Unpopular Opinions.

mariano rivera

stupidusername wrote: »

All it will say is your payment is based on your parents means.
Actually sorry I don't know what i'm saying,i don't know that there's nobody living at home under 25 that's getting the full 188,its the age difference I was thinking of,under 21s get max of 150 a week or something.
Brain needs sleep!

Can stupidusername & K-9 get a room, please?

mariano rivera

Poetry is hardcore cardio for your brain

If you dont read any, you are mentally Obese

latenia

The only truely new invention of the last 20 years that I can think of is probably satnav. Everything else is just really advanced versions of televisions, telephones, record players etc.

fortwilliam

First time mothers are a pain in the hole, and usually replace whatever intelligence they once had with stupidity.

Galway K9

latenia wrote: »

The only truely new invention of the last 20 years that I can think of is probably satnav. Everything else is just really advanced versions of televisions, telephones, record players etc.

The collider in CERN?

latenia

Galway K9 wrote: »

The collider in CERN?

The first electron-positron colliders were built in Italy, at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Frascati near Rome, by the Austrian-Italian physicist Bruno Touschek. Around the same time, in the early 1960s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider

psychward

latenia wrote: »

The only truely new invention of the last 20 years that I can think of is probably satnav. Everything else is just really advanced versions of televisions, telephones, record players etc.

sure telephones are just advanced versions of 2 cans on either end of a piece of string and electricity is just an advanced version of lightning . Televisions already existed in nature and used to be called Mirages by nomadic tribes people. The sound part used to be called Thunder.

Orando Broom

Galway K9 wrote: »

The collider in CERN?

Tevatron outside Chicago is older. There are several others too. The Super Collider in CERN is just more advanced tachnalagy (say it in a Geroge Hook voice for full effect).

My offerings are as follows

3D Printer.
3D Digital Mapping
Exoskeleton
Rail Gun

benway

The 3D Printer is out there. Ingenious stuff.

The King of Moo

Galway K9 wrote: »

The collider in CERN?

That's just a big Scalectrix.

Penn

mariano rivera wrote: »

Poetry is hardcore cardio for your brain

If you dont read any, you are mentally Obese

Poetry is a bunch of worthless horsesh*t.

I remember a poetry book we had for the Leaving cert. One of the poems in it was:

"so much depends
upon the red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens"

That's it. That was the whole poem. And there was a full page of questions about it on the next page "Oh tra lala what is the poet trying to represent metaphorically with the wheelbarrow and oh what could the colour red mean in contrast to the whiteyness of the chickens"

He looked out his window. Scrawled some sh*te about what he saw. Someone took it to be the greatest poem every written.

It's nothing. That poem is nothing. It doesn't say anything about anything. Here's a poem:

"Most poetry is sh*te
Dogs bite
Goodnight"

(That poem is a metaphor for how most poetry is sh*te, how dogs bite, and how the author is now exiting this thread)

Orando Broom

benway wrote: »

The 3D Printer is out there. Ingenious stuff.

I know but it's a new invention. Ish.

Would you consider it new or just a leap from the ordinary printer?

I consider it new because it is a revolutionary fabrication technique building from bottom up internal mechinisms and all. It is called a printer to make it's concept easier to buy into.

The King of Moo

Penn wrote: »

Poetry is a bunch of worthless horsesh*t.

I remember a poetry book we had for the Leaving cert. One of the poems in it was:

"so much depends
upon the red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens"

That's it. That was the whole poem. And there was a full page of questions about it on the next page "Oh tra lala what is the poet trying to represent metaphorically with the wheelbarrow and oh what could the colour red mean in contrast to the whiteyness of the chickens"

He looked out his window. Scrawled some sh*te about what he saw. Someone took it to be the greatest poem every written.

It's nothing. That poem is nothing. It doesn't say anything about anything. Here's a poem:

"Most poetry is sh*te
Dogs bite
Goodnight"

(That poem is a metaphor for how most poetry is sh*te, how dogs bite, and how the author is now exiting this thread)

That's a great poem, by William Carlos Williams, if I recall correctly. I'm not sure what those questions were trying to get at: for me his poetry is great because of its simplicity and lack of metaphors, similes etc. He just presents little slices of life, with maybe a little beauty shining through.

Poetry is like all art: there's good and there's bad, and there's pretentious oafs who can put you off it.
I think there is something special about great poetry though: it can make you see things from a different perspective, to a greater extent, generally, than other forms of writing can.

AngryBollix

all wine drinkers are pretentious ****

Orando Broom

The King of Moo wrote: »

That's a great poem, by William Carlos Williams, if I recall correctly. I'm not sure what those questions were trying to get at: for me his poetry is great because of its simplicity and lack of metaphors, similes etc. He just presents little slices of life, with maybe a little beauty shining through.

Poetry is like all art: there's good and there's bad, and there's pretentious oafs who can put you off it.
I think there is something special about great poetry though: it can make you see things from a different perspective, to a greater extent, generally, than other forms of writing can.

here is a poem I've just written

Forum
Two opinions converged
A germination of ideas
Fields of thought grew
Wild and unfettered
The mass Troll extinction
Saw a world's population dwindle
Nought was left.
Nought and one; one and nought.

benway

Orando Broom wrote: »

I know but it's a new invention. Ish.

Would you consider it new or just a leap from the ordinary printer?

I consider it new because it is a revolutionary fabrication technique building from bottom up internal mechinisms and all. It is called a printer to make it's concept easier to buy into.

Mos def. Fills my heart with joy that people are inventing stuff like this. Give it 10 years and there'll be one in every home.

latenia

benway wrote: »

Mos def. Fills my heart with joy that people are inventing stiff like this. Give it 10 years and there'll be one in every home.

I can only imagine the pranking opportunities, which will mainly involve scanning your lad and sending it to people. The look on their face when they see what they've pulled out of the powder!!

Orando Broom

benway wrote: »

Mos def. Fills my heart with joy that people are inventing stiff like this. Give it 10 years and there'll be one in every home.

And ads, "You wouldn't download your throusers!"

Em.. yes, yes I would.

Seriously I think the 3d printer is about 20 years from mass consumption, you'd need it to be able to operate in a variety of substances such as textiles and metals among others for it to be truely a household item. It will happen though, of that I've no doubt.

The King of Moo

Orando Broom wrote: »

here is a poem I've just written

Forum
Two opinions converged
A germination of ideas
Fields of thought grew
Wild and unfettered
The mass Troll extinction
Saw a world's population dwindle
Nought was left.
Nought and one; one and nought.

That's quite good actually!

Orando Broom

latenia wrote: »

I can only imagine the pranking opportunities, which will mainly involve scanning your lad and sending it to people. The look on their face when they see what they've pulled out of the powder!!

I presume the enlage feature would be engaged for most of the population!

Gevie Stee

Anchorman is over rated!

ronjo

My unpopular opinion is that adults who spend a lot of time playing computer games need to get out more

xflyer

Man made climate change isn't happening. Despite today's weather.

Oh wait is that popular or unpopular?

Galway K9

xflyer wrote: »

Man made climate change isn't happening. Despite today's weather.

Oh wait is that popular or unpopular?

Depends which thread

onlyrocknroll

Gevie Stee wrote: »

Anchorman is over rated!

If by over rated you mean ****e I agree completely.

Gevie Stee

Galaxy Chocolate is nicer than Cadburys

onlyrocknroll

Gevie Stee wrote: »

Galaxy Chocolate is nicer than Cadburys

IMO the only nice chocolate available is the stronger proper stuff made by actual chocolatiers. I'll include big brand chocolate like Leonidas and Butlers in that because they're still quite nice. Real chocolate is beautiful.

Nestle, Cadbury, Galaxy etc. all make bland, sugary crap that barely tastes of anything but vague sweetness.

Cadbury's Roses in particular may be the most boring tasteless things I've ever encountered.

Gevie Stee

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

IMO the only nice chocolate available is the stronger proper stuff made by actual chocolatiers. I'll include big brand chocolate like Leonidas and Butlers in that because they're still quite nice. Real chocolate is beautiful.

Nestle, Cadbury, Galaxy etc. all make bland, sugary crap that barely tastes of anything but vague sweetness.

Cadbury's Roses in particular may be the most boring tasteless things I've ever encountered.

I think Leonidas and Butlers are too rich, they're sickening, too luscious

Seomra Mushie

Bressie is not that hot. Quite beady-eyed, IMO.

Dudess

Cadburys is great, but Nestle and Mars chocolate are crud. Nestle taking over Rowntree was a travesty.

Of the fancier chocolate, I agree some are too rich, but some are lovely.

Seomra Mushie

American accents are really nice, IMO.

dirtyden

xflyer wrote: »

Man made climate change isn't happening. Despite today's weather.

Oh wait is that popular or unpopular?

Evidence suggests that may be a fact rather than an opinion

RiseToTheTop

People put Hitler on end of spectrum and the US and UK on the other side.

But it's not like that IMO. The US and Americans did bad things too, though obviously not as bad as Hitler, but to IMO it's wrong to put them on different ends of spectrum.

The US sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, they are not the liberators of the free world. This "War on Terror" is a farce.

(I know the above line won't be very unpopular, but the first 2 lines are my main ones.)

Dudess

dirtyden wrote: »

xflyer wrote: »

Man made climate change isn't happening. Despite today's weather.

Oh wait is that popular or unpopular?

Evidence suggests that may be a fact rather than an opinion

Don't know much about it but wasn't there marked climate change after settlers came to America and deforested etc?

theTinker

Dudess wrote: »

Don't know much about it but wasn't there marked climate change after settlers came to America and deforested etc?

I dont have any numbers to back it up, but i highly doubt that settlers without machinery, and only in numbers able to be transported by months of sailing, while fighting for land/food and fending off british taxes etc, could possibly destroy enough trees with Axes to change the climate that much.

A recent figure i heard on the radio only a week ago confirmed that in the last 100 years, only a 0.75C change has occured in temperature.
This figure although high for a change in only a 100 years, is taking into account all the emissions and deforestation since modernised machines and industry has taken place.
Before this, nothing as grand as the climate could be affected by a group of mammals*

*unless we all continuously fart together for about a year

ROFLcopter

I think all the people in social housing should pay the household tax. How many fúcking waivers do these nutters want!? Free healthcare, free this, fúcking waiver for that.....grow up and get a JOB.

dirtyden

Dudess wrote: »

Don't know much about it but wasn't there marked climate change after settlers came to America and deforested etc?

I am afraid I have no idea. I did read somewhere that the eruption of krakatoa was one of the only events recently that definitively effected world climate for a period.

Potential changes due to more recent manmade influences have not yet been proven as measurable effects.

dr.bollocko

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

People put Hitler on end of spectrum and the US and UK on the other side.

But it's not like that IMO. The US and Americans did bad things too, though obviously not as bad as Hitler, but to IMO it's wrong to put them on different ends of spectrum.

The US sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, they are not the liberators of the free world. This "War on Terror" is a farce.

(I know the above line won't be very unpopular, but the first 2 lines are my main ones.)

Bad things in world war 2 or bad things in general?
If you're talking about world war 2 there's not really that much to go on in terms of what the US did that was worse than what Hitler did. If you're referring to the dropping of the a-bomb you'll have to frame that in a time where Japan were refusing to surrender despite having no navy left to speak of, sfa troops on the ground, still had 1 million troops occupying China wherein they were massacring left and right, in Manila and the Philippines where they were massacring left and right, all while they were simultaneously using planes and their own pilots as human piloted missiles to take out the US navy. The USAAF was already bombing cities as legitimate military targets for so long that a few more weeks of the comprehensive bombing runs would have killed more people than at hiroshima and nagasaki. Unlike Germany where air raids on targets had much less impact than desired, Japan's larger cities were made up of many wooden buildings which, unlike the stone you'll find in most German cities of the time, burns when you drop a fcukton of bombs on it. If you want to look at questionable allies you'd be best off looking toward Stalin and Russia for shocking massacres before and during the war and for the massive landgrab which followed as the allies divided the spoils.
So really, in every conceivable way you can measure it in terms of world war 2, the US and Hitler's germany are very much on completely opposite ends of whatever meaningful spectrum you can throw at the situation. And to suggest otherwise indicates a serious lack of research.
Which, when you're apologising for Hitler, is pretty unforgivably dumb and deserving of being shown up for quasi-trendy uninformed bullshit.

MadameGascar

AngryBollix wrote: »

all wine drinkers are pretentious ****

What if its out of a carton and cost 4 euro? :P

Mothers should attempt to breastfeed when they are able to, putting cows 'milk' into a newborn baby should be a last resort.

Castration is the perfect deterrent & punishment against paedophiles, rapists, and people who put pineapple on pizzas.

44leto

dirtyden wrote: »

I am afraid I have no idea. I did read somewhere that the eruption of krakatoa was one of the only events recently that definitively effected world climate for a period.

Potential changes due to more recent manmade influences have not yet been proven as measurable effects.

The Icelandic volcano that erupted last year had an effect, sunspot activity also have an effect. Climate has a lot of variables in its mix its not that is has a thermostatic setting or a natural order its just a big energy system. The recent worry is sea temperature, that is rising and they think that that may be linked to the increase in extreme weather events over the last 5 years.

Sea temperature rise is a very bad indicator that there is trouble ahead.

Dostoevsky

ROFLcopter wrote: »

I think all the people in social housing should pay the household tax. How many fúcking waivers do these nutters want!? Free healthcare, free this, fúcking waiver for that.....grow up and get a JOB.

hehe. Not get everything for free? Work? You fascist!

RiseToTheTop

dr.bollocko wrote:

Bad things in world war 2 or bad things in general?

First off I meant bad things in general.

Which, when you're apologising for Hitler, is pretty unforgivably dumb and deserving of being shown up for quasi-trendy uninformed bull****.

Second off can you please not call my opinion unforgivably dumb and bull****, thank you very much.

Regards the Americans, look at what they did in Vietnam, look at the amount of Corrupt dictatorships they have supported. Look at their invadings of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Regards WW2 exclusively. Ever heard of the Bombing of Dresden?

brokenhinge

There's nothing, nothing worse(including the holocaust) than an intelligent woman, who has a baby and then talks about nothing but the child.

People getting the grant shouldn't be an automatic entitlement, should be a course with an in demand skill set- IT, languages etc. How many Philosophy graduates do we need.

Instead of compulsory military service, Ireland should force people to work with the public for a year. You never forget the hell of it.

Pensioners get far, far too much- free travel, healthcare, fuel and €200 a week on top? Most don't have housing bills and many (mainly women) never worked-didn't pay tax to earn it.

ROFLcopter

Dostoevsky wrote: »

hehe. Not get everything for free? Work? You fascist!

Yeah I work and pay a serious amount of taxes to fund the useless in society.

dr.bollocko

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

First off I meant bad things in general.



Second off can you please not call my opinion unforgivably dumb and bull****, thank you very much.

Regards the Americans, look at what they did in Vietnam, look at the amount of Corrupt dictatorships they have supported. Look at their invadings of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Regards WW2 exclusively. Ever heard of the Bombing of Dresden?

So you're talking about is the US, which is an entire country, and making the argument that the US as a country is as bad as Hitler? Hitler person. US country.


re: The bombing of Dresden.
First off that was a combination of the US and the RAF.
The only argument you could find about the bombing of Dresden during the endgame of the war in Europe is whether or not it was a target of much military importance in hindsight. You could easily argue both sides however at the time the US army believed them to be a large industrial target and bombing would help prevent any re-armament of an already mostly defeated but still fighting on nazi army. It was not a wilful massacre. It was the bombing of what was seen as a legitimate military target. Much like Hitler was attempting to do to London at the time with his V2 rockets. Which were largely unguided and couldn't be targetted specifically at all. So again, even in the instance, even at the time of the Dresden bombings, what Hitler was doing was completely on a different spectrum to the airforce and the bombing of Dresden.

44leto

dr.bollocko wrote: »

So you're talking about is the US, which is an entire country, and making the argument that the US as a country is as bad as Hitler? Hitler person. US country.


re: The bombing of Dresden.
First off that was a combination of the US and the RAF.
The only argument you could find about the bombing of Dresden during the endgame of the war in Europe is whether or not it was a target of much military importance in hindsight. You could easily argue both sides however at the time the US army believed them to be a large industrial target and bombing would help prevent any re-armament of an already mostly defeated but still fighting on nazi army. It was not a wilful massacre. It was the bombing of what was seen as a legitimate military target. Much like Hitler was attempting to do to London at the time with his V2 rockets. Which were largely unguided and couldn't be targetted specifically at all. So again, even in the instance, even at the time of the Dresden bombings, what Hitler was doing was completely on a different spectrum to the airforce and the bombing of Dresden.

It was also a policy by Bomber Harris to make the Germans sick of war and have them lose the apatite for their traditional militarism. Toward the end of the war when the war was already won they broadened the bombing targets to non military targets, it was a terror campaign. It could be argued it was successful. Germany is now a very pacifist nation.

dr.bollocko

The scope of definition for what defined a military target certainly changed during the course of the war in the light of how it was being fought on both sides.

Using a term like "terror campaign" is somewhat overly suggestive for conduct in time of war considering the broadness of the term. You could view any legitimate move in time of war as a terror campaign because none of the bombings and killings are going to inspire anything much other than terror.

The war was not over because the defeated parties had not surrendered.

At that point you've got a huge landmass of troops deployed and losing their lives in many pointless battles for no ground gained and often in urban areas where civilian casualties are quite high.

I don't view the US conduct during the final months of the pacific and European campaigns as any way comparable to the acts of Hitler during wartime. Except, obviously, for the bits where he did a half-reasonable job of co-ordinating a legitimate military campaign.

Nodin

RiseToTheTop wrote: »

First off I meant bad things in general.



Second off can you please not call my opinion unforgivably dumb and bull****, thank you very much.

Regards the Americans, look at what they did in Vietnam, look at the amount of Corrupt dictatorships they have supported. Look at their invadings of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Regards WW2 exclusively. Ever heard of the Bombing of Dresden?

Did you ever hear of a 'genocidal racist regime'? Have you thought that through at all?

Dudess

ROFLcopter wrote: »

I think all the people in social housing should pay the household tax. How many fúcking waivers do these nutters want!? Free healthcare, free this, fúcking waiver for that.....grow up and get a JOB.

Considering plenty of people in social housing HAVE jobs, don't have medical cards and then you've made up other entitlements by calling them "free this, ****ing waiver for that"... I'm not sure they're the nutters.

pragmatic1

MadameGascar wrote: »

What if its out of a carton and cost 4 euro? :P

Mothers should attempt to breastfeed when they are able to, putting cows 'milk' into a newborn baby should be a last resort.

Castration is the perfect deterrent & punishment against paedophiles, rapists, and people who put pineapple on pizzas.

What if the sex offender is female?