Unpopular Opinions - OP Updated with Threadban List 4/5/21

piplip87

Us Irish are nothing but moaning hypocrites. Every good thing that happens has to be brought down.

Dublin GAA the best team to play the game.... Blah money money money.

Slane Castle hosts an amazing concert..... Blah blah traffic

2000 Jobs announced blah blah ah there only here for tax reason..... Where will they live.... Oh think of the homeless...

Don't even start when somebody starts succeeding in business ? People can't wait to take them down

pinkyeye

wiggle16 wrote: »

I'm not conservative in any way, except for one thing. I'm fully in favour of the death penalty. Most people who know me don't believe me when it comes up.

I think there are some things which are so bad that you forfeit your right to be tolerated by society in a prison system. Premeditated murder, child sexual abuse, rape.

I see where you're coming from but what about miscarriages of justice where someone who is found guilty and shouldn't have been?

There's no coming back from that if the death penalty has been imposed.

pinkyeye

My most unpopular opinion (and it is genuinely unpopular as opposed to people on here just looking for a like) is that I've never met a traveller who was rotten to the core.

I've met plenty of genuinely lovely ones though.

ILoveYourVibes

There is a reason there are so many paddy Irish jokes.

Vic_08

pinkyeye wrote: »

My most unpopular opinion (and it is genuinely unpopular as opposed to people on here just looking for a like) is that I've never met a traveller who was rotten to the core.

I've never sliced one in two to check.

whisky_galore

FatherTed wrote: »

Dev/Ireland were wimps when it came to officially supporting the Allies in WW2. Don't give me any of this oh shure we're just a new State and we have no resources bullshyte. Signed Hitler's book of condolences FFS. Shameful and a black mark on Irish history.

Dev didn't sign a book of condolences, there was no such "book", he called to the German ambassador to express his condolences.

Oh yeah, what were we supposed to fight the Nazis with? A half clapped out ex British Navy vessel (that shelled Dublin in 1916) armed with pea shooters? A small collection of obsolete WW1 era artillery and armoured cars that were museum pieces from the time of Collins? An Air Corps supplied with aircraft for the most part which were hopelessly obsolete?

Raconteuse

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

There is a reason there are so many paddy Irish jokes.

Anti Irish bigotry is so woke.

Paddy Cow

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

There is a reason there are so many paddy Irish jokes.

It's called humour. We're able to laugh at ourselves without taking it seriously. My flatmate from Kerry had a book of Kerry jokes. It's all about context.

Raconteuse

Paddy Cow wrote: »

It's called humour. We're able to laugh at ourselves without taking it seriously. My flatmate from Kerry had a book of Kerry jokes. It's all about context.

That'd have to be clarified by the poster as it looks far more like "the Irish can be so backward and deserve to be ridiculed by their betters" which is a different thing to self deprecation.

padjocollins

Greyfox wrote: »

It hasn't because his propaganda did brainwash them. The German public didn't really choose to get involved, instead they just looked the other way. The German public couldn't really go against the world's biggest army anyway.

They didn't look the other way as they would like to think themselves. they were on the whole supportive. Living here in Germany and read a book on it, called ordinary men.

10000maniacs

A homeless person is somebody living in a box out on the street. Or have no choice but to live in a homeless hostel. Not somebody who is living with a roof over their head.
Its very misleading when people like Peter McVerry say that there are over 10,000 homeless. There are not.

Tony EH

Blueshoe wrote: »

He got everyone together for a common goal. Wasn't a good one in hindsight by sure it's 20/20

Tell me how wrote: »

Well, apart from the Jewish community who he was targeting and blaming for difficulties Germany was experiencing from the early 1920's.

And apart from about 90% of Germany too, who never became party members and there was no singular "common goal".

The Nazi's only ever garnered around a regular 10% of party membership from the people of Germany and although they achieved decent votership figures in 1932/33, they were losing votes when Hindenburg named Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 and after that, voting was non-existent. While they achieved a large minority voting preference in the early 30's, support - real support, not lip service - was never huge, even during the war and a lot of those votes came from people who were desperate for change, any change, so people floated towards the Nazis. But many floated away again just as quick.

It's arguable that had Hindenburg not done named Hitler as Chancellor, the Nazis would have continued to lose support and thus WWII in Europe and everything contained within would have been avoided. As we know it anyway.

The real tragedy was not German voters trying something new. It was German conservative leaders thinking that they could control Hitler and use the party as a way of building proxy support for their own aims. But once Hindenburg had died and Hitler became Der Fuhrer, coupled with the capitalisation on the Reichstag fire, a series of events got set in motion.

Tony EH

BDI wrote: »

Craft beers are usually just beer with coffee or chocolate added. They nearly all taste the same.

People who drink them seem to think they are booze specialists.

I like Guinness I shouldn’t have to apologize to some hipster for that.

Why would you ever "apologize" for drinking Guinness?

Tony EH

padjocollins wrote: »

They didn't look the other way as they would like to think themselves. they were on the whole supportive. Living here in Germany and read a book on it, called ordinary men.

'Ordinary Men' is about members of the Ordnungspolizei. While they were "ordinary" compared to careerists in the likes of the SS, they were still part of the Nazi organisation and apparatus. They're hardly representative of the average German citizen.

They weren't merely Joe and Josephine Soap from down the road.

daveorourke77

piplip87 wrote: »

Us Irish are nothing but moaning hypocrites. Every good thing that happens has to be brought down.

Dublin GAA the best team to play the game.... Blah money money money.

Slane Castle hosts an amazing concert..... Blah blah traffic

2000 Jobs announced blah blah ah there only here for tax reason..... Where will they live.... Oh think of the homeless...

Don't even start when somebody starts succeeding in business ? People can't wait to take them down

Alcoholism is our great national stereotype.

Begrudgery is a close second.

To paraphrase Brendan Behan, there are two things that irish people hate.

Success and Failure.

As you say, people wils slag off success.

You should hear what they say about people who have failed in life or who are having a bad time

the beer revolu

Tony EH wrote: »

Why would you ever "apologize" for drinking Guinness?

I suspect that what he really means is that he shouldn't be questioned when stating that Guinness is the best beer in the world and all, yes all, craft beer is muck drunk by arseholes.

Greyfox

the beer revolu wrote: »

I suspect that what he really means is that he shouldn't be questioned when stating that Guinness is the best beer in the world and all, yes all, craft beer is muck drunk by arseholes.

Some craft beers are lovely and some are muck. Guinness is just an average drink for average people

BDI

Greyfox wrote: »

Some craft beers are lovely and some are muck. Guinness is just an average drink for average people

Yep that’s what some lad who makes beer in his shed and uses chocolate or coffee to mask the taste and sells it for twice the price of the Guinness wants you to think.

daveorourke77

If I were British, I'd have considered voting for Brexit in the referendum

rocksolidfat

BDI wrote: »

Yep that’s what some lad who makes beer in his shed and uses chocolate or coffee to mask the taste and sells it for twice the price of the Guinness wants you to think.

Meh, to each their own. I'm not really a fan of either, prefer white beers or mixed spirits but it's pretty silly to be calling Guinness average alright given it is one of the most successful and well known brands of alcohol in the history of... ever?

IAMAMORON

Fake tan tastes disgusting. It is really rotten and stains my ears.

rocksolidfat

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Fake tan tastes disgusting. It is really rotten and stains my ears.

Mix some chocolate in it and let me know how you get on.

Greyfox

rocksolidfat wrote: »

it's pretty silly to be calling Guinness average alright given it is one of the most successful and well known brands of alcohol in the history of... ever?

Budweiser is a bigger brand yet it's ok to slag that drink off. People just need to accept that people like different things.

Paddy Cow

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Fake tan tastes disgusting. It is really rotten and stains my ears.

I used to work in a B&B and I hated when we had hen parties because they would destroy all the white sheets and towels.

King George VI

I think they should make Kinder Eggs without that stupid toy in the middle. They used to be good but then the toys got shìt and now they just get in the way.

Raconteuse

Fake tan is rotten. Even though it's popular, it's also popular to hate it. And it's hardly unpopular not to like the taste of it!

Paddy Cow

Raconteuse wrote: »

Fake tan is rotten. Even though it's popular, it's also popular to hate it. And it's hardly unpopular not to like the taste of it!

You do realise it's not nutella and you're not supposed to eat it on toast? :P:pac:

IAMAMORON

It tastes rank, it would put me off eating womens' legs for life.

Airyfairy12

On the topic of fake tan, I hate it, each to their own but I think it looks awful on anyone who wears it, girls look like they washed their hands in poo with blotchy tan all over their palms and knuckles, its orange, streaky and sometimes when it rains or they get sweaty, they get those watery streak marks all over their chest and arms. I dont get the appeal at all, I just dont think its attractive.

Clockpics

I think the government shouldn't fund athletes at a high level. I think all money should go on community based sports for all to enjoy not just the supremely talented. Cream will find a way to rose to the top without government funding. The average citizen should have access to facilities for excercise instead.