Your Unpopular Opinions

[DawnM]

Of topic but as far back as I remember the cut off has always been September first but I was born in 1985

It is definitely regional.

 

[DawnM]

Traveling does more mental healing for me than a therapist or pills ever could do.

Then you haven't found the right pills.

(just joking! Really. I couldn't resist.)

 

[LilyWDW]

Unless it was immediate family, I can't imagine ever asking someone married for a while without kids if they are planning on having them someday. I may ask if they have kids, but if I got a "no", I'd never probe any deeper asking "why". That's riskier than seeing what looks like a 4 month baby bump and asking about a due date.

Oh, but they do. I'm not even married and I get asked all the dang time when I am having kids. It seems that people can't get it through their narrow little minds that someone in their 30's can be happy without kids. Sorry, I have no urge to bring more kids into this world and contribute to the over population problems we have.

 

[Land Shark]

Government conspiracy theories are mostly bunk. Just look at the things the government can't accomplish before attributing some sinister plot that a room full of geniuses couldn't figure out.

 

[rajak73]

I do not believe it necessary to 100% buy into a political party in order to vote for a candidate of that party. And I don't believe it makes any sense to defend your candidate or your party from "the other side" when your candidate or party does something stupid - which they ALL do.

I love your point of view! I've voted for each side before in elections, don't necessarily agree with any party 100%. My unpopular opinions? 1. gun control. I ask serious questions from people until their answer becomes, "well just give guns to 1st graders then" and I know the discussion is over. 2. I guess not checking out a restaurant or store CEO personal political opinion before patronizing it. Found that out last night on a local newspaper site when I was accused of being a bigot and racist by a poster! I tried to convince the poster that it WASN'T corporate policy but personal opinion and they were hurting the local business person and not the ceo.

 

[Mickeyluver37]

Sometimes. But I think there is some space between various kinds of rehoming and dumping. (Of course, some rehoming is dumping.)
Why can't they just say what happened? Like: "We gave Fido to our neighbors before we left", rather than "Fido was rehomed."

My two cents....on the just my opinion thread.

I think people usually are honest because they really don't see it as a problem. "We took our cat to the animal shelter after having it 9 years because it peed on my wedding dress." My response to that is usually- you know your cat is probably now DEAD, right?!?!? We have never rehomed, dumped or whatever you want to call it, despite military moves, and having a child that is allergic to her own dog. We found out DD was allergic to her dog 2 years in- we just keep the dog out of the bedrooms. That dog is now almost 13 and DD lives away at college. We still kept the dog. Recently it *did* pee on the carpet. It stunk. I tried cleaning it. It still stunk. I got new carpet. There really are very few excuses that don't equate to laziness.

HOWEVER, my dogs are not my children. Your dogs are not your children. No, it's not almost the same thing. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

Which reminds me.....your best friend from childhood? NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. Your cousin who is your age, but you think it's weird for your kids to call a family member by first name. ALSO NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. These are words with literal definitions. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I have among people I know. You can still spend holidays and vacations, feel an unexplainable bond with, and what have you with a person and still call them by their first names. I promise.

 

[mamacatnv]

People are judgmental, to say we are not is lying. We all judge something, someone......

Parents who break terms of service age rules (social media) ARE teaching their kids, it is OK to lie about their age.

 

[sunshinehighway]

I think it's better to swear than replace the swear with another word. To me, that just makes you a hypocrite.
Example: if something s (4 letter word) is so awful so they say sugar instead.
Like instead of " oh s (swear)" they say "oh sugar". The meaning is the same so you basically just made sugar your swear.

 

[WIcruizer]

I seriously question the "moon landing" and many other things we are taught to believe. I believe the government has many agendas and secrets that regular people have no clue about. More secrets are not leaked because they will kill those the expose those secrets.

Sounds like a good movie! Seriously, my DH has made comments about the moon landing, not sure if he's serious or not. Here's how I know for a fact all the major conspiracies (moon landing, JFK, Roswell, 911, etc.) are worthless. For a conspiracy to work, everyone involved must hold these secrets for a very long time. In these cases, we're not talking about just high level government people. Hundreds and even thousands of people would have to be a part of it. In the case of a faked moon landing, for example, it's beyond the people in the control room. Lots of people in NASA would have to know, and all kinds of others throughout government. Plus, all the contractors involved.

Now, I ask you, if in general a group of 4 or 5 people can't keep a secret of any kind, how can hundreds of people remain silent for years? There's actually 3 reasons I can think of immediately that makes that impossible. 1) Letting it out by mistake. Telling a wife, a friend, another drunk at the bar, whatever. Just no way this wouldn't happen eventually. 2) Eventually at least ONE person would feel the weight of lying, and come out with the truth. They could even do it anonymously. 3) Fortune and fame. Can you imagine the publicity and money that would come from someone who has knowledge that the moon landing was faked or we have a ufo and alien bodies somewhere? Heck, we live in a world where people crave fame so much they post pictures of their dinner they made on Facebook!

Don't get me wrong, I don't trust the government. But they are so incompetent they couldn't possibly manage to cover something like this up if they tried. We're all just throwing out opinions here, but for some reason I feel compelled to convince you on this one. ; )

 

[barkley]

It is definitely regional.

absolutely-in fact I knew a family from california that was moving due to a job transfer to another state on the other side of the country who had to do their family move in stages b/c of it. the state they were moving to had a cut-off of 9/1 while the district where we were in California was sometime in december. their little girl had done preschool and was ready to hit the ground running for kindergarten so when they found out she wouldn't meet the age requirement in the new state by just a couple of weeks they researched it further and found out that a kid who had been enrolled in and attended kindergarten for at least 45 days in another state was exempted from the age requirement. dad ended up moving w/the older kid so he would start school in the new state on the first day of school while mom and the little girl remained behind so she could get her 45 days of attendance to qualify for the exemption.


I was curious to see what the cut off is for our state so I just checked-there are 2. one is for kindergarten (5 years old by august 31st), and another for 1st grade (6 years old by august 31st). public and schools have an option to establish an early entry policy but parents can be charged fees for assessment testing AND there's a BIG warning on the ospi website that cautions parents if they choose to enroll their kids in a private school kindergarten that accepts younger than age 5 by 8/31 they better make sure it's an 'approved private school' b/c unless it's k program meets the state curriculum criteria it will be considered a preschool program if the parent tries to enroll the kid for first grade the following year (when they haven't met the age 6 by 8/31 rule).

 

[Sabeking]

Which reminds me.....your best friend from childhood? NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. Your cousin who is your age, but you think it's weird for your kids to call a family member by first name. ALSO NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. These are words with literal definitions. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I have among people I know. You can still spend holidays and vacations, feel an unexplainable bond with, and what have you with a person and still call them by their first names. I promise.

This one drives me nuts too. My niece used to call a family friend Aunt ------. It used to irk me because she is not your aunt. Well then Aunt------- had an affair with my BIL. Needless to say she learned to call her something else.

Two more unpopular opinions:
These two expressions are like fingernails down a chalkboard and one is constantly used here.

I'm sure she is clutching her pearls...just as judgemental as what you are accusing the person of judging
Shut the front door

 

[barkley]

Which reminds me.....your best friend from childhood? NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. Your cousin who is your age, but you think it's weird for your kids to call a family member by first name. ALSO NOT YOUR KIDS AUNT. These are words with literal definitions. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I have among people I know. You can still spend holidays and vacations, feel an unexplainable bond with, and what have you with a person and still call them by their first names. I promise.

this drives me nuts-and it used to drive me nuts professionally b/c I worked with a population of social services clients where everyone grew up being told to call the women 'auntie_____________', and those people's kids were always referred to as cousins. there was never any educating of the kids on who truly was and was not related to them so when they had kids and would end up unable to take care of them such that they were handed off to someone they TRULY believed was a family member (and that person believed it too) t didn't find out the truth until they came in to apply for aid for the child and started filling out the family tree..................and there was no degree of relatedness at all so the kid ended up in the foster care system until an actual relative could be determined.

 

[sunshinemelody]

Pumpkin spice lattes are gross

Bless your heart.

I firmly believe that Taylor Swift is a pretty face and that is it. She is not that talented.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I would be insulted if someone called me Mrs Gross also

I had a Pre-K teacher whose name was Mrs. Gross, actually.

Tennant was the best Doctor.

Allons-y!

OK, a few of my unpopular opinions :3

» If you're going to introduce someone to Doctor Who, you never skip Nine! He's integral, especially when it comes to Rose!

» I believe in modern Christian music. I believe that having great music that is singing praise and shouting our excitement for the Lord is what I want to do, not feel like I'm 100 with creaky knees.

» I don't like cops.

» Socialism is what makes the US go 'round.

» When talking politics, I wish everyone would stop blaming the other side; everyone is at fault for America's problems.

» Public universities need to be free.

» The US Defense Budget is ridiculous and out of control and is not needed to be so exorbitant when we've got tanks sitting around doing jack squat. Our budget is a combination of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, India, and Germany combined -- plus some!

» My nephew is about to turn a year old and I wish people would stop asking me when I would have my first child and give Eden his first first cousin. Look here you little poop, I'm young, unmarried, struggling to figure out how to live on my own, go to school full-time, go to medical school and try not to die a little inside every day until I'm 50; don't ask me that.

» Orange flavored candy is absolutely disgusting. So is Cotton Candy.

» Unicorns are real. Just kidding. Or am I?

» I think peanut butter is gross unless in a warm sandwich with jelly.

» If your first language is English and you don’t have some kind of disability or condition that limits your language abilities, you have literally no excuse for being crazy crappy at spelling and/or grammar. If your education was bad, then buy a dictionary.

» Honestly think that if you want a child, you should be tested for psychological problems and either work through them or just be sterilized from having kids. Your mental illness that you hid from your significant other is not an excuse for why you drowned your children in the bathtub and are sitting in front of the TV eating popcorn watching Barney.

 

[ckmommy]

My latest unpopular opinion:
Hubby and Wifey=

 

[bellebud]

If you're a middle class family (and you are if you have a big screen tv, everyone of age has a cell phone, etc), you should not 'fund raise' so your kid can be on a sporting team, or in any activity, or to go to disney with the band, etc. Save the fundraising for the truly needy. I cannot stand all the fund raising that goes on for kids who are not in need in any way. Parents, pay for your kids stuff for goodness sakes without asking family and the neighborhood to chip in.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

Kids that diet, unless it is a allergy or you have talked to the child's doctor

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I firmly believe that Taylor Swift is a pretty face and that is it. She is not that talented. I also believe that the new My Little Ponies are ugly and should not exist!

I thought we were supposed to post unpopular opinions, not opinions that everyone except Taylor Swift's mother know to be true.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

Taylor swift would do better Modeling Then singing

 

[parrothead365]

I think your narrow minded if spell words only one way.

 

[lizzi6692]

I'm going to say up front, I haven't read the whole thread, so this isn't directed at anyone in particular. I don't like people who argue against proven facts/science. Believe what you want, but when it flies in the face of what we know to be true don't expect people to respect it.