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

This Mother and baby parking talk reminds me of a Peter Kay joke about parking in one , and when people gave out he pointed to his mum in the car . It didn’t matter he was in his 30’s or 40’s 😁

Yeah, there is something lacking with these "fur baby" types.

But insurance and pensions only work because the vast majority of working people buy into them, and in fact it just makes everything they cover more expensive.

If nobody paid insurance or pension plans everything would be cheaper and you'd have more money in the bank for your retirement. Now trusting the bank is another matter.

That's ridiculous. Not true at all. The only real difference between a pension and any other investment you could make is that you get tax relief on it and have to reach a certain age to cash out. As for insurance, jaysus wept

I never had as many people talking to me as when I had the dog out walking!!

We in Ireland used laugh at portrayals of obnoxious owners of spoilt little dogs with little coats, pushed around in buggies or carried in handbags in movies and tv, seems a lot of us Irish have turned into that comedy stereotype.

You should never criticise TERFs or call a person transphobic because it just makes that person worse. Call out a person for their reasonable concerns, and their concerns get less reasonable. And soon the reasonable concerns in the first place get overlooked.

What do you expect them to do about it?

If the dog is being properly fed and watered there isn't much they can do. If they called round and found the dog malnourished or dehydrated that would be another story.

An *actual* controversial opinion, not a completely anodyne, unremarkable, standard one (for a change around here - words have meanings):

People like to say JK Rowling is a cu*t but ask them what she said that was so terrible or incorrect and...

Also, many of the ones who are blind with hatred for her are some of the most dreadful people you could encounter. Spiteful, dishonest aggressive, arrogant bullies. And we all know who the ones here are. And thankfully two no longer post, and another far less frequently, making the place much nicer. 😊

A deep recession is a great opportunity for the government to implement better laws/plans under the guise of economic emergency around housing/water treatment/social welfare etc that we badly need at cheaper prices simply because a lot of the country is too up it's own hole with nimbyism to accept it during good times lest it slightly inconvenience them.

And a recession offers a government the opportunity to say "fcuk your nimbyism, we're building these 50 houses in your village as it's an emergency" and people would be more likely to go for it.

In short, politicians are so spineless that they need an emergency before they do anything lest the get criticized by people who won't tolerate the slightest inconvenience when times are good.

Well I'm talking more about the filth that gets thrown at her for refusing to play pretend.

such people are a significant part of why trump is us pres.

you can tell them why, try to explain how identity politics works a bit like a rubber band, but good luck with that.

Minorites who complain about how Irish men are towards women and LGBT people and who show support for importing people from the Middle East.

They should be made go live life as they do in Ireland over in the Middle East for a few weeks and see how life compares to Ireland.

No idea. Why don't you tell me what someone else thinks, you're pretty good at that

Thanks for explaining what other people think. Again. Wish I had your abilities.

Ah it is , an ability to know what other people are thinking. It's wizardry!