What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[davhill]

slopes said:

To be fair i think he's on to something, anyone over the age of 10 should be forced to wear a top hat, carry a cane and wear tails daily. No exceptions

You left out the spats and monocle.

[slopes]

davhill said:

slopes said:

To be fair i think he's on to something, anyone over the age of 10 should be forced to wear a top hat, carry a cane and wear tails daily. No exceptions

You left out the spats and monocle.

I was trying to be realistic but valid point.
Oh and be forced to change their names legally

Men will have to be called Tarquin, Cecil or Cedric, no other options.

Women will hav to be called, Agatha, Persephone, or Mildred, no other options.

And a jolly good thrashing once a month by the Moral Objections Squad should sort out this protest malarkey, again no exceptions.

[AstonZagato]

DocJock said:

If you're a speccy git like me, baseball caps are brilliant in rainy weather for keeping your lenses dry.

Also good when driving a soft-top car on a sunny day

[shih tzu faced]

Barbecues are over rated

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

[hyphen]

shih tzu faced said:

Barbecues are over rated

How dare you.

Unlike indoor equipment, you get away with not having to properly wash, scrub and clean a bbq, and for that reason alone it's awesome

[Mafffew]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

[DoubleD]

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

[singlecoil]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

That opinion is not unpopular with me. In fact I think you've rather underrated her.

[Roofless Toothless]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

I would certainly agree that she was a great singer. She had about an octave where her voice just resonated beautifully, and her arrangers certainly made the most of that.

However, Ella Fitzgerald was by far the better singer. Sorry.

[singlecoil]

Roofless Toothless said:

I would certainly agree that she was a great singer. She had about an octave where her voice just resonated beautifully, and her arrangers certainly made the most of that.

However, Ella Fitzgerald was by far the better singer. Sorry.

Sorry for being wrong, I think you mean.

And Richard was virtually her only arranger.

[hyphen]

Was reading on here that Evoque phev is £430 a month. And that is base spec.

A base spec Evoque, for £430 a month + upfront costs nd so on comes to £16k for 3 years.

Crazy

People should pay a bit more and get a sport if they want a rangerover, or if want electric, get something else.

Its a jumped up car with a small boot. Remove the rangerover badge and then try asking £430pm for it!!

Edited by hyphen on Thursday 25th June 10:45

[Big-Bo-Beep]

singlecoil said:

That opinion is not unpopular with me. In fact I think you've rather underrated her.

Indeed.

After thinking about it for a while, and there are tons of great female singers, Dusty, Patsy Cline, Doris Day, Garland,
but for effortless diction, phrasing, pitch and a welcome lack of excess vibrato [ sorry Ella ] Karen gets my vote.



She much preferred to be the drummer, so she was a great singer while not even trying that hard.

[Speed addicted]

hyphen said:

Was reading on here that Evoque phev is £430 a month. And that is base spec.

A base spec Evoque, for £430 a month + upfront costs nd so on comes to £16k for 3 years.

Crazy

People should pay a bit more and get a sport if they want a rangerover, or if want electric, get something else.

Its a jumped up car with a small boot. Remove the rangerover badge and then try asking £430pm for it!!

Edited by hyphen on Thursday 25th June 10:45

You know the discovery sport isn’t a range rover right? The equivalent would be the Velar.

My wife has an Evoque, it’s a perfectly nice car and suits her needs just fine. Her main reason for getting one was because she liked it, that’s pretty much as far as it went.

After buying we went on the Land Rover off-road day and the Evoque proved to be surprisingly capable, certainly more capable than I though before getting to try it out. Even the instructor admitted that they were initially shocked at what it would do.

Essentially this boils down to people having different needs, wants and car buying criteria.
If someone can easily afford £16k for trouble free motoring what’s it got to do with you?

[hyphen]

Speed addicted said:

You know the discovery sport isn’t a range rover right? The equivalent would be the Velar.

Have they stopped the range rover sport? As thats what I referred.l to.

Speed addicted said:

My wife has an Evoque, it’s a perfectly nice car and suits her needs just fine...

...what’s it got to do with you?

Its the unpopular opinions thread, fool

I posted here, as see loads of Evoques about, so clearly popular.

You arent allowed to get offended at someone posting an unpopular opinion on an unpopular opinions thread, mr angry

[Cold]

hyphen said:

Have they stopped the range rover sport? As thats what I referred.l to.

In order of their market positioning:

Evoque
Velar
RR Sport
RR

[Speed addicted]

hyphen said:

Its the unpopular opinions thread, fool

I posted here, as see loads of Evoques about, so clearly popular.

You arent allowed to get offended at someone posting an unpopular opinion on an unpopular opinions thread, mr angry

Not angry, just confused.
Some people are renting things for closer to £1k a month, still nothing to do with me!
I was pointing out that where you see a ‘jumped up’ car others see something that they want.

I see a lot of Nissan Jukes about, I’ve driven one and really can’t understand the appeal!

[singlecoil]

People who are dead don't care if you go to their funeral or not. They don't care whether they are buried or cremated. They don't care about anything.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Roofless Toothless said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

I would certainly agree that she was a great singer. She had about an octave where her voice just resonated beautifully, and her arrangers certainly made the most of that.

However, Ella Fitzgerald was by far the better singer. Sorry.

She may have been a better signer.....but her voice wasn't as good. KC had a warmth to her voice and an emotion that other technically superior singers never matched. KC was vinyl and Ella was a CD. Maybe technically better but just not as good.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

DoubleD said:

Mafffew said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist of all time. And by a considerable margin. There are and have been many other very good ones, but if KC was a 10, the best of the rest was a 7.5 at the most.

Never heard of her

According to rolling stone shes number 94 best ever

Never heard of it.