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Unpopular Opinions - OP Updated with Threadban List 4/5/21

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    #3542
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,997 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Antares35 wrote: »
    But women are people :D So if you hold a door for a woman because she's a person not because she's a woman,...

    Yeah I'd support holding doors for peope when it's practical. Holding the door for others when it's practical (thus polite) isn't a problem anyone has raised.


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    #3543
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,797 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Kneeling before a premier league game does nothing to eradicate racism.

    It's easy for a bunch of pampered millionaires this side of the pond to do it.


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    #3544
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    Premier league players are worthy of their wages


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    #3545
    Jimmy Twotimes
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Jimmy Twotimes


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Is it not exhausting to undertake all the mental gymnastics you've outlined above to make a simple decision whether to hold a door for someone or not? I couldn't live like that, I'd be worn out by lunchtime.

    Lay off. The guy is obviously autistic.


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    #3546
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    Premier league players are worthy of their wages

    Why? Half of them don't earn it for playing football.


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    #3547
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Why? Half of them don't earn it for playing football.

    They earn it for playing football and because they play football.


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    #3548
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    They earn it for playing football and because they play football.

    Some of them are shyte at playing football and therefore cannot justify their hefty salaries


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    #3549
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,249 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think some people end up settling and getting married to somebody they don't find attractive or even have a connection with just so they can be seen as doing the done thing.


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    #3550
    cms88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭cms88


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I think some people end up settling and getting married to somebody they don't find attractive or even have a connection with just so they can be seen as doing the done thing.

    Add to that many, not all, women do it have kids etc because that's what they want and once they have it they're gone.


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    #3551
    colm_c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭colm_c


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Oh how I laughed at that one.

    You do have a point overall.

    I'm a hobbyist android developer and I was recently working on a kernel for my fone to improve it. Guess what I found in the source code, explicit code that gives facebook app advanced 'privileges' which in layman's terms means the app will run in the background and not go into standby - when the phone is in standby. This is coded into the android system before you take it out of the box and before you even install facebook in the first place.

    To me that's outrageous and I think there should be laws prohibiting that sort of thing.

    Sounds like total BS to me.

    Go on show us the code?


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    #3552
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Some of them are shyte at playing football and therefore cannot justify their hefty salaries

    All were offered varying salary levels based on their varying abilities.

    To say that they are "shyte" is ridiculous - they are among the best players in the world - super skills and super fitness levels. Some are better than others.


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    #3553
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Iscreamkone wrote: »
    All were offered varying salary levels based on their varying abilities.

    To say that they are "shyte" is ridiculous - they are among the best players in the world - super skills and super fitness levels. Some are better than others.

    Do you think Mezut Ozil can justify a salary of £ 350,000 per week?


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    #3554
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,101 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Do you think Mezut Ozil can justify a salary of £ 350,000 per week?

    He has been highly paid by several clubs including Real Madrid, so professional clubs obviously think he is worth the money.


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    #3555
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,101 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    If I was a betting man I'd say most of the current Tour De France riders are still doping.

    Especially if you are competing near the front.


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    #3556
    dinneenp
    Registered Users Posts: 8,108 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    NIMAN wrote: »
    If I was a betting man I'd say most of the current Tour De France riders are still doping.

    Especially if you are competing near the front.

    I wouldn't say that's an unpopular opinion.....


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    #3557
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,101 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    dinneenp wrote: »
    I wouldn't say that's an unpopular opinion.....

    I kinda think you're correct of course, but listening to all the Irish media going mad over recent days and our new sporting success, the silence on the subject was deafening.


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    #3558
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

    however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

    as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games


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    #3559
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,997 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

    however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

    as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games

    So what?

    This distinction between sports and games is trivial. The common thing that I enjoy about snooker and rugby is the competition.

    The convention is to cover them both under 'sport' so, colloquially, they're sports. Nothing to do with hype.


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    #3560
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Antares35 wrote: »
    But women are people :D So if you hold a door for a woman because she's a person not because she's a woman, how will she differentiate that from holding the door for her because shes a woman? How will she know whether to be angry? Perhaps for the avoidance of doubt men should state why they are holding the door. If he states he is holding the door because she is a person, she can say thank you and walk through. If he says it's because she's a woman, she can become enraged and refuse to move until it slams in her face :)

    To keep on topic, my unpopular opinion is that cake smashes for one year olds are a literal waste of money and a crass display of well wastefulness.

    What's a cake smash? :confused:


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    #3561
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    pinkyeye wrote: »
    What's a cake smash? :confused:

    Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.


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    #3562
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,846 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.

    And the same parents will be wondering why their lovely angel is throwing his breakfast all over the walls the following day. :rolleyes:


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    #3563
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.

    I have never heard of this! Madness!!


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    #3564
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    I like Steps.


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    #3565
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    That I am an AWESOME human being.


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    #3566
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,178 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    That I am an AWESOME human being.

    We have a winner. can a mod close the thread now? we can never top that.



    I kid, I kid.


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    #3567
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,842 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Tennis is incredibly boring.


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    #3568
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    dubstarr wrote: »
    I like Steps.

    So do I!!!


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    #3569
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,310 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

    however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

    as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games

    Can't really argue reminds me of Chess they want to put that in the 2024 Olympics

    https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-put-forward-to-join-paris-2024-olympic-games

    When I think of it they have archery and curling in the Olympics.
    At one time they had tug of war!

    https://www.britannica.com/list/7-canceled-or-reintroduced-olympic-sports

    Plus synchronised swimming is one I feel that is on the edge of being called a sport. It must be up there with dressage - the horse dancing yoke.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #3570
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,178 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    dubstarr wrote: »
    I like Steps.

    More of an S Club 7 person myself


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    #3571
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    More of an S Club 7 person myself

    And you’re not allowed to like both?!


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