What are your unpopular opinions?

[Blown2CV]

Willy Nilly said:

singlecoil said:

Shakermaker said:

singlecoil said:

Can you really not think of anything more useful than seeing who can (for instance) run around a track the fastest?

I can think of many more things that are more useful than running around a track. But then we'd just make that into a competition too.

Most of life is a competition, but the competition to discover new antibiotics (for instance) is more useful than the competition (for instance) to jump the highest.

There are a lot of knock on benefits to sport and the science behind it. I genuinely cannot think of a single drawback to participating in sport.

because of the opportunity cost of not solving world hunger, you monster.

[Blown2CV]

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

Go and read Maslow's work.

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

there is a certain irony to someone claiming their ignorance is as good as someone else's knowledge.

[Integroo]

Willy Nilly said:

There are a lot of knock on benefits to sport and the science behind it. I genuinely cannot think of a single drawback to participating in sport.

Well, depends on the sport. The risk of chronic traumatic brain injury from boxing springs to mind ...

[singlecoil]

Blown2CV said:

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

Go and read Maslow's work.

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

evidently.

Blown2CV said:

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

Go and read Maslow's work.

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

there is a certain irony to someone claiming their ignorance is as good as someone else's knowledge.

Well, that's two attempts, maybe third time lucky?

[Blown2CV]

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

Go and read Maslow's work.

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

evidently.

Blown2CV said:

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

Go and read Maslow's work.

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

there is a certain irony to someone claiming their ignorance is as good as someone else's knowledge.

Well, that's two attempts, maybe third time lucky?

there is also an irony that most of your comments don't move the discussion on at all, and are just "takes one to know one" nursery school bullst, when you pride yourself in devoting time to only the most valuable of activities.

[singlecoil]

Blown2CV said:

there is also an irony that most of your comments don't move the discussion on at all, and are just "takes one to know one" nursery school bullst, when you pride yourself in devoting time to only the most valuable of activities.

I really don't need somebody who like you who liberally sprinkles his posts with weird mixtures of straw man and ad absurdum arguments to attempt to define what is and what isn't ironic. I know you won't mind me saying that I think you would be well advised to calm down a bit, and I'm thinking you should use up some of that nervous energy with some sport.

[Blown2CV]

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

there is also an irony that most of your comments don't move the discussion on at all, and are just "takes one to know one" nursery school bullst, when you pride yourself in devoting time to only the most valuable of activities.

I really don't need somebody who like you who liberally sprinkles his posts with weird mixtures of straw man and ad absurdum arguments to attempt to define what is and what isn't ironic. I know you won't mind me saying that I think you would be well advised to calm down a bit, and I'm thinking you should use up some of that nervous energy with some sport.

you really are one of the most annoying people on this site. You contribute nothing at all, apart from stupid childish little comments. It's pathetic and you need to grow up or go and find something better to do.

[singlecoil]

Blown2CV said:

singlecoil said:

Blown2CV said:

there is also an irony that most of your comments don't move the discussion on at all, and are just "takes one to know one" nursery school bullst, when you pride yourself in devoting time to only the most valuable of activities.

I really don't need somebody who like you who liberally sprinkles his posts with weird mixtures of straw man and ad absurdum arguments to attempt to define what is and what isn't ironic. I know you won't mind me saying that I think you would be well advised to calm down a bit, and I'm thinking you should use up some of that nervous energy with some sport.

you really are one of the most annoying people on this site. You contribute nothing at all, apart from stupid childish little comments. It's pathetic and you need to grow up or go and find something better to do.

Seems like I touched a nerve.

I'm sorry you've got so wound up, perhaps another time it would be better if you allow me and the other people you have a problem with to have their unpopular opinions in peace.

[Johnnytheboy]

I love watching you two trying to get the last word.

[Rawwr]

I'd say they were both tw*ts but this is a thread for unpopular opinions

[captain_cynic]

Rawwr said:

I'd say they were both tw*ts but this is a thread for unpopular opinions

Get out of here with your reasonable observations and logical conjecture good sir.

Its like watching a panto... a really, really sad panto.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

singlecoil said:

I'm too busy doing useful stuff.

Yup, arguing with nobodies like me on the internet. Have you got a day off from being chief physicist on the large hadron collider?

[gregs656]

Rawwr said:

I'd say they were both tw*ts but this is a thread for unpopular opinions

[C70R]

And, with epic comedy timing, the world of football comes back to remind us why it's a place for the dregs of society.
https://twitter.com/BermondseyBoy68/status/1089322...

The old favourites of "not all clubs have thugs" and "it's only a minority of bad apples" absolutely crease me. It's a low-brow sport, for low-brow fans - violence, casual racism and verbal abuse are just par for the course.

[Blown2CV]

Johnnytheboy said:

I love watching you two trying to get the last word.

you'll notice i always let him have it, because it's like playing chess with a pigeon. They st all over the board and strut around like they've won regardless!

[Integroo]

Blown2CV said:

you'll notice i always let him have it, because it's like playing chess with a pigeon. They st all over the board and strut around like they've won regardless!

Except you just didn't.

[singlecoil]

C70R said:

...It's a low-brow sport, for low-brow fans ...

And yet, led by the BBC etc, it's been 'hip' for intellectuals to profess a real interest in football.

[Integroo]

C70R said:

...It's a low-brow sport, for low-brow fans ...

Utter nonsense. I know a large number of law firm partners who are die hard football fans, season ticket holders etc. Hardly low-brow individuals.

[C70R]

Integroo said:

C70R said:

...It's a low-brow sport, for low-brow fans ...

Utter nonsense. I know a large number of law firm partners who are die hard football fans, season ticket holders etc. Hardly low-brow individuals.

I know plenty of lawyers, including plenty of magic and silver circle SAs and Partners.
I've seen lots of behaviour from them that I'd classify as low-brow. Remember, attitudes don't always correlate with income.

[C70R]

anonymous said:

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It's not the sport, per se. Football is as valid as pole-vaulting, handball or darts - I don't have a strong opinion about it. It's the utter dross that it attracts, and the way that supposedly "normal" people behave around it.