Your unpopular opinions

Trigger13222 wrote: »

I don't hate Ryan Tubridy.

you sir are worse than hitler

mickydoomsux wrote: »

And on that note

People who use the phrase "discovering new music". Such hipster nonsense. You found some band who may or may not be decent but you'll love them because no one else has heard of them.

I have no problems with the artists themselves but rather with the people who think they are soooooooo cultured and interesting because what they listen to is a bit niche.

... and on that note, 'World Music' is like the Model T Ford of musical genres.

You can have any artist you want, as long as they're Black. :pac:

Knight who says Meh wrote: »

Im in my early 40's and still finding new bands and buying new music along with my usual diet of Elvis Costello, Something Happens, Paul Simon, Neil Young and such. (All of whom are still gigging and releasing music) I seriously think that music is as good now as ever and that you need to work at discovering it.
Listening to the radio is the musical equivalent of eating in Mc Donalds and then claiming that modern food is sh1te

you're reading my diary

naasface wrote: »

Cut Africa off.

42billion dollars a year is sent there as aid and the idiot corrupt politicians still let their citizens starve and start civil wars.
Leave them to their own devices because there's been f all development there and the amount of money sent there is a joke and is not used efficiently.

Deadbeat dads should be jailed for unpaid maintenance.

Organ donation should be an opt-out system.

Great idea as long as enormous fines are imposed on all non-African firms which together annually take tens of billions of euro of Africa's resources to enrich European, American and Chinese societies - the same firms like Shell which make the deals with the aforementioned corrupt African oligarchs that enrich the treasuries of non-African states.

What's sauce for the goose....

One unwelcome (to all the right people, that is) observation:

Irish people who follow the British practice of referring to soccer as "football" are weak-minded people who watch far, far too much British television.

But never, ever tell the "soccer is football" brigade that before soccer was invented from 1863 on, what constituted "football" in most variants of the game in Britain involved players handling the ball. It was only after 1866 that handling the ball was banned in soccer by the English FA. Gaelic Football is much more akin to "football" as it has historically been understood. It is the undereducated soccer zealots of today who want us all to change our lexicon to reflect their preferences. It is they who abandoned real football for the late nineteenth-century invention that is soccer.

Soccer is not football. End of.

I'm on a roll so here's another soccer observation just to offend all those arseholes who scream at blaring tvs in pubs in Ireland while I'm trying to have a quiet chat with friends:

People who follow the saturation-coverage business that is British soccer and like to think they are following a "sport" are ignorant plebs who are desperately trying to fit in. They lack individuality, independence of mind and difference. If tiddlywinks were on Sky Sports as much as British soccer, they'd be following it with the same zeal. Pathetic. If they really were interested in soccer they'd look beyond Sky and see a world of much better teams. But it's not the best soccer they want - it's acceptance by a certain subculture in Ireland. Fact.

I'd have more respect for a single dedicated League of Ireland supporter - people who when they say "we" actually mean their local soccer team not a foreign one - than all that crowd put together. Sport is about community - not about what is blaming over a very parochial and nationalistic British sports channel like Sky Sports.

/rant over.

Greentopia wrote: »

Yes, down with that sort of thing!
What's the point of learning for the sake of learning? We should all just be educated to serve the needs of the economy! cogs in the wheel! who needs to be a fully rounded individual with an appreciation and knowledge of art, craft, design, philosophy... :rolleyes:

Ya, stupid point by me I agree. I personally see these as more of a hobby,(I have little talent in any of these areas so I suppose I have a measure of deep seated jealousy) but I do appreciate all of which you have listed, and the world would be far poorer without. Afterall Da Vinci was brilliant in both engineering and art

Greentopia wrote: »

You do know that it doesn't make you sound cool or clever or grown up to make deliberately nasty and provocative statements like that, don't you?
there's no prize for saying the most outlandish thing you can think of.

I have had nothing but bad experiences with these people.

Dionysus wrote: »

I'm on a roll so here's another soccer observation just to offend all those arseholes who scream at blaring tvs in pubs in Ireland while I'm trying to have a quiet chat with friends:

People who follow the saturation-coverage business that is British soccer and like to think they are following a "sport" are ignorant plebs who are desperately trying to fit in. They lack individuality, independence of mind and difference. If tiddlywinks were on Sky Sports as much as British soccer, they'd be following it with the same zeal. Pathetic. If they really were interested in soccer they'd look beyond Sky and see a world of much better teams. But it's not the best soccer they want - it's acceptance by a certain subculture in Ireland. Fact.

I'd have more respect for a single dedicated League of Ireland supporter - people who when they say "we" actually mean their local soccer team not a foreign one - than all that crowd put together. Sport is about community - not about what is blaming over a very parochial and nationalistic British sports channel like Sky Sports.

What about someone who travels over to matches in England?

Dionysus wrote: »

I'm on a roll so here's another soccer observation just to offend all those arseholes who scream at blaring tvs in pubs in Ireland while I'm trying to have a quiet chat with friends:

People who follow the saturation-coverage business that is British soccer and like to think they are following a "sport" are ignorant plebs who are desperately trying to fit in. They lack individuality, independence of mind and difference. If tiddlywinks were on Sky Sports as much as British soccer, they'd be following it with the same zeal. Pathetic. If they really were interested in soccer they'd look beyond Sky and see a world of much better teams. But it's not the best soccer they want - it's acceptance by a certain subculture in Ireland. Fact.

I'd have more respect for a single dedicated League of Ireland supporter - people who when they say "we" actually mean their local soccer team not a foreign one - than all that crowd put together. Sport is about community - not about what is blaming over a very parochial and nationalistic British sports channel like Sky Sports.

/rant over.

I love the Olympics because when a non-football sport gets more airtime, football fans get all pissed off. Their ignorance towards other (and in most cases, more interesting sports) is pretty funny.

I actually thought that robert mugabe had a point with his land reform policy in Zimbabwe. Why should white people have all the best farm land when they only got that land in the first place from stealing it from the natives. The idea that zimbabweans should have to BUY back this land from european settlers was ridiculous. In my opinion it was somewhat understandable for Mugabe's government to forcibly remove non-compliant white people from their land. And I say all this as a caucasian.
Of course I accept that this policy has been disastrous for Zimbabwe and has lead to economic ruin and tragic loss of life and of course Mugabe is a monumental pr1ck and he also used this policy to target black opponents of his regime but I still contend that there was a lot of merit to the original ideas of the land policy.