What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
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Some of my unapologetic unpopular (for some) opinions:
The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
PastelNata said:
Some of my unapologetic unpopular (for some) opinions:
The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
Absolutely right about metric. The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
Not sure about pandemic response.
Spot on re Brexit, total madness. Not sure it'll be reversed. We'll end up desperate to get back in but will they want us?
Motorsport is largely rubbish and I much prefer riding my bicycle to driving. But I live in London.
Legacywr said:
Brexit was the right thing, even though there were going to be some penalties.
people are too fixated on the short-term... "oh Brexit hasn't worked, it was a waste of time" ignoring the fact that there was always going to be a fair amount of short-term pain because of it (and that's before you get into the whole clusterf
k of the current lot of MP's, C19 and the current situation in Ukraine)Anywho other unpopular opinions....
electric cars are a great replacement for most 4 cylinder cars
high revving/'peaky' cars are a total ball-ache on most normal cars
There has always been a claim buy to let landlords provide a vital service by boosting the available housing stock, but I say it's bks, they almost never buy new builds, so they are just buying existing properties pricing people out then renting it to those people who are priced out for even more money to help ensure they are priced out for years to come.
ks, they almost never buy new builds, so they are just buying existing properties pricing people out then renting it to those people who are priced out for even more money to help ensure they are priced out for years to come.Lost ranger said:
We should use nautical miles on land. Different sorts of miles just invites confusion, nautical miles are convenient for navigation while statute miles are arbitrary so just use nautical. It would also constitute a 15% increase in speed limits.
But a nautical mile is also arbitrary. Even though it is one minute of latitude, it is arbitrary that there are 360 degrees of latitude rather than, say, 400 or 500. There are only 360 because Babylon used base 60 and decided that each angle of an equilateral triangle would be 60 degrees but that was arbitrary.PastelNata said:
The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I agree with this one. It’s only the imperial measures that are part of our language to mean more than just the pure measurement that makes me hesitate a bit - eg pint means beer in some contexts - “anyone fancy a .568 of a litre?” is never going to sound right.DodgyGeezer said:
Legacywr said:
Brexit was the right thing, even though there were going to be some penalties.
people are too fixated on the short-term... "oh Brexit hasn't worked, it was a waste of time" ignoring the fact that there was always going to be a fair amount of short-term pain because of it TwigtheWonderkid said:
DodgyGeezer said:
Legacywr said:
Brexit was the right thing, even though there were going to be some penalties.
people are too fixated on the short-term... "oh Brexit hasn't worked, it was a waste of time" ignoring the fact that there was always going to be a fair amount of short-term pain because of it 7 years and we are still very much in that short term pain.
The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really fked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.
The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really f
ked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.e-honda said:
7 years and we are still very much in that short term pain.
The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really fked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.
People who think that Brexit was a mistake and consider the EU to be so great EU should probably move to a country that is a member and stop pissing and moaning in the UK.The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really f
ked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.Is that unpopular?
PastelNata said:
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
Yep, anyone still up for it is either a crank, a terminal ideologue or incapable of paying attention. I judge people on whether or not they support it & look forward to it collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. A monumental waste of time, money & reputation. Apart from that, it's alright.PastelNata said:
Some of my unapologetic unpopular (for some) opinions:
The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
Love these, and agree with many aspects, especially the utter lunacy of Brexit, and the weak minded intolerance it exposed in big chunks of the nation,The Imperial system should finally be completely scrapped in favour of Metric - i.e. km not miles! - rather than lingering on for some things.
I thought the World Governments largely for it right with the Pandemic and that the restrictions and masks weren't a bother. I supported the lockdowns until vaccine roll-out and happy that the response was largely appropriate.
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
I like cars but not really motorsport.
I prefer bicycles to cars...
I'm very different in that I love motorsport and cars equally and obsessively, but often find myself with the frustrating dilemma of not actually enjoying driving on the road much any more. It's become a bit of a chore, and a constant battle between having a little fun, measured against the paranoia of watching for cameras or wondering if every other car might have a dash cam, or be about to take a vigilante swing into my path as they think that "twenty is plenty" on an NSL road.
President Merkin said:
PastelNata said:
Brexit is a total folly and daft. It will be reversed in time.
Yep, anyone still up for it is either a crank, a terminal ideologue or incapable of paying attention. I judge people on whether or not they support it & look forward to it collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. A monumental waste of time, money & reputation. Apart from that, it's alright.Strangely Brown said:
e-honda said:
7 years and we are still very much in that short term pain.
The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really fked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.
People who think that Brexit was a mistake and consider the EU to be so great EU should probably move to a country that is a member and stop pissing and moaning in the UK.The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really f
ked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.Is that unpopular?
e-honda said:
There has always been a claim buy to let landlords provide a vital service by boosting the available housing stock, but I say it's bks, they almost never buy new builds, so they are just buying existing properties pricing people out then renting it to those people who are priced out for even more money to help ensure they are priced out for years to come.
FACT!!!ks, they almost never buy new builds, so they are just buying existing properties pricing people out then renting it to those people who are priced out for even more money to help ensure they are priced out for years to come.e-honda said:
7 years and we are still very much in that short term pain.
The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really fked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.
nice to see that the section in bold has been conveniently missed out when talking about brexit failures...The benefits now need to be exceptional to have the slightest chance to even catch up let alone come out on top, even if that does happen that's a 20 year process, probably a 3rd of those who voted leave originally will be dead by then
The next generation will be saying thanks grandpa you really f
ked over my mum and dad but it's really leveled the playing field for me.DodgyGeezer said:
people are too fixated on the short-term... "oh Brexit hasn't worked, it was a waste of time" ignoring the fact that there was always going to be a fair amount of short-term pain because of it (and that's before you get into the whole clusterfk of the current lot of MP's, C19 and the current situation in Ukraine)
it strikes me that the anti-brexit mob are just as a blinkered (if not moreso) than the other side. If you were to ask me if brexit has been a success there;d be a couple of answers:k of the current lot of MP's, C19 and the current situation in Ukraine)- at this point? An emphatic no!
- it's way too early to tell. It would have been too early had we not had the bolded issues, those have just thrown a massive spanner into everyone's works.
I've seen pro-EU posts cheering that the UK is one of the lowest performing economies (seems rather pointless to cheer your own country's failings, but there you go) but then saying nothing when predicted growth for the following years shows the UK out-performing Germany ("ahhh but that's from a way lower base so it's nothing to cheer about"). Some people are just never happy unless their country is doing poorly - that's not to say you should support whatever the country does for better or worse but to not even give things a chance is, well... typically British (ironically)
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