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What’s your unpopular opinion?

210 replies

Robin198 · 30/03/2024 19:14

Weddings. I’m just not a fan. I’m delighted when friends get married but generally find the day long and boring. Yes, I’ve been to some absolutely beautiful weddings and had a lovely time but generally speaking, I’d prefer to be doing something else.

That’s my unpopular opinion!

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ButtockUp · 30/03/2024 22:00

Justmuddlingalong · 30/03/2024 20:42

If drug addicts are still on large doses of methadone decades later, with limited weaning off, the programme isn't working. It's legalised drug prescribing.

yesss!!!

janicegarvey · 30/03/2024 22:00

everythinglooksbetterpaintedblack · 30/03/2024 21:25

Only needy people get married

If you have a penis and wear a dress then you are a man

Screen time for toddlers is lazy parenting

Yes I can't stand seeing toddlers and tiny kids with iPads / phones

I see it all the time staring at a phone in a pushchair, completely Depressing 😔

I think it stops their social skills developing as well

nowandnever · 30/03/2024 22:02

Transwomen aren't women. Most people who think they're trans don't have any type of gender dysphoria, they are neurodivergent or very unhappy people - for reasons other than gender confusion -and have succumbed to a social contagion. Others are predators and incels.

Children don't need to have every minute of their day programmed with after-school and weekend activities. People - adult and kids - need time to just breathe.
There also should be criteria to to have children - not financial or educational - but a minimum age and waiting period during which you should take free childcare classes to demonstrate preparedness.

You should not be able to purchase a dog from a breeder unless you can show that there are no dogs suitable to be adopted from a pound or rescue.
There should be more public shaming and substantial fines / prison sentences over animal mistreatment and neglect.

CFS/ME/fibromyalgia/POTS/long Covid are over-diagnosed. They are real conditions but a significant proportion of people who have the diagnoses don't have these pathologies.

Benefit fraudsters and super-rich tax dodgers should be pursued much more aggressively - equally so.

Hospitals should be able to refuse patients care, or physically restrain them in the case of psychosis, if they are physically abusive, irrespective of mental illness. Mental ill-health is not a free pass to attack people around you. People have a right not to be hurt while doing their jobs.

Within two years, adult refugees should be able to show that they have continuously held down full-time employment, acquired or improved English to the point of semi-fluency and continuously taken (free) citizenship classes. They should also have acquired no criminal record.

PotatoPudding · 30/03/2024 22:03

If you can’t afford pet insurance, you can’t afford a pet.

Womblingmerrily · 30/03/2024 22:04

Human rights are a fantasy for most people in this world who live in fear for their lives.

Normal for humanity is hunger, fear, pain and exploitation by elites/royalty/authoritarian governments. We are fools if we think we can't go backwards.

PotatoPudding · 30/03/2024 22:05

I can’t stand head bands on babies. They look so ugly.

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:05

Babies and toddlers in designer clothes is awful and chavvy.

Big expensive weddings are unnecessary and for people who have more money than sense. If I were to get married I’d just fill in the legal paperwork and save the money for a holiday or something…

I don’t understand why anyone would want a dog as a pet.

Immigration should be stopped and we should be allowed to deport people if they commit any crime.

Balaclavas should be illegal.

Fizzy drinks are horrible.

Cigarettes and vapes should be banned. I judge people who smoke and have no desire to stop.

nowandnever · 30/03/2024 22:08

PotatoPudding · 30/03/2024 22:05

I can’t stand head bands on babies. They look so ugly.

Edited

They really do. I forgot this one. Your baby is no less a girl baby because she's bald.

Mamananny · 30/03/2024 22:08

Josette77 · 30/03/2024 21:59

Are you actually in the closet or just living your life?

I have never introduced myself to people with my sexuality or worn a rainbow badge.

Most people just live their lives.

You're privileged if you don't want people to know you're bisexual and can hide that.

If I wanted to hide my sexuality I'd have to end my relationship.

I'm currently with a woman in a lesbian relationship but I don't need to tell anyone that.

I'm saying I'm happy to be in gay relationships but I'm not happy to be associated with all this alphabet bullshit that's taken over because it's just that, bullshit.

Josette77 · 30/03/2024 22:08

Mamananny · 30/03/2024 21:55

I would say the LGBTQ+ movement does have terrorist traits.

The way it demands things. Threatens people to be kidn and inclusive or else. Cancel culture. The way they try to infiltrate children. Push gender identity on children.

It's got nothing to do with the majority of gay people who are minding their own business.

Its militant and dangerous.

People are being arrested in Russia for this now.

LGBT are being compared to Al Queda.

A woman was detained for 5 days because she had earrings with rainbows on them.

Calling them a terrorist organization is in fact terrifying. You can disagree with cancel culture and whatever you like, calling them terrorists is the height of privilege.

People will die in prisons because of this.

ButtockUp · 30/03/2024 22:08

ARFID is a predominantly western construct.

Penises belong in men's departments.

Dogs will be dogs.

Tattoos will once again be deemed stupid.

Nurses shall once again interact with patients .

Mamananny · 30/03/2024 22:10

ARFID is only juts being recognised as a eating disorder, the same way bulimia and anorexia were once new concepts.

It's very real for us parents of autistic children, who are peg fed and dealing with it.

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:11

Death penalty for all paedophiles.

Mamananny · 30/03/2024 22:11

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:11

Death penalty for all paedophiles.

Indeed 👍

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:15

Robin198 · 30/03/2024 19:14

Weddings. I’m just not a fan. I’m delighted when friends get married but generally find the day long and boring. Yes, I’ve been to some absolutely beautiful weddings and had a lovely time but generally speaking, I’d prefer to be doing something else.

That’s my unpopular opinion!

Drill music should be banned. Disgusting

Josette77 · 30/03/2024 22:16

Mamananny · 30/03/2024 22:08

I'm currently with a woman in a lesbian relationship but I don't need to tell anyone that.

I'm saying I'm happy to be in gay relationships but I'm not happy to be associated with all this alphabet bullshit that's taken over because it's just that, bullshit.

In that case you have not been shoved back in the closet by the LGBT.

You disagree with certain beliefs. That's fine.

I have my own opinions, but that doesn't mean I've been put back in the closet.

You must realize how saying that sounds? You must realize that typing you have been pushed back in the closet by the LGBT when you are openly in a lesbian relationship is not being in the closet?

If you are scared to say you are with a woman because people will assume you have certain beliefs that sounds like other people's homophobia.

I've had people assume my political beliefs based on my skin colour. That's there racial bias not mine.

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:20

Makeup should be allowed in schools. Speaking as someone who had severe body dysmorphic disorder as a teen and who would have refused to leave the house without wearing any. Should I have been made to miss out on school because of a crippling mental illness?!

TitaniasAss · 30/03/2024 22:23

Anxiety is over diagnosed and often used as an excuse for having no resilience at all.

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:23

The education system is not fit for purpose and is the cause of a LOT of teenage mental illness.

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:24

I don't want my kids to be at school with children who have behavioural problems. They should be somewhere else.

TitaniasAss · 30/03/2024 22:25

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:24

I don't want my kids to be at school with children who have behavioural problems. They should be somewhere else.

I'm a teacher and I wouldn't want it either.

Changingplace · 30/03/2024 22:28

TitaniasAss · 30/03/2024 22:23

Anxiety is over diagnosed and often used as an excuse for having no resilience at all.

Agreed, it’s normal to have a certain amount of anxiety in certain situations and people are being made to think it’s not or that something is ‘wrong’ with them for feeling perfectly normal human emotions.

Eyeroll2024 · 30/03/2024 22:33

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:11

Death penalty for all paedophiles.

Agree completely.

PotatoPudding · 30/03/2024 22:37

Vacantstare · 30/03/2024 22:11

Death penalty for all paedophiles.

I doubt this is an unpopular opinion.

LakeTiticaca · 30/03/2024 22:40

3 things that should be banned
Huge inflated lips
False eyelashes so heavy the owner can barely open their eyes
Arse enhancing injections. They look hideous
Oh and number 4, multiple tattoos and especially facial tattoos
Fecking awful