Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[Guest Electric Yetis]

19 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

I’m off to Zante next week doing this for 1 week, will report back ! 
l just fancy a lazy week, pool, beer when l fancy it & decent grub.

l love travelling, city breaks, even cricket abroad. Sometimes it’s just nice to literally do virtually nothing. 

 

Did our first ever one this summer just gone. 10 days in Puerto Pollensa.

 

It was fantastic, kids had the time of their life - made lots of friends and Ice Cream/food/drinks on demand.

[Daggers]

Was stuck in an all-inclusive resort in Aruba while waiting for a visa from the Venezuelan consulate. Work paid the bill. For some reason they cocked up the paperwork and we were there for six weeks. It was ace. Don’t reckon I’d pay for one though. 

[The Blur]

Going out for Sunday roast are overrated.   Yorkshire puddings are always over puffed and bone cracking dry.   Roast potatoes taste more like engorged boiled potatoes and are never crisp enough.  

 

Oh and you rarely find establishments serving bread sauce!

Edited 11 October 2022 by The Blur

[taupe]

2 minutes ago, The Blur said:

Going out for Sunday roast are overrated.   Yorkshire puddings are always over puffed and bone cracking dry.   Roast potatoes taste more like engorged boiled potatoes and are never crisp enough.  

True, generally speaking, but it really oughtn't be.  I think it's more to do with the kitchen and preparation/cooking than a Sunday roast itself. In my younger days, I was invariably half cut and the pub roast did the job. But you could get a good one n some places. These days, the best ones are at home when you can do the prep and cooking yourself.... especially here in France when you'd not get one out anyway!

[The Bear]

48 minutes ago, The Blur said:

Going out for Sunday roast are overrated.   Yorkshire puddings are always over puffed and bone cracking dry.   Roast potatoes taste more like engorged boiled potatoes and are never crisp enough.  

 

Oh and you rarely find establishments serving bread sauce!

Give me a good onion sauce over bland bread sauce any day. 

[The Blur]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Give me a good onion sauce over bland bread sauce any day. 

 

Not if you cook the sauce with onion, cardamom and sage.   Absolutely divine!

[leicsmac]

9 hours ago, The Blur said:

Sunday roasts are overrated. 

[filthyfox]

Mmmm, garlic and rosemary studded roast lamb with onion sauce and mint sauce....

[Wymsey]

Have read it quite a few times on this forum, but don't understand why some get touchy in seeing others leave football games early.

 

There could be a variety of reasons; such as getting children ready for school the next morning, family/friend emergency, not feeling well etc.

 

 

[kingkisnorbo]

37 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Have read it quite a few times on this forum, but don't understand why some get touchy in seeing others leave football games early.

 

There could be a variety of reasons; such as getting children ready for school the next morning, family/friend emergency, not feeling well etc.

 

 

The amount of people who had left by even 85 minutes on Thursday was shameful. Invariably those people don’t have kids with them either. 

[Fox92]

4 hours ago, kingkisnorbo said:

The amount of people who had left by even 85 minutes on Thursday was shameful. Invariably those people don’t have kids with them either. 

Shocking KO time doesn’t help tbf. Not everyone can do a 10pm finish mid week. 

[FoxesDeb]

5 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Have read it quite a few times on this forum, but don't understand why some get touchy in seeing others leave football games early.

 

There could be a variety of reasons; such as getting children ready for school the next morning, family/friend emergency, not feeling well etc.

 

 

People with those reasons to leave early will be pretty few and far between I would have thought. Personally I really don't get the early mass exodus we witness every single game, but each to their own I suppose. 

[Paninistickers]

7 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Have read it quite a few times on this forum, but don't understand why some get touchy in seeing others leave football games early.

 

There could be a variety of reasons; such as getting children ready for school the next morning, family/friend emergency, not feeling well etc.

 

 

I'm not Militant about it....but i do find it bad mannered, highly selfish and generally not very public spirited (valuing their personal quirks and insecurities above the collective need for a good result) 

[Jimothy]

2 hours ago, Fox92 said:

Shocking KO time doesn’t help tbf. Not everyone can do a 10pm finish mid week. 

I imagine that's what caused most people to leave slightly early. Just to clarify I wasn't there Thursday, but with a 10pm finish (which won't be 10pm let's be honest) I'd have a roughly 30 minute walk to the train station. The first train after 10 is around 20 past, so I'd miss that, the next one is 38 minutes past 10, so if it takes a while to leave the ground it possible to miss that too. I think the next one of after 11 pm, over an hour after the match end, and I still have to travel home. I've got work at 7am the next day. Totally understand why some people might want to dash out slightly early on a night like that, as I'm sure there's plenty in a similar situation.

[Daggers]

I don’t care when people go home as long as they only make me stand once during a match.

 

It’s the tossers who are constantly leaving, returning, leaving and returning again who flip my switch. Always seem to be complete gobshytes into the bargain, which makes me suspect they don’t have weak bladders. 

[Milo]

Last game I can remember staying to the end of was the Community Shield match. And I wish I hadn’t as trying to get a tube back home was an absolute ball ache. 
 

I’m quite happy leaving with a few minutes left. I’m not particularly bothered about hanging about for the huge rush and hold ups trying to wrestle through thirty odd thousand people. 
 

I enjoy the few moments of semi solitude you get and the collective hours saved on the homeward journey. 
 

[Foxdiamond]

I'm just the sort of bloke that wants to see the whole match win, lose or draw. Then again I stay to watch all the end titles at the end of a film. If bothering to go It takes as long as it takes. Granted annoying if you have the last train to catch but other than that stay to the sweet or bitter end.

[FoyleFox]

I've recently found staying until the end avoids the crowds 

 

I don't mind if people need to leave early, not convinced everyone doing so has train, childcare and travel implications. It's the disruption whilst they're doing it, stopping to say bye to folks and loitering on the stairs. I'm staying to watch the match, they're preventing that, get up and sod off, if you're going. 

[FoxyPV]

This isn't unpopular but I loathe the Tories to an unhealthy extent.

 

Nye Bevan had it right 

[LiberalFox]

Female body hair is amazing. 

[tom27111]

4 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

Female body hair is amazing. 

There's unpopular, then there's just weird 

[Milo]

1 hour ago, LiberalFox said:

Female body hair is amazing. 

Beards and mullets? 

[bovril]

On 22/10/2022 at 23:31, FoxyPV said:

This isn't unpopular but I loathe the Tories to an unhealthy extent.

 

Nye Bevan had it right 

I grew up in a bit of a 'Tories are lower than vermin' insufferable Guardianista family. I always thought that was very cringey and old fashioned, and to be honest I loathe the far left as much as the Tories. But I'm starting to think the old guy was right...

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

I grew up in a bit of a 'Tories are lower than vermin' insufferable Guardianista family. I always thought that was very cringey and old fashioned, and to be honest I loathe the far left as much as the Tories. But I'm starting to think the old guy was right...

I accept there are some decent one nation Tories but becoming rather fewer in number.

[leicsmac]

The current brouhaha about Qatar and their attitude to human rights in the wake of the current World Cup has got me thinking. So, in light of that...

 

There is a marked link between the role of organised religion in the government of a country (and yes, China is the same: they just made their own religion, that of "the State") and the level of repression of minorities it exacts on its citizens. That such links between organised religion and government are (still) the majority around the world makes this an unpopular opinion in general I guess, and the sooner those links are consigned to the past and secular governments become the norm all over the world rather than just in more developed countries, the sooner such repression of people without power will end.