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

Yeah because there's never been any threads when a white person commits a mass shooting or terrorist attack... bizarre comments.

No, it's not that interesting. This was a lad that went berserk, but it wasn't someone motivated by a dangerous ideology and religion that is yet to be recognized as such. Between US and Europe the far right nazi attacks and the muslim attacks go toe to toe by body count but only one of them ideologies are considered dangerous and undesirable.

Depends on what you mean by work. If you mean your job then you might be right, but the same people who might be lazy in work will be hard working in other areas of life.

I don't particularly care about my job as long as it pays the bills. But I give everything other parts of my life like my family and friends.

I remember sitting in a psychology lecture about organisational psychology and how to get the beat iut of people at work. And I thought why on earth would people want to give the best of themselves at work? I would much prefer to give my best to my family and friends and my own hobbies rather than my work. Am I lazy? I wouldn't say so.

It isn’t difficult to imagine why anyone would want to give the best of themselves at work though - people generally take pride in their work and want to be recognised and rewarded for it which I’d imagine probably came up in an organisational psychology lecture and the idea of how to get the best out of people at work - recognition first and foremost would be one of the top criteria on my list.

Then reward, can be any form of reward, but recognition tends to motivate people, and reward motivates them even more so. Not sure anyone needs a whole lecture on it though to be fair, should be easy to understand in the first 30 seconds, then make paper aeroplanes or something for the rest of the lecture 😂

I see EmmysSoWhite is trending on Twitter because no person of colour won an award even though they were nominated.

But maybe these people simply won on the strength of their performances and the fact they are white is irrelevant.

I think even worse would be a token award given to a person of colour to avoid these hashtags and the real deserving winner loosing out.

Obviously if there is evidence of racism at the Enmys that's a different story but at the moment people using that hashtag are just jumping on the bandwagon of manufactured outrage.

When you see websites such as Tattle life it would appear that women are the biggest cyber bullies of Instagramers/influencers.

I have zero respect for any man who cares about "influencers".

Exercise and physical activity should be mixed throughout the entire school day for kids and teens.

There is scientific research showing that our brains actually work far better 30 mins after exercise and absorb more information.

So rather than just having set times where kids go out into the school yard to stretch their legs on lunch break or one PE class per week, it should be better integrated throughout the whole day. Rather than spending most of the day sitting down, which is not good for either your body or mind. Kids should be encouraged to get up and move, even just for 10-15 mins every hour. The time that is left in the classroom will be quality rather than quantity.

They are even starting to see something similar with research into the 4 day work week. Our brains only have X amount of high quality work per hour before we lose concentration. The rest of the time it's inefficient drudgery, where we struggle to focus and it's essentially very unproductive wasted time.

It's even been said that this could greatly help people with things like adhd, because some people are simply not well suited to sitting down being inactive for most of their day.

It was almost never you. It was genes and environment. 99% Luck of the draw.

Re: the above, I remember plenty of nights where herself would head out with the friends but have only a tenner. Asked if she wanted money and she said no, they're doing the free drinks tonight. I asked, what's that? She said they go up to a group of lads and start chatting, and 99% of the time they'll buy them a drink. They would then disappear and do the same to the next group in the next bar, and so on. So many desperate and/or horny men out there, this was an actual tactic for a lot.

My unpopular opinion is that sometimes, victim blaming is right. But only sometimes, and quite rare. But some personal responsibility is also needed.

Jeez, what a sh1tty way to treat people. Your better half and her mates should have some dignity and buy their own drinks.

It’s a very obscure concept and their theories can only be demonstrated using extreme examples. It’s a mental illness really amplified by the age of the Internet.

what they need is counselling of some sort.

Probably should have clarified; ex and this was about 17 years ago. And there were plenty at it at the time. Pretty sure I heard my niece say that she has done it a couple of times in the year before covid. Money thing, they don't have it, fellas are willing to buy random girls drinks if they just talk to them (obviously they're hoping for more). It's why I never bought a randomer a drink!