Taboo topics of conversation.

[KotOD]

At my annual pig roast a few weeks ago, this topic struck me as I was involved in and listening to several conversations throughout the course of the day and evening. A number of people were involved in heated debate, over seemingly innocuous topics, but they were very passionate about the topic. These were not the typical "argument" topics like race, sex, religion, gender, politics, sports, national origin, or other known fire starters, but people were just as worked up, or even more so. Three of the topics that caused rage, pain and extreme amounts of ire were as follows:

1. Bill Hicks was/is not funny, he's just glorified because he's dead.
2. Chicken wings are disgusting.
3. Vegans are dishonest/hypocrites.

What other topics of conversation, excluding race, sex, religion, gender, politics, sports, national origin, or other known fire starters, can a person bring up in normal mixed company that will cause such a passionate response from one side or another?

[RoundGuy]

Favorite beer.

[guids]

this really has less to do with the topic of conversation, and more to do with the tone, and the actual people having the discussion.


any retarded discussion can turn heated, is my point.

[oddjob]

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3. Vegans are dishonest/hypocrites.

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i don't knwow why people make a big deal out of this. they believe that animal products are wrong, and will occasionally slip. nobody expects religious folks to never ever ever sin.

dont' get me wrong, i'll still make fun of them, but big deal if they're not 100% true to this. it only bugs me when you have militant vegan aholes, taht judge others, and i ahven't met one of these since i was in college 11 years ago.

[mosdef]

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Favorite beer.

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Similarly, pizza toppings.

[Los Feliz Slim]

Best guitar player of all time.

[pepper123]

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Best guitar player of all time.

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How is this debatable? Every sane person knows the answer to this.

[Syntec87]

I think the dead people thing is a good one, like when Princess Diana died and people acted like she was really an important historical figure afterward, I mean she made A&E's top 100 most significant people of the MILLENIUM - like 30 something, how freaking rediculous is that, god im getting riled up just thinking about it.

[gumpzilla]

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Best guitar player of all time.

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How is this debatable? Every sane person knows the answer to this.

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Andres Segovia amirite?

[KotOD]

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I think the dead people thing is a good one, like when Princess Diana died and people acted like she was really an important historical figure afterward, I mean she made A&E's top 100 most significant people of the MILLENIUM - like 30 something, how freaking rediculous is that, god im getting riled up just thinking about it.

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This one has come up before. If there are women involved in a Princess Diana conversation, she's one of the most important people in the history of the world.