What’s your most controversial opinion?

[Wonderer67]

The US should adopt the Metric System

Makes total sense. So much easier.

 

[cheekygirl75]

The US should adopt the metric system except for temperature. Fahrenheit is more precise for temps.

 

[Taegul]

I back into bathroom stalls and I make the backing beep....beep....beep....beep noise when I do.

 

[SimonSex]

No idea. I haven’t noticed that particular peccadillo.

Gateway drug for preppers.

 

[Saltfountain]

People who regularly back into parking spots are dorks.

Well done sir.

That one's right up there with sunscreen causes cancer...

 

[Strixaluco]

Are they the same folks who must have their backs to the wall in restaurants?

No. They are people who do as they were told to do in driving school.

Or they've once had their car battery got empty and have needed help starting the car. It's far easier to deal with the cables if the car has been backed to the spot so the hood is towards the free space.

 

[Cat]

The US should adopt the metric system except for temperature. Fahrenheit is more precise for temps.

No... Have to disagree..

Celsius is just as precise, we like our decimals!

Water freeze at 0°
Water boil at 100°

I do like my metric system.

 

[Saltfountain]

The US should adopt the metric system except for temperature. Fahrenheit is more precise for temps.

Measuring distances between cities in millimeters would be more precise too...

 

[Anastasia1999]

People who regularly back into parking spots are dorks.

I do this all the time. What is wrong with it??

 

[Saltfountain]

No. They are people who do as they were told to do in driving school.

Or they've once had their car battery got empty and have needed help starting the car. It's far easier to deal with the cables if the car has been backed to the spot so the hood is towards the free space.

Also, it's just so much safer.

Pulling out forwards in a car park causes fewer accidents than reversing out into potentially oncoming traffic that you can't see until you've cleared the cars blocking your view either side of you.

Many businesses in UK insist on reverse parking in their car parks purely for that reason

 

[Saltfountain]

I do this all the time. What is wrong with it??

He can't do it and feels inadequate when he sees others doing it with ease.

Especially wimmin

 

[paulworcsuk]

The only time not to reverse park is at a supermarket

 

[Cat]

I do this all the time. What is wrong with it??

So do I.. and I like to parallel park too.

Do not see any issues.
If anything, it is more convenient and efficient.

And like @Strixaluco said, it was a part of the obligatory requirements to pass the drivers license test.
It became normal to do right from the start.

 

[Anastasia1999]

He can't do it and feels inadequate when he sees others doing it with ease.

Especially wimmin

Ha! If I didn’t have park assist, I wouldn’t be able to either

(joke)

 

[Cat]

The only time not to reverse park is at a supermarket

Even there I do it..

It makes things easier!

 

[paulworcsuk]

Even there I do it..

It makes things easier!

Until someone pulls behind you and you can’t get your shopping the boot (trunk for you Americans)

 

[Cat]

Until someone pulls behind you and you can’t get your shopping the boot (trunk for you Americans)

True!!!!

But, oddly..I have so rarely had to deal with that.

I might just be used to our way of doing it.
When everyone does the same, it is only the tourists that fall outside the pattern..

Well, not the Germans! They are rather lovely, and the English rarely drive around here.

 

[paulworcsuk]

True!!!!

But, oddly..I have so rarely had to deal with that.

I might just be used to our way of doing it.
When everyone does the same, it is only the tourists that fall outside the pattern..

Well, not the Germans! They are rather lovely, and the English rarely drive around here.

Are you saying the English aren’t lovely too?

 

[Cat]

Are you saying the English aren’t lovely too?

Hahaha!! Noooo... Definitely not!!

You guys are pretty sweet and adorable. But you rarely drive around over here.

 

[paulworcsuk]

For one second I thought we had discovered your most controversial opinion cat

 

[Saltfountain]

Hahaha!! Noooo... Definitely not!!

You guys are pretty sweet and adorable. But you rarely drive around over here.

Probably something to do with the spectacularly insular views this dumb country holds about Europe in general

And the fact we drive on the other side of the road, so we will more likely hire cars out there (those of us who aren't moronic xenophobes with a sense of British exceptionalism) than bring our own

 

[Cogan]

Probably something to do with the spectacularly insular views this dumb country holds about Europe in general

And the fact we drive on the other side of the road, so we will more likely hire cars out there (those of us who aren't moronic xenophobes with a sense of British exceptionalism) than bring our own

I always think of this scene when the subject of driving abroad comes up.

 

[Anastasia1999]

Probably something to do with the spectacularly insular views this dumb country holds about Europe in general

And the fact we drive on the other side of the road, so we will more likely hire cars out there (those of us who aren't moronic xenophobes with a sense of British exceptionalism) than bring our own

I have seen lots of Tommies on the motorways here this year. Crawling along while the Germans whizz past in their Beemers. LOL!!

 

[FistfulOfMyHair]

I do this all the time. What is wrong with it??

There is it technically nothing wrong with it at all. Some studies even find it safer. It just slightly annoys me having to wait for people who are doing it.

 

[Saltfountain]

My controversial opinion is I am slightly annoyed when I have to wait for people creeping out of a parking spot backwards as they can't see what's coming