Opinions you have that aren't popular on mumsnet(2)

[Lockdowner35]

As the last thread reached 1000 posts

I will start

Jo Swinson would have do a better job than Boris on Coronavirus

@Wherehavetheteletubbiesgone

Too many people have children with partners that's aren't suitable.

Nobody forces anybody to have children therefore you are responsible for kids that come from your sperm or egg. It is nobody else's job to fund them through child benefit, getting bumped up the council house list or other benefits that you get for children.

Some women would rather have children with an unsuitable partner than take the risk of remaining childless.

People who think pet snakes are going to eat adult humans are thick as shit.

(awaits someone coming back with the "yeah but that woman's Burmese python was sizing her up" myth)

@CounsellorTroi yeh, I guess that's what I did. HOw much of the decision was conscious /unconscious I'm not sure. I had a very low self-esteem.

@BeyondThunderdome

People who think pet snakes are going to eat adult humans are thick as shit.

And yet if you google snakes eating their owners.................

I said eaten, not killed. I acknowledge that the larger ones (though definitely not the foot long babies) are capable of killing a human.

The thread you were talking about was royal/ball python. They grow to an absolute maximum of six foot long.

If you befriend a parent in the playground who looks/is working class you and your DCs won't catch it.

*Being a SAHM is not a full time job. It is a life of reilly. Expecting your working partner to get up in the night with kids is taking the piss.

Obesity is a choice. Not all of you have a medical condition. hmm

Grammar school is superior to comprehensive (in this area).

Being anxious isn't a reason not to get a job.*

Yes yes yes.

Plus - so many people go around having children without being in stable relationships and are then surprised when they end up single parents. Its sad that so many children get passed around between parents.

I think a lot of people that don't work could. A lot of people's mental health would be better if they worked and had a purpose.

You shouldn’t have children if you can’t afford them. By afford them, I include holidays at least once a year, extra curricular activities and not being reliant on second hand clothes and toys.

The whole point of the thread is to state what is an unpopular POV so please stop responding with your alternate view! @JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows in particular!

Mine

Anti vaxxers are entitled to do as they please, (just stop spreading anti vax lies)

Refugees do not have to cross half the world to get here to claim political asylum, especially as they are mostly economic migrants. (I accept their countries are probably shitholes to live in and I have the greatest sympathy for this and agree we should give Aid to alter this)

The Chinese should be handed the worldwide bill for Covid (fuck their cultural, traditional food practices)

MILs are not the spawn of the devil.

There are two sides to every story, but the other party's narrative is dictated by the poster, so we have to believe every word they write

Most older people live very modestly and don't have enormous index linked pensions and huge homes.

The vast majority of 'takeaways' worshipped by all and sundry on MN are tasteless, overpriced junk.
M&S ready meals ditto.
The same goes for Waitrose.
Ankle-boots look dreadful with dresses/skirts.
Most people look like sausages in skinny jeans.
If you eat more calories than you use you will get fat.
Straightened hair looks cheap.

I like Lockdown because it feels safer and will prevent a lot of deaths.

Circumcision for asthetic (including religious) purposes should be made a criminal offence. It is no different to FGM.

Unless it is absolutely medically necessary, no one needs to be removing body parts from a child.

The whole point of the thread is to state what is an unpopular POV so please stop responding with your alternate view!
Exactly!

@Jud9eJudy

Circumcision for asthetic (including religious) purposes should be made a criminal offence. It is no different to FGM.

Unless it is absolutely medically necessary, no one needs to be removing body parts from a child.

It is absolutely different to FGM... It's incredibly disturbing when people claim that cutting a piece of skin off, but leaving fully functional genitals is the same as cutting of considerable part of genitals, sewing the rest essentially shut so causing what must be an unimaginable pain when someone tries to penetrate.

Virtue-signalling can never stop, apparently, hence the hysterical admonitions galore.
[rolls eyes]

Being a SAHP might be a hard job, but it doesn't require any sort of brain power or intellect - if you're educated to degree level, giving up your job to wipe arses and play with playdough is a complete waste of the time, money and effort that went into your education.

@Ohalrightthen
I beg to disagree, raising your children as an educated parent, you are giving them a better start in life than anything you could buy in.
Your education is not going to dissipate over the few years you stay at home with DC. The first 3 years of a child's life are thought to be the most important in their mental wellbeing and future success, chucking them to Eton or similar a decade later might not yield the desired result - current Cabinet is presented here as Exhibit A - if the early years were farmed out to semi-literate senior-school dropouts filling in as nursery workers.

REMINDER - THIS IS A THREAD FOR UNPOPULAR OPINIONS!

[quote praepondero]@Ohalrightthen
I beg to disagree, raising your children as an educated parent, you are giving them a better start in life than anything you could buy in.
Your education is not going to dissipate over the few years you stay at home with DC. The first 3 years of a child's life are thought to be the most important in their mental wellbeing and future success, chucking them to Eton or similar a decade later might not yield the desired result - current Cabinet is presented here as Exhibit A - if the early years were farmed out to semi-literate senior-school dropouts filling in as nursery workers.

REMINDER - THIS IS A THREAD FOR UNPOPULAR OPINIONS![/quote]
Statistically speaking, wealth is a much higher indicator of future success than the presence of a SAHP.

@Danu2021

Oh if we are doing accents, the northern irish accent is terrible. Awful.

You do realise regional variations exist. Even a mile makes a huge difference in accents.

@Ohalrightthen

That is true, hence an educated person should be aware, that raising a child costs money and not have said child until one is able to provide adequately.
The same person should also choose carefully with whom they have DC with, as the other parent must be the very least educated to a similar or higher level and be financially sound and come from similar background.

It is no different to FGM.

It's MASSIVELY different in terms of the lifelong medical consequences and disfiguring nature.

Your original point though is right - it shouldn't be OK to cut any genitalia around for non medically necessary reasons. Just don't be so silly as to compare the two, there's no comparison. That goes both ways by the way - some people try to argue that unnecessary circumcision is fine, because FGM is so hideous. That's equally stupid.