Unpopular Opinions you have (non-football)

[edgie]

People who have not yet been through puberty should not be undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

 

[Scotland]

People who have not yet been through puberty should not be undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Agree 100%.

I'm pretty skeptical about 'gender affirming' primary school aged kids, too.

 

[Runner44]

People shouldn't get married out of loneliness. There's nothing more lonely than being in a lonely marriage.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

People shouldn't get married out of loneliness. There's nothing more lonely than being in a lonely marriage.

But now there's two less lonely people in the world

 

[edgie]

Smacking kids is totally acceptable. Heck, even a fair old bruise leaving whack is all good.

 

[CM86]

Smacking kids is totally acceptable. Heck, even a fair old bruise leaving whack is all good.

As long as it isn't just out of anger and/or frustration.

But I don't understand the need to hit your kid so hard that they bruise...

 

[edgie]

As long as it isn't just out of anger and/or frustration.

But I don't understand the need to hit your kid so hard that they bruise...

Agree 100%.

Kids are fragile. I imagine it would be difficult to hit with enough force to make a statement but yet also not leave bruising.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

6 of the best and they'll never step out of line again

(at least it worked on me)

 

[Plugger35]

Kneecap them and they'll literally never step out of line again.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Smacking kids is totally acceptable. Heck, even a fair old bruise leaving whack is all good.

If your kids give you lip just smack with a bag of sweet Valencia oranges. It won't leave a bruise and it will let em know who's boss.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

It does say non football but it's not related to a specific team or player or rule or anything like that...

Footy is far more enjoyable to watch when you're not involved in any kind of footy tipping comp.

Haven't done tipping in about 6-7 years and it's been great.

 

[edgie]

It does say non football but it's not related to a specific team or player or rule or anything like that...

Footy is far more enjoyable to watch when you're not involved in any kind of footy tipping comp.

Haven't done tipping in about 6-7 years and it's been great.

To an extent I agree but if tipping is disrupting your enjoyment it isn't footys fault.

Now betting, football is far more enjoyable without that.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Smacking kids is totally acceptable. Heck, even a fair old bruise leaving whack is all good.

OK

 

[Hard Ball Get]

To an extent I agree but if tipping is disrupting your enjoyment it isn't footys fault.

Now betting, football is far more enjoyable without that.

I know it's tippings fault.

 

[Off The Couch]

I'm one of six and never got smacked and it's something that was non negotiable when I had kids of my own. I failed in that one day when my temper got the better of me and smacked one of my kids which in turn had me on the receiving end of one from my own mother - her retort was "if you are going to hit someone, at least let it be someone who is the same size"

 

[edgie]

A lot of people seem to think that smacking teaches violence as a solution, and as a receiver of discipline bordering on abuse at times, I reckon it is just the opposite. Violence is a terrible thing and pain and suffering are the consequences of behaving like a campaigner.

I can still remember how the old kitchen looked, before the house was renovated when I was 6. I remember exactly the layout of the old pine cupboards, and how the "Magic belt" lived in the one under the microwave. Vividly.

 

[edgie]

Kneecap them and they'll literally never step out of line again.

Then how are you supposed to live vicariously through them by pushing them to become sports stars?

 

[Scotland]

Footy is far more enjoyable to watch when you're not involved in any kind of footy tipping comp.

I miss watching footy without Dream Team in the back of my mind. And on the screen during the game.

 

[edgie]

At training these days it is so difficult to talk footy to people just for footy sake. Everything revolves around gambling, multis, dream team, supercoach... honestly, at half time during games when I get my phone out to check AFL scores and people would rather know what the fantasy scores are for each player instead of who is winning, it spoils it. Unless the winning margin is relevant to the multi of course, and when people don't want their team to kick more goals because it will ruin their bets... like, **** right off.

Definitely a big reason why I love coming to bigfooty and just being able to talk football.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

I miss watching footy without Dream Team in the back of my mind. And on the screen during the game.

I've played dream team for about 15 years. I'm well and truly over it. Like tipping, haven't done it for the last 4-5 years and it's been great.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

"Smacking doesn't teach violence as a solution".

Advocates smacking, violence, as a solution due to their experience.

Good logic.

 

[Andronicus]

I've played dream team for about 15 years. I'm well and truly over it. Like tipping, haven't done it for the last 4-5 years and it's been great.

I've found footy far more enjoyable since stopping dream team and tipping.

 

[Plugger35]

Dream Team/Supercoach helps add interest to games you otherwise would have little interest in, like tonight's game for example.

It makes it tough though when your team is playing against a team that has some of your DT/SC players in it, you want them to score well but not well enough that they beat your team.

 

[BALKAN]

Parents who smack their kids are really just hot-heads letting their temper get the better of them and then disguising it as a disciplinary method. Kids are kids and they'll act up, but if you can't pull them into line without smacking them then I'm sorry but you are a moron.

 

[Gough]

Parents who smack their kids are really just hot-heads letting their temper get the better of them and then disguising it as a disciplinary method. Kids are kids and they'll act up, but if you can't pull them into line without smacking them then I'm sorry but you are a moron.

Not a parent disclaimer, but if we want to teach kids that violence is not the answer, hitting them isn't really the best way to demonstrate this.