What are your unpopular opinions?

What are your unpopular opinions?

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Turbotechnic

675 posts

77 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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poing said:
In hatchback form I'd agree but in drop top not so much.
Hatchback only.

IJB1959

2,140 posts

87 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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glazbagun said:
Too Drunk to Funk said:
Stevie Wonder. Has made some great music but really can't sing.
Likewise Neil Young. Love some of his stuff, but he's not blessed witg a good voice.
I think Bruce Springsteen is awful, and untunefully screams out his songs.

Alex

9,975 posts

285 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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aaron_2000 said:
poing said:
Turbotechnic said:
A mk3 Escort XR3i is better than a mk1 Golf gti.
In hatchback form I'd agree but in drop top not so much.
Is there any drop top 80's hot hatch, other than possibly the Golf that's even worth remembering?
Alfasud 1.5Ti. Technically not a hatch until the final couple of years, so often overlooked in "greatest hot hatch" comparisons.

I had one, and it would beat an XR3i from the lights.

IJB1959

2,140 posts

87 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Alex said:
aaron_2000 said:
poing said:
Turbotechnic said:
A mk3 Escort XR3i is better than a mk1 Golf gti.
In hatchback form I'd agree but in drop top not so much.
Is there any drop top 80's hot hatch, other than possibly the Golf that's even worth remembering?
Alfasud 1.5Ti. Technically not a hatch until the final couple of years, so often overlooked in "greatest hot hatch" comparisons.

I had one, and it would beat an XR3i from the lights.
Not the prettiest of cars compared to the XR3i though.

Alex

9,975 posts

285 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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IJB1959 said:
Not the prettiest of cars compared to the XR3i though.
Now that's an unpopular opinion! smile

Camelot1971

2,708 posts

167 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Butter Face said:
singlecoil said:
I think not having children is a good thing when writing a will, because then you can leave it to somebody who actually deserves it.
if you think your own children don't deserve to be left anything, then you've fked up bringing them up, your fault not theirs. IMO wink
Not true.

My parents did a good job raising my brother and I but he is still a .

essayer

9,112 posts

195 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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The only folding bikes permitted on rush hour trains should be Bromptons, or similar sized devices

Ratty Chinese knockoffs that simply fold in half should be banned from peak services

TwigtheWonderkid

43,613 posts

151 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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IJB1959 said:
I think Bruce Springsteen is awful, and untunefully screams out his songs.
So true. He's a good songwriter, but his stuff is always better done by other people.

Blinded By The Light is better by Manfred Mann. Born To Run is better by FGTH.

Just wish he'd stick to writing and give up performing.

Blown2CV

29,063 posts

204 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is. This isn't to dismiss the experiences and lives of people who are gay, they have all the same rights as anyone else, and should never feel inferior or like they are somehow broken or wrong... but it doesn't get away from the fact that if everyone was gay, humankind would end within that generation. I am equally not saying a reduction in numbers in the human race overall a bad thing.

Further to the above, could it be that environmental factors such as drugs, foods, pollution be increasing rates of homosexuality? It is impossible to research these days because it is too controversial, and with academia being a little bit liberal, it just won't get funded.

Now multi-gender, transgender.... i have to admit that i struggle to get on board there. I don't feel i align to the traditional definition of a man e.g. i hate football, i am no good at sport, i can't fix mechanical things or do DIY that well.... etc... but that doesn't mean i have decided that I have to therefore have my own gender that neatly describes me in every way and has a population of 1. Defining people by what they are rather than what they do and can do, well there are numerous stories in history of why that's a bad thing, and people should no more do it to themselves than to others. People waste time on this st rather than just getting on with their lives.

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

155 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Born To Run is better by FGTH.
I'd definitely go with that.

bristolracer

5,560 posts

150 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............

singlecoil

33,905 posts

247 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
Disease might be an awkward word to choose but the fact that it's an evolutionary dead end can hardly be in dispute.............

Blown2CV

29,063 posts

204 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
only because people don't understand science and get all emotive rather than just be rational.

IJB1959

2,140 posts

87 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
Yep, need to be VERY careful not to get banned on PH with some views on that subject.

Blown2CV

29,063 posts

204 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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IJB1959 said:
bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
Yep, need to be VERY careful not to get banned on PH with some views on that subject.
oh for fks sake if you just read my post you'll see it is clearly not about how I feel about homosexuality and people that are.

captain_cynic

12,247 posts

96 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Blown2CV said:
bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
only because people don't understand science and get all emotive rather than just be rational.
For which you are case in point.

Evolution or more accurately, natural selection, which you are referencing works on the macro level, it's to do with the behaviour of the species, not the behaviour of the individual. Using individual behaviours to predict the fate of a species demonstrates you don't understand the science.

Are you honestly trying to say that gay people are causing the entire species to stop procreating? Because given that the human population is growing, that seems horribly flawed.

You are of course, entitled to your own opinion on homosexuals... but you're not entitled to your own facts.

mattyn1

5,825 posts

156 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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IJB1959 said:
bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
Yep, need to be VERY careful not to get banned on PH with some views on that subject.
Interesting viewpoint though - difficult to really investigate that opinion fully I would assume.

Mothersruin

8,573 posts

100 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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captain_cynic said:
Are you honestly trying to say that ...
You are Cathy Newman AICMFP

Blown2CV

29,063 posts

204 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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captain_cynic said:
Blown2CV said:
bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
only because people don't understand science and get all emotive rather than just be rational.
For which you are case in point.

Evolution or more accurately, natural selection, which you are referencing works on the macro level, it's to do with the behaviour of the species, not the behaviour of the individual. Using individual behaviours to predict the fate of a species demonstrates you don't understand the science.

Are you honestly trying to say that gay people are causing the entire species to stop procreating? Because given that the human population is growing, that seems horribly flawed.

You are of course, entitled to your own opinion on homosexuals... but you're not entitled to your own facts.
the point is that homosexuality isn't a behaviour, and virtually no one with a rational mind would see it as a choice people make. If you think that people just decide one day they are going to be gay then i think you may be guilty of some misunderstanding of the facts. People that are gay do not generally procreate naturally for obvious reasons, but in reality being gay is quite uncommon so it does not affect the numbers materially. If there are no externally influencing factors that during foetal development (or whenever) can 'turn' someone gay, then it is just a part of humanity which causes a sharp stop in that genetic line.

you will see that i have never said anything negative about homosexuality. The only thing I have said is that just about everything else that would cause a sharp stop to a genetic line would be treated as a negative thing, and yet no research is being done into finding out why homosexuality occurs, and it is mainly because science is a bit scared of how people can react. I just find it interesting.

IJB1959

2,140 posts

87 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Blown2CV said:
IJB1959 said:
bristolracer said:
Blown2CV said:
i have nothing against people who are gay, it's totally fine with me. If my kids ended up being, then that's fine too.

However, from an evolutionary standpoint, because it stops the breeding line, it is technically a disease (as extremely unfashionable as it is to say openly... unfortunately i can't think of another word but i am very much not using it as an attacking term), in the same way that anything that stops procreation or causes it to fail is.
I thinks its fair to say that may well be an unpopular opinion.............
Yep, need to be VERY careful not to get banned on PH with some views on that subject.
oh for fks sake if you just read my post you'll see it is clearly not about how I feel about homosexuality and people that are.
If you read my post, my comment was not aimed at you or anybody else, rather suggesting that it may get out of control as some of the more controversial threads on PH invariably do.

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