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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask what your lighthearted unpopular opinion is?

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DoYouBelieveInMagic · 19/02/2024 20:38

Not aibu just intrigued. This thread was done on here ages ago and it was so fun. I have two:

Pasta is gross, I'll eat it but its not delicious as people make it out to be its cold slimy dough.

I'm sure she's nice but Beyonce is overrated.

OP posts:
Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:12

Going to the cinema is overrated

Socks over leggings looks ridiculous

Gravy is revolting

Its only a “staycation” if you stay at home

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:13

Children don’t wash their hands properly so cakes made by children almost certainly have wee in them. I politely avoid.

Parents who eat ‘leftover’ food from their children’s plate are gross. Especially if the food has been chewed 🤢

Smoking whilst walking along the street is selfish, as people trapped behind you can’t escape.

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:14

Iam4eels · 20/02/2024 15:26

How do you know if someone is a vegan?

Give it thirty seconds and they'll tell you.

.. because you offer them bits of animals and excretions instead of actual food

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:15

I also find parents kissing their children on the lips weird.

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:15

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:13

Children don’t wash their hands properly so cakes made by children almost certainly have wee in them. I politely avoid.

Parents who eat ‘leftover’ food from their children’s plate are gross. Especially if the food has been chewed 🤢

Smoking whilst walking along the street is selfish, as people trapped behind you can’t escape.

😂 sorry I have to defend every parent’s right to eat the leftover potato smiley faces! They’re too good to go in the bin!

Pudmyboy · 20/02/2024 16:15

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 20/02/2024 03:36

It's less of an ethical reason than you'd think. We don't eat cats because they're carnivores. (Dogs are omnivores and I think that's why other countries do eat them.) Eating carnivores on a significant scale is a) economically difficult, and b) poses greater health risks.

First, economics, as shaped by trophic levels and food chains. As I'm sure you know, plants create energy through photosynthesis, which is ingested by primary consumers, i.e. herbivores. Carnivores can't eat plants, so they eat the animals which eat the plants, and so the energy produced by the plants passes up the chain. Simple food chain : sun's energy ->grass -> rabbit -> fox

For the sake of this post, we will imagine a variation on that food chain: sun's energy ->grass -> rabbit -> fox -> human.

The problem is that very little energy gets passed up at each stage. Approximately 90% of the energy (in the form of plantlife) ingested by a herbivore is lost to the food chain, so you need to give your rabbit 1000 calories of feed to get 100 calories of rabbit meat later. This isn't unique to the herbivores, so 90% of the energy (in the form of dead rabbit) ingested by the fox is also lost to the food chain.

This means that if us humans want to eat fox meat, we also have to give the fox 1000 calories of rabbit meat to get 100 calories of fox meat later, and now it's got expensive. How do you get 1000 calories of rabbit meat? You have to give the rabbits you're farming to feed the foxes, 10,000 calories of feed.

So you can use 10,000 calories of rabbit feed to produce 1000 calories of rabbit meat or you can throw 900 calories away to turn it into 100 calories of fox meat. Which will you choose in subsistence agriculture? It's less hassle and less money to farm the rabbits to eat ourselves, and forget about the foxes.

There are, however, some carnivores I can think of that humans do eat, because they farm themselves, so to speak: wild fish! This is where health comes in. Tuna are carnivorous, and they're also known for being high in mercury. Why are they high in mercury? Because they're carnivores towards the end of the food chain. This is called biomagnification, which means that a toxic substance, in this case mercury, accumulates in higher concentrations at every successive stage of a food chain. Algae absorbs mercury, which is eaten by plankton, which is eaten by smaller fish. The bigger fish get a dose of mercury from each of the little fish they eat. Then the tuna that eats that bigger fish ingests all the mercury banked in its flesh. Rinse and repeat, and the mercury content becomes high enough in the tuna that pregnant women are advised to limit how much they eat, and not to eat marlin at all. Guess what marlin eat? Tuna!

Most famously, this happened with the pesticide DDT and American birds of prey. DDT persisted in the environment, so non-lethal doses accumulated in the bodies of insects, which were eaten by insect-eating birds. The insect-eating birds were dosed with tiny doses of DDT with every insect they ate, which built up in their own bodies. Then that led to a population-crash in peregrine falcons, which eat smaller birds.

Here ends the info-dump!

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Mind. Blown! Magnificent explanation @NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision !

cardibach · 20/02/2024 16:19

Knitgoodwoman · 20/02/2024 15:31

This is going to be very unpopular, but you should get weighed with your luggage.

More weight = move expensive ticket, because more weight means more fuel.

I'm sick of having to pay extra for 1kg of luggage, when I weight 40kg-50kg less than some men boarding the plane, they say it's for fuel, but if that's the case, the large chap should be paying more. It's just how commerce works.

My question is - how on earth are you going over on luggage? I never get even close to the allowed weight!

SpicyMoth · 20/02/2024 16:22

Pray-lean, sounds better imo than prah-lean - I really don't care if it's "wrong" 😂

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:27

Shepherd’s huts are just tiny caravans. They are not worth over £100 a night.

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:27

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:15

😂 sorry I have to defend every parent’s right to eat the leftover potato smiley faces! They’re too good to go in the bin!

I do love a smiley face but once it’s been groped or made soggy it’s going straight in the bin 😂

Anothenamechange · 20/02/2024 16:33

Icantbedoingwithit · 19/02/2024 21:13

Creepy as fuck!

I'd go so far as to say Ed Sheeran is creepy as fuck

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:34

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:27

I do love a smiley face but once it’s been groped or made soggy it’s going straight in the bin 😂

Little bit of cold bean juice chefs kiss

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:35

People who don’t like cats make it their whole personality

Itookheroutitwasafridaynight · 20/02/2024 16:37

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:34

Little bit of cold bean juice chefs kiss

😂😂😂 I almost threw up a bit

LovelyTheresa · 20/02/2024 16:38

Kingsleadhat · 20/02/2024 14:20

Looking after children is really boring

It is, and the NOISE they make goes through and through me. I don't dislike children at all, they are just little humans and they can be delightful, but my lord I just don't have the energy.

NonPlayerCharacter · 20/02/2024 16:39

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:35

People who don’t like cats make it their whole personality

Purrsonality.

TerrysNeapolitan · 20/02/2024 16:39

Smug owners of Electric cars thinking they have single handedly saved the planet

LovelyTheresa · 20/02/2024 16:41

Thementalloadisreal · 20/02/2024 16:12

Going to the cinema is overrated

Socks over leggings looks ridiculous

Gravy is revolting

Its only a “staycation” if you stay at home

I was all ready to agree with you until the last one. Meanings change, and staycation is a new word anyway. I quite like the new meaning of 'domestic holiday'. If you are just at home and not working, that is not a vacation of any sort IMO, so 'staycation' to mean a semi-holiday is a good one. I don't really feel properly on holiday if I'm just in the UK, I mean it's nice but it isn't really a proper vacation.

phoenixrosehere · 20/02/2024 16:42

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 20/02/2024 14:11

WHAT, WHAT. How can you say that about chocolate!
Well I suppose. You like brown pasta, that says it all.
Sending my Condolences on the death of your tastebuds😂

My taste buds work well thank you. I like a lot of different foods of flavour and textures including the ones that people dislike because they don’t taste anything to me like they are described by some posters.

We don’t have to like the same things or agree. Besides, most of it is based on genetics anyway.

phoenixrosehere · 20/02/2024 16:47

Iam4eels · 20/02/2024 15:26

How do you know if someone is a vegan?

Give it thirty seconds and they'll tell you.

Same thing for people who can’t go without meat for a single meal, ime.

Ineedtoletoffsteam · 20/02/2024 16:50

WinkyTinky · 20/02/2024 14:38

@cranarc When the prospective buyers of houses on property shows go "Ooo, lot's of space for entertaining!" Errr, no. I'm not a bleedin clown.

Yes, and "Great open plan kitchen, we can all cook together and the children can play in here and we can chat"

That's my idea of hell - get everyone and their mess and noise out of there so I can cook in peace!

willWillSmithsmith · 20/02/2024 16:53

REP22 · 20/02/2024 12:31

No part of Absolutely Fabulous was even remotely funny.

I think the June Whitfield line (just the one, dear?) was hilarious.

ZebraDanios · 20/02/2024 17:06

Iam4eels · 20/02/2024 15:26

How do you know if someone is a vegan?

Give it thirty seconds and they'll tell you.

IME runners are the same but don’t get so much stick for it. All the ones I know are incapable of conversation without it eventually turning to their PB.

DottyLottieLou · 20/02/2024 17:06

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are vastly overated. Bland middle of the Road stuff.

HFJ · 20/02/2024 17:21

Have thought of another

  • going out out and having to spend the evening standing up and shouting over loud music is not fun (likewise eating at loud and scrapey restaurants)
  • it’s OK to make a nature program without portaying predators as evil and prey as innocent/good. We can handle the concept of a hungry eagle without the need to compare it to Hitler or HMRC
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