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

BattleCorp

partyguinness wrote: »

I am firmly of the opinion that this lockdown, social distancing BS should be scrapped completely. Let the world get on with it.

If people get sick so be it. The already sick and elderly are the most vunerable- let them lock themselves away.

Brave of you to sacrifice the sick and the elderly.

Many people can't lock themselves away. How does a family with a child with cystic fibrosis get on with things? Same goes for a family with the Grandparents living with them?

partyguinness

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Nothing that involves dragons - Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Dragonheart, The Neverending Story, The Bible, How to Train Your Dragon, Game of Thrones, for instance - is any good. Dragons are indicative of base buffoonery masquerading as epic fantasy, and when you see a dragon in something, no self-respecting adult would have any interest in it. Horses aren't far behind.

I read the Hobbit when I was 12 (gift for my Confirmation) back in 1990 and LOTR when I was 17 back in 1995 before it was cool. I watched the Neverending Story on VHS when it came out in the mid 1980s. I have never read and certainly never watched Harry Poter- I am not 8.

Same for GOT- never seen it not even a second. Zero interest.

How to Train your Dragon- never heard of it (Google time)

While everyone one to themselves I would not be a reader of fantasy novels. In fact fiction is not my cup of tea at all. I rather historical/political stuff. I am too busy to fill my head with that fluffy nonsense and will leave it to the incels and moody Goths (are they still around?)

gormdubhgorm

Brian? wrote: »

It’s pretty simple. Everyone stands for the national anthem. Sitting would be just seen as lazy. So the NFL players decided the best way to be noticed was to kneel. It stands out when everyone else is standing.

Well I still think it is odd when moved into the context of outside America. It shows how much influence America has on the world culturally. To only care about black lives suddenly in an American context. No one gave a damn about 'black lives' during the Democratic Republic of Congo Civil Wars for example in the 90's and 00's. Hardly on the news. 5.4 million deaths.

Sheep_shear wrote: »

Yeah, I laughed at that. Throughout history, kneeling has been an act of subservience or swearing loyalty or worship.

A bunch of megestar PL players "taking the knee" with their jerseys plastered with NHS and BLM logos, lol. Though the NHS worship over here is something else, and shows no signs of abaiting.

Exactly, I am glad I not the only one who thought it was odd or out of place.
It did not seem as great a statement as the black power salute in the 1968 Olympics to me.

Also 'the black lives matter' on the jerseys seemed like an Alan Partridge piss take. As for the NHS badges...most multimillionaire footballers go private!

partyguinness

BattleCorp wrote: »

Brave of you to sacrifice the sick and the elderly.

Many people can't lock themselves away. How does a family with a child with cystic fibrosis get on with things? Same goes for a family with the Grandparents living with them?

Hey...this is not a popularity contest.

Not every sick and eldely person will get it or die- it aint a given. But why should the rest of us have to put our lives on hold indefinitely. The plague died out, the Spanish flu died out.

I am very much in the survival of the fittest camp I'm afraid.

gormdubhgorm

partyguinness wrote: »

I am firmly of the opinion that this lockdown, social distancing BS should be scrapped completely. Let the world get on with it.

If people get sick so be it. The already sick and elderly are the most vunerable- let them lock themselves away.

I am starting to think this myself. At the start first few months understandable. But it is virtually impossible to keep covid19 under wraps given speed of global travel etc.

Brian?

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Well I still think it is odd when moved into the context of outside America. It shows how much influence America has on the world culturally. To only care about black lives suddenly in an American context. No one gave a damn about 'black lives' during the Democratic Republic of Congo Civil Wars for example in the 90's and 00's. Hardly on the news. 5.4 million deaths.
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It's simply a continuation of something that started in the US And has now come to mean opposition to all racism. I think it's great to see and long over due.

Many many people gave a damn a out the black lives lost in the Congo. I get the feeling if it was happening now and people were peacefully drawing attention to it you'd have some cynical whatabouterry to throw out

Not enough people care about people dying. So any protest that draws attention to it is a good thing.

mr_fegelien

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I am starting to think this myself. At the start first few months understandable. But it is virtually impossible to keep covid19 under wraps given speed of global travel etc.

I think if people don't die from COVID-19, they'll be dying from suicides which are already increasing in the US.

gormdubhgorm

mr_fegelien wrote: »

I think if people don't die from COVID-19, they'll be dying from suicides which are already increasing in the US.

It is an strange balancing act at this stage, as many will lose jobs and so on.
I think once the health systems are OK people should be allowed to act as normal within a 1m guideline. Most people are clued in how to act at this stage.

gormdubhgorm

Brian? wrote: »

It's simply a continuation of something that started in the US And has now come to mean opposition to all racism. I think it's great to see and long over due.

Many many people gave a damn a out the black lives lost in the Congo. I get the feeling if it was happening now and people were peacefully drawing attention to it you'd have some cynical whatabouterry to throw out

Not enough people care about people dying. So any protest that draws attention to it is a good thing.

I wouldn't have some cynical whatabouterry re-the DRC because there is little awareness about it in the world at large.

The BLM movement just seems a bit odd and very American in it's style. First they give the world McDonald's the BLT now they give us BLM!

It it as if the world has to bear a burden for problems America themselves caused, by its very foundation. It is just the repackaging of an old issue.

Joe Columbo

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I wouldn't have some cynical whatabouterry re-the DRC because there is little awareness about it in the world at large.

The BLM movement just seems a bit odd and very American in it's style. First they give the world McDonald's now they give us BLM!

It it as if the world has to bare a burden for problems America themselves caused by its very foundation. It is just the repackaging of an old issue.

I find it quite obnoxious, if America cares about something you should too.Barely anyone in America these days would give 2 ****s about similar stuff if it happened in Ireland yet we're supposed to all get up in arms because it happens in America.We didn't see people in Ireland protest about what is happening in Yemen despite it being far far worse than anything that has ever happened in USA in recent years.



I would have been interested to see if any player in the premier league decided they didn't want Black Lives Matters on their shirt (because of some of the negative aspects of that movement) just to see what the reaction would have been even though they would be perfectly within their rights to refuse to be coerced into supporting a political movement (and it is a political movement despite some people trying to claim it isn't).

El_Duderino 09

I think the charges against the police who killed Floyd are almost completely politically motivated. If they did the exact same thing and either it wasn't on camera or there weren't mass protests, those charges would never have been brought against them.

What they did was considered perfectly defensible when they did it and we're probably pretty sure the union would defend them successfully. The charges were only brought against them as a tool to stop the Floyd protests from growing.

Obviously it should never have gotten to the point that police could kill black people and rely on not being charged, but these guys charges only happened because of the protests. And when you consider that the charges were increased in severity, proportional to the public protests, it's a terrible sustuaion all over.

completedit

I have no interest in documentaries about Michael Jordan or whoever else. I'm not 8 anymore, I love sport but playing it and watching it in the right occasion. Don't care about some guy whose genius is throwing a ball in a hoop. Same for footballers, I only care about them on the field, have zero interest in glorifying them. They're good at football, that mattered to be when I was 16. The amount of people who act like what they do is the most important stuff ever is mind boggling.

Justin Credible Darts

completedit wrote: »

I have no interest in documentaries about Michael Jordan or whoever else. I'm not 8 anymore, I love sport but playing it and watching it in the right occasion. Don't care about some guy whose genius is throwing a ball in a hoop. Same for footballers, I only care about them on the field, have zero interest in glorifying them. They're good at football, that mattered to be when I was 16. The amount of people who act like what they do is the most important stuff ever is mind boggling.

nothing as ridiculous as a grown man , usually overweight with a potbelly wearing a football jersey, or even worse wearing the players name on it.


I feel like telling them you are not a child anymore , grow up

eyerer

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I am starting to think this myself. At the start first few months understandable. But it is virtually impossible to keep covid19 under wraps given speed of global travel etc.

They should keep ports closed to passengers. Freight yes but passengers will keep spreading this. I'm not in a hurry to go on a holiday abroad for this reason.

Imelda May, another liberal celebrity kernt virtue signalling like a good'un.

This be her sheight spoken word diatribe against the Irish; presumably from
her gated mansion in Hampshire.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiUue7dkYzqAhXtZhUIHch1BCkQwqsBMAF6BAgKEAk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqYluS5kLit0&usg=AOvVaw2s_xOaESnAIByv2FALJ7do

Effin celebrities should keep their opinions to themselves. Not a fcuk could they give about the
marginalised or downtrodden. Liam Cunningham another one, he went on a similar rant a couple of
years back on behalf of some ethnic minority iirc.

I reckon they're getting paid for their utterings as well.

completedit

That poem is absolutely terrible. What does 'you don't get to be Irish and racist even mean?' Where was this sort of nonsense when we voted in 2003 to end the right to citizenship for people born here? It's just so lame. Seems like more Irish exceptionalism nonsense, 'racism is for those other countries, sure aren't we just the blacks of Europe anyway,' People like Imelda May don't give a ****, not that she's a bad person or anything but she only cares about what's trending and how to capitalize on that, no mention of the slave labor that no doubt contributed to the phone she's recording the video on was made with,

gormdubhgorm

completedit wrote: »

That poem is absolutely terrible. What does 'you don't get to be Irish and racist even mean?' Where was this sort of nonsense when we voted in 2003 to end the right to citizenship for people born here? It's just so lame. Seems like more Irish exceptionalism nonsense, 'racism is for those other countries, sure aren't we just the blacks of Europe anyway,' People like Imelda May don't give a ****, not that she's a bad person or anything but she only cares about what's trending and how to capitalize on that, no mention of the slave labor that no doubt contributed to the phone she's recording the video on was made with,

Jayus, that poem annoyed me, really contrived, and jumping on the pop culture trending wave. I wouldn't mind but I think she is a good singer who can belt out a tune seems fairly sound. But there is something really cynical about this type of thing. Insincere is how I would describe it.

EmmetSpiceland

I, personally, believe that all the guys on here, and in general, who are vehemently against things like the BLM Movement, protests and, general, “furore” going on at the moment all “consume” vast amounts of pornography involving black men with white women. Vast amounts.

They also suffer from high levels of anger due to not being able to have a proper relationship with a “real” woman because their brains are just mush from years of watching this hardcore, mostly interracial, “gonzo” porno.

Sad really, there’s not a lot can be done for them at this “stage”. They just won’t stop pulling the stomach out of themselves.

Silentcorner

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Jayus, that poem annoyed me, really contrived, and jumping on the pop culture trending wave. I wouldn't mind but I think she is a good singer who can belt out a tune seems fairly sound. But there is something really cynical about this type of thing. Insincere is how I would describe it.

What social media has done is exposed the nature of our celebrities and artists and such....

They are great to watch when they are performing...they are impressive because they make a living out of their talent.

But my god they are full of **** when they are prattling on about anything other than their area of expertise....

If you were transported from the 1920s to today, you'd be gobsmacked that anyone would listen to advice from any of these people...in that world they were just a couple of rungs above the freak shows...wheeled around from town to town eeking a living most of them.

Celebrity culture is another cancer on this era...self indulgent coke heads most of them!

Silentcorner

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, believe that all the guys on here, and in general, who are vehemently against things like the BLM Movement, protests and, general, “furore” going on at the moment all “consume” vast amounts of pornography involving black men with white women. Vast amounts.

They also suffer from high levels of anger due to not being able to have a proper relationship with a “real” woman because their brains are just mush from years of watching this hardcore, mostly interracial, “gonzo” porno.

Sad really, there’s not a lot can be done for them at this “stage”. They just won’t stop pulling the stomach out of themselves.

I think it's really important to you to believe that....your world would come crashing down if it's not true....let me guess, you have a twitter bio that checklists things like your politics or food you eat!!!

walshb

Deleted User wrote: »

Imelda May, another liberal celebrity kernt virtue signalling like a good'un.

This be her sheight spoken word diatribe against the Irish; presumably from
her gated mansion in Hampshire.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiUue7dkYzqAhXtZhUIHch1BCkQwqsBMAF6BAgKEAk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqYluS5kLit0&usg=AOvVaw2s_xOaESnAIByv2FALJ7do

Effin celebrities should keep their opinions to themselves. Not a fcuk could they give about the
marginalised or downtrodden. Liam Cunningham another one, he went on a similar rant a couple of
years back on behalf of some ethnic minority iirc.

I reckon they're getting paid for their utterings as well.

For years I have wondering what the fuss was about her..

Cannot stand her...

Had she not got that ridiculous fooking haircut world anyone bat an eyelid?

El_Duderino 09

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, believe that all the guys on here, and in general, who are vehemently against things like the BLM Movement, protests and, general, “furore” going on at the moment all “consume” vast amounts of pornography involving black men with white women. Vast amounts.

They also suffer from high levels of anger due to not being able to have a proper relationship with a “real” woman because their brains are just mush from years of watching this hardcore, mostly interracial, “gonzo” porno.

Sad really, there’s not a lot can be done for them at this “stage”. They just won’t stop pulling the stomach out of themselves.

I don't know what has caused them to be be so opposed to change. But whatever it is, it's deep rooted. You see it in all the threads about change. They say they obviously support x cause (e.g. equality for black lads) but oppose all attempts to actually achieve any change.

BLM is a great example as it's topical. They'll say they support something after its happened, such as taking down the slaver statue, but they'll completely oppose the marches, the activism, people making speeches, art or otherwise trying to raise the profile and achieve change.

In other words, they'll SAY they support these things but oppose any efforts to make it happen. I wish they'd just be honest an say they don't actually support changes at all.

Justin Credible Darts

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, believe that all the guys on here, and in general, who are vehemently against things like the BLM Movement, protests and, general, “furore” going on at the moment all “consume” vast amounts of pornography involving black men with white women. Vast amounts.

They also suffer from high levels of anger due to not being able to have a proper relationship with a “real” woman because their brains are just mush from years of watching this hardcore, mostly interracial, “gonzo” porno.

Sad really, there’s not a lot can be done for them at this “stage”. They just won’t stop pulling the stomach out of themselves.

Tell me Einstein you psychic mind reader, what about those black people who are sick of white millennials causing trouble in the name of black people.


Yes plenty of black people have spoken out due to the actions done in their name.


For the record, the very fact you associate black men with white women for the sole purpose of pornographic reasons says a lot more about what you are thinking. You seem to be well versed in the terminology in porn too.
Why does a black man only have to be with a white woman in porn ?


Seems to me you have some issues.



As for the protests most people are against violent protests, not peaceful ones, myself included, and yes I am happily married to a real woman.

JohnnyFlash

There's a huge amount of very angry men on the internet these days. It's always men. All this anger cannot be good for them, or for society in general.

Like I'd have certain beliefs that would go against the woke/liberal consensus. But people having different views to mine wouldn't make me angry. It's just a load of people being angry on Twitter. I think it shows a lack of self-belief that men get so angry about these things.

Ubbquittious

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

There's a huge amount of very angry men on the internet these days. It's always men. All this anger cannot be good for them, or for society in general.

Like I'd have certain beliefs that would go against the woke/liberal consensus. But people having different views to mine wouldn't make me angry. It's just a load of people being angry on Twitter. I think it shows a lack of self-belief that men get so angry about these things.

Yep. Sitting at home, looking at porn or other braindead sh1te and blaming the world for the sh1t life they're having that's actually caused by their own lack of willingness to get up off their arses and do something

Justin Credible Darts

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

There's a huge amount of very angry men on the internet these days. It's always men. All this anger cannot be good for them, or for society in general.

Like I'd have certain beliefs that would go against the woke/liberal consensus. But people having different views to mine wouldn't make me angry. It's just a load of people being angry on Twitter. I think it shows a lack of self-belief that men get so angry about these things.

have you noticed the people who shout the loudest about equality, free speech, human rights etc, are quick to try shut you down if you say anything that does not conform to their ideals.


The hypocrisy is lost on them

s1ippy

Wearing masks in public spaces where social distancing is not possible would be a good idea.

joe40

I think equality , free speech, and human rights are better in Ireland now, than at any time in our history.

jaxxx

joe40 wrote: »

I think equality , free speech, and human rights are better in Ireland now, than at any time in our history.

Here's an unpopular opinion: human rights don't exist. What we actually have, is 'human privilege'. There's some food for thought.


Now where'd I put them jaffa cakes.. .. .. ..

joe40

s1ippy wrote: »

Wearing masks in public spaces where social distancing is not possible would be a good idea.

Someone told me "if you don't like wearing a mask you're going to really hate a ventilator."