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Come and tell me your unpopular opinion- something up til now that you’ve been scared to say...

502 replies

ItchyScratch · 19/09/2020 19:51

🚨 (Light hearted thread alert)

I HATE prosecco- it’s horrible- it’s tastes like fizzy piss. (No i’ve never tasted urine before but this is how I imagine it would taste)

I also hate crisps. They are the opposite of cake- mmm cake.

Mrs Browns Boys is not funny whatsoever. I tried to watch a few episodes but my eyes started bleeding.

I hate watching people dancing. It’s boring. I do not understand why Strictly is so popular.

Please tell me your unpopular opinions? Grin

OP posts:
YenniferOfVengeberg · 20/09/2020 19:43

Obesity is irreversible in the long term. There's a lot of evidence for this. It is a chronic illness and should be treated as such, like cancer which in many cases also has a lifestyle component.
The abuse of the NHS will be vastly reduced when people have to pay for it.
If you can't control your dog, you should not have a dog.
It's could have, NOT could of.
Positive discrimination in favour of women and BAME people has not gone far enough.
Baby boomers have had a lifestyle that will not be replicated. Our children will live in a world of climate change, food shortages and conflict.
I am not a cis bloody anything. I'm a woman.

Mcarthurpark · 20/09/2020 19:44

Elena Ferrante novels are overrated. She certainly isn't Italy's answer to Jane Austen, as one reviewer described her. c

Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre was a total dick.

Sparklingbrook · 20/09/2020 20:03

@Mcarthurpark

Elena Ferrante novels are overrated. She certainly isn't Italy's answer to Jane Austen, as one reviewer described her. c

Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre was a total dick.

I have just read The Lost Daughter. There was no plot. I feel reassured now.
Vintagevixen · 20/09/2020 20:06

Masks do fuck all, there is zero evidence they do anything in a community setting.

Vertical strip blinds in a house always look shit.

MsMiaWallace · 20/09/2020 20:39

Facebook is shit.

netsybetsy · 20/09/2020 20:40

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

Radio presenter on LBC early morning is such a ghastly pedant , always sneering at his listeners for any percieved wrongs .

He says the text number 8485ohhhhh and I scream at the radio
It's 8485zero you fucking prick. "Oh" is a letter Zero is a Number

It's the sleazy way he says Ohhhh that pisses me off too.

Oh my! Sounds horrendous Shock that's no way to start your morning!
The80sweregreat · 20/09/2020 20:46

My dh likes his vertical blinds! I hate them with a passion , but he got his way on a few of the windows! They gather dust. They look ok but they are not the prettiest things. I'll get them changed one day but I haven't got the energy just now and it's better than washing net curtains.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 20/09/2020 20:47

I know netsy , I could just reach over and press "snooze" but I'd sleep in.

Other gems he came out with was having a rest on the hard shoulder (ilegal and extremely dangerous) and all the dogs in rescue were just looking for a loving home ( erm no some will have behaviour problems that a skilled handler would need to work hard at to eradicate )

And he whitters on about the amount of unsuitable food and drink he shovels down his face in spite of having Diabetes .

I know , there's an Off Switch .
But I like the presenter after him .

The80sweregreat · 20/09/2020 20:48

70s . Is that Nick Ferrari?

AestheticWitch · 20/09/2020 21:01

I hate watching videos. I hate them just coming on when I'm browsing on the internet without warning. If it's something I've googled for advice, I hate having to wait to watch the whole thing to get the key information.

I like the read information, then I can access it in my own way.

SionnachRua · 20/09/2020 21:03

100% with you AestheticWitch. Videos are infuriating, they go so slowly! Especially bad with recipe videos.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 20/09/2020 21:07

70s . Is that Nick Ferrari?

The one I like to listen too , yes .
I have LBC on in the car , no music .

The80sweregreat · 20/09/2020 21:17

I like Nick too!
Not heard the one on before him though.

Anordinarymum · 20/09/2020 21:22

Please don't shoot me down in flames for this................

I am afraid to take my dogs for a walk now because there are asylum seekers housed in a large hotel next to the large park where I used to go every day.

I have been followed more than once by the same guy who seems to wait around when you get deep into the woods away from the main car park. The last time he followed me I freaked out. He was walking behind me and then he backtracked and came walking towards me and passed me staring all the time.

When I went back to my car he was waiting on the path, so he had gone past me and then backtracked again.

I was forced to go back into the park and call for help from my son who came and met me so I could return to the car. He was ten miles away and it was getting dark by now so I was practically hysterical by the time he arrived.
I can't complain because I know I will be called racist when I am not.

There I said it.

Suckmuckduck · 20/09/2020 21:27

@Anordinarymum

Please don't shoot me down in flames for this................

I am afraid to take my dogs for a walk now because there are asylum seekers housed in a large hotel next to the large park where I used to go every day.

I have been followed more than once by the same guy who seems to wait around when you get deep into the woods away from the main car park. The last time he followed me I freaked out. He was walking behind me and then he backtracked and came walking towards me and passed me staring all the time.

When I went back to my car he was waiting on the path, so he had gone past me and then backtracked again.

I was forced to go back into the park and call for help from my son who came and met me so I could return to the car. He was ten miles away and it was getting dark by now so I was practically hysterical by the time he arrived.
I can't complain because I know I will be called racist when I am not.

There I said it.

You can report this to the police and you should.
SleepaholicsAnonymous · 20/09/2020 21:59

Getting up early is not virtuous. Mornings suck.

I hate that some people think we should pretend everyone's opinions (no matter how ill-researched, divorced from facts or plain ignorant they are) have equal value.

Reverse snobbery is as crass as snobbery.

I am so sick of hearing people say autistic people have no empathy. The autistic people I know are some of the kindest and most generous people I've ever met. Plus this ridiculous prejudice was debunked by science some time ago.

Brexit is a terrible idea no matter how many people voted for it. People do many stupid things.

Another lockdown will only make things worse objectively (the last one caused far more damage than it prevented. And yes, I know that either way horrible things will happen).

Also...

Dogs, marmite and gravy are all 🤮

froggygoneacourting · 20/09/2020 22:01

Capital punishment should be brought back. We have the technology these days to make it humane and DNA testing to ensure no miscarriages of justice.

We clearly don’t, though. Look at all the men, women and in some cases children who have been executed in America on weak or circumstantial evidence, many of whom were later exonerated by DNA evidence.

GreekOddess · 20/09/2020 22:11

I can't stand it when women call other women "lovely" "sweetie" "hun" and "lovely lady". It's fake and my friendships come to an abrupt end if I'm addressed in that way.

nevernotstruggling · 20/09/2020 22:14

@AestheticWitch me too!!!! Dp learns everything from bloody YouTube videos I can't bear it.

nevernotstruggling · 20/09/2020 22:15

Body positivity is bullshit

topcat2014 · 20/09/2020 22:18

I don't approve of street protests in these covid times

orientalknife · 20/09/2020 22:21

I think a lot of coronavirus restrictions are a load of bollocks and it's frightening how people have just blindly accepted them. More people died of suicide last month but no one gives a fuck.

Why the fuck should young people give up their basic joys and freedoms to protect a generation who fucked them over with Brexit and greed/complacency?

If I was old, like hell would I want schools shut to protect me. I'll make my own risk assessment thank you very much. Okay we had to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed yet hospitals were built that didn't even need used. What is the strategy? The virus is endemic. Do we keep locking down and fucking everyone's lives up on a hope and prayer it goes away? Bullshit

The people that went into full nazi lockdown mode make me sick. They don't give a shit about people dying, they just love to look pious because they wear a mask more than others and snitch on Betty down the road because she left her house more than once just to prevent herself having a nervous fucking breakdown. Cunts.

Ah that felt good

boredboredboredboredbored · 20/09/2020 22:33

@orientalknife

I think a lot of coronavirus restrictions are a load of bollocks and it's frightening how people have just blindly accepted them. More people died of suicide last month but no one gives a fuck.

Why the fuck should young people give up their basic joys and freedoms to protect a generation who fucked them over with Brexit and greed/complacency?

If I was old, like hell would I want schools shut to protect me. I'll make my own risk assessment thank you very much. Okay we had to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed yet hospitals were built that didn't even need used. What is the strategy? The virus is endemic. Do we keep locking down and fucking everyone's lives up on a hope and prayer it goes away? Bullshit

The people that went into full nazi lockdown mode make me sick. They don't give a shit about people dying, they just love to look pious because they wear a mask more than others and snitch on Betty down the road because she left her house more than once just to prevent herself having a nervous fucking breakdown. Cunts.

Ah that felt good

Couldn't have written better words myself!

nevernotstruggling · 20/09/2020 22:36

@orientalknife I think that too x

PinkLegoBrick · 20/09/2020 22:39

The people that went into full nazi lockdown mode make me sick. They don't give a shit about people dying, they just love to look pious because they wear a mask more than others and snitch on Betty down the road because she left her house more than once just to prevent herself having a nervous fucking breakdown. Cunts.

I think the Nazis are actually those that think the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, BAME should be either be locked away in their houses out of sight and mind or allowed to die from COVID in large numbers just so the white, middle class, young/middle aged can continue their comfortable "I'm alright Jack" lives without any concern for the vulnerable.