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StabbyCat · 06/02/2026 21:38

Inspired by a clip I just saw on Instagram.

Deep breath.

Here goes.

Robin Williams wasn’t particularly funny.

ETA “Start” obviously.

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bellysgoneandgotme · 06/02/2026 22:47

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PocketBattleship · 06/02/2026 22:47

Gribouille · 06/02/2026 22:44

And The Beatles is actually a really shit name for a band, we've just got used to it.

I know, it was a joke name, because they played beat music. A joke name.

Most bands have shit names.

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:47

ScarlettSarah · 06/02/2026 22:43

Would you mind sharing more info? I suspect my DSD has this (mother died of alcoholism). I didn't think it always had visible, physical traits...

Sorry, derailing slightly.

My opinion:

People who keep XL bullies in a house with kids deserve a call from social services. Those dogs should be banned from all homes with children under 18.

I will say I don't have much/any direct experience with FASD but I have read about it and find it very interesting. A lot of the symptoms are behavioural/cognitive so could easily be diagnosed as ADHD and similar, but there are distinctive facial features that often present with FASD, the most distinctive of which is probably a long, smooth philtrum. It is incredibly underdiagnosed and a lot of the least functional and least economically active people in the country who are born into deprivation and addiction likely have FASD.

5128gap · 06/02/2026 22:48

JohnTheRevelator · 06/02/2026 22:23

You sound lovely.

You're supposed to be expressing unpopular opinions.😉

NeededANameChangeAnyway · 06/02/2026 22:48

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Monsters

shuggles · 06/02/2026 22:48

Designless · 06/02/2026 21:58

"the most vulnerable" should come last in public policy not first

I sincerely hope that some day, you experience life as one of the most vulnerable so that you know what it's like to live in the real world.

Sometimeswinning · 06/02/2026 22:48

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:34

The Beatles's music is boring and sounds off-key

Unless you can do better you’re opinion is just annoying/sad/pathetic etc to hear.

RetiredMan · 06/02/2026 22:49

FiftyShadesOfPurple · 06/02/2026 22:03

Yes. From "I don't like toast" to "Tommy Robinson is right" in under 50 posts - always.

This is topical for me - for the first time ever, I engaged with Tommy Robinson material today, interview he did on the Triggernometry YouTube channel. Based purely on that, him in his own words, I thought he was likeable, not racist, and, for very many different reasons in his back-story, very brave. Crazy brave, in fact.

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:49

Sometimeswinning · 06/02/2026 22:48

Unless you can do better you’re opinion is just annoying/sad/pathetic etc to hear.

John Lennon is that you?

tsmainsqueeze · 06/02/2026 22:49

Katemax82 · 06/02/2026 22:04

My unpopular opinion is that Chanel Coco mademoiselle is the worst perfume ever made and I recoil in horror when I smell it on people. I love original Coco though and have a bottle

Estee lauder youth dew must be worse , I recoil when I smell it , can't believe people pay good money for it , absolutely vile.
Will just add Robbie Williams is a totally shit singer ,you couldn't pay me to go and see him.

Differentforgirls · 06/02/2026 22:49

Teanbiscuits33 · 06/02/2026 22:31

People like Trump have never been nice, it’s just that when he was younger he probably had more self control and cared about appearances a bit more than he does now.

His niece, Mary Trump, who is a psychologist, wrote a book about him and their family life. He’s always been odious. Didn’t get enough love as a child. I haven’t read the book but I follow her online. She talks about when t
he was younger and her dad’s relationship with his dad etc.

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You should read it!

Gardenalia · 06/02/2026 22:50

Strictly Come Dancing is mind-frazzlingly shit

Hedgehogforshort · 06/02/2026 22:50

Raw vegetables that you are expected to dip from a buffet, tis criminal

murasaki · 06/02/2026 22:50

Joanna Lumley is not a national treasure, she's extremely irritating.

Gavin and Stacey was tedious.

shuggles · 06/02/2026 22:51

Teanbiscuits33 · 06/02/2026 22:40

Talking of men, here’s another of mine. Very few men are attractive past 30. Maybe that’s testament to where I live or something but I feel like I fancied a lot more people when I was in my 20s and it went right downhill after 🤣

Most men under 20 aren't attractive either, judging by the fact that women only swipe right on 5% of men on Tinder.

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:51

Almost everything on TV is boring slop

Teanbiscuits33 · 06/02/2026 22:51

Differentforgirls · 06/02/2026 22:49

You should read it!

Is it good? I’ve considered it! Maybe I will 🤣

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 06/02/2026 22:51

Dickens’ novels are incredibly tedious. The only thing more boring was the BBC adaptations that ruined every Sunday afternoon of my childhood.

ScarlettSarah · 06/02/2026 22:51

RanyaJerodung · 06/02/2026 22:45

Do you think that's an unpopular opinion?
I would say it's very popular.

I'd hope so. Depends who you speak to though.

Sometimeswinning · 06/02/2026 22:51

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:49

John Lennon is that you?

You could only wish for his attention! Even in a seance he’d blank you!

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:51

The TV show Friends is largely unfunny and the characters are not particularly likeable

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:51

The TV show Friends is largely unfunny and the characters are not particularly likeable

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:52

Sometimeswinning · 06/02/2026 22:51

You could only wish for his attention! Even in a seance he’d blank you!

Thank goodness!

Gribouille · 06/02/2026 22:52

PocketBattleship · 06/02/2026 22:47

Most bands have shit names.

There's a right batch now... Car Seat Headrest... Snapped Ankles... Wet Leg... I like some of their music, but I deplore their 'that'll do' names...

That'll Do is probably one...

But I can't bring myself to hate Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs... (though we call them 'Seven Pigs')...

shuggles · 06/02/2026 22:52

plsdontlookatme · 06/02/2026 22:34

The Beatles's music is boring and sounds off-key

Are you one of the people who likes listening to the radio stations that play about 20 songs over and over again on repeat?

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