Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[CornwallFox]

15 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

Do you mean having a printed design on the back? If so just curious why this is such a source of hatred for you? I don’t mind either way just interested to know  

I see somebody's t-shirt as they walk towards me and I see who it is and I see the design. 

I don't turn around and watch them going away and then marvel at the design.

If I want to see how it looks I want to look in the mirror. My neck doesn't swivel 180° to do that if it's on the back. 

It's an unnatural abomination.

Let's put it this way, when this fad ends in a year or two, do you think it'll be making a future comeback? Not a chance. They're the 3D TVs of the t-shirt world. 

 

[Sly]

On 12/06/2026 at 18:40, Grebfromgrebland said:

They tried he was too good

Someone should have taken man and ball.
 

We were too nice. 

 

If we’d have a midfielder like Vinny Jones in that team, he wouldn’t have scored it. 
 

Which goes into my unpopular opinion, which is you can’t compare a Pele, Matthews, Puskus, Best etc to a Messi or Ronaldo. This is what people forget about different football eras.If they’d had access to the level of elite training and today’s rules, they’d play different. The game is different now. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

13 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I cannot overstate how much I hate the backwards t shirts trend. Put the design on the front.

 

It's not a trend, it's a surf culture thing that's been going on for decades and you've only just noticed it.

 

Weird Fish t-shirts have been around since the early 90s and personally I love them - good quality, comfortable, last for years - though they're far from the only company that do that. Quiksilver, Rip Curl and others do.

[The Bear]

11 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

They're the 3D TVs of the t-shirt world. 

They already had that with Global Hypercolour t-shirts, which reacted to body heat to change colour. Remember them? Awful. I had one of course and looked an idiot 

[CornwallFox]

1 minute ago, The Bear said:

They already had that with Global Hypercolour t-shirts, which reacted to body heat to change colour. Remember them? Awful. I had one of course and looked an idiot 

I didn't have one but wish I did at the time, despite your misgivings! As an adult it would be awful but I was probably 12 when they came out

[bovril]

Unless they're playing England I want European teams to win their games in the world cup, especially as it's being played in the USA, and quite enjoy watching northerners like Germany and Sweden coldly demolishing plucky underdogs from the rest of the world.

[Fox92]

13 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I see somebody's t-shirt as they walk towards me and I see who it is and I see the design. 

I don't turn around and watch them going away and then marvel at the design.

If I want to see how it looks I want to look in the mirror. My neck doesn't swivel 180° to do that if it's on the back. 

It's an unnatural abomination.

Let's put it this way, when this fad ends in a year or two, do you think it'll be making a future comeback? Not a chance. They're the 3D TVs of the t-shirt world. 

 

What about if you're walking behind someone? Then you don't see the front 

 

I don't like shirts with prints on the back so I do understand your opinion. 

[Finnegan]

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

[The Bear]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

Agreed. Player safety is more important. 

[bovril]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

You'll change your tune when we're 3-0 down to Cambridge in the freezing rain in january and you just want to get in at half time for a warm drink but they stop for a 'hydration break' so we can advertise shady crypto betting companies for 3 minutes 

[AKCJ]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

When it's 30+ degrees I completely agree. But some of these games are played in mild climates or even air conditioned stadiums. Last night the pitch side temperature for Japan/Netherlands was 22 degrees. We don't need a drinks break in this situation yet they still had two. England's first game is in an air conditioned stadium yet we'll still be told how awful the conditions are etc.

 

The main problem is that it's breaking up the flow of the game and it allows players the chance to recalibrate, take instruction from coaches and to catch their breath. It's like having 4 quarters and it's wrong.

[Finnegan]

7 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

The main problem is that it's breaking up the flow of the game and it allows players the chance to recalibrate, take instruction from coaches and to catch their breath. It's like having 4 quarters and it's wrong.

 

Maybe it's just because I watch so many other sports with frequent pauses but I just don't see the problem tbh. 

 

Rugby Union has absolutely blown up over the last couple of years, try scoring records are being broken left and right, we're getting some of the most high scoring, intense, entertaining games in the history of the sport. 

 

Yet we have longer pauses just for a routine penalty, a kick down the pitch and the subsequent line out than a hydration break in football. The excitement doesn't die in that time. 

 

People get injured in football matches all the time resulting in stops longer than a hydration break and pretty much every match that was exciting before a stoppage was still exciting after. 

 

[AKCJ]

31 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Maybe it's just because I watch so many other sports with frequent pauses but I just don't see the problem tbh. 

 

Rugby Union has absolutely blown up over the last couple of years, try scoring records are being broken left and right, we're getting some of the most high scoring, intense, entertaining games in the history of the sport. 

 

Yet we have longer pauses just for a routine penalty, a kick down the pitch and the subsequent line out than a hydration break in football. The excitement doesn't die in that time. 

 

People get injured in football matches all the time resulting in stops longer than a hydration break and pretty much every match that was exciting before a stoppage was still exciting after. 

 

I do think football is inherently different. 

 

Re. the part in bold, it's not that it's affecting the excitement of the game but more that it almost restarts the game tactically.

 

The players shouldn't be able to take on one-to-one tactical advice from their coaches. Almost every game that has stopped for a water break has had the flow of the game disrupted. Last night Cucacao had Germany genuinely rocked but the water break gave Germany the chance to have a breather and take on instructions. It was an entirely different game immediately and IMO that's wrong.

[CornwallFox]

4 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

It was little over 20° in a closed roof arena the other day. Then the players go back to restart and aren't allowed until the music stops when the adverts stop. A quick drink like in previous world cups is fine. 3 minutes of ads that even the players don't want isn't.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

Rugby Union

 

Mods

[Grebfromgrebland]

They're not hydration breaks they're ad breaks. The game is artificially stopped for them which is the issue.

 

A team could be gaining momentum then there's an artificial break in play for advertising. It's pure BS.

 

There's plenty of natural breaks in play for players to grab a drink if they can't last 45 minutes.

[BenTheFox]

British food doesn't deserve anywhere near the amount of hate that it gets. I've been to several countries with worse food thab the UK. 

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

British food doesn't deserve anywhere near the amount of hate that it gets. I've been to several countries with worse food thab the UK. 

Britain has good produce but much of the general public can't cook even basic meals nor has an appreciation of the good food available to them. In other European countries a greater % of the population can cook and understands what constitutes good food produce. 

[CornwallFox]

13 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

British food doesn't deserve anywhere near the amount of hate that it gets. I've been to several countries with worse food thab the UK. 

 

7 minutes ago, bovril said:

Britain has good produce but much of the general public can't cook even basic meals nor has an appreciation of the good food available to them. In other European countries a greater % of the population can cook and understands what constitutes good food produce. 

Both correct imo.

Fantastic produce, fantastic chefs, a big chunk of the population that doesn't want to be able to cook beyond heating things up.

[Zear0]

4 hours ago, Finnegan said:

I really didn't think this would be an unpopular opinion but the amount I've heard about it I'm starting to think otherwise:

 

I don't give a shit about hydration breaks in football. It's hot out there, it's for player welfare, it pauses the game for like a couple of minutes. It's not a big problem. 

 

Use the time to go for a piss, get a drink, check your phone. It's not the end of the world and it really isn't killing the intensity of the game, that's a really stupid claim. 

 

So woke

[Finnegan]

29 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

British food doesn't deserve anywhere near the amount of hate that it gets. I've been to several countries with worse food thab the UK. 

 

Most of the pelters come from Americans on the internet. They in turn just copy the French, with no sense of their own actual self awareness. 

 

If they had any self awareness they'd realise the irony. America comfortably has the worst food of any country I've ever visited, it's horrendous. 

 

When you say this to them they immediately start getting outraged by any number of things, either banging on about some amazing migrant cuisine you can get there (whilst dismissing British claims to it's own migrant foods, like the vast majority of curries eaten in the west), the number of amazing restaurants they have there (with chefs trained in France, just like the fine dining we have here) or as a last resort they'll start screeching about BBQ as if they're the only nation on the planet that's ever cooked meat outside and it's somehow sophisticated? 

 

All of which is missing the point tbh. Restaurants are irrelevant, every major country in the world these days has great places to eat and many of them all sorts of multicultural cuisine from all sorts of different cultures. It's just not a brag for them any more like it might have been decades ago. 

 

When I say they have the worst food I'm talking about what the average family is actually buying from the supermarket and eating at home. I'm talking about the convenient food, their fast food, their day to day snacks. It's absolutely appalling. 

 

It's OK boasting that your country has "freedom" but when that means your farmers and food manufacturers have the "freedom" to bend you over because you have no regulation at all to protect the consumer, I'm not sure that's the kind of freedom you want to celebrate. 

 

Everything is rammed full of sugar, salt, preservatives and **** knows what else. Even just their bread is disgusting, it's like eating cake. It's produce for a country that has free health care and, oops. 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Finnegan

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

American chocolate tastes like an arsehole, a gritty horrible arsehole

[Zear0]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Most of the pelters come from Americans on the internet. They in turn just copy the French, with no sense of their own actual self awareness. 

 

If they had any self awareness they'd realise the irony. America comfortably has the worst food of any country I've ever visited, it's horrendous. 

 

When you say this to them they immediately start getting outraged by any number of things, either banging on about some amazing migrant cuisine you can get there (whilst dismissing British claims to it's own migrant foods, like the vast majority of curries eaten in the west), the number of amazing restaurants they have there (with chefs trained in France, just like the fine dining we have here) or as a last resort they'll start screeching about BBQ as if they're the only nation on the planet that's ever cooked meat outside and it's somehow sophisticated? 

 

All of which is missing the point tbh. Restaurants are irrelevant, every major country in the world these days has great places to eat and many of them all sorts of multicultural cuisine from all sorts of different cultures. It's just not a brag for them any more like it might have been decades ago. 

 

When I say they have the word food I'm talking about what the average family as actually buying from the supermarket and eating at home. I'm talking about the convenient food, their fast food, their day to day snacks. It's absolutely appalling. 

 

It's OK boasting that your country has "freedom" but when that means your farmers and food manufacturers have the "freedom" to bend you over because you have no regulation at all to protect the consumer, I'm not sure that's the kind of freedom you want to celebrate. 

 

Everything is rammed full of sugar, salt, preservatives and **** knows what else. Even just their bread is disgusting, it's like eating cake. It's produce for a country that has free health care and, oops. 

 

As someone who had the misfortune to live and work in America for 4 years, I can't agree more with the above.  The food in the supermarkets is nauseatingly bad.

[bovril]

Americans are obsessed with adding "seasoning" and sauce because they don't realize raw ingredients can have their own instrinsic flavour. 

[Finnegan]

6 minutes ago, bovril said:

Americans are obsessed with adding "seasoning" and sauce because they don't realize raw ingredients can have their own instrinsic flavour. 

 

It's funny actually, quite a popular meme photo that gets trolled on a lot and has popped up a few times on reddit as "let's all laugh at British food" is from a pub in Leicester. I think it might be the Blue Boar? 

 

And it's a cheese and onion cob, actually really quite a good looking one. It's got a generous slab of cheese in, either red Leicester or cheddar and it looks like a really decent quality crusty cob. 

 

I think the idea to them that the bread and the cheese might actually both be genuinely nice in their own right as well as fresh and not just plastic nonsense is really alien to them. 

 

Plus, I mean guys, it's a ****ing bar snack. 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Finnegan