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Please share a NON-POLITICAL unpopular opinion that you hold.

eg Breaking Bad is massively over-rated and you don't see the fuss

eg Mrs Browns Boys is the best comedy on television, now or will ever be


over to you

Strictly Come Dancing is a terrible idea for a TV show, and is not the least bit entertaining.

Minutes of applause at football games when people die are tedious and fake, shallow virtue signalling.

Small talk is a waste of everyone's time

Also think it's selfish when parents know their child will have a painful or meaningless life and continue on with their pregnancy.

Robbie Williams is a tosser.

Michael McIntyre in NOT funny

Social media is eroding the standards and ethics of our society.

One would hope this is not an Unpopular view.

Seems to have done very well so some (wrong people) must be amused by him.

Same goes for that Russell Howard fella.

add to those

Andy Parsons

and especially Mickey Flanagan

comedians who are deeply unfunny (in my probably unpopular opinion). got legs up to careers from tv panel games like mock the week.

+1

Wtf?

People in comas or who have no brain activity should have the machine switched off after a defined period of time as they cost the NHS an absolute fortune.

Pensioners should not be given free travel on public transport.

Only found out who he was this summer, when my mate almost fell out of the taxi at the airport.

I'm staggering about like a twat, and I thought he must have spotted his long lost brother!

Was a really nice fella, and having seen a few bits of his shows now, I think he's pretty funny.

That said, I can see why he's going to be marmite, and it probably says more about me that I like him :D

Will you be going out out, when you get to Spain?

Mad Men was dull.

Game of Thrones is utter pish.

Drug Users should be sterilised.

I forgot that one

Disagree about GoT tho

the vast majority of posters on blonde football team threads are clueless about football and even more deluded about their own teams and can't see the wood for the trees when discussing them.  When they are proved wrong the vast majority go very quiet as well after chirping relentlessly beforehand.

Encouraging people to decide in their 20s whether or not they'll love someone for the rest of their life is an absurd concept

Assume this is recreational drug users as apposed to someone on Chemo or Insulin?
Would be very interested on why you have such a view if you are referring to "all" drug users.

It should be easier for Gypsies to get planning permission to live on on their own land.

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Celtic is not a big club

I think you'd really enjoy this book, talks a lot about the mental processes concerning out beliefs, what we do when they're challenged etc.

Well written and not unnecessarily lengthy, one for the xmas list :)

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Nando's is the nut worst of the big fast food chains.

agree.. people lose their minds over it.. shallowest menu ever..and its chicken in bun/wrap ffs

and you have to collect your own drinks but pay restaurant prices!

Not even recreational, I mean smackheads. 

I have no issue with someone popping a pill or doing a line at the weekend.

DIE!

Some of the nicest, most inspirational people I know are recovered heroin users,

Women should not be front line soldiers/firefighters etc.

Children should not be allowed in pubs just like i am not allowed to go and sit in their nursery/creche to annoy them.

Peep show is one of the most unfunny comedy shows in history.

:)

Lol at everyone posting opinions that they know most blondes agree with.

This thread was a terrible idea.

this

If you can't afford to feed and clothe your current child/children you shouldn't be allowed to have any more.

uk prisons should not be segregated except by sex

Lamb kebabs are made of shit, and taste the same way.

FYP

Lamb shish kebabs are pretty decent, as long as the cuts of meat used are good.

This

I'll second this, great book.

ABBA are shit.

Not sure if I agree or not, but this is something I think about a lot.

People who claim to prefer vinyl are lying hipsters.

Biology plays a much much much bigger role in disparities between the genders than most people claim it does.

UK professional poker players should probably pay tax (even though as somebody in the industry I guess I'm ok that they do not).

I'm not a huge fan, but surely you can't justify that opinion.

Wow that was the one that caused someone to bite :)

Yes, ABBA are shit. An ABBA song comes on at a wedding and everybody SPRINTS onto the dancefloor, but all ABBA songs are slow and dreary and everyone just sways about a bit. Rubbish.

It doesn't work like that in 95% of cases. These comedians spend years grinding out the club circuits to get to the panel shows. I do concede that the 'big' comedians have won half the battle before they even come out on stage as people are chomping at the bit to laugh at them.

Religious places of worship should be destroyed

Along similar lines people who are genetically challenged should not breed with people who are genetically challenged unless they can provide for the genetically challenged child they're almost definitely going to produce.

Note this is not about creating a master race of perfect human beings. If you can provide for your kid then go for it. I don't care what make it is, what colour it is or how much help it needs throughout its life as long as that help is paid for by the two people who brought it in to this world.

Woodsey hasn't found thread yet! Save something for him!

I just thought of another one.

People who class themselves as 'travellers' are the most annoying people on the planet.

Yes I know I could've gone to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand blah blah blah for the money I spent on my car but I don't fucking want to!!

Not everybody wants to see temples and shit you know!!

I dream of being able to call myself a traveller!  I just seem to be on the corporate hamster wheel being somebody else's bitch these days  rotflmfao

MMA is a total waste of time, effort and money

Not sure this is an unpopular view, but people with big hipster beards looks like cocks!

Watching sport I mean. Competing is acceptable.

Didn't take corporate woodsey long to sign in. Surprised there wasn't a pension update at the same time!!

Spending public money on space exploration and large hadron colliders when there are people in the world who don't have access to clean water is an absolute disgrace.

You need to mention one of his key words. It was probably 'Thailand' that sprung him in to action.

Nightclub DJs have zero talent.  It's no different to me going up to the front and playing a Nik Kershaw record.  And then when it finishes playing a Duran Duran record on the adjacent record player.

Yeah this. I used to go clubbing back in the 'superclub' era (Gatecrasher, Cream and all that) and the fawning over bloody DJs was unbearable. I remember some dopey lad coming up to us bragging he had Paul Oakenfold's autograph and he was devastated when me and my mate said "he is just a bloke who plays records:.

EPL football is no longer worth watching.

It's populated by grossly overpaid & undereducated players who spend as much time learning how to cheat and deceive the referee as they do learning the actual craft skills of the game. Coached by managers who only encourage this kind of behaviour. There is little, if any, true sportsmanlike behaviour in the game. Many so-called professionals don't seem to have a problem inflicting career ending injuries on their fellow professionals.

It's a sport refereed by people who don't actually seem to understand the game, since they are constantly deceived by the diving and various other forms of cheating. The seemingly constantly changing definition of offside rule makes an already impossible task even more difficult to accurately judge. And the good old footy fan continues to insist that referee errors are part of what make the game interesting. Video review is probably decades away.

A sport administered by some of the most incompetent (FA) and corrupt (FIFA) bodies in the history of sport.

Waste of fkn time.

Great era and we were all guilty of falling for the marketing nonsense.  We all paid fortunes to get into the clubs (which all went to the DJ's effectively).  Remember queuing outside in sub zero temps for 2 hours at Progress in Derby in 1994 to see Pete Tong and Jeremy Healy.  They were all stealing a very good living.

Oh, and another thing;

All recidivist criminals should be sterilised.

Ian hislop > Paul Merton

People who throw crabs into the sea are smug and irrelevant

People who think professional poker is a desirable career which offers 'freedom' are delusional and probably virgins

People who stick to the speed limit are the most annoying fuckers in the world

Drugs are good

Gordon banks save wasn't that great.

The Paralympics are a complete joke & stuff like wheelchair rugby, blind golf etc is all lolz

Met my wife whilst djing in the late 80's(still married), also won Gloucestershire DMC in 1988, its the Djs NOW that dont have talent press a button instant mix...dont get me started..everyone wants to be a dj.

London is shit.

University is a waste of time and money for most people.

Star wars, LOTR, Harry Potter and anything along similar lines is a load of bollocks.

wheelchair basketball is one of the most thrilling team sports i have ever played and believe me i have played alot of them in my army days

wheelchair rugby is rough as heck played by people with limited use in three limbs so never had a chance to play but for those eligible and not able to play basketball its great to have the opportunity to play a team sport

Brexit  will not make much difference.

Outside of politics David Cameron and Boris Johnson are probably nice blokes.

Wouldn't mind going for a beer with either.

Please share a NON-POLITICAL unpopular opinion that you hold.




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Valentine's Day is for mugs.

Dogs should be banned from populated areas.

London (and all major cities for that matter) should be car free zones.

1 1/2 bottle of Grey Goose moment 
actually and laughing at anyone who really thinks the UK is racist ,
go live or try and make a living in any Asian country without a thick skin .

Political correctness bollocks which exists in the Uk

Poker players moaning they were not playing around early 2000's. If you can't win now I also doubt you could win then . As  you did not have the help, coaching etc in those days

Anyone giving Mantis , Woodsey ....and Arboy for that matter grief about their posts

1 1/2 cases, imo... ;)

Over a week yes maybe  ;)

Charity adverts showing starvin babies covered in flies are offensive and put me off my dinner

Vegans

Having to constantly pay a shed load of tax so sickly weak people can clog up the nhs is cack

 Furbabies.  They are dogs ffs.   ;madasahatstand;

The Big Bang Theory is in the top 10 sitcoms of all time

Sleeping with a 16-18yr old when you're 30-40 is perfectly acceptable

Thinking Frank Bruno was a decent boxer or any of our heavyweights after Lennox Lewis for that matter

Blonde has become a forum full of people who would argue over the colour of the sky.
95 % of the posts are someone's unpopular opinions, did we really need this one as encouragement?

i know what you mean its not like i can do anything about it as i cant go over and help them in anyway and donating to a charity just plays the large 6 figure and 7 figure salaries of some thieving chief ex

People dying always being labelled as 'brave fighters'

"The power of positive thinking" is a load of old cobblers.

Easy to understand why an old moanbag would think that...

Haha, our ages must not be far apart, we used to go to progress!

Aye, wtf is that all about.  My new sales director is a vegan, I told her I don't trust non meat eaters.  Went down well. 

Take your vegan ideals to someone who gives a fuck.  She was wearing some batshit crazy t-shirt last week about being an ocean pirate and protecting fish so I ate tuna mayo for 4 solid days.  I even put fish pie in the work micro, i don't like fish pie but it was a victory. 

Wonder if any of the starvin Africans are vegans

Birthday cards, Christmas cards, any fricken card.

H and S Signs, 30 secs after being displayed, actually any sign 30 secs after it has been put up.

agreed..always look ill.. and base nutrition decisions on ridiculous values.. i don't drink milk because its cruel to milk cows ffs..

Adults taking their birthday seriously are ridiculous.
"Oh I can't go then, it's my birthday weekend". Grow up FFS.

Do you not think they are using their birthday as an excuse to not go to something which they don't want to go to?

I cannot believe there are many adults who treat the birthday with anything other than a shrug, a sigh and "another bloody year older"

I often see people posting their birthday plans on forums. I have seen people post on here that they wanted to play a tournament but it's their birthday. WTF.

I know loads of adults who treat their birthdays very much as they would when they were kids. Women mostly but not exclusively.

I also know an adult who gets 'Easter Presents' which I didn't even know was a thing.

Adults having hallowe'en parties.

People from the UK having thanksgiving parties.

Fancy dress parties.

Dear. Oh. Dear.

Is the Easter presents person a devout Christian?

In my 20s, we just used it as an excuse to hit Butlins for the weekend or something, but never used to go out wearing badges or fancy dress :D

People who go to watch darts and sing inane songs and barely watch any of the sport should be tagged, and a list of their names circulated to warn other members of society that they are in their midst.

Seemed like a good idea to me, a kind of arsehole containment thread....

Also people who go racing on Saturdays and spend the entire afternoon at the bar. And then cause trouble.

WTF is the point? Why don't they just save the £25 entrance money and go down the pub?

Going racing at weekends is horrendous, haven't been in 10 years or more.

That's nothing. I actually know someone who still gives Xmas presents & sends Xmas cards.

Beat that.

How do you know it's still horrendous?

One good thing about this i found was renting my uttox members badge to a friend who was desperate to go to the live music night with his mates who already had tickets when the human league was on this year and it was fully sold out and couldn't get a ticket for twice the face value of the ticket when i had no interest in going anyway.  The tickets for these 'lolracedays' are the most expensive of the year even though the racing is garbage.  Certainly makes my annual members fee a lot cheaper.

Xmas party race day at Uttox tomorrow should be total carnage with once a year piss heads donking around the betting ring covering people in fosters whilst getting their £2.50 ew on.

we should stop trying to cure life ending illnesses like cancer / aids and spend the money on other stuff.

Nope not at all. Literally just a spoilt child who is now an adult (bless her)

Inheritance tax should be 100%.

Hmm. Wait until it's your child and see how you feel.

Now that's an interesting one. why do you think that?

Even I would put a threshold on this, first £100k (possibly more/less) is exempt.

its a hard one I know and have had people close to me pass away and expecting another one in net few days, but as a whole we are living longer already and its a massive drain on all resources, what happens when we cure cancer / aids and all the other nasty things? people live longer and longer being more of a drain to the worlds resources until we reach the point we cant sustain it. Sounds a bit like the Dan Brown book but it does have a sense of truth about it.

 :D  Want the country to develop even more reckless spending habits than already exist?  Never sure if you are serious when you come out with these extreme left wing views.  I would agree if it meant every kid had to work his own way to the top from nothing to provide motivation which a lot of rich kids lack.

Just go in members/go to a small track.  Cheltenham fetival is pretty hard going.

Am I ok to do stuff on birthdays ending in zero?  9 out of 10 I just shrug and move on, but going to get some shit done next year to mark it.

60, or 50?

Would stimulate the economy massively.

I think even more relevantly it's a socialist idea which just doesn't work.

In practice it would mean all the super rich who could afford to plan it out would make sure all their assets would get passed on in other ways before they die - so relatively little redistribution from them.

The middle classes would go from a property owning class to a renting class - given that the most likely way of getting on the property ladder now is by inheriting into it.

And on the off chance you had some working class done good - their family would immediately revert to being working class again.

If anything it would be a perfect opportunity to make sure that everybody was kept in their place and quashed any ideas about social mobility.

Maybe that's Camel's plan to keep the riff raff exactly where they are.

Must start charging my friends whenever they borrow something. I'll explain it's the value to them, not what it is going to cost me (zero), that I'm charging for.

The logical extreme of this would be state farming of children so that no one gains anything through an accident of birth

Think we've already seen the logical conclusion of this

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Red-Dog is thinking 'at least I don't look like I'm wearing a tent like old fatty Mao'

I know someone who if he gives someone a lift home charges them petrol money, even though the person they are giving a ride to lives on the route they are already going on.

Baffling.

Yeah I know quite a few people who do this, including one chap who asked for money for a lift two months later because he forgot to at the time. He also always tries to get us to but Amway type stuff. And his wedding was bring your own booze. Bless him.

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Let's just sneak away now Eck, and hope no one noticed us

With respect my mate offered to pay me double because he couldn't think of any other way to get a ticket and assumed I would be going as a member. I wouldn't dream of asking for double the price plus he isn't a close friend and you have to factor in risk of the badge not returning! Can never be too careful

Are you friends with Martin Lewis?

I imagine his wedding was a bring your own booze sorta do.

There's more to nirvana than just trolling.

Haha, could be a rich vein:

Cords are cool

Grown men look good in sportswear

It's perfectly normal to visit the cinema 6 times a week

Koi are the perfect pets

We are naturally fitter, stronger, healthier on a narrow diet of Crazy Chicken and Kabobs

Bit busy at the mo planning my response to so much of this thread but pretty sure I'll be back later

1. Golf  I just don't get it. Its shite to play, watch or gamble on.

2. People who sing 'Stand up if you love the darts'. It is the absolute worst sporting chant, it makes me twitch like I have tourette's everytime I hear it.

3. Musicals. No need to justify this one I think.

Star Wars is shit. All of them.

You do on this thread.   Can't imagine many are sat at home thinking how dare he?

What % rate for IHT would you think is fair and what level would be Socialistic ? :)

Don't even know the rate today tbh and no clue what it forms of the total tax take. But in principle, I believe it should be pretty low. When you leave an inheritance it's already a nett number after a life time of being taxed and probably having  contributed more than average since you have some left. Feels slightly unfair to take another slice on death.

The Commitments is my favourite movie.

I've sat through a few musicals as my wife loves them and in my humble opinion they are the most tedious, mind-numbing drivel I have ever had the misfortune to watch. I would rather do just about anything in the world ( including even maybe play golf whilst having stand up if you love the darts piped directly into my ears) than sit through Phantom of the Opera again.

My sister was in that.

Playing who?

The Commitments was his worst book.  The Van, The Snapper and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors were all better.

Some abs wankrag used to live next door to me and played that feckin album all day every day.  Boy I hated it after a while.  Mustang Sally.... feck off.  Not sure I could watch the film all these years later. 

The Van probably my favourite.

When they go into the hospital, she is a patient in one of the beds. You have to be quick, only see her for a second, but it is clearly the most critical scene in the development of the story.

People in the army really shouldn't be hero worshipped.

people keep offering me petrol money for nights out when i am going anyway or wanting to go but not going to unless i have someone to talk to on way home

FFS do i look like a taxi driver fuel for a 100 mile round trip for night out is less than £5 why they thrusting money on me

In the main being a nurse is a fairly unskilled job and as such is a well paid job.

Bus/train drivers are basically just posh delivery boys in posh outfits.

I'm a celebrity is one of the best shows on TV and should be on bimonthly.

Social media is improving literacy levels. At least people are reading and writing, however haphazardly, who didn't do so before.

Mantis dropping bare bombs itt!

I know this isn't meant to include politics, but the rules have already been broken.

Socialists think they know what's good for the economy: spout about more ways of stripping yet more tax from those people & institutions that actually do stimulate & grow the economy.... Then spend the rest of their time working out how to avoid paying any tax themselves and siphoning what they can from the welfare system.

This is one of many reasons why socialism doesn't work.

People who get tattoos with their children's name would be better off spending the time and money on their child.

An IQ test should be taken at 11 and those who fail sterilised. Failing that perennial benefit claimants should be sterilised in return for benefits.

jewelry of any sort on babies is abhorrent

I wonder what percentage of those in favour of sterilisation would be alive today...?

That was then (70 years ago), this is now. Postwar Family Allowances Act was about helping people with the cost of raising families after so many had perished in the 2 World Wars. It wasn't established as a primary or secondary income stream. Although I'm sure you know all this already.

Poker is still a fun and profitable game.

LOL. 

In a thread not short on wtf moments, this one does stand out. Would 4KSuited mind telling us where or from who he learnt about what socialism is?

Those who can't even follow simple instructions should be neutered.

 rotflmfao

Doobs wins :)

Oh and red dog is an idiot.

All them kids tweeting from Aleppo is boring now.

Eduardo was clearly fouled for that penalty at Celtic Park.

Arsenal are a big club.

Politics and football.

Great thread Dewi.

The media in these islands are impartial and unbiased.

Nirvana were to alternative rock what  the darkness were to experimental metal - the band formed by their drummer, the foo fighters, were a much better band.

Removing the notion of punishment from the criminal justice system would reduce crime.

Kids today are much better behaved and happier than kids of any other recent generation.

I think I disagree with all three of these but very curious and could absolutely be persuaded the other way. What makes you think reducing punishment would reduce crime and that kids are better behaved now?

On the subject of kids, I live near a school and that has made me a lot more optimistic about kids today, because they seem just like 'the good old days' when I was a kid rather than sex obsessed video game addicted smart phone zombies the media suggests they are.

You are wrong about Nirvana though, please stop being wrong. :)

nirvana are meh. their drummer went on to make a much better and more sucessful band: grohl is a better singer than cobain, a better guitarist [not hard as cobain is sloppier than a dobermans lick] and a better songwriter too. nirvana for their vaunted originality were actually meekly following a musical blueprint laid down by bands like the pixies - cobain is more swoon-a-lishious than black francis, though. which must help for things like getting vanguards of the alternative-underground like MTV right behind you. for their much vaunted influence, well grunge was a minor hit for a few months in the 90s, i guess. until bands like oasis and even ecstasy fuelled D.J. worship became a thing that is. their best song is a bowie cover, too.


i wouldn't merely reduce punishment; i would do away with the notion completely.

at the moment we sentence people based largely on the moral outrage caused by the crime. we have a punitive system whereby crimes can be atoned for by serving a sentence. this is just irrational. if people are a danger to society or themselves, then they shouldn't be in society and in secure places. call them prisons if you like. but sentencing should 100% focus on the offender and not on factors like moral outrage, victim impact statements or other extraneous factors. this might actually result in people being in prison for longer periods. the staus quo sees judges set tariffs based on subjective variables such as moral outrage, press interest, victim profile, victim's view on the crime etc etc. the offender is locked up:  away from society and its changing norms, away from their family support network and friends, curtailing job prospects and housing them in a bruatalising environment. and once the sentence is complete, punishemnt is served and the offender is then released. this serves nobody and adds nothing to the good of society.

we lock people away from society and then release them expecting them to follow the common values of that society, even if the world may seem alien to them. crime is often a symptom, and we dont offer any treatment for the cause

taking away the notion of punishment, locking up fewer people, and investing money and care into prisoners would actually stand a chance of breaking the cycle of crime - its hard to do worse than the current system

where we do need to put people in prison the prisons should be small, based in local communities and should be places of rehabilitation and care. sentence the offender, not the offence. punishment shouldnt be a consideration


with regard to the kids, i can only speak from personal experience. i read about feral kids being blood-let on violent games and access to porn. i see gangs of teenagers, and they are looking at each other phones, sharing music,holding hands, mixed groups at ease in contact with each other. i see spontaneity in fashion, i hear laughter and and i see a lot of care towards others and politeness.  i dont recognise my own young-self and my own peer groups in the young today, they are heads and shoulders above my generation in terms of maturity and class.  the kids are alright, innit.

The kids of today are zombies that's why! Everything, and I mean everything depends on how they are viewed on social media e.g. Snapchat, Instagram and it is impossible for any school going child to avoid.

This comes at a price too, they might be more self-aware but have waaaaay short attention spans. Repetitive tasks like unloading a dishwasher are nightmares for my young cousins. Watching a film without having their phones out simultaneously is impossible. Snapchats are 10 seconds long, and soon we're going to have a generation who isn't tuned in to concentrate for a period any longer than that!

When cocky kids/adults walk out in front the car and just trundle along with no consideration for their own safety I would love to run them over.

Wrong thread?

Not sure that would be unpopular :D

When they do that they usually make a point of not looking at the car, as if this make them invulnerable. I like to slip the clutch and rev the engine hard, it sounds like I'm accelerating and scares the bejesus out of them.

But then you get the overly cocky ones that look you straight in the eye whilst strolling across - showing them both palms usually has an interesting effect.

If you can see them, and they can see you - and you've got plenty of time to stop. In what way aren't they considering their own safety?

Because I might be some idiot who revs his engine and who's foot could slip off the clutch.

Do you drive?

Gary Player was considerably less than scrupulous in the final round of The Open Championshp at Lytham in 1974.

Cricket is shit

If you're travelling at or below the speed limit and someone walks out in front of you knowing that the car has to come to a quick stop to avoid hitting you then you are being inconsiderate and deserve to be run over.

Old people don't deserve more respect.

I'm older than you and you will respect me so shut your mouth

NFL is shit.

Agreed, so are Celtic.

think this is universally known outside Glasgow... but don't tell them...as a Celtic Delusional hardcore fan once told me .. if they were in the premiership they would be top 4 every year and would win the champions league... Bless  ( ps this wasn't Celtic.. although secretly I think he believes this too :)

A view I have long held but became news again this week.

The only thing Michael Barrymore is guilty of is hosting a party where people took drugs and had sex yet his career was ruined.

Bob Dylan makes terrible music.

Vegas is massively over-rated as both a holiday and poker destination.

But Joan Baez sings it beautifully.

+1 from me too.

+1

anyone claiming today is "Christmas Eve Eve" should be placed in stocks and pelted with fruit

Spotted this one yesterday:

Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve is trending on Twitter. View popular ...
1 day ago - Trending tweets for Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve.

To borrow from the inimitable Mr Connolly, hanging is too good for these people, it's a good kick up the arse they need.

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Everyone knows it is Festivus today

People with tattoo's on their faces. WTF

Fat people eating pasties or ice cream in the street. Is it just me that wants to shove it in their faces?  ;D

I wanted to write just people with tattoos the other day, absolutely hate them. But as so many people have them these days decided against it......

We would.  Only club in England that comes close to Celtc is size and stature is Man United. 

ffs, Stoke are bigger than Celtic

Thread is BoB :D

Love this view.  Put Celtic straight in the EPL next season and they would be massive odds on to not be anywhere near the top 4 in the league for at least 5 years.  Celtic are no bigger a club than Newcastle IMO.

I once played golf with a guy wearing tight short shorts. That's a wtf moment in itself. Upon closer inspection I noticed that on his inner thigh he had a tattoo of a realistic looking cock. The whole comedic idea was that it looked like his winky was hanging out of his shorts. And he found it all very hilarious. I didn't know what to say.

Next time, give the close inspection a miss.

what nonsense. "stature" is a completely nebulous concept and "size" means nothing really. if it did newcastle, leeds, wednesday, villa, wolves, sheff u etc would be top half of the premier league

celtic have had no competiton in the SPL for over a decade, have been beating league one standard sides since Rangers went pop and you'd expect them to be top 4 in the PL and win the champions league?

pass the smelling salts. 

I hate it when threads become dominated by football posts. (How's that for an unpopular view?)

Probably a bad choice of words because a close inspection was unnecessary. His...and I quote...'King Dong' stretched to just above the knee.

I bet it was great when his girl/boyfriend compared it to his real one.

Definarely nirvana.

Was it like this unfortunate picture order advertising Sky films Mantis?

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sorry, don't know how to just post the picture.

 :D

Ricky Gervais is completely untalented and unfunny.

Keith and I are finding a scary amount of common ground lately.

I don't mind jacks.

I lolled.

American football is a much more entertaining sport than Association Football

Only been 4 years with no competition.

The EPL is one of the best leagues in the world. 

2001: A Space Odyssey is amongst the worst films ever created

Disabled Paring Bays having far too many spaces in front of the shops. 

Blue Badge holder who are clearly not infirm.

I need to start going to your shops, because I can never find one down here :D

It is quite difficult to get a disabled badge. I would imagine that 99% of those that have them, deserve them. Not all disabilities are obvious.

Stars wars films are shit.

The McCanns should be prosecuted.

Princess Diana dying wasn't sad.

The royal family should be abolished.

half empty car parks but no cripple spaces kill me all the time. I would go and park in an empty corner of the car park but sure enough someone parks next to me so I can't get into my car on my return

You can't abolish what is appointed by God

Someone's in a bad mood.
Wanna bring back hanging while you're at it?
Happy xmas Vinnie

Some people borrow their Nan's though. Agree about Star Wars.

Abolish him at the same time

Marine A is exactly where he should be for Christmas, and many more to come

 ;scarymoment;

Princess Diana dying not being sad is the most shocking thing I've read itt

Yeah, but there are way too many spaces for us ;D

I am so glad I was out of the Country when it happened. 

Very much agreed.

I love it when they fill from the furthest away first.  Sure fire sign the users shouldn't be in them.  

The queen is a terrible mother, Phillip is a terrible father and husband. Neither should be treated with any reverence. Appalling people.

Because of his celebrity beckham is the single most underrated footballler to have played for England.

Legalising drugs would be a monumentally stupid thing to do (this may not be an unpopular opinion here, but in my peer group it is)

I'd be chuffed to see the one furthest away empty, nevermind the closest.

I normally just send my old man to do any shopping I need now, and that saves me having to play carpark lottery :)

Mate the reason you can't get a space is because of all the fucking frauds!

Ii also agree not all disabilities are visible, but disabled parking should be restricted to those with a physical disability that impairs them from being able to walk a reasonable distance to their car.

Or because there aren't that many bays ;)

This is purely guesswork by all of us, but I'd imagine there are way more people that shouldn't be in them, than people parking there who are pretending to be disabled.

Hmmm.........not France, by any chance?

What , like heart and / or lung problems ?

This, worked his bollocks off when others did not, best crosser of the ball who ever lived and great at free kicks.

Talking of people taking the piss in disables spaces, at my old local Tesco express I moved away from not so long ago I regularly saw people with no badge using them. The vast majority of the time it was a black person, probably 80%+ of the time, but you can't say anything 'cus you are racist if you do innit......

Parent and child parking spots are way way more tilting imo in supermarkets.  I never think twice about parking in one of them but would never park in a disabled bay ever.

If you're that fucking disabled just flip up the laptop and get the groceries delivered instead. Much better than struggling to the shops and taking up half the car park with oversize spaces.

Agree with 'family spaces'...wtf is that? I had to park in one because it was crazy busy and no other spaces. Return to find a handwritten note on the windscreen saying 'thanks for taking my space do you want to take my disability too?' I was fuming for weeks. I mean what is your disability? Because it appears to be fucking blindness?

Just lol.

You just said it's mostly blacks that do it. If that's not racist then please explain to me what is.

Please don't skip this, I genuinely want to know.

Because give or take precise numbers it's a fact.

But the point is why would you mention that? 'Because it's true' isn't a reason. Otherwise you should also be saying '80%+ had trousers on'

I think you need to look at the rest of the thread, the last page or two about the disabled/parking spaces especially, I wouldn't even have mentioned it otherwise.

18 pages of controversial stuff and you pick on my post, no surprise there really  :D

Have a nice xmas.

Who are all these peasants who still drive to the supermarket?

Surely you just all get your Ocado deliveries like normal people.

Some of us peasants like to hand select our smoked salmon and fillet steak at Waitrose for quality rather than let a minimum wage donk choose it for us. ;). What sort of peasants do that?

So what you're saying is it's OK to blame the blacks because this is a controversial thread?

I picked on your post because I thought it was blatant racism but the truth is I'm regretting biting already. It's a pointless exercise.

Look back over your posts. You harp on about false racist accusations in so many of them that I wonder who you are trying to convince, us or yourself.

Merry Christmas.

Ok back to the old ignore strategy....

I thought it was all Blonde bantz?!? Just for clarity I don't think the Aleppo kids story is boring, well not that boring. And the disabled can park as close to Gregg's as they see fit. Really didn't agree with Woodsey post. I mean when I went to Delhi I swear it was the Indians taking all the disabled bays!! But thought red dog was sexist about front line troops. If he ever saw my missus in a mood I think he'd change his tune.

Happy Christmas blonde!

For the record, I've never denied being sexist. ;)

Who is more handicapped than someone struggling with young children? (Well, disabled obviously, but apart from that). I'm not sure whether you have experienced it but, if you haven't, I can tell you that it is very difficult and parking close to the door is a huge help.

When I had two children less than two years old, there were no parent & child spaces and I used disabled spaces freely (though only if there were still plenty of other disabled spaces left). Later, Councils obviously came to agree with my view and introduced p&c spaces. In the same circumstances, I would do the same again.

Children in a car are more distracting than talking on a mobile phone.

Him

Thought the same as arb....until kids came along. :)
With twins especially, you need the extra space given either side of the car to get them  in / out and sort them out etc.

Nope, "them" actually :)

i dont need my parking space closest to the shop my wheelchair means aslong as we are on the flat i can travel a fair distance
but what i do need and also parents with brats need is extra space, i need to open my 3 door car to its fullest extent so i can build my wheelchair then
transfer into it. I would park in a normal space if the space was side enough, and despite a sticker asking people to leave room even in an empty car park
some twat will park so close to my drivers door i cant even get my wheelchair in the gap never mind open the door.

so i always use the furthest away disabled parking spot when you have brats and these huge prams you need much the same room also needing to open doors wide enough to put on seat belts

as for shopping i very rarely do it (even rarer when there might be more that a dozen in the shop) but running out of stuff you need or want before you can get a delivery like the crate of beer
when you suddenly get a visit from a alcoholic also so much easier to get cash in tescos than using a card every time you want to spend a penny

I think Bernard Hopkins should carry on boxing

Conor McGregor would beat Floyd Mayweather in a straight boxing match.
He's younger, hungrier, bigger and hits harder.
If he doesn't have to worry about his opponent's takedowns or kicks, he'd have a full training camp to focus on his hands and would be too much for Floyd.

Also, Floyd knows it and will never agree to the fight.

Fans of UFC greatly underestimate the skill level required in boxing matches.

People die all the time. It's getting tiresome with every news site and social media site being filled with OMG x has died.

UFC is utter shite.

And the way people post about people that have just died like they were best mates.

Within 15 minutes of it being announced last night I saw three people post they were devastated. How?

Because it reminds them of their own mortality.

Yeah this and also it is probably a (good) sign that for the most part westerners have privileged lives. The fact that so many people are 'devastated' by a celebrity passing away or Trump getting elected suggests to me that their actual life is going pretty damn well.

I'd love to know what the real reason is - it can't be that, shirley ?

Don't people just want to look like they care about shiz, when in reality most of us don't give a shiz about any shiz

I've been somewhat upset by a family member passing, I would be lying on the floor, unable to move, devastated by the death of a child or grand child I'm sure, I can get quite upset by scenes of suffering, even when I don't know the people, but never been close to dev'd by any celeb death - just seems utterly indulgent to me

All I see retweeted and liked on facebook is "2016, not again" etc etc

The fact is that for many people (lets say you voted for Brexit, aren't losing any sleep over Trump and aren't up on celebrity culture) its a perfectly fine year

the prevalence of media channels, the echo chambers of the like minded/unhappy on social media and the sheer numbers of celebrities reaching mortality just make people think we are in a sort of new paradigm

all that said, George Michael dying so young is a shock of course but the personalisation of it for people is a product of our times

Yep, think you're right about the personalisation being the product of our times.  This makes more sense to me than the mortality thang

Setting the line at January 4 before I see '2017 gonna be just like 2016'

People love the drama, all want to be the one that breaks the news on social media.  

I'm not sure that it's a huge shock TBH-he's beeen abusing drink and drugs for many years and has put himself
In bizarre hi-risk situations repeatedly. What's more of a shock to me is that none of The Rolling Stones are dead! Anyone who smokes/drinks/drugs for the majority of their adult life must be odds-on to die before 60?

People just don't get the fact that there are thousands more celebrities than there ever was before, and this is increasing year on year. Look how many well-known musicians/bands there were when the Beatles started-hardly any. Since then the music industry has exploded creating hundreds more celebrities who aren't dead yet. And now of course we have the wonderful situation where people are well-known for doing nothing. With the age of social media creating celebs exponentially. People like the wealdstone raider, for example, are now celebrities!

Surely nobody is going to post here about the death of the wealdstone raider?

They already have..

Do you want some?

Just had to check he wasn't dead.  He can't be just 50?  Would have been setting the line much higher.  Would be a flip him against Tikay.

We're agreed that the internet has misunderstood the reasons for there being more celebrity deaths, but I think we are in danger of replacing one myth with another. To say there were virtually no celebs in the 50s/60s is madness. Of course the number now is a multiple of then, but there already were a vast numbers of celebs back then.

And is the personalisation new? I can remember my parents being saddened by celebrity deaths. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly come to mind.

the difference is the proliferation of media outlets

social media
hundreds of tv channels
print media
forums
mobile, tablets

all allow people to express their "grief" publically whereas when a major celebrity dies in the 50s-60s all they can do is talk about it with friends and family face to face

I'm devastated by the death of George Michael. Felt like a mate.

Understandable because he was our youth and now we are old, devastating.

Wham bam, I am, a man, job or no job you can't tell me that I'm not. Never gonna dance again. I mean it's clearly devastating. What's wrong with people??

Princess Di was murdered.  And queenie is paying this year, she's going to hell.

there's a difference between unpopular opinions, and offensive ones. still you got the reaction you no doubt were looking for.

The Queen's Christmas Message was particularly insipid this year.

I fear she will never again reach the heights of 1992.

Can you even begin to imagine the noise that will be made when one of the Kardashans (sp?) passes on?

Thery seem to be featured everywhere, but I have no idea what they actually do.  

Kim K made a sex tape which was "leaked" and span up from there. She used to be a stylist for Paris Hilton and a few other celebrities. Her father achieved some noteriety for defending OJ Simpson  Her mother approached a production company to do a "The Osbournes" style tv show which gathered some momentum pretty quickly and things went from there. Marrying Kanye West definitely helped too. Its quite an impressive exercise in media management and marketing tbh.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/20/why-is-kim-kardashian-famous

Depressingly I think you are wrong about the noise when they pass away. I think they will have been forgotten. Paris who springs to mind.

http://gyazo.com/d8780d37607f4f08191ba6ba0f66c841

Blue line is Kim, Red is Paris on google trends. which shows how often each term is searched for relating to a total volume. I don't think it will take them, that long to fade into obscurity, particularly when they stop trying.

https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0261x8t,paris%20hilton

As an aside Kim K was searched for more than Donald Trump in September 2016! If it wasn't for the election week itself where Trump is off the charts, she would be pretty much tied.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Kim-Kardashian-famous

There are lots of them though, I reckon one of them will snuff it quite soon by misadventure or whatnot.

Or driving

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdDwk5qGL8c

Well Paris Hilton falls into the same catgory afaic, I'm only aware of some sex tapes that involved her, & of her extreme wealth.

I was actually au-fait with the one who was on the O J Simpson Defence team - Robert - & he (or the actor playing him) also featured prominently in the recent OJ Simpson TV series which starred John Travolta.

I suppose Bernie Ecceleston's daughters might just fall into the same category - famous only for their inherited wealth & lavish spending. There are actually 3 Ecclestone daughters, Tamara, Petra - she's a real dish - & Deborah, but the last-named sort of flies unfer the radar, & is in fact old enough to be the mother of Tamara & Petra.

I wonder where Kim got the idea :P

Isn't it the same as someone like Tara Palmer Tomkinson/Katie Price esque. Can you think of a male famous for being attractive? I know attractive people tend to do better in all walks of life because of how our minds work, but I can't think of many socialite men. Perhaps you could argue the reality stars but there is a bit of circular reasoning going on once we get to that point. Google didn't return too much. Dan Blizerian might be as close as it gets lol.

It's a similar thing with poppies now.

People (or at least "celebrities") are expected to be seen to be wearing one.

If they don't there will be some sort of moral outrage.

It's all bullshit. Either wear a poppy or don't. I don't give a shit and nor should anyone else.

Oh and on that note:

FIFA (despite all their other faults) were right to warn and then fine the home countries about wearing poppies

Mrs Browns Boys
Royale Family
The Office

Are all dross.

You're right. (Except about the Royale Family)

Why ?

Its not a political statement.. its a sign of remembrance and respect.. A nod to those that gave the ultimate sacrifice so we can all continue our privileged existence

Is it though? Or are you just so sheepish to see it for what it is.

What is it?

Can open, worms everywhere!

Worms placed back in can.  Lid closed.


Pls note that thinking Mrs Browns Boys is funny is the controversial one. ;)

"Its not a political statement.. its a sign of remembrance and respect"

so symbols honouring the military forces of a country are both non-political and appropriate for a football match?

are all symbols of honouring military forces ok, or just ones that are for our boys?

are eg russian symbols supporting their men in the annexation of crimea ok? how about isreali symbols honouring men defending the occupied settlements of palestine?



i've never worn a poppy, i dont like what it represents.

Who gives a shit about all these 'celebs' dying, whys there a thread titled 'they're dropping like flies' zzzz
'Rip celeb 1' 'rip celeb 2'

Needs a like button.  People die all the time.

But then I suppose we could counter this argument by asking who gives a shit about your opinion.

We have self-excluded from the general internet expressions of grief, as we are better than them, so we need a private place to let it out.

Re: the football thing.

Football should be about football. Wear your usual colours and play football.

Rememberance can take place outside the game. Don't drag poppies and other things into it.

That could be said about everyone's opinions in this thread though

Or every thread on the forum.

Actually, I get your point, but I have to admit that I do give a shit. I know thousands of people die every day, but people like Bowie, Prince, Victoria Wood etc were part of the fabric of my life. When they die, I feel like I want to reflect on it and remark on it.

Actually this thread encourages minority opinion so by definition most people shouldn't give a shit about them. Unless you go around getting all hyped up by opinions that are unpopular...which always weirds me out. It's like Christians getting all anxious about Druids or something, why do dat?

Still devastated by George Michael though.

Anyway onwards with the thread. I think personal recycling is so insignificant & pointless it only serves to satisfy the smugness of individuals. Anybody give a shit?

nah

I think you're wrong about personal recycling but I don't give a shit.

Quite right too - you're only supposed to put paper and plastic in the bags.

Would have been a discussion two or three years ago, until the selling price of everything collapsed. It's not controversial that this is a pretty pointless activity now. Need to try harder, Mantis.

Oh ok well try this on for size. I don't care if a dog shits in the park and the owner doesn't clean it up. I mean if some random kid steps in it who gives a shit?

The dog?

You know what tho, went into work early and was looking out my office window onto my golf course, sun coming up, beautifully manicured fairways, triple hand cut greens, stunning. Then this old woman appeared walking what looked like a pug. She ambled across the 18th green and as she approached the pin the dog dwelt for a moment and took a huge shit, right in the middle of the green. Then she just walked off. Oh my god. I felt like caving her skull in with a baseball bat.