unpopular opinions

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unpopular opinions

Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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[wwrench]

[That's enough for a second look at the man. Wrench casts an evaluating gaze, as if he's not quite sure what to make of any effort to draw them into a similar circle. The coat's more Grady's style, really, and perhaps that's why he can't write it off entirely.]

A pornographic approximation of a cop? [He guesses.]

[horticulturalist]

... What? No! An Air Force pilot.

[wwrench]

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It's going to take more than a pair of aviators for me to see that.

Shouldn't you be in a jumpsuit? You're about a month early for Halloween anyway.

[horticulturalist]

A face would probably help too, huh?

Yeah, I've got one of those too. But trust me, back in the 50's sheepskin was all the rage on the literal runway. Not that I could tell you why... I was just in it for the ride.

Listen! You're one to talk about costumes there, Joe Buck.

[wwrench]

Don't know what a pilot looks like, per se, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt things.

Though if you're talking about the 50s, I'm still not sure if you're meant to be a pilot or a time capsule.

I don't know what you're implying.

[horticulturalist]

Can't both be true?

You cannot be serious! Voigt? Hoffman? The Academy Award winning depiction of the unlikely friendship between two New York hustlers?Are you... a hustler?

[wwrench]

Just don't know why you're wearing the getup if you're not currently involved in an act of aviation.

No, I'm familiar with the film. I just don't know if I like what you're getting at. You sure that's the question you want to ask?

[horticulturalist]

A lot of the material choices in aviation are made because of their capacity for diminishing radiation exposure. And I don't do a lot of shopping.

Yes?

[wwrench]

Do you find radiation exposure a daily concern?

Define "hustler."

[horticulturalist]

More than most people, yes.

Considering you threatened me for calling you that I feel like I should let you define it.

[wwrench]

Different line of work might clear that up. Give you an excuse for a new jacket, too.

Wise man. No, I wouldn't say I'm a hustler.

[horticulturalist]

It really wouldn't.

It's how I made it to ninety-five with all my teeth.
So you'd say you're more of aaaaaa...

[wwrench]

I guess I'll have to take your word on it. That you're ninety-five, and that you've got any teeth.

Me? Oh, I'm retired.

[horticulturalist]

Go head— Ask me who won the world series any time since 1930.

Retired from... hustling?

[wwrench]

That question assumes I'd know the answer and be able to fact check you. All that radiation keeping you well preserved?

House painting, actually.

[horticulturalist]

You've got the internet on that thing haven't you?

As a matter of fact, yes it has.

Is that a euphemism I'm not familiar with?

[wwrench]

I've seen Rain Man. It wouldn't necessarily mean you're old.

You know I've heard of a lot of tricks to keep up the youthful appearance, but radiation poisoning's got to be the most extreme.

What do you mean? I'm just really tall. Helps to reach the ceilings, you know.

[horticulturalist]

Big Hoffman fan, huh? Welp. Let me know if you can think of something else that might convince you.

It certainly never caught on.

So when you asked me to define hustler, you were thinking I might say roller jockey?

[wwrench]

Kind of defeats the point, doesn't it? The bandages. Would you say it was worth it?

What's a roller jockey?

[horticulturalist]

No, I don't think I could give that kind of testimonial honestly. There's a reason it never caught on.

A guy who knows his way around a paint roller?

[wwrench]

So what is it that's got you now? Just living for spite?

I'm going to assume your slang is straight from the 1930s as well?

[horticulturalist]

Are you asking why I'm still alive and oh so spry for a nonagenarian? [Dramatic sigh.] It's not going to be a very satisfying answer but. One part irradiation, one part interdimensional-switcheroo, I guess.

Some of it. Probably. That bit I just made up.

[wwrench]

You're a time traveler? Or a mutant?

Glad to know it. You're testing the outer limits of the already-tenuous grasp I've got on the English language. [Or -- judging by the number of words he's used to say that -- does he?]

[horticulturalist]

N—no... I guess, mutant might be— no, not in the hereditary sense. Just another military accident or something.

Sorry? I don't talk to a lot of strangers.

[wwrench]

You mean they experimented on you? Trying to crack the code of immortality?

Mostly keep the company of normals? [Wrench looks him up and down pointedly, but there's the faintest hint of a smile etched into one corner of his lips. He's definitely trying to incite.]