To start another unpopular opinions thread...

[Mammylamb]

... as the last one is full

Just to add, please don’t be jealous of Sally next door’s £80 a week tax credits. It really isn’t a life of luxury I’ll tell you that! Maybe try it for yourself and then form an opinion? Take yourself down to the food bank, where there has been record numbers using it. Then come back to this thread and give me a viable reason why there shouldn’t be a benefit system There would be thousands of dead babies, children & their parents/families just on the streets because no one would be able to afford a home or to eat. We would quickly become one of the world’s poorest countries without benefits, I believe anyway

I don’t fancy Kit Harrington or Jason Mamoa

I don't know who Kit Harrington or Jason Mamoa are but now it's on my radar, I feel that I must check them out and report back

Right, Google Images was my friend.

No, I don't fancy either of them.

Kissing, seriously that is a stupid thing to say andi don't like tattoos. Tattoos are associated with oppression. Poorer people, gay people and prostituted women are more likely to get them. Being oppressed is very different from being stupid.

I'm guessing thr person that wrote this is from the older generation.

Most people my age have a least one small tattoo. It's really not just poor people that get them. I have three and I'm not poor or a sex worker.

Plus you forgot about bikers and sailors

How people think they can dictate to other’s about how many children they should have 😂 I will happily be having as many babies I think I can cope with and I cannot wait. Perhaps some people have them when they cannot handle having so many but that is their business. For something which is so personal I don’t think you should push your views onto others, allow them to make their own decisions and live freely for doing so. If the population was too big they would impose a law to stop it like China (where you are allowed to have two children now rather than one!)

The main problem with our world today is people having an opinion on things that DO NOT concern them to the point of ignorance. And yes, I understand that this is a forum but some people are actually too bothered about other people’s business far too much. It is laughable for those of us who are happy and confident in our own decision-making, bot so much for those who aren’t.

Most people my age have a least one small tattoo. It's really not just poor people that get them. I have three and I'm not poor or a sex worker

I suspect the person who wrote that has no clue as to what a good tattooist charges

Sorry Thelovecats85 I meant the person who wrote the original quote, not yours. Just realised my reply looks ambitious. Must be all that ink affecting my capacity

*ambiguous.

@JacquesHammer

Its OK I understood. Which is surprising as I'm a stupid tattooed person.

The tattoo comments

Clearly I am a poor, gay (seriously, wtf) sailor who likes to go biking at weekends.

(This would be even funnier if you could see my tattoos, but imagine the opposite of blue ink badly drawn skulls and L O V E knuckles. Like kittens or something).

Lots of people like being pissed off about things that are provably wrong (you'd think they'd be happy to raise the truth was better than they thought but they are often in denial)

If you're an adult then not understanding the correct way to use spaces and punctuation means you may come across as a bit dim. (E.g. doing this.or,this , and my own particular bete noir,,,,this,,,)

Doing good is good. "Do-gooder" as a derogatory term is incredibly idiotic.

It appears to be an extremely unpopular opinion to believe that being employed is in fact a privilege and as such you should always turn up for work unless genuinely ill.

People who concern themselves with other peoples clothing, choice to have tattoos or lifestyle are boring and need to focus more on their own life.

If you get something for free in life, take it.

Most jobs with minimum wage should be paid much more. I particularly agree that carers should be paid a much higher salary.

In the real world it is actually very difficult to "retrain" or "career change" or "get a higher paying job", only on MN is it such an easy option.

@MalevolentPrawn

Maybe if more low to mid wage range employers were more flexible and treated their staff with more respect, their employees would feel that way.

In the real world it is actually very difficult to "retrain" or "career change" or "get a higher paying job", only on MN is it such an easy option.

And most of the time it is way of saying they don't believe people in lower paying jobs deserve a wage that they can live on - and I mean pay for all essentials like a home, non negotiable outgoings like CT and have enough to be warm and eat, often hand in hand with people shouldn't be on benefits for life. Which leads me to the conclusion that some people are quite happy for others to work and not earn enough to live on, and go without essentials, and at the same time look down on them for not having those essentials. And then forget the blatantly obvious that if everyone in such a job were to suddenly get a better job tomorrow with better pay, who exactly will do the jobs like caring and waitressing and childcare? Who will provide that foundation layer of work that others who earn more rely upon? Who will be serving those business lunches? Cleaning those offices? Delivering those lunches to offices? Caring for sick and elderly relatives?
They ignore that and insist that people cut their cloth accordingly - what if you don't have enough cloth to start with? Why do some people, especially on MN, find it so abhorrent that someone else get paid enough to live on? Is it because it would cut the benefits bill and then they'd have no one to vilify?

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace
@SecretWitch

Do you? blush That's a really lovely thing to say. Things are not going too smoothly at the minute and I feel a little bit sad and unloved — nothing that won't pass with time — but you have really lifted my spirits. Big thanks

That made me smile and bought a little tear to my eye. It's lovely when strangers are kind to one another

I hate the term privilege

wither the second you do anything more than a gentle suck on it

Story of my life

I haven't read the whole thread.. But I always thought unpopular opinions were meant to be a bit of fun... Tongue in cheek type thing... Seems I was wrong.

My unpopular opinion is I don't think Mary Berry is a national treasure...

Whatistheworldcominto

Yes exactly!

Maybe if more low to mid wage range employers were more flexible and treated their staff with more respect, their employees would feel that way.

Also perhaps if they were getting paid a half decent wage for the shitty jobs they have to do, they might be a bit more enthusiastic about doing them. Working a shitty back breaking job for pennies that will only allow you to scrape by in life is bloody depressing.

Also, just because a job has a higher salary does not mean it is more stressful, hard work or worthwhile than a low paying job.

I'm of the unpopular opinion that wages for any given job are primarily set by supply and demand and not by any sense of fairness. I've seen it throughout my entire career, and it's just a reality.

I believe that the minimum wage a company should pay should be 15% of the top earner or living wage (whichever is higher). This reduce fat cat salaries (not going to happen) or force large companies to pay their lowest paid workers a decent wage.