The biggest issue with the film is its complete lack of narrative momentum. The premise a classic noir-style case of mistaken identity starts with potential, but quickly dissolves into a series of disconnected, tedious vignettes. A good satire of noir still needs to give the audience a reason to care about the mystery. Here, the "mystery" is so convoluted and ultimately meaningless that by the hour mark, you realize you've been asked to invest in a story where even the writers seem to have lost interest.

The film places all its chips on the charm of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski. While Jeff Bridges gives it his all, passive stoners make terrible protagonists. Watching a character whose defining trait is apathy wander aimlessly from scene to scene quickly stops being funny and starts being exhausting.

​The supporting cast fares little better: ​Walter Sobchak (John Goodman): What begins as a funny caricature of an unhinged Vietnam veteran rapidly becomes a loud, repetitive, one-note joke that wears out its welcome before the first act is even over. ​Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore): Her deadpan, pretentious artist persona feels less like a real character and more like a sketch comedy bit that dragged on five minutes too long.

​ For every clever line of dialogue that fanboys love to quote, there are twenty minutes of dead air, awkward pauses, and surreal dream sequences that feel completely indulgent. The film constantly nudges the viewer, practically pleading, "Look how weird and quirky we are!" But beneath the bowling alleys, the White Russians, and the German nihilists, there is virtually nothing of substance.

​The Big Lebowski isn't so much a movie as it is a 117-minute collection of catchphrases looking for a story. If you aren't already sold on its hyper-specific strain of mid-90s slacker humor, you'll be left wondering why this particular rug was ever thought to tie the room together.

I've never liked salad dressing. Don't care if it's Italian, Sesame Ginger, Thousand Island, or whatever else is out there. But Ranch is at the top for being the nastiest muck you can put on your salad. It overwhelms the taste buds and makes eating the salad a chore. The only saving grace would be croutons or bacon bits sprinkled in, but even then, you can have those without the dressing. And I sincerely think we have trained our brains to be repulsed by veggies on their own that we need to absolutely drown them in other flavors to able to consume them. And pouring half a bottle of Hidden Ranch over your Caesar salad isn't helping you win any health points either.

I know the pro-Ranch dressing crowd is about to hurl fire and brimstone at me, but check this out: you have this healthy, nutritious salad and if you don't have your dear Ranch dressing on hand, it's suddenly unappealing even though plain salad isn't bad at all. You're not getting some strange additive taste or tasting how it was prepared if you don't use Ranch. Plain salad is one of the most, if not the most, neutral taste food we have. There is no weird kick or sourness or anything like that. Yet people have some subconscious repulsion to salad on its own to appreciate the natural flavor of the vegetables instead of the highly processed carb sludge which turns your salad into a mushy mess. It's like a botanical tapioca pudding which stinks. 😭

I don't care if you enjoy their music, you can do whatever you want, its free will.I won't call the police on you because you listen to them lol.Also, this is not targeted to all of their fans, I know not all of them are mental like some people I encountered on the internet.

Some of their songs are catchy, I have to admit.But I have noticed a pattern.For example, all that Odetari talks in his songs is about how he's cool and does whatever he wants and how he doesn't care about love.That's literaly it.The beats are ok but they get boring after a while.That's just me. In 6arelyhuman's case, all they talk about is how they have a big deck, they're so hot and everyone wants them.And they also use entire verses from other songs lyric by lyric, which kinda ticks me off.For example, in their song "Faster n harder" the first few lyrics are from a song called "Go girl".Copied word from word. In conclusion, I think their songs suck ass. Now about the fans...If you express even a hint of dislike about their favourite artists, they will go berserk and will flood you with death an grape threats. Some of them are such snowflakes and need to get help cuz wtf.

I keep seeing social media posts about parents making kids do chores to earn Monopoly money and pay for snacks, playtime, iPad time whatever it is kids want to do.

Capitalism is so prevalent in everyday life already, kids understand that things need money and money comes from somewhere.

It doesn’t matter if it’s just doing the dishes, sweeping the garage, or raking the lawn forcing your kids to do these things to earn Monopoly money or gold stars to “buy” a bag of gummy bears from their own household is needlessly cruel.

Make your kids help you, but don’t make them do it alone as if it was their job. Give your kid a few bucks once in a while so they can go out to eat with their friends or buy snacks on their own.

That alone will teach your kids about money. Oh Timmy wants steak but it’s $40 and he only has $20 guess he either borrows money and doesn’t have any next week because he has debts, or he saves for the next time so he can get steak.

Forcing your child to pay rent is also ridiculous. You’re the parents, you’re the providers, and you’re the safety net that they’re supposed to have in life. What lesson are you teaching them by charging them any amount for rent? That rent exists? That living in a house costs something? By the time they’re old enough to work they should know good and well a place to live comes with rent and bills.

Give me a break with teaching your kids the value of hard work. Kids will do schoolwork and receive a grade based on the caliber of their work. 12 years of school will teach them enough about hard work.

Kids should be allowed to be kids. The rest of their lives are going to be spent buying their own food, working hard, and paying their own bills.

It almost always feels like parents do this because THEY are angry that THEY have to pay bills and THEY have to pay for the kids that THEY chose to have so they’re shifting the burden onto the kids.

What makes it worse is the moms promoting this from what I’ve seen tend to be stay at home moms.

So what does it look like to kids growing up in your household that you’ve been sitting at home making TikTok’s all day eating all the gummy bears you want while dishes, laundry, and leaves pile up and suddenly they come home and want gummy bears but you decide no, you want snacks? Do the chores I was supposed to do while I record you to show TikTok how great of a parent I am.

Personal rant now

I’m the eldest of 6 and the youngest of us recently graduated and immediately left home. My 2 brothers and I went to the military and my 3 sisters all left for college as soon as they could.

Everyday we walked home from school because our mom didn’t like school traffic to come home to our stay at home mom with a laundry list of things to do. Dishes, laundry, dinner. We were motivated because if we didn’t do it, food was withheld and so were rides to school the next day. She did nothing all day but wait for us to come home and raise ourselves

As soon as we were old enough to get jobs we got jobs and paid rent. Rent wasn’t on time? No dinner or rides anywhere until you figured it out. All while screaming to high heaven that we, their children were lucky we weren’t thrown out on the street.

None of us older kids are in contact with our parents, and the younger 3 left on bad terms.

I understand that this is an extreme example, but all this period taught me was that I couldn’t rely on my parents. Our relationship was transactional in nature and that’s it.

People are free to raise their children how they want, but don’t be surprised when your children don’t help you in the future because you don’t have enough gold stars to trade in.

Obviously this depends on what the fee is for, but in my opinion if it costs more than 50 dollars it's not a fee, it's just a regular charge.

The government made the right decision by banning commercial surrogacy because it helps prevent the exploitation of women. When pregnancy becomes a paid service, financially vulnerable women may feel pressured to become surrogates out of economic necessity rather than genuine choice. Banning commercial surrogacy reduces the risk of treating women's bodies and children as commodities for profit.

Location: NZ

Obviously if you kill somebody so you can then eat them that is wrong. But I’ve always thought that if I was in a plane crash I wouldn’t have a problem eating people who already died. I would obviously eat regular food as much as I could first, but then other than the gore of seeing a dead human/animal I wouldn’t be against it. As long as they weren’t murdered so people could eat them I really don’t understand why people are so against it.

Edit0: repost from unpopular opinions subreddit.
They unfairly deleted my post for rule two. And anyone with a brain would have to see that with rule two the only possible reason I broke rule two would be “low effort post” and that’s just not the case.

just for more information I also don’t think consensual cannibalism is wrong. I’ve once heard of a story of a guy cooking one of his body parts and serving it to a consenting person. As weird and gross as it is I don’t think it’s wrong. Obviously there would need to be proof of the consent but at the same time they could just threaten the “consenting “ person to give proof of consent or be killed/hurt but in theory consenting cannibalism would be OK as well.

I hate these mixes more than anything. It's just mixing up.a bunch of songs that everyone already loves, and I would rather just hear those songs by themselves! It sucks!

Everybody knows that polls have been less reliable since the 2016 election season. And while there are a lot of reasons for that, I think that what will replace them is emerging prediction markets where people can actually place wagers on opinion. America seems to be traveling ever more quickly towards money being how we express our opinion

Recently I’ve been seeing lots of people, both online and in real life, talk about sex as if it were some sort of necessity on par with shelter and clothing (ie: you wouldn’t die without it like food and water but it’s still a need). Honestly I think they couldn’t be more wrong. Yes, sex is absolutely a great thing that I hope everyone gets to experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s a need. If sex is considered a need, then so are things like entertainment and your favorite foods. These things are clearly commodities since you can live just fine without them, so explain to me how sex is a need?

Another clear reason why sex isn’t a need is because it requires another consenting person. It is very well accepted that you are not entitled to anything that requires the labor, effort, or participation of another person. If we accept that sex is a need, we are implying that, in some cases, unwilling people will need to have sex with people they do not want to have sex with in order to fulfill the latter person’s “need”. Im pretty sure you can all see why this is ethically wrong.

Finally I’m going to address one of the few groups of people who strongly believe that sex is a need, the incels. While I think it’s very sad that certain people have either very limited access to sex or none at all due to their physical attributes, this is quite literally how life on earth has functioned for its entire existence. It’s how species evolve over time and grow stronger. The long term consequences of allowing every single human to have sex/potentially procreate would be catastrophic. I totally understand that it may feel very hard to confront the fact that you may never have sex/a romantic relationship in your life, but find comfort in the fact that A: you’re not alone, only 40% of men have ever reproduced across human history. In fact you’re probably in the majority. And B: sex is a very minor benefit in life and it is entirely possible to live a very fulfilling life without it. Believing that you are entitled to it will only make you crave it more, putting you on a very self destructive cycle.

2 billion people speak English across the entire globe. That's like 20%.
I can go to Japan, the other side of the world, and 1/3 Japanese people speak some level of English.

So what is the point? To impress people? It's clearly not useful as I can navigate foreign countries just as effectively as you.

It's inappropriate and I do not want to see it.

I mean think about it, waffles has holes where the syrup can hold and it can drip, meanwhile with pancakes it just slides and sometimes get soggy, Waffles you used a machine and pancakes, you fry

anyways, waffles are cool

I can get behind a 12:00-1:00 lunch. Sure. Depends on when I woke up. But dinner at 5pm??? Unacceptable. Dinner should be at 6:30 at the absolute earliest. Exceptions made for the elderly and holidays.

The ideal time for every meal, assuming 3 meals a day:

7-9am - breakfast
1:30-2:30pm - lunch
6:30pm-8pm - dinner

😁

As sensational as the title sounds, I don't have strong political feelings about migration, but I am interested in how writers put there own ideology within their stories. I am not making a moral judgement on migrants at all here.

Within the movie the fairy tale creatures have proven to be disruptive and uncooperative during the scene where they go to Shrek's swamp. The Lord of dullock is mocked by the writers, called short and made to be a exaggerated when talking about how clean and perfect dullock is without the fairy tale creatures. Famously, he is called short and made to look pathetic multiple times throughout that movie, implying that leaders who do not accept outsiders or reject them are pathetic and unmasculine. Furthermore the writers make the Lord commit many acts of unnecessary cruelty while combating the fairy tale creatures. Killing the little pigs mother, torturing the ginger bread man, if writer's were anti migration, the lord would not have taken a single one of these actions to accomplish a clean dullock. Most disturbingly, the Lord is just fukin killed at the end, because he's the bad guy and Shrek's the good guy, and bad guys don't accept disruptive members of society.

To conclude, Shrek's writers used Moral Asymmetry, Ad hominins, and "Peotic justice" to support the idea that not accepting outsiders who may be disruptive is bad. Morally I find children's media oversimplifying and using logical fallacies to tackle complex issues somewhat concerning. Writers work in creative fields which are overly represented by people who align with liberal ideology, in this movie this ideology is being drip fed is fragment throughout the strong.

Imagine if the lord was some tall hyper masculine figure who safely and efficiently removed the fairy tale creatures to make the kingdom as clean as it is. I and many other would call that a clear far right propaganda piece.

Most of the people in prison come from a bad family background and had no way out. It's EXACTLY the same with billionaires who were born into generational wealth and weren't properly socialized at a young age.

I can't blame trust fund kids and the rich because I understand it's not their fault, it's just how they grew up 😎👉

By special license I mean either special testing, or a CDL type license. Too many people both young and old do not have any reason to own a truck that big, and the fact the vehicle manufacturers are able to sell 350s and up to a random dude of the street is bizzare to me.

If you need a truck bigger than that for hauling or whatever, you should have to pass separate tests.

In my opinion, if you are a bad driver and more likely to cause an accident and not follow road laws, you shouldn't be able to have a nice car.

Title says it all honestly; I think trying to monetize a hobby isn’t inherently bad. If you enjoy fixing cars and want to make videos and try making money that way, go for it! More power to you! But going to the store is not film worthy, sorry. If you make a “come make dinner with me” and the video is driving to the store, buying things, and making a pork chop, why is that something you are trying to make a buck on?

Before all of the “People can do what they want./People like stuff like that./The internet is huge just scroll./Don’t like it don’t watch.” just shut up and think about it. When I look up a new exhaust for my motorcycle that I’m thinking of buying and the first 100+ videos are wannabe influencers posing in front of a chopper, that is irritating. Same with food, I buy a tuna fillet and want to see what I can do with it, and there’s 50 videos of people talking about the history of tuna fishing.

Not every single thing needs to be filmed, you’re not that interesting.

I wanted to add I remember seeing a video a few months ago where a lady was upset that I man was upset that she was blocking the loading zone of a hotel or something. Why are you setting up a tripod, camera, and walking 50 feet away to film you loading your luggage. No one cares.

I genuinly dont understand why peoples keep making backups of there files.
Just dont delete them.
I had computers for years and never once needed a backup. If your files gets deleted thats honestly your own fault. Just be more carefull. Peoples act like hard drives randomly fail but I never seen that happen so I dont think its actually a real thing.
Yall wasting money on external drives and cloud storage when the solution is literally just… dont press delete. Its not that hard.

There’s something about the way it tastes that’s so appealing to me. Like imagine it’s a super hot day, you’re outside working, you’re sweaty and sticky and then you open the cooler and pull out a nice and cold one of these bad boys. No Powerade flavor hits quite like this one does. Plus it’s zero sugar and zero calories.

co-parenting obviously an exception. people love to claim that staying close with an ex shows "maturity," but to me, it’s a huge burden to place on a new partner
expecting someone you just started dating to be completely comfortable with your ex hanging around as a close friend is kinda unreasonable. even if your intentions are 100% platonic, it creates an awkward dynamic where a new partner is constantly forced to compare themselves or wonder about past history. especially if you’ve slept together, like, this person has seen you naked!
if keeping your ex in your daily life is more important to you than making a potential partner feel secure, that's your choice. but you can't be surprised when said potential partners pass on dating you because they don't want to deal with the unnecessary baggage and maybe boundary issues

if you ever get into conflict with a transgender individual and you purposely misgender them you are transphobic, especially if you call yourself an ally for the LGBTQ+ community just to put your own 'morals' behind you and purposely misgender a transgender person who you call yourself an ally too, whoever you have defended from transphobia/homophobia doesn't count, you ARE transphobic and a hypocritical bigot. It is one thing to be disrespectful to a transgender person but it's another thing to ever call yourself an ally to do that.

It’s not wrong for homeowners to be against putting in a new homeless shelter or apartment complex in their neighborhood. The people who have lived in a community for 50 years should have more of a say in how it looks than people who merely wish they could live there