What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[paulguitar]

Rob 131 Sport said:

Great Leader

What's with the North Korean style capitalization?

[Jim1064]

Taylor fking Swift has been on the BBC headlines for a week now, taking more space than the most important global events that really matter.

[nicanary]

Jim1064 said:

Taylor fking Swift has been on the BBC headlines for a week now, taking more space than the most important global events that really matter.

Plus her thighs are just slightly SLIGHTLY too big for those costumes she wears. Just saying, IMO. Still would......

[Pit Pony]

Rob 131 Sport said:

Thinking that Margaret Thatcher was a Great Leader who started off a generation of entrepreneurs that went on to create many small and medium sized businesses that are the backbone of British business.

I always think of the first verse of this classic Billy Bragg song - lines 4 5 6 and 7 in fact.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+of+take+dow...

Take down the Union Jack
It clashes with the sunset
And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes

When did it fall apart?
Sometime in the eighties
When the great and the good gave way
To the greedy and the mean

Britain isn't cool, you know
It's really not that great
It's not a proper country
It doesn't even have a patron saint
It's just an economic union
That's past its sell-by date
Take down the Union Jack
It clashes with the sunset
And ask our Scottish neighbors
If independence looks any good
'Cause they just might understand
How to take an abstract notion of personal identity
And turn it into nationhood
Is this the 19th Century
That I'm watching on TV
The dear old queen of England
Handing out those MBEs
Member of the British Empire
That doesn't sound too good to me
Gilbert and George are taking the piss aren't they
Gilbert and George are taking the piss
What could be more British than is a picture of me bum
Gilbert and George are taking the piss
Take down the Union Jack
It clashes with the sunset
And pile up all those history books but don't throw them away
They just might have some clues about what it really means
To be an anglo hyphen saxon in England dot Co dot uk
To be an anglo hyphen saxon in England dot Co dot UK

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Stephen William Bragg

[Antony Moxey]

People who quote a whole song’s lyrics thinking they’re deep and meaningful when everyone else glosses over them because they couldn’t care less. Tl;dr;dgaf.

[Super Sonic]

hidetheelephants said:

Has this been merged with the "Phrases that annoy you the most" thread?

No, it's been merged with the "things that annoy you beyond reason" thread

[DodgyGeezer]

nicanary said:

Plus her thighs are just slightly SLIGHTLY too big for those costumes she wears. Just saying, IMO. Still would......

at least you'd be immortalised in song (ditto if you went with Adele )

[lord trumpton]

This ain't going to go down well with a few...

With the chronic under funding of many services in the UK like the NHS, Social care and many councils...why does the UK spend so much money on supporting Ukraine and Israel? Why does it spend so much on accommodating illegal entry asylum seekers?

Our own armed forces are crying out for money and investment yet we spunk a load of it on foreign affairs and housing freeloaders

I'll just go and get my tin hat on

[otolith]

What % of government spending do those concerns of yours amount to?

[DodgyGeezer]

lord trumpton said:

This ain't going to go down well with a few...

With the chronic under funding of many services in the UK like the NHS, Social care and many councils...why does the UK spend so much money on supporting Ukraine and Israel? Why does it spend so much on accommodating illegal entry asylum seekers?

Our own armed forces are crying out for money and investment yet we spunk a load of it on foreign affairs and housing freeloaders

I'll just go and get my tin hat on

being cynical... both countries' aid could be seen as weapons proving and/or proof of concept for various bits of weaponry...

[Jordie Barretts sock]

I think Reform might poll quite well in the up coming GE.

[NRG1976]

lord trumpton said:

This ain't going to go down well with a few...

With the chronic under funding of many services in the UK like the NHS, Social care and many councils...why does the UK spend so much money on supporting Ukraine and Israel? Why does it spend so much on accommodating illegal entry asylum seekers?

Our own armed forces are crying out for money and investment yet we spunk a load of it on foreign affairs and housing freeloaders

I'll just go and get my tin hat on

Geo politics and allies. Ukraine is a means of keeping Russia at bay.

[ukwill]

Social media should be banned.

As a species, we are still not evolved enough to handle it.

[ukwill]

Yorkshire puddings are a waste of space on a Sunday lunch plate.

[Forester1965]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

I think Reform might poll quite well in the up coming GE.

Unlikely to win any seats. Will deprive the Tories of seats. Very much so (existential) if Farage decides to become front and centre.

[borcy]

ukwill said:

Yorkshire puddings are a waste of space on a Sunday lunch plate.

Fight! Fight !

A must have in my house.

[e-honda]

ukwill said:

Social media should be banned.

As a species, we are still not evolved enough to handle it.

But we can keep PH right?
Nothing toxic here

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Forester1965 said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

I think Reform might poll quite well in the up coming GE.

Unlikely to win any seats. Will deprive the Tories of seats. Very much so (existential) if Farage decides to become front and centre.

Agree.

[otolith]

Forester1965 said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

I think Reform might poll quite well in the up coming GE.

Unlikely to win any seats. Will deprive the Tories of seats. Very much so (existential) if Farage decides to become front and centre.

A split between socially liberal/fiscally conservative conservatives and the sort who are attracted to Reform likely to leave neither of them in power for a long time.

[Pit Pony]

Antony Moxey said:

People who quote a whole song’s lyrics thinking they’re deep and meaningful when everyone else glosses over them because they couldn’t care less. Tl;dr;dgaf.

You should try reading poetry.

Actually no.

Don't.