Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[Tommy G]

43 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/17/christmas-dinner-chocolate-more-expensive-reports-which

 

No chocolate orange for Mrs G? 

I wouldn’t wipe my backside with that excuse for a paper 

 

jokes aside I had zero data to back up my point, just felt less expensive and have got some decent deals. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

[Sampson]

38 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

The problem is you can’t because everything gets posted and filmed on social media nowadays and you can get dog piled on for doing dumb things.

 

I’ve often said that the biggest problem with social media is you aren’t allowed to do stupid things or make mistakes anymore, it will get held against you for the rest of your life. Your early adulthood from the age of 18-around 26/27 should be about going out and doing crazy things even while you have less responsibilities and less fear factor and aren’t as jaded or cynical about everything yet.
 

Problem is social media essentially policing people’s behaviour (on both the left and right - the left with their virtual signalling policing of if you make political incorrect mistakes or tell silly jokes that were just meant for your mates; and the right with their “people are old enough to have responsibility at that age and if they break the rules they deserve to be punished” “we should be hard as possible on rule breakers” virtue signalling policing) meant younger people do feel more fear factor and have responsibility and cynicism forced onto them a lot more than they used to. 

Edited 17 December 2025 by Sampson

[Grebfromgrebland]

This is true unfortunately I'd definitely be in prison and unemployable if we had social media when I was younger. 

[UniFox21]

2 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

It's bloody expensive to do any of that now. When things have to be cut back, going to the pub and doing stupid shit gets reduced 

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

Yeh man, it's great for resilience training. Falling asleep drunk on a tube again and figuring out your way home from Epping/Ealing Broadway at 1.30am in -4 before the night tube started. Myself and a mate went to Milan for a pizza after one night out in London as the 06.25 flight was showing as £15, was slightly pricier to get home.. Amongst many other stupid things that developed our problem solving skills.

[Tommy G]

3 hours ago, Sampson said:

The problem is you can’t because everything gets posted and filmed on social media nowadays and you can get dog piled on for doing dumb things.

 

I’ve often said that the biggest problem with social media is you aren’t allowed to do stupid things or make mistakes anymore, it will get held against you for the rest of your life. Your early adulthood from the age of 18-around 26/27 should be about going out and doing crazy things even while you have less responsibilities and less fear factor and aren’t as jaded or cynical about everything yet.
 

Problem is social media essentially policing people’s behaviour (on both the left and right - the left with their virtual signalling policing of if you make political incorrect mistakes or tell silly jokes that were just meant for your mates; and the right with their “people are old enough to have responsibility at that age and if they break the rules they deserve to be punished” “we should be hard as possible on rule breakers” virtue signalling policing) meant younger people do feel more fear factor and have responsibility and cynicism forced onto them a lot more than they used to. 

That and social media telling all the young uns that if they eat one meal containing any ultra processed food they will die a slow death.

[leicsmac]

11 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

That and social media telling all the young uns that if they eat one meal containing any ultra processed food they will die a slow death.

Well, that is in fact true. 

 

.... it's just slower than they're saying. 

[Parafox]

9 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

Annual Rag week was great for students back in the day.

[leicsmac]

Party politics is causing too much damage to the progress of long term scientific infrastructure projects based on entirely valid research that should in no way be party political. In the UK and other places, too. 

 

I'm not sure exactly how (perhaps some kind of bipartisan organisation), but the process by which such projects are done needs to change so that they can be started and completed as planned, rather than becoming white elephants to the detriment of everyone. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

Annual Rag week was great for students back in the day.

Used to love reading the Rag Mags.

[CornwallFox]

13 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

Their parents kept them in because it wasn't safe to go out alone. Play dates with friends were set up instead of being allowed to disappear out til nightfall. It's their parents (my generation) to blame. The world is not less safe than before, but parents have lost the plot.

[broughtonblue]

We need a British version of Donald Trump,  another Margaret Thatcher to sort out our country. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

9 hours ago, broughtonblue said:

We need a British version of Donald Trump,  another Margaret Thatcher to sort out our country. 

Margaret Thatcher and trump had very different ideas. I think you're confused.

 

What would they sort out?

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Margaret Thatcher and trump had very different ideas. I think you're confused.

 

What would they sort out?

At least Thatcher had a fair bit of scientific training and respected it when it came to a fair few areas of policy. 

 

Can't say the same for her more modern counterparts.

[CornwallFox]

10 hours ago, broughtonblue said:

We need a British version of Donald Trump,  another Margaret Thatcher to sort out our country. 

Thatcher is the reason the country is in the mess it's in. 

Utterly failed ideas around privatisation. 

Changes to corporate law which have led to huge wealth disparities. 

What on earth do you think she did that was positive? 

[bovril]

10 hours ago, broughtonblue said:

We need a British version of Donald Trump,  another Margaret Thatcher to sort out our country. 

Agree, she was a strong proponent of the European single market and removal of trade barriers between European countries. We could do with that kind of economic pragmatism now instead of this ideological anti free trade Labour party. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Pineapple is perfectly fine on pizza.

[Sampson]

6 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Pineapple is perfectly fine on pizza.

I agree. I think it’s good, not horrible nor amazing but I’d always happily take it in a buffet for example.

[Zear0]

6 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Pineapple is perfectly fine on pizza.

The most boring people on earth are those who show faux outrage at the above. Same puddings who think they're the first person on earth to claim Die Hard is a Christmas film. 

 

#TeamPineapple

[leicsmac]

Put it this way, one of the things you see when travelling is far greater abominations than pineapple that are put on pizzas, so...meh. 

Edited 18 December 2025 by leicsmac

[The Bear]

Pineapple isn't terrible or anything, it's just a strange choice compared to everything else that's available. 

 

I'm much more offended by olives or anchovies tbh. Both rank awful. 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

The most boring people on earth are those who show faux outrage at the above. Same puddings who think they're the first person on earth to claim Die Hard is a Christmas film. 

 

#TeamPineapple

Agree, but it is disgusting though

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

The most boring people on earth are those who show faux outrage at the above. Same puddings who think they're the first person on earth to claim Die Hard is a Christmas film. 

 

#TeamPineapple

Had a debate with my builder yesterday about whether Die Hard was a Christmas film or not.

 

We came to the conclusion that it wasn't a Christmas film at all, but an action movie that just happened to occur at Christmas time.

[Fox92]

On 17/12/2025 at 08:59, Grebfromgrebland said:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/students-uk-university-halls-isolated-lonely-poll-shows

 

Young people need to go out drinking more and have good times and make memories good and bad.

 

That's a pretty unpopular opinion these days. I know you can go to the gym or play sports or cafe and have a protein shake etc but they need to go out and let loose too and do some crazy and cringe worthy things too.

 

On 17/12/2025 at 09:15, Sampson said:

The problem is you can’t because everything gets posted and filmed on social media nowadays and you can get dog piled on for doing dumb things.

 

I’ve often said that the biggest problem with social media is you aren’t allowed to do stupid things or make mistakes anymore, it will get held against you for the rest of your life. Your early adulthood from the age of 18-around 26/27 should be about going out and doing crazy things even while you have less responsibilities and less fear factor and aren’t as jaded or cynical about everything yet.
 

Problem is social media essentially policing people’s behaviour (on both the left and right - the left with their virtual signalling policing of if you make political incorrect mistakes or tell silly jokes that were just meant for your mates; and the right with their “people are old enough to have responsibility at that age and if they break the rules they deserve to be punished” “we should be hard as possible on rule breakers” virtue signalling policing) meant younger people do feel more fear factor and have responsibility and cynicism forced onto them a lot more than they used to. 

They seem to overrely on their phone too much now. Even in that article it says about a student relying on her phone as a reason for limiting social life. I did halls for a year, granted 13 years ago now so thankfully before social media got as big as it is today, but it was such a social place because people went out their rooms and spoke to each other. You don't need to go out and/or get drunk and/or act like an idiot, there's people from different areas of the country with different interests and knowledge under one roof. That is enough to get chatting. The article says 26% of students are put off socialising because of noise? It's halls, what do they expect? 

 

I find it strange now. When I walk to work I'll pass kids walking together but they'll have headphones in, or one headphone. I just don't get it. Social media and the evolution of smart phones have killed it. I swear people won't know how to communicate in years to come.

Edited 18 December 2025 by Fox92