Your Point Of View

Iphone all the way, because it has clearer pictuer, better tech, and better quality of apps. I don’t like how androids remind me of the cellphones of back in the day when I had a flip phone. Iphones make me feel like I’m walking into the future lol

Your POV on males and females no longer having separate sports teams and instead playing together/sports being coed?

I don't actually agree with it in certain sports. It's not healthy for either party to be playing co-ed, from my experience with it. We used to do mixed training / games when I was at school for football training and honestly, it didn't work. The boys would go easy on us because they thought we needed them to. That doesn't help them because they aren't getting what they need out of it. And we'd get annoyed that they were going easy on us and go in hard, which led to more crappy tackles / red cards / injuries on both sides. We eventually swapped to different evenings for girls and for boys, and it worked far better as there wasn't this concept of the boys having to go easy on us. It'd be easier if they could just learn not to go easy on us but I think it's this inherent thing that they're always going to do and it isn't good for male progression, nor is it good for female discipline. It doesn't work with football, and I'll stand by that forever.

I mean don't get me wrong there's sports where I don't think it matters (tennis or gymnastics, for example) if it's co-ed and for them, yeah, why not. But there's a lot of sports where it's a detriment to both men and women to be playing it together. What we should be focusing on instead of bringing them together is giving sports like the women's football (for instance this year is the women's world cup in football!) a better platform to be as popular as the men's version of the sport.

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Sport as a subject in school?

I think that would actually be a awesome idea as long as they let kids have a lot of options. Like, any type of sport. And as long as they teach the kids the basics, let them practice, etc. I hadn't PE when I was going to school, but only because we weren't really given any instruction or basics. But if everyone gets to pick just one sport to focus on rather than having to do PE than I'd be all for it. I probably would have picked track if this was a real thing.

Your POV on school dances?

Seems weird, never experienced it. I only have movies and TV shows to base them off.

Board games?

Okay no listen I love a good board game. They're so much fun and depending on what one you're playing, you can learn some new stuff which is super-cool!

Exams?

I don’t like them, because they just give me anxiety. Btw how the heck are we supposed to cram all of what we learned into one test? I think we should just get examined based on the marks we got while doing class work, particpation, and turning in assignments etc. i don’t understand the point of having exams

Your POV on national holidays?

I don't really have days off on holidays bc of my line of work so eh. As long as it doesn't affect my life lol

Your POV on capitalism?

Well, I have to support it because it is all I’ve ever known living here in the states. Although I think we balance a good line between capitalism and not so overtly capitalist that we have a thing where we don’t have programs that sort of help those who aren’t benefitting from the system. So, I support capitalism but I like some socialist programs in place in the system or else the rich will just get richer while the poor stay poorer.

Your POV on parents that spend a lot of money on baby’s/children’s clothes?

Why???? It makes no sense, they're going to grow out of them so quickly.

Memes?

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I think it is good when you need experience and references! But I think they should come with a gaurentee of employment with them in the company, too. Even if it is just a lower entry job with the company. The person doing the apprenticeship should be able to chose at the end of it if they’ll accept the job offer or not. But a job offer should be made imo

Your POV on the collapse of empires like Greece and Rome? More spefically do you think it’ll happen to “empires” of today (aka world powers)?

I don't really have an opinion on them, I haven't studied them enough and honestly, I don't know how it'd apply to modern culture. A lot of our cultures are built off of democracy to a point, and having the powers that be change every four or so years means we're not going to have one guy running everything for literally ever (except from Russia bc I learned last week that Putin has been in some form of powerful role for like 20 years which is nuts) so any negativity is going to be spread more evenly. So I don't know if it'd happen to the big powers nowadays. I'd need to do more research.

Your POV on war?

Warning: Super controversial. I don't like it at all, and I don't think it should be as glorified as it. e.g. ANZAC day in Australia - with all the fanfare and lest we forget for those that fought (and died) for our country. Dying is in the job description - go to war, you may die. Simple as that. In Australia we don't have conscription, nobody was forced to go to war, and I don't think it's honourable to kill, and it's not something that (imo) people should aspire to.

Your POV on veganism?

As a concept, I think veganism is amazing. I'm a vegetarian myself but I'm also lactose intolerant, so I don't eat a lot of dairy products anyway - the only reason I'm not vegan yet is eggs, to be honest. I'm all for reducing the amount of animals we eat because I don't think we should be breeding animals just to slaughter them anyway. I think we should be eating more sustainable foods, growing more and letting more animals just roam free and have their lives as we have ours. That being said, I despise people who try and force others into their views. The above are my views and as long as somebody doesn't try to force me to eat meat, I don't mind what they eat. But the vegans (and it's a minority, not a majority!) that turn around and start attacking people for eating meat or other animal-derived products? Nah. That's just a generally shitty thing to do. You can educate people on your views without having to force them to comply too / attacking them for their own views. Live and let live, y'know? I've told my friends why I think being veggie is a good thing, and they can then make their choice. I'm not about to force them into it or start showing them videos of slaughterhouses because at the end of the day, it's their choice if they wanna research more.

Your POV on fast-food chains?

I wish they’d pay for full time employees, because I feel like the level of servie would just be so much better. Or at least give their employees benefits and treat them with respect.

Your POV on adoption?

Honestly, it's silly. Just get whatever phone you want, don't shit on other people for liking a phone that you don't personally use. Gadgets are always changing too, everything will become obsolete eventually. Calm the ego down and shut up and use your phone in peace.

On Liberal v Conservative?

I'm definitely on the liberal side. I feel like the conservative parties spend far too much time talking about how immigration is bad and that everybody's out to kill us and it's less about politics and more about scaremongering, whereas a lot of the more liberal parties are dealing with proper issues. Not to say that the liberal side of things doesn't have negatives because they do - particularly the insistence on banning everything even a tiny little bit remotely insulting to one person in a tiny village somewhere. But then again, I live in a country where the presiding party is a liberal one (not Westminster obviously, Holyrood) so honestly, that's probably shaped my view on things a lot.

University tuition fees?

They are astronomically high and I have no idea why. At least in Australia we don't have to pay them upfront, we incur a HECS debt, which you can volunteer to make payments to or have to when you earn over $55k a year. So tertiary education is accessible to everyone, but then everybody's in debt. It just doesn't make sense. One unit can cost anywhere between $500 to upwards of $3k.

Airbnb?

I have mixed feelings about it but I've actually never used it. I've had friends who used it and said it's great, but also some of the prices are ridiculous? Like me and some work pals were looking for one for going to Munich later on this year but the ones in the city were like £70-100 per night for arguably average places and we're going for 8 nights, so that's £800 at top price. We found a hotel in the city (about 20 minutes by train out of the main centre) for about £500, which is a massive difference. I know that's not everywhere and it's probably because Munich is a big tourist-y place, but it just seems silly that I can get a hotel room for less than an airbnb. Also with hotels you have the star system and you know what to expect whereas Airbnb could be a hit or a miss as to whether it's going to be good. I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea, though - if it works and you get a great place out of it then it'll be more homely than just a hotel room!

Ocean conservation?

I definitely think it's important, but I'm not well versed enough on it to have a strong opinion.

CGI?