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.

A Spa day is my idea of hell. Some total stranger running their hands over your body is not at all relaxing - it’s bloody creepy.

If we invested in education between the ages of 0-5 everything in society would be better as these generations grow up.

If you're in the 15% of women who genuinely don't want to breastfeed then crack on, the risks to your baby's health are yours to take (and must be weighed, as with everything, against other risks to the woman's mental or physical health, ability to fulfil other roles, etc). My hope would be that the number of women who don't want to breastfeed would drop after a couple of generations of the above public health policy, but I accept that some women just don't want to.

I specifically didn't say "make formula prescription only". In fact, make it cheaper, make it morally ambiguous to try and make money out of it, make it so no woman ever has to give their baby expired or overly diluted or scheduled, limited amounts of formula for financial reasons. It would be expensive but in my unpopular opinion, worth it.

And to the poster who couldn't produce enough milk, yeah, 2.5% of women physiologically don't produce enough milk. There's nothing to feel guilty about (although guilt is a complex emotion, isn't it?) I hope you were given the UNICEF information about responsive bottle feeding, and supported practically and emotional support to continue giving some breast milk, if that's what you wanted to do.

Anyway, I've rambled enough! Should've just said my other unpopular opinion - "Marmite is actually pretty meh" 🤣

YABU

I think she has nailed the 'nice, sweet girl' act and is really a massive cow.

Children under five don't need educating, they need parenting!

Florence and the Machine do the same. I switch off the moment I hear her ruining "You've got the love". She ruins one of the best dance tracks.

You think I need to read the tripe that Epstein and others were mailing each other? I value my time far more than wading through all that guff. My point was that Epstein came across as intelligent and polite in the interview I saw him in.

Join the dots. He was a pedophile, he did not look like a monster with 3 heads and forked tongue, he was charming and softly spoken, and yes he could now be described as the devil incarnate for what he did. What we see before us isn't who the person is.

god it's exhausting having to spell things out, but there you go.

I wonder if they got a paycut (gender pay gap) given that if they had taken 2-5 years off for mothering a child, their salary would be less and given a drug that made you feel shit for at least 24 hours every month just so they could feel the whole women experience- they would?

Female singers who sing in a baby-voiced, breathless manner should be gagged.

Chili, pasta, avocado, mayonnaise, tuna, noodles and Chinese food are all disgusting.

My husband is amazing. He’s consistently the smartest and kindest person I know. I’m not sure how I lucked out. I’m obsessed with him. Please tell no one.

Maybe for some as it’s not easy and maybe the parents can’t cope or can’t be bothered. But for others, it really isn’t, it’s the opposite, it can be extremely challenging, and the worry about their future is awful.

If you aint got a vote you don't need an opinion

You don’t need to spell anything out for me. Your original post said “he was very intelligent and a lot more courteous than the interviewer”. Nothing about how he was able to walk in plain sight, slip through the net, appear to be more charming than he was etc.

I’ve read extensively about all of this, I don’t consider it “tripe” to read through information and messages that were sent between powerful men and educate myself about how the world really works. Him coming across as charming and courteous in one interview is just the tip of the iceberg. That’s why I said you should read the Epstein files and the reporting around them.

“god it’s exhausting having to spell things out but there you go”

David Attenborough fun story. My insane mother, whi came out with random weird facts out of the blue, informed us about 2 years before she died that she shared a house with him in Cambridge for a short while.
Her opinion 'Funny little man. Quiet' My kids just stared at her in shock. 'Well, he was'.

I very much didn't say you want to make formula prescription only. That's why I took the time to check. You said it should be used only as a life saving medicine, which you must see is ambiguous. It is something that needs to be clearly spelled out.

And I firmly agree with you about the need to ensure all formula feeding families can afford to do it properly. Sub-optimum formula feeding is a real problem, it's good to see it acknowledged and the scale of it isn't necessarily apparent to people outside the communities where it happens. This could even go as far as the state needing to step in to provide a national supplier, if any changes mean the UK becomes a sufficiently unattractive market to suppliers. We could also have made Healthy Start vouchers keep pace with inflation, but I digress.

You are of course free to hope whatever you like! Again, as long as there's not going to be attempts to make any of this less optional in the, let's face it, quite plausible event that it turns out not to do what you want it to do, crack on.

I think David Attenborough is past his sell-by date. I used to watch all his series but I haven't done now for over a decade. He and Ernest Shackleton would have been my fantasy dinner guests but now it would be just me and Ernie.

The mainstream media and its shit stirring ways cause much of today’s problems!

I never liked him and I find his sanctimonious preaching unappealing.

Anyone who uses the term “classy” invariably isn’t.

It’s just as unhealthy to be obsessively tidy as it is to be a hoarder.

If it’s not for something time-sensitive, it really isn’t that big a deal to be ten minutes late to meet someone. Get over it. All the people I see on MN threads saying “I bet they wouldn’t be late for a train/flight” as if they’ve come up with something incredibly profound - well, of course a train or plane is different. If you’re waiting for someone in a cafe or pub, people traffic control isn’t going to tell you to leave now or miss your slot. You won’t be at risk of crashing into another person if timings are off.

Yes, I put a wash on if I work from home. It takes two minutes; it’s not going to bankrupt my employer. And of course there are quite days where I don’t work solidly. Do people really think these days never happen if you’re physically in the office?

I think the media should just STFU about Epstein for a few days.

Tom Cruise has the same effect on me.

My nan used to say spare the rod and spoil the child. Ok no need to hit your child, but discipline is still required. You can spot weak parenting a mile off - kids need boundaries.

Not sure the mainstream media have that level of influence these days.

Apple / Smart watches (or even worse, smart rings) are naff. And ugly.