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Your unpopular opinions
66Mustang
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Another thread idea I had.
What opinions do you hold that are unpopular or that go against the vast majority?
They can be about anything from food to TV programs to politics to current issues but please keep it civil and respect everyone’s views.
What opinions do you hold that are unpopular or that go against the vast majority?
They can be about anything from food to TV programs to politics to current issues but please keep it civil and respect everyone’s views.
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I don’t see the point in jewellery apart from a watch.
I think Marmite is okay. I don’t love it or hate it.
I have no strong opinion of Donald Trump. I can take him or leave him. It seems most people either adore him or detest him!
I agree with you about Doctor Who as I have never liked it😁
I dont agree with how much money footballers and celebrities are paid there needs to be a better balance of earnings just my thoughts there are lots other people who contribute more to society and work harder but paid a lot less and even some are struggling financially
With footballers and celebrities it’s all supply and demand, the public choose to give them money, but I’ve thought what you say about middle manager types
Just remember we are just expressing our own opinions
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@Richard_Scope I think you may be right.
@OverlyAnxious that’s a good one, I’m not massively into animals myself. I didn’t used to mind Attenborough but I find him a bit preachy now!
Also hate the "compensation" culture we have imported from across the Atlantic.
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Rental housing would be better pooled in a national resource, with private and council tenancies banished in favour of a national 'approved tenant' register, enabling people to choose the sort of housing suited to their changing needs, to stay in an area or often in a particular home for as long or as little as fits their wishes and requirements, so they can easily move at short notice to live near work opportunities, or near people who will help care for them or be cared for by them, or to escape a frightening situation.
The aim of the 'approved tenant' register would be that the government would underwrite the landlords for tenants who trash property and pay no rent, but would have the incentive to carefully identify the miscreant, in order to remove them from the list, but also to ensure they repay the costs of their actions. They would also be unable to be problem neighbours, making lives hell and getting away with it because "we are council tenants, we can't be evicted because the council would have to put our kids in care and they dare not". Now that people can be deported from the country after prison sentences and simply obtain fake papers and return instantly, it is essential that D.N.A. is used as I.D., never paperwork.
Because the national housing stock has virtually not a single unit of M4(3) fully disabled friendly usable housing anywhere, there is a good argument that the national housing stock needs correcting, by making every single new build to M 4(3). It is so easy to simply alter the design before construction, and the extra cost is only £1,400, according to this Public Consultation paper. Altering adequately after the home is built not only costs a fortune, but is never completely adequate.
SCOPE, please could you transfer this with the right link to a place people will see it? After the Public Consultation closes, in two week's time, it will be too late. Millions of new build are ready to be pushed through planning and constructed in a mass home building drive. The Equalities Impact assessment has declared that having nowhere to live has a positive impact on elderly and disabled people. You won't believe it, so check 50. and 51 of the document, which says exactly that. You don't have to be disabled today, and don't need to be a carer today, to realise that a fully wheelchair accessible home is fine for non disabled and disabled people, all their lives, but if they ever need it, and there is no such thing in the national housing stock, they will regret not getting onto that Public Consultation and filling in option 4, with a remark in the remarks box underneath, explaining the entire building regulations should demand M4 (3) for every single newbuild.
We can be sure the big developers will moan, because that extra £1,400 off their profit will annoy them. But the population of the country need housing that will not become useless to them, not shoddy inaccessible brick rabbit hutches, with or without cladding, such as the construction approved in recent years.
But I hate when people think they have the right to police our thoughts.
I said on another forum that a man who may have had surgery to become female would always be a man who had, had surgery to become female in my eyes and not the same as someone born female...not because they're in any way inferior, or not as good etc but just not the same.
I was banned....
So, just in case, it was nice knowing you all...
It's just my opinion...
I won’t respond as debating is not the idea of this thread it’s simply to state our unpopular opinions
Thanks for posting everyone
The public are too stupid (and I include myself, I am not attempting to speak as an outsider) to be trusted to make decisions such as how the country should be run. That said I’m not saying that dictatorship is the answer just that democracy is flawed. I won’t pretend to know what the answer is.
I did study the concept of a “selfless dictator” in my philosophy A level but that is sadly not a possibility in the real world.
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Unpopular opinion? I think Boris Johnson's a complete Berk, and that's the censored version! I also hate Sony, I've had 2 of their mobile phones, and they didn't work at all, plus due to my allegiance to the Xbox brand I've had many an argument with Sony fans, and last year I bought a Sony Cybershot camera from a Charity shop I worked in, tried it about twice, it didn't work very well so I sold it on eBay.
in fact apart from a few recent Gems such as "Shotgun" by George Ezra, Pop music in general has been rubbish since around 1996 IMO.
Also, I hate PayPal, but it's essential for eBay buying and selling so I have to live with it.
My unpopular opinions? George Ezra is overrated. Chai tea tastes rank. Lord of the rings = rubbish. Jazz music sucks.
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Lord of the Ring is indeed crap though, as are all 5 Hobbit movies.
I don't like the following:
"Reaching out" especially when the person doesn't mean it.
"Touch base"
"Ping"
One of the ones I really dislike is when someone requests something but says "Ask" in other words "my ask is" which is absolute nonsense.
"Buy in"
"On the same page."
"Quick win."
"Blue sky"
There is of course "going forward" which is same as "moving forward"
I would be interested to hear from anyone else on here to find out if they find any of the above buzzwords annoying
Have you heard of a game called Buzzword Bingo? It’s a game one of my family members plays in meetings at work.
Basically you fill out a 3x3 grid with buzzwords that you think will come up in the meeting (like moving forward, health and safety, diversity, etc.) and when they do come up you cross them out. The first one to cross their whole grid out wins!
I haven’t heard of it but it probably wouldn’t take me long to fill it in😂
Maybe it’s just me but sometimes are becoming like clones all using the same buzzwords which sound out of place. If I wanted something I would say something like “please could you .... then say what it was I wanted. I would never say “my ask is” because it sounds ridiculous😂
However,
moving forward 🤣🤣🤣
On a similar note I would say I’m not a fan of internet “memes”
Outrageous statement @66Mustang
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Incidentally what is the male equivalent of feisty!? Pain in the neck?
i also don’t like the misuse of the word wicked.
1) "Brown" people? Racist much?!
2) It's the third week of November, Christmas is over 30 days away!
3) All racists should [removed by moderator] be forced to consume a rolled up copy of the Daily Mail.
When someone advertises a tiny studio flat as 'boasting a spacious open plan lifestyle' I immediately assume the rest of ad is all lies as well.
Not to mention an 80k commuter car ad stating that it's in 'mint condition' and 'drives like a new car'... I've had over 40 used cars. Not one has ever driven like a new car...and I'd be extremely disappointed to buy a new car and find it drives like an 80k Insignia...
What's worse is that the majority of people must be enticed by this rubbish otherwise they wouldn't do it!!
Not any more! Literally yesterday I had an email saying eBay are changing their payment methods. You can now link your bank account directly to eBay
not long ago my eBay account was compromised and I had to leave, I’m so glad my bank account wasn’t attached to the account!!!
Apparently Apple employees are given a kind of thesaurus of words not to say when dealing with computer problems, with alternative words to say instead!
Another one I don’t get with cars is when they say “female owner” or “elderly owner” like that’s automatically a good thing. I know plenty of people who abuse cars regardless of their age or gender and plenty who look after them well. Often (not always) “chavvy” looking cars are owned by people who really like their car and keep it in good nick. I would rather a car owned by a young male enthusiast who looked after it than a little old lady who abused the clutch and never took the engine above 2500RPMs.
That said for balance my brother’s first car was owned by an elderly lady who had it serviced every year even though she’d only done 500 miles in it and it was in beautiful condition.
Yes, 'one careful lady owner' is another one that winds me up...just makes me assume the clutch is knackered, the DPF is blocked and there'll be dents on scrapes on every corner. I'd rather not know who previously owned any car I'm buying!
Mine? The people who cant take their eyes off their phone when they are with me every notification ping they are onto it ..yet when i send them a message they dont answer for days or at all ( have a family member in mind) ..
I have no problem if they are expecting something important.but otherwise makes me feel like im wasting their time or an incovenience or just not important.
One friend( i did it kindly) i just said " i can see you are really busy so ill let you get on" stood to get up and leave..she hasnt done it since..
I have to say, not unpopular with me, I agree!
I have a family member who gets mad if people use their phones while she is around them, but, if you are talking to her she is the first to get her phone out when it makes a noise!
Unpopular opinion 2: All Elite Wrestling sucks, full of "Vanilla [removed by moderator]" who think they can fly, and also full of former WWE mid carders who Tony Khan thinks he can push to the Moon to "stick it" to Vince McMahon and WWE in general.
something I don’t like is ice cream sellers wearing gloves to sell ice creams but then also take and give change wearing the same gloves, very unhygienic. I’m surprised they are allowed to do it frankly.
I still don’t mind the idea of an electric car in the interim though and think they could be good fun.
Scope
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Unpopular opinion 2: Kevin Nash should not have defeated Goldberg at Starrcade 1998, it was bad enough he won the match and ended Goldberg's undefeated Streak of over 200 matches, but with interference from the balance of the New World Order? How about no?! If WCW had to end the Streak they could've at least give Goldberg a clean finish.
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I agree with telephone consultations where they are all that is required but feel people are going to A&E rather than the GP knowing they will see a doctor, but this is just clogging up our over stretched hospitals
..a virtually empty supermarket carpark at 0810 and someone parks in adjacent space right next to me..so i have to wait to open my door ...why?
Is it me?
"It is what it is" (usually when someone is doing a tick box exercise about wellbeing).
"That's a really good question" I am really fed up hearing this especially during the government press briefings or when it is said in response to a question which someone does not want to answer.
People talking about wellbeing when they do not actually care about wellbeing. It has become lip service and just a tick box exercise.
People asking how you are and before you have time to answer they start talking about what they actually want.
People who claim to be "disability champions" who refuse to discuss the serious issue of the workplace bullying of disabled staff. Being disabled at work is not only about having the right equipment as being treated like a human being is just as (if not more) important.
I think far more needs to be done to try to eradicate workplace bullying of disabled people. Bullying is often covered up and the only recourse to most people is to go to an Employment Tribunal. I don't think that some employers have progressed at all especially when it comes to peer bullying of disabled staff. Unfortunately workplace bullying can have long term health implications which could be avoided instead of basically allowing bullies to continue making disabled staff's lives a misery.
@leeCal Before I got a Blue Badge I had other drivers park right up against my car so I had to wait until they got back because I couldn't get into my car. I can't climb over the passenger seat. I used to park in an empty part of the supermarket car park only to return and find that a SUV was usually parked right next to me so I couldn't get it.I read the comments made by @Francis_theythem on another thread. I am sorry to hear about how you feel and I often feel the same way because I am often made to feel like I am an afterthought. People often exclude me because they don't value my contribution so now I don't bother contributing when I have to interact with those kind of people. I think it's shameful that disabled people are made to feel worthless. I am fed up with tick box exercises about wellbeing because if people can't get the basics right then going on about wellbeing is pointless. Wellbeing, diversity, equality, inclusion etc are the latest buzzwords in workplaces but in reality they mean nothing.
People who use other people's Blue Badges when the holder is not in the car and people who park in the few disabled spaces without a Blue Badge knowing that nothing will be done.
It certainly is annoying when people park in the spaces that they aren't supposed to, I wish the rules were enforced, those spaces serve a valuable purpose for those who use them legitimately.
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Thank you very much for your comments😁
I actually switch off when people who I know don’t actually care about diversity, equality and inclusion start talking about it because it is meaningless when these people talk about it. If I want to discuss these issues I would discuss it with people who actually want disabled people be treated fairly including people in this online community.
Unfortunately along with the many other words/phrases I have mentioned, they have become yet more buzzwords😞
I am fed up with people talking about wellbeing when it’s clear they are only doing it to make themselves look good. Employers need to do far more to stop disabled staff getting bullied at work and I think things have got worse for many disabled people because ridiculing someone who is disabled doesn’t seem to matter😞
As this is the unpopular opinion thread I will add one, though I'm not 100% convinced of it myself, not saying I 100% agree...Parent and child spaces should not exist at all. People who are disabled do not choose to be disabled and they need more space so they deserve it but people with children choose to have children - why should they get special treatment because of their lifestyle choices? Just adapt.
when i I was young and had a family there were no such thing as parent and child parking spaces and we got by fine. There are a limited number of them anyway .
Consequently a few days later I went in work to apologise for not being able to do an extra shift due to illness, he was on the Till, and goes "What THA doin' ere?" so I proceeded to tell him in no uncertain terms what he could do with his low opinion of me, consequently I lost my job because the Manager sided with him and accused me of "mishearing" what he said!
I might be deaf but contrary to popular belief I'm not daft!
People parking in disabled spaces without a Blue Badge. I recently saw three out of the five disabled spaces taken up by cars without a badge and because they are no parking fines, people do it because they cannot park because the car park is full. However, this means people like me don’t get a space.
I also think that in most cases, people who get lost driving to places and blindly following the Sat Nav should be arrested for trespassing in Fields and that.
I don’t like arrogance. If someone goes on about their achievements I immediately assume they feel they have something to prove and are not actually that good in reality. I prefer someone who is modest and unassuming.
On the contrary I have met several people who are constantly expressing their achievements and bigging themselves up, and these people have lived boring lives and have not done anything of note.
I'd be interested to hear what everyone else thinks on that point.
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I guess there is a fine line between being confident in your skills and arrogant