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

You're not a fan and don't actually like them

You just leap to their defence at every opportunity

What's my most controversial opinion?

Well nowadays (since the birth of social media) that could be anything. My opinion on one issue may seem totally reasonable normal and true, but then somebody will get offended and claim this is now a controversial opinion to hold. Take the culture wars for example.

Whatever opinion I might have will be correct and true to one side, but seen as a controversial opinion to the other side

The European Rugby Cup is absolute garbage.

English teams have a salary cap that is just over half of what the French teams have. The Irish teams (Leinster in particular) have no salary cap and benefit massively from playing in a glorified exhibition circuit as their domestic competition and also have 2 of Irelands star players who are from Connacht (Doris and Henshaw) when they really should be playing for Connacht (Henshaw stopped form moving and Doris moved back to Connacht).

The welsh teams used to be somewhat competitive and their absolutely useless now

You've got this nonsense of South African teams being in a European competition.

It used to be a great competition with genuine competitiveness but it's just a load of shite now with barely any teams having a chance of competing.

How is she defending them? Words have meanings and some people seem more than happy to misuse them when it suits. I despise the Tates. And Russell Brand (always did, whatever his politics) but someone saying they'll wait until the outcome of their trial to state what they are... is not defending them. Saying they didn't do it, or they're actually all right blokes... that's defending them. Saying the women making the allegations are liars... that's not waiting until the outcome of the trial either.

I thought the saying was 'common sense is not so common', or something along those lines ...

Indeed. "Nazi", "fascist", "anti-Semitic", "transphobic", "woke", "snowflake", "misogynistic", "gender"... all constantly misused. Words, language, meaning - these are important. Yet people - of all political persuasions - are perfectly fine with misusing them and being as dishonest as can be. And perfectly fine with trivialising actual nazism, fascism, anti-Semitism etc.
I don't use the term incel either, because there's nothing wrong with being involuntarily celibate - it's a difficult situation to be in, and not all of those in that situation hate women. Now plenty do, but it's their disgusting attitude, language and behaviour that should be the focus of any term for them - not their being involuntarily celibate. It's also not a new thing.
"Boomer" denotes "baby boomer" - specifically in reference to the baby boom in the United States of the post World War 2 years. Somebody started a manufactured outrage against that age group in recent years, and lemmings went along with it, not really knowing why. Resulting in calling anyone they think is old fashioned a boomer. Usually it's only idiots who use the term because they think it sounds cool. But it has a very specific meaning.
Language does evolve - but gradually, unconsciously and by consensus. Not because someone wants the meaning of a word changed overnight for political reasons.

To further back up this point.

Northampton played Castres yesterday and the attendance was 11,673

They couldn't even fill a stadium which holds 15,249 for a European quarter final.

Northampton Saints average attendance in the English league last season was 14,291 and their lowest attendance in the league was 12,704. So a European quarter final couldn't even outdraw their worst attended domestic league match for Northampton fans.

I don't like Shane Lowry.

I think he's a boorish character, pig ignorant.

Recessions are famously associated with not having much money. Economic activity goes down, tax revenues fall and governments have even less money than usual to deal with these issues.

If they don't prioritise it now in relatively good times, it's unlikely they will prioritise it in a recession when they're struggling to keep things ticking over.

Of course they could use a recession to fix problems. But it's even less likely they will fix it then if they aren't already fixing it now

I'll try to phrase this as best I can but I do believe there is some truth to it.

I think a lot of Irish people that emigrate really far away like Australia do so because they have pushy parents, mammys particularly.

Yes the money and lifestyle is good but as much of it is getting a sense of freedom.

A lot of people I know who went out that way tended to have over-bearing mammys, can't be a coincidence.

You'd get a warning on or banned from the golf forum for saying that (despite it being true)

But of course you're 100% right, I know golf isn't the most athletic of sports and you don't need to be athletic to be good at it but being fitter surely means you get less tired which mean you make fewer mistakes and you're decision making ends up being clearer due to not being tired.

Think is that there's actual interviews where he admitted to doing everything that he's accused of. So personally I'm fine with him being called a sex trafficker and rapist.

If now you know about those interviews, you can call him that too.

Stephanie Roche being a prime example. I don't anyone has never been able to milk one thing as much as he has.

The view so many people have towards inheritance (and land) is absolutely vile. There is an abundance of folk out there that are borderline obsessed with what is "due to them". They overtly talk about it without an ounce of self-awareness.

I've heard an instance of a medical encounter where a really large family of siblings wouldn't agree on who was to care for their dying mother until she signed off on who was getting the farm and other misc. inheritances. Disgusting.