Unpopular Opinions.

That's funny. I remember it with fondness, and I regard Skype opening up as sounding like the devil sucking out your soul. The harshness!

There is no point in being sound.

grenache wrote: »

I dont consider suicide to be selfish.

I'd agree really. I think a person has a right to end their life on their own terms as long as they don't involve other innocent parties in the act. For example crashing a car on purpose.

Now assisted suicide in cases of debilitating illness is a whole other legal matter, but I do believe if the sufferer is of sound mind to make the call then they should be assisted in carrying out their wish.

The Simpsons episode, You Only Move Twice aka the Hank Scorpio one, is in hindsight one of the worst episodes in the show's history. Most things people hate about Simpsons episodes of the last 10 years can be traced back to this episode. The plot is completely nonsensical and relies heavily on wackiness and cultural references in order to carry the humour. The secondary plots are severely underdeveloped, Marge, Bart and Lisa may as well not even be in this episode. To finish it all off the episode has an extremely convenient status quo ante bellum ending thus making the previous 25 minutes pointless.

The greatest episodes of the Simpsons were all character driven, Summer of 4 ft 2, Dog of Death, Lisa the Vegetarian, Last Exit to Springfield etc. etc., the episodes had heart and soul to their humour.

Even episodes with wacky elements were still character driven. Deep Space Homer is still primarily about Homer's desire for respect from his peers. The wackiness and cultural references in this episode compliment the humour rather than carry it.

You Only Move Twice has none of this. The reason Homer even gets the new job is really lazily written, as if it were a mere afterthought. The whole episode is just a vehicle for this one off character to do a lot of zany and wacky stuff for 15 minutes with the writers shoving in as many cultural references as possible. It's like a Family Guy episode (That is NOT a good thing).

I'll admit when I first watched it when I was 8 I thought it was funny but now that I'm older and looking back on it it really is a poor episode that looks as though it was thrown together in 10 minutes. Unfortunately though this episode was well received at the time and thus encouraged the writers that wacky episodes were the way to go.

It amazes me when people say The Principal and the Pauper was the beginning of the end and that Hank Scorpio represented some sort of pinnacle of The Simpsons.

Hank Scorpio was the beginning of the end.

Hank Scorpio was the beginning of the end.

Hes still one of the greatest one episode characters ever though. The difference between the wackiness of that episode and of the new stuff is that was genuinely funny. There was always some element of unbelievability in the older eps too but it was within reason, and most importantly it was funny, sure look at how many times Homer should have been killed through some horrible accident in the early ones.

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I think drugs are bad and are vastly over prescribed.

Most colds/flus should not be treated with antibiotics.

Well, flu is caused by a virus so antibiotics won't have any effect. More sensible than unpopular opinion.

Edit Guess, I should add an unpopular opinion too: Dublin is the best part of the country and Galway the most overrated.

sixtynine2 wrote: »

Regardless, his point still stands. Too many people rely on too many drugs of dubious value. The world would be a better place if we simply flushed 90% of that crap down the toilet. Most people don't "need" drugs, unless you are diabetic type 1 for example. People take drugs for the smallest thing nowadays. Man up. I sliced my hand once with a knife cutting a tomato. Washed and bandaged with some lemon juice and stitches. Drugs? Nah. No need.

I wish I was as tough as you. I just had an extraction and the pain from "dry socket" was unbearable (without difene).

I'm getting sick of seeing these kids pop up every couple months with some new song

sixtynine2 wrote: »

Regardless, his point still stands. Too many people rely on too many drugs of dubious value. The world would be a better place if we simply flushed 90% of that crap down the toilet. Most people don't "need" drugs, unless you are diabetic type 1 for example. People take drugs for the smallest thing nowadays. Man up. I sliced my hand once with a knife cutting a tomato. Washed and bandaged with some lemon juice and stitches. Drugs? Nah. No need.

You haven't a clue what you are on about. And I hope you never end up in a situation where you need to take a pill to be able to live a normal life, or even leave the house, because it's not a very nice place to find yourself.

The Script are absolute rubbish.


That Danny guy is a useless singer too.

Did I mention I don't like The Script?