Unpopular Opinions.

Wacker The Attacker

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

Yes. I'm a big supporter of the "good crack on the arse" approach to parenting

Wacker The Attacker

I'd sleep wth my best friends sister

Napper Hawkins

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'd sleep wth my best friends sister

Would anyone else?

Wacker The Attacker

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Yes. I'm a big supporter of the "good crack on the arse" approach to parenting

The trouble with that approach to most people is that the people who use it don't use it properly. If used for the right reasons I see little problem with it but generally it's used for reasons such as some retarded parent letting a three year old run down the street, almost onto the road and the parent smacks them, it's the parent in the wrong there.

pickarooney

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.

(In an ideal world, obviously)

It'd be pretty miserable without all the hilarious **** kids say.

mightdomighty

kunst nugget wrote: »

the source of the problem was the reckless lending policies of the banks and the total lack of regulation on the part of the banks.

I disagree. But this is the nature of the thread I guess

krudler

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Rick Astley? Ye must be joking :L
They all have nice qualities to their voice anyway. Yer man from AC/DC has no nice or enjoyable quality to his voice :L

they're a rock group, not known for ballads but ear burstingly loud anthems, and they're fcuking great at it.

Wacker The Attacker

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Would anyone else?

I'm sure they would

AnonoBoy

Anyone who buys a box-set of Top Gear will never contribute anything of meaning or significance to this world.

Wacker The Attacker

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Anyone who buys a box-set of Top Gear will never contribute anything of meaning or significance to this world.

Also anyone who buys a friends, lost, the office, glee or anything reality show related boxset is equally retarded

OMARS_COMING_

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Also anyone who buys a friends, lost, the office, glee or anything reality show related boxset is equally retarded

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

Wacker The Attacker

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

I bought the wire boxset.

S'all in the game yo

AnonoBoy

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

You've missed the point of what we were both saying.

Overflow

talkinyite wrote: »

I think taxes should be cut rather than increased, and that Ireland should get reparations from England, Fianna Fáil and the Church.

Hmmm, lower taxes and handouts, you sir should be running the country !

kunst nugget

mightdomighty wrote: »

I disagree. But this is the nature of the thread I guess

Fair enough. We can blame the greed of the people and man, did people get greedy. And stupid. But let's see… how did people finance that greed and stupidity? Oh yeah, it was because the banks were completely reckless with their lending. And when the **** hit the fan for the banks who stepped in and recklessly tied the bank debt to the country? That would be the reckless economic policies of our politicians.

Here is a good overview of the Irish meltdown and the banks and government involvement in it, if you can ignore the gentle mocking of Irishness that runs through it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

OMARS_COMING_

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

Anyone who buys any type of dvd is a retard,everything can be downloaded for free of the internet in probaly less time than it takes to walk to the shop and buy it.

I bought the wire boxset.

S'all in the game yo

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Wacker The Attacker

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Which is why I bought the boxset.

old hippy

OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »

The Wire is different,its the greatest show ever made.

Not a patch on Rosemary & Thyme, mind

mightdomighty

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

I'm quite taken by the old, now deeply unfashionable, Victorian adage: 'Children should be seen and not heard'.



(In an ideal world, obviously)

pickarooney wrote: »

It'd be pretty miserable without all the hilarious **** kids say.

True, but some kids are c***s

komodosp

Religious people *should* be inflicting their beliefs on atheists. They're trying to save our souls, dammit! Not to do so is like letting a blind man walk out in front of oncoming traffic.

Also vegetarians (who are so for moral reasons) should be inflicting their beliefs on us meat-eaters. If not... well do they think meat is murder or don't they!? If they do but aren't trying to convince the rest of us the same, well they are nothing but lazy ... er what's the word? Blind-eye-turners, whatever they are really called. Just like those people in the clergy who knew about the priests doing the abuse but said nothing... Sure they don't eat meat themselves, but they do stand by watching the rest of us slaughter animal after animal all the time knowing humans are capable of surviving without meat.

Geekness1234

It really annoys me that charities like the DSPCA get money.
There are far better charities that help people,not animals,that need money just as badly as does the DSPCA.

deisedave

Geekness1234 wrote: »

It really annoys me that charities like the DSPCA get money.
There are far better charities that help people,not animals,that need money just as badly as does the DSPCA.

Animals cant help themselves alot of people can, also people are what cause the animals suffering so I think we should do all we can to help them. I have raised money for the Waterford animal shelter in the past and I thought it was for a great cause.

Scanlas The 2nd

Not being "in love" is not a good enough reason to separate at the expense of the children. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made.

Napper Hawkins

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'm sure they would

Then what makes your original statement an unpopular opinion?

Gummy Panda

Mint choc is horrible.

mint choc feast, mint crisp, mint aero are all awful

Smeggy

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Mint choc is horrible.

mint choc feast, mint crisp, mint aero are all awful

NO! this thread has gone too far :mad:

mikemac1

The deise are incredibly insecure and believe the whole world is against them

They had a thread about RTÉ selecting four cities and ignoring Waterford, ok that's a fair point and something to be discussed

And instead and talking up Waterford a lot of the thread was bashing Kilkenny

Insecure and negative

Gummy Panda

Babylon 5 was a better written sci-fi show then others aired during the same period.

God...

Most people need a good kick in the face.

deisedave

mikemac1 wrote: »

The deise are incredibly insecure and believe the whole world is against them

They had a thread about RTÉ selecting four cities and ignoring Waterford, ok that's a fair point and something to be discussed

And instead and talking up Waterford a lot of the thread was bashing Kilkenny

Insecure and negative

Just a bit of fun

mikemac1

Whoosh

I take it back so

Looked serious to me

Need to chill out a bit there in the sunny south east

Have a few strawberries from your neighbours

KenSwee

Geekness1234 wrote: »

It really annoys me that charities like the DSPCA get money.
There are far better charities that help people,not animals,that need money just as badly as does the DSPCA.

deisedave wrote: »

Animals cant help themselves alot of people can, also people are what cause the animals suffering so I think we should do all we can to help them. I have raised money for the Waterford animal shelter in the past and I thought it was for a great cause.

Absolutely spot on. The original poster should spend a day as a volunteer up there and see exactly how some animals are brought in; hurt, violated, mutilated and psychologically damaged because of humans.

deisedave

mikemac1 wrote: »

Whoosh

I take it back so

Looked serious to me

Need to chill out a bit there in the sunny south east

Have a few strawberries from your neighbours

The south-east is a hell of a lot more relaxed than Dublin

El_Dangeroso

Wibbs wrote: »

Well I could also read before I was two. Simple stuff at first, but by three was reading at a ten year old's level.

Meet your twin SB. I've read under 5 fiction books in my life. I read shítloads of non fiction, but my head just can't get around fiction at all. Never could even as a small child. I'd always ask for information(mostly natural world stuff with some engineering stuff thrown in) type books when my mates were reading Famous five or whatever the fcuk. It would be near torture for me to read something like Harry potter. I just can't plug into the internal world of novels thing that others can, yet I can watch drama on stage and screen and enjoy it and devoured comics as a kid. No idea why.

Me too! I enjoy movies but getting through a fiction book is like walking through treacle to me.

I've always been like this, at age 9 I could read at the highest reading age in my class, so the teacher pulled me aside and asked me what read at home. I said 'the dictionary', the big oxford English tome was my bed-time reading, I loved it! I also read my dad's guide to welding and a user manual for a Massey Ferguson tractor. Stuff I'm pretty sure would put other people to sleep I found compelling. I love dry factual writing, I feel like if I'm not learning something I'm wasting my time.

fasttalkerchat

"So, the sheepshaggers finally got over their milk price tantrum. In other news 69p for 2L at LIDL."

Apparently this FB status was controversial...

fasttalkerchat

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Me too! I enjoy movies but getting through a fiction book is like walking through treacle to me.

I've always been like this, at age 9 I could read at the highest reading age in my class, so the teacher pulled me aside and asked me what read at home. I said 'the dictionary', the big oxford English tome was my bed-time reading, I loved it! I also read my dad's guide to welding and a user manual for a Massey Ferguson tractor. Stuff I'm pretty sure would put other people to sleep I found compelling. I love dry factual writing, I feel like if I'm not learning something I'm wasting my time.

I was the same too. Had a few old Guinness Book of Records too. They were more interesting than the new ones.

up for anything

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I was the same too. Had a few old Guinness Book of Records too. They were more interesting than the new ones.

Why?

Pace2008

I think vuvuzelas are pretty fantastic and would regularly break one out if it weren't for the fact that it would likely lead to physical confrontation. I feel it's the rest of the world who have a problem, not me.

upandcumming

Pace2008 wrote: »

I think vuvuzelas are pretty fantastic and would regularly break one out if it weren't for the fact that it would likely lead to physical confrontation. I feel it's the rest of the world who have a problem, not me.

This isn't unpopular, it's just wrong.

Wacker The Attacker

Pace2008 wrote: »

I think vuvuzelas are pretty fantastic and would regularly break one out if it weren't for the fact that it would likely lead to physical confrontation. I feel it's the rest of the world who have a problem, not me.

the likely outcome of the confrontation is that the vuvuzela would be hopped off your head

Wilberto

I think Sarah Jessica Parker gets way to much abuse than she actually deserves. Basically this ( SJP ) is what I'm talking about.

May be a bit of an "Unpopular Opinion" (at least among my own friends it is anyway), but I think she's actually a good looking gal. Not a Rihanna or a *insert insanely beautiful woman here*, but ya, I certainly would.

Wilberto

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kunst nugget

Wilberto wrote: »

I think Sarah Jessica Parker gets way to much abuse than she actually deserves. Basically this ( SJP ) is what I'm talking about.

May be a bit of an "Unpopular Opinion" (at least among my own friends it is anyway), but I think she's actually a good looking gal. Not a Rihanna or a *insert insanely beautiful woman here*, but ya, I certainly would.

Sarah Jessica Parker is the type of woman gay men and other women think is an attractive woman. She isn't…

Neeson

She is attractive... to a mare.

Cienciano

She looks more like Shirley Temple Bar than a horse

Sea Filly

Wilberto wrote: »

I think Sarah Jessica Parker gets way to much abuse than she actually deserves. Basically this ( SJP ) is what I'm talking about.

May be a bit of an "Unpopular Opinion" (at least among my own friends it is anyway), but I think she's actually a good looking gal. Not a Rihanna or a *insert insanely beautiful woman here*, but ya, I certainly would.

When people say "SJP is ugly", I reply "Yes, and your point is?". Tends to shut them up. I don't think she's great, but fair play to her for making in a profession where women are expected to be purdy.

Sea Filly

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I love dry factual writing, I feel like if I'm not learning something I'm wasting my time.

But you can learn from fiction books too. You'll increase your word power as much from fiction as non-fiction and learn to phrase things in an attractive way. A nice turn of phrase is a nice skill to learn.

emeraldstar

kunst nugget wrote: »

Sarah Jessica Parker is the type of woman gay men and other women think is an attractive woman. She isn't…

We do, do we? I don't.

kunst nugget

Sea Filly wrote: »

fair play to her for making in a profession where women are expected to be purdy.

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Sea Filly

kunst nugget wrote: »

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What are you on about? I said in the post that I don't think she's great.