What are your unpopular opinions?

[Jaroon]

The Vambo said:

Someone should start a new thread called "Justify your very very slightly unpopular opinion so that the usual fktards don't destroy a good thread"

Popular opinion Although it is fun calling out butthurt snowflakes who think they can't get it wrong, again popular... sorry.

On an average day driving trains is harder than flying planes commercially.

[Integroo]

Jaroon said:

Popular opinion Although it is fun calling out butthurt snowflakes who think they can't get it wrong, again popular... sorry.

On an average day driving trains is harder than flying planes commercially.

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, as the average person wouldn't have an opinion, as they would neither know nor care as to the respective difficulties of driving a train and flying a plane.

[Jaroon]

Integroo said:

Jaroon said:

Popular opinion Although it is fun calling out butthurt snowflakes who think they can't get it wrong, again popular... sorry.

On an average day driving trains is harder than flying planes commercially.

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, as the average person wouldn't have an opinion, as they would neither know nor care as to the respective difficulties of driving a train and flying a plane.

Fair enough, in my experience the majority of general public think they are experts on both these careers. Many I talk to and read about in the media in their wisdom planes equal hard work and trains equal over paid and easy. I consider this majority wrong, so it's an unpopular opinion in my opinion. You could call out most unpopular opinions on here as most people don't care about most of them, my guess is the butthurt comment grated on you IMO

Edited by Jaroon on Tuesday 23 January 09:15

[Antony Moxey]

Unpopular in the real world, probably vote winners on PH:

The NHS is not underfunded.
Benefits should becmeans tested.
Footballers are not paid obscene amounts.
Nurses and firemen are not heroes.
Neither are servicemen.
Dogs make better humans than humans.
Your children are not the centre of the universe.
Cyclists have as much right to be on the road as anyone else.
I like my white goods diesel hatchback and bought it because I liked it.
Climate change has been happening since the climate first formed, not since the first factory was built.
Britain is not broken.
Those who fought in WW2 didn’t do it for me.
I enjoyed ‘Dunkirk’, ‘2012’ and Tom Cruise’s ‘Mummy’.
Immigration isn’t a problem.
Pretty much every single problem a child encounters or suffers from can be directly attributed to the parents.
Speeding doesn’t kill.
If you overstay your car parking, live with it and pay the fine regardless of how much it is.
Yes, it really was your own fault (this applies to almost everything you believe wasn’t your fault).
I love my wife and couldn’t care less that she earns twice what I do.
I love Sky Sports and Premiership football.

[Integroo]

Antony Moxey said:

...I enjoyed ‘Dunkirk...

You enjoyed a critically acclaimed film with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.1 on IMDB, and was nominated for three golden globes and eight baftas?

[anonymous-user]

Integroo said:

Antony Moxey said:

...I enjoyed ‘Dunkirk...

You enjoyed a critically acclaimed film with 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.1 on IMDB, and was nominated for three golden globes and eight baftas?

You haven't read the Dunkirk thread in TV, Film and Radio, have you?

[StevieBee]

Max Mosely had the right ideas which if implemented, would mean today we'd have 26 cars or more completing in a more competitive and exciting F1

I like Bernie Ecclestone and believe he did far more good for F1 than harm.

I like Lewis Hamilton.

I'd rather I didn't but I can't help liking Sebastian Vettel

I really enjoy F1.

Brands Hatch is better than Silverstone

[djc206]

It doesn’t matter whether climate change is man made, natural or a mixture of the two climate change science is beneficial. Anything that has us increasing efficiency and reducing pollution should be celebrated. If it turns out to be bks at least we’ll be using renewables, not reliant upon messed up countries supplying us with oil/coal/gas and we’ll be breathing cleaner air.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Integroo said:

Brave Fart said:

OK, try this for size: Tony Blair was a fine Prime Minister, who did what he thought was best, even when presented with poor quality information by British intelligence. He was largely responsible for improving public services in the UK, whilst being fiscally responsible. Things only went wrong after Gordon Brown succeeded him.

I agree entirely.

It was entirely reasonable to assume Saddam had WMD. He went out of his way to convince everyone he did, and he'd had them before, and used them on the Kurds. If you put up a "beware of the dog" sign, you hide behind your letterbox growling, and you obstruct people coming to check if you've got a dog, and you've had a fierce dog in the past and unleashed it on your enemies, it's perfectly reasonable to assume you have a dog. David Kelly, who was a world expert, was convinced Saddam had WMD, which is why he topped himself when the truth came out. He wasn't murdered or bumped off, he was deeply ashamed, had lost his credibility, so killed himself.

The truth has been re-written to say David Kelly didn't think Saddam had WMD. That's a lie. Kelly doubted they could be deployed to hit us in 45 mins, which is what the sexed up dossier claimed, but never had any doubt that Saddam possessed WMD.

[RHVW]

Voldemort said:

No person in any company should be allowed to earn more than twice what the least paid person gets.

Actually it isn't such a unusual idea ...

Here in Spain and even more so in the Basque Country the Co-operative business model is very typical. They have an average of 5:1 salary multiples. They also like the concept of a job for life and don't mind paying about 15,000 euros to start working and join the co-op.

[StevieBee]

djc206 said:

It doesn’t matter whether climate change is man made, natural or a mixture of the two climate change science is beneficial. Anything that has us increasing efficiency and reducing pollution should be celebrated. If it turns out to be bks at least we’ll be using renewables, not reliant upon messed up countries supplying us with oil/coal/gas and we’ll be breathing cleaner air.

Spot on!

[Integroo]

Re Tony Blair: He (and New Labour) dragged the Labour party into relevance, and unless Corbyn and Co are replaced by a politician of a similar quality, the Labour party will fade into obscurity.

[StevieBee]

Hot Tubs. Nice idea but essentially a soup of dead skin, scabs, sweat and bodily fluids to which you are invited to sit in semi-naked with people you hardly know.

[captain_cynic]

Jaroon said:

Although it is fun calling out butthurt snowflakes who think they can't get it wrong, again popular... sorry.

The only butthurt snowflakes are the people using the phrase "butthurt snowflakes". They're the ones who really hate being called out on their bks.

[jimPH]

Harvey Weinstein did what 90% of blokes would have liked to have done. His biggest downfall was being ugly.

[Aphex]

jimPH said:

Harvey Weinstein did what 90% of blokes would have liked to have done. His biggest downfall was being ugly.

surely not

[Jaroon]

captain_cynic said:

Jaroon said:

Although it is fun calling out butthurt snowflakes who think they can't get it wrong, again popular... sorry.

The only butthurt snowflakes are the people using the phrase "butthurt snowflakes". They're the ones who really hate being called out on their bks.

Deliberately ironic or just stupid?

[Nom de ploom]

Integroo said:

Re Tony Blair: He (and New Labour) dragged the Labour party into relevance, and unless Corbyn and Co are replaced by a politician of a similar quality, the Labour party will fade into obscurity.

i agree with the first part but not the second.

any pro blair chat on here is usually shot down by the majority right wing ultras on PH and it has been like that for years.

I can see how the passing of time might allow for what Blair did to be viewed less harshly - i.e. did the best with the information available at the time. Having said that - and its much more complicated is the decisions based on the quality of that information were extremely questionable.

the leader of the Labour party taking the country into a war on foreign land is imho not forgivable.

[singlecoil]

Nanook said:

legless said:

singlecoil said:

Air travel should be much more expensive. There's far too many people jetting around the world for various trivial reasons, using up fossil fuel that isn't being replaced.

Agreed. I regularly make business trips to suppliers based in central London and in Barcelona.

You know that something's seriously fked up when I buy return flights to Barcelona for literally half the price of a return train ticket to Euston from my home in Warwickshire.

Flying on a full 747, from London to New York, uses 183 litres of fuel per person. 2 tanks worth in a car.

Flying on a full 737 from London to Barcelona uses much less fuel than you'd use to drive there.

It's cheap because it's efficient.

My issue is not with which is the cheapest way to get to X (faraway place) but with the triviality of the reasons for going there in the first place. Driving or flying to Barcelona is going to use more fossil fuel than not going to Barcelona.

[Bobberoo99]

ocrx8 said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

Lucas CAV said:

peterperkins said:

By the way Dogs are unnecessary, wasteful, expensive, potentially dangerous stting machines.

This.
Awful filthy things with frequently filthy owners.

Add to this, they are not your babies, and no I don't want the filthy thing coming anywhere near me or my child while in the park, they should be kept on a lead in public and not allowed anywhere near public recreation areas.

If you get upset because you projected your insecurities on to an animal and cannot accept other people may not like "your babies" you need help.

Amen - I thought I was the only one.

It's funny that, I feel the same way about peoples children.............