Unpopular Opinions.

acidskiffle · 2011-11-15 04:44:39

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.

#5852 30-11-2012 09:05PM

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Smidge wrote: »

Hussy

I am, for my sins, in de pure chunteree(say that phonetically and it gives you a clue to where I am )

I too have long hair and have the audacity to, wait for it, wear it loose and not scutched back in a scrunchy.
For some reason I get the feeling that these women think I'm going to seduce their pot-bellied, unshaven, welly boot wearing, slurry smelling husbands :rolleyes:

Maybe you get attitude from people because you come across as thinking you are better than them?

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#5853 30-11-2012 09:39PM

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Madam_X wrote: »

Well despite the "we", I'm not. Plus, sometimes when people say "I'm not racist but..." they're actually not racist! It's become the thing to say on the internet that any time someone says that, it automatically means they're racist (even though they very well could not be) and what they are about to say gets stifled by apparently openminded people.

Ireland does have racists - don't think anyone would deny that.

You've just been contradicted on every point, so it might be best to specify where down the country you're talking about, otherwise you just look narrowminded applying your individual experience to anywhere rural or small-town at all, despite thinking you're so enlightened.

This thread is called "Unpopular Opinions" isn't??
And I am entitled to my opinion with regard to my personal experience of where I live and what I have experienced.
Just because you say I have been contradicted on every point does NOT make the other posters experiences who contradicted me right, it is their OPINION of their own experiences and is equally as valid as mine.

I also (and here is a newsflash) only spoke about the area of the country in which I am living, not to as you put it "anywhere rural or small-town".
I have spent many a happy summer in both Galway and Wexford and loved it.
I found the people wonderful.

I also don't know what you mean with the remark about me thinking I'm so enlightened, I never claimed anything of the sort, to be honest that just sounds a tad bit bitchy.

And with regard to saying where I do live???

Don't be so nosey

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#5854 30-11-2012 09:51PM

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Paddy Cow wrote: »

Maybe you get attitude from people because you come across as thinking you are better than them?

I don't think I'm better than anyone else regardless of where they are from.

What I got sick of was trying to make friends with people here and after a few weeks "the trickle" would begin.

What I mean by that expression is this.....

These people(and tbf it wasn't just women as my OH had it with the men too) would be really nice to you at first but that was just part of the "fact finding".
They would ask you everything about yourself and your family and for the first while I was completely honest and to my own detriment, spoke about my life, family,work etc.
All basic stuff though(not my deepest darkest secrets:D), just things that most normal people talk about when the first meet new people and are trying to "fit in".

It would only be a few weeks later that you would begin to hear from someone else the most bizzare bastardisation of the conversation you had with someone else, and it was never pretty.
And what was upsetting most of all, there was no holds barred.
The things I heard back was not just idle gossip or chit-chat but downright lies.

It was like the nastiest game of "Chinese Whispers" you have ever seen.

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#5855 30-11-2012 10:15PM

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Smidge wrote: »

I don't think I'm better than anyone else regardless of where they are from.

What I got sick of was trying to make friends with people here and after a few weeks "the trickle" would begin.

What I mean by that expression is this.....

These people(and tbf it wasn't just women as my OH had it with the men too) would be really nice to you at first but that was just part of the "fact finding".
They would ask you everything about yourself and your family and for the first while I was completely honest and to my own detriment, spoke about my life, family,work etc.
All basic stuff though(not my deepest darkest secrets:D), just things that most normal people talk about when the first meet new people and are trying to "fit in".

It would only be a few weeks later that you would begin to hear from someone else the most bizzare bastardisation of the conversation you had with someone else, and it was never pretty.
And what was upsetting most of all, there was no holds barred.
The things I heard back was not just idle gossip or chit-chat but downright lies.

It was like the nastiest game of "Chinese Whispers" you have ever seen.

Well that does sound horrid but there's nosy bags that thrive on bad news everywhere.

Some people won't trust you unless they knew and trusted your grandparents! But don't peg every person in a rural community in the one way.

Give it a chance, keep away from the flutes and you'll fly it. Being in a small place has benefits too.

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#5856 30-11-2012 10:27PM

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Rasheed wrote: »

Well that does sound horrid but there's nosy bags that thrive on bad news everywhere.

Some people won't trust you unless they knew and trusted your grandparents! But don't peg every person in a rural community in the one way.

Give it a chance, keep away from the flutes and you'll fly it. Being in a small place has benefits too.

I've been here for 8 years so I'd say that qualifies as a fair chance

Tried to sell up as i was so unhappy but we all know what happened with the housing market

I tried with sooooo many different people and just got sickened by the behavior that in the end I can't be bothered any more. I have my own friends.

In fairness, only for this being an open forum I could tell you some of the things that happened and it would curl your hair. I haven't been talking about things like "God, hasn't she put on a few pounds" type thing.
I'm talking completely taking someone's character for entertainment.
I'm talking where a couple has split up and where the wife has been branded an actual prostitute(I'm deadly serious, it was spread around that she was selling herself for money, when there was no such thing) because she had the nerve to leave the husband.

I wouldn't even say what I heard back about myself, it was awful.

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#5857 30-11-2012 10:54PM

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Smidge wrote: »

This thread is called "Unpopular Opinions" isn't??
And I am entitled to my opinion with regard to my personal experience of where I live and what I have experienced.
Just because you say I have been contradicted on every point does NOT make the other posters experiences who contradicted me right, it is their OPINION of their own experiences and is equally as valid as mine.
I also (and here is a newsflash) only spoke about the area of the country in which I am living, not to as you put it "anywhere rural or small-town".
I have spent many a happy summer in both Galway and Wexford and loved it.
I found the people wonderful.
I also don't know what you mean with the remark about me thinking I'm so enlightened, I never claimed anything of the sort, to be honest that just sounds a tad bit bitchy.
And with regard to saying where I do live??
Don't be so nosey

But you just said "down the country". I'm not disputing any of what you say, but youre applying it to anywhere down the country.

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#5858 30-11-2012 11:03PM

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Madam_X wrote: »

But you just said "down the country". I'm not disputing any of what you say, but youre applying it to anywhere down the country.

No I am not applying it to anywhere "down the country" as I have not lived "everywhere down the country".
I gave my opinion of my experiences of where I am living.

As I said in another posts I have spent extended periods(not just a weekend) in other parts ie Wexford and Galway and loved it.

Also, if you read back another poster agreed with me with regard to what I had posted and had similar experiences(maybe not as bad as mine, I don't really know and I don't know which part of the country that poster is in either).

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#5859 01-12-2012 04:25PM

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Misunderstood you so - "Down the country" wasn't specific enough for me to realise that you didn't mean just anywhere rural and small-town and that you were talking only about where you live and places like it.

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#5860 01-12-2012 04:59PM

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Smidge wrote: »

I've been here for 8 years so I'd say that qualifies as a fair chance

Tried to sell up as i was so unhappy but we all know what happened with the housing market

I tried with sooooo many different people and just got sickened by the behavior that in the end I can't be bothered any more. I have my own friends.

In fairness, only for this being an open forum I could tell you some of the things that happened and it would curl your hair. I haven't been talking about things like "God, hasn't she put on a few pounds" type thing.
I'm talking completely taking someone's character for entertainment.
I'm talking where a couple has split up and where the wife has been branded an actual prostitute(I'm deadly serious, it was spread around that she was selling herself for money, when there was no such thing) because she had the nerve to leave the husband.

I wouldn't even say what I heard back about myself, it was awful.

Sounds like the kind of gossip that would be going around my home town. I have really started to dislike the place the last couple of years. Had plans once upon a time to move back there, but the recession happened and put paid to that (thank God!)

Being nosy here, it's not somewhere in the North-East, is it?

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#5861 01-12-2012 10:12PM

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DebDynamite wrote: »

Sounds like the kind of gossip that would be going around my home town. I have really started to dislike the place the last couple of years. Had plans once upon a time to move back there, but the recession happened and put paid to that (thank God!)

Being nosy here, it's not somewhere in the North-East, is it?

It might be

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#5862 02-12-2012 10:59AM

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Smidge wrote: »

It might be

Well in that case I can completely back up what you say in your previous posts. There are a lot of bitter, jealous, backward people living up that way.

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#5863 02-12-2012 11:05AM

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My opinion that 'Movember' moustache growers are a bit smug doesn't seem too popular:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82036026

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#5864 02-12-2012 12:45PM

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Woody Allen movies are the most over-rated tripe I've ever looked at......not one good movie out of all of them.

If I could bag them and label it as fertilizer I'd make a fortune.

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#5865 02-12-2012 05:12PM

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I think the same of Clint Eastwood films. I think you could actually die of boredom watching them. Vast scenes of nothing.

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#5866 02-12-2012 11:35PM

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The Beatles were shiit.

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#5867 03-12-2012 12:03AM

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homemadecider wrote: »

First of all, why is "do-gooders" a negative phrase now? When did 'doing good' become a bad thing?

I work for an international NGO that is focused on developing countries; we do not work in Ireland. The reason for this is that most of the countries in the world have much greater needs than Ireland. Even the poorest, most deprived person in Ireland still has access to clean water. When is the last time you heard of an Irish child dying of diarrhoea/ dehydration?

As for 'free holidays' - don't make me laugh. I've spent time in Eastern Congo (one of the worst places in the world to live in my opinion) and in Somalia, these are certainly not 'holiday' destinations. Every night there were gunshots keeping us awake and there were several grenade attacks when I was in Congo. I did not enjoy it one bit but the work we do there is essential as many other NGOs do not operate there.

For the record, I consider myself extremely lucky; I got to come home to Ireland while many millions of people are stuck living in these awful places.

It depends on what you're doing. I know a guy who went to Accra to paint a school for 2 weeks. He needed €5k of sponsorship which he collected and paid to some company that sorts out flights, place to stay etc. Went over, and worked for 2 weeks painting a school, others did other jobs like putting in wiring.
So that €5k basically paid for 2 weeks of labour. That would go a hell of a lot further if it went to locals to paint the school, or a local electrical contractor to wire it. But then he wouldn't get the feel good factor out of it. Never mind that €1k would be enough for a month over there.
Obviously there's good charities, but think frankosw was more talking about crap like I mentioned.

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#5868 03-12-2012 12:16AM

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Age of retirement also the age when you have to stop voting.

Have an effective college grant system. Recipients must go to every lecture and before anyone says - "oh but college is the greatest time of your life, let them off"; I'm sure having to sit through a 2/4 hour lectures a day will haunt them.

An independent body dictates what TD's earn. The body should take into account inflation/deflation, cost of living and so on and adjust it accordingly. There is no way in a just world that Enda Kenny should be taking 2,000 + of our money home a week. Similarly Bertie Aherne has the audacity to claim his pension - that needs to be looked at.

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#5869 03-12-2012 01:28AM

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Cienciano wrote: »

It depends on what you're doing. I know a guy who went to Accra to paint a school for 2 weeks. He needed €5k of sponsorship which he collected and paid to some company that sorts out flights, place to stay etc. Went over, and worked for 2 weeks painting a school, others did other jobs like putting in wiring.
So that €5k basically paid for 2 weeks of labour. That would go a hell of a lot further if it went to locals to paint the school, or a local electrical contractor to wire it. But then he wouldn't get the feel good factor out of it. Never mind that €1k would be enough for a month over there.
Obviously there's good charities, but think frankosw was more talking about crap like I mentioned.

This sponsored holiday abroad to work as a volunteer always seemed like a scam to me. I knew several people who did this, and collected sponsorship for months prior to travelling. One guy went to Madagascar to paddle up a river in a canoe for 2 weeks; another lady went to Mississippi to do a sponsored walk, she had to raise over €3k before she set foot in the place. Would it not make more sense to get a Mississippi local to do the walk and send on the money to whoever needs it!

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#5870 03-12-2012 02:06AM

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nacimroc wrote: »

I think the same of Clint Eastwood films. I think you could actually die of boredom watching them. Vast scenes of nothing.

Shut your face "hippy"

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#5871 03-12-2012 06:11PM

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nacimroc wrote: »

I think the same of Clint Eastwood films. I think you could actually die of boredom watching them. Vast scenes of nothing.

Nonsense.

The Dollars Trilogy, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Two Mules for Sister Sarah are some of the greatest movies ever made.

And of course, In the Line of Fire, Million Dollar Baby, High Plains Drifter, Play Misty for Me...

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#5872 03-12-2012 06:13PM

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kupus wrote: »

Woody Allen movies are the most over-rated tripe I've ever looked at......not one good movie out of all of them.

If I could bag them and label it as fertilizer I'd make a fortune.

Hannah and Her Sisters, even?

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#5873 03-12-2012 06:29PM

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kupus wrote: »

Woody Allen movies are the most over-rated tripe I've ever looked at......not one good movie out of all of them.

If I could bag them and label it as fertilizer I'd make a fortune.

You should give Annie Hall a look, it's absolutely fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPcSd7DDLk

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#5874 03-12-2012 06:33PM

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LOL; the clip is poor quality but the look on Allen's face in the car is priceless - Walken is genius

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#5875 03-12-2012 06:39PM

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nacimroc wrote: »

I think the same of Clint Eastwood films. I think you could actually die of boredom watching them. Vast scenes of nothing.

Clint filled those gaps with his intensity...

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#5876 03-12-2012 06:59PM

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old hippy wrote: »

Nonsense.

The Dollars Trilogy, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Two Mules for Sister Sarah are some of the greatest movies ever made.

And of course, In the Line of Fire, Million Dollar Baby, High Plains Drifter, Play Misty for Me...

I recently watched Mystic River and that is a really good film. He gets a brilliant performance out of Sean Penn in that.

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#5877 03-12-2012 07:05PM

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I'd still munch pippa middletons arsehole

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#5878 03-12-2012 07:18PM

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Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'd still munch pippa middletons arsehole

Quite the old fashioned romantic type aren't you :pac:

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#5879 03-12-2012 07:24PM

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coonecb1 wrote: »

Quite the old fashioned romantic type aren't you :pac:

Indeed. Chicks digs the bum love

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#5880 03-12-2012 07:25PM

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Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'd still munch pippa middletons arsehole

The most over-rated woman of all time look-wise. Kate is twenty times better looking.

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#5881 03-12-2012 07:28PM

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My unpopular opinion: I hope the English royal baby has tourettes.... simply because somebody has to unfortunately. Couldn't happen to nicer people. It would also make royal occassions somewhat more bearable.

Apologises in advance.

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