What are your unpopular opinions?

[Dr Jekyll]

anonymous said:

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Simple solution, stop employing low skilled people and farm that work out.

[C70R]

anonymous said:

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[C70R]

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

[DoubleD]

C70R said:

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

Saying "can I get" is a stupid way to ask for something though.

[Dr Jekyll]

Bicycles aren't really a method of transport in their own right, merely a gearbox for pedestrians.

[captain_cynic]

C70R said:

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

It's worse than that.

English is a truly mongrel language. Its formed from proto-French and proto-German with a good mix of Greek and Latin thrown in... And since then we've borrowed words from every other language in use. Much of our legal system is French, we use the Germanic word for the animal we get steak from whilst using the french word for the food.

Defending the purity of the English language is like defending the virtue of the town bike.

The irony is, the power of English is in it's flexibility. If it were as rigid and controlled as the pedants want, there'd be more Thai speakers in the world.

[C70R]

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

Saying "can I get" is a stupid way to ask for something though.

I don't fundamentally disagree with that. But getting really upset about it suggests a lack of suitable focus.

[DoubleD]

C70R said:

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

Saying "can I get" is a stupid way to ask for something though.

I don't fundamentally disagree with that. But getting really upset about it suggests a lack of suitable focus.

A bit like getting upset about what others get upset about?

[C70R]

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

Saying "can I get" is a stupid way to ask for something though.

I don't fundamentally disagree with that. But getting really upset about it suggests a lack of suitable focus.

A bit like getting upset about what others get upset about?

I'm not upset at all. I can't see anything in my language that would suggest that.
I'm simply shocked at how people expend their energies, that's all...

[C70R]

anonymous said:

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And this (as a pseudo-lefty) is why socialist policy fails. Full-on lefties always have such a simplistic way of how the world works, and the impact of their proposed policies.

[DoubleD]

C70R said:

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

DoubleD said:

C70R said:

Buggles said:

C70R said:

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Honestly. Who could possibly find the time and energy to be so annoyed by the way that a small group of people order their coffee?
Personally, I have many more important things to focus my energies on. But, YMMV.

Saying "can I get" is a stupid way to ask for something though.

I don't fundamentally disagree with that. But getting really upset about it suggests a lack of suitable focus.

A bit like getting upset about what others get upset about?

I'm not upset at all. I can't see anything in my language that would suggest that.
I'm simply shocked at how people expend their energies, that's all...

So youre expending energy and are shocked at how others expend their energy?

Fair enough.

[FredClogs]

C70R said:

Buggles said:

FredClogs said:

.... "can I get"....

fking hell, I hate that! It makes my st itch.

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

Normally I'd agree, I'm no grammar Nazi, but "can I get" to my ears is incredibly rude, "Please may I have" is the way to ask a stranger for something not "can I get".

[Patrick Star]

GT03ROB said:

People should take an intelligence test at 12, fail & you get sterilized.

That's not an unpopular opinion with me!

[amusingduck]

Patrick Star said:

GT03ROB said:

People should take an intelligence test at 12, fail & you get sterilized.

That's not an unpopular opinion with me!

You guys seem awfully confident that you'd be on the winning side of the criteria

[Patrick Star]

amusingduck said:

You guys seem awfully confident that you'd be on the winning side of the criteria

Hopefully so.If not,at least I'd have the cash my two have cost me!

[Dr Jekyll]

amusingduck said:

Patrick Star said:

GT03ROB said:

People should take an intelligence test at 12, fail & you get sterilized.

That's not an unpopular opinion with me!

You guys seem awfully confident that you'd be on the winning side of the criteria

What would the winning side be? From the govts point of view it's probably the over 120 IQs that are the troublemakers.

[SlimJim16v]

Buggles said:

FredClogs said:

.... "can I get"....

fking hell, I hate that! It makes my st itch.

It's another fking Americanism, more of which are increasingly being used here.

How many times have you seen people use "stock" instead of "standard", or use the stupid term "swap out/in"? amongst many more.

[Dr Jekyll]

Or 'race car' instead of 'racing car'.

[Frank7]

FredClogs said:

C70R said:

Buggles said:

FredClogs said:

.... "can I get"....

fking hell, I hate that! It makes my st itch.

My (unpopular) opinion is that people who get annoyed about trivial things like this should find other things in their lives to focus their energies on.

Normally I'd agree, I'm no grammar Nazi, but "can I get" to my ears is incredibly rude, "Please may I have" is the way to ask a stranger for something not "can I get".

I’ve no wish to start a war Fred, and if you think that anyone saying “can I get” is incredibly rude, that is entirely your prerogative, but in having that opinion, you’re saying that a large chunk of U.S. citizens are incredibly rude, as well as my wife and myself, who have been known to use that phraseology from time to time.
I feel that when I go to a restaurant, ultimately I want to wind up ‘getting’ what I’ve asked for, i.e., when it arrives, I’ve “got” it, so in saying “can I get?” I’m stating what it is I want to be “getting.”
A few years ago, in a very upmarket restaurant in Edinburgh, I asked the maître d’ if he thought “can I get” was an impolite way for a diner to order, as I’d seen a discussion on another Forum about the subject.
He said that as far as he was concerned, the customer was always right, so “may I have”, “I’d like”, or “can I get”, were all completely acceptable to him, BUT if the diner omitted the word ‘please”, then THAT was rude,

[singlecoil]

SlimJim16v said:

Buggles said:

FredClogs said:

.... "can I get"....

fking hell, I hate that! It makes my st itch.

It's another fking Americanism, more of which are increasingly being used here.

How many times have you seen people use "stock" instead of "standard", or use the stupid term "swap out/in"? amongst many more.

I find the use of the word 'hot' instead of 'attractive' etc to be quite irritating.