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1. Gaming, as per the OP. I remember all of my friends trading Atari cartridges, and not being remotely interested.
2. Clubbing. Went once or twice, wasn't interested. I think I'm probably just too introverted.
3. Gigs. Same thing as above. Oh, and the sound quality seems to always suck. Too loud and too muffled.
4. Drugs. I was almost naïve about them. I was friends with some of the guys who did them, but never touched them myself, and almost didn't really notice them when they were right in front of me.
5. Action movies.
BMX & skateboards. I was into roller skating (proper Bauer ones, not the ones you put onto the bottom of your shoes) and we used to play street hockey, do 'urban' skating in the parks in town etc.
Tinder
Dabbing? I'll have to look that up. Computer gaming for me too. Used to play "leisure suit larry" in the days of floppy disks but that was only at work.
Never seen Star Wars.
Ah, BMX. I was probably having a long intermission from cycling when BMX became a "thing". I think I might have held a BMX bike once. These days if I went out wearing a baseball cap on back to front and a pair of jeans halfway down my arse my wife would be "having a word" 😳
Rocky Horror Picture Show
X Factor and all that jazz
Shisha Pipes
Cyclo Cross
Pulled Pork
Snapchat.... my 70y/o FIL is a Snapchat ninja.
X-box/PS etc. never interested me at all - our 11y/o son has an X-box but I've not touched it other than setting up the Wi-Fi etc. for him.
Nandos - it's just chicken, can get the precooked stuff from supermarkets that's just as good.
Have to agree with the Lady Diana thing, I didn't know her personally so don't see why I would mourn her death so much. I don't cry when regular people die who I don'w know so really dont see why I would mourn her just because she was famous.
The death of Kurt Cobain, a lot of people used to go on and on and on about it and I never got it then and still don't understand why. again on the same page of 'I didn't know them personally'.
Facebook/Twitter
Reality TV
No regrets
What the f, is dabbing?
Its something kids used to do.
Musicals ..they are the worst thing ever and just make me want to p
This, so much this. Hate the things with the exception of Little Shop of Horrors, because Levi Stubbs.
Also second Facebook and Twitter. Never used any form of social media other than this place. Just seems utterly alien and bizzare to me
Mrs M had never seen any Star Wars movie until this summer when we watched the (original) first one. She said at the end that she’d thought it was okay until she realised it was set in space!
I interpret ‘passed me by’ as meaning things one is completely unaware of, which are popular among large numbers of people. Well, I’m struggling to think of anything that’s really popular that I’m completely unaware of, what with news and other stuff so ubiquitous these days, I see references to all sorts of odd stuff that makes me do the eye-rolley thing , but leave me bewildered by the popularity of them.
Tattoos
Top knots
Beards
Star Wars - saw one of them as a kid, no interest since
Star Trek - never watched more than 5 minutes, no interest at all
Them Kardashians.
I've established that the p/matriach used to be an Olympian, and a man.
And I know one of them's married to that rapper who sounds like he's named after a train station.
And that's genuinely it. I'm aware that there are more of them, but I couldn't name any, and I genuinely don't know how they became famous originally...
..and I'm happy if I remain as ignorant on the subject until the day I die.
Its something kids used to do
Also
[i]Originates from the practice of smoking 'dab', which is a stronger type of hash, made from hash oils and having to cough just after taking a toke[/i]
Them Kardashians.
Still have no idea who they are....
Millenials, Instagram, road bikes, the whole celebrity thing, Kasabian....
Still have no idea who they are....
Or why they are famous
Greggs.
I'm never giving them my money.
Them Kardashians.
Still have no idea who they are....
Aren't they something to do with Star Trek (or NG, DS9 or the other one) ?
Footy
Tatoos
Strickly
That baking show
In fact pretty much every show where the gullible vote people off
(not so much passed me by... but more a case of have no interest whatsoever in knowing anything about them, and can't understand why anybody gets even remotely fanatical about them)
Greggs is lukewarm grossness
KFC - I currently have a 100% chunder to "dining" experience there. Although least I aimed mine at the big white telephone, unlike my (female) colleague who decorated the outside of the window of the KFC branch.
Nandos - never been, but have passed by several.
Football, Reality TV, Soaps, Sports Betting, Horse Racing, Drugs..
Couldn't care less about these things.
Pretty much all of the above.
I don't really get spectator sports at all, but the sheer obsessiveness of football is sufficient to put me off. Why watch someone else having fun rather than doing something yourself?
I've followed some sports in the past - I used to go to Manchester Storm ice hockey games and I'm partial to a spot of American Football - but they're kinda niche sports here so you can get away from it occasionally. Yet after a couple of years maybe the novelty of hockey wore off and I stopped going, and aside from catching a few games on holiday recently about the only American Football I watch these days is the Superbowl. For me it's like, I like music and love going to gigs, but even with my favouritest band I wouldn't go and see them on every leg of the same tour playing the same set every week.
So yeah, I don't get it, the whole sports / football thing completely passed me by. All those armchair experts who know better than the professionals and will drone on and on about players and statistics and who's shit this week, you know the ones whose opening gambit when meeting someone new is "what team do you support" and when told "I don't really follow football" proceed to talk at you about it for fifteen minutes? Gods kill me now, they're only slightly less tediously boring than people who have drugs as a hobby and iPhone owners.
Pop punk/Metal...Grunge had a big impact on my music tastes, and still does today.
Odd, without the first 2...
Like CZ, can't think of anything that passed me completely by, but gaming never interested me. Even when my kid was into it, played a few games with him and couldn't imagine wasting hours doing it on my own.
slowoldman - Member
That's a really funny clip. 😆
Mind you Channel 4 news is heading in the same direction ... 😆
I am going to speak like that funny Mitchell & Webb youtube clip. 😛
this political correctness fad has passed me right by
Resort holidays spent in a compound with people you would rather avoid if you were back home.
My stepdaughter & her husband spend 3/4 of a fortune on these type of holidays! All inclusive, butler service, a bed the size of Centre Court at Wimbledon, etc, & daren't even leave the hotel grounds!
But for me,
Football, gaming, drugs, lots of television & technology, celebs, 29" & 27.5" wheels, fatbikes. My list is endless!
this political correctness fad has passed me right by
Same here, **** em!
Last week I found out that there are professional gamers that are classed s as e-atheletes and the gamers teams earn millions of dollars a year in prizes with sponsorship on top.
I had a snes and a Xbox back in the day but generally the whole gaming thing has passes me by.
hodgynd - MemberI do like a good mtb forum though
Oh the ironing! 🙂
Football, what a waste of a good patch of grass!
Ed chuffin’ Shearan for me. All I get is ‘but he’s so talented’, but that may be the case but his music is so bland and boring and no better than the plethora of bland boring pop acts being churned out these days.
wobbliscott - MemberEd chuffin’ Shearan for me.
I don't think that he counts as a cultural phenomenon tbh.
bigyinn - Member
The whole mass grieving over Diana then and 20 years later.
Didn't get it then, don't get it now.
Spot on.
I knew a girl who spent 8+ hours queuing (with her entire family) to sign the remembrance book or whatever it was. She certainly wasn't alone.
Absolutely bizarre.
Tow!e,
Made up in Chelsea.
Geordie Porgie Shore.
Real wives of Wythenshawe.
etc.
Really don't see the attraction of watching a bunch of non entities pretending to do real stuff when the reality is its staged and scripted, and celebrated by the cast of Jeremy Kyle.
Resort holidays spent in a compound with people you would rather avoid if you were back home.
I'm with you there, some friends have been to Mexico, Egypt, Bulgaria etc etc, never leave the resort through fear of bandits or whatever - you might as well go to Spain if all you want it Sun and cheap Booze.
Now then....
To counter this view...
Before kids and a busy job I used to criticise and hold exactly this view.
I used to do teh travel thing - bikepacking and sight seeing.
However, I've kinda changed my mentality.
I'm tired. When holiday time comes around, I'm quite honest with myself - I want somewhere to chill out, eat good food without hunting around for little tavernas with the kids, and to be able to spend most of the day in swim shorts, oogling at my wife/your wife/his wife in a bikini, whilst the kids splash in a pool...
Good booze brought to me whilst in said shorts is a bonus.
Yes, recently we went to Mexico and only did one day trip out in 2 weeks, but you know what - I don't tell others how to spend their days back here in the UK (well, I kinda do..but you get my drift) so I can kinda do what I want on holiday...
I've always said, If Bognor had a posh resort with top shelf booze and quality food, AND sunshine in May, I'd go there for my 2 week break.
But... you kinda need to go afar for those things..
Lacking culture - definitely.
DrP enjoying his hard earned (not true - I don't work that hard!) holiday with teh family how he wants to - definitely..
Plus..my kids are mental, and we'd lose them if there weren't security keeping them IN!!
DrP
ITV Be. Every time I see a trailer for stuff thats shown on there I just shout at the TV. Joey Essex? Joey Deacon more like!
Dancing. Im reasonably confident in most life situations, but put me on a dancefloor, I just become the most self-concious, uncomfortable person on the planet. Hate it and don't understand the attraction at all.
stricly/BGT/voice/X Factor
all those "regular joe" does something that a professional can do... only about a million times worse, with in built false suspense shows on a Saturday evening. Judging panels and phone voting and all that bollocks
A while ago I swear my mum was having a stroke about the results of one of them. When I go back to theirs, it's prime time viewing and conversation stops, dinner served at 6 to make sure they don't miss them. I could pretty much dance naked across the room and they wouldn't notice. Then it's bloody Casualty, don't get me started. 😈
I have 2
1. Football. Dont get it. dont get the obsession and endless stats people can bring up.
2. Celebrity. What is it with everyone wanting to be famous and the so called celebrity tv programmes. I can almost guarantee that I wont have a clue who anyone on one of these programmes are
The death of Kurt Cobain, a lot of people used to go on and on and on about it and I never got it then and still don't understand why. again on the same page of 'I didn't know them personally'.
Well I wouldn't go on and on about it but just because a person doesn't know someone personally it doesn't mean they can't relate to them or find them influential etc. and so find it hard when they die unexpectedly. When Dave Mirra died I was absolutely gutted (still am), and I shed a tear or two. Same for Colin Winkleman. maybe it was the manner of their death, or the fact that they were so much a part of the "BMX scene" when I was into it but to say you can't understand why someone can feel loss for someone they never met is odd.
Last week I found out that there are professional gamers that are classed s as e-atheletes and the gamers teams earn millions of dollars a year in prizes with sponsorship on top.
Not only that - I recently found out they have LIVE gaming events, where people go to WATCH! And.. you can make decent money being a commentator for such events. Utterly bizarre.
Funny thing is, someone at my new job was telling me about this and I was in full "Get the f out of here!" mode when one of the others pipes up "I go to those" 😯
could pretty much dance naked across the room and they wouldn't notice.
They would.
They would then make some sarcastic comments before awarding you a seven.
I’m struggling to think of anything that’s really popular that I’m completely unaware of,
really? You can't think of anything you're completely unaware of?
Tax avoidance