What are your unpopular opinions?
Discussion
DoubleD said:
227bhp said:
Stop IVF, there really is no need for it.
Oh and put something in the water, especially the supply to Council estates.
Just don't tell anyone......
Yep good point. Also stop hospital care when someone reaches retirement age?Oh and put something in the water, especially the supply to Council estates.
Just don't tell anyone......
Tackle the problem at source, just don't have them in the first place, or restrict couples to one like they do in some countries (China was it?). I think Japan is going through some kind of change in that department too, again it's just off the top of my head, but I seem to remember a lot of young males not bothering with women anymore.
I believe it's because there are other man made ways to er, relieve and enjoy yourself so pro-creation has taken a back seat.
I've noticed an increase in 'cyber pron' lately where the characters on the screen aren't even human anymore, although that in itself is nothing new as I seem to remember pron cartoons back in the 80s.
Moving on from that, I wonder what the figures have been like for unwanted teen pregnancies since the dawn of the internet, the fact that a teen can crack one off over his phone may have contributed to the figures and I wonder how or if it will change when the new pron legislation takes effect (if it works).
227bhp said:
Moving on from that, I wonder what the figures have been like for unwanted teen pregnancies since the dawn of the internet, the fact that a teen can crack one off over his phone may have contributed to the figures
Probably significantly lower, since they’ve have been shown the ‘normal’ place to Cough ones filthy yogurt is generally the lower back or face. 227bhp said:
DoubleD said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Zed 44 said:
chrisgtx said:
There are too many humans on the planet.
+1Oh and put something in the water, especially the supply to Council estates.
Just don't tell anyone......
There really isn't a reason for women to be pumping out three, four, eight kids, regardless of whether or not the parents can afford to provide for them.
Dr Jekyll said:
singlecoil said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Huh?
You said more people produce more resources and I wondered whether that was wishful thinking or whether it had some basis in fact. Dr Jekyll said:
singlecoil said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Huh?
You said more people produce more resources and I wondered whether that was wishful thinking or whether it had some basis in fact. An ever-growing population depletes resources at an ever-growing rate. It does not generate new ones.
Just sayin'.
singlecoil said:
In my opinion women should not wear makeup unless they have some kind of disfigurement which would otherwise attract attention. The idea that women have to spend time (quite a lot in some cases) at a mirror applying various coloured materials to their faces before they can be seen in public is preposterous.
Women wear make-up and perfume because they are ugly and they smell. 
singlecoil said:
I thought it might be something like that. The things that you mention are not producers of resources, they are ways in which existing resources are accessed. Farms require land, water and sunlight and they aren't making any more of those. Those resources are finite and they already exist. Mines and wells basically the same thing, there's no more fossil fuels (resources) being created, only consumed.
But they are being found, and accessed, and things that were not previously resources are being turned into resources.Currently known economically recoverable oil reserves are at around 30 years. Two hundred years ago they were near enough zero. Uranium resources were zero because it wasn't a resource. Which is why people were poorer then despite there despite there being fewer of them.
227bhp said:
I wouldn't go that far, I think that when you've created someone, or allowed them to be created you have a duty of care to look after them.
Tackle the problem at source, just don't have them in the first place, or restrict couples to one like they do in some countries (China was it?). I think Japan is going through some kind of change in that department too, again it's just off the top of my head, but I seem to remember a lot of young males not bothering with women anymore.
I believe it's because there are other man made ways to er, relieve and enjoy yourself so pro-creation has taken a back seat.
I've noticed an increase in 'cyber pron' lately where the characters on the screen aren't even human anymore, although that in itself is nothing new as I seem to remember pron cartoons back in the 80s.
Moving on from that, I wonder what the figures have been like for unwanted teen pregnancies since the dawn of the internet, the fact that a teen can crack one off over his phone may have contributed to the figures and I wonder how or if it will change when the new pron legislation takes effect (if it works).
Reminds me of ythe scene in the darkroom in Gregory’s Girl.Tackle the problem at source, just don't have them in the first place, or restrict couples to one like they do in some countries (China was it?). I think Japan is going through some kind of change in that department too, again it's just off the top of my head, but I seem to remember a lot of young males not bothering with women anymore.
I believe it's because there are other man made ways to er, relieve and enjoy yourself so pro-creation has taken a back seat.
I've noticed an increase in 'cyber pron' lately where the characters on the screen aren't even human anymore, although that in itself is nothing new as I seem to remember pron cartoons back in the 80s.
Moving on from that, I wonder what the figures have been like for unwanted teen pregnancies since the dawn of the internet, the fact that a teen can crack one off over his phone may have contributed to the figures and I wonder how or if it will change when the new pron legislation takes effect (if it works).
“In xx years there will be no men and no women. Just a world full of Juan Kerrs.”
glenrobbo said:
Farms, mines and wells are not resources, they are a means of exploiting resources which are finite. When they are gone they are gone.
An ever-growing population depletes resources at an ever-growing rate. It does not generate new ones.
Just sayin'.
What about those members of the population that worked out how generate electricity from sunlight, or split the atom, or access shale oil?An ever-growing population depletes resources at an ever-growing rate. It does not generate new ones.
Just sayin'.
Dr Jekyll said:
singlecoil said:
I thought it might be something like that. The things that you mention are not producers of resources, they are ways in which existing resources are accessed. Farms require land, water and sunlight and they aren't making any more of those. Those resources are finite and they already exist. Mines and wells basically the same thing, there's no more fossil fuels (resources) being created, only consumed.
But they are being found, and accessed, and things that were not previously resources are being turned into resources.Currently known economically recoverable oil reserves are at around 30 years. Two hundred years ago they were near enough zero. Uranium resources were zero because it wasn't a resource. Which is why people were poorer then despite there despite there being fewer of them.
techiedave said:
DickyC said:
bristolbaron said:
Probably significantly lower, since they’ve have been shown the ‘normal’ place to Cough ones filthy yogurt is generally the lower back or face.
You old romantic. glenrobbo said:
singlecoil said:
In my opinion women should not wear makeup unless they have some kind of disfigurement which would otherwise attract attention. The idea that women have to spend time (quite a lot in some cases) at a mirror applying various coloured materials to their faces before they can be seen in public is preposterous.
In the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian eras women and men wore make-up and perfume because they were ugly and they smelled. 
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