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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 454 ✭✭Israel_Dagg


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Oh it's said all right on those naff women's magazines like Take A Break, and you know those Facebook quotes and updates about "real women", and then shows like Loose Women. But these hardly represent society in general. Most people know the above stuff is just deluded silliness.
    I'm not referring to women who have just a bit of extra weight by the way, but having stones to lose isn't anything to celebrate.

    I agree. :)

    But I don't think the majority of people describe obese people as curvy. Hence his opinion wouldn't be an unpopular one. :pac:


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    This is curvy ;)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    But I don't think the majority of people describe obese people as curvy. Hence his opinion wouldn't be an unpopular one. :pac:
    BusyMum12 wrote: »
    Fat women are unattractive and not 'curvy' - they're fat.

    BusyMum is a "he" now? That's certainly going to be an unpopular opinion! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    This is curvy ;)

    And airbrushed to bits. I'd say in real life she's less than impressive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    faccid wrote: »
    My OH won't be breast feeding and thats for sure. I wouldn't take the chance! I'd rather she got c section but thats up to docs I guess.


    faccid you have some seriously strange ideas! :D


    When you have half an hour to spare, I'd suggest you inform yourself-

    http://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/articles/breastfeeding-after-a-cesarean


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    faccid wrote: »
    My OH won't be breast feeding and thats for sure. I wouldn't take the chance! I'd rather she got c section but thats up to docs I guess.

    What chance? I wouldn't worry unless your OH had HIV that she could pass on through it. Breast feeding is far better for the baby in terms of nutrition, bonding and developing their immune system.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,312 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    faccid wrote: »
    Bottle feedimg is best opotion. Why should the women ruin her boobs when she can just bottle. Man happy, baby happy and mammy doesn't need to wear clothes during sex to cover saggy boobs. Win win
    I'd say either your trolling or an ignorant 16 years old with that opinion.
    And women lose baby fat really quickly if they breast feed


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I'm totally OK with abortion-on-demand, up to 18 weeks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 49 BusyMum12


    Didn't Dove have to withdraw one of their 'Real women' ad campaigns. They were criticised for using overweight women to promote their beauty products while marketing them as 'real', 'curvy' etc.
    If I were to call any of those women unattractive it would be an unpopular opinion, among women anyway. Trust me!

    @the poster who said they didn't want their OH breast feeding. Breast feeding is the best method of feeding for mum and baby but will also save YOU doing nightfeeds, washing, sterilising and preparing bottles.
    A c-section is major abdominal surgery. She will not be able to lift, bend or drive for several weeks. You might want to think about that too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    I'm totally OK with abortion-on-demand, up to 18 weeks.
    For others or yourself?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,971 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    For others or yourself?

    Considering that I'm a man, the former.


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭faccid


    Cienciano wrote: »
    I'd say either your trolling or an ignorant 16 years old with that opinion.
    And women lose baby fat really quickly if they breast feed
    It's called unpopular opinions for a reason. I was just sharing my thoughts. Maybe my opinion will change in the future, who knows. If u don't like my opinions then start a popluar opinion thread and I won't post there!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    BusyMum12 wrote: »
    Didn't Dove have to withdraw one of their 'Real women' ad campaigns. They were criticised for using overweight women to promote their beauty products while marketing them as 'real', 'curvy' etc.
    If I were to call any of those women unattractive it would be an unpopular opinion, among women anyway. Trust me!


    I knew about the campaign to have one of their adverts withdrawn on the grounds of subliminal racial stereotyping, but I hadn't known about the overweight women one!

    Some more interesting info here-

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Campaign_for_Real_Beauty

    The campaign has been criticized on the grounds that Unilever also produces Fair and Lovely, a skin-lightening product marketed at dark-skinned women in several countries. It was also widely noted that Unilever brand Lynx's advertising campaign would seemingly contradict the sentiment of the Campaign for Real Beauty.

    Moreover, Unilever owns and markets their AXE brand of hygiene products, where overtly sexualized women are its campaigning staple. This strategy is starkly hypocritical in contrast to Dove's campaign for "Real Beauty", as AXE utilizes "idealized" female sexuality to market AXE products towards young men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,312 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    faccid wrote: »
    It's called unpopular opinions for a reason. I was just sharing my thoughts. Maybe my opinion will change in the future, who knows. If u don't like my opinions then start a popluar opinion thread and I won't post there!
    It's also a discussion forum and people can disagree with your opinion if they think its idiotic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭faccid


    Cienciano wrote: »
    It's also a discussion forum and people can disagree with your opinion if they think its idiotic.
    Lets just agree to disagree.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭mix_up


    pensioners have unjustly been shielded since the rescession began and are over indulged , the latest is this nonesense about them having to buy their own house alarms , big deal i say , thats what money is for , spend it

    im watching a discussion on newsnight right now about how britian spends too much on pensioners , the old age pension in the uk is half what the elderly get here , its 102 pound per week for a single person and 169 for a couple , here its 230 for a single person and 460 for a couple


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Whatever about younger pensioners, most elderly people deserve protection and appreciation. We'll all be them one day - find it strange when people decades younger than them have a problem with provisions for them. No empathy at all.
    faccid wrote: »
    My OH won't be breast feeding and thats for sure. I wouldn't take the chance!
    "You'd" rather not take what chance? What if she wants to? Her choice surely.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 51 ✭✭mix_up


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Whatever about younger pensioners, most elderly people deserve protection and appreciation. We'll all be them one day - find it strange when people decades younger than them have a problem with provisions for them. No empathy at all.

    "You'd" rather not take what chance? What if she wants to? Her choice surely.


    do you think a thirty something in 2013 will unconditionally recieve what those in their late sixties and seventies get today ?

    they wont

    ninety thousand pensioners are on the non contributory ( 219 per week ) , they concievabley never paid any contribution during their working lives

    even those on the contributory will draw down farm more than they put in , the threshold for prsi payments was very low and only needed to be paid for a relativley short number of years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    And airbrushed to bits. I'd say in real life she's less than impressive.

    Definitely. If they need a hot girl in a T.V. show they use one that isn't that hot. Then if they need a girl that isn't that hot they usually just tape a bunch of cats together.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    mix_up wrote: »
    pensioners have unjustly been shielded since the rescession began and are over indulged , the latest is this nonesense about them having to buy their own house alarms , big deal i say , thats what money is for , spend it

    im watching a discussion on newsnight right now about how britian spends too much on pensioners , the old age pension in the uk is half what the elderly get here , its 102 pound per week for a single person and 169 for a couple , here its 230 for a single person and 460 for a couple


    Mmhmm... The BBC clearly haven't done their homework again. I knew those figures didn't sound right-

    Single person state pension in Ireland: €92 - €230 p/w, depending on how many PRSI contributions they've made.

    Additional dependents: €61 - €153 p/w

    So that'd be a max of €383 for a couple, both over 66, by my calculations. That's a long way short of €460.


    Source: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/older_and_retired_people/state_pension_contributory.html


    The UK system works way differently, but the least you'll get as a single person is £142 p/w, and a couple will get £217.


    Source: https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/what-youll-get


    That's not even taking into account the vast economic differences between Ireland and the UK, nor the additional benefits available to pensioners in both countries, but suffice to say I for one wouldn't deny them a cent nor a penny, plus I find it a ridiculous anomaly that if you are a single pensioner you are entitled to an alarm installation, but a pensioner couple is not entitled to an alarm installation even though they would be just as vulnerable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    mix_up wrote: »


    do you think a thirty something in 2013 will unconditionally recieve what those in their late sixties and seventies get today ?

    they wont

    ninety thousand pensioners are on the non contributory ( 219 per week ) , they concievabley never paid any contribution during their working lives

    even those on the contributory will draw down farm more than they put in , the threshold for prsi payments was very low and only needed to be paid for a relativley short number of years


    You may want to check those figures again. It was all re-jigged in the 2013 budget.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    faccid wrote: »
    Bottle feedimg is best opotion. Why should the women ruin her boobs when she can just bottle. Man happy, baby happy and mammy doesn't need to wear clothes during sex to cover saggy boobs. Win win
    Madam_X wrote: »
    Breastmilk is considered the most beneficial form of sustenance for a newborn, and if a mother can provide it (a lot of women find it too difficult/painful - but yay, at least their boobs stay looking good... ish... after the effect of pregnancy and birth on them) she's going to be more concerned about her newborn baby's diet than how her boobs look. Crazy, I know.
    Women often express their breastmilk into bottles for feeds later on but they're not always going to have the time and energy to perform that rather gruelling and longwinded task, so instead... just lob it in. Handy when you haven't had a proper sleep in weeks.
    Breastmilk is better than formula milk, no questions there but breastfeeding is not always the better option. Plenty of mothers struggle to breastfeed, have PND, find it easier if other people can take turns feeding the baby etc. The fanatical stances both sides take is really mind boggling. If you breastfeed, brilliant. Don't expect a medal. You still have roughly 18 years to get through before your little bundle of joy becomes an emotionally stable, functioning member of society and breastfeeding isn't the only thing you are going to have to do. If you don't breastfeed, it's not the end of the world. Feeding your child formula milk is not like forcing battery acid down their throats. They will survive, unless they are allergic and you still have other options. BTW, the happy medium where women express milk doesn't always work either. Don't sweat it. If the breastappo give you a hard time, tell them to mind their own business. If you do manage to raise an emotionally secure, productive member of society, whether or not you breastfeed or bottle feed them, well done :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭faccid


    Paddy Cow wrote: »


    Breastmilk is better than formula milk, no questions there but breastfeeding is not always the better option. Plenty of mothers struggle to breastfeed, have PND, find it easier if other people can take turns feeding the baby etc. The fanatical stances both sides take is really mind boggling. If you breastfeed, brilliant. Don't expect a medal. You still have roughly 18 years to get through before your little bundle of joy becomes an emotionally stable, functioning member of society and breastfeeding isn't the only thing you are going to have to do. If you don't breastfeed, it's not the end of the world. Feeding your child formula milk is not like forcing battery acid down their throats. They will survive, unless they are allergic and you still have other options. BTW, the happy medium where women express milk doesn't always work either. Don't sweat it. If the breastappo give you a hard time, tell them to mind their own business. If you do manage to raise an emotionally secure, productive member of society, whether or not you breastfeed or bottle feed them, well done :)
    You are awesome. Said what I wanted but in a good way :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    faccid wrote: »
    You are awesome. Said what I wanted but in a good way :)
    You said nothing of the sort - all you went on about was the woman keeping her boobs looking good for her fella... :confused:

    Paddy Cow, I acknowledged there are women who are unable to breastfeed and that there's nothing wrong with that.
    But if a woman wants to breastfeed and is able for it, but her partner won't "allow" her because it'll ruin her boobs? Wo... disturbing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The Tom Cruise haters can feck off

    Saw his new film and he is still the man :cool:



    But he's a creep? But his religion?
    I'm watching the actor, you must be buying celebrity magazines and gossiping in the hairdressers if you care about such things


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  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭faccid


    Madam_X wrote: »
    You said nothing of the sort - all you went on about was the woman keeping her boobs looking good for her fella... :confused:

    Paddy Cow, I acknowledged there are women who are unable to breastfeed and that there's nothing wrong with that.
    But if a woman wants to breastfeed and is able for it, but her partner won't "allow" her because it'll ruin her boobs? Wo... disturbing.
    Sshh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Madam_X wrote: »
    But if a woman wants to breastfeed and is able for it, but her partner won't "allow" her because it'll ruin her boobs? Wo... disturbing.


    I'd say MX it was just immaturity speaking rather than anything sinister... :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    faccid wrote: »
    Bottle feedimg is best opotion. Why should the women ruin her boobs when she can just bottle. Man happy, baby happy and mammy doesn't need to wear clothes during sex to cover saggy boobs. Win win

    Oh dear, a world of disappointment awaits when you realise a bottle doesn't magically eliminate stretch marks or combat gravity... I'm often amazed by people's complete lack of understanding of either biology of physics.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The Tom Cruise haters can feck off

    Saw his new film and he is still the man :cool:



    But he's a creep? But his religion?
    I'm watching the actor, you must be buying celebrity magazines and gossiping in the hairdressers if you care about such things


    Thank you.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Thank you.

    I thought you were underrated in Rain Man and The Color of Money


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    led zeppelin aren't that great a band. :/ prefer The Doors immensely so.

    How dare you! They're awesome


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    old hippy wrote: »

    I thought you were underrated in Rain Man and The Color of Money
    But heavily overrated in the rest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭irish son


    Maybe its been said before but I don't get the allure of Anal Sex, either in real life or in porno's.


  • Site Banned Posts: 10 mad_man


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Mmhmm... The BBC clearly haven't done their homework again. I knew those figures didn't sound right-

    Single person state pension in Ireland: €92 - €230 p/w, depending on how many PRSI contributions they've made.

    Additional dependents: €61 - €153 p/w

    So that'd be a max of €383 for a couple, both over 66, by my calculations. That's a long way short of €460.


    Source: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/older_and_retired_people/state_pension_contributory.html


    The UK system works way differently, but the least you'll get as a single person is £142 p/w, and a couple will get £217.


    Source: https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit/what-youll-get


    That's not even taking into account the vast economic differences between Ireland and the UK, nor the additional benefits available to pensioners in both countries, but suffice to say I for one wouldn't deny them a cent nor a penny, plus I find it a ridiculous anomaly that if you are a single pensioner you are entitled to an alarm installation, but a pensioner couple is not entitled to an alarm installation even though they would be just as vulnerable.


    the only pensioners in ireland who recieve less than 219 per week are those who didnt make enough prsi contributions ( if any ) and who have assetts which put them over the threshold , in other words , they are not poor in the first place , i have an uncle who is 68 and a farmer , he gets a small pension as he made hardly any prsi contributions , he has over a hundred acres of land however

    if you have nothing yet did not make enough prsi contributions , you get 219 per week

    as for the alarm story , of course a couple can better afford an alarm , you only need one regardless of whether their is four living in the one house or one , two people have more money than one yet dont have twice the expense each week


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭BeerSteakBirds


    irish son wrote: »
    Maybe its been said before but I don't get the allure of Anal Sex, either in real life or in porno's.


    It's a dodgy subject. I can appreciate a nicely shaped ladies ass but the contents of that ass are a different story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    It's a dodgy subject. I can appreciate a nicely shaped ladies ass but the contents of that ass are a different story.

    I also think there are a lot of men who really want to have A.S with a female partner but when they do eh.................

    the novelty wears off and the realise that they are having anal sex, which for most hetrosexual men is a bit ahem, to close to the bone and to close to homosexuality.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭BeerSteakBirds


    Smidge wrote: »
    I also think there are a lot of men who really want to have A.S with a female partner but when they do eh.................

    the novelty wears off and the realise that they are having anal sex, which for most hetrosexual men is a bit ahem, to close to the bone and to close to homosexuality.

    You can equally say that homosexuals are copying heterosexual AS.
    Liking the form factor of a womans ass is perfectly normal. Liking the contents is something else way out there. I would suggest that if someone starts hating sex because homosexuals also have sex then psychological help is in order. In fact it's quite off the wall to ask oneself the question ''do gays do it?'' before you consider an action yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    You can equally say that homosexuals are copying heterosexual AS.
    Liking the form factor of a womans ass is perfectly normal. Liking the contents is something else way out there. I would suggest that if someone starts hating sex because homosexuals also have sex then psychological help is in order. In fact it's quite off the wall to ask oneself the question ''do gays do it?'' before you consider an action yourself.

    I think you may have misunderstood me.
    What I meant was that for some men the idea of anal is great, it's the actual act of it(if they get a willing partner)that can be less than anticipated due to the actual act itself.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    How dare you! They're awesome

    Have you listened to the celebration day reunion gig with Bonzo's son Jason on drums? Pure magic, they sound just the same, it's a pity Plant would't tour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Not going out with someone just because they're fat doesn't make you shallow. That's just a turn off for some people and there's nothing wrong with that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Not going out with someone just because they're fat doesn't make you shallow. That's just a turn off for some people and there's nothing wrong with that.

    Dead right, I wouldnt go out with a woman who wouldnt go out with a fat man, major turm off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭daveyeh


    Mod note: last time a thread like this was made a lot of people were banned.
    If your opinion is too extreme you probably shouldn't post it.

    Example please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭daveyeh


    Hitler had 2 balls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    Vegans and Vegetarians only exist because they are rich enough to have the choice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭IrishExpat


    The Irish, by and large, can't dress. Had an interesting conversation with a Colombian girl last weekend about what she thought were the 'athletes' she has seen walking around Dublin and other small towns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson



    Dead right, I wouldnt go out with a woman who wouldnt go out with a fat man, major turm off.

    Yeah it makes them nice if they go out with fat men.

    But would you go near a fat woman?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭IrishExpat


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Not going out with someone just because they're fat doesn't make you shallow. That's just a turn off for some people and there's nothing wrong with that.

    If you can't lift her, don't shift her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    IrishExpat wrote: »
    The Irish, by and large, can't dress. Had an interesting conversation with a Colombian girl last weekend about what she thought were the 'athletes' she has seen walking around Dublin and other small towns.


    Was she REALLY that thick or did you just make that up?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Vegans and Vegetarians only exist because they are rich enough to have the choice.
    Not true.


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