What are your unpopular opinions?
Discussion
Brave Fart said:
p1esk said:
alorotom said:
Brave Fart said:
*Convictions for rape are rare because it's a very difficult crime to prove in court, not because of bias against women
Agree whole heartedly, plus with another previous poster about football being crap ... and this may explain why I need the bold bit explaining ... surely the premiership is the “top league”?!?- Dr Who is a rubbish TV show
- A majority of instances of ADHD and similar childhood "conditions" are simply due to bad parenting
- Britain is excellent, or very good, at a wider range of sports than any other nation
- Parmesan cheese tastes and smells like vomit
I am quite clearly a grumpy old git. (That, by the way, will not be an unpopular opinion; many will agree with that!)
p1esk said:
Oh I'm not bothered whether it's called 'the premiership' or 'the premier league'; either way it still isn't a 'beautiful game' by any standards - I reckon.
it's a load of s
t. Followed my mass morons and played by hateful cheating soft stes.I have no respect for participants, and generally judge the supporters with the same brush.
This is a thread about unpopular opinions though - so i'm cool to say that.
I have many others , but they're too bad for public forum.
I'm a big football fan (not unpopular opinion except on here it would seem).
I don't really want my team to get into the Premier League (that's probably a rather unpopular opinion amongst football fans).
I love watching honest pros grafting week-in, week-out with the odd moment of individual brilliance (for the last decade or so mostly from a player by the name of James Coppinger). I love the camaraderie of going for a few beers with a group of really good friends, some of whom I would never have met without football.
I love the fact that whenever I go to a match I stop numerous times to say hello or have a quick chat with people who fee l like family to me because they've been part of the same close-knit group following a mainly ste football team the length and breadth of the country for the last 25 years.
I love the fact that because my team is usually a bit crap and we've (yeah, I automatically used the personal pronoun, get over it) been on the brink of extinction, the odd occasions on which we've won anything actually mean something.
Any tool can stick a pin in the top half of the Premier League and decide to "support" one of those teams then spend their life crowing about how "we" beat "you" to the latest ninety gazillion pound German full-back. If that's what football is, I hate football too.
I don't really want my team to get into the Premier League (that's probably a rather unpopular opinion amongst football fans).
I love watching honest pros grafting week-in, week-out with the odd moment of individual brilliance (for the last decade or so mostly from a player by the name of James Coppinger). I love the camaraderie of going for a few beers with a group of really good friends, some of whom I would never have met without football.
I love the fact that whenever I go to a match I stop numerous times to say hello or have a quick chat with people who fee l like family to me because they've been part of the same close-knit group following a mainly s
te football team the length and breadth of the country for the last 25 years.I love the fact that because my team is usually a bit crap and we've (yeah, I automatically used the personal pronoun, get over it) been on the brink of extinction, the odd occasions on which we've won anything actually mean something.
Any tool can stick a pin in the top half of the Premier League and decide to "support" one of those teams then spend their life crowing about how "we" beat "you" to the latest ninety gazillion pound German full-back. If that's what football is, I hate football too.
mattyn1 said:
peterperkins said:
StevieBee said:
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.
Agreed.. LOL
Just yuk!!!!
DRFC1879 said:
Any tool can stick a pin in the top half of the Premier League and decide to "support" one of those teams then spend their life crowing about how "we" beat "you" to the latest ninety gazillion pound German full-back. If that's what football is, I hate football too.
Good point. I thought similar this morning when reading the back pages. There was very little about what is a fairly remarkable football story (Liverpool losing to Swansea after beating Man City only a week earlier) but loads about Sanchez having signed for Man Utd and other rumours from the transfer window.
The press seems more interested in the financial side of the game than the game itself, and it is little wonder when some fans start to do the same.
Here's some to chew on:
Student loans should be paid back by those who fail to get a well paid job as they have wasted the investment or chosen a bad course. Those who go on to greatly benefit society get it for free (it will be paid back multiple times in taxes) as was the original intention with student grants. Market forces will then ensure a more streamlined Further Ed sector with less noddy courses for layabouts (paid out of the taxes of “hard working families” TM).
The NHS should not be “free at the point of use”, a nominal charge should be made. This should go some way to remove the common misconception that the service is actually “free” and also cut down on missed appointments and other inefficiencies.
Most crimes are committed by a core of hardened criminals so move to a 3 strikes and you're out system with exponentially increasing sentences. Everyone deserves a chance so focus 90% of resources on rehabilitating first time offenders (get shoe man Timpson involved) to get them back on the straight and narrow. Those ne'er-do-wells who fail this test should then be incarcerated at the least possible cost (new prison built on the Falklands by Carillion).
Entrepreneurs and job creators deserve all the rewards they get. Those who have risen to the top climbing the greasy pole in existing companies generally don't and are vastly overpaid causing societal resentment. Their rise is usually due to ruthlessness, arrogance and ambition...not talent (a big reason most women don't make it) . There are many others who could do their jobs as well or better. Backslapping remuneration committees don't work, neither does relying on “shareholders” to keep them in check. Give incentives for more John Lewis style systems where the staff have much more say, even including voting for their leaders.
Eradicate the influence of unelected and innumerate Greens on national policy, it's a disaster, often ending with unforeseen consequences (e.g. promoting Diesel). We used to point and laugh at people like Swampy in my day, now they run the damn show. Put battle hardened engineers with real world experience in charge to come up with real world solutions e.g. for crucially important energy policy. There is a good reason we gave up on Wind Power hundreds of years ago (energy density and intermittency). Oh and just drop anything to do with Global Warming with its eye wateringly expensive non-solutions to a non-problem. Any scientist who believes the catastrophic hype end of this ludicrous scare should be fired and sent on a beginners course on the Scientific Method.
There is clearly no meaningful Gender Pay Gap (only innumerate activists misusing statistics). If there were, a budding female entrepreneur could hire all these “underpaid” women and clean up. They haven't done this, ergo there isn't.
Trump is trying to do what he was elected to do: a refreshing change. He is also doing a pretty good job in the circumstances (given the frenzied and relentless opposition), he is nothing like Hitler and he is not mentally unstable. However, many of his detractors (including the terminally delusional on the dismal PH Trump thread) who have been consistently wrong and wrong again for over a year, have zero self awareness and have learnt absolutely nothing...they do have mental issues. If you want someone refined to come to your dinner party, ask Obama; if you want to get things done, ask Trump.
Sky TV and its services are vastly superior to the BBC (with the very odd exception) and well worth the money (or people wouldn't pay it). Sky's detractors usually don't watch it or have some anti-Murdoch thing going on.
Jamie Oliver is a likeable, talented, driven individual. His last important attempt to sort out nutrition in schools was thwarted by short sighted bureaucrats. Fire them and give him carte blanche to do it properly this time. (He could also help with Timpson's initiatives to cut recidivism above).
That'll do for now.
Student loans should be paid back by those who fail to get a well paid job as they have wasted the investment or chosen a bad course. Those who go on to greatly benefit society get it for free (it will be paid back multiple times in taxes) as was the original intention with student grants. Market forces will then ensure a more streamlined Further Ed sector with less noddy courses for layabouts (paid out of the taxes of “hard working families” TM).
The NHS should not be “free at the point of use”, a nominal charge should be made. This should go some way to remove the common misconception that the service is actually “free” and also cut down on missed appointments and other inefficiencies.
Most crimes are committed by a core of hardened criminals so move to a 3 strikes and you're out system with exponentially increasing sentences. Everyone deserves a chance so focus 90% of resources on rehabilitating first time offenders (get shoe man Timpson involved) to get them back on the straight and narrow. Those ne'er-do-wells who fail this test should then be incarcerated at the least possible cost (new prison built on the Falklands by Carillion).
Entrepreneurs and job creators deserve all the rewards they get. Those who have risen to the top climbing the greasy pole in existing companies generally don't and are vastly overpaid causing societal resentment. Their rise is usually due to ruthlessness, arrogance and ambition...not talent (a big reason most women don't make it) . There are many others who could do their jobs as well or better. Backslapping remuneration committees don't work, neither does relying on “shareholders” to keep them in check. Give incentives for more John Lewis style systems where the staff have much more say, even including voting for their leaders.
Eradicate the influence of unelected and innumerate Greens on national policy, it's a disaster, often ending with unforeseen consequences (e.g. promoting Diesel). We used to point and laugh at people like Swampy in my day, now they run the damn show. Put battle hardened engineers with real world experience in charge to come up with real world solutions e.g. for crucially important energy policy. There is a good reason we gave up on Wind Power hundreds of years ago (energy density and intermittency). Oh and just drop anything to do with Global Warming with its eye wateringly expensive non-solutions to a non-problem. Any scientist who believes the catastrophic hype end of this ludicrous scare should be fired and sent on a beginners course on the Scientific Method.
There is clearly no meaningful Gender Pay Gap (only innumerate activists misusing statistics). If there were, a budding female entrepreneur could hire all these “underpaid” women and clean up. They haven't done this, ergo there isn't.
Trump is trying to do what he was elected to do: a refreshing change. He is also doing a pretty good job in the circumstances (given the frenzied and relentless opposition), he is nothing like Hitler and he is not mentally unstable. However, many of his detractors (including the terminally delusional on the dismal PH Trump thread) who have been consistently wrong and wrong again for over a year, have zero self awareness and have learnt absolutely nothing...they do have mental issues. If you want someone refined to come to your dinner party, ask Obama; if you want to get things done, ask Trump.
Sky TV and its services are vastly superior to the BBC (with the very odd exception) and well worth the money (or people wouldn't pay it). Sky's detractors usually don't watch it or have some anti-Murdoch thing going on.
Jamie Oliver is a likeable, talented, driven individual. His last important attempt to sort out nutrition in schools was thwarted by short sighted bureaucrats. Fire them and give him carte blanche to do it properly this time. (He could also help with Timpson's initiatives to cut recidivism above).
That'll do for now.
Northbloke said:
Here's some to chew on:
Student loans should be paid back by those who fail to get a well paid job as they have wasted the investment or chosen a bad course. Those who go on to greatly benefit society get it for free (it will be paid back multiple times in taxes) as was the original intention with student grants. Market forces will then ensure a more streamlined Further Ed sector with less noddy courses for layabouts (paid out of the taxes of “hard working families” TM).
The NHS should not be “free at the point of use”, a nominal charge should be made. This should go some way to remove the common misconception that the service is actually “free” and also cut down on missed appointments and other inefficiencies.
Why don't those who have student loans have a lower tax code, therefore pay more tax until it is paid back? I am sure a clever bloke could even work out a sliding scale based on earnings! So you start paying back as soon as you earn, rather than waiting for the higher paid job!Student loans should be paid back by those who fail to get a well paid job as they have wasted the investment or chosen a bad course. Those who go on to greatly benefit society get it for free (it will be paid back multiple times in taxes) as was the original intention with student grants. Market forces will then ensure a more streamlined Further Ed sector with less noddy courses for layabouts (paid out of the taxes of “hard working families” TM).
The NHS should not be “free at the point of use”, a nominal charge should be made. This should go some way to remove the common misconception that the service is actually “free” and also cut down on missed appointments and other inefficiencies.
Talking to some of the staff in the local oncology/ haematology/ cancer depts I have the belief the NHS is probably not under-budgeted, just highly mis-managed. Probably stating the bleeding obvious though!
p1esk said:
...and who the hell decided it should be described as 'the beautiful game'? I see nothing beautiful about it.
I am quite clearly a grumpy old git. (That, by the way, will not be an unpopular opinion; many will agree with that!)
A sporting legend or a legendary paedo...you chooseI am quite clearly a grumpy old git. (That, by the way, will not be an unpopular opinion; many will agree with that!)
wikipedia said:
The Beautiful Game (Portuguese: o jogo bonito) is a nickname for association football popularised by the Brazilian professional footballer Pelé. Although the exact origin of the phrase is disputed, football commentator Stuart Hall used it in 1958.
"Karma" crap has been going on for far too long - whatever happened to "what goes around, comes around"?
Generation Y is Generation Y, not "Millennials" - the last time I looked 1982-1994 wasn't 2000+
Lager is not for human consumption
AWD is not necessary on a large, powerful engine
Mini skirt and heels make you look like a tart - there are more elegant ways to dress that also make you less of a target when walking home (no matter how you dress, though, it is still the attacker's fault)
Generation Y is Generation Y, not "Millennials" - the last time I looked 1982-1994 wasn't 2000+
Lager is not for human consumption
AWD is not necessary on a large, powerful engine
Mini skirt and heels make you look like a tart - there are more elegant ways to dress that also make you less of a target when walking home (no matter how you dress, though, it is still the attacker's fault)
Edited by AppleJuice on Tuesday 23 January 16:21
kingston12 said:
DRFC1879 said:
Any tool can stick a pin in the top half of the Premier League and decide to "support" one of those teams then spend their life crowing about how "we" beat "you" to the latest ninety gazillion pound German full-back. If that's what football is, I hate football too.
Good point. I thought similar this morning when reading the back pages. There was very little about what is a fairly remarkable football story (Liverpool losing to Swansea after beating Man City only a week earlier) but loads about Sanchez having signed for Man Utd and other rumours from the transfer window.
The press seems more interested in the financial side of the game than the game itself, and it is little wonder when some fans start to do the same.
Pothole said:
kingston12 said:
DRFC1879 said:
Any tool can stick a pin in the top half of the Premier League and decide to "support" one of those teams then spend their life crowing about how "we" beat "you" to the latest ninety gazillion pound German full-back. If that's what football is, I hate football too.
Good point. I thought similar this morning when reading the back pages. There was very little about what is a fairly remarkable football story (Liverpool losing to Swansea after beating Man City only a week earlier) but loads about Sanchez having signed for Man Utd and other rumours from the transfer window.
The press seems more interested in the financial side of the game than the game itself, and it is little wonder when some fans start to do the same.
Not sure if this'll be unpopular or not (don't really care TBH). However, it does make me feel I've seen it all.
I'm referring to the animoji thing, now on iPhone x.
This the one where you make singing movements at the phone and it animates an icon/avatar. You can be an alien, unicorn, dog, fox, cat, etc.
But talking about singing movements, you can become a singing pile of crap ffs.
After all, what are Jedward for? Delete as applicable.
I'm referring to the animoji thing, now on iPhone x.
This the one where you make singing movements at the phone and it animates an icon/avatar. You can be an alien, unicorn, dog, fox, cat, etc.
But talking about singing movements, you can become a singing pile of crap ffs.
After all, what are Jedward for? Delete as applicable.
davhill said:
Not sure if this'll be unpopular or not (don't really care TBH). However, it does make me feel I've seen it all.
I'm referring to the animoji thing, now on iPhone x.
This the one where you make singing movements at the phone and it animates an icon/avatar. You can be an alien, unicorn, dog, fox, cat, etc.
But talking about singing movements, you can become a singing pile of crap ffs.
After all, what are Jedward for? Delete as applicable.
As mentioned in the 'Peak Phone' thread... Totally agree! Who would want to be a singing turd?I'm referring to the animoji thing, now on iPhone x.
This the one where you make singing movements at the phone and it animates an icon/avatar. You can be an alien, unicorn, dog, fox, cat, etc.
But talking about singing movements, you can become a singing pile of crap ffs.
After all, what are Jedward for? Delete as applicable.
Pothole said:
Speed 3 said:
IJB1959 said:
The Royal Family should be exiled. They are irrelevant in the 21st century and a waste of taxpayers money which could be spent on something much more worthwhile.
You should check out Micky Flanagan's "Thinking Aloud" series, he made this exact point and I felt myself 
vigorouslyStevieBee said:
Linked to a post someone made a few pages back regarding the Hybrid Vigour being the beneficial outcome of inter-racial breeding, there are several theories that the breeding across races will become increasingly profound to a point where there will be a common skin colour. The evolutionary outcome of this is an abundance of super-smart people that recognise the abstract notion of politics, borders and the like, removing such hindrances to human progression.
These theories suggest that a critical mass will be arrived at where the entire human species will work together as a single mass and not as individuals or individual groups. At this point, the rise in scientific endeavour and discovery will become exponential and unlimited to levels that we are unable to currently comprehend.
Obviously only a theory and one that's unlikely to be proven any time soon......but I rather like the idea.
As above. As travel becomes easier and easier so will intermarriage and racial mixing.These theories suggest that a critical mass will be arrived at where the entire human species will work together as a single mass and not as individuals or individual groups. At this point, the rise in scientific endeavour and discovery will become exponential and unlimited to levels that we are unable to currently comprehend.
Obviously only a theory and one that's unlikely to be proven any time soon......but I rather like the idea.
It's only a matter of time before we are all light brown/off white with slightly asian eyes.
It like school plasticine nice lovely seperate colours in a new packet but then after a few weeks in the hands of the hordes it's looks like poo. .
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