A hill you are prepared to die on

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What is your hill you are prepared to die on.

Mine is the moon landing was fake.
Botox makes you look older.
Sex is overrated.
Some art work is not art its crap.

Yeah I would vote for that, which kind of proves the point!

I remember seeing a cartoon with a woman standing in a hallway, through the door into the spare bedroom you could see her husband sitting at a computer saying over his shoulder, "Darling, I've just found something on the internet that all the scientists have missed."

I think I’d die on the hill that letting kids in your own society go hungry is wrong even if they’re not your kids and the parents are a bit shit.

People who claim to believe in a god/gods must know this deep down. Surely.

Yes, but the hill I'll - not die on, but stick a big flag on - is that there have always been people who write perfectly and others who don't. It's the quality of ideas expressed that matters. I think it's good that everyone has a voice nowadays and the ancient gatekeepers no longer get to dominate the stories that are told. Of course, like any human advancement, it's a double-edged sword, but I prefer the current setup to the intellectual snobbery that once ruled the publishing world. The English language is not dying out or becoming corrupted; it's always evolving, always expanding, and there is always room for people who care about the rules and those who push the envelope a little. As well as people who don't give a toss either way and are just saying something. I'll listen, as long as they have something to say.

Good one 😂!
About the time of the covid vaccine development, there was a cartoon of scientists in a lab saying "well we've done all the calculations, research, development and trials, all that's left is Jeff in his back bedroom to say if it's ok"

Old people driving stupidly slowly is more dangerous than young drivers.

Chavs should be expunged well before dogs. If the chavs have chav dogs then they should be taken off the chavs and given treatment to turn them back in to a normal dog.

You move to a country you should make every effort to live by that countries culture and values.

Immigrants should get no benefits whatsoever unless they are employed

Since no sterilisation method is easily reversible then for the moment I’m merely being hyperbolic. There are responsible parents, who make sure they are capable, to have children. Then there are those who aren’t (barring genuine accidents). I feel so strongly about people who aren’t prepared to put their heart and soul into their children by half-arsed parenting. I think it hurts the children, their peers and society as a whole. So yes, people should prove that they are capable and responsible before being given the privilege of being a parent. That’s a hill I’m willing to die on. You?

Anyone who wrings their hands and gives out about climate change whilst flying multiple times every year should just STFU and never mention the subject again.

And legs.

Care homes shouldn't be congratulating themselves on social media with photos of people with dementia doing mundane everyday things like sitting in the garden.

People with dementia cannot consent to their image being shared potentially world wide (and the images are not flattering). Plus, these are basic activities that should be part of everyday, not a once in a blue moon amazing event accompanied by ai text.

Private dentistry should be abolished. Rotten, neglected teeth cause other health problems which costs the NHS.

People who whinge about benefits should come and see my son, who has an abcess on his brain and is likely to need support for years. He loved his job and worked hard to get his qualifications. Come and tell him he's a scrounger.

People who think the moon landings were faked are so stupid that they should be banned from interacting with others.

• Personalised number plates are a stupid waste of money and make you easily identified if you do something wrong.
• High heels look unnatural and painful
• So much effort and time is spent analysing data and trying to meet targets that no one has time to do the actual job properly.

Off to the ' front' with ya then . See yer later for your state funeral .

Cows milk is for baby cows, not humans.

They are forcibly impregnated and have their babies ripped away from them just so humans can drink bovine breast milk. Madness!

People who believe that salt & vinegar is the best crisps flavour are so misguided that I wouldn’t trust their opinion on anything else.

Agree on 1&2 though 🙂

more to the point, its essentially one fairy story with variations on the theme of anthropomorphism of deities who somehow managed to create the entre universe in a day with one of their tears

"universe is big, I don't understand it, must have been created by giant man... with beard, yes, that fits" is the height of arrogance, narcissism and stupidity combined

but the variations on a theme are enough to go to many wars over

if you looked at be those historical behaviours driven purely by unproven belief purely through the lens of psychiatry,

many people would committed to forensic hospital for life due to being a grave, and active danger to others... instead they led, and lead, nations, while performing mass hypnosis on their cult members

It's nice, very clean.

Do the Middle Eastern religions have anthropomorphism of deities? Which ones?

Father Christmas is just another religion for children but actually one they will definitely sooner or later realise is a lie and sets children up for cynicism for life

Politicians do not give a sh** about anything other than gratifying their own power cravings.
NHS doctors, nurses and frontline staff are almost like saints who have been brainwashed into sacrificing their own basic personal needs for an ideal of the "good for the patient" that is totally exploited by pharma companies and other profiteers.

Yes and apparently old people shouldn't be allowed netflix and coffee. Maybe costa should have bouncers on their doors to keep the undesirables out.

I can think of a pre-internet version of social media (at least, before many people had the internet at home): Backchat on teletext, where teenagers could write in. I remember a comment which I think sums up the whole of modern social media:

”Backchat is brill because of the stupid things you all talk about. Keep up the work everyone, it’s so funny!”

Aren’t we also clumps of cells?

a foetus isn’t a species. What makes this foetus different from, eg, a cow foetus?

The burka is abhorrently sexist, and our "tolerance" of it purely in the name of "tolerance" is shameful. We pretend to be civilised by pretending it's pro-choice, but really we are allowing subjugation of women who don't have a choice.