Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[String fellow]

3 minutes ago, bovril said:

Don't know how unpopular this is but I think people slightly underestimate what an achievement winning the cup was last year. 

Here was I thinking that we'd won it this year!

[bovril]

1 hour ago, String fellow said:

Here was I thinking that we'd won it this year!

I always use last year when talking about last season.

 

Maybe that's an unpopular opinion 

[bovril]

On 09/10/2021 at 19:05, Parafox said:

Anyway... Chinese take-aways are shit. The same generic menu no matter where I go. Tried a traditional Chinese restaurant in Nottingham once and the "boiled the pig's intestines" or "sheep stomach lining fried with onions and squid sauce", weren't very appealing.

 

Please someone tell me different. I live in Hinckley BTW so I'm limited, I guess.

 

I get that they have adapted their food to meet the western European taste but, surely there's a middle ground.

 

 

Very good Chinese is amazing. Better than v good Indian imo

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, pmcla26 said:

I think I'd agree it was bland if I didn't like the chicken curry and sweet and sour sauce dishes. 

Those are about the only 2 things I like but the sauces are gloopy as is the barbecue sauce. I just wish I could find somewhere where the food and the sauces were freshly made rather than out of packets or containers. I guess that just doesn't happen in a take-away joint.

I have made my own S&S sauce from a recipe and it's decent but a faff to make.

Also have had a Chinese meal in Chinatown, London but TBH it wasn't great. Pretty much the same generic menu as the suburbs with additions of things like squid and squid ink rice. 

2 hours ago, bovril said:

Very good Chinese is amazing. Better than v good Indian imo

Where can this phenomenon be found?

 

 

Edited 13 October 2021 by Parafox

[Parafox]

Guinness, outside of Ireland, is not the same as the same stuff over there.

Edited 13 October 2021 by Parafox

[Samilktray]

Just now, Parafox said:

Guinness, outside of Ireland, is not a patch on the stuff over there.

This thread is for unpopular opinions 

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Samilktray said:

This thread is for unpopular opinions 

Any idea why there is such a difference, though?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Izzy]

13 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Guinness, outside of Ireland, is not the same as the same stuff over there.

I once stayed in Belfast on work and asked for a pint of Guinness at the hotel bar.

 

The barman handed it to me and said "I'm sorry about the quality of the Guinness here, it doesn't travel very well"

[Parafox]

15 hours ago, Izzy said:

I once stayed in Belfast on work and asked for a pint of Guinness at the hotel bar.

 

The barman handed it to me and said "I'm sorry about the quality of the Guinness here, it doesn't travel very well"

Haha, I never knew Amazon would send their drivers so far...

Guinness is brewed at St James Gate in Belfast. Dublin. If it's that poor having travelled a few miles down the road, no wonder it's pretty poor having sailed over the Irish sea. Maybe it's the storage and tanker miles travelled that make it rather disappointing here.

Edited 14 October 2021 by Parafox

[String fellow]

11 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Haha, I never knew Amazon would send their drivers so far...

Guinness is brewed at St James Gate in Belfast. If it's that poor having travelled a few miles down the road, no wonder it's pretty poor having sailed over the Irish sea. Maybe it's the storage and tanker miles travelled that make it rather disappointing here.

Dublin!

[Guest Manini]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Any idea why there is such a difference, though?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I don’t know the correct answer tbf but I would wager that they know the correct way to keep it over there, and some of that might be lost in England. 
 

Beer from source (or close to) is, generally, better anyway to be fair though - and I’m not 100% sure why. 

[thursday_next]

5 hours ago, bovril said:

Don't know how unpopular this is but I think people slightly underestimate what an achievement winning the cup was last year. 

Agreed. The one thing about it that was so good was we were actually able to beat a decent side. Every time we've played a decent side in the past we've lost. We've had to pretend that it means a lot to overcome Stoke City (but only just), Middlesbrough (only just) and Tranmere Rovers. I don't think these finals were all that special for a neutral fan. I think the majority of neutral fans were taking the dog for a walk or watching 'Z Cars' or re-arranging their cans in alphabetical order in their kitchen cupboard. I wouldn't blame them, not personally

 

Now we've hit the jackpot - we beat Chelsea with one of the great FA Cup final strikes of all time. Eat my goal, you neutral fans!!!!  

 

 

[ScrumpyJack]

Staveley’s fit

[drumbeat]

13 hours ago, Parafox said:

Guinness, outside of Ireland, is not the same as the same stuff over there.

Hang on, this the 'unpopular opinions' thread isn't it?

[The Bear]

2 hours ago, ScrumpyJack said:

Staveley’s fit

U wot. 

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, drumbeat said:

Hang on, this the 'unpopular opinions' thread isn't it?

Yes and the reason for my post is that plenty of people think that Guinness served here is great stuff but they've never been to Dublin.

[drumbeat]

Probably same goes for Beamish and Cork.

[drumbeat]

Unpopular amongst Guardian readers perhaps but will otherwise fall on deaf ears:

 

I do not like Marina Hyde articles. Sure she can write, she's extremely good with words, but I wish she'd write something else - I find her writing formulaic. And I find her incredibly smug (I've no idea how but I do), as if she knows she's good with words. What really gets me though is that feeling I get that she writes from a template for her adoring fans. Her articles are a love in. 

 

I'm sure she can break the mould, use her creativity and talent with words to craft something fresh (and indeed I'm sure she has done exactly that) but I would have to, in total honesty, put my dislikes on the back seat to read it.

[RoboFox]

17 hours ago, Parafox said:

Guinness, outside of Ireland, is not the same as the same stuff over there.

I have a colleague from Tipperary who refuses to drink Guinness in the UK for this exact reason. I spend quite a lot of time in Ireland, and it's always the same thing: Guinness isn't the same outside of the Emerald Isle. 

 

I don't know whether it's true, or something that just gets bounded about as some sort of widely-held fallacy because of their pride in the national beverage. 

 

I feel the same about Carling. It tastes like donkey piss as soon as it leaves the brewery. (seriously, who the fvck drinks that shit?) 

 

Edited 14 October 2021 by RoboFox

[drumbeat]

An answer to the above conundrum might be, and I cite a NZer former colleage, you can drink loads of it without becoming fall-over drunk. Ideal if you're planning to drink all day.

[String fellow]

3 hours ago, drumbeat said:

Unpopular amongst Guardian readers perhaps but will otherwise fall on deaf ears:

 

I do not like Marina Hyde articles. Sure she can write, she's extremely good with words, but I wish she'd write something else - I find her writing formulaic. And I find her incredibly smug (I've no idea how but I do), as if she knows she's good with words. What really gets me though is that feeling I get that she writes from a template for her adoring fans. Her articles are a love in. 

 

I'm sure she can break the mould, use her creativity and talent with words to craft something fresh (and indeed I'm sure she has done exactly that) but I would have to, in total honesty, put my dislikes on the back seat to read it.

She recently moaned about the PM using the fancy words to obscure what he was saying, using fancy words of her own! 

Edited 14 October 2021 by String fellow

[Guest Manini]

46 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

(seriously, who the fvck drinks that shit?) 

Plenty. I’d wager that it’s probably the most sold draft pint in English (British might be a stretch) pubs still to this day. 
 

Obviously that doesn’t make it good, but there’s plenty who seem to enjoy it. 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

1 hour ago, drumbeat said:

Unpopular amongst Guardian readers perhaps but will otherwise fall on deaf ears:

I do not like Marina Hyde articles. Sure she can write, she's extremely good with words, but I wish she'd write something else - I find her writing formulaic. And I find her incredibly smug (I've no idea how but I do), as if she knows she's good with words. What really gets me though is that feeling I get that she writes from a template for her adoring fans. Her articles are a love in. 

I'm sure she can break the mould, use her creativity and talent with words to craft something fresh (and indeed I'm sure she has done exactly that) but I would have to, in total honesty, put my dislikes on the back seat to read it.

Her articles play very well to the left-leaning Twitterati therefore she gets lots of clicks and online love.

As with most social media, it doesn't translate hugely much elsewhere.

[leicsmac]

13 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Her articles play very well to the left-leaning Twitterati therefore she gets lots of clicks and online love.

As with most social media, it doesn't translate hugely much elsewhere.

The political events of 2016 and more recently would beg to differ.

[filbertway]

23 hours ago, bovril said:

Don't know how unpopular this is but I think people slightly underestimate what an achievement winning the cup was last year. 

As someone in the minority that doesn't think it was an incredible achievement, I can say that this neither popular or unpopular, but just wrong

Assuming you're speaking about people in general anyway, the vast majority think it was an incredible and very unlikely achievement.