2025 unpopular opinion thread

[Billy Bitchcakes]

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not sure if popular or not but there isnt a skater alive i need to see 50 tricks at 50 years old from

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I’d be more stoke to see anyone who post here do this.

I'm considering attempting 360 tricks at 36 as a fundraiser. It would be on a 1.5ft quarter and I'd imagine would be excessively boring. I wouldn't hold it against anyone for not watching but hopefully it's an interesting enough concept to get a few to donate

[Texas_Tone]

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not sure if popular or not but there isnt a skater alive i need to see 50 tricks at 50 years old from

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I’d be more stoke to see anyone who post here do this.

I filmed a 36 at 36, I don’t think I’ll be able to get the 40 at 40, I only did ledge tricks though

[Painted Baby]

*insert embedded video of 43 on 43rd*

Look if you do 43 43s at 43, I might be into it

[GumOnMyGrip]

Denis boobsandtits pushes like a someone who has parkinson

This has been covered sooo many times😀. I think the best description was he pushes like a rabid rabbit.
He does.
But he skates really really fast.

[pop idiot]

I wonder what modern day rollerbladers think about our use of wax/lacquer nowadays? I recall hating on bladers for waxing everything to death but do not recall them waxing more than current skaters do.

"Rails and copers and you still can't slide? Go buy some blades already, kook."-13 year old rollerblader to 45 year old skater

[Magnolia]

I wonder what modern day rollerbladers think about our use of wax/lacquer nowadays? I recall hating on bladers for waxing everything to death but do not recall them waxing more than current skaters do.

"Rails and copers and you still can't slide? Go buy some blades already, kook."-13 year old rollerblader to 45 year old skater

I think part of the issue was bladers waxing the tops of ledges to do cess slides so it fucked up the surface

[elbarto]

Tyshawn Jones and Frankie Spears skate with the exact same style and almost the same tricks.

[tuesday]

Rollerbladers waxing metal coping on ramps made them rather unpopular.

[GnarAlarm]

Tyshawn Jones and Frankie Spears skate with the exact same style and almost the same tricks.

I've always thought Tyshawn has a little bit of the baby giraffe style.

[SatanicPanic]

I’m surprised someone think Tyshawn is universally loved here. I thought he got kooked for the Ferrari thing

[pop idiot]

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I wonder what modern day rollerbladers think about our use of wax/lacquer nowadays? I recall hating on bladers for waxing everything to death but do not recall them waxing more than current skaters do.

"Rails and copers and you still can't slide? Go buy some blades already, kook."-13 year old rollerblader to 45 year old skater

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I think part of the issue was bladers waxing the tops of ledges to do cess slides so it fucked up the surface

Yup, that sucked and dudes that fully lacquer the top of sidewalks for their shitty nollie lipslides suck too. We've become what we hate, c'est la vie.

[pop idiot]

barbarians at the gate on vhs was some holy grail shit back in my day

So curious about your reasoning for this. Is it cuz it provided a glimpse into the skaters life/personality during a time that wasn't a thing? I just remember there's barely any skating and I woulda been so bummed if I bought it on VHS as a kid.

[alien porkchop]

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barbarians at the gate on vhs was some holy grail shit back in my day

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So curious about your reasoning for this. Is it cuz it provided a glimpse into the skaters life/personality during a time that wasn't a thing? I just remember there's barely any skating and I woulda been so bummed if I bought it on VHS as a kid.

because boobs. duh

[hayduke lives]

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barbarians at the gate on vhs was some holy grail shit back in my day

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So curious about your reasoning for this. Is it cuz it provided a glimpse into the skaters life/personality during a time that wasn't a thing? I just remember there's barely any skating and I woulda been so bummed if I bought it on VHS as a kid.

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because boobs. duh

i haven't watched it since he recently told me but one of the homies is apparently in the background at the wet t-shirt contest

[Unkle Fleak]

Pink Floyd invented heavy metal not Sabbath

[kookdusoleil]

Pink Floyd invented heavy metal not Sabbath

I was going to ask for elaboration until I realized who wrote it. Godspeed, Uncle Fleak

[Unkle Fleak]

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Pink Floyd invented heavy metal not Sabbath

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I was going to ask for elaboration until I realized who wrote it. Godspeed, Uncle Fleak

https://youtu.be/ImioHwbfYNM?si=U7t4LIbG1AsIxsVN

Example one October 1969

This is probably my favorite Floyd album. Always has been

[Unkle Fleak]

https://youtu.be/MduQlWUoyhI?si=SyBUuPbtBR2Thsd_

Example 2 earlier that year.

[TorontoTrustFund]

Aside from the catch, inward heels are a really similar technique to a tre flip

[Unkle Fleak]

Aside from the catch, inward heels are a really similar technique to a tre flip

Idk. I feel like the ward heel must be dumpy and it’s gotta be flicked and caught at 96° exactly to count. Extra pts for being able to low pop it but boning it to landing it in a 2 second manny pivot thing.

I couldn’t ever do that. To this day my inward heels wanna be waste high but I can only jump exactly as high as a bench today.

Look at like Jeff. He gets the popping part right but all his tricks are flicked wrongly. Somehow the board does the thing. But he def ain’t doing it like a Tre flip.

There’s many ways to skin a cat I guess.

[Unkle Fleak]

I’d also say carful with that ax Eugene is an obvious nearly metal. Pink Floyd started playing that shit live before Syd left the band.

[kookdusoleil]

https://youtu.be/MduQlWUoyhI?si=SyBUuPbtBR2Thsd_

Example 2 earlier that year.

I'm not seeing it. Nothing here really gives metal aside from some semi-aggressive vocals. This is just psychedelic rock. The first example you gave was even further away for me. If you hear metal, I won't say you're wrong, but I don't hear it.

[alien porkchop]

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barbarians at the gate on vhs was some holy grail shit back in my day

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So curious about your reasoning for this. Is it cuz it provided a glimpse into the skaters life/personality during a time that wasn't a thing? I just remember there's barely any skating and I woulda been so bummed if I bought it on VHS as a kid.

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because boobs. duh

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i haven't watched it since he recently told me but one of the homies is apparently in the background at the wet t-shirt contest

does the homie do autographs?

asking for a friend.

[pop idiot]

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barbarians at the gate on vhs was some holy grail shit back in my day

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So curious about your reasoning for this. Is it cuz it provided a glimpse into the skaters life/personality during a time that wasn't a thing? I just remember there's barely any skating and I woulda been so bummed if I bought it on VHS as a kid.

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because boobs. duh

I see. My F box set is censored

[neonbrown]

Pink Floyd invented heavy metal not Sabbath

This doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're going to set your metric at "who made the first heavy music", you've gotta go back at least to Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, even the Beatles with "Helter Skelter". It's not true that any one band "invented" heavy metal, but Black Sabbath do serve as the primary influence for the genre known as "heavy metal", so people logically start there.

[elisunday]

this is reminding me that there was a user here called Brak Sabbath a while ago. The Brak Show was one of my favourite animated shows. that's my unpopular opinion

[neonbrown]

neonbrown bringing the rock climbing gear to sand dunes

Belay me

[doomstation55]

Anyone who thinks that a brand like Disorder or King are just “tax write offs” has no fucking clue what they’re talking about. If those companies operate at a loss, it means they won’t be taxed as much as an individual, but they lost more money on the business than they save in taxes owed. And they probably spent a significant amount of time working on the brand.

https://youtu.be/BAjxn2US7J8?si=mOkXQENNbvXV9xIe

[alien porkchop]

Anyone who thinks that a brand like Disorder or King are just “tax write offs” has no fucking clue what they’re talking about. If those companies operate at a loss, it means they won’t be taxed as much as an individual, but they lost more money on the business than they save in taxes owed. And they probably spent a significant amount of time working on the brand.

https://youtu.be/BAjxn2US7J8?si=mOkXQENNbvXV9xIe

so you are saying it’s money laundering then? noice!

[Rick Trapasso]

Anyone who thinks that a brand like Disorder or King are just “tax write offs” has no fucking clue what they’re talking about. If those companies operate at a loss, it means they won’t be taxed as much as an individual, but they lost more money on the business than they save in taxes owed. And they probably spent a significant amount of time working on the brand.

https://youtu.be/BAjxn2US7J8?si=mOkXQENNbvXV9xIe

Sure, but you are effectively getting a huge discount on your investment. Effectively getting more for your money.

And it gives you a place to dump money that will potentially earn your more money, until it becomes profitable. Keeping your personal tax bill lower in the meantime.

Sell the profitable business once it's profitable and rinse, wash, repeat, do it all over again with another business.

There's a reason people with money operate like this.