What are your unpopular opinions?
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Countdown said:
o, not at all. The majority of my team are good workers, about 35% I'd rate as excellent, 55% as good/reasonable, 5% as skivers, and 5% are complete dead weight. That ratio has been fairly constant in most places I worked.
Price's Law: 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.anonymous said:
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Genuinely some of the most hateful people on the face of the earth. People from all walks of life who turn into utter cretins when they enter a football stadium, and any behaviour always seems to be the fault of "the minority".Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
C70R said:
Genuinely some of the most hateful people on the face of the earth. People from all walks of life who turn into utter cretins when they enter a football stadium, and any behaviour always seems to be the fault of "the minority".
Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Spot on. Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Football fans are utter morons in my experience.
Front bottom said:
C70R said:
Genuinely some of the most hateful people on the face of the earth. People from all walks of life who turn into utter cretins when they enter a football stadium, and any behaviour always seems to be the fault of "the minority".
Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Spot on. Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Football fans are utter morons in my experience.
Probably a nice bloke if you met him through work, family gathering, even down the pub.
I know some nice people who turn into total morons when they enter the stadium
PAULJ5555 said:
Front bottom said:
C70R said:
Genuinely some of the most hateful people on the face of the earth. People from all walks of life who turn into utter cretins when they enter a football stadium, and any behaviour always seems to be the fault of "the minority".
Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Spot on. Every time I've been to a football match, whether it be sitting with the away fans or in hospitality, I've been stunned to be surrounded by grown men who get their kicks by swearing at complete strangers.
Even Twitter is absolutely full of utter ringpieces who only want to abuse people whose teams wear a different colour. Mental.
In spite of this, the game turns a blind eye to this endemic behaviour, because it's "showing passion" - when the reality is that they care only about the money.
Football fans are utter morons in my experience.
Probably a nice bloke if you met him through work, family gathering, even down the pub.
I know some nice people who turn into total morons when they enter the stadium
anonymous said:
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I view Football violence as evidence to my hypothesis that football is a bat-s
t boring. We don't hear about regular hockey riots, AFL riots, rugby riots or gridiron riots? When you've got 200,000 people in a stadium drinking and bored out of the skulls, of course they're going to create their own entertainment.
BTW, are there half time shows at the Futbol?
P.S. I seem to be cross-posting my unpopular opinions in the things you've always wanted to know thread and vice versa.
Dromedary66 said:
He's obviously lying about calling him a "Manc" tt as everyone knows a player isn't a Manc just because they play for United.
Just like noone would call Christian Atsu a Geordie...
He may well be lying, but not for the reason you say. It's quite common to abuse a Newcastle player by calling him a Geordie t as everyone knows a player isn't a Manc just because they play for United.Just like noone would call Christian Atsu a Geordie
..., even though he comes from South America. Tino Asprilla was a Geordie . Just like, if a Man U player commits a foul, a fan of a London team would sing "you dirty northern b
d", even though the player himself might come from Cornwall. Mark Vaduca was a dirty northern bd at Leeds, and he's Australian. I think to tar all football fans as scum is a little unfair. Just as tarring all rugby fans as stuck up arrogant repressed homosexuals is probably unfair.
There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
Tyre Smoke said:
I think to tar all football fans as scum is a little unfair. Just as tarring all rugby fans as stuck up arrogant repressed homosexuals is probably unfair.
There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
Creeping eradication of personal responsibility.There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
On footie fans in general, another way of looking at it is that we are all actually thuglife tribalists apt to violence and domination but most peoples veneer of civility is just a bit thicker than the archetypal 'fan'. It doesn't take much for that layer to wear off though, whether via football, ideology, political bent or perceptions of oppression etc. So maybe in some ways, the footie fan is a truer human...
Willy Nilly said:
While I have a lot of sympathy for her regarding what happened to her son, James Bulger's mum is coming across as another whinging scouser and needs to wind her neck in about that film.
ooooh, I'm on the fence on that one. Whilst one can see that what happened is in the true sense of the word "unbelievable" and accept that if I was the parent I certainly wouldn't want to re-live the nightmare. However we are so used to the "compensation" culture that maybe there's an opportunity for some money.Is it so bad as to not be dragged up or do we want paying. Having, thankfully never experienced something so tragic only the parents in this particular circumstance truly know.
anonymous said:
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I was referring to this bit (hence the separator) "Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?"
And if you think we're not all animals below the surface, read your history...
[It was a bit tongue in cheek, but there is a kernel of truth - and I didn't say being a truer human was the best thing either...}
Willy Nilly said:
While I have a lot of sympathy for her regarding what happened to her son, James Bulger's mum is coming across as another whinging scouser and needs to wind her neck in about that film.
kind of agree there. I am sure if she had been briefly consulted, and then more importantly offered a cut of the box office take then she'd be totally cool with it. I think she generally had a beef about any kind of sympathetic account of the killers, but the whole reason the story was so horrifyingly captivating was because they were just kids themselves, and people want to know how that was even possible in their minds. captain_cynic said:
I view Football violence as evidence to my hypothesis that football is a bat-st boring.
We don't hear about regular hockey riots, AFL riots, rugby riots or gridiron riots? When you've got 200,000 people in a stadium drinking and bored out of the skulls, of course they're going to create their own entertainment.
BTW, are there half time shows at the Futbol?
P.S. I seem to be cross-posting my unpopular opinions in the things you've always wanted to know thread and vice versa.
There most certainly have been hockey riots. If it was because of how boring the sport was, there would be tennis riots all the time.t boring. We don't hear about regular hockey riots, AFL riots, rugby riots or gridiron riots? When you've got 200,000 people in a stadium drinking and bored out of the skulls, of course they're going to create their own entertainment.
BTW, are there half time shows at the Futbol?
P.S. I seem to be cross-posting my unpopular opinions in the things you've always wanted to know thread and vice versa.
Looking at the history of sports riots though, the first one on record was a riot in Constantinople over a chariot race in 532AD which ended with about 30,000 dead
Tyre Smoke said:
I think to tar all football fans as scum is a little unfair. Just as tarring all rugby fans as stuck up arrogant repressed homosexuals is probably unfair.
There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
The vast majority of people I see doling out abuse to players and opposition fans at football matches are older (40+) men.There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
C70R said:
Tyre Smoke said:
I think to tar all football fans as scum is a little unfair. Just as tarring all rugby fans as stuck up arrogant repressed homosexuals is probably unfair.
There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
The vast majority of people I see doling out abuse to players and opposition fans at football matches are older (40+) men.There are an awfully large number of 16-30yo 'kids' who go to football each week and lurk in social media ready to 'attack' anyone who doesn't conform to their way of thinking, whether that be team they support, music they listen to, age of their spouse (in my case) and even wondering why they have received a banning order from their club for calling the social media manager a 'nonce' and 'paedophile' on Twitter.
Which brings me on to my other pet hate, that everyone of that generation seems to think it's someone else's problem and 'it's not my fault'. In the case above with the banning order, his first complaint was 'I didn't even receive a warning!' Not, 'I can see that I really shouldn't have done that, and can see that my actions have consequences.'
Why do the Snowflakes think there are no consequences to their actions and the world is not full of enablers so they can exist?
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