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Why do most people have an opinion on everything?

  • 06-09-2014 7:23pm
    #1
    fr336
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭


    Like they're actually educated on it? Why can't people just be a master of one thing? I realise I'm basically questioning how society is run now, but yeah it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.


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  • #2
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,202 ✭✭✭amacca


    fr336 wrote: »
    Like they're actually educated on it? Why can't people just be a master of one thing? I realise I'm basically questioning how society is run now, but yeah it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.

    humans eh!

    those hairless monkeys think they know everything……bunch of smelly monkey jackasses the lot of em.


  • #3
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    fr336 wrote: »
    it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.

    You are in the right place, fellow traveller - you just need to look upon AH as an extreme kind of aversion therapy.


  • #4
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Yeah well, that's just like, your opinion maaaaaan.


  • #5
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    fr336 wrote: »
    Like they're actually educated on it? Why can't people just be a master of one thing? I realise I'm basically questioning how society is run now, but yeah it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.

    Are you a master of people having opinions?


  • #6
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,868 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    fr336 wrote: »
    Like they're actually educated on it? Why can't people just be a master of one thing? I realise I'm basically questioning how society is run now, but yeah it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.

    Not only that but everyone blames other people for everything.


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  • #7
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    Knowledge is rarely if ever absolute.

    I sometimes like to weigh in on topics that I wouldn't consider myself very well informed about.

    I do it to bounce my ideas off other people, to see a) if my opinion is shared by others or b) if my opinion is misinformed or straight out wrong, in which place somebody will usually teach me something new.

    They're only opinions.


  • #8
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,202 ✭✭✭amacca


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    They're only opinions.

    thats just your opinion


  • #9
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I dont have an opinion on lots of things.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #10
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    "I have no opinion on the matter" is more annoying.


  • #11
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    They do say opinions are like ar5es..


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Most people have always had opinions on most stuff. However, with the invention of the internet and the likes of Twitter, Tumblr and Boards.ie, it means everybody now has a platform from which to spew forth those opinions. No matter how ignorant or stupid you are, you have somewhere to speak your mind.
    Greenmachine wrote: »
    "I have no opinion on the matter" is more annoying.

    Obligatory response:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ


    :pac:


  • #13
    Bafucin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Bafucin


    fr336 wrote: »
    Like they're actually educated on it? Why can't people just be a master of one thing? I realise I'm basically questioning how society is run now, but yeah it does make me mad how many people talk absolute bollocks.


    Funnily enough the subjects that I am very educated on such as physics or maths (third level) I have less of an opinion on in public. They are not subjects that tend to come up a lot I know. But still if they do I tend to go mute. I think this is for two reasons. It's tough to really have an intelligent discussion if the other person does not have a good grounding in that subject. Or when I say something they look at me as if I have just produced the sermon on the mount.

    I tend to be most kneejerkingly opinionated on things that I know less about. It's easier when you know less. The more you know about a subject the less you realize you actually know about it.


  • #14
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    amacca wrote: »
    thats just your opinion
    Is that a fact? ;)


  • #15
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Obligatory response:
    That's one of them. Here's the other one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ToR18uvEeI

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #16
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,202 ✭✭✭amacca


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    Is that a fact? ;)

    Its my opinion that it is.


  • #17
    ElKavo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭ElKavo


    people are arseholes, no wait ... Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one. or maybe it's the first, opinions?


  • #18
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    ElKavo wrote: »
    people are arseholes, no wait ... Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one. or maybe it's the first, opinions?

    Try telling that to this guy :pac:


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