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

walshb

Brian? wrote: »

Irish people have being actively supporting Palestine since the 50s.

Yep...and same as today, vast majority couldn't give a flying fiddlers about the Palestinians....

cnocbui

Brian? wrote: »

You seem to equate free availability with problems. To you being offered drugs is a problem. This is a completely subjective opinion.

The actual problems caused by drugs are the health impacts and the criminality. Both of which have decreased in Portugal.

I know this is mind blowing stuff for you, but someone offering drugs in public isn't actually a problem. Addiction is a real problem and it's going down.

Pharmacologically, alcohol would be one of the first drugs you'd ban, whereas those someone comes up to you and offers, are likely less harmful in their pure states.

Mad_maxx

rossie1977 wrote: »

I have been to Lisbon and wasn't offered any kind of drugs...



Ireland has on average ten times as many drug overdose deaths per annum than Portugal despite Portugal having twice our population.

Visited Lisbon for four days in 2014

Offered cocaine the first day near the big statue of Kimg Juan in the central square

Loved the city BTW

Jeremy Sproket

The "you shouldn't hit a girl / woman rule" goes out the window once she throws the first dig.

If a woman feels man enough to throw a dig then she's man enough to take one full force back.

I'm a woman btw.

Potential-Monke

Shur you can't tell these days, so if I've to throw a dig at someone, their gender no longer matters. I just don't throw digs, so luckily have not had to use that excuse. But I agree, if you're hard enough to throw a punch, you're hard enough to accept one.

FileNotFound

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

The "you shouldn't hit a girl / woman rule" goes out the window once she throws the first dig.

If a woman feels man enough to throw a dig then she's man enough to take one full force back.

I'm a woman btw.

Have never really hit anyone and would have been raised to never hit a woman but if a lady punches me for no good reason i will happily respond in kind.

Long decided on that - a lesson will be taught that will not be forgotten

y0ssar1an22

socialism dont work

FileNotFound

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

socialism dont work

Pure socialism maybe not

The mix you of socialism and capitalism in most of Europe is better than any alternative.

Imagine living in that sh1thole called the states??? Or some middle eastern sesspit without a load of money..

Overheal

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Shur you can't tell these days, so if I've to throw a dig at someone, their gender no longer matters. I just don't throw digs, so luckily have not had to use that excuse. But I agree, if you're hard enough to throw a punch, you're hard enough to accept one.

Was at a stadium once. The seating was chaos and it was raining, everyone was standing in the stairways, I was one among them unable to move. Some college girl behind me can be heard bickering at people to get out of her way. Everyone gets pushed to and fro, from wherever, but I've got my rain hood on and one of these girls sees fit to start clawing, literally clawing at me to move. Put her hand on top of my hood, covering the side of my face with it, her fingers pushing through and around my eye like she was trying to grab hold of my socket to pull me away, like she was squishing at the eyeball. An immediate elbow was dispatched by me to that direction, where it landed succinctly with her face, and I'd do it again to defend myself.

freshpopcorn

Dermot Bannon and other architects often design houses to fit in with the scenery/landscape but they often stick out more than ever.

Brian?

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

socialism dont work

I assume you had back your sick pay and work all of your statutory holidays to really show people what's what.

TomSweeney

Unpopular opinion - Israel are right to defend themselves, I am 100% behind Benjamin Netanyahu.




/ runs out of thread

JimmyVik

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Shur you can't tell these days, so if I've to throw a dig at someone, their gender no longer matters. I just don't throw digs, so luckily have not had to use that excuse. But I agree, if you're hard enough to throw a punch, you're hard enough to accept one.

I was in a niteclub a few years ago and a female bouncer came up and started mouthing off at guy near me who was doing nothing at all. The male bouncers all standing about 6 feet away.

She punched him in the face twice.
He didnt do anything except try and dodge for a minute because she was a woman. Then she grabbed him and started kneeing him in the face. He reacted then and pushed her away and she landed on her arse.
Then the male bouncers grabbed him and held him while she kicked the **** out of him. They threw him out them.
Dont know what became of him, but i was disgusted. I spoke to the manager and he told me to f off and mind my own business.

castletownman

Having an encyclopediac knowledge of Eurovision, and calling yourself a 'superfan', doesn't make you interesting. It makes you incredibly boring.

And Johnny Logan isn't some musical legend. He is a man-child in probably the most low-brow genre going. It's literally like a reality tv star thinking they are Hollywood royalty.

cms88

JimmyVik wrote: »

I was in a niteclub a few years ago and a female bouncer came up and started mouthing off at guy near me who was doing nothing at all. The male bouncers all standing about 6 feet away.

She punched him in the face twice.
He didnt do anything except try and dodge for a minute because she was a woman. Then she grabbed him and started kneeing him in the face. He reacted then and pushed her away and she landed on her arse.
Then the male bouncers grabbed him and held him while she kicked the **** out of him. They threw him out them.
Dont know what became of him, but i was disgusted. I spoke to the manager and he told me to f off and mind my own business.

Noting new with bouncers acting the hard man, or this case women, when there's a group of them.

There are very few bigger lowlifes then that sort of bouncer who think they're this highly important person.

cms88

TomSweeney wrote: »

Unpopular opinion - Israel are right to defend themselves, I am 100% behind Benjamin Netanyahu.




/ runs out of thread

Like all of these things there's two sides to every story but we only ever hear one in the media.

Not too dissimilar to in the North. We always hear now Catholics/Nationalists etc were always the victims and they never did anything wrong and their actions were justified etc

Both of those examples have a lot more to it than that but the point being you rarely hear the other saide and if they try and point it out they're mostly ignored.

jimwallace197

We have a corrupt and overpaid police force. People are far too trusting of people with any authority in this country and this has been shown by the mass abuse of charity money by various CEO's of these organisations.

As well as this, GSOC, the body tasked with investigating them for improper conduct and corruption is not fit for purpose.

Mod snip - no evidence of this allegation

Drew Harris is an improvement as Commissioner but a complete overhaul is needed.

Overheal

TomSweeney wrote: »

I am 100% behind Benjamin Netanyahu.

100%? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

Nevermind the whole Nation State law. I don't see how someone could support an ethno state in this day and age.

Silentcorner

Overheal wrote: »

100%? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

Nevermind the whole Nation State law. I don't see how someone could support an ethno state in this day and age.

I would have thought even a basic knowledge of Jewish history would understand that much....

StevenToast

TomSweeney wrote: »

Unpopular opinion - Israel are right to defend themselves, I am 100% behind Benjamin Netanyahu.




/ runs out of thread

You win.....at this thread...


Thats probably one of the worst opinions ive ever seen....but thats the nature of this thread i suppose....

Ash.J.Williams

TomSweeney wrote: »

Unpopular opinion - Israel are right to defend themselves, I am 100% behind Benjamin Netanyahu.




/ runs out of thread

Well one thing us for certain, Israel will never ever back down ever so that’s the starting point of negotiations

JimmyVik

There comes a time when you have to realize that constantly attacking the bully in school is just hurting yourself. And you have to just stop for your own sake.
I may be talking about a current conflict there

Jeremy Sproket

I voted no in the 8th referendum to save babie's lives and I'd vote the same again.

JimmyVik

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

I voted no in the 8th referendum to save babie's lives and I'd vote the same again.

Me too.
Aint noone going to ever convince me that my baby who died at 15 weeks in the womb wasnt alive.

Ash.J.Williams

JimmyVik wrote: »

Me too.
Aint noone going to ever convince me that my baby who died at 15 weeks in the womb wasnt alive.

I absolutely agree with you about your baby but voted to repeal because I’ve no right to tell a woman what to do with her body

Jeremy Sproket

JimmyVik wrote: »

Me too.
Aint noone going to ever convince me that my baby who died at 15 weeks in the womb wasnt alive.

My deepest condolences

Jeremy Sproket

Abortion should only be allowed where there exists a real and substantial risk to the physical health of the mother.

Abortion on demand should be abolished and abortion should be recriminalised. Murder is not a solution to an unwanted child.

Contrary to popular belief, the referendum was to remove the constitutional ban on abortion, it wasn't to enact legislation. There's nothing to stop the Oireachtas reinstating a ban.

cms88

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

Abortion should only be allowed where there exists a real and substantial risk to the physical health of the mother.

Abortion on demand should be abolished and abortion should be recriminalised. Murder is not a solution to an unwanted child.

Contrary to popular belief, the referendum was to remove the constitutional ban on abortion, it wasn't to enact legislation. There's nothing to stop the Oireachtas reinstating a ban.

That's why i voted no. Nothing to do with telling a women wha she can or can't do.

Also might also be a unpopular opinion but it again reinforced the idea that a child only has a mother and what the father thinks doesn't matter.

Faugheen

Jeremy Sproket wrote: »

Abortion should only be allowed where there exists a real and substantial risk to the physical health of the mother.

Abortion on demand should be abolished and abortion should be recriminalised. Murder is not a solution to an unwanted child.

Contrary to popular belief, the referendum was to remove the constitutional ban on abortion, it wasn't to enact legislation. There's nothing to stop the Oireachtas reinstating a ban.

Your opinion about voting no is fine.

However when you start using provocative language like ‘murdering babies’ when many women have been forced into these procedures because of horrific circumstances, that’s where your argument falls.

Have some respect and decorum for many women like yourself who wanted to have their children but couldn’t, or found themselves pregnant through no fault of their own.

cms88 wrote: »

That's why i voted no. Nothing to do with telling a women wha she can or can't do.

Also might also be a unpopular opinion but it again reinforced the idea that a child only has a mother and what the father thinks doesn't matter.

Well the father doesn’t carry the child...

cms88

Faugheen wrote: »

Well the father doesn’t carry the child...

Well there's no child without the father regardless what some might think...