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

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  • #7022
    Charlo30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Charlo30


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123508341#Comment_123508341

    George Harrison deserves an honourable mention. You could argue he produced the best solo album of all them with All Things Must Pass



  • #7023
    Ozmodya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Ozmodya


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123507762#Comment_123507762

    Hotblack is not wrong though. It's his personal opinion. Now he seems to push his personal opinions on others, but let's not be like that!



  • #7024
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,604 ✭✭✭Cordell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123508669#Comment_123508669

    his personal opinion is wrong.



  • #7025
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,566 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    an opinion about a subjective matter cannot be wrong

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #7026
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,604 ✭✭✭Cordell


    It will be wrong if it wrongly considers the matter subjective.



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  • #7027
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,843 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123505849#Comment_123505849

    True in a way. But also, the younger non-Manchester, Man City fans have absolutely no way of justifying supporting a cheating organisation. There is no romance in that story or nothing that would tug at the heart strings.

    United and Liverpool support tended to run through families of Irish who emigrated to England and came back. And yes, they supported successful teams over there. There is also some justification in the tragedies of both clubs and the way they came back that endears them to people.

    Man City is just completely inorganic.



  • #7028
    fortwilliam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭fortwilliam


    David Bowie was a mediocre singer-songwriter who relied on gimmicks to get attention.



  • #7029
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,604 ✭✭✭Cordell


    The best version on Whiskey in a Jar is Metallica's one, much much better than Thin Lizzy and Dubliners versions.



  • #7030
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123510512#Comment_123510512

    😲 .



  • #7031
    Ozmodya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭Ozmodya


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123510512#Comment_123510512

    😊 I was going to include him in my list of musicians whose adoration I don't get.

    Now I don't think he was a mediocre singer, but similar to my opinion on others, I like and love many songs by him but can't understand the sheer deification. So many other songs I've heard are indeed mediocre, imo.

    Post edited by Ozmodya on


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  • #7032
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    I consider Bowie a superstar amongst the stars. He is phenomenally talented and could do any style. At least in the 70s, because after that he lost his way a bit but still continued to produce the occasional gem.
    He’s an odd, left field type so I fully understand that he can be quite an acquired taste.



  • #7033
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Irish people aren’t “obsessed” with English culture. When I watch a funny UK sitcom, I’m quite conscious that this is somebody else’s culture, which I’m greatly enjoying. I do not consider it to be an extension of my own culture.

    As for supporting Premier League, my brother-in-law explained it to me like this once. I asked him why he supports Liverpool and not some local Irish team. He said, if you wanted to watch a Shakespeare play, which would you prefer, a professional production or your kids class in the school hall?



  • #7034
    cms88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭cms88


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123512482#Comment_123512482

    I always find it funny when Irish soccer fans say things like that. Because a lot of them if you were to ask them how to Anfield etc without Google maps they likely wouldn't be able to tell you.

    imo people can support whoever they like but you can't at the same time claim to hate the country that team is from or make up some random reason for it.



  • #7035
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,927 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I know many Liverpool fans who have never been to Anfield for a game, ever.

    It's not like they support Boca Juniors ffs! It's a 30min flight away.

    And as for saying uk comedy is a different culture, really? They like us and English people are hugely different races!



  • #7036
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,690 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123512526#Comment_123512526

    ...a lot of them if you were to ask them how to get to Anfield

    Practice!



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