Unpopular or Unorthodox views you hold.

[GeneralTacticus]

My country should not have supported independence for East Timor - the last thing this world needs is another tiny nation whose national ethos is built on religion.

Yes, let's just stand around and watch the Indonesians massacre the local population and claim another patch of dirt for the Islamic master race.

[Seneca]

The current Labour government is competent and has its heart in the right place.

Many people go into politics for all the right reasons. Certainly more people than go into business for altruistic reasons.

The Office is the greatest program ever made on British shores.

Music really was better in the sixties.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Halle Berry isn't a particularly attractive woman.

The above statement does not make me racist in anyway.

No. It just makes you stark raving mad.

EDIT: Sorry about debating a point, but that just simply is not the sort of thing you can go around allowing people to say without calling them out on it.

[Guynemer]

--Democrats have absolutely no business whatsoever blaming Ralph Nader for the results of the 2000 election. Neither do they have much reason to blame GWB, Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, or the Supreme Court. The only person truly to blame for Al Gore's loss is Al Gore.

--Driving under the influence should be punished with at least six months in jail and a two-year suspended license--on the first offense.

--Hockey is the greatest sport in the world.

--Breasts are overrated.

--Green eyes beat blue eyes every day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

--On average, brunettes are far more attractive than blondes.

--Bruce Willis is underrated as an actor.

--The first "Lord of the Rings" movie was overrated.

--For Democrats to win, they need to lean more to the left, not the right.

--George W. Bush is no less intelligent than the average American. (Read into that whatever you'd like.)

--"ER" is actually better now that it has been in 3-4 years, at least.

--"The X-Files" should have ended five years ago. That series finale was the most craptacular two hours of television I've ever seen.

--All world political leaders should be required to receive oral sex at least twice a day. Conservatives might not like this idea, but you just watch and see how quickly all armed conflict comes to a screeching halt.

--Magic Johnson, not Michael Jordan, was the best to ever play the game.

--Capitalism is, generally speaking, a good thing, but we could learn a lot from nations that have socialized certain sectors of society (ie, medicine).

--I'd rather not get into bed with slimy dictatorships like the current Pakistani junta or the house of Saud, even at the risk of not getting Al Queda. That "he may be a bastard, but he's OUR bastard" argument doesn't fly with me. Saddam Hussein was "our bastard" once. So was Osama bin Laden.

--I like feminists and affirmative action. I think everyone here who rants about them should give a long, hard thought if they'd rather be a woman and/or black.

--I think Detroit is a nice city.

--I think you ought to have serious gun education and gun licenses to own a firearm.

--I think it is pathetic that almost none of our elected representatives could find the balls to stand up and say, "You know, the court is right--'under God' doesn't belong in the Pledge of Allegiance."

--I don't think religion is a force of good in this world. Neither do I think that it is a force of evil. I just know that I'm not terribly interested in being a part of it.

--The 1997 Michigan Wolverines would have beaten the snot out of the 1997 Nebraska Cornhuskers.

--I don't think it's right that everyone here slams the French all the time, and everyone just accepts it as the truth. Probably the biggest stereotype I see on these boards.

--I'd rather have the country run by a decent, intelligent conservative than a stark-raving loonie-tunes liberal.

--I think the Founding Fathers were actually fallible human beings, who were capable of making mistakes, and often times did just that.

--I think that there are almost certainly other intelligent lifeforms in the universe, but that they are no closer to finding us than we are to finding them.

--I also think that to assume that we know everything about our ancient history is the absolute height of arrogance, and that there is at least one important civilization that we have yet to discover.

--I think "welfare-to-work" programs are abhorrent.

--I think I may have said too much.

[Paul Hanson]

Originally posted by Guynemer


No. It just makes you stark raving mad.

EDIT: Sorry about debating a point, but that just simply is not the sort of thing you can go around allowing people to say without calling them out on it.

OK, let me rephrase that:I don't think that Halle Berry is a particularly attractive woman.I

[Al'Kimiya]

I think spelling mistakes are worse crimes than killing infidel children.

[Frankychan]

1. I think that mainland Republicans and Democrats should kiss my hairy a**.

2. The world would be a better place if I was in charge.

3. "God" exists in more than one religion. I think God manifested himself in different aspects to suit all kinds of people.

4. The Turkey-on-Rye-with-Provolone cheese is the best sandwich in the world.

5. Finnish chicks are hot.

6. Eurasian chicks are hot also......Asian eyes with Russian body.

7. I hate Britney Spears.

8. I love spinach with butter.

9. I don't really like ice cream.

10. I want to find the right girl BEFORE any sexual intercourse.

[Kepler]

A politician who uses distinctions between his and his opponent's morality to make statements about policy is by definition either stupid or mendacious.

The Bible is equal parts handed-down ancient mythology, pure invention, revisionist history, and op-ed. It is extremely important as an influential piece of western culture and should be studied in public schools in history and literature courses.

"Life is pain, Princess. Anybody who tells you different is selling something." (Perhaps not an unorthodox or unpopular view.)

A group is capable of being as dumb as its dumbest member, but is only capable of being as smart as its median-dumbest member.

The post-structuralist idea that our words and thoughts are the only definition of reality is a sophomoric simplification of the truth that our perception of words and thoughts are the only definition of our perception of reality.

"Cogito ergo sum" proves nothing.

If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they would be overwhelmingly Liberal, except for Hamilton and John Adams who'd be a Libertarian just to be a pain in the butt.

[uh Clem]

--Driving under the influence should be punished with at least six months in jail and a two-year suspended license--on the first offense.

I look forward to this being in the Republican Platform in 2004.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson


OK, let me rephrase that:I don't think that Halle Berry is a particularly attractive woman.I

As I said:

Stark.

Raving.

Mad.

But that's okay... just means I have less competition for her.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Guynemer
--"The X-Files" should have ended five years ago. That series finale was the most craptacular two hours of television I've ever seen.

Who's to blame for sitting through those two hours?

[VetLegion]

My country should not have supported independence for East Timor - the last thing this world needs is another tiny nation whose national ethos is built on religion.

Dolphins are smarter than people.

what do Dolphins think about East Timor?

[GePap]

French forces have fought valiantly, if not successfully, this entire century (and there would be no ignorant and biased Americans without France [think Yorktown]).

There can be a peaceful solution to the ME conflict.

There can be no war against terrorism, as terrorism is a concept, not an ideology.

If you as a poster discount the Geneva convention and think 'all fair in war', then you have no right to morally judge Terrorist, as they fully agree with you.

The partition of India was a mistake

Nationalism has been a force for great evil: it was the worst ideas to come out of the French Revolution.

The French Revolution was more important than the American in terms of world-wide influence of ideas.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by GePap
The French Revolution was more important than the American in terms of world-wide influence of ideas.

This view is completely orthodox and obvious among the French (and among Europeans in general)

EDIT :

Originally posted by Kepler]
our perception of words and thoughts are the only definition of our perception of reality

I argue ! You can find my argument there

[JohnT]

In essence, there is little difference between ****ing a man for money and ****ing a man for a house in the Hamptons, complete with servants.