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What opinion of yours will nobody ever change?

529 replies

Kibble29 · 24/12/2024 23:18

For me it’s how disgusting it is to wash dishes in a sink or basin full of water. It turns my stomach a bit. The dishes have to be washed in fresh, running water.

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MrsKeats · 25/12/2024 00:27

Brexit is a disaster.
Humans can't change sex.

lionloaf · 25/12/2024 00:27

Having children seems utterly miserable

tobee · 25/12/2024 00:27

Reform would be nowhere if the media didn't get a massive hard on every time they think about Farage and his ilk.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:27

Enko · 25/12/2024 00:25

That warm butter (aka left out of the fridge) tastes like vomit. Put it back in the fridge

Hmm, butter dish in a cool room good.

Rancid butter. Not good.

tobee · 25/12/2024 00:28

tobee · 25/12/2024 00:27

Reform would be nowhere if the media didn't get a massive hard on every time they think about Farage and his ilk.

Probably Trump too

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:28

lionloaf · 25/12/2024 00:27

Having children seems utterly miserable

I dunno.

It feels ok.

iamnotalemon · 25/12/2024 00:28

lionloaf · 25/12/2024 00:27

Having children seems utterly miserable

Agree

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:31

tobee · 25/12/2024 00:27

Reform would be nowhere if the media didn't get a massive hard on every time they think about Farage and his ilk.

I think people should think a bit less about Farage.

He's a nothing who clawed onto zeitgeist.

He gets far more attention than he's ever deserved.

Honestly that man is punching outside his ability because he annoys people.

Just ignore him.

TwilightCat · 25/12/2024 00:32

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:31

I think people should think a bit less about Farage.

He's a nothing who clawed onto zeitgeist.

He gets far more attention than he's ever deserved.

Honestly that man is punching outside his ability because he annoys people.

Just ignore him.

Musk makes him a trifle bit hard to ignore, unfortunately.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:33

Anyhoo, I'm pretty flexible in my opinions.

So my inflexible opinion is, whatever.

jinglejanglejo · 25/12/2024 00:33

Blended families don't work

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:34

TwilightCat · 25/12/2024 00:32

Musk makes him a trifle bit hard to ignore, unfortunately.

You don't have to pay attention to Musk.

You don't have to give him credence.

ItsAStupidQuestion · 25/12/2024 00:34

Stay Another Day by East 17 is NOT a Christmas song. It just has snow in the music video.

Agree with PP re: gentle parenting raising brats.

Grown men on electric scooters are just plain wrong.

Not every human emotion is due to mental health problems.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:35

jinglejanglejo · 25/12/2024 00:33

Blended families don't work

I would agree with that.

My adenda; Never get together with a man that has children.

Don't do that to yourself.

cadburyegg · 25/12/2024 00:35

Home births are a bad idea in most cases.

MeinKraft · 25/12/2024 00:37

Abortion is an act of motherly sacrifice. Women having abortions are putting themselves through a procedure that can be painful, stigmatising, traumatic and expensive depending on where you live. But they still do it because they know the world is cruel to babies who can’t be loved and cared for, and separation at birth would be traumatic for the child.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:37

cadburyegg · 25/12/2024 00:35

Home births are a bad idea in most cases.

No, hard disagree.

My home birth was beautiful and easy.

So beautiful and so easy.

cadburyegg · 25/12/2024 00:37

There's nothing wrong with being a single parent and remaining that way until your children are much older. I say this as a single mum myself.

TwilightCat · 25/12/2024 00:38

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:34

You don't have to pay attention to Musk.

You don't have to give him credence.

Money makes the world turn around, and Musk has quite a lot of it to throw at whichever direction he wishes the world to turn. Just look at the power he now has in America, and he wants to do the same here. Ignoring Musk doesn’t make him go away.

Ratisshortforratthew · 25/12/2024 00:39

Edingril · 25/12/2024 00:20

If people want to martyr themselves at Christmas, they only have themselves to blame

This! My mind never ceases to boggle at the amount of people (largely women) on here incapable of saying no to stuff they don’t want to do, especially at Christmas.

I’ll go one further on the vegetarian opinions - if you eat meat, you should be willing to eat any animal including human. You’ve no business finding dog meat gross or thinking it’s barbaric to hunt seals if you happily tuck into bacon and burgers. (I’m veggie but if the chance arose to try a little chunk of human I probably would 😂)

Weddings are a colossal waste of money and a con by consumerist culture, wedding dresses are universally gross and silly and a wedding is not the most important day of anyone’s life. Just because something’s “traditional” doesn’t mean it’s good - in fact it’s likely to be the opposite. It’s also fine to go to weddings empty handed.

Men should NOT pay on the first date and I’d get the massive ick from anyone who tried. I don’t need or want to be paid for and would see it as an indicator of other problematic views about women.

The ideal hetero relationship model is one where both people share all duties equally, especially if they’re parents - so both work part time and do equal amounts of parenting. Whether women work should never be a question or an option - the thing to ask is why men don’t parent enough.

Communism is a good idea on paper but it’s never been executed well. The closest successful model is probably Singapore and I think a benign dictatorship that limits personal wealth creation and redistributes it through society is a good thing. Inheritance is unethical.

Nodlikeyouwerelistening · 25/12/2024 00:40

Children are already born with natures and personality traits. They are only a reflection of our parenting to a point, but mostly they are who they are.

ClairDeLaLune · 25/12/2024 00:40

Boris Johnson is an utter cunt who has caused untold damage to this country.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:40

MeinKraft · 25/12/2024 00:37

Abortion is an act of motherly sacrifice. Women having abortions are putting themselves through a procedure that can be painful, stigmatising, traumatic and expensive depending on where you live. But they still do it because they know the world is cruel to babies who can’t be loved and cared for, and separation at birth would be traumatic for the child.

Hard disagree.

Abortion is a gift to women. it's not a curse or a bad thing. And it's not about children.

It's about women having volition over their body.

Abortion isn't a bad thing for women.

It's a fucking brilliant thing for women.

BaubleMania · 25/12/2024 00:41

ClairDeLaLune · 25/12/2024 00:40

Boris Johnson is an utter cunt who has caused untold damage to this country.

He's just an idiot. We should stop thinking so much about him.

MalaikaMalaika · 25/12/2024 00:41

Kibble29 · 24/12/2024 23:18

For me it’s how disgusting it is to wash dishes in a sink or basin full of water. It turns my stomach a bit. The dishes have to be washed in fresh, running water.

I'm strong agree, I don't like drinking cup of tea at people houses because of this bad habits.