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Woo hoo!
Folk who are happy to ride around with a large streak of mud all the way up their arse and back, looking like they've crapped themselves, not a good look 😉
Spending more than 10 minutes preparing food.
Life
The increasing prevalence of lad culture in cycling/mtbing. It can GTF quite frankly.
I totally get that lycra is better to cycle in, no matter what the bike is, you’re still sitting on a saddle (or standing) turning pedals, want to keep cool but not cold, want a garment to dry quickly, want complete freedom of movement with no waistband, no slippage, no keks, no seams and nothing flapping. Quality bibs/bib-shorts with insert are as near to perfect as it gets when cycling, Unless going to the shops or pub.
It’s how lycra looks that is the issue. People don’t like it because it’s unfashionable nowadays (and obesity is on the rise)
There are so many entries here I could just copy and paste. However, I've also got a few of my own.
1. Speeding (I mean, you're endangering countless others to show what, exactly? That your right ankle can pivot? Well done, you! FFS.)
2. #17 of 'The Rules' (Why can't a person wear the kit of their favourite team or rider? Weird.)
3. Food (why I am not remotely interested in it, but simultaneously can't really control my intake of it)
4. People who occupy positions in the workplace that don't need to (a man or a woman whose spouse makes plenty on their own, for example, or someone who already has a lot of money. It's not the desire to work I don't get - if by work is meant 'accomplishing something worthwhile in life'; I'm talking specifically about doing the 9-5 thing day in and day out when one could easily quit and spend the rest of their life doing volunteer work with the homeless or doing woodwork or writing a book or cycling)
Tories 🤷♂️
Politicians in general.
Much of what's been mentioned.
Football.
Babies (kids in general for me)
Litter*. McDonalds trampists in particular.
Helium ballons. (see *)
Too many to mention really.
Tattoos and piercings (on men and women): “Ooow look at me I’m so original” er no you look like every other scanky chav going, ergo the complete opposite.
Forgot whisky snobs. Yawn.
Folk that don’t ever dig or do any trail maintenance, does my nut in, as if it’s someone else’s job, your times too precious to put a bit back into the sport. Wallopers. It should be compulsory, if ye ride, ye dig.
Now on that one - tome digging trails is vandalism. Just do not do it!
Edit - If I see blocked drainage I will unblock it. But to me digging MTB trails unless its land you own or have permission on is just vandalism
Washing up bowls in sinks. They just get in the way of everything a sink should be used for.
The one I really do not get ( like cynic al) consumerism in general
I have something that works. It does not need to be replaced. why buy the same thing in a different colour or whatever it is. I don't think I have a single bike part that is less than ten years old ( bar consumables) ( a couple of rims - but to me they are consumables)
I have never bought new any furniture, cutlery, crockery, TV, Hi fi, curtains, etc - none of that sort of stuff. I have a load of crockery/ cutlery I acquired or bought second hand. It works. who cares if its not matched.
I have friends who pay thousands of pounds for house furnishings - a £3000 rug was one example. I just do not get it.
Coffee snobs. Get over yourselves.
Camper vans.
Either buy a proper ****ing motor home or an actual van and tent you indecisive toss pot.
People quite content using mismatched cutlery to eat their meal.
Micro-adjusted bike fit. It's probably more of a roadie thing. Zwift is the logical conclusion. If the laws of evolution somehow favour roadies we'll end up all leg.
Women who have completely ruined their eyebrows thinking they can do a better job than nature. Why?!
Disco
27.5 wheels - negligible gains over 26 and well basically not 29 (which all sensible progressives adopted in 2013 with the Spesh e29 😅).
Why the mrs can never finish a drink.
I’m always finding half a glass, half a cup or half a bottle of something around the house.
So many already mentioned. Especially leaf blowers and speeding. I’ll add money, never understood the pursuit of it or why we’re in the position where we’re basically beholden to it. Also estate agents and rim brakes.
half a glad
People who don't use the edit function to correct their typo's. 😈
Whiskey/Vodka/any alcoholic spirit that you have to drink out of a thimble, it all tastes vile to me.
The need to have the lastest car/bike/anything (Basically materialism)
Arguing on Facebook with strangers.
Influencers.
I’ll add money, never understood the pursuit of it or why we’re in the position where we’re basically beholden to it.
You could give all your money away and report back on how free you felt?
Actually I don't get trite political statements of all persuasions. Always make me wince.
People who've never owned a motorbike .. You'll soon learn all about speeding 🙂
People who don’t use the edit function to correct their typo’s
People who don't understand apostrophes.
There are many things I don't get, most of them already covered in this thread. Littering is probably the one that makes me most annoyed though. I cannot work out why anyone would think it's acceptable. Judging by photos from Bournemouth beach and from the Liverpool football celebrations I am in an ever decreasing minority though.
Washing up bowls in sinks. They just get in the way of everything a sink should be used for.
Why do people DO that?!?
If you have a single drainer sink it allows you to empty cups and glasses and rinse off plates before washing. Not everyone has a dentist-spec kitchen to go with their T6 Combi and Santa Cruz.
Pheasant / “game” shooting
Now on that one – tome digging trails is vandalism. Just do not do it!
Edit – If I see blocked drainage I will unblock it. But to me digging MTB trails unless its land you own or have permission on is just vandalism
The local trails I was working on yesterday have permission, but I have absolutely no qualms about digging trails in the god-awful commercial plantations that litter my local landscape. And you can comfort yourself in the knowledge that I really couldn't give a flying **** what you think on the matter 🙂
Music.
Nothing more that noise pollution.
TikTok.
Music.
Nothing more that noise pollution.
You'll love this.
Guns, apart from Nerf ones.
Agree with litter, i don't get it, armed police to enforce picking up litter might be acceptable.
Nationalism, we're all clinging to the same rock hurtling through space.
People who confuse not understanding something with not liking something.
Why do people DO that?!?
My washing up bowl uses way less water than using the sink.
I don’t understand people who love doing laundry, I know it’s a necessity but some people love it. I’ve run out of pants so that kinda forces my hand but I have friends who do it every day... through choice!
I totally get Lycra - by far the most comfortable thing to wear on any bike.
But bib-shorts? Normal Lycra shorts are perfectly comfortable. When riding, I try to work out how something more expensive and heavier with inconvenient straps over my shoulders could possibly be an improvement. My clothes fit properly, so I've never exposed flesh between shorts and jersey. Sure, maybe the waistband could be uncomfortable for the 'larger' cyclist - but that doesn't explain why the pro-peloton wear them.
Women who have completely ruined their eyebrows thinking they can do a better job than nature. Why?!
Ooh! That's a good one, sometimes I find it very hard not to stare at the ridiculous doodlings half way up some ones forehead. I'm sure some women must user a bingo dabber.
Thing I "don't get" is people saying they don't get other people littering/being a selfish person.
What you mean is you don't like it. Littering is easy "to get" : People can't be arsed to take home their crap/think it's some-one else's job to tidy up after them. It's easy to understand.
I "don't get " folk who aren't curious. Stuff that I don't know anything about is mostly instantly fascinating to me.
I don't get folk who's black and white views of the world are so entrenched, they cannot see or accept grey.
People who give a shit about what other people ride or what other people wear when they are riding.
I've never understood this about (particularly) mountain bikers. IME, road cyclists don't give a hoot what sort of bike you are on or whether you are in full branded lycra, club kit or casual wear - it's all about the ride and if you can do the ride, that's what matters.
(feel free to throw abuse at me on this!)
People who don’t use the edit function to correct their typo’s
People who don’t understand apostrophes.
Touché! I was a little unsure but went with it as an abbreviation of typographical rather than a plural.
Although I'm surprised that triggered a response and not my previous trolling about 'camper vans' 😄
The one I really do not get ( like cynic al) consumerism in general...I don’t think I have a single bike part that is less than ten years old ( bar consumables) ( a couple of rims – but to me they are consumables)
I don't get folk who invent rules for themselves and go about busily breaking them. A translation of this could read, I don't like other people's consumerism, but when it's my consumerism, I like it just fine and I want it to exist. There's a word for it that's on the tip of my tongue....
Consumerism + littering are so intertwined they may as well be the same thing.
Reducing consumerism by re-using parts you already own and/or buying second hand parts or pulling parts from skips or dumps is a reduction in consumerism + littering.
Consumerism encourages unthinking purchases bought on the whim.
I don't get why there isn't a single button to take you back to the forums page or the end of a thread. It's like the lovely folks that write the code for this forum don't actually use it