[Closed] Things you just don't get.

Porsche Cayan.

Alan Partridge
Comic Book Films

Sucking toes.
Licking feet.

Mrs brown's boys

Association Football
Drugs
Cars

Just a few things that spring to mind, I'm sure there are plenty more.

Fidget spinners.

Ok it spins... But why is that interesting?!?

religion
voting conservative

A Bristol is in my dream garage, along with a Honda NSX and a CX Safari.
🙂

I don't get SUV's, or the trend to ever less practical vehicles.
Ever tied getting anything into the back of a Juke?
Or those stupid new bulbs in headlights.

And brown cars, obviously.

Appart from that, crack on.

Football, Religion, Reality TV, Facebook, Twitter et al and comparing your kids, house, car, life (delete as applicable) with that of people you don't know.

Oh and speaking as someone with a kid (and second on the way) who's relatively new to the whole thing: the whole madness of having kids seemingly working around the clock. Preschool club, school, after school club, ninety hobbies etc. Each to their own, but strikes me as a bit mental. Let kids be kids and arse about in the woods etc.

Sorry, that got a bit rant like.

Fashion.

Seriously considered I maybe autistic or something, it seens so arbitrary, ideally redundant and most definitely odd. Surely a bike is a bike!? Shoes are shoes, etc. Form should ideally follow function, but everyone of us has to follow fashion in some capacity? I understand the concept of beauty, and it being in the eye of the beholder - but this fact itself only serves to further confuse me with regards to everyone contemporaneously discarding Tuesday's hive-mind objet d'arse for Wednesdays objet d'art.

Weird.

Also wrestling. It's fake. Fans know it's fake. wtawwf?*

* ermergerd! think I just *got* wrestling! It's like that porn where they convince an 'innocent' smoking hot mom off the street to do gymnastic grunting stuff on camera with surly men. Surly men wearing balding mullets! The viewer easily suspends disbelief for the required duration 🙂 Wrestling is the same except the smoking hot mom is now another surly man with a balding mullet. Minus the penetrative elements. One hopes.

650b

Sex. I understand it but I don't get it.

Bristol cars.
Kate Tempest.
I may be missing something but try as I might I can't get excited about either of these.

Parking on pavements..are they all pissed?

Oh and space physics, I've read loads of books but no its not happening.

Morris dancing

Mrs Brown's Boys x 1000000

Working class folk who vote Tory

How you can buy something as bewilderingly pretty as this trailing geranium for 40p.

40p for that much awesumness!

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Genuinely don't or just think is stoooooopid?

Cricket, coffee and working class Tory/Brexit voters.

(edit: I didn't copy you there devash, had my window open for ages while working)

Working class Tories.
Inspector Morse / Lewis.
Capers.
American gunz n carz TV.

People who live on busy(ish) roads, and drive forwards onto their drives.

And then have to reverse out through their fence line, blind across the pavement and try to edge into the road until someone decides to let them out.

Raving loony lefties
Anti religion people who "touch wood" and won't walk under ladders.
People who argue for the sake of arguing, how on earth do you enjoy it? Get a life.
Football
Wanting an Audi.
Believing VW's are reliable
Following fashion (something so ugly it has to be changed every 15 minutes, style is something versatile, it's in the way you move and the way you smile)
Men - Shaving your head when you're not going bald.
People who knock hats off your head and think it's funny.
People who are happily proud they are rubbish at maths.

I think it's best to stop now. 😳

Enough money or holidays.

Chicken
Another vote for Mrs Browns Boys
Another vote for Sex, I understand it but fail to get excited by it
Fake beer (lager)
Tattoos, I kinda get why you want one.. just

USA

ITV
Rap 'music'
Warmed up boring cars aka 'hot hatches'
Sunbed use and spiky gelled hair on the over 40's (northern fashion)
Cooking lager
Fine alcoholic spirits adulterated with sugary fizzy pop
Pubs where you have to shout over the speakers
Doughy supermarket pizzas

the tory party

bbc news dedication to the above,

football, and 40 something fat men who wear the shirt of their team with some overpaid footballers name on the back,

motorcyclists who dress in leather and only appear on the sunshine weekends and never in the rain/cold like us proper cyclists,

What are Bristol cars and Kate Tempest?

Eurovision, it's just a load of crap

Cars getting bigger and heavier

Breaking bad , really not any good just a load of silly scenarios and arguing

Classic designs being reinterpreted and losing the very thing that made them great but keeping the downsides e.g. modern mini, it's heavy and large and doesn't handle like the old proper one but the shit letterbox front screen is retained and the boot is the same size

Tory blind faith in privatisation trying to create a market where there isn't one, e.g. water, trains

Reliance on natural gas that we buy from Putin and other awful regimes when we could develop renewables and then sell the tech whilst screwing over a despot

newrobdob
Anti religion people who "touch wood" and won't walk under ladders.
People who argue for the sake of arguing, how on earth do you enjoy it

It has been suggested that over millions of years our monkey ancestors were more likely to survive if they treated every rumble in the bushes as a potential tiger, and not just a breeze. Over a long enough timescale the apes/people were descendant from successive generations of cautious survivors and this translated to modern humans who were unwilling to take a risk even when it seems illogical.

vickypea - Member

What are Bristol cars and Kate Tempest?

Imagine if Morgan had been bought by an eccentric Russian multi millionaire in the early 80s and he set about using ex lada designers to modernise and breath new life into the brand.

Food. All that time and money spent and where does it end up?

Breaking bad , really not any good just a load of silly scenarios and arguing

I did like the few series I saw, but that is an excellent description of the show.

Voting Tory if you dont have private healthcare and send the kids to private schools. Just cannot grasp it at all.

ABBA - absolute garbage. How the hell are they so revered

Fanatical football fans - I love sport and a great football match is fantastic, but hating entire cities/parts of cities/people of different religions because of football and basically making your football team your entire raison d'etre is just mental

How the majority of STW is anti Tory, Cars(especially on tic) and the Daily Mail.

But they are probably the top three faves of the UK generally.

Pubs. Noisy and depressing if you're not into drinking.

Football.

Conservatism too unless you're rich enough to not give a sod.

Err, it's meant to be about things you don't get not what you don't like ...

Breaking Bad set in the UK
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Men - Shaving your head when you're not going bald.

Amen brother. If you've got it, flaunt it. If I could grow a full head of hair I'd have a mullet more glorious than 80's Pat Sharpe, Gaz Topp and Swayze in Point Break combined. It would be a thing of utter beauty. Grown men would weep at the sight of it, knowing that they could never again see something so truly wondrous and women would faint in adoration.

The Smiths - depressing drivel
New Order - tuneless drivel
Politics and those that drone on about it* - boring drivel.

*Mostly on STW.

False advertising. It says on the front in big letters there are six in a box, but the small print says there's only one.

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People

AC-DC

Cars getting bigger and heavier

Amen brother. If you've got it, flaunt it

That's sooo US/UK. If you really want effortless cool, you have it and don't need to flaunt it. 😉

(Coming from a baldie who never took that advice even when I had it! The crunch finally came when I once emerged from the ocean with GF in earshot and some kids on the beach shouted 'hey Michael Bolton'! <---- true story. Needless to say - I'd sourced clippers by nightfall)

Lol at Malvern. That would be embarrassing. OT- but a close friend, also bald, and I had a drunken discussion. Would you rather stay bald or have a ginger mullet. Even really inebriated we both chose to stay bald 🙂

People

...would be my answer, too. I can fathom just about anything else.

If I could grow a full head of hair I'd have a mullet more glorious than 80's Pat Sharpe, Gaz Topp and Swayze in Point Break combined. It would be a thing of utter beauty. Grown men would weep at the sight of it, knowing that they could never again see something so truly wondrous and women would faint in adoration.

Hang on! Aren't you that bloke that started a thread the other day after shaving off your somewhat spectacular beard?

If so, you don't have the face for a mullet. Or hair come to that.

Olives....

[i]I don't get the point of starting a thread about things you don't get.[/i]

Good contribution for someone who doesn't get it 😆

I don't get
Jazz
Heavy Metal
Not indicating
Tribute bands
Golf

Frank Sinatra

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Putting all the dishes in the washing up bowl thereby making washing up more or less impossible.

I don't get people who don't get what I get.

They can get to......

David Bowie and Prince.

Weirdly, I saw an ad for a TV show with someone claiming Prince was seen as the black Bowie.

I didn't watch the show...

The Beatles, apart from Here Comes The Sun.

erm, so you do get them (but only a little bit?) how does that work?

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Not funny.

I just don't get it. Really, what is it all about?

Mrs Browns boys - agreed... total rubbish.
Family Guy
Simpsons
Soaps
Privatisation
Parents who think their kids will be the next amazing top football, rugby, cricket player

Not recycling.

It's no effort and it might just do a smidge of good for the planet. So why do so many people willfully not do it?

Mrs Browns Boys fans
Tory voters who claim to be working class
Qashqai drivers
Juke drivers

It's a small thing but littering, especially from cars and I just don't get why folk do it yet I see an ever increasing amount of it every day and I really ****ing hate it to the point that I feel I'd have absolutely no qualms about taking my clenched fist and repeatedly punching the ****s that do it till their face is reduced to a bloody pulp.

I cycle to work, not very far mind you but it's 4 miles of very pleasant bimbling out of Kirkcudbright (Galloway) to my workplace nr to Twynholm, a really scenic cycle as I climb out of the town and look out over Kirkcudbright bay then progress through a section of enclosed tree lined road known as the beeches and every day I despair at the amount of discarded cans such as Red Bull, monster energy, coke and coffee cups, crisp packets, fish/chip wrappers and just about every imaginable detritus possible littering the verge of the road. Whilst passing all this roadside debris as I cycle to work I often have fantasies (genuinely I really do) of catching someone throwing rubbish out of their window and then finding them later, perhaps parked up in the town and I daydream of stuffing their discarded rubbish down their stupefyingly ignorant pugnacious orifaces till they choke to death on their own discarded rubbish.

I just don't understand why folk think it is ok to throw their used items, whatever they may be out of their car window.

One of these days I will catch someone doing it..... and I will manage to confront them.....and dependant on their response my actions may land me in court but it will be so ****ing worth it as I couldn't give a shit anymore, I see their rubbish every day day of my life littering the countryside around me..........I've had enough, I want my "Michael Douglas - Falling Down" moment

Facebook

Oh and reading the title another way - tiny pops. With a 5 year and only Freeview it was a disaster when it was cut from my regional freeview listing ( I miss paw patrol as well if I am honest)

AC-DC

Me either! Electricity is utterly baffling.

And if you're on about the band - 4 good songs, 2 terrible singers, lots & lots of filler.

Mrs Browns Boys again.
The Office. So not funny.
People who stand on the stairs at the train station. In rush hour. Constantly getting bumped into by the hordes of commuters heading up or down the stairs.
People that can't walk along the pavement in straight bloody line!
Phone Zombies.
Grown adults that can't use recycling bins (put the wrong thing in the wrong bin even when there are huge labels saing what goes where).
Reality TV.
Fishing.

People who stand on the stairs at the train station. In rush hour.

People who get on a train/tube/whatever and stand in the doorway.

Ricky Gervais......funny in the office....then it became clear that's just him and all he can do is the awkward character.
Betting on anything
Adults chewing with their mouth open

I don't get:
fishing for fun, wtf?
Deep Purple, deeply cack
Anal sex
People that don't get excited by sex. You're either doing it wrong or you and your partner are deeply unattractive to each other
Religion but get the need for a belief system
How Donald Trump is still President
People with an utter lack of general knowledge
Caravans
Anyone who appreciates the design of the Juke or Mini Paceman
In car sat navs
Terminal diseases
Hunting.

Private number plates.
People who don't indicate at roundabouts.
Fatbikes

Anal sex
People that don't get excited by sex. You're either doing it wrong...

Maybe you're doing the first one worng??

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How the BBC get away with their political bias.
Iron Maiden
How selfish, rude and entitled we've become. Especially in a car.

People who only want to ride down hills.

Peter Kaye

How the BBC get away with their political bias.

also my wifes apathy to anything going wrong when travelling abroad and acceptance of airport rip-off prices. just packing now, suggested splitting the suitcases in case one gets lost, "nah cant be bothered doing that, never lost one yet". "until it happens of course". "shhhhh"
"you want me to have half the euros in case you lose your purse/bag?" "nah, itll be reet, never had me purse nicked yet". "until you do of course". "shhhhh....."
"im making some sarnies so i dont have to pay rip-off prices at the airport, want me to make you some?" "naaah, ill just buy somethings on the plane" grrrrrr......

she just wont play the game :-/

Putting a smaller, plastic bowl inside the kitchen sink. No one has ever given me a legitimate reason for this. All you've got is another greasy bowl that needs cleaning.

How the BBC get away with their political bias.

+1 - I can't believe how even handed they are - the LibDems must love it.

Putting a smaller, plastic bowl inside the kitchen sink. No one has ever given me a legitimate reason for this.

Stops you scratching an expensive, difficult to replace sink by washing your metal utensils in a cheap, easy to replace sacrificial basin?

It's a protective layer, like helitape or underpants.

The point.........

Putting a smaller, plastic bowl inside the kitchen sink. No one has ever given me a legitimate reason for this. All you've got is another greasy bowl that needs cleaning.

they're also used to reduce the amount of water needed to wash up and still get a good depth of water to wash things in..

and theyre handy for filling with water and taking outside to wash your bike... 😉