To start another unpopular opinions thread...

[Mammylamb]

... as the last one is full

Neither being a SAHP nor being a WOHP is rocket science.

What if the WOHP is actually a rocket scientist? Women can do that nowadays, y'know.

My unpopular opinion:
Most people's unpopular opinions are zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Aldi and Lidl aren't that great

It’s not normal for a MIL to have ancient photos of DH and his ex wife in full view on her sitting room fireplace.

Step kids can be very difficult to live with.

Some ex wives are money grabbing lazy bastards.

Most unpopular opinions are just massive nasty judgements about others that they know next to nothing or actually nothing about. Often also just biased interpretations of what others say and do.

Hence weird thread, to invite this.

Also, interesting to see.

Reading something you don’t like doesn’t render it rubbish
It just means you don’t like it.unsurprising since it’s a unpopular opinion thread

• Ocado isn’t that great and customer service is abissmal
• Infact most big corporations are awful in all aspects these days. Every food shop, every takeaway, every restaurant I’ve experienced something always goes wrong. It’s hard to find loads of people that can do their job outstandingly. Everyone’s just tired and trudging by these days
• Your children don’t owe you anything for raising, housing, clothing and feeding them
• You shouldn’t enter into a relationship with a parent if you don’t want/like children or don’t like the idea of them being around you/in your home. They, should, come as a package. Plenty of potential partners out there without children

These threads always always end up with racist, sexist, disablist etc arseholes proudly spouting about their right to "free speech" and applauding themselves in an unpleasantly smug fashion. It's almost embarrassing the way they genuinely think people are going to admire them for their brave honesty in saying things others wouldn't dream of saying. In reality people are thinking "I wouldn't dream of saying that, everyone would think I'm a total twat".

Free speech, fair enough. Hate speech, not so good.

@balloonyellow
Entering into a relationship with a parent is wanting a relationship with that person, not someone else. I despise the phrase “you knew he had kids when you met him”, spouted by (usually) women who haven’t got the first clue how difficult step parenting is.

Organic food is an unnecessary and expensive affectation

Does it taste nicer than other food?

I went organic for a month could not taste difference,so in that basis didn’t maintain it

I don’t buy it as it’s more expensive. I’m a skinflint

I date men based on looks, discovering personalities takes months. I was to fancy him enough to shag him

I don’t like cats. When people,describe themselves as cat lady I’m bemused

You shouldn’t enter into a relationship with a parent if you don’t want/like children or don’t like the idea of them being around you/in your home. They, should, come as a package. Plenty of potential partners out there without children

This is so sad, and so true, that a person can ignore the other has DC and the massive thing that is in their life, is to be very ignorant.

A lot of what are spouted as highly judgey under the umbrella of unpopular opinions are just very wrong thinking and ignorance/lacking knowledge of actual facts.

Still interesting to see what people believe!

Organic food is an unnecessary and expensive affectation

I am a bit bemused by this I have to say, as I can't ever recall a time that anyone has made it clear to me that they 'buy organic'.

I'm just wondering in what way you are perceiving this 'affectation'?

Is it just cos you think it

Women aged between 20 and 50 are just as likely to be narcissistic as are older women and even men.

bollocks

psychcentral.com/disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder is more prevalent in males than females and is thought to occur in around 6 percent of the general population, according to research.

Like most personality disorders, NPD typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in their 40s or 50s.

Affectation as I read it on mn,announced in a ta-dah way as if expecting applause
In real life people tell me it as if organic food is the elixir of good health
Yes I do think it’s an affectation

MN is an army of unqualified armchair psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists

sofa social workers,dr google,and watched holby so it must be true nurses
All conversant in “I told you so” with a diploma Whittaboottery

Balloonyellow, I thought it was only me that has experienced all this , but I'm not.
It's all fine buying things like insurance etc but try to claim and it's a different story.
Same with going out , not enough staff hassle over something. Trying to get anything done / delivered/ sorted out : all problems. It's depressing.

Most step parents are amazing! But I see a lot of threads on forums where they are moaning that their partner spends ‘too much time’ with their children or gives them ‘too much money’. Nearly always childless themselves. Nothing against people who don’t want children, but when they are mean and dismissive to a child it’s not right. Makes me sad for the children

I love big hen dos! I want to be at an amazig beach party in ibiza not my local on a thursday night

Teachers are not saints
Lots of people are wankers, some of those people are teachers