Unpopular opinions #5

[DiscoBiscuit]

I hate leopard print.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

Women who start a post on forums (haven't seen it here I hasten to add) with "Lovely ladies in my phone" should have their phones removed from them until they learn to stop talking like a three year old.

 

[Raininvain]

There are enough foreign billionaires sitting on millions worth of UK property with no intention of living or paying taxes in the country, people living off benefits with no intention of working or contributing, etc etc that if someone is so desperate to escape a horrific country and come to the UK to be with family and work and start a new life here, we should welcome them with open arms. It should be basic humanity and compassion to want to look after each other.

We've been sold a massive lie that immigrants and asylum seekers are the problem while the rich and privileged tear the place down and tell you that people being trafficked to probably work in modern slavery here are ruining everything.

There's never ever going to be a redistribution of wealth in this country, the rich and the elites will retain their position that's a given. They have political and ideological domination. What's left for everyone else is people scrabbling for the basics whilst this goes on people will always get pissed off about people from abroad jumping the housing queues etc and getting everything done for them. That's just human nature. You don't hear many people saying actually its inherent structural inequality in the U.K that's the problem and we need a revolution. People just don't think like that.

 

[bunnyboo]

With the run-up to Christmas, everywhere I go.... I see matching pyjama sets for the whole family.

I find it weird, especially when you can also get matching PJs for your PETS!! I blame social media culture.

 

[Eureka]

Rich people are the biggest scroungers of them all.

 

[Onthehop]

Indont think they killed Maddie but agree on the Gerry front.

I was once in a shop with Kate and the female twin, a couple of years ago. Kate seemed very mild, subdued but I didn’t get any sinister vibes from her. I could definitely see her being the less dominant person in a relationship let’s just say.

I often wonder if I’d been around Gerry in person if it would’ve changed or confirmed my opinion of him.

I remember seeing someone saying on Tattle that her cardiologist husband worked with Gerry and that Gerry was a very unpleasant man.

 

[TheScarletgirl]

I remember seeing someone saying on Tattle that her cardiologist husband worked with Gerry and that Gerry was a very unpleasant man.

I remember that post to .

 

[jackolantern]

I remember seeing someone saying on Tattle that her cardiologist husband worked with Gerry and that Gerry was a very unpleasant man.

Tbh he's always come across that way to me on live news reports etc. Personally I think they killed her by accident and covered it up. I highly doubt we will ever know though

Unpopular opinion - I think he's the real monster and she's just gone along with it, whatever it is.

 

[AdApathy]

PT Barnum was a bleeping disgusting human being and The Greatest Showman should never have been made.

 

[Eureka]

I think the whole Rememberance Day crap needs to be put to bed. If you have someone you want to personally remember fine but the expectation that everyone observe it to the point it’s all over the news and social media is ridiculous.

 

[AdApathy]

I think the whole Rememberance Day crap needs to be put to bed. If you have someone you want to personally remember fine but the expectation that everyone observe it to the point it’s all over the news and social media is ridiculous.

To add to this:
NOBODY FINDS POPPIES OFFENSIVE.

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

All musicals are rubbish. You get to an emotional climax in the film and then they suddenly burst out into song. It's so irritating.

It's always more tuneful than women climaxing in real life!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Women who start a post on forums (haven't seen it here I hasten to add) with "Lovely ladies in my phone" should have their phones removed from them until they learn to stop talking like a three year old.

Can I add people who ask for suggestions then end their posts with "and...go!" Or refer to the "hive mind"?

 

[that1]

I remember seeing someone saying on Tattle that her cardiologist husband worked with Gerry and that Gerry was a very unpleasant man.

that doesn’t surprise me. A lot of surgeons/consultants develop a bit of a god complex I’m told. I’ve certainly seen it in person when a relative was in hospital and the medical team of junior doctors was following around the consultant with puppy eyes, while he was pretty rude, curt and arrogant.

 

[Phil Anne Throw Pee]

I think the whole Rememberance Day crap needs to be put to bed. If you have someone you want to personally remember fine but the expectation that everyone observe it to the point it’s all over the news and social media is ridiculous.

Also scrap all the 2 minute silences after terrible atrocities which seems to be becoming more and more common and completely undermines the point each time.

 

[rainbowlemon]

that doesn’t surprise me. A lot of surgeons/consultants develop a bit of a god complex I’m told. I’ve certainly seen it in person when a relative was in hospital and the medical team of junior doctors was following around the consultant with puppy eyes, while he was pretty rude, curt and arrogant.

I have a lot of doctors in my family. One cousin in particular got a complex when he went to UCL. The medicine halo did make him x10 worse.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

All musicals are rubbish. You get to an emotional climax in the film and then they suddenly burst out into song. It's so irritating.

My mother used to hate musicals. She'd always say 'they ruin a perfectly good film with all the singing and dancing'

 

[BasilRathbon]

All male cats should be called Kevin.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

My mother used to hate musicals. She'd always say 'they ruin a perfectly good film with all the singing and dancing'

Haha what a legend!

 

[that1]

I’ve got to ask, what difference did their living arrangements make to your life?

It doesn’t impact me personally, directly. for me, I wouldn’t want to see living at home because you’re unmarried, normalised. I don’t think people living at home is ideal whatever the culture. A lot of brits do it because they have no other option to get onto the housing ladder and is very much not a preference or cultural ideal.

I think living at home into adulthood stunts personal growth. I think it encourages people to stay in toxic living arrangements. I think it idealises the family unit when it reality, many family units are dysfunctional. It discourages people leaving home for eduation/job opportunities. I think it’s quite regressive - it was the norm among brits to stay at home until marriage maybe 60-70 years ago. The onus being more on women to do so. It’s restrictive and pretty much rooted in misogyny (read up on patriarchal family systems, cba typing out here).

so it’s a practice I really would not want to see being normalised on a widespread level in the U.K. and if it was it would not be a society that I would deem to be fair or equal. That would impact me personally. That’s just my opinion though, I obviously don’t have a moral superiority.

on a more personal level, as someone who left home at 18 due to toxic family members and to pursue education, I was told by a colleague once that it’s better for women to live at home, and that brits aren’t “family orientated enough” and “just don’t get family” I absolutely am family orientated, I just wasn’t lucky enough to be born into a happy one. Their reasoning would’ve meant I stayed in a toxic environment because “family”.