What’s your most controversial opinion? Read OP Mod Note in Post #3372

magicbastarder · 27-10-2022 11:27am

'rude or thoughtless people are annoying' is hardly a controversial opinion.

B.A._Baracus · 27-10-2022 11:30am

The most controversial opinion to have today is to say anything negative that involves trans or gay people. So much so, anything negative even in the slightest and you will perceived as a homophobe or transphobe.

In fact, I would place a large wager there are those who will assume I have a phobia even by mentioning the above. Its all or nothing. No middle ground. No criticisms can be made.

ancapailldorcha · 27-10-2022 11:36am

People really need to stop fetishing their own invented victimhood. Get outside and stop spending so much time online.

EmmetSpiceland · 27-10-2022 11:45am

That threads like this are just a way for “Current Affairs” types, the angry middle aged oddball, to rag on trans people, immigrants, women etc.

Sure, there are some funny AH contributions but, eventually, it’ll go the way of the ‘Unpopular Opinions’ thread.

Feisar · 27-10-2022 11:47am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799396#Comment_119799396

Fair point on the casual racism.

Graham Linehan, just googled him, "anti-transgender activist", like what sort of individual is so bitter/twisted that they are an anti activist?

Manach · 27-10-2022 11:49am

Credo in unum Deum.

eggy81 · 27-10-2022 11:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799424#Comment_119799424

Yep. Same should apply to cyclists 3 and 4 abreast on a narrow road.

j2 · 27-10-2022 11:51am

Women are better than men! 👩‍⚕️

ancapailldorcha · 27-10-2022 11:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799512#Comment_119799512

It is what it is. I watched the episode with Chinese on All4 a few years back and, credit to Channel 4 they didn't censor it. They did put in a warning before which I think is a sensible compromise. Much better than the BBC censoring Only Fools & Horses. They exerted themselves more on that than actually taking responsibility for Jimmy Saville himself.

Linehan, I've all but forgotten about. There's no point in wasting thoughtspace on one bigot when there's so many. Sad but he made his bed. Now he can lie in it.

castletownman · 27-10-2022 12:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799438#Comment_119799438

Their cause isn't helped by the overly camp lads who spent so much time growing up trying to be the centre of attention that they must have skipped a few lessons on the way.

If they had more low-key figureheads in the public eye, intelligent lads who being homosexual is just a footnote to their life story not the ONLY thing they have going, I definitely think there'd be less bigotry around it from the usual quarters.

27-10-2022 12:37pm

On Irish tv, ads " [ Hi Profile Irish sports / music / actor personality ] uses this thingumee bob everyday for 10 minutes! Phone this number and order your own personal thingumeebob now!! ".

EOQRTL · 27-10-2022 12:48pm

Ireland should cut all international aid and put that money (something like a billion a year) into a massive prison building and justice programme over the next 10 years. We then should bring in a 3 strikes and you are out policy and enforce it to it's full effect especially in the traveller "community".

We need to take back our streets from the scumbags who are ruining them for ordinary decent people.

Larbre34 · 27-10-2022 1:28pm

/thread.

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 27-10-2022 1:36pm

The BBC is allocated too much of the blame (by sour right-winger types who would love to dismantle it) for the Jimmy Savile atrocities.

He committed most of his heinous crimes in hospitals, therefore the NHS should shoulder more of the blame.

martingriff · 27-10-2022 1:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799048#Comment_119799048

Ah nos telling a kid about Santa's is not a lie it to increase the magic and wonderment just like going to a magic show and to take that from a kid to me is so wrong. Also won't stop kids wanting all gadgets.

Also those parents who say i never lie to kids i say is a lie in itself. Let kids be kids

Ubbquittious · 27-10-2022 1:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799976#Comment_119799976

The problem is he was dead when all the sh1t came out about him. If the public had got the satisfaction of seeing him cuffed and carried away to his cell even if only to die the same night there would have been far less desire to go after BBC/NHS

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 27-10-2022 1:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799994#Comment_119799994

Indeed, the BBC actually squashed an investigation into Savile after his death.

My point is that the NHS doesn’t get anywhere near enough of the grief the BBC does, even though he was abusing kids in their hospitals. Not that the BBC is blameless. Far, far from it. But the NHS should take more of the blame.

The Jimmy Savile story is such a tragedy. An extremely prolific paedophile who got away with it. It breaks my heart. 😔

27-10-2022 1:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799986#Comment_119799986

Yeah that is why the kids not wanting the gadgets was never part of my reasoning. I still bring my kids gadgets in life.

I am not sure I can gel with the analogy to magic shows. Especially as close up magic and mentalism is something I practice. In fact magic done well relies on the lies the observer tell themselves.

So I do not think that is analogous to me choosing not to tell my children there is a magic being who enters our house and that their gifts were placed there by this being. I genuinely strive never to lie to my children. Ever. I struggle right now to think of a single case where I have done so. There is a lot of magic and wonder and fantasy and imagination in their lives that most people never do with their kids most of the time.

I always 100% present it as "This is the choice I have made for me and my kids" though. Never as something I think other people should be doing. But it is amazing some of the responses I have seen over the years which do not return that respect in kind. On this very forum I have been told everything from "I am sorry for your kids" to being outright told I am an abusive parent :)

martingriff · 27-10-2022 1:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119800038#Comment_119800038

Okay let's go with the magic trick. Let's say your children see a really cool magic trick on TV and is in awe. They are so excited they tell you and your OH (if you have one and agrees with the no lie) do you go that's great and amazing and leave it at that (lie) or do you take all the intrigue and magic out of it and tell them as it is

Star Bingo · 27-10-2022 2:07pm

Ireland has become an open asylum to the devil’s rejects.

27-10-2022 2:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119800083#Comment_119800083

I train my kids on most of the things I train myself in because I want to pass on whatever I have to pass on. It drives me. From BJJ to using guns to DIY to close up magic to cooking and gardening and hunting and much more. So they are from an early age quite proficient in doing magic tricks and knowing quite a lot of the mechanics of magic.

They derive quite a lot of joy and self confidence and wonder and more from this process. They can be absolutely wowed by a magic trick they see. Just as much as you and I. But then they enjoy the process of working out how it was done and learning it themselves.

I do not think I agree with your impression this takes away from things like the "intrigue" of it. Quite the opposite - it augments and adds to it. Just like a biologist learning all about the inner processes and workings of a tree, can still see and enjoy the beauty of that tree. Maybe even more so because they "see" more when looking at a tree than you or I do such as the fact that the way trees bring water from their roots to the tips of their branches defies - at first look - the very laws of physics until you learn how they actually achieve it.

When you look at someone like Teller from "Penn and Teller" - the man radiates a palpable child like joy when he sees new magic he has never seen before - or an old trick done a new way. Tell me his intrigue and wonder has been dulled in any way by his knowledge of how magic works and what it is? Tell him that :)

As I said though I have done things to bring "wonder" into my kids lives. Things hardly any other parent ever does for their kids. And the awe and wonder on their faces is simply not something I have ever felt the need to substitute with some prepackaged mass produced version of it like "Santa". And I have not to my knowledge ever lied to my kids as of yet.

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams

Sleepy · 27-10-2022 2:31pm

A couple more:

A one world government is something we should be actively working towards.

Individual wealth above a certain level is immoral anything an individual has/gains or earns above that level should be taxed away from them. (Limitarianism)

CrookedJack · 27-10-2022 2:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119800166#Comment_119800166

Surely the devil's rejects are probably really great people, we should give them asylum!

27-10-2022 2:43pm

No matter what savings/cuts you make to your carbon output,ryanair/aer Lingus etc will put another plane in sky to replace it

Expecting population to shoulder effort of meeting carbon limits,while industry is main polluter the world over, is an achievement for propaganda and benefits the rich only

pgj2015 · 27-10-2022 3:13pm

You cant trust a woman with a secret.

Rothko · 27-10-2022 3:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119798910#Comment_119798910

Wooosh

Brid Hegarty · 27-10-2022 4:28pm

The Sopranos is one of the biggest piles of crap ever. We’re meant to be amazed that criminals aren’t monsters and have their own insecurities too! Lol. People only pretend they like it because it’s a safe way of looking like they’ve good taste in front of others.

And Marlon Brando wasn’t a good actor.

walshb · 27-10-2022 4:33pm

Maybe not controversial, but vast majority these mental health stories and struggles today are utter attention seeking gick, and/or convenient excuses to explain toerag behaviours.

thomil · 27-10-2022 5:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119800166#Comment_119800166

And that's just the native population...

The vast majority of the population in the western world does not have the intellectual or ethical maturity to participate in a democratic society.

thinkabouit · 27-10-2022 5:23pm

If men were the ones giving birth then there wouldn’t be 9 billion people on the planet.

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What’s your most controversial opinion? Read OP Mod Note in Post #3372