Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

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

Options
1…141142144146147…251

Comments

  • Options
    #4292
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,246 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    D13exile wrote: »
    Look I agree it's a lowlife thing to do to someone but even stuff sent "privately" to your current wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend is making yourself hostage to them if the relationship breaks down and the other party wants "revenge" for whatever reason. The one I dated was "separated" from her hubby but went back to him when I ended it as she just couldn't be on her own. I guess she was terrified I'd tell him what she'd been up to while they were separated. I honestly and truly couldn't be ar$ed doing something like that, and like I said, I had immediately deleted each and every one of her intimate pics upon receipt. But going crying about it if your naked selfie subsequently gets widely published is pathetic as you should have had more cop on than to do it in the first place. Keep the nakedness for when you're actually with your partner. Sending naked pics is a sign of neediness and or narcissism imho.

    sharing such images without consent is a specific criminal offence in several countries and there is a bill currently going through the Dail to do the same here.


  • Options
    #4293
    D13exile
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    interestingly since revenge porn laws came in in the UK, most convictions are to lesbian women. Men can be shady at the best of times but the majority have no interest in sharing intimate pictures of current or ex partners.

    That's interesting alright. I'd say it would take someone very shady/pathetic to want to degrade their former love interest just for some revenge/sick kick. Forget them and move on with your life is my motto.


  • Options
    #4294
    D13exile
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    sharing such images without consent is a specific criminal offence in several countries and there is a bill currently going through the Dail to do the same here.

    I'm aware of that but my point is don't send pics that you wouldn't want to be forwarded on to the internet. In my opinion, you deserve what you get for being so bloody stupid in the first place. But we live in a world where personal responsibility has been done away with and the "Victim" is king, except in this case, I see the Victim as the author of their own misfortune! But I'd say I'm in the minority here. Hence the title of this thread!!


  • Options
    #4295
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think you're being too harsh. People do things when they're feeling frisky and want to feel good. I don't think it's a good idea whatsoever but you're applying logic to an illogical event.


  • Options
    #4296
    D13exile
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think you're being too harsh. People do things when they're feeling frisky and want to feel good. I don't think it's a good idea whatsoever but you're applying logic to an illogical event.

    No argument there. In my case, I'm far too cynical/look for the dark cloud inside the silver lining type of personality to make myself a hostage to some potential future ex to put a naked selfie out there........even if I do have a glorious well toned greek adonis type of body:D


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #4297
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Going by the number of times my Windows 10 must update with restarts, Microsoft must be taking some know-how from laxative manufacturers in the medical industry


  • Options
    #4298
    cms88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭cms88


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    I think people who sent stuff privately have a right to be pissed off, thats absolutely not on.

    I think however for the 'onlyfans' girls. Anyone who has ever watched an illegal stream, pirated a song or movie etc... can't condemn that. The material was always going to be leaked, if you're going to take your kit off for money online, it was an inevitable outcome.

    Yes the ''Onlyfans'' one moaning it kinda funny. What do they think will happen?


  • Options
    #4299
    cms88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭cms88


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    interestingly since revenge porn laws came in in the UK, most convictions are to lesbian women. Men can be shady at the best of times but the majority have no interest in sharing intimate pictures of current or ex partners.

    Yet the full time outraged will try and tell you it's all men...


  • Options
    #4300
    D13exile
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭D13exile


    spook_cook wrote: »
    I don't care for Fairytale of New York.

    I don't care for the pc correct version! Keep the original wording, its a classic song from the golden era before Millennials who get offended by everything


  • Options
    #4301
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,026 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    spook_cook wrote: »
    I don't care for Fairytale of New York.




    Why, might I ask?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #4302
    thejuggler
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    My unpopular opinion....
    Prohibition of alcohol would be the making of this country.
    As a nation a large percentage of the population use alcohol as a crutch to drown their sorrows, loosen their tongues and inhibitions. The stereotype of the drunken Irish follows us as a people wherever we go.
    No doubt the black economy and smuggling would attempt to fill the gap but I think it would be a worthwhile experiment.


  • Options
    #4303
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Unpopular opinion - too many things are labeled racist when they aren’t.

    I can’t stand an Indian/Pakistani accent - grates on me - yet most African countries accents I love and I hate a deep Sourh USA accent.

    I think it was a joke that Idris Elba won sexiest man alive - but give me half an hour with Shemar Moore off SWAT and I’ll show him a good time!!

    Yet both the above have been ascribed to my “racism” - it helps no one!!


  • Options
    #4304
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Unpopular opinion - too many things are labeled racist when they aren’t.

    Fairly popular opinion on here (where nothing is ever racist, unless white people are the target), I would have thought.


  • Options
    #4305
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,838 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    thejuggler wrote: »
    My unpopular opinion....
    Prohibition of alcohol would be the making of this country.
    As a nation a large percentage of the population use alcohol as a crutch to drown their sorrows, loosen their tongues and inhibitions. The stereotype of the drunken Irish follows us as a people wherever we go.
    No doubt the black economy and smuggling would attempt to fill the gap but I think it would be a worthwhile experiment.
    There's also many of us who simply drink to relax and not get drunk.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • Options
    #4306
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    thejuggler wrote: »
    My unpopular opinion....
    Prohibition of alcohol would be the making of this country.
    As a nation a large percentage of the population use alcohol as a crutch to drown their sorrows, loosen their tongues and inhibitions. The stereotype of the drunken Irish follows us as a people wherever we go.
    No doubt the black economy and smuggling would attempt to fill the gap but I think it would be a worthwhile experiment.

    Your ideas of reform would do nothing to reduce alcohol usage.


  • Options
    #4307
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its fairly repetitive played about 10 times a day everyday on the radio for december



    Good christ,i hate xmas songs

    Vast Vast majority of Christmas songs are pure sh1te including the Band Aid one,fairytale of New York is a rarity


  • Options
    #4308
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Vast Vast majority of Christmas songs are pure sh1te including the Band Aid one,fairytale of New York is a rarity

    I’d say that aside from that and our own CDeB’s “A Spaceman Came Traveling”; “2000 Miles” by The Pretenders and Queen’s “Thank God It’s Christmas” - they’re largely ****e.


  • Options
    #4309
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Vast Vast majority of Christmas songs are pure sh1te including the Band Aid one,fairytale of New York is a rarity

    Musically, it has its merits (Fairytale of New York, not the Band Aid one), but it gets played an awful lot. If it wasn't a Christmas song (and it kind of isn't, really), I think it would have received more critical acclaim.

    My unpopular opinion is that all Christmas songs are good - not musically, but from a purely nostalgic perspective. Even the truly terrible ones bring back nice memories of dragging a dead tree into the house and covering it with strips of tiny metal foil and coloured lights and then watching it slowly wilt in the living room over the next three weeks until it ends up continuing to disintegrate down the bottom of the back garden until the following October.


  • Options
    #4310
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    thejuggler wrote: »
    My unpopular opinion....
    Prohibition of alcohol would be the making of this country.
    As a nation a large percentage of the population use alcohol as a crutch to drown their sorrows, loosen their tongues and inhibitions. The stereotype of the drunken Irish follows us as a people wherever we go.
    No doubt the black economy and smuggling would attempt to fill the gap but I think it would be a worthwhile experiment.

    Unpopular opinion (among government) .. we need more robust mental health services for people to have other avenues except drink to deal with problems , but at the same time we need to stop limiting access to and taxing drink as heavily, we have more normal responsible drinkers than whiskey swilling wife beaters , the normal person shouldnt have to suffer because some cant be responsible with drink


  • Options
    #4311
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    This isnt an unpopular opinion but a statement of the obvious in my view.

    Fairytale of New York isn't even a christmas song it's just associated with Christmas.

    It's hardly jingle bell rock is it.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #4312
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    I hope Mayo never win another All Ireland.


  • Options
    #4313
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Resolution in gaming is overrated and the push to 4K is pointless. 8K is nonsense. It's the absurd megapixels battles in cameras with the same sensor sizes all over again.

    Running games with higher settings, or at a higher FPS like 144, at a lower than native res looks better if you're limited. 1080p was always and will always be enough. Opposite is true for VR because you can see the pixels.

    Not sure how unpopular it is but when games are hampered visually so they can hit a certain FPS at a certain resolution so it sells, the overall quality is lower than it could have been. Too many consumers think resolution is key.


  • Options
    #4314
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    With the backdrop of the global pandemic, Irish tv and radio won't air any reviews that rate an event along the lines of

    "definitely room for improvement"/"it could have been better"/"not quite there yet" no: all events now are a

    "resounding success" / "brillllliant" / "wonderful" etc etc.


  • Options
    #4315
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    unpopular opinion : people will be going mad in cavan and tipp tonight because of the gaa, distancing out the window, public drinking, madness all round.

    the media won't give half as much of a toss about it as last weeks tiny street drinking incident in Dublin , or about the young people in cork doing similar on Friday night. Nobody will care about it anywhere near as much as they should or blame those people when the pubs are still closed at Christmas.

    'GAA Celibrations' are above criticism no matter what happens for silly reasons.


  • Options
    #4316
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    unpopular opinion : people will be going mad in cavan and tipp tonight because of the gaa, distancing out the window, public drinking, madness all round.

    the media won't give half as much of a toss about it as last weeks tiny street drinking incident in Dublin , or about the young people in cork doing similar on Friday night. Nobody will care about it anywhere near as much as they should or blame those people when the pubs are still closed at Christmas.

    'GAA Celibrations' are above criticism no matter what happens for silly reasons.

    There was a lot of noise here in Cork couple weeks ago when the Rockies won the County. They'd a big parade.
    Even Marty arched his eyebrow

    https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/blackrock-cork-hurling-title-celebrations-22793829


  • Options
    #4317
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I’d say that aside from that and our own CDeB’s “A Spaceman Came Traveling”; “2000 Miles” by The Pretenders and Queen’s “Thank God It’s Christmas” - they’re largely ****e.


    Is that a Christmas song? Never realised that.


    My own personal favourite is the power of love by Holly Johnson - i'll also admit to a bit of a soft spot for the JCB song by Nizlopi.


    Christmas music was so much better before Simon Cowell ruined it - that man should be boiled in piss for his crimes against music.


  • Options
    #4318
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,347 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Those sexual harassment adverts - 'know the signs - stop the excuses' are unintentionally hilarious. I think people will be laughing at them in years to come.

    One on television with the woman exercising/stretching and the fella 'helping'. And the auld fella sitting on bench turns to the camera and says 'ah sure its harmless isn't it?'

    Makes me laugh every time.

    Heard another on on the radio today, middle aged woman 'helping' a young fella to show him how to lift a box. 'All the way down' says she. And he does a little meek 'stop, stop'.

    Again made me laugh.

    Now I think that is not the sort of reaction they are looking for. It makes it seem more of a joke than anything.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Options
    #4319
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,167 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Heard a radio piece today about money appeal for Romanian orphanages.

    Now I know its a decent thing to raise money for, and us Irish have a long history with Romanian orphans, but Romania isn't some underdeveloped African country. Surely its a modern European country? No?

    They should be embarrassed that another European country is having appeals to fund their orphanages.


  • Options
    #4320
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Heard a radio piece today about money appeal for Romanian orphanages.

    Now I know its a decent thing to raise money for, and us Irish have a long history with Romanian orphans, but Romania isn't some underdeveloped African country. Surely its a modern European country? No?

    They should be embarrassed that another European country is having appeals to fund their orphanages.

    its the Catholic Church or Orthodox begging for money, they figured out that theres only so much money in begging in poor countries so have spread out to begging in rich ones.

    Theres long running jokes about Romanian priests wealth. This is not government orphanages they're begging for.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #4321
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Judge Judy is a g**bag.


Advertisement