What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
Blib said:
Well, at least he did a proper job before entering politics. Unlike many of the wastrels currently in Parliament.
My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
I like that. I'd add something in about weight. My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
Sway said:
Blib said:
Well, at least he did a proper job before entering politics. Unlike many of the wastrels currently in Parliament.
My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
I like that. I'd add something in about weight. My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
paulguitar said:
Sway said:
Blib said:
Well, at least he did a proper job before entering politics. Unlike many of the wastrels currently in Parliament.
My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
I like that. I'd add something in about weight. My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
This is a tricky one. Not an unpopular opinion but maybe a sackable opinion in certain organisations, pre-Cass Report?
A friend of mine started talking about 'their sister' a while back. Having known them for a long time, they had only mentioned previously that they had a brother. As such I was rather surprised by this sudden appearance of a sister.
Their brother is profoundly autistic. He has never been able to live independently, hold down a job or manage personal finances. Even hygiene sounded like something of a struggle to get him to conform to. He is in the full time care of their parents and will always require full time supervision. At some point, the brother started identifying as a trans woman, ergo they suddenly became a sister to my friend. What I can't personally fathom is why this aspect of their identity is seen in isolation and seen to be 'true'.
As such I struggle to accept the mantra that "trans women are women" in 100% of cases, because a lot of evidence paints a far more complex picture than this. Some of the findings from the Cass report itself suggest a far more complex interplay between ASD and feelings of gender dysphoria, as part of a wider range of issues around identity. I've heard of ASD people failing to recognise their reflections in mirrors until they reach their teens, for example. They don't have that profound, connected sense of the self that most of us probably take for granted.
I have no doubt that mis-gendering my friend's sibling would cause immense upset, and I wish them absolutely no harm or anything like that. I just cannot accept they they are 'a woman in a man's body' in isolation, ignoring their other complex mental health issues. If nothing else, somebody will misgender them eventually, by accident or out of malice, and the whole house of cards will collapse.
It doesn't seem to ridiculous to state that the topic of transgender has jumped the tracks at some point and become a modern, secular theology of sorts. Catholics believe in transubstantiation, whereby bread becomes flesh and wine becomes blood and those 'on the bus' believe that all trans women, regardless of underlying circumstances, are women.
A friend of mine started talking about 'their sister' a while back. Having known them for a long time, they had only mentioned previously that they had a brother. As such I was rather surprised by this sudden appearance of a sister.
Their brother is profoundly autistic. He has never been able to live independently, hold down a job or manage personal finances. Even hygiene sounded like something of a struggle to get him to conform to. He is in the full time care of their parents and will always require full time supervision. At some point, the brother started identifying as a trans woman, ergo they suddenly became a sister to my friend. What I can't personally fathom is why this aspect of their identity is seen in isolation and seen to be 'true'.
As such I struggle to accept the mantra that "trans women are women" in 100% of cases, because a lot of evidence paints a far more complex picture than this. Some of the findings from the Cass report itself suggest a far more complex interplay between ASD and feelings of gender dysphoria, as part of a wider range of issues around identity. I've heard of ASD people failing to recognise their reflections in mirrors until they reach their teens, for example. They don't have that profound, connected sense of the self that most of us probably take for granted.
I have no doubt that mis-gendering my friend's sibling would cause immense upset, and I wish them absolutely no harm or anything like that. I just cannot accept they they are 'a woman in a man's body' in isolation, ignoring their other complex mental health issues. If nothing else, somebody will misgender them eventually, by accident or out of malice, and the whole house of cards will collapse.
It doesn't seem to ridiculous to state that the topic of transgender has jumped the tracks at some point and become a modern, secular theology of sorts. Catholics believe in transubstantiation, whereby bread becomes flesh and wine becomes blood and those 'on the bus' believe that all trans women, regardless of underlying circumstances, are women.
Cass does seem to have put noses out of joint, but we either have medical science or we have religion, witchcraft and assorted mumbojumbo. Cass is just quantifying what medical science there is and there's not much, which means we need more. Painstaking research is needed and it probably won't make those doing it popular.
stemll said:
paulguitar said:
Sway said:
Blib said:
Well, at least he did a proper job before entering politics. Unlike many of the wastrels currently in Parliament.
My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
I like that. I'd add something in about weight. My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
Rich Boy Spanner said:
stemll said:
paulguitar said:
Sway said:
Blib said:
Well, at least he did a proper job before entering politics. Unlike many of the wastrels currently in Parliament.
My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
I like that. I'd add something in about weight. My unpopular opinion?
Passenger vehicles should be taxed on their footprint. The larger the square footage the higher the road tax.
Furthermore, congestion charge rates should also vary according to the size of the passenger vehicle.
Whilst we have been known to have a disagreement 
about cars I couldn’t put my hand in my pocket for a any SUV (unless it was a Defender, but I couldn’t afford one of those). Her last car change was 4 years ago and she got a Mini Cooper Clubman (highish specification) as opposed to a 2 Door Cooper or Cooper S Sport that I really wanted. She liked the Countryman that was a definite
Rob 131 Sport said:
You let your wife choose her own car Whilst we have been known to have a disagreement about cars I couldn’t put my hand in my pocket for a any SUV (unless it was a Defender, but I couldn’t afford one of those).
Her last car change was 4 years ago and she got a Mini Cooper Clubman (highish specification) as opposed to a 2 Door Cooper or Cooper S Sport that I really wanted. She liked the Countryman that was a definite
She does 100%, and I never drive them so don't care. Right now, she is 4 months in with a broken leg and can't get into mine so I have to drive hers for her hospital appointments. Normally, I couldn't care less what she drives and she gets no say in what I drive. It's worked OK for the last 28 years. Whilst we have been known to have a disagreement about cars I couldn’t put my hand in my pocket for a any SUV (unless it was a Defender, but I couldn’t afford one of those). Her last car change was 4 years ago and she got a Mini Cooper Clubman (highish specification) as opposed to a 2 Door Cooper or Cooper S Sport that I really wanted. She liked the Countryman that was a definite
First time I saw the Kodiaq was when she pulled up onto the drive.
stemll said:
Rob 131 Sport said:
You let your wife choose her own car Whilst we have been known to have a disagreement about cars I couldn’t put my hand in my pocket for a any SUV (unless it was a Defender, but I couldn’t afford one of those).
Her last car change was 4 years ago and she got a Mini Cooper Clubman (highish specification) as opposed to a 2 Door Cooper or Cooper S Sport that I really wanted. She liked the Countryman that was a definite
She does 100%, and I never drive them so don't care. Right now, she is 4 months in with a broken leg and can't get into mine so I have to drive hers for her hospital appointments. Normally, I couldn't care less what she drives and she gets no say in what I drive. It's worked OK for the last 28 years. Whilst we have been known to have a disagreement about cars I couldn’t put my hand in my pocket for a any SUV (unless it was a Defender, but I couldn’t afford one of those). Her last car change was 4 years ago and she got a Mini Cooper Clubman (highish specification) as opposed to a 2 Door Cooper or Cooper S Sport that I really wanted. She liked the Countryman that was a definite
First time I saw the Kodiaq was when she pulled up onto the drive.
The Wookie said:
Rob 131 Sport said:
You let your wife choose her own car
Last car my wife chose without my input was the 1.6 litre, Peugeot 308 CC she was driving when we first met because ‘it matched the sunglasses I was wearing the day I was car shopping’
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