Can we have an unpopular opinions thread?

[AlwaysFuckingTired94]

For things that are agreed as gospel on MN

I'll start: I like dressing my kids in matching outfits and I really enjoy a Butlins holiday

I also don't think Nevaeh is that bad

Mrs Hince is a cleaning ' guru' on u tube that is mentioned loads on this forum. I have never seen her myself, but she likes to use zoflora a lot ( apparently) and teaches people how to clean their homes.

I used to like Kim and Aggi on TV, but i was gutted to discover they didnt really get on at all as they seemed to get on fine for the programme they did, which was quite entertaining!

NHS funding weight loss surgery is money well spent.

I don't like Aldi. Especially their candles.

Not everyone who voted leave is a filthy racist gammon who should be stoned to death. In fact there is quite a bit of bigotry displayed by remainers (in amongst the virtue signalling).

I like the name Wren!! Its unusual.
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious it won't be unusual for long if everyone picks it.

My unpopular opinion on names is WTAF is the need to constantly chase unusual names? I have a common first name - so what?

If a person was vomiting and exhausted and grew a mass weighing up to ten pounds on their stomach, if their legs and fingers swelled up and they regularly felt faint or actually fainted and suffered shortness of breath due to previously mentioned mass pressing against lungs, it would definitely be considered an illness. Pregnancy is NOT an illness by strict definition but the symptoms are often those of serious illness so I do really despise the idea that pregnant women should just get on with it because it's "not an illness".

Oh for crying out loud. Most pregnant women are not 'vomiting and exhausted', regularly fainting or severely short of breath. Generally we may get some tiredness and nausea/sickness early on and discomfort towards the end.

Terribly arrogant to feel able to speak for ALL the pregnant women in the world really @NaturalBornWoman.

LTB brigade on here.People are human,they make mistakes.
And i often wonder do the women feel railroaded in to leaving because MN said so.They get carried along and in 6 months wish they hadnt been so rash.

If someone can be convinced by complete strangers to 'LTB', the relationship is doomed to fail anyway. Yes, it might be over a non-issue and the OP might regret it. In which case, lucky escape to OP's partner.

Kate Middleton is not a role model a d I would be very disappointed if a child of mine aspired to be like her. All that money, education and opportunity and her sole 'acheivement' was marrying well . She comes across as bland bland bland and her husband a total charisma vacuum. Say what you like about Meghan Markle but at least the woman has some get up and go and capacity for independent thought.

I like new build homes better than old homes.

I think it's ok to give a baby a small taster of chocolate or other sweet things, I'd rather teach balance than ban things.

I don't like wedding make up, people look too different from themselves, which I think is a shame.

In the absence of abuse:

Breaking up your family simply because you've fallen out of love with your spouse/the 'spark' has gone is ridiculous and short sighted. People fall in/out of/in love again throughout long term relationships.

If you're pissed off with your dh's parenting, leaving him won't magically improve it. Your children will still be parented by him. Fathers don't necessarily disappear in a puff of smoke just because you've called it a day.

If you split, don't assume you'll keep your kids. It's very difficult to lose your children when you're living as a family unit. Once you've seperated, your 11 year old only needs to say "I wanna live with my dad, his new gf and my new games console" and there's fuck all you can do about it - because it's "the voice of the child".

I'm genuinely interested to know why MM and Harry together are a PR disaster any more than the Cambridges?

I heard that Prince William had been preaching about overpopulation - not sure if it's true. If so, what a hypocrite! Three children all with a larger carbon footprint than most of us would have even if we lived to be 200!

Terribly arrogant to feel able to speak for ALL the pregnant women in the world really @NaturalBornWoman.

I didn't @CarolDanvers, I responded to your own sweeping and hyperbolic representation of pregnancy. Where did I say ALL?

Toddlers need boundaries and some things are always non negiotiable even if they cry. You are not their friend

Toilet training should always be finished before the age of 3 - after age 3 is a new phenomenon, you couldn't get nappies to fit a 3 year old not that long ago. The clue is in the name, you are training a child to recognise the feelings of needing to pee/poo and the first few days you will be mopping the floor a lot. One day of no nappies and wee on the floor doesn't mean you stop

Baby led weaning is only possible due to the guidelines of waiting until 6 months - you are weaning at the time the child is physically ready to eat in that way. When the guidelines were 4 months, by the time we got to 6 months our babies were eating lumps and sandwiches. Spoon some food, throw whole food at the baby. Food is not fun until one. Never using a spoon doesn't mean your child will be unfussy - they all get fussy at some point. It's evolutionary. Children are naturally suspicious of new foods, it will keep them safe

Weaning on pouches is unecessary. Spend some time mashing down natural foods and stop feeding your children on sugar laden, sweet baby foods. Babies don't need special food - boil some veg/meat/pasta/pulses, mash it or hand it over whole. Babies can also eat anything you eat - it doesn't matter if it has spices or lots of flavour. Feed them what you are having and eat with them

Tablets should not be given pre schoolers without strict supervision and for tiny amounts. Children are not designed to have high definition, fast images 5 inches from their faces. It;s too much stimulation and will impact on their attention spans

Most shop size 10's today are size 14's of the past. If you wear a size 10, you are not tiny. Clothes only used to be made up to a size 10
(very occasionally 8) And you do not look gaunt under 9 stone (I say this as a size 20)

It’s rude to correct grammar or spelling on an anonymous Internet forum if the meaning of the post is perfectly clear.

In a lot of contexts sex and gender can be used interchangeably without comment.

Didn't RTFT but for most threads that's not actually a big deal.

My son has his dad's surname not mine, and even if we split up I'm happy with that.

Not everyone can breastfeed, some people are genuinely let down by their body, not their support network.

Zoflora smells too strong

I like eating meat, even supermarket meat.

Smoking isn’t that bad, you breath in worse on the motorway

Who cares when your child is potty trained as long as it’s before school? Why on earth does it matter?!

Nandos is tasty

BLW is only suitable if you are making separate meals for your baby. However most people don't so their baby ends up with a diet far too heavy in salt and sugar.

Most women don't do enough research about breastfeeding, and if they did, they'd persevere for longer

Tom Hardy and Idris Elba are not good looking, Elba can't act.

It’s rude to correct grammar or spelling on an anonymous Internet forum if the meaning of the post is perfectly clear.

To me this is just a tactic people use to derail the conversation at hand when they run out of proper counter-arguments.

Look I'm sorry I should have spelled it out for those less able to think critically. I didn't think I would need to say that not ALL pregnant women would get ALL those symptoms ALL the time but clearly I should have... For myself I went to the gym most days till I was 8 months pregnant but early on I was very sick and fainted quite a few times, at the end with six weeks to go I could hardly breathe a lot of the time and yes everything swelled up. This is not unusual. Most pregnant women report similar. Why at those times should we be told "pregnancy is not an illness" and to just get on with it? So glad you had an easy time. Many don't at times and I maintain that the symptoms experienced at those times would have most none pregnant people ringing the GP, taking time off work and not just getting on with it.

I like Bieber's songs, I'm a Belieber.

I find naughty kids funny and full of character.
If the only way your child will nap is in your arms its okay to sit and watch a boxset while they do so (and enjoy it).
All kids end up in maccys so breast vs bottle doesnt matter.
Its ok to occasionally lie next to your partner playing games on phones.
I love that my husband brings in the money and i cook his full english to say thanks.
Owning a house isnt the be all and end all, enjoy your time.

The population of this country is too big - we don't need more houses, we need fewer people.

If you're old and infirm and don't want to be a burden, euthanasia should be a valid choice.

Most people's jobs will be automated within the next 50 years - we're about to get a hell of a lot more people out of work. We don't need more workers.

Most people have bollocks jobs that we could easily do without.

The measure of how wealthy a country is should not be based on how much we import and export but how well we can support our own population with what we already have. Not being able to feed, provide medicine, etc for your own population without imports will be a disastrous position possibly within my child's lifetime and most certainly her children's lifetime should she decide to have children.

A person's worst action is not the yardstick by which we should measure them.