To stat a new “Unpopular Opinions” thread?

[StabbyCat]

Inspired by a clip I just saw on Instagram.

Deep breath.

Here goes.

Robin Williams wasn’t particularly funny.

ETA “Start” obviously.

Cozy season..wtf
Grazing boards...rank!
Posh pubs

ADHD is mostly just lazy parenting.

'Imagine' is the worst thing ever done by a human being. Including everything ever done by humans or Robbie Williams.

Agree. I once read a newspaper article which was the diary of a SAHM detailing all her household chores, cooking, school drop off, helping kids with homework et etc. I thought ‘I do all these things AND I work full time. Fuck off, you tosser’

No it isn't. I think some parents push for a diagnosis to get additional benefits.
ADHD is a physiological condition where part of the brain has taken different pathways.

Appointing male safeguarding leads in schools seems like an unnecessary safeguarding risk in a profession that is around 80% women.

People keep blaming capitalism for the UK’s woes and I actually think theres not enough capitalism. We have the most expensive infrastructure builds in Europe because we insist on letting every tom dick and harry object to everything the sheer . Public spending is a vacuum and we don’t leave people with enough money to actually encourage proper growth. Taxes are making peoples lives worse it’s not that there aren’t enough benefits.

Which is what makes local news a bit boring.

All of human evolution is the brain taking different pathways, otherwise we would all be AI slop.
Every person on the planet is neuro-divergent, I just think that the push for ADHD in children is driven by a refusal by a lot of parents to accept that their child isn't the next Stephen Hawking, more Justin Hawkins.

Dickens kept the nation on tenterhooks because all his major novels were published as weekly or monthly serials, with lots of cliffhangers. They were popular with the working class because they were in an affordable format. They were maudlin and depressing for a reason, shining a spotlight in poverty, lack of sanitation, minimal education for the most vulnerable in society,

having to read through Bleak House at school, I thought it was dull as ditchwater but I think if I read it now, I'd see it differently. It was a record of life in Victorian times.

He would have been a brilliant scriptwriter for Eastenders!

In the UK, very probably. In many other parts of the world no-one cares two figs what anyone is called.

Neither is as bad as Last of the Summer Wine. Utter crap. They all wanted shooting

Interesting, didn't know name snobbery wasn't a thing everywhere. Guess it's a class thing which we seem to be big on in the UK.
Trying to think of an American equivalent - surely calling your kid something junior eg John-boy Junior after their dad isn't going to get him into Harvard etc? I may be wrong...

Buy your own house. Bradford is cheap.

Don't get me started on LotSW! It wasn't even funny in the 80s. Retired men "larking about" in a 1950s Yorkshire sit-com....in fact what era is it even meant to be set in?! Dull as dishwater.
Mrs Brown's Boys is also awful - but feel this is probably a popular opinion!

Never used one.

Ooh why? Can’t remember hearing anything negative about him before.

Friends the sitcom is boring

dogs are smelly and annoying

ed Sheeran sucks

My point is that men don't get continuously warned patronisingly about going out on their own at night, when statistically they are more in danger. I'm not saying women aren't at risk, I'm saying this discord is incorrect and designed as a way to control and also blame women for when it does happen (think how we're told not to wear revealing clothing).

If we're going to be warned of anyone, it should be our husbands. The stranger danger trope is a distraction from the real threat in our own homes.

Schools are teaching too much because the curriculum is too large.

Parents need to step up and do parenting , including basics like toilet training, teeth brushing, cooking, reading etc.

Tea is the best drink ever.

Squishmallows are better than jellycats.

Agree. Food shouldn't hurt.

People are living too long.

Or rather, modern medicine is keeping people alive too long.

Oh. And Sainsbury’s own label baked beans are nicer than Heinz.

Agree!

WLIs spell the end of personal responsibility for your weight. It’s all about ‘food noise’ and medicalising the problem.

I think I am the only person left who gains weight when I eat more, and loses it when I have more willpower. In my fifties, I have to ignore the ‘food noise’ and eat very little to stay slim. It’s very very hard at times. But that’s what I do as I am responsible for my own weight.