What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

These things have to be viewed in their context. They represented a big shift in the culture from the 50s to the 60s and beyond.

Old people at the time disliked the Beatles precicely because they represented a change in culture.

So us looking back 60 years and not seeing what was so great about the music is fair enough. We're not experiencing the music in the cultural context, so it doesn't have the same effect on us. I know their music meant a lot to my dad and some of his friends who came of age during the Beatles time.

King of Queens is a good sit-com.

Exactly; leave food supply to be a lottery every year and you'll quickly find (a) food producers abandoning the market and (b) food prices quickly escalating. Back to the days of spuds for breakfast, dinner and tea….? No thanks.

The hurling fraternity think the sun shines out of their asses. And I'm speaking as someone who loves the sport.

I don't see gaelic football supporters complain about GAAGO and free-to-air coverage of games. They just fork out the money if they really want to watch it. So many pubs these days have the means of accessing them too if your really stuck. I watched three hurling matches live last weekend, ironically one of the free-to-air games was completely one-sided. If it so happened to be on GAAGo, there wouldn't be half the criticism of the service. It seems they only complain if a high scoring game was live on GAAGo. And it wasn't too long ago there was eff all live games anyway, especially on a Saturday.

Apparently it's scandalous that hurling isn't promoted more as if it's some sort of ancient art and not a sport that has actually deviated more away from the skillful aspect of the game into something more athletically and tactically based.

Apparently there shouldn't be any red cards in the game. 'Yeah it was a foul, but there was no malice in it and its a manly game'. You'd definitely see more post-game criticism of a referee in hurling than football.

One thing I have noticed, which maybe ties in with the mindset of the last paragraph. A lot of hurling heads seem to be more agricultural/culchie in their background (not stereotyping, I'm a culchie myself). None seem to have the same reverend, professional stature of Jim Gavin, Pat Gilroy, Jim McGuinness or say Sean Boylan. Liam Griffin is the only non-teacher hurling manager I can think of that was a very succesful business man away from the game. More likely to see fat lads over a team shouting abuse at the ref (with hurl in hand) than you would in football.

that's funny 😁

Here's one for ye:

Mandatory paternity testing at birth.

If you don't think that's controversial you should ask women about it...

Pretty understandable that it's controversial, the implication is women can't be trusted in general.

It might be an issue but it's definitely not a large scale issue that would justify either the expense or sweepingly labeling women as liars. Can you point to any states that have such a policy? I'd also suspect this has more to do with your general attitude towards women.

what is evil?

I'm a guy firstly and still view it as a pretty nasty approach. Secondly, you haven't established the scale of such fraud and can you point to a single state that does it?

Good for you, you can opt out. As for other countries, France has made it illegal - and other places only allow it with the consent of the mother. Now why would they do that???

Do you not understand the devastation that occurs when it's found to have happened? Since at birth testing or during pregnancy testing now exists (and is incredibly cheap) - its 100% preventable crime. So why are you ok with it?

A Batter Curry Box (batter burger, batter sausage, battered chicken ball, chips and curry) might not be the best for you health wise, but tastes much better after a few pints than a taco chip.

…many individuals that are considered 'evil' in fact show signs of extremely complex psychological disorders including cluster b disorders such as aspd, and other disorders such as ice, one of the reasons how we know this is by observing and researching these individuals while in custody, killing these individuals, while in custody, prevents us from doing such critical research, such as what actually causes such outcomes, and ultimately our attempts in preventing them…..

Okay so no country is requiring such a thing…

I don't like the term evil myself as usually you end up with talks about the divil, religion etc. Wasn't it Nietzche that came up with the idea of evil with a small "e", the personal non religious type evil. Instead of calling them evil, let's use abhorrent acts. The kind of thing that members of society should not be exposed to and one one not like to happen to themselves. i don't like the idea of the death penalty solely due to the chance of a mistake, but there are some people I won't lose a bit of sleep over if they get the needle.