What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[djc206]

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

Blackmail requires a threat. She never threatened to release the info unless he paid up she just straight up tried to sell the story, a couple of times actually. I don’t see any issue with that. Don’t cheat on your wife and you won’t have to pay people to keep schtum.

[Strangely Brown]

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

If that is a genuinely held opinion then perhaps you could enlighten us as to how he was extorted and blackmailed and by whom?

[Nethybridge]

21st Century Man said:

The DA is usually on someone's ass, usually a hot sweaty overweight Chief of Police as he loosens his collar whilst chewing out a couple of officers.

Man you watch too many 1970s cop shows.

The US has a unfettered fetish
for democracy, there's really
no need for a DA or a
Police chief to
run for office
and be
accountable
to
taxpayers.

The UK has the right idea, the best person for high
office is the one whose daddy is really rich.

[mickythefish]

Congratulations some idiot has got you up the duff. But please cover up in the gym I don't want to see it, many thanks

[Nethybridge]

David Lammy as the future foreign secretary does not scare the bejesus out of me in any way at all.

[epom]

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

I’m ok with it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but the small handed Fat Orange one has plenty wrongs to his name so yeah I’m cool with it to be honest.

[carlo996]

epom said:

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

I’m ok with it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but the small handed Fat Orange one has plenty wrongs to his name so yeah I’m cool with it to be honest.

I’m not, random woman decides to sleep with trump, isn’t ok about it afterwards and decides to go on the attack. I don’t understand the support for her at all tbh.

[epom]

carlo996 said:

epom said:

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

I’m ok with it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but the small handed Fat Orange one has plenty wrongs to his name so yeah I’m cool with it to be honest.

I’m not, random woman decides to sleep with trump, isn’t ok about it afterwards and decides to go on the attack. I don’t understand the support for her at all tbh.

That’s ok, we don’t all live in a world where our opinions are given to us.

[captain_cynic]

carlo996 said:

epom said:

williamp said:

How about this opinion:

Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.

And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.

I’m ok with it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but the small handed Fat Orange one has plenty wrongs to his name so yeah I’m cool with it to be honest.

I’m not, random woman decides to sleep with trump, isn’t ok about it afterwards and decides to go on the attack. I don’t understand the support for her at all tbh.

You mean the woman who he paid to sleep with him and didn't do anything until he was charged with fraud to do with paying her off to keep silent about how he cheated on his wife.

Aside from everything you wrote, you were spot on.

[otolith]

An unpopular opinion amongst some people, though I suspect not most - the RHS can stick its suggestion that slugs are not pests and we should just learn to appreciate them right up its angel’s trumpet. I’ve been going out each night and snipping the rapacious bds in half, nearly 300 of them over the last three evenings, and have just inoculated the garden with a parasite nematode which will rot them to soup and devour them. And I’m not sorry.

[mickythefish]

Modern people are pussifies whining and moaning expected mummy big state to suckle them. Hence why the Tories blown trillions keeping economy going instead of driving productivity.

[Strangely Brown]

otolith said:

An unpopular opinion amongst some people, though I suspect not most - the RHS can stick its suggestion that slugs are not pests and we should just learn to appreciate them right up its angel’s trumpet. I’ve been going out each night and snipping the rapacious bds in half, nearly 300 of them over the last three evenings, and have just inoculated the garden with a parasite nematode which will rot them to soup and devour them. And I’m not sorry.

Nothing unpopular about that here. Any that I see get dumped in an old paint bucket and then doused with salt where they just fizzle away. I just wish it was as easy to deal with bloody seagulls. bd things!

[Short Grain]

bodhi said:

If you're after a detailed discussion of the case itself you probably are as this isn't really the thread for it - I'm told there's one in NPE where you can find deep discussion and popular opinions on it to your heart's content.

However political prosecutions do make me deeply uncomfortable for reasons stated, and I'm struggling to see how they help an already massively divided country. Guess we just have to wait to see how the appeal goes.

Please Bodhi, just tell us how it was politically motivated! It was a gift to the Democrats, or could be, but show us where and when the Dems brought the case against the Orange Orangutan! Please!

[slopes]

mickythefish said:

Modern people are pussifies whining and moaning expected mummy big state to suckle them. Hence why the Tories blown trillions keeping economy going instead of driving productivity.

That's not unpopular, that's just a fact and especially since the pandemic.

[mickythefish]

slopes said:

That's not unpopular, that's just a fact and especially since the pandemic.

Nobody moaned when free money was being out.

Five years of pain we could emerge the best country in Europe but no one wants to cut back on anything or change their lifestyle.

[otolith]

Strangely Brown said:

otolith said:

An unpopular opinion amongst some people, though I suspect not most - the RHS can stick its suggestion that slugs are not pests and we should just learn to appreciate them right up its angel’s trumpet. I’ve been going out each night and snipping the rapacious bds in half, nearly 300 of them over the last three evenings, and have just inoculated the garden with a parasite nematode which will rot them to soup and devour them. And I’m not sorry.

Nothing unpopular about that here. Any that I see get dumped in an old paint bucket and then doused with salt where they just fizzle away. I just wish it was as easy to deal with bloody seagulls. bd things!

You'd have thought so, but a few people on a gardening group got really upset by my nocturnal slug slaughtering - 173 in one night was what prompted it - and accused me of destroying the ecosystem, would I brag about cutting cats in half, etc. Post got removed by moderators by the looks of it.

I'm with Titchmarsh on this, "I've had a little bit of beef with being told slugs are my friends. It's like saying to people that bed bugs and ticks are your friends. Don't be ridiculous".

[e-honda]

otolith said:

You'd have thought so, but a few people on a gardening group got really upset by my nocturnal slug slaughtering - 173 in one night was what prompted it - and accused me of destroying the ecosystem, would I brag about cutting cats in half, etc. Post got removed by moderators by the looks of it.

I'm with Titchmarsh on this, "I've had a little bit of beef with being told slugs are my friends. It's like saying to people that bed bugs and ticks are your friends. Don't be ridiculous".

I kind of see their point, something quite unpleasant about murdering a creature that isn't harming you and isn't the most hideous looking creature in the world, but you got to draw the line somewhere and I have decided those slimy little fkers can go to hell.

[otolith]

e-honda said:

I kind of see their point, something quite unpleasant about murdering a creature that isn't harming you and isn't the most hideous looking creature in the world, but you got to draw the line somewhere and I have decided those slimy little fkers can go to hell.

Indeed. I could live with "they're doing a bit of damage", but when they are as prolific as they are this year, you can end up with them killing everything you plant. If you've got a lot of them and you're going to tolerate them, you have to accept that you aren't going to get any produce and you can only grow ornamentals that they won't eat. Last year they killed all my French beans, and all my courgettes. Even with control measures they've done a fair bit of damage this year, they got all my radishes, mowed down everything else sown direct, killed about 20% of my broad beans and damaged the rest. Hostas are gone, marigolds are gone, a lot of the lobelia is gone. The nematodes don't work on snails and the protection doesn't seem to be lasting as long as in the past.

Frankly, if you aren't going to kill them you may as well spend your money on the yellow stickered veg from the supermarket and put that out for them to eat, it will be cheaper way of running a slug sanctuary and you'll get the same yield of nothing. Not sure what the RHS are growing, but I think they are smoking it.

[bodhi]

Short Grain said:

bodhi said:

If you're after a detailed discussion of the case itself you probably are as this isn't really the thread for it - I'm told there's one in NPE where you can find deep discussion and popular opinions on it to your heart's content.

However political prosecutions do make me deeply uncomfortable for reasons stated, and I'm struggling to see how they help an already massively divided country. Guess we just have to wait to see how the appeal goes.

Please Bodhi, just tell us how it was politically motivated! It was a gift to the Democrats, or could be, but show us where and when the Dems brought the case against the Orange Orangutan! Please!

That was covered on the last page - case was brought by the New York DA, who was elected into his position and identifies as a Democrat.

[carlo996]

captain_cynic said:

You mean the woman who he paid to sleep with him and didn't do anything until he was charged with fraud to do with paying her off to keep silent about how he cheated on his wife.

Aside from everything you wrote, you were spot on.

So no resposibility on her part whatsoever then. Tell me. Has she gone after the other men who paid to sleep with her...or didn't they have millions of reasons to do so

Pair of them are morally bankrupt individuals, but singling out one over the other is wrong.