What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[21st Century Man]

Legacywr said:

I like soggy chips!

Seems like most of the country does. Lukewarm, soggy, congealed lumps of limp grey greasy oily misery, often squeezed into a ball and chucked into the tray. I genuinely don't get it

[Blib]

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

[valiant]

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

Coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs.

[Blib]

valiant said:

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

Coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs.

So true.

My son's such a coffee snob that he used to contribute to an Instagram coffee rating page.

Because of that alone we no longer talk.*


* Made up for effect.

[Stan the Bat]

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

[Rich Boy Spanner]

valiant said:

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

Coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs.

There is a shop in the Trafford Centre* that sells those little coffee machine pods. It's really minimalistic and displays the pods as if they are art. Each to their own but to me it looks completely ridiculous.

• Don't judge. It hasn't stopped raining for 2 years, it has free parking and is a good place for a walk on a quiet week day evening, and it has a John Lewis.

[CypSIdders]

Tea, it's disgusting!
I refused to drink any more of the vile beverage when I was ten.
Twelve years ago, I accidentally drank a mouthful of the vile brew, projectile vomiting ensued, a total waste of a perfectly good bacon butty.
The slightly medicinal flavour turns my stomach.

Tea drinkers, you're just weirdos with no sense of taste or smell, whatsoever!

[Blib]

CypSIdders said:

Tea, it's disgusting!
I refused to drink any more of the vile beverage when I was ten.
Twelve years ago, I accidentally drank a mouthful of the vile brew, projectile vomiting ensued, a total waste of a perfectly good bacon butty.
The slightly medicinal flavour turns my stomach.

Tea drinkers, you're just weirdos with no sense of taste or smell, whatsoever!

Stick a pod in it, durr brain!

[Randy Winkman]

Not liking cheese and coffee? Now those are unpopular opinions. Tea though? That is overrated.

[Blib]

Randy Winkman said:

Not liking cheese and coffee? Now those are unpopular opinions. Tea though? That is overrated.

I can't be doing with cheese either. Awful stuff. All of it!

[Mr Penguin]

John Lewis is full of overpriced tat and is nowhere near aa god as it was 10+ years ago.

[captain_cynic]

a340driver said:

Single pilot airliners should never be a thing.

Unmanned Pilot airliners will never be a thing.

Looks at username... No signs of self interest there.

FWIW, I agree with you.

[captain_cynic]

valiant said:

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

Coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs.

I disagree with Bilb, a good coffee is to be savoured and enjoyed... But fairs fair, it's not to everyone's taste.

However valiant is spot on. I avoid talking about coffee because it inevitably ends in a mix between the four Yorkshiremen sketch and holy war.

And I'm a man currently travelling home with a few keys of fine Colombian agri-product. Erm... For personal use of course.

[djc206]

a340driver said:

Single pilot airliners should never be a thing.

Unmanned Pilot airliners will never be a thing.

Are those unpopular opinions?

I wouldn’t board an airliner with only one pilot.

[djc206]

Blib said:

Coffee is merely overrated, bitter sludge.

My coffee related unpopular opinion would be that adding milk to it is an act of savagery.

Coffee snobbery actually makes sense if you drink it the way the gods intended, black no sugar…

Starbucks for example burn all of their coffee until it tastes like the contents of an ashtray that have been left out in the rain. Drip coffee from those machines that only exist in the US and my workplace (we also have a fax machine) is a crime against hot beverages. Instant coffee can bugger off back to the early 20th century. Good coffee though is delightful. Basically it’s bloody minefield so one does need to be particular.

This might be another unpopular opinion I’m not sure, Australia has the best coffee in the world.

[Nethybridge]

AC/DC should retire.

[Chubbyross]

Nethybridge said:

AC/DC should retire.

Sadly, I'm with you on that one. I saw them many times in the early eighties and they were magnificant. Poor Angus's fingers just can't keep up these days and it's rather sad. Bowing out now wouldn't be a bad thing. Besides, the Young family must have a few quid in the bank by now.

[21st Century Man]

Chubbyross said:

Nethybridge said:

AC/DC should retire.

Sadly, I'm with you on that one. I saw them many times in the early eighties and they were magnificant. Poor Angus's fingers just can't keep up these days and it's rather sad. Bowing out now wouldn't be a bad thing. Besides, the Young family must have a few quid in the bank by now.

No longer current?

[dukeboy749r]

21st Century Man said:

Chubbyross said:

Nethybridge said:

AC/DC should retire.

Sadly, I'm with you on that one. I saw them many times in the early eighties and they were magnificant. Poor Angus's fingers just can't keep up these days and it's rather sad. Bowing out now wouldn't be a bad thing. Besides, the Young family must have a few quid in the bank by now.

No longer current?

[Strangely Brown]

Randy Winkman said:

Not liking cheese and coffee? Now those are unpopular opinions. Tea though? That is overrated.

All of the poncy stuff certainly is. Earl Grey, for example, is just flowery water, but Yorkshire Tea, made in a pot, a brewed properly is nectar. Can't beat a decent mug of tea (with milk and 1 sugar).