Unpopular Opinions #26

All you pet owners can at least get a special occasion greeting card from them I thought that was Hilair when I saw that. I don't think horace the housefly would bother

BonBon27 said:

I have children and I still find screaming kids in public fucking annoying! Mums who say they aren’t annoying are liars.

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Thank you like I feel for the parents but come on people who say they don’t mind at all are having a laugh!

jackolantern said:

Damn that was disappointingly popular, gonna have to dig into the depths of my darkest self for you animals

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Give it time…

jackolantern said:

Ok I'm gonna drop it, yall it's been a blast you not hating me (well I'm sure plenty of you do already )

I don't give a fuck about black lives matter. The movement not ethnicity I'm not that cuntish. I know people don't like to admit it, but we fundamentally all have our own shit and issues and you just can't care about them all and I think people who pretend they do are just liars tbh. I think you absolutely fuck yourself if you get emotionally invested in every cause. That's not to say I don't agree with the principals, but at if I'm being brutally honest, they don't affect me and I don't treat one ethnic group any different to another so for me, I've done my bit. I accept it's selfish to say so, but you need to be sometimes. I don't feel performative activism changes that. I can say with 100% certainty every single person in my life who preaches about BLM has done nothing more than share a graphic on socials. Most of these people are also the same types to have used racist slurs in the past.

#burnthelantern?

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BLM seems to have risen primarily in the US where racism is clearly a massive issue, but in the UK it's a lot less obvious and seems to be a bit of a taboo subject. Most people won't know what institutional racism (which I remember was one of the big talking points in the context of the UK) would include because they've never had to experience it themselves

A lot of the race focused organisations also don't seem to do a very good job of explaining those sort of things to white people. I found an interesting charity/pressure group that was focusing on racism within the court system. Not just the sentencing stuff but also how evidence is gathered/presented and the like. I scrolled through their Twitter and literally had no idea what the issues were because they simply did not explain it very well or compare it to other similar white cases or whatever. It's not a topic I'm that interested in so I'm not going to go reading 500 articles to get a general idea, though I did look up the case they kept mentioning - the average person probably wouldn't even bother doing that



Someone mentioned swimming with dolphins earlier. I'm sure people have heard of the Dolphin Project in some form, they were behind covering Japan killing dolphins. Anyway, they have this captive dolphin rehabilitation facility where they're meant to take captive dolphins and then eventually get them to the point where they can be released. Only of course it has become sort of obvious that these dolphins won't be released any time soon, because getting captive dolphins is understandably hard, and they're just being used for donations and to make the organisation look good

Ok I will spice it up with one of my unpopular opinions (it’s unpopular for my age group, but perhaps not for older people)
UO: the burka should be banned. It’s degrading af and idc if it’s a religious or cultural thing, the burka and what it represents has absolutely no place in civilized societies. Maybe I sound backwards to some, but I used to live in a 40% muslim area with children as young as 3 running about in burkas, so please don’t tell me it’s a ‘woman's choice’ either, I’ve seen too many people who have clearly been forced into wearing it.

Mascaragirl said:

I think people with children lose the ability to remember life before children. I saw a tik tok the other day, about how it’s rude to find screaming kids on a plane annoying.

Sorry, whilst I would never say or do anything, screaming kids in public is fucking annoying and don’t pretend you wouldn’t of found it irritating before you had them, because you would of. They made out it was criminal to think in your head ‘ugh, shut up’. I hate how people don’t think your life is complete till you have a child, and I find a lot of mums look down on you if you don’t plan too soon. Why shouldn’t I want my life to me right now, with all my money going on me? I would never tell a mum to not have children so why do they think it’s acceptable to tell me I NEED to have them. They also don’t usually consider people’s fertility issues.

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Literally today I saw someone I knew when I was younger who has multiple children with several women and at 32 he could not compute that I hadn’t reproduced yet. Sorry I like my life and wouldn’t reproduce with just anyone I met on tinder hun.

WilmaHun said:

I’m not trolling I do hate cats it wouldn’t be unpopular opinions if we all agreed all the time

Eta - I think it’s dirty how they crawl all over the worktops etc and I think they stink

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I don't have a cat at the moment but I've never had one that stunk before.

Dogs smell and they slobber everywhere. Plus their shit stinks worst than most. That's one of the main reasons I'll never get a dog - I'm not picking up shit even in a tissue or poop bag. Your hands must still get smelly.

I will say before having a kid I fucking despised people who made it their entire personality but I have completely fallen into that trap. Not even by choice but it's so all consuming that it really is hard to remember who you were before. I'm sure I bore people shitless, but I did it before with dog photos anyway so I've always been that cunt To me though it's not much different to seeing people's holiday photos, home renovations, clubbing escapades etc, noones passions are really of interest to anyone else. We are all boring bastards really

Of course it is annoying when a child is screaming in public. But do you think the parent wants this?

Deeznutslol said:

Ok I will spice it up with one of my unpopular opinions (it’s unpopular for my age group, but perhaps not for older people)
UO: the burka should be banned. It’s degrading af and idc if it’s a religious or cultural thing, the burka and what it represents has absolutely no place in civilized societies. Maybe I sound backwards to some, but I used to live in a 40% muslim area with children as young as 3 running about in burkas, so please don’t tell me it’s a ‘woman's choice’ either, I’ve seen too many people who have clearly been forced into wearing it.

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Thing is, it's all shits and giggles until the government wants to ban you from choosing to do or wear something that you want to.

Bet you'd change your tune then.

I don’t think Colleges should have these mock graduation ceremonies for students that have got HNC’s. You shouldn’t be “graduating” if you haven’t been to university and you don’t have a degree. It makes a complete mockery of the full higher education system.

I will give the nursery kids a pass.

Ensay said:

I don't have a cat at the moment but I've never had one that stunk before.

Dogs smell and they slobber everywhere. Plus their shit stinks worst than most. That's one of the main reasons I'll never get a dog - I'm not picking up shit even in a tissue or poop bag. Your hands must still get smelly.

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sorry what? Haven’t you heard of washing your hands?! I mean my hands don’t stink after picking up poo with a bag, but I wash them regardless anyway.

cat shit absolutely humms and I know that for a fact cos one of the minging little shits who keeps welcoming himself into my home also keeps shitting in my garden. They do smell, similar to how people say they can smell dog in peoples homes I’ve been in homes where their cat smell is overpowering

I have dogs and cats. Never had a cat that smelt and I wouldn’t say I was pro either. I love animals full stop.

Ensay said:

I don't have a cat at the moment but I've never had one that stunk before.

Dogs smell and they slobber everywhere. Plus their shit stinks worst than most. That's one of the main reasons I'll never get a dog - I'm not picking up shit even in a tissue or poop bag. Your hands must still get smelly.

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Omg everyone poos!!! It’s a plastic bag not me bare hand lmaoooo

WilmaHun said:

sorry what? Haven’t you heard of washing your hands?! I mean my hands don’t stink after picking up poo with a bag, but I wash them regardless anyway.

cat shit absolutely humms and I know that for a fact cos one of the minging little shits who keeps welcoming himself into my home also keeps shitting in my garden. They do smell, similar to how people say they can smell dog in peoples homes I’ve been in homes where their cat smell is overpowering

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Yeah of course you wash your hands, but you can't do that till you get home.

I just think it's rich that a dog owner is whining about cats being smelly. You can smell dog a mile off in a dog owner's house.

Ensay said:

Thing is, it's all shits and giggles until the government wants to ban you from choosing to do or wear something that you want to.

Bet you'd change your tune then.

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The government controlling how we dress in public is nothing new tbf, they already ban us from dressing in certain ways. For example, we can’t show certain parts of our body in public without risking getting done for indecent exposure lmao.

Ensay said:

Yeah of course you wash your hands, but you can't do that till you get home.

I just think it's rich that a dog owner is whining about cats being smelly. You can smell dog a mile off in a dog owner's house.

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she’s hardly whining you’re whining more than Wilma is just cos she said cats smell!

Rxt156 said:

Omg everyone poos!!! It’s a plastic bag not me bare hand lmaoooo

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Don't care. I'm not doing it.

jackolantern said:

I will say before having a kid I fucking despised people who made it their entire personality but I have completely fallen into that trap. Not even by choice but it's so all consuming that it really is hard to remember who you were before. I'm sure I bore people shitless, but I did it before with dog photos anyway so I've always been that cunt To me though it's not much different to seeing people's holiday photos, home renovations, clubbing escapades etc, noones passions are really of interest to anyone else. We are all boring bastards really

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I’m not even ashamed to say being a mum is now my personality And I love seeing other people’s baby pics and updates

Ensay said:

Yeah of course you wash your hands, but you can't do that till you get home.

I just think it's rich that a dog owner is whining about cats being smelly. You can smell dog a mile off in a dog owner's house.

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….. hardly whining, I gave my opinion, you whined about my opinion and I replied. Again, I repeat - it wouldn’t be unpopular opinions if we all agreed