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acidskiffle

Probably been done before but without getting too extreme,do you have any opinions most people you know seem to disagree with?
I happen to think Bono is a sound lad.

Mod note: last time a thread like this was made a lot of people were banned.
If your opinion is too extreme you probably shouldn't post it.

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Paparazzo

cowzerp wrote: »

Never said people think it is real-he called it a sport and it is not 1, Sports are competitive and can't have predetermined results, he then had a go at Boxers calling them Bully's and MMA/UFC fighters too.

Laughable someone who watches grown men all pumped up pretending to smash chairs over each others heads and he has a go at Boxing!!

Plenty of boxing matches have predetermined results too

paddyandy

All my opinions are unpopular .I like it that way .

MrFlabr

cowzerp wrote: »

Never said people think it is real-he called it a sport and it is not 1, Sports are competitive and can't have predetermined results, he then had a go at Boxers calling them Bully's and MMA/UFC fighters too.

Laughable someone who watches grown men all pumped up pretending to smash chairs over each others heads and he has a go at Boxing!!

Sorry I should correct that, wrestling is sport entertainment.Right, well as the title states, it's unpopular opinions and I said my opinions, no reason to get butthurt there. I don't watch WWF at all, but I do train with the athlete's in the gym when they come over on tour, just like last month and carry out evaluations of their health. Sure if you're an expert in the demands of a sport, I gladly challenge you to get in the ring, throw around a 20 stone guy!

a fat guy

Something just doesn't sit right with me when I see two men beating the crap out of each other in the ring (Boxing/UFC).

Then again, I don't particularly enjoy seeing people get hurt, so there you go...

Nodin

MrFlabr wrote: »

Sorry I should correct that, wrestling is sport entertainment.Right, well as the title states, it's unpopular opinions and I said my opinions, no reason to get butthurt there. I don't watch WWF at all, but I do train with the athlete's in the gym when they come over on tour, just like last month and carry out evaluations of their health. Sure if you're an expert in the demands of a sport, I gladly challenge you to get in the ring, throw around a 20 stone guy!

All he said was that it wasn't a sport. You, however,

Boxing is a terrible sport. Talentless bullies.

...went a tad further - to the extent that I presumed you were taking the piss. Perhaps he might consent to indulge in a match with a pre-arranged outcome, while you go three three minute rounds with a "talentless bully", no head-gear, professional rules, gloves.

stupidusername

paddyandy wrote: »

All my opinions are unpopular and it's why i'm often alone but i know people who are very popular and i promise you they are useless on a rainy day because they agree with everybody all the time.Useless company all of the time.You never learn anything from such people.I'm a pain and will always remain unapologetic about it.

paddyandy wrote: »

All my opinions are unpopular.......and so am i .

paddyandy wrote: »

All my opinions are unpopular and it makes me a wunnnnerful person .

paddyandy wrote: »

All my opinions are unpopular....that's what makes me a treasure who should'nt be here .

paddyandy wrote: »

All my opinions are unpopular .I like it that way .

Are you looking for someone to argue with or what?

Nodin

... a lot of the time, it can be hard to tell what his opinions are, exactly.

krudler

cowzerp wrote: »

Professional wrestling is not a sport, thats like saying Home and away is a sport, if you say they are athletic people fine but they are actors with predetermined matches, not a sport :rolleyes:

Boxing is 1 of the most difficult skills to master and takes years, to call them talentless bullies is Moronic to say the least-Also MMA/UFC is a sport and not simply lads knocking the heads off each other!

Now My 1, Adults who watch Pro Wrestling are complete nerds who need to get lifes.

the only people who seem to think pro wrestling fans consider pro wrestling a sport are people who dont watch it, I dont know a single person who thinks wrestling is real, I dont watch it for that aspect, couldnt care less who wins or loses, its the entertainment part. some,well a lot of it is cringey immature crap but when its good its great fun to watch, and live its brilliant to see, I;ve been ina crowd of 80,000 people watching a wrestling event and it beat and concert or sporting event I've ever been to, its just a show, and a great one.

Its like telling people who watch Eastenders thats it not a documentary about life in London, they know well and dont consider it that.

Nodin

krudler wrote: »

the only people who seem to think pro wrestling fans consider pro wrestling a sport are people who dont watch it, I dont know a single person who thinks wrestling is real, I dont watch it for that aspect, couldnt care less who wins or loses, its the entertainment part. some,well a lot of it is cringey immature crap but when its good its great fun to watch, and live its brilliant to see, I;ve been ina crowd of 80,000 people watching a wrestling event and it beat and concert or sporting event I've ever been to, its just a show, and a great one.

Its like telling people who watch Eastenders thats it not a documentary about life in London, they know well and dont consider it that.

It's theatre at its most basic. Tom & Jerry in a way. I doubt that the vast majority that watch it take it seriously at all. Which is rather more than can be said about the poxy x-factor....

The Mexican stuff is meant to be very good, though I've never seen it. Different style entirely, by all accounts.

krudler

Nodin wrote: »

It's theatre at its most basic. Tom & Jerry in a way. I doubt that the vast majority that watch it take it seriously at all. Which is rather more than can be said about the poxy x-factor....

The Mexican stuff is meant to be very good, though I've never seen it. Different style entirely, by all accounts.

Japanese stuff too, which is much harder hitting than the WWE style, they do take it way more seriously over there though. Its theatre, entertainment and a physical display meets a rock n roll concert.

the x-factor is awful tv, it always make me laugh when they send a camera to the school/fire station/hospital where the shy but talented person blows the audience away to see their colleagues "reactions" when they give them the news they got through, I'm pretty sure its a given they got through when theres a fcuking camera crew there to film the reactions.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Nodin wrote: »

It's theatre at its most basic. Tom & Jerry in a way. I doubt that the vast majority that watch it take it seriously at all. Which is rather more than can be said about the poxy x-factor....

The Mexican stuff is meant to be very good, though I've never seen it. Different style entirely, by all accounts.

Yeah the Lucha stuff in Mexico is well worth having a look at, high flying acrobatics and stunts, a completely different style to American wrestling and quite fun to watch.

Nodin

krudler wrote: »

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the x-factor is awful tv, it always make me laugh when they send a camera to the school/fire station/hospital where the shy but talented person blows the audience away to see their colleagues "reactions" when they give them the news they got through, I'm pretty sure its a given they got through when theres a fcuking camera crew there to film the reactions.

It's the ****e thats in the press than annoys me - 'rows in the house', 'judge x will not talk to judge y' bollocksology. Its all clearly fabricated by the same shower. Then you have to listen to two to three generations of eejits discuss it as if its "real". Or matters a ****, for that matter.

token101

Wouldn't X Factor fans be almost the same way though? Knowing it's pure theatrical bollocks but loving it anyway? Sure it's almost the same as wrestling, the finishes are predictable enough, but sure it's entertaining like!

mikemac1

X Factor - best family sob story wins

Idle Passerby

It is selfish and arrogant to want to have your own (biological) child when the world is already overpopulated and there are so many existing children in need of love and protection.

mikemac1

Idle Passerby wrote: »

It is selfish and arrogant to want to have your own (biological) child when the world is already overpopulated

Ireland is probably the only country in Europe that has a smaller population then it's peak.
And we'll probably never get back to what it once was before famine times

We owe the world nothing in this regard

longhalloween

The world is in no way overpopulated.

The only reason famine and drought exist is because people live in regions or that cannot support them or are controlled by inept governments.

England houses 50 million people on 130 square km of land. No droughts or famines there(Only hosepipe bans on certain days)

Ethiopia has 80 million people in a space 11 times larger than England. Droughts and famines galore!

There's plenty of room in this world for everyone to live either in well supplied cities or fertile, well maintained land. Only they don't, whether by choice, poverty, immigration and emigration laws etc.

stupidusername

longhalloween wrote: »

The world is in no way overpopulated.

The only reason famine and drought exist is because people live in regions or that cannot support them or are controlled by inept governments.

England houses 50 million people on 130 square km of land. No droughts or famines there(Only hosepipe bans on certain days)

Ethiopia has 80 million people in a space 11 times larger than England. Droughts and famines galore!

There's plenty of room in this world for everyone to live either in well supplied cities or fertile, well maintained land. Only they don't, whether by choice, poverty, immigration and emigration laws etc.

Are you saying David Attenborough is wrong? :eek:

seriously, it's clearly more complex than there's lots of people living perfectly fine now...

[Deleted User]

I don't think overpopulation is the issue, but I do agree that people's attitudes towards having children are ridiculous. Totally understandable, but ridiculous, if that makes any sense.

As in, I'd be devastated if I found out I couldn't have kids. I get that most people have a biological urge to create offspring. But sometimes when I see couples purposely popping out kid after kid, sitting there preggers and planning the next one (I'm talking > 5 kids), I can't help but think it's selfish.

Edit: Just to point out though, the world is overpopulated. Demand for food is outgrowing supply, and with diets becoming more meat-centric the problem will get worse even if the population remains stable.

krudler

I hate breeders, those people who have a kid every year and end up with 6 or more of the fcukers. ruining supermarkets and cinemas for the rest of us with their spawn running around wrecking things and expecting the state to pay for their upkeep. contraception, look into it.

longhalloween

true-or-false wrote: »

Demand for food is outgrowing supply

Is it? There's plenty of farming land in Ireland that's not being used to it's full potential. Presumably the same situation exist in other areas.
There was plenty of controversy over EU 'Food Mountains' a few years back and many studies claim that us in the first world throw out 1/3 of the food we buy.

Or is the problem just that the people who need the infrastructure and planning to develop proper agriculture are the least well off and are living the most inhospitable areas. Therefore they starve while the rich eat to excess.

Regarding the David Attenborough comment, Jane Goodall is also part of that organisation and she came out with this nugget of wisdom

"It's our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we've inflicted on the planet," Goodall told the AFP this spring. "If there were just a few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn't really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it—but there are so many of us."

Aside from the 'Mother Nature' comment :rolleyes: Either she's calling for genocide or she doesn't realise that it's not the quantity of people that harm the planet, it's the irresponsibility of the few that do most of the harm.

Jester252

I think a cull is need with humans

IrishAm

Jester252 wrote: »

I think a cull is need with humans

How?

krudler

IrishAm wrote: »

How?

plague, war, its all good, there's too many stupid people in the world right now.

A_Sober_Paddy

IrishAm wrote: »

How?

Flu, apparently we're due a very serious flu, something along the line of the Spanish Flu...

Or maybe world war 3 would really tin out the worlds population

Dudess

Jester252 wrote: »

I think a cull is need with humans

Which ones? You being one yourself n' all.

krudler

Dudess wrote: »

Which ones? You being one yourself n' all.

everyone bar myself,a few boardsies, some scientists, people to make cake and bacon, and the remaining survivors will be pitted against each other with rusty spoons for our amusement.

[Deleted User]

longhalloween wrote: »

Is it? There's plenty of farming land in Ireland that's not being used to it's full potential. Presumably the same situation exist in other areas.
There was plenty of controversy over EU 'Food Mountains' a few years back and many studies claim that us in the first world throw out 1/3 of the food we buy.

Or is the problem just that the people who need the infrastructure and planning to develop proper agriculture are the least well off and are living the most inhospitable areas. Therefore they starve while the rich eat to excess.

The food mountain thing is true, and I'm not going to pretend that I know the ins and outs of it but it's mainly a mis-management. When I was typing my last post I knew someone would bring it up and I while I don't know why we can't sell our excess, the truth is still that demand for food is becoming unmanagable. In terms of calories, meat eating puts a lot of stress on food demand. Speaking loosely, if you feed a chicken to people, you're going to have to feed that chicken about 10 times as much as you're going to get from it. So feed people meat instead of grain and you're using up 10 times as much grain. Predominantly vegetarian countries, such as those in Asia, are becoming far more dependent on meat. And it's a bit off topic, but people are also demanding more exotic foods, requiring food to be flown over great distances.

There are two proposed ways of starting to tackle it: on a country by country basis (i.e. the rich countries sit tight and let the poor ones deal with it themselves) or on a worldwide basis (which while it's a far nicer, compassionate sounding plan, it is slightly less realistic). As you might expect, a lot of African nations support the international idea while America supports the lets-look-after-ourselves idea.

Irish population itself isn't much of an issue (although the fact that many people's diets include processed foods and two or three portions of meat is), as there seems to be a trend that the more developed a country becomes, the more women's education and opportunities increase and the more birth rate drops. This is thought to be because there are less accidents due to misuse/absence of contraception, women are waiting to have children after they're content in their careers, and a myriad of other contributing factors. However while it might be best to tackle the issue on a country by country basis, it's certainly always worth bearing in mind the worldwide situation. Which is that the world is overpopulated with regards to food supply. Hopefully we'll find some GM crops to increase production in poor countries, which would bring income into the area, lower the birth rate and somewhat ameliorate things.

Or I'm pretty stressed out over exams and am blabbing for no reason.

IrishAm

krudler wrote: »

plague, war, its all good, there's too many stupid people in the world right now.

Id propose cutting all aid. Its doing more harm than good.

In 1960, the population of Somalia was roughly around 2.8 million. Now the population stands at 11 million and growing by 450 000 people per annum.

Completely unsustainable.

krudler

IrishAm wrote: »

Id propose cutting all aid. Its doing more harm than good.

In 1960, the population of Somalia was roughly around 2.8 million. Now the population stands at 11 million and growing by 450 000 people per annum.

Completely unsustainable.

spend more money on sex education and contraception as well, and stop catholic charities telling people condoms cause AIDS, its fcuking reprehensible. The amount of ignorance in Africa is staggering, and I dont mean ignorance as an insult, as in they simply dont know any better and let their leaders and the church tell them compeltely wrong information when it comes to sex.