Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[danny.]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Back on topic, judging by the conversation above this is unpopular:

 

It's almost an inevitability that our species either goes one world or full tribal warfare followed by Mad Max dystopia inside the lifetime of most of the contributors here. 

 

Each and every person will have to choose which they prefer, or not and be remembered for that, too. 

Just to remind you again, we don’t actually get to choose which. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, danny. said:

Just to remind you again, we don’t actually get to choose which. 

I'm sorry, do you mean that the choice won't happen or that most people's choice on it simply won't matter?

[TheLittleBigMan]

I think farting's really funny.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, TheLittleBigMan said:

I think farting's really funny.

Surely that's a popular opinion, it's almost never not hilarious 

[danny.]

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I'm sorry, do you mean that the choice won't happen or that most people's choice on it simply won't matter?

The latter 

[leicsmac]

Just now, danny. said:

The latter 

Got it. 

 

Well, you might be right there, but those left afterwards might see it differently, depending on how it all plays out. 

 

I know it isn't popular and people like to often stay boxed within their own space and time, and I hope that I'm wrong. I fear that I'm not, though. 

[danny.]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

Got it. 

 

Well, you might be right there, but those left afterwards might see it differently, depending on how it all plays out. 

 

I know it isn't popular and people like to often stay boxed within their own space and time, and I hope that I'm wrong. I fear that I'm not, though. 

It doesn’t matter what people think, though, the average person has no power. They don’t get to choose the direction of global affairs. Those choices are made for us and we have, every now and then, the illusion of democracy. 

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, danny. said:

It doesn’t matter what people think, though, the average person has no power. They don’t get to choose the direction of global affairs. Those choices are made for us and we have, every now and then, the illusion of democracy. 

It will matter to those who end up in a horribly shitty world not far away; they'll blame everyone, not just the powerful, as wrong as that may be. 

 

That being said, you may be right about the course being steered and the inability of most people to correct it, but if you are then bad times are coming no matter what, so I would think anyone with any kind of thought about the future would hope you're wrong, too. 

[grobyfox1990]

An 18 yr old got elected in Jersey in the elections on Sunday. Despite all the happy clappers saying 'but he's got no life experience!!' I think it's absolutely class. The lad will be on min £60k p.a and be making decisions in economy with nearly half a trillion £ AUM LOL.

[JonnyBoy]

4 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

If you have more outrage at Reforms immigration policies than that video coming out of Belfast then you deserve a lifetime ban from here

Shock at the people with the laughing emoji at this, the same poster that laughed when I mentioned about the harrowing ordeal the parents of the Nottingham students murders are going through 

 

They live amongst us

[JonnyBoy]

On 25/04/2026 at 22:10, Trav Le Bleu said:

Anyone going to USA to watch the world cup is an idiot. For paying those prices (and thereby reinforcing all that's wrong with modern football) and just generally supporting the actual US economy as they tank the world.

This is like the bigger brother version of what’s happening with our football club 

[Samilktray]

Cooking a Tomato ruins the tomato experience. Much better fresh and uncooked imho. 

[CornwallFox]

Sometimes comments get removed from here when it's almost impossible to understand why. 

[foxfanazer]

50 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Cooking a Tomato ruins the tomato experience. Much better fresh and uncooked imho. 

Great name for a band

[leicsmac]

With respect to current discussion in the ****s thread:

 

Flat fee fines for criminal acts are just a surcharge for rich people to do that crime, they have no deterrent value. 

 

Assess such fines as a percentage of total assets or choose another sentence. 

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

With respect to current discussion in the ****s thread:

 

Flat fee fines for criminal acts are just a surcharge for rich people to do that crime, they have no deterrent value. 

 

Assess such fines as a percentage of total assets or choose another sentence. 

Yep, remember my mind being blown when a client said he never bought a tube ticket as the expected value of fines was lower than the price of paying for a daily ticket.

No way I'd be so ballsy to do that, usually in life it's easier to just follow the rules, but fines legitimise the crime.