wasn't bashing anyone, it was stating my opinions. I have no problem with anyones race, sexual preference and I don't have any hatred towards anyone that may disagree with how I feel.

So here is my unpopular opinion post again, yet this time I will shorten it to one opinion.

This thread is pointless and should have never been started.

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I think maybe you made a desparaging generalization about the grooming habits of the people of a certain continent, and then someone from that continent (or possibly from an island country just off that continent) referred to YOU using the slang term for a body part, and then someone corrected someone's grammar, and before long, all the love had gone out of the thread.

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I take it my post was deleted? It wasn't bashing anyone

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Now THAT'S an unpopular opinion!

BAZING!

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Originally Posted by JaySin

I take it my post was deleted? It wasn't bashing anyone, it was stating my opinions. I have no problem with anyones race, sexual preference and I don't have any hatred towards anyone that may disagree with how I feel.

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I think maybe you made a desparaging generalization about the grooming habits of the people of a certain continent, and then someone from that continent (or possibly from an island country just off that continent) referred to YOU using the slang term for a body part, and then someone corrected someone's grammar, and before long, all the love had gone out of the thread.

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Dragonrider is correct, JaySin. You post was not deleted because of the content in and of itself, although, frankly--and this would have been a highly popular opinoin if it had stayed visible--it was full of what sounded like crazytalk to me. Another moderator wisely deleted it and several replies it provoked because they devolved into an insult- and bigotry-fest, opinions and responses which were too unpopular and hateful to be viable here on a site that's supposed to be about friendly discussion.

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Originally Posted by jrv128

circumsision is not necessary, it is cruel and painful, and just because the baby cannot remember it does not make it ok.

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Exactly. You won't consciously remember it, but supposedly your subconscious brain remembers your entire life in some way.

Circumcision is culturally/religiously/medically accepted CHILD ABUSE. Not only is it child abuse, it's messing with the genitals.... sexual child abuse.

All men that were circumcised against their will should be compensated for their loss by the cruel governments that lets this kind of abuse flourish.


Only 3 wars have been fought to protect the freedom of the United States: American Revolutionary War (or basically all conflicts with the UK to gain our independence), American Civil War, and World War II.
All other battles/wars were offensive measures aimed at bringing other countries under our righteous influence, protecting/acquiring materialistic interests such as natural resources, and offering help to foreign armies with their own battles.

It's easy to spot a brainwashed citizen when they claim how soldiers today are "fighting for our freedom". Hahaha, yeah they're fighting alright... fighting for our freedom to dominate the rest of the world.

A single world government (new world order) could be the greatest thing to happen to our planet. But with so man different conflicting cultures and religions the democratic process wouldn't be effective, which is why it'd definitely turn into a dictatorship with an "antichrist" non-biased leader... and having just one leader is always bad.

There is no hope for the future. Save yourself and have fun at all possible times.

Bicycles should be ridden going against traffic, just the same as when walking. If you're gonna get hit by a car, ya might as well have seen it coming instead of being tragically surprised from behind.

Many products, like electronics, are made to fail not long after the warranty has expired. If more products were made with true quality to last longer, there'd be lesser need for new things.

Failure/expiration/depletion of products is what drives a consumer-based economy.

If balanced servings of all 4 basic food groups is healthy, then hamburgers and pizza should be the among the healthiest foods... as long as the components are made from healthy ingredients.

Family Guy sucks. None of the "funny" parts of the show have anything to do with the actual story, they're just offshoots or someone memories or imagination. You watch a 30 minute program with no point or real story so you can laugh at dick and fart jokes and people getting kicked in the nuts. It says something about the sad state of our country

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Bicycles should be ridden going against traffic, just the same as when walking. If you're gonna get hit by a car, ya might as well have seen it coming instead of being tragically surprised from behind.

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Usually it is against the rules to comment about other people's Unpopular Opinions, but this is a safety and legal issue.

Do NOT ride your bike on the wrong side of the street into oncoming traffic. You may think you are making yourself safer by seeing the oncoming traffic. But you are actually making yourself less visible to cars on the road and more likely to be in an accident. Statistics bear out the fact that you will be in MORE accidents. It usually happens when a car is waiting at a driveway for a chance to merge out into traffic. They are looking to the left where the traffic is supposed to be coming from. When a gap opens up, they hit the gas, and if a bike rider is going the wrong way, then BAM! flat bike rider!

Also, the law is not on your side if you cause an accident while disobeying the rules of the road. So if a car does run over you when you are riding against traffic, the driver of that car can sue you for damage to his paint, and WIN! It has happened before! Usually a driver will not sue a flattened bike rider directly, but if he makes a claim on his insurance for damage to the car, the insurance company will get the money out of you because you were at fault and breaking the law.

Go with the flow, GreenDestiny! Go with the flow! You do not need to be like a salmon, constantly swimming upstream!

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

Go with the flow, GreenDestiny! Go with the flow! You do not need to be like a salmon, constantly swimming upstream!

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Only dead fish go with the flow. :wtf:

big is NOT beautiful...

George Carlin isn't funny.

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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny

Circumcision is culturally/religiously/medically accepted CHILD ABUSE. Not only is it child abuse, it's messing with the genitals.... sexual child abuse.

All men that were circumcised against their will should be compensated for their loss by the cruel governments that lets this kind of abuse flourish.

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eh.. I'm glad I'm circumcised. In addition I am very glad I was circumcised as a baby. I would've considered it abuse if it was forced on me at an age I could remember. Not only would it have been embarassing and possibly mentally scarring, but I would actually remember this pain!! I can say with 100% certainty that I don't recall my pee-pee being sliced and diced as a baby and for that I'm thankful.

I don't consider it child abuse.

It's completely aesthetic and personal, but I enjoy having my penis not look like some type of screwed up looking ant-eater.

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Originally Posted by daihashi

It's completely aesthetic and personal, but I enjoy having my penis not look like some type of screwed up looking ant-eater.

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How do you play find the ants (or Hungry Hungry Arrdvark) then???

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Originally Posted by NaughtyDreadz

How do you play find the ants (or Hungry Hungry Arrdvark) then???

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That's why I have a pet ant-eater... Attracts the ladies and I never have to worry about fire ants when I go to the park. Win win situation :hippy:

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Originally Posted by NaughtyDreadz

How do you play find the ants (or Hungry Hungry Arrdvark) then???

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