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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,871 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    The UK comedian John Bishop wouldn't be considered funny by people if he didn't have his extremely pronounced liverpool accent. I'm sure he's a lovely man in person but his comedy rountine is dreary unfunny shite.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    Irish women are a walking disaster.

    I live way way way away and tonight listened to an Irish man who had been cheated on by an Irish woman listen to one of his Irish female "friends" convince him that he was the one at fault, and the sad sack just accepted it. She just kept drilling and he just accepted it and admitted defeat.

    I just knew it when she sat down. Mouthy, overweight, useless, and just defiant about her friend.

    It reminded me of being back home when I was a complete and utter walkover for these women in university. All the listening to relationship trauma and listening to every load of nonsense they would put out.

    The only women in Ireland I am still friends with are the ones I was actually with. They're the only ones who respect me enough to keep in contact 15+ years later as a friend. The rest, these ones who I supported for years and years, just disappear when they have their own.

    I feel sorry for any young Irish man stuck in the clutches of these one-sided friendships. Women using them for emotional support when they are single, criticising them when they aren't even wrong, and then dropping them when they get married.

    It is so noticeable when you live around the world and are surrounded by all nationalities. Irish women are "sound", but my lord are they toxic. Women from other places big up their partner rather than look for validation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭Suckler




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    I don’t think the poster likes women who don’t agree with him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,243 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Bonos a daycent oul skin



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    Meh, I think English and Scottish women are way more normal and make better friends. Same with Dutch, Swedish etc. I live abroad and have had a steady stream of friends and colleagues from all around the world over the last 15 years, and I simply find Irish women to be completely different.

    What prompted that (drunken) post was watching a woman ostensibly support this guy after her friend cheated on him, but when the other friend left and it was just the two of them, she battered him into the ground with vague assertions to "do more" so she doesn't cheat on him again. So yeah, I disagreed with all of that and didn't like it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,336 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Fat shaming is a good thing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Rick and Morty is highly overrated. It became quite boring and repetitive after maybe 2 or 3 seasons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    Yes, I could articulate it better but that's generally how I feel about Irish women, as friends, anyway. I've bounced off Irish women for the last 15 years whilst having many great friendships with women of other nationalities.

    Doesn't mean I "don't like when women don't agree with me". That was an odd take. You could have had a million more valid criticisms of my post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    @Galwayguy35

    I would maybe frame it as telling morbidly obese people that they are perfect as they are and they should be proud of their body is very dangerous.

    People like Lizzo are doing more harm than good.

    Post edited by Bogey Lowenstein on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,346 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Red Hot Chilli Peppers should be held at a higher pedestal than they are.

    Under the Bridge, Californication, Scar Tissue and Road Trippin' are all proper tunes. In fact Californication is one of the greatest songs ever and seems to be overlooked.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Quick look at your previous posts and it's not an odd take at all.

    But yes, all Irish women are "a walking disaster" or maybe you just have a terrible judge of character when picking "friends".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    "Quick look at your previous posts and it's not an odd take at all."

    Be specific. Read the whole thread and actually take from it what you need to attack me here. Put your heart into it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Ekerot


    This also made a complete deal of forgettable and mediocre drek which bogs their legacy down. I don't think they've played a song that predates BSSM at concerts anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    I don’t need to, the posts speak for themselves and when you get drunk you feel the need to rant about all Irish women….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    … Nevermind.

    Post edited by sock.rocker* on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Why in America can you call somebody a pussy and it is no big deal but if you call them a c.unt you are worse than Hitler. Who decided that word was off limits.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,413 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    It's a funny one. When they played Slane they were arguably the biggest band in the world. At tike when there were many more big hitters.

    I adore Californication but I can take or leave them now. There latter albums have been really good so it's hard to understand how they fell into the "flavour of the month/year" catagory.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    It’s hard to respond to the post about Irish women because I just don’t know how you could characterise an entire nation like that. Surely Irish women’s personalities run the same gamut they would have anywhere else, all the way from the ones that are eager to please up to the ones that are extremely selfish. And everything in between. In terms of national character I would say Irish women are very spirited - we are quite an egalitarian nation and our women expect to stand alongside men. I suspect it was like this even in the past when it was a much more patriarchal society. I don’t know if women would agree with me but that’s really how it looks.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Regarding RHCP, I think they watered down their sound after they went sober and got off drugs to the point where they just became a very middle of the road kind of rock outfit and myself and many people stopped listening to them. (Foo Fighters went the same path but it wasn’t because of drugs.)

    They’ve never topped BSSM in my opinion. I saw them live in 2015 and they left me cold.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 920 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    I wish more effective treatments had been found for cancer rather than the breakthroughs made in treating/preventing transmission of HIV/AIDS. One is a completely avoidable disease if you take sensible precautions - the other strikes at random in many cases.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,730 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    I’m trying to figure out which is which?

    Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2515569/


    That was in 2008.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    "Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects"

    That is surprising to me, as for some reason I had always thought cancer was heavily linked to ones genetic defects or susceptibility to … rather than ones environmental surroundings. I'm not disagreeing with the only 5-10% genetic cause, just surprised by it, that's all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,838 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    AFAIK the cancers with a large genetic component are breast/ovarian & colorectal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    It’s an odd one alright. Certain swear words used frequently by Americans such as C*cksucker and Motherf*cker are far more sordid and vulgar in my opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,930 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    This homeless crisis. An absolute overhyped exaggeration, that the opposition want to run and run and run. Simple: people wanting stuff for nothing, or for least amount of effort. Another silly march today. These marches are more about a day out!! One woman whingeing because her adult children didn’t have back gardens where they lived. Absolute entitlement!!!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,336 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    It made my day when I heard what happened to Murphy.



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