State Your Unpopular Opinions

Phish and the grateful dead sucks.

 

the solar powered narrow gauge railway, is in every way, especially including environmentally, superior to the personal passenger automobile.

(also, though i've probably already said these:
aggressiveness and evil are one and the same
thoughtlessness is not a freedom
conventionality is not a virtue)

 

I like winter way more than summer. Fuck the sun!

 

ouch...

 

yes it is vague. Meant the paranoid state often caused by weed is psychosis, psychosis causes inhibition of the frontal cortex, eventually leading to a break down of that part of the brain.

Evidence that weed causes psychosis is less than evidence of it precipitating psychosis. There is some for the former however.

The big problem is anxiety comes first. Most people quit at this point, there's no way of knowing what would have happened if they didn't quit.


edit:

also, while majority of heavy smokers don't develop psychosis. a large number do have an increased result on the delusion index, although not enough to be counted as psychotic.

 

I will explain a little before stating my next unpopular opinion...

I know some great people who need/needed government assistance at one time - welfare, food stamps, fuel assistance, whatever. So, there are GOOD people who need help at times and this DOES NOT apply to them.

However, I hate almost every single other person that is sucking money from the system. 75% of my town is on welfare and they are all fucking tards. They are entitled, collecting welfare or disability. And they are collecting disability for things like bipolar or alcoholism...really?!

I can't wait until Massachusetts starts drug testing for welfare.

 

^ I approve that message.

Edit: it's frustrating that whenever I mention the abuse of the welfare system, I get harsh responses thinking that I want to eliminate the "safety net." I don't want to take away assistance from those who need it, I just don't want to see the safety net used as a hammock.

 

Piss off. Can't believe I read this stuff like this on Hip Forums, and increasingly of late. Go somewhere else with your resentful attitude, it's not befitting this place or the people inhabiting it.

 

And how exactly is your intolerant bigotry benifeting this place?

 

I think the name of this Forum is " State Your Unpopular Opinion" which is what she did. She did what was asked of her.

I think that there are a lot of people that are getting assistance that could be doing more to help their situation.

 

Maybe you missed the name of the thread. This is the exact place to post such things.

 

Haha. Nice. We posted the same thing at the same time.

 

Yes we did.... :2thumbsup:

 

Actually, I think the opinion that at least most people on benefits (welfare in the US) are scroungers or "leeches", is a very popular opinion to hold. At least it is here in the UK. I'd say that the vast majority of the working population have very derisive and scornful attitudes towards most people claiming benefits. Whether this is a majority view in the US, I can't say, but in the UK at least, it definitely is.

As someone who is claiming benefits but would dearly love to work, I find that mindset condescending, and very frustrating to listen to. I see the people who are able to work, and can have normal lives as being the lucky ones. I see nothing remotely good or positive about my situation whatsoever. But just because there's a minority (a sizeable one for sure, but a minority still, nonetheless) who are cheating the system, me and people like me who genuinely can't work are tarred with the same brush and are treated like scum. I'd like some of these people to live in my shoes for just a day or two to see exactly how "easy" I have it. They'd shut up very quickly after that, I have no doubts whatsoever.

 

I am not against people who need assisatnce getting it. But just think that if we removed the ones who are cheating the system how much more we could help those who accutualy do need it.
I hope that I didn't offend you and if I did I do appologize to you.

 

What's the problem? I'm doing what's asked of me too. Or is my opinion too unpopular for the thread?

You're wrong. How do I know that? Because there's no way you can know what their situation is like you claim. People aren't reducible to a set of life circumstances. Anyway what are you doing to help them? It's always easier to focus on the other and bitch.

 

I could go the easy way out and say I pay taxes. Are you saying that absolutely everybody on the welfare system deserves it and that no one is not cheating the system? Is that why so many states are looking into welfare reform, because no one is cheating the system?

 

Well, in the UK that is now happening. But the problem is, that the system is being so aggressive, it's now attempting to push many people who genuinely can't work, back into work. The health worker who works with me has said that many of the patients she sees have had to go to court to have the incorrect decisions taken by the benefits agency overturned. (I even read of one person currently receiving chemotherapy for terminal cancer, being wrongly told that they "could work".) And whilst the majority of the time the decision is overturned, it just heaps more stress and misery on a section of people who already have to deal with more than their fair share of those things. I myself, am bracing myself for the possibility of this happening to me. The benefits system in this country has for too long now, been far too accomodating, and it's been far too easy for people who's aim it is to cheat the system, to do exactly that. And now it seems, that it's the genuine claimants who are now going to suffer because of all those years of mismanagement of the benefits system.

I cannot blame the working people who are very annoyed by the people who are cheating the system. As I myself, am also very annoyed by it, and am disgusted by it. But what annoys me even more, is being put in the same bracket as these people, which many people do. Because there has been some high profile cases of people cheating the system, it makes most people believe that these cases are the majority, when in fact, they are the minority.

As for me being offended, well, I've been used to that since as long as I can remember. lol You don't need to apologise though, but thank you still.

 

I apologize for offending you.

Actually, I take that back. I'm rather glad I did.

I know countless amount of people taking their WELFARE EBT CARD, taking out cash and buying pot, pills, beer, cigarettes, etc.

I also know countless people on disability for bipolar who do nothing but sell drugs outta their homes. And people on disability for alcoholism who head to the bar at 11am and leave at 2am - every single day.

And while we're on this topic of my "resentful attitude" I figured I'd spoil the hipforums a little more by saying that I hate the fact that at some government assistance buildings in Puerto Rico, my town is listed on a poster for "places offering welfare." Needless to say, you can guess my opinion on these people moving up here and wreaking havoc in my neighborhood.

Call me a bigot, call me a bitch, call me whatever you will. However, I don't believe its people like ME spoiling the free-speech/open-mindedness of hipforums :sunny:

EDIT: and what am I doing to help these people? I'm paying for their drug addictions, alcohol addictions, and frivolous lifestyles.

How would you feel if someone that is on welfare drove by you in a brand new Cadillac? I know exactly how I feel and I see it far too often.

EDIT pt. 2: And I had to get food stamps last summer because I hit some hard times. So I do know that people out there NEED assistance. I was one of them, however, I stopped receiving them once I got back on my feet. My mother did the same thing when we were little. She was on welfare for about a year and went off when she found a job and got straightened out.

not all people are abusing it, but it seems that its becoming far too easy to abuse it and people are getting much smarter when it comes to abusing the system.

 

you know countless welfare-abusing bi-polar drug dealers? so many that you can't even count them? I find it hard to believe that you know more than a few, and I actually kind of doubt that you know more than 1.