[Closed] Things that you “get” and things that you “don’t get”

[b]I don't get [/b]why it has to rain when I am trying to set stuff up outside

[b]I get[/b] wet

WCA - The curse of the privateer event. You will get sunstroke on the day you have to take it down. Also, your staple gun will pack up when you are 4 miles away from the spare one locked in the boot of your car.

Now... Back to the OP.

I don't get

Expensive watches (Omega, TAG and so on, but not silly expensive ones)
Expensive bike components (For example, Chris King… How much better is it than a Cane Creek S3?)
Impractical cars (BMW X6, Audi Q7… why?)
why some people always reply negatively to all waggy tailed posts on here.

I do like

single malt

I just don't get expensive watches, honestly I don't. Time is time. Its a trinket/status symbol and before mobile phone I could just about understand. These days it seems a bit pointless tbh

I do get expensive cars/bikes etc because the experience is different when using them. Still a staus symbol I suppose but one I can understand.

I get Real ale and bikes, any bikes.

I don't get women - a friggin mystery!

Don't get:

Expensive watches (obviously)
Fascination with cars and engines.
Talking endlessly about football.

Do get:

Spending money to have quality.
Fascination with electronics and gadgets.
Talking endlessly about life, love and (personal) philosophy.

Don't get singlespeeders
Do get nice jewellery, pimpy bike bits 😉

I don't get treating shopping as a leisure pursuit.
I don't get the fascination with cars in general.
I don't get expensive watches.
I don't get long haul beach holidays.

I do get expensive bike components.
I do get the preference of mac's over PC's

[edit] It's difficult to come up with the stuff you do get until someone points out that they don't. Up until then I just think it's the most normal thing in the world and surely everyone gets it.

I dont get people who live to work.
I do get people who work to live.
I do get cheese and jam sandwiches.

I don't get expensive watches
I don't get personalised number plates (especially on ordinary cars)
I don't get the way other people drive
I don't get why there are so many bloody film remakes (THE THING! Why do you need to REMAKE THE THING????)

I do get Vic & Bob

don't get....
people
fat
cricket
interest in bikes (as opposed to interest in riding bikes)
expensive watches
most TV shows
buying things
football fans

get....
travel
football
red wine
good food
women
buying experiences

I dont get:

Soap Operas
RnB
Applefanboism
Football
Polly Toynbee
Disposable whitegooods

I do get:
Home cooking
Real Ale
Fine wine
Gadgets

I don't get fruit, I do get constipation.

I don't get mad I get even

I get genital warts, I don't get laid anymore 🙁

Dont get

fanboi ism at any level
football passion
women
chav culture
celebrity obsession
On my bike enough

Do get

shiny bike bits
real ale

I don't get The Only Way Is Essex

wtf?

I do get: n+1 bikes
I don't get: general relativity

I don't get rocket.

get:
drinking
why men find the female form beautiful

dont get:
why we keep drinking when we know what a hangover feels like
how women could possibly find the male form beautiful

I do get fish fingers

This is especially for you Harry. You don't get expensive watches.

[url= http://www.****/news/article-2023237/Jailed-Labour-expenses-MP-Elliot-Morley-loses-3k-Rolex-attack-fellow-inmate.html ]some people say our MP's don't really 'get' the people they're meant to be representing. In fact they may just be utterly clueless about everything[/url]

What a nob!

I don't get:

Kiwi fruit
Chandeliers
Country music
Rap
Why Peter Andre is on telly
People who don't like soaps
The BMW X6
The claim that wind turbines are efficient
Aubergines
Wind chimes
Why casual MTB riders spend £3k plus on a bike

I do get

Katy Perry
Good strong ciders (not white ciders!)
Indian food
The aesthetics of wind turbines
Vexed by shit drivers

I could go on but I have stuff to do

Ho Ho. What sort of div takes a £3k watch into a prison?

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I get:
Fine Wine,
Single Malts,
Music,
Organic produce,
Art,
Beauty,
Women,
Landscape,
Architecture,
Positivity,
Soreen Malt Loaf,
BBC4,
Bikes,
Watersports,
Protectionism,
Family,
Sharing,
To choose....

I don't get:
Negative,
Expensive pointless purchases,
Lager,
War,
Chemistry,
Flying,
Fat People,
One Up Manship,
Corporate Greed,
Local Councils,
Bragging,
Self Tan Lotions,
Jordan,
Sh*t TV gameshows/Soaps/The One Show,
Jet Skies,
Tatoos,
Protectionism,
Your Family,
Traffic Jams,
Health and Safety (no,not elfin)

Enough time,

i don't 'get': most of society's conventions.
i 'get': quite down about the above from time to time.

I do get...

Bikes (whether covered in Chris King or rigid and singlespeed, they're all great)
Cricket (awesome game!)
Dark Chocolate Digestive biscuits (do you need an explanation?)
Cars (except stupid faux by four's like the BMW X6 etc)
The iPhone (just a good bit of well thought out intuitive to use kit that does what I want)
Most Apple Software
Some Microsoft Software
Spending money on things you enjoy even if it seems silly and frivolous to others
House music

Don't get...

Women (made the mistake of thinking I did twice now, and then they were gone)
Football (Its an ok game, but I can play it too... But Steve Peat or Liam Killeen don't earn £100k a week for being good at riding bikes!)
Recumbent bikes (can somebody explain the attraction please!)
Why "Mac Vs PC" ends in fisticuffs every time it is debated (they're both just computers, they both do similar jobs, you just pay a bit more for one over the other for a nicer box and slightly more intuitive OS... What's the problem?)
Cheese (it makes me sick, can't eat it)
Binge drinking and/or drug use at the weekends (is your life that bad you really need to forget about it for 48hours every week?)
RnB and most chart music (ie stuff that is made to appeal to 14 year old girls who buy singles)

The one thing I really really really don't get is calling inanimate objects "she" or "her".

Bloke on the steel frame thread

Had a ride over the south downs yesterday to break her in

Toe curling.

Don't get:

STW users
On-One
Jealousy
Bigotry
Arguing on the internet
Arguing about politics
Wanting children
Rock/Indie [s]noise[/s] music

Do Get:
Expensive watches
Buying expensive bikes/things
Cars
Beach holidays

The claim that wind turbines are efficient

Quite right. Efficiency is an outmoded concept when you have an unending supply of free primary energy.

I do get an understanding of others through reading their lists.
I don't get their posts anymore as I've killfiled them.

I don't get there posts anymore

I do get...

Spelling
Punctuation
Grammar

I don't get...

Why other people don't!

😉

Please say that's mbuy?

I don't get the fixation with virgins: why on earth would anyone want to have sex with someone inexperienced?

I totally get people (usually men, but not exclusively so) who dig anything mechanical/noisy/powerful e.g. aircraft, cars, trains, planes, guns etc.

DezB that is a travesty (REMAKE THE THING! 😡 please don't say m night shalymannmann or use boll 😯 😡

don't get - materialism
get - messy

😀

[i]DezB that is a travesty (REMAKE THE THING!...[/i]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/ and there's women in it! Women! I ask ya.

do get:

whizzing along on a bike
cars (apart from one's I find stupid)
a nice cup of tea
taking time to do a job properly
trying to respect others & be polite
a nice bacon sandwich
listening to music
taking pictures
behaving like a kid, even though I'm 'grown up'
watching the world go by
seeing new things

don't get:

hooligans/chav culture
vulgar displays of wealth
football & blokie/national obsession with it
showy people who have to brag about their new car/phone/house
replacing things for the sake of it
marmalade
people who live their life around work (unless they do a fun job, of course)

probably loads more, if I had a think.....

I don't get Oakleys. £200+ on a pair of sunglasses? You can get a pair for a tenner, how can Oakleys be worth 20 times as much? I think they're just a status symbol (like expensive watches), and wish people would admit to it.

I don't get women, but their strangeness is fascinating.
I do get singlespeeding, even though I don't indulge anymore.

I don't get tapas

racefaceec90 - Member

DezB that is a travesty (REMAKE THE THING!)

if this is with reference to the kurt russell one, you do know that it was a remake itself, don't you?

I get:
Bikes
Cars - I'd have a nice one if I could afford it
Single malt
Dance music
CDs (as opposed to MP3s)

I don't get:
People who live beyond their means
People who put the telly on 'for something in the background'
X Factor
Helmet compulsion supporters (remember what the OP said - no arguing!)
Going to the gym when you could be outside
Apple products

Do get:
football (the game)
Rugby fans behaving nicely.

Don't get:
rugby (the game)
football fans behaving badly.

Do get:
fuzzy logic where you have no other option
and also proper evidence based decisions
French wierdo cinema

don't get:
any form of gambling, lotteries etc.
homeopathy 😉
conservatism

[i]if this is with reference to the kurt russell one, you do know that it was a remake itself, don't you?[/i]

Yeah, but that one [i]needed[/i] remaking!

[i]I don't get Oakleys. £200+ on a pair of sunglasses? You can get a pair for a tenner, how can Oakleys be worth 20 times as much? [/i]

A big plus 1 on that

Yeah, but that one needed remaking!

well, yeah- can't argue with that!

I don't get out of the way.

I do get a Cheese Moment every now and then.

Don't get Rugby. (game or town)

I get
- pies, cakes and real ale
I don't get
- into the same trousers as I did a couple of years ago

I get
- an independant, questioning, take no sh*t attitude
I don't get
- promoted

I don't get why people buy cheap sunglasses

http://www.****/health/article-2027260/How-cheap-sunglasses-leave-double-vision-headaches.html

[b]I don't get[/b] why I get banned from this forum. 😥

[b]I do get[/b] banned from this forum. 😥

I don't get;
Middling expensive watches that depreciate in value
Skinny Jeans
Nick Grimshaw
Knee length crotches
Pork Crunch

I do get;
Proper, expensive watches that give better returns than current bank rates
Cheap watches
Curvy (not fat) women
Bacon sarnies
Ale
Pork Scractchings

Houns - Member
I don't get why people buy cheap sunglasses

http://www.****/health/article-2027260/How-cheap-sunglasses-leave-double-vision-

From that article: [i]Those buying sunglasses should check for the "O" mark[/i]
Fixed that.

I don't get

Things costing more than their worth because they are branded
Cosmetic surgery
The world of fashion
Brussels sprouts
Religion

I do get
Things that are beautifully made and function well and hence expensive
Natural looking people
Artisans
Tea and a pork and leek slice

I don't get people who take scientific advice from the daily mail.

I do get:
why people like the whole Apple I-thing
philosophy
radio
IT

I don't get:
Why they think Apple is better than everything else
fanaticism
carp TV
it - well not enough anyway 😆

I don't get people who don't read an article to see where the evidence has come from

I don't get imaginary numbers, I really just don't get it at all.
I don't get why there aren't more places to buy flavoured dried seaweed in the UK.
I don't get over enthusiastic people, not people who are passionate about a subject, but those people who are really enthusiastic about everything.
I don't get untidiness, yet I don't get how to be tidy.

I do get bikes
I do get cars
I do get being a dad, nearly.
I do get my parents, really understand who they are now.
I do most definitely get being a nerd.

I don't get people who expect other people to actually read daily mail articles..

😀

I don't get imaginary numbers, I really just don't get it at all.

Try this one then.

Between every two rational numbers there is an irrational number. Between every two irrational numbers there is a rational number. Yet there are infinitely more irrational numbers then rational.

Darc - have you never watched 'A passion for Angling'?!
I don't even like fishing but that's awesomeness right there.

I dont get:
Owning a Harley Davidson if you live in Chesire, your names Ian and you work in IT (just like my neighbour)

I do get:
Owning a Harley Davidson if you live in Arizona, your names Bonesaw and you like guns and hitting people.

I don't get:
People pointing out their watch is better than yours, and you were ripped off.

I do get:
Pleasure from looking at those tiny cogs turning in my watch, the clicking sound as they go around.

I dont get:
People going out of their way to say driving an MX5 makes me 'a gay'

I do get:
To borrow an MX5 when my bangers being repaired. However it makes me 'a gay'

I get:

music playing/listening to
cooking
making clothes
knitting
gossiping to mates
laughing
snogging (love snogging)

don't get
racism
politics
hatred
men
cottage cheese

Don't get.

Out much.

I don't get Oakleys. £200+ on a pair of sunglasses? You can get a pair for a tenner, how can Oakleys be worth 20 times as much?

Got mine for free 😀

I don't get:
blue cheese
Marmite

I get:
Tired working night shifts
Fed up with rain

I get
Singlespeeding
Road Riding
Downhilling
Just riding along
Why other people ride other bikes
Why other people do other sports
Good Whisky. Or Good Whiskey.
Bacon
Why one typeface is different to another

I don't get
Celebrity 'culture'
The appeal of following football like religion
Religion.
Hi-fi.
Jazz
Twitter
Why one would want to live in a big city

of course, hifi.

I forgot to say I don't get directional cables.

I used to get lager but i am not so sure about that now either.

An imaginary number is a the square root of a negative number. When any real number is squared, the result is never negative, however, the square of an imaginary number is always negative. Imaginary numbers have the form bi where b is a non-zero real number and i is the imaginary unit, which is defined as the square root of negative one.[1]
An imaginary number bi can be added to a real number a to form a complex number of the form a+bi, where a and b are called, respectively, the "real part" and the "imaginary part" of the complex number. Imaginary numbers can therefore be thought of as complex numbers where the real part is zero, and vice versa. The name "imaginary number" was originally coined in the 17th century as a derogatory term as such numbers were regarded by some as fictitious or useless, but today they have essential, concrete applications in a variety of scientific, engineering, and related areas.

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Don't get:

Top Gear
Chavs
How anyone could choose to remain ignorant
Cruelty
Mob behaviour
Officious types
The insurmountably polarised nature of British politics

Get:

Nice watches; ties; suits
Women
Books
Bicycles
Werner Herzog
Leonard Cohen

wallop - Member
I don't get rocket

that's coz you can't afford him

do get:
time off work

don't get:
spending thousands of pounds to travel a thousand miles & sit on beach for 2 weeks

Don't get:

Singlespeeding
Cars or motorbikes that make lots of noise
People who can't use apostrophes. Wtf? I must've been taught it at least 10 times at school, and it's not exactly brain surgery is it? Pull your bloody fingers out!

Do get:

Imaginary numbers. They have i after them, and when you square one the result is negative. That's all there is to it. Doesn't have to make sense with respect to anything else, that's just how it is.
Lots of other things, even weird things about other people, cos I am very clever 🙂
Oakleys - they look nice and are definitely better than a £10 pair to wear and look through. Easily.

Molly - C2C north to south Wales... do we get your buy in?

Don't get:
MAC's. I've tried, I really have. Lots of intelligent, highly computer literate people I know swear by them so I assume it's me that's in the wrong but I simply can't see what the attraction is.

Get:
Fixed. Off and on road. Awesome fun!

Depends on family commitments Yeti - when is it?

*pick me, hand in the air for TSY*

iDave - I've already invited you... Junky's in, DirtyG, Druidh and Mustard sound keen, if my Bro is in the country he's up for it, as is another mate... aim is to do 200 miles in one day??

Next June.

Are you in Wales now Mol? How's the little un?

you so did not invite me - not coherently anyway. ok cool, next June is partly my birthday? is it on or off road?

On road... in fairness I didn't e-mail you, I just kept finding threads you'd posted on and telling you, you're in.