What are your unpopular opinions?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

[IJB1959]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

'in the flash'

[Mothersruin]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

[IJB1959]

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

[S11Steve]

IJB1959 said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

I'm sure somebody will suggest otherwise, but they are a bear - a species more commonly seen as an apex predator, and useful for managing biodiversity, but a Panda only hunts bamboo, and nothing else. Besides being cute and fluffy, do they serve any useful biological purpose?

[Steve_W]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

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.

OT - for a while after I'd first heard him I honestly thought he was doing well for someone who'd suffered a stroke!

[IJB1959]

S11Steve said:

IJB1959 said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

I'm sure somebody will suggest otherwise, but they are a bear - a species more commonly seen as an apex predator, and useful for managing biodiversity, but a Panda only hunts bamboo, and nothing else. Besides being cute and fluffy, do they serve any useful biological purpose?

Do humans serve any useful biological purpose?

[Mothersruin]

IJB1959 said:

S11Steve said:

IJB1959 said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

I'm sure somebody will suggest otherwise, but they are a bear - a species more commonly seen as an apex predator, and useful for managing biodiversity, but a Panda only hunts bamboo, and nothing else. Besides being cute and fluffy, do they serve any useful biological purpose?

Do humans serve any useful biological purpose?

Do other parasites? Gen question.

[Blown2CV]

IJB1959 said:

S11Steve said:

IJB1959 said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

I'm sure somebody will suggest otherwise, but they are a bear - a species more commonly seen as an apex predator, and useful for managing biodiversity, but a Panda only hunts bamboo, and nothing else. Besides being cute and fluffy, do they serve any useful biological purpose?

Do humans serve any useful biological purpose?

It's a bit of a trick question as the only biological purpose any species can be said to serve is to procreate. No one knows why, other than that.

[IJB1959]

Mothersruin said:

IJB1959 said:

S11Steve said:

IJB1959 said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

Maybe female Pandas are just not horny to look at (from a male Panda's point of view).

I'm sure somebody will suggest otherwise, but they are a bear - a species more commonly seen as an apex predator, and useful for managing biodiversity, but a Panda only hunts bamboo, and nothing else. Besides being cute and fluffy, do they serve any useful biological purpose?

Do humans serve any useful biological purpose?

Do other parasites? Gen question.

Are we back on benefit scroungers then?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

I thought letting the giant panda die off would be a genuinely unpopular opinion, but it seems to have almost universal popular support!

Just goes to show how fking useless it is.

[Mothersruin]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

I thought letting the giant panda die off would be a genuinely unpopular opinion, but it seems to have almost universal popular support!

Just goes to show how fking useless it is.

WWF would need a new logo.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Mothersruin said:

WWF would need a new logo.

Amazonian parasitic wasp. Watch the donations flood in.

[The Don of Croy]

I have a long held and cherished belief that goes against the grain, and published evidence, that the character of Ford Dent in the original radio series THHGTTG was voiced by George Layton and not Geoffrey McGiven (as pretty much every source seems to believe).

Much as I like Mr. McGiven's work I don't see him in my mind's eye when listening to the performance.

I also think the Sinclair C5 was years ahead of it's time, and his Sovereign calculator the forerunner to Apple success (premium pricing for everyday tech wrapped in a nice case etc).

Trackballs are better to use than a mouse.

Ken Norton should have won the decision against Ali.

Abolish the TV licence and set the BBC free to compete on equal terms with allcomers.

[Dr Jekyll]

The Don of Croy said:

I have a long held and cherished belief that goes against the grain, and published evidence, that the character of Ford Dent in the original radio series THHGTTG was voiced by George Layton and not Geoffrey McGiven (as pretty much every source seems to believe).

Much as I like Mr. McGiven's work I don't see him in my mind's eye when listening to the performance.

Huh?

[FN2TypeR]

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Mothersruin said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

On the topic of evolutionary dead ends, the giant panda should be left to die out. It's a crap animal, it only eats one thing and it doesn't like sex. If humans weren't destroying it's habitat, a year of bamboo blight would see it off anyway. And to top it off, when you see one in the flash, it looks like a bloke in a suit anyway. So where's the benefit in keeping it going?

There are far more worthy animals in danger of extinction due to human activity that don't get any sympathy or funding, like the Amazonian parasitic wasp. Because it's not cute. Cuteness should not be a factor in animal conservation.

I thought this the other day watching something on YT - it had a fully grown panda being ushered in for a bit of nookie - it had zero interest, tried to get up on a branch to eat something, fell off onto it's head and just lay there for a bit.

Rubbish.

I thought letting the giant panda die off would be a genuinely unpopular opinion, but it seems to have almost universal popular support!

Just goes to show how fking useless it is.

WWF would need a new logo.

Could they be coaxed into a panda style hunger games?

[paulguitar]

The Don of Croy said:

I have a long held and cherished belief that goes against the grain, and published evidence, that the character of Ford Dent in the original radio series THHGTTG was voiced by George Layton and not Geoffrey McGiven (as pretty much every source seems to believe).

Much as I like Mr. McGiven's work I don't see him in my mind's eye when listening to the performance.

I also think the Sinclair C5 was years ahead of it's time, and his Sovereign calculator the forerunner to Apple success (premium pricing for everyday tech wrapped in a nice case etc).

Trackballs are better to use than a mouse.

Ken Norton should have won the decision against Ali.

Abolish the TV licence and set the BBC free to compete on equal terms with allcomers.

Who is 'Ford Dent'



Even Ali knew he should have not got the decision over Norton in '76.

[Funkycoldribena]

Mothersruin said:

WWF would need a new logo.

Pandas don't wrestle do they?

[Mothersruin]

Funkycoldribena said:

Mothersruin said:

WWF would need a new logo.

Pandas don't wrestle do they?

Only with their own mortality...

[IJB1959]

Funkycoldribena said:

Mothersruin said:

WWF would need a new logo.

Pandas don't wrestle do they?

Mr Panda thought Mrs Panda was ugly, so he bashed her with a chair rather than being coxed into that awful mating rigmarole again.