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

I do think bf is the ideal and significantly superior to ff in a number of ways and should ideally go on as long as possible, but I don't agree at all that it means a better bond, certainly not automatically, just by virtue of it being done. I fed mine to 4.5, 3 and 3.5 years respectively and there is something wonderful about natural term bf but the 'bond' is so multi-faceted and bf is only one aspect, if it's present.

I also really quite like frozen roast potatoes

In the main protesters are just agitators looking for a good day out

I read that as alligators. I got a bit excited.

Breastfeeding past the age of a year and a half is weird.

I'm a bit jealous now. I've never seen frozen mashed or frozen roast potatoes in the US. That's brilliant.

I'm proud I had a natural birth, not because I think it's "better" or that anyone else should have one but because dc was over ten pounds and secretly think that makes me proper hard.

People who go around declaring things outside their own horizon or experience to be 'weird' are rather limited people who appear socially/emotionally to be still in Year 7. :)

@MissConductUS conversely we don't have frozen ravioli or a whole wall of icecream. So you win some you lose some.

People who declare that breastfeeding is superior, because they breastfed their children to nearly adulthood are weird

Is 4.5 near adulthood?

Breastfeeding is superior. Not breastfeeders.

People who can't get italics right on MN should probably quit while they're ahead.

because they breastfed their children to nearly adulthood

People who think 1.5 years can even in hyperbole be classed as “nearly adulthood” are weird

People who can't get italics right on MN should probably quit while they're ahead

Absofuckinglutely.

And if you can't cross out properly fuck off maybe you don't belong here

This thread is reminding me of the episode of Peep Show where Jeremy and Mark argue about who is the most nuts, and try and get each other sectioned 😬

Frozen roast potato yes, definitely. Frozen mashed potato is just wrong, in a chemical-process sort of a way. Something’s happened to the molecules so it doesn’t remind you of potato anymore, but something else entirely. Potato waffles are v nice, however.

@TerryWogansWilly - very good point. I can't imagine my supermarket without gourmet chicken and pesto stuffed ravioli and at least 30 different flavors of Ben and Jerry's.

You can keep the frozen mashed and roast potatoes. I think we got the best of the deal here.

MN is so obsessed with trans that, a year ago when the deadline fell for UK companies to publish their gender pay gap and the median gap was revealed to be over 18%, 49 out of 50 threads on page one of the feminism chat board were about trans issues.

I'm sure there's some saying to do with deckchairs or fiddling that would be appropriate but can't think what it is

and probably work in education

Sorry. Not even close

🙄

Though to be fair you did have the good grace not to edit out the word “probably”.

It's OK not to sleep with your husband for a couple of years whilst feeling "all touched out" from BFing and co-sleeping and yes you will find an echo chamber on MN to reinforce your view that he is pestering you and should wait several more years fora sex life to resume, however you should not be surprised when he starts shagging someone else

I'm sure there's some saying to do with deckchairs or fiddling that would be appropriate but can't think what it is

I think the phrase you're looking for is "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic", which is used to describe futile actions taken in the face of catastrophe.

I am confused by this thread.

Is it unpopular opinions, or simply an excuse to spew bile?

It makes for nasty reading in part.