What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

[mickythefish]

Rob 131 Sport said:

I couldn’t agree more.

Yeh was just reading Noel Gallaghers comments on it. I think it is purely now to make money. The BBC should fro as well, just a jolly for them.

[andySC]

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

If mobile phones were banned from the site 2/3rds of the punters wouldn’t go. Insta feed obvs.

[Blown2CV]

mickythefish said:

People are generally dull, their lives are defined by their jobs then things to make them appear not dull to others.

curious thing to care about.

[djc206]

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.

[hidetheelephants]

djc206 said:

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.

There are few if any poor people at the prices charged. That's not diversity unless "every kind of middle class person" is diversity.

[mickythefish]

djc206 said:

Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.

"Worthy Farm festival saw political statements ring out from main stages as Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA headlined"

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/m...

[Wheel Turned Out]

I like Noel Gallagher and his music a great deal...but him saying bands should "play their tunes and get off" is a bit bloody ironic, given he has an opinion on everything and will gladly tell anyone who'll listen.

[GrizzlyBear]

munroman said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

You didn't have Capital Punishment at your school?

Softy!

When I went to school it was allowed, however they didn't... probably because it was a rough area and the kids were harder than the teachers, not to mention what the kids mothers would do when they found out!

Also, that is not a solution to bad behaviour, the parents have to raise the kids correctly (not the teachers, it is the parents responsibility).

Edited by GrizzlyBear on Sunday 7th July 23:34

[Notch 8]

andySC said:

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

If mobile phones were banned from the site 2/3rds of the punters wouldn’t go. Insta feed obvs.

I went to my first festival in 2005. I remember other festival goers scowling at me for using my phone to make a call. Someone actually told me to put it away.

Around the Same time, someone I was talking to who had been to Glastonbury for years, said she was going off it, because ‘there were more and more people there with mobile phones’.

How times change!

My unpopular opinion? Oasis were extremely average. You risked being lynched if you expressed that opinion at their height.

[mickythefish]

Wheel Turned Out said:

I like Noel Gallagher and his music a great deal...but him saying bands should "play their tunes and get off" is a bit bloody ironic, given he has an opinion on everything and will gladly tell anyone who'll listen.

True

[Notch 8]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Given that millions of people don't like football, it's hardly an unpopular opinion.

Now my sister in law's opinion on football is quite unpopular. She says that straight men who don't like football are in fact closet homosexuals, and are not to be trusted. Not because she doesn't trust homosexuals, but she doesn't trust people who lie about their sexuality.

Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Saturday 6th July 20:26

I wonder what she would make of a straight guy, who doesn’t support a team, doesn’t get passionate about it, doesn’t go on about it non-stop when in the pub, but enjoys a good game?

She sounds incredibly ignorant, but as has already been said, it’s not an unusual opinion.

[Rich Boy Spanner]

GrizzlyBear said:

munroman said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

You didn't have Capital Punishment at your school?

Softy!

When I went to school it was allowed, however they didn't... probably because it was a rough area and the kids were harder than the teachers, not to mention what the kids mothers would do when they found out!

Also, that is not a solution to bad behaviour, the parents have to raise the kids correctly (not the teachers, it is the parents responsibility).

Edited by GrizzlyBear on Sunday 7th July 23:34

I was at school in East Manchester at the tail end of corporal punishment. At primary school one of the teachers punished a girl, unnecessarily IMO. The next day her Dad appeared at the classroom door, the teacher walked out and got decked. Had a black eye. How we laughed.

[Roger Irrelevant]

hidetheelephants said:

djc206 said:

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.

There are few if any poor people at the prices charged. That's not diversity unless "every kind of middle class person" is diversity.

The only time I've been to Glastonbury is for work (well my brother's work really, he's a sound engineer and I was helping him out). I wouldn't go so far as to say that every punter there was an annoying middle-class attention seeking tt, but annoying middle-class attention seeking tts were certainly overrepresented to the extent that I haven't felt the need to go back since. It's effectively just the media set going to a big pop concert in the countryside for a weekend, which is fine and lots of people clearly love it, but it's the way that said media set think that the rest of the world just can't wait to know what they're up to that annoys me a bit. I for one could not GAF.

[Forester1965]

Our local comp hit the Daily Mail headlines last year when two parents met outside the school for a scrap. In a pretty middle class leafy Leeds suburb, no less.

[President Merkin]

mickythefish said:

djc206 said:

Glastonbury is full of every kind of person, that’s the beauty of it. It’s not too hard to avoid the political stuff if you don’t want to get involved with it such is the size and diversity of the place.

"Worthy Farm festival saw political statements ring out from main stages as Coldplay, Dua Lipa and SZA headlined"

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/m...

I guess you must have been too busy being virtue signalled at Glastonbury to have noticed it spent decades being a defacto CND benefit with Michelle Shocked playing annually. Noticing Glastonbury is political is clearly some hard hitting realisation for you & that Gobste Noel Gallagher.

[captain_cynic]

President Merkin said:

I guess you must have been too busy being virtue signalled at Glastonbury to have noticed it spent decades being a defacto CND benefit with Michelle Shocked playing annually. Noticing Glastonbury is political is clearly some hard hitting realisation for you & that Gobste Noel Gallagher.

It's not the fact it's political they have a problem with... The issue is that it's politics they disagree with.

As you've said, it's always been this way.

Glastonbury might have been good decades ago when it was largely underground but popularity has ruined it. I firmly believe most people go there just to say they were there. It's gone from counter culture to consumer culture. See also: Burning Man.

I honestly think either of them will be a fart in a hurricane when it comes to people's political views these days.

[mickythefish]

President Merkin said:

I guess you must have been too busy being virtue signalled at Glastonbury to have noticed it spent decades being a defacto CND benefit with Michelle Shocked playing annually. Noticing Glastonbury is political is clearly some hard hitting realisation for you & that Gobste Noel Gallagher.

ermm it was in reply to the comment thought that was obvious, you can't really escape political commentary when it is the main stage, thought that was obvious.

[mickythefish]

EV cars won't save the planet, they will hasten its demise.

[President Merkin]

Oh no,not political commentary at a festival famous for it forever. St Johns are probably floating about if it's all too much.

[Lucas CAV]

Notch 8 said:

andySC said:

mickythefish said:

Glastonbury is full of people I wouldn't want to be around, too much preaching, virtue signalling and has become what it was supposed to be against.

If mobile phones were banned from the site 2/3rds of the punters wouldn’t go. Insta feed obvs.

I went to my first festival in 2005. I remember other festival goers scowling at me for using my phone to make a call. Someone actually told me to put it away.

Around the Same time, someone I was talking to who had been to Glastonbury for years, said she was going off it, because ‘there were more and more people there with mobile phones’.

How times change!

My unpopular opinion? Oasis were extremely average. You risked being lynched if you expressed that opinion at their height.

Tonnes of people and lots of the music press talked about Oasis's dullness right from the first singles