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Unpopular opinions part 3

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BringBackGoingForGold · 20/03/2011 16:59

Just happened upon the last one and liked it, so ...

I don't think The King's Speech is that great a film; I think the directing was often unimaginative, cliched and banal and the script obvious. And Helena Bonham Carter wasn't that good.

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feeblephoebe · 22/03/2011 10:54

Teehee - I don't do facebook but I do sometimes think other peoples babies are remarkably ugly.

the ugliest one has to belong to a mutual friend on mine Grin - ugly baby turned into a hideous toddler

home educators are generally as odd and peculiar as vegans

AlpinePony · 22/03/2011 10:58

You cannot "lose" a tampon or condom in your vagina. Fish it out for god's sake - you've not lost a diamond in a tube tunnel.

Pagwatch · 22/03/2011 11:02

Sorry Grin

An irony icon would be fab.
And an ' I am taking the piss you monstrous 'twat''''
And ' you are too stupid for me to respond to'
And ' I really love you in a non stalkerish way'
And ' I am sure you are very clever and all but you get on my tits'
And ' I follow you around because you make me laugh. Please don't be scared'

And a few others.

Pagwatch · 22/03/2011 11:03

Bloody MardyBra

My iPad hates you and keeps deleting you. I don't know why. What have you done to upset it?

BringBackGoingForGold · 22/03/2011 11:03

LeQueen, me too! Oh, actually, four years, cos I did my degree in Scotland Smile

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LeQueen · 22/03/2011 11:22

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IHeartKittensAndWine · 22/03/2011 11:31

Some of these more RL unpopular than MN unpopular...

I worked a lot harder for my Oxford joint-honours degree than friends at other RG universities did for theirs.

Nelson Mandela did a huge disservice to his country in failing to take control of the AIDS issue sensibly and while it was still containable.

One of the best things about meeting my husband at university and marrying relatively young is not having to go on any more dates.

Living in a shared house post university is not all modern and fun it is soul destroying and at least one of the people you live with will be a psychopath, or worse, the kind of fuckwit who leaves a laptop by an open basement window. It is also not cheap because you will spend a significant amount sitting in cafes/pubs bitching about your housemates purely to avoid going back to them.

The public sector pensions offer is unsustainable and needs to be reformed but I'd still take it up again in a shot if I went back in to the CS.

Girls/Ladies/Hen nights are unbelievably awful and I curse every penny I spend thinking how much more I'd like to be getting a takeaway and watching a decent film.

Most contemporary lit fic is unbelievably awful.

Woman's Hour is unbearably smug and the book narrators ruin whatever was decent in the first place.

Parents of children allowed to leave the table/run around in a cafe or restaurant ought to be slapped for a)being so daft as to put their precious offspring in the line of hot drinks etc b)invading other people's space.

A holiday abroad where you do not book internal travel or hotels in advance but do so as you get there is not "going off the beaten track" or "being a traveller not a tourist" just a more haphazard and occassionally more exciting way of doing the same thing.

I am not setting your child a bad example if we are strangers and I am smoking in a park or outside a restaurant. There is something wrong with your parenting if you think the influence of a momentary encounter with a perfect stranger is that pernicious.

Most working late in jobs is down to disorganisation or presenteeism rather than the demands of the 21st century.

MardyBra · 22/03/2011 13:46

I would delete me too sometimes Pagwatch. look how my other attempt at humour failed spectacularly yesterday

boosmummie · 22/03/2011 13:53

Grin Mardy

feggyart · 22/03/2011 14:44

Just because you are pushing a pram you are not more important than me in terms of pavement space

Women who don't work after their children are in full time school ARE lazy.

One child is easy

Home educating a child is weird and wrong

Their is no such thing as "sisterhood" most women are bitches.

Feminism can go to far, it makes me fear for my sons.

BringBackGoingForGold · 22/03/2011 14:46

feggyart, oh my God yes. Also people with prams/buggies shoving their way in front of you with them to get on the bus.

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CheerfulYank · 22/03/2011 15:07

Shut up, Republicans! And for that matter, Democrats.

Some people on welfare are just lazy.

There, I said it.

And despite being diagnosed with ADD I don't really believe in it. But I understand some parents who medicate, I really do.

Itsjustafleshwound · 22/03/2011 17:13

There is no such thing as a time saving gadget ...
Ipads and the ilk are no more than just another wanky way to show off ...

Pagwatch · 22/03/2011 17:15

Grin at mardybra and her comedic thread.

Grin
CheerfulYank · 22/03/2011 17:18

I like Ipads. They make me feel like IronMan. Blush

Pagwatch · 22/03/2011 17:18

Nah. Ipads are lovely

Never wanted want but dh bought me one. Now I am pretending to watch swimming lesson but happily mning. All those hours previously lost to mn....

And ds2 used it when he was all stressed at the dentist - he watched toy story while wecwere waiting. And I am taking 20 books on holiday with just my handbag.

And t'ain't show off. People never see me sitting in the corner minding my own..
Ipads are lovely

MardyBra · 22/03/2011 17:35

Did it again on the linguistics thread Pagwatch. (Hangs head in shame).

MrsSparkle · 22/03/2011 17:36

feggyart i don't think women with prams are more important - but it is easier for the person without a chair to walk round them because they don't have to manover a pram as well!

SueWhite · 22/03/2011 17:45

There's a lot of shite on Radio 4

David Starkey isn't that brilliant an academic, nor was he ever

Adults should not compulsively play computer games

Ipads are rubbish and awkward

Doing deals with horrible people is a central part of foreign policy

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BringBackGoingForGold · 22/03/2011 17:51

I'm so relieved to hear that about Radio 4! I've got this ingrained idea that it's brilliant, worth the license fee on its own etc etc, but whenever I turn it on to give it a go someone is on about budgeting (Money Box? Do me a favour!), gardening, or there's some terrible, twee play on with 'actors' who I don't know how the hell they ever get a job (sorry, that's awful grammar, but I'm het up).

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Mandy2003 · 22/03/2011 17:59

I agree about Radio 4. Before I was supposed to like it, I thought it was brilliant. Now I have a radio in the bedroom rather than a TV, I am listening again and some of it is just sh*te. I cower inwardly if there's a comedy on, those between 6 and 7 of an evening particularly, and even the plays now are "trying toooo hard, with really bad actors" - the sort of thing that put me off theatre in the first place TBH

sieglinde · 22/03/2011 18:30

Radio 4 - only good before The World at One. Anything after that is utter sh*te. But I love In Our Time and Woman's Hour, and Start the Week - just not their ventures into Light Entz.

BringBackGoingForGold · 22/03/2011 18:36

I have to admit to sometimes liking Just a Minute

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SueWhite · 22/03/2011 18:39

I LOVE Just A Minute, The Now Show and The News Quiz (is it?) and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Any Answers is good for a laugh at the mad uptight people and their business news is the best. Also the shipping forecast for nostalgia, even though I don't understand it, and Sailing By, natch.

But the plays are shit. Women's Hour gets on my tits. And there are many weird documentaries about things no one's interested in.