What are your unpopular opinions?

[TameRacingDriver]

Shuvi McTupya said:

OUCH, but i agree

He might be back next year as a singer..

[AlexC1981]

Shuvi McTupya said:

TameRacingDriver said:

The guy who won BGT had no discernible talent and the only reason he won was a sympathy vote. Watching a disabled guy drooling on TV isn't my idea of fun.

I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and all that, but....

OUCH, but i agree

He might be back next year as a singer..

You need talent to write a comedy script, not something I could do.

[Shuvi McTupya]

AlexC1981 said:

You need talent to write a comedy script, not something I could do.

Who's to say he wrote any of it, or even typed it in to the machine?

[Blown2CV]

i didn't see this programme as I don't watch chav council estate TV, but even if he did write a comedy script, writing a script is not really a stage variety style act. I'd maybe even go as far as to say that performing the act of writing anything wouldn't really translate to the stage.

[anonymous-user]

That Kirstie Allsopp has gone past hers ell by date and is now starting to ,look a little silly with her "stories"

[rambo19]

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

I have 2 dogs, 1 from a pup and 1 from a rescue.
I always tell people that the rescue dog is a rescue, in the hope that more people will consider a rescue dog.

[singlecoil]

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

More about avoiding the implication that they bought the dog from a breeder (thus contributing to there being an even greater surfeit of dogs than there already are).

[AlexC1981]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Who's to say he wrote any of it, or even typed it in to the machine?

To be honest I don't know. I only saw his first performance, but I seem to recall he typed in an amusing reply to a judges comment.

I hear Dec had an unintentional comedy moment himself.



I do find it (yes I really am going to use that word)....inspirational when people push themselves to achieve something when they have the cards so strongly stacked against them.

[anonymous-user]

I think more disabled people should be on TV, I grew up with disabled friends, I was born deaf, now can hear but they don't all get the sympothy vote, people genuially want to see more variety. Probably the fact mass media always paint a perfect picture of society when it is clearly a false message.

[Countdown]

singlecoil said:

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

More about avoiding the implication that they bought the dog from a breeder (thus contributing to there being an even greater surfeit of dogs than there already are).

Thanks - every day's a school day.

[Smiler.]

Countdown said:

singlecoil said:

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

More about avoiding the implication that they bought the dog from a breeder (thus contributing to there being an even greater surfeit of dogs than there already are).

Thanks - every day's a school day.

Or, perhaps more a case of raising the profile of rescue centres, which can cater for nearly every breed (certainly for dogs) you could want.

In fact, for some breeds, it's probably easier to get one from a rescue centre than a breeder. We bought our first pedigree from a breeder & the second was a rescue. Had we known about the rescue centre in the first place, we would have gone straight to them.

[HTP99]

Smiler. said:

Countdown said:

singlecoil said:

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

More about avoiding the implication that they bought the dog from a breeder (thus contributing to there being an even greater surfeit of dogs than there already are).

Thanks - every day's a school day.

Or, perhaps more a case of raising the profile of rescue centres, which can cater for nearly every breed (certainly for dogs) you could want.

In fact, for some breeds, it's probably easier to get one from a rescue centre than a breeder. We bought our first pedigree from a breeder & the second was a rescue. Had we known about the rescue centre in the first place, we would have gone straight to them.

Depends on the organisation, from what I've heard the RSPCA and Battersea almost put up barriers to have someone rehome a rescue, they are extremely strict (far too srict) the more local and independant rescue centres aren't so.

My retired mum almost gave up rehoming a dog until she came across a local centre.

[Smiler.]

HTP99 said:

Depends on the organisation, from what I've heard the RSPCA and Battersea almost put up barriers to have someone rehome a rescue, they are extremely strict (far too srict) the more local and independant rescue centres aren't so.

My retired mum almost gave up rehoming a dog until she came across a local centre.

Yeah, I don't know about that. The small organisation from where we got ours from had a local volunteer pay us a visit & check us out. Mind you, the breeder did the same.

I have to say it though, common sense is an alien concept to an ever increasing band of people these days. I take nothing for granted any more.

[Johnnytheboy]

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

It's a way of saying "my life is effectively perfect".

Because if it isn't charities won't let you rescue a dog.

[Smiler.]

Johnnytheboy said:

Countdown said:

Why do people feel the need to mention that their dog is a "rescue dog"?

I'm happy to be corrected but it just seems like virtue signalling.

It's a way of saying "my life is effectively perfect".

Because if it isn't charities won't let you rescue a dog.

[IJB1959]

AlexC1981 said:

Shuvi McTupya said:

Who's to say he wrote any of it, or even typed it in to the machine?

To be honest I don't know. I only saw his first performance, but I seem to recall he typed in an amusing reply to a judges comment.

I hear Dec had an unintentional comedy moment himself.



I do find it (yes I really am going to use that word)....inspirational when people push themselves to achieve something when they have the cards so strongly stacked against them.

Agree. I take my hat too him for doing it.....although I didn't find him that funny TBH.

[ashleyman]

If there's a cycle lane, cyclists should use it.

[The Selfish Gene]

ashleyman said:

If there's a cycle lane, cyclists should use it.

in London - where space is at a premium - they should get rid of cycle lanes - it's made driving a car ridiculous and even on the bike it's impossible to filter due to the width being restricted so much.

That - or make them part time (i.e. without kerbs and barriers blocking the remaining traffic into too narrow an area)

or failing that - charge them 11.50 a day to use the bloody things - as they're delaying everyone else.

[HustleRussell]

Not a cyclist, but I’d hazard a guess that they’d be delaying you far more if they were doing the same journies by car.

[anonymous-user]

HTP99 said:

Depends on the organisation, from what I've heard the RSPCA and Battersea almost put up barriers to have someone rehome a rescue, they are extremely strict (far too srict) the more local and independant rescue centres aren't so.

My retired mum almost gave up rehoming a dog until she came across a local centre.

Similar with Cats protection league, they sent a retired gestapo agent round who after inspecting our house and interviewing us decided that we would never have a CPL cat for fear of the poor cat dying in one of many ways imaginative and varied ways.

Quite surreal with this little woman armed with a clipboard pointing at things such as the open fire and the back garden (which opened onto fields) and announcing impending cat death. Despite being unable to meet the husbandry needs of cats, our two orientals (not rescue cats) are doing just fine so far at age 10.