Unpopular Opinions

[villa4europe]

19 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

We should challenge people when they use the "b word" because, no matter how casually or innocuously it may be meant, it always* carries the gendered freight of ugly sexism, and ultimately, its meaning is based on denigrating women. It's especially a problem when we use it for women as a noun.

* The one exception may be in dog breeding, where the term is still used widely, if awkwardly. 

Equal rights 

They get called a word removed or a clearing in the woods too 

[VillaJ100]

I definitely agree that Dune is Star Wars but for grown ups. As someone who only very recently watched the film because such a big fan of the book series I thought it was pretty good.

Edited March 16 by VillaJ100

[Marka Ragnos]

8 hours ago, VillaJ100 said:

I definitely agree that Dune is Star Wars but for grown ups. As someone who only very recently watched the film because such a big fan of the book series I thought it was pretty good.

A lot of very clever, interesting people like the Dunes. Usually the kiss of death for me.

[sharkyvilla]

9 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Equal rights 

They get called a word removed or a clearing in the woods too 

Funnily enough I think the word 'word removed' over here is used very differently to in the U.S. or at least when I've seen it used on TV.  It seems to have a much more misogynistic use over there whereas I only use it towards males and wouldn't dream of saying it to a woman.  It's also been repurposed from being an insult to almost a friendly usage a lot of the time amongst mates, a bit like the N word or P words get used among groups of friends from the same race.

[villa4europe]

8 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

Funnily enough I think the word 'word removed' over here is used very differently to in the U.S. or at least when I've seen it used on TV.  It seems to have a much more misogynistic use over there whereas I only use it towards males and wouldn't dream of saying it to a woman.  It's also been repurposed from being an insult to almost a friendly usage a lot of the time amongst mates, a bit like the N word or P words get used among groups of friends from the same race.

It definitely is

Like in my office you'd say "this word removed heres going on holiday at the weekend" 

"you lucky **** word removed" 

The construction industry probably isn't a good barometer though 

[Wainy316]

Rodri is more important  to Man City than Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland combined.

[mikeyp102]

2 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

Rodri is more important  to Man City than Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland combined.

Not sure that’s unpopular, most will say it

[mjmooney]

The Ice Rink thread has run its course. 

[sidcow]

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

The Ice Rink thread has run its course. 

There is always one who takes this thread too far. 

[villa4europe]

Two things today from Easter lunch 

First I was in the pub and in front of me was a large daily shouting out their order, young lad ordered pork and askwc if he could have a Yorkshire with it, the gean was horrified, surely that's nearly dead by now, the whole Yorkshire with beef thing?

Maybe we already have a Sunday roast thread but today I had lamb with Yorkshires, stuffing, mint sauce and a little bit of mustard on the side 

Secondly, my lamb dinner was perfectly carved using an electric knife, uniform slices of meat cut to the same thickness and pretty much the same size - is that next to go? Feels like an older generation thing, if I was serving it I'd have just chopped off a chunk of meat and let the eater cut it themselves, give someone a bit hefty slab of meat rather than perfectly sliced pieces, the slices are boring, I'm not looking at perfectly slicing a chicken breast I'm ripping bits of meat off the bone and putting it on the plate, it's miles better that way 

[Seat68]

Ella Fitzgerald has a white voice. 

[rodders0223]

Robbie Savage was a bloody good player and ex pros constantly ragging on him on the podcast circuit is seriously low hanging fruit.

[Wainy316]

Aldi and Lidl is a lot cheaper because the food is quality is inferior.  

[BOF]

On 30/03/2024 at 08:04, mjmooney said:

The Ice Rink thread has run its course. 

[villa4europe]

6 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

Aldi and Lidl is a lot cheaper because the food is quality is inferior.  

depends what you're getting, i obviously have a higher dependency of them

there's 2 issues, firstly they're not actually that cheap half the time, secondly they're just so **** boring depressing uninspiring places, i just don't see how you could ever walk in to an aldi and buy a weeks worth of food on the fly and make your meal plan up there and then based on what offers are on or what's new and looks good whilst at the same because the stock levels and quantity of lines is so poor you cant sit at home and do a list of what you actually want for the week either because they wont have half of it

they serve a purpose but to me as soon as you're looking to buy over 10 things you stay out of there

[Stevo985]

On 24/04/2024 at 10:08, Wainy316 said:

Aldi and Lidl is a lot cheaper because the food is quality is inferior.  

Covered elsewhere, but a LOT of the time, the food quality is literally exactly the same. Because they are exactly the same product but in a different box/packet/bottle

[Davkaus]

24 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Covered elsewhere, but a LOT of the time, the food quality is literally exactly the same. Because they are exactly the same product but in a different box/packet/bottle

Sometimes, sure, but even when things are being made in the same factory they'll often have different recipes for each client, is at least a couple of different tiers of product. In exactly the same way, the supermarkets will have a basic, midrange and higher end version of products that will usually be made in the same place, just to a better standard.

It's definitely worth experimenting to try a budget option and see where you're happy to save a few quid but in my experience they're rarely identical, especially if you tend to buy the fancier product lines.

[Stevo985]

50 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Sometimes, sure, but even when things are being made in the same factory they'll often have different recipes for each client, is at least a couple of different tiers of product. In exactly the same way, the supermarkets will have a basic, midrange and higher end version of products that will usually be made in the same place, just to a better standard.

It's definitely worth experimenting to try a budget option and see where you're happy to save a few quid but in my experience they're rarely identical, especially if you tend to buy the fancier product lines.

That's rare. Most of the time they're literally identical. 

As in "we do this for M&S at £3 a pack but we could do them for you at £2 a pack but in a different box"

It's that blatant.
Sometimes they'll do token things like change the size slightly, if we're talking about chocolates for example, to get round the legalities of it. But a lot of the time they don't even have to do that.

 

Brand power is as much a thing for food as it is for anything else. Slap a M&S brand on a box of chocolates and you can sell it for twice the price as the same chocolates in an Aldi box. Most of the time the suppliers don't care, it's more sales for them.

[chrisp65]

I’d be very interested in M&S’s attitude to another seller being able to say this is literally exactly the same product, but we’re selling it cheaper. I think that contract with that supplier would get terminated.

[bickster]

If we.re talking staples like own brand baked beans, yep doesn’t matter where you buy them from, they are pretty much the same apart from the big brands

If someone was to tell me the big bags of crisps in M&S were the same as Lidl, I'd show that person they had no taste buds or critical faculties

Chorizo ring, the cheaper you get them, the saltier they are

bleach, yep I'll buy that, bleach is bleach

Sultana cookies, not a chance in hell the Lidl ones are the same as M&S

Im just riffing here on the products I know

But I’ve said it before, grass fed steaks in Lidl are superb but most of their meat and fish is inferior in quality to the high end, not sure about the likes of Tesco as I stopped buying meat from there decades ago after the maggot incident

sometimes you get what you pay for, sometimes cheapest is best

Chocolate bars, Aldi beats Lidl, they both beat the rest (milk chocolate) not so much on the dark, I prefer M&S