Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
- gremlin
- Posts: 5927
- Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:12 pm
- Location: Kent (AKA God's own country)
- Has thanked: 808 times
- Been thanked: 4793 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
A great deal of motorcyclists ride like inconsiderate twats.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
- Horse
- Posts: 11551
- Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:30 am
- Location: Always sunny southern England
- Has thanked: 6188 times
- Been thanked: 5087 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Some of them appear almost suicidal.
Even bland can be a type of character
-
- Posts: 1714
- Joined: Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:49 am
- Location: Biarritz in Summer, Cornwall In Autumn, Courchevel in Winter
- Has thanked: 1947 times
- Been thanked: 1292 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Pricey art is just money laundering
Greggs is just an average bakery that doesn't deserve the hype it's some how gained.
If in the late 90's. Coldplay, Radiohead and Eastenders had stopped, there would be a lot less depressed people about today.
Private schools should not be allowed charitable status.
Being injured while in the armed forces, does not (necessarily) make you a hero.
Women's sanitary products should be free of charge.
Greggs is just an average bakery that doesn't deserve the hype it's some how gained.
If in the late 90's. Coldplay, Radiohead and Eastenders had stopped, there would be a lot less depressed people about today.
Private schools should not be allowed charitable status.
Being injured while in the armed forces, does not (necessarily) make you a hero.
Women's sanitary products should be free of charge.
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11808
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6376 times
- Been thanked: 4753 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
It's better than that. Often your money shrinks when you launder it (arf!) because people take a cut every step of the way.
The modern art market is like printing money if you're at the top of it. Decide who you're going to make famous, create a false market where you decide how much, say, a shark in formaldehyde, or a messy bed is worth, agree a cut with the artist and away you go. For a typical painting - preferably 'abstract' - £20 worth of materials and a few bob for a frame you can pocket '£000s. Then it just becomes a sort of large denomination physical cryptocurrency token. Move it around a few times between the players, push the price up - saleroom gets a cut, 'living artist' gets a cut, taxman gets a cut but meanwhile, you and your pet artist have another one and lo! the price is set by the sale of the last one. With a bit of luck the National Gallery will want one and the taxpayer can stump up the money.
Worked a treat for the likes of the Saatchis.
(Most of it is toss too. ).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
-
- Posts: 4905
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:51 am
- Been thanked: 2617 times
- gremlin
- Posts: 5927
- Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:12 pm
- Location: Kent (AKA God's own country)
- Has thanked: 808 times
- Been thanked: 4793 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Most healthcare professionals are morbidly obese.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
-
- Posts: 1835
- Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:38 pm
- Location: North East Essex
- Has thanked: 565 times
- Been thanked: 754 times
- Horse
- Posts: 11551
- Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:30 am
- Location: Always sunny southern England
- Has thanked: 6188 times
- Been thanked: 5087 times
-
- Posts: 912
- Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:14 pm
- Location: West of the Tamar
- Has thanked: 229 times
- Been thanked: 575 times
- ChrisW
- Posts: 2721
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:46 pm
- Has thanked: 2913 times
- Been thanked: 2052 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
There’s a short book Steve Martin wrote around this very subject. Can’t remember the title. Worth a short holiday read.Count Steer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 12:16 pmIt's better than that. Often your money shrinks when you launder it (arf!) because people take a cut every step of the way.
The modern art market is like printing money if you're at the top of it. Decide who you're going to make famous, create a false market where you decide how much, say, a shark in formaldehyde, or a messy bed is worth, agree a cut with the artist and away you go. For a typical painting - preferably 'abstract' - £20 worth of materials and a few bob for a frame you can pocket '£000s. Then it just becomes a sort of large denomination physical cryptocurrency token. Move it around a few times between the players, push the price up - saleroom gets a cut, 'living artist' gets a cut, taxman gets a cut but meanwhile, you and your pet artist have another one and lo! the price is set by the sale of the last one. With a bit of luck the National Gallery will want one and the taxpayer can stump up the money.
Worked a treat for the likes of the Saatchis.
(Most of it is toss too. ).
- Cousin Jack
- Posts: 4455
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:36 pm
- Location: Down in the Duchy
- Has thanked: 2551 times
- Been thanked: 2285 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Socks with sandals are a OK.
Cornish Tart #1
Remember An Gof!
Remember An Gof!
-
- Posts: 1714
- Joined: Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:49 am
- Location: Biarritz in Summer, Cornwall In Autumn, Courchevel in Winter
- Has thanked: 1947 times
- Been thanked: 1292 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Only If you're over 40, a parent, have given up and say "that's not going anywhere" after strapping something to a trailer.
- gremlin
- Posts: 5927
- Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:12 pm
- Location: Kent (AKA God's own country)
- Has thanked: 808 times
- Been thanked: 4793 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
Coldplay are alright.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
- Pirahna
- Posts: 1945
- Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:31 pm
- Has thanked: 1814 times
- Been thanked: 1164 times
- Taipan
- Posts: 13946
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:48 pm
- Location: Essex Riviera!
- Has thanked: 15952 times
- Been thanked: 10243 times
Re: Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?
I started a thread saying that on Visordown. IIRC I caught hell from FA about it!
- Yorick
- Posts: 16736
- Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:20 pm
- Location: Paradise
- Has thanked: 10263 times
- Been thanked: 6886 times