Unpopular Opinions.

RainbowRose81

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Your right its not genetically desirable at all. My mother has told me stories that certain 'hill people' families in the Slieve Bloom mountain range in south Offaly also partook in inbreeding.

Yea there are genetical disorders associated with inbreeding. Travellers are known marry their cousins. I was watching a documentary about travellers and statistics show that traveller men die younger than non traveller men in Ireland, this be due to interbreeding among other reasons

Halloran springs

Pherekydes wrote: »

Go tell it to the lions and the wolves and the bears.

We're omnivores. Get over it.

Yes because we will also die if we don't hunt, catch, torture, kill and eat animals :rolleyes: Ridiculous comparison.

AngryBollix

At this moment I want to fly to Georgia and smash Lee Westwoods head in with a putter.

Wompa1

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

I don't know if this is true or not but I am sure there is some truth that many people were inbreding in Mayo among other counties? but this it known to have happen in other counties aswell. When I was growing up I used to hear people saying this about mayo people are 'strange' that the county is known for that. If people want to marry their cousins it's their own choice, am I am just wondering if this is true or not I wouldn't say I have an option on it but I don't think it's right biologically and genetically but people can do what they want too aswell.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Your right its not genetically desirable at all. My mother has told me stories that certain 'hill people' families in the Slieve Bloom mountain range in south Offaly also partook in inbreeding.

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

Yea there are genetical disorders associated with inbreeding. Travellers are known marry their cousins. I was watching a documentary about travellers and statistics show that traveller men die younger than non traveller men in Ireland, this be due to interbreeding among other reasons

Are you guys from Dublin or something!? I'm not from Mayo, wasn't even born in Ireland so don't take offense but yee have some crazy ideas about your own country.

AngryBollix

Halloran springs wrote: »

My unpopular opinion: I believe people who eat meat and fish are selfish, horrible pricks.

It's easily possible these days to live a healthy life without consuming animals and putting them through the pain and suffering involved in modern intensive farming.

Bollocks to Animals

efb

gordon_gekko wrote: »

rory mc elroy has exceeded harringtons achievments already

BOD is a true winner in every sense ,on and off the field , his hunger , drive and ambition is stagering , only in ireland would he get knocked and i say that as someone who doesnt particulary like rugby all that much

gordon_gekko wrote: »

give it time

which is it...?

Duggy747

I hate people.

Social media has made people stupider and less dependant on individual research.

What's that? A slickly edited video about <insert topic here>.....................why, it must be true..................

And people or "protesters" who call others "Sheeple" deserve a smack in their condescending faces. Way to alienate others by thinly-veiling them as stupid while at the same time painting yourself as one who has climbed out of the box and can see from the outside in.

Well done, I'm glad with your Neo-esque skills and disconnecting yourself from "the grid" you've made the world a better place.....

acidskiffle

Halloran springs wrote: »

My unpopular opinion: I believe people who eat meat and fish are selfish, horrible pricks.

Though I have considered giving up meat on a few occasions I'd say you could work on your phrasing there.
As a matter of genuine interest, how do you feel about native tribes people who rely on animals for survival?

Skylinehead

It's murder I tells ya!



Tasty, tasty murder.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Wompa1 wrote: »

Are you guys from Dublin or something!? I'm not from Mayo, wasn't even born in Ireland so don't take offense but yee have some crazy ideas about your own country.

We're just relaying information we have. Incest has occurred and still is occurring in all different parts of the world.

Wild Bill

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Maybe not we'll see in time, I don't see Tiger bettering the 18 record with the way he's playing at the moment though.

I was comparing the young Tiger to the young Rory!

Jack is without peer

karaokeman

Duggy747 wrote: »

Social media has made people less open minded and less dependant on individual research.

FYP but it was more or less watertight.

I have noticed a pattern with people who refuse to look beyond your local newspapers though.

RainbowRose81

Wompa1 wrote: »

Are you guys from Dublin or something!? I'm not from Mayo, wasn't even born in Ireland so don't take offense but yee have some crazy ideas about your own country.

Well what difference does it make if we are from dublin or if we are not? Interbreeding happens, it probably happens in most countries. Royalty used to marry their cousins and uncles. I don't agree with it because it's wrong biologically and genetically and it's sad that some people are as clannish that cannot find anyone other than their cousins, there is many fish in the sea and the sea is big.

Wild Bill

Duggy747 wrote: »

I hate people.

OK......

people or "protesters" who call others "Sheeple" deserve a smack in their condescending faces.

I thought you hated them?

Way to alienate others by thinly-veiling them as stupid while at the same time painting yourself as one who has climbed out of the box and can see from the outside in.

But - if you hate people surely that's what you do?

timesnap

Putin won Russia's recent election with 65% of the vote by an adoring public.

Scanlas The 2nd

Free will doesn't exist, every choice you make is predetermined by physics, how could it be any other way.

cloptrop

People who watch one sided hippy documentaries and whole hartedly and blindly believe them are the biggest dopes of all. Calling someone a sheep because they dont believe the one sidedbstory is even more idiotic .
People who buy organic are sheep . If they looked at the facts they would realise they are being robbed and it would be unsustainable to feed the world organically.
People paying an extra euro for free range or organic eggs are the biggest sheep of all . If they knew what the laws of free range were they would realise how stupid they were.

dr.bollocko

Organic and free range eggs, when tested, have proven to contain more nutrients than battery fed counterparts.

Your unpopular opinion is wrong.

Wild Bill

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

every choice you make is predetermined by physics

Then it's not a choice, is it :rolleyes:

deise go deo

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Free will doesn't exist, every choice you make is predetermined by physics, how could it be any other way.

Ha, The Athiest version of 'God told me to do it'

cloptrop

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Organic and free range eggs, when tested, have proven to contain more nutrients than battery fed counterparts.

Your unpopular opinion is wrong.

Free range means that if it was grown for meat it was allowed run free. Egg hens can be free range provided that if they are grown for meat they are allowed run around. Egg hens arnt grown for meat . The extra nutrients in a free range egg ? Do they test every egg? Or did the one sided documentary test a couple off eggs and tell you this.
The world is over populated there isnt enough land to feed everyone free range .

steddyeddy

cloptrop wrote: »

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Organic and free range eggs, when tested, have proven to contain more nutrients than battery fed counterparts.

Your unpopular opinion is wrong.

Free range means that if it was grown for meat it was allowed run free. Egg hens can be free range provided that if they are grown for meat they are allowed run around. Egg hens arnt grown for meat . The extra nutrients in a free range egg ? Do they test every egg? Or did the one sided documentary test a couple off eggs and tell you this.
The world is over populated there isnt enough land to feed everyone free range .

Thats where gm food comes in.

cloptrop

steddyeddy wrote: »

Thats where gm food comes in.

In years to come gm food will be hailed as the saviour of the human race .

happyman81

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

mikemac1

Pat Kenny is the most talented man in RTÉ.

It's true he is overpaid and since a lot of them are contractors they should get a take it or leave it lowball offer.
Sure where are they going to go?
However that's popular so back to unpopular


I like Pat Kenny on radio and TV and people repeat "plank" as if they are witty yet they don't even check his work and make up their own mind.

If you can't stand him that's perfectly fine, if you never ever check his stuff then why are you commenting on the quality or lack of quality?

Pherekydes

happyman81 wrote: »

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

This is the mantra of the eFFers. It's not an unpopular opinion; it's a bizarrely stupid one.

happyman81

Pherekydes wrote: »

happyman81 wrote: »

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

This is the mantra of the eFFers. It's not an unpopular opinion; it's a bizarrely stupid one.

Never voted for those scum. It's just the truth. Everyone got greedy. Everyone demanded more and more free stuff from the govt. Everyone demanded more cheapr credit. Everyone demanded a house, car, etc. Somewhere along the chain, everyone was demanding, and it all led to where we are now. To suggest otherwise, is to live in denial.

Paddy Cow

happyman81 wrote: »

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

happyman81 wrote: »

Never voted for those scum. It's just the truth. Everyone got greedy. Everyone demanded more and more free stuff from the govt. Everyone demanded more cheapr credit. Everyone demanded a house, car, etc. Somewhere along the chain, everyone was demanding, and it all led to where we are now. To suggest otherwise, is to live in denial.

I don't have a house or car and never demanded one either. I never asked the government for anything until I found myself unemployed in 2008 and had to go on the dole because low level workers were ten a penny and even McDonalds wouldn't hire me. I suppose that makes me dole scrounging scum :rolleyes:

You'll find that most people are working class, they don't expect to live the high life and just get on with things. It was the people in charge of the financial sector who got greedy and didn't regulate it properly who were the ones responsible for the crash. Of course when the sh!t hit the fan, it was everyone else's fault.

Caliden

cloptrop wrote: »

In years to come gm food will be hailed as the saviour of the human race .

Up until the point that 2/3 companies control the supply of food

cloptrop

Caliden wrote: »

Up until the point that 2/3 companies control the supply of food

2 or 3 companies already do probably. If the **** hits the fan I can grow carrots out the back .

Scanlas The 2nd

Wild Bill wrote: »

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

every choice you make is predetermined by physics

Then it's not a choice, is it :rolleyes:

Every choice you think you make was predetermined by the laws of physics. Unless of course the laws of physics doesn't apply to the area inside your skull and you have wizard like powers to change the laws of physics at will.

cloptrop

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Every choice you think you make was predetermined by the laws of physics. Unless of course the laws of physics doesn't apply to the area inside your skull and you have wizard like powers to change the laws of physics at will.

You just blew my mind . I was programmed to make decisions by physics just like the dog freud made salivate when he rang a bell but on a much more extensive level .

hooradiation

cloptrop wrote: »

You just blew my mind . I was programmed to make decisions by physics just like the dog freud made salivate when he rang a bell but on a much more extensive level .

That was Ivan Pavlov, not Freud.
Hence the phrase "Pavlov's bell".

Dudess

happyman81 wrote: »

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

Yes there was greed, yes plenty weren't complaining at the time - including you I'm sure - but to say ordinary people were the primary cause is a fallacy.

happyman81

Dudess wrote: »

happyman81 wrote: »

The financial crisis was caused by the greed of almost every individual on this island. Few have their hands clean.

Yes there was greed, yes plenty weren't complaining at the time - including you I'm sure - but to say ordinary people were the primary cause is a fallacy.

Yes, I benefitted from the boom, free education, grants, etc. Thankfully I have a job now, so I am paying my way. The bottom line is this, the banks did so much lending, and people owe much, and yet, only one party is at fault. It's crazy talk. Like I said, most people played a part, not all, but the majority of people voted FF and/or borrowed too much and/or did not save any of their earnings. Blood on lots of peoples hands.

Medusa22

I dislike most reality TV shows, they convey the stupidity of people in general.

I don't like children.

I prefer animals to people.

I think that abortion should be legal.

I believe that Bi-Sexuality is another sexual orientation.

Organ donation should be compulsory.

psychward

I ignored the whole Kony video thing. Maybe one day I'll overcome my laziness and click the vid but until then meh . We spend our lives bombarded daily with new messages appealing for this and that and each one guaranteed to give you a heart attack if you take it seriously but promoted probably by sociopaths who make a profit out of your concern. It all becomes a desensitized blur in the end.

Mr Benevolent

psychward wrote: »

I ignored the whole Kony video thing. Maybe one day I'll overcome my laziness and click the vid but until then meh . We spend our lives bombarded daily with new messages appealing for this and that and each one guaranteed to give you a heart attack if you take it seriously but promoted probably by sociopaths who make a profit out of your concern. It all becomes a desensitized blur in the end.

Me too. Can't be arsed. I'll protect children in Ireland instead.

Steven81

Will be an unpopular opinion but i think people were absolutely mad buying houses for a crazy price and living outside their means. How some people thought that they were great getting a house but paying an absolute fortune for it i dont know.

I think everyone knows the rest so i wont continue

cocoshovel

psychward wrote: »

I ignored the whole Kony video thing. Maybe one day I'll overcome my laziness and click the vid but until then meh . We spend our lives bombarded daily with new messages appealing for this and that and each one guaranteed to give you a heart attack if you take it seriously but promoted probably by sociopaths who make a profit out of your concern. It all becomes a desensitized blur in the end.

I just thought everyone who fell for that crap was a either a brain dead 16 year old, or a retard.

Pherekydes

happyman81 wrote: »

Yes, I benefitted from the boom, free education, grants, etc. Thankfully I have a job now, so I am paying my way. The bottom line is this, the banks did so much lending, and people owe much, and yet, only one party is at fault. It's crazy talk. Like I said, most people played a part, not all, but the majority of people voted FF and/or borrowed too much and/or did not save any of their earnings. Blood on lots of peoples hands.

As I said, the mantra of the eFFers.

Incidentally, the eFFers never had a majority of people voting for them.

HigginsJ

Brendan O'Carroll and Mrs Brown is the biggest pile of garbage ever.

Fuhrer

happyman81 wrote: »

Never voted for those scum. It's just the truth. Everyone got greedy. Everyone demanded more and more free stuff from the govt. Everyone demanded more cheapr credit. Everyone demanded a house, car, etc. Somewhere along the chain, everyone was demanding, and it all led to where we are now. To suggest otherwise, is to live in denial.

No,


Its also an utterly moronic opinion to hold because not only is it demonstrably false, it also allows the real guilty parties to get away free

cloptrop

Fuhrer wrote: »

No,


Its also an utterly moronic opinion to hold because not only is it demonstrably false, it also allows the real guilty parties to get away free

I dont recall any of these people who have crazy mortgage repayments and no job ever saying "hey maybe I wont be able to afford these rediculous prices,I better not get credit I cant afford , every day an economnist is on the radio saying the bubble will burst"

Fuhrer

cloptrop wrote: »

I dont recall any of these people who have crazy mortgage repayments and no job ever saying "hey maybe I wont be able to afford these rediculous prices,I better not get credit I cant afford , every day an economnist is on the radio saying the bubble will burst"

Rediculous indeed...



I know reading isn't your thing, but try having a look at what he posted.


He didn't say some, or a few, or some homeowners.

He said everyone.

Which is utterly moronic stupidity.

AnimalCracker

Bressie is absolutely rubbish at singing and should stop judging people until there's some notes in his head

Rothko

AnimalCracker wrote: »

Bressie is absolutely rubbish at singing and should stop judging people until there's some notes in his head

The same could be said about Kian Egan

IrishAm

Irish Manchester United and Liverpool supporters referring to themselves as "we" when talking about the club they support and calling the other clubs Irish fans "manc/scouse bastids" are pathetic.

Oh and it really pisses me off when they sing the clubs songs the learned on YouTube with a Scouse or Mancunian accent.

Absolute clowns.

poisonated

Jaws and lord if the rings are awful movies

Dudess

mikemac1 wrote: »

Pat Kenny is the most talented man in RTÉ.

It's true he is overpaid and since a lot of them are contractors they should get a take it or leave it lowball offer.
Sure where are they going to go?
However that's popular so back to unpopular


I like Pat Kenny on radio and TV and people repeat "plank" as if they are witty yet they don't even check his work and make up their own mind.

If you can't stand him that's perfectly fine, if you never ever check his stuff then why are you commenting on the quality or lack of quality?

He's a good broadcast journalist, very informed with a concise, generally unbiased delivery, but as a light entertainment presenter... just dreadful. Scared to bits of straying from the question cards, of relaxing and being chatty, of anything unpredictable (e.g. the Toy Show - cringe) and overall too serious, clumsy whenever trying to be humorous. Just in serious journo mode all the time. Guess it's not his fault though that he was offered TLLS and Kenny Live.