[Closed] Things you just don't get.

Subnetting

Spectating at sports, I'd rather participate incompetently at something than watch someone else be masterful.
Cars as objects of desire
Must see TV, sure some shows are good but they're not as good as real life
Militaria
End of the pier humour although I do like the end of piers.

The point.........

I'm sure most will agree that this is [i]the[/i] point...

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The Kardashians. Why? What do they do?

Ditto Katie "Jordan" Price. Void of talent.

Over complication. Keep it simple.

Keith Lemon - TV goes on mute when his adverts appear

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

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..

Women.

Slebs. Especially those who are Slebs simply because they are Slebs. I mean WTF is wrong with people's shallow and vacuous lives that they need to be entertained by shallow ****-wits being shallow vacuous ****-wits? Get the **** up and go and do something ****ing useful for ****'s sake.

Peter Kaye

+1

And Bob and Vic. About as funny as dental surgery. Is it a northern thing?

People parked in cars with the engine running.

The Bike Forum.

Brexit,
Neat Vodka,
"Reality" TV,
Soap Operas
People who don't read.

newrobdob - Member
Raving loony lefties....

... style is something versatile, it's in the way you move and the way you smile)

They were/are a pretty left wing band....

People who (try to) overtake me on the bike when there's nowhere to go because I'm travelling at the same speed as the car right in front of me and they just end up sitting alongside me on the wrong side of the white line until inevitably another car comes the other way and they just gradually force me into the gutter/to brake.

Oh, and people who seem to think I'm just going to quantum tunnel through a Nissan Micra parked at the side of the road rather than go round it.

Oh oh, and as noted above people who drive onto their drives on main roads. I live on one and nearly got wiped out this morning by someone reversing off their drive.

Can you tell I had a bad commute this morning..?

&^%* dickheads the lot of them.

... style is something versatile, it's in the way you move and the way you smile)

They were/are a pretty left wing band....

I know right is blue and left is red, but now my choice is shit so my choice is dead. 🙂

@pimpmaster_jazz - I'm northern and from the right side of the Pennines and PK just leaves me cold.

I like Father Ted and Mrs Brown's Boys though. Different reasons for each.

Those thickly made-up eyebrows that a lot of young women seem to be sporting these days.

chakaping - Member

Those thickly made-up eyebrows that a lot of young women seem to be sporting these days.

Yes! This! Working with teenagers, I can deal with most things but this just makes no sense, I always want to shout "YOU LOOK LIKE A ****ING EGYPTIAN MURAL" at them.

People spending a fortune on some sort of dog with a silly made up name like a cockerdoodle...

It's a MONGREL.....

Courgettes
The Great British Bake Off
Sports suspension and low profile tyres on a dull car
Non-alcoholic beer

[i]And Bob and Vic. About as funny as dental surgery. Is it a northern thing?[/i]

Nope. It's a humour thing.

- Lager - it is just "training" beer until you grow tastebuds.
- Any modern music that uses Auto-tune, we're not convinced..
- The One Show.. no explanation needed.
- The newer Fiat 500 / BMW Mini when they look like they have been inflated with a compressor to twice original size.
- As many have said, football it is so dull and most of the people that talk about it are really dull.
- Those "handbag" dogs, why get a dog that can't support its own weight, looks like a rat and you carry everywhere.
- Why 15 year old girls have handbags bigger than my 45 litre rucksack, what have they got in there.?
- Why certain people driving on the M25 who are driving at 45mph with a tail back behind them don't realise there is two lanes to their left.
- Why it is that the more potholes there is in an area, the number of people with lowered cars is inversely proportional

I could go on, i've only had one coffee so far today..

welshfarmer - Member

People spending a fortune on some sort of dog with a silly made up name like a cockerdoodle...

It's a MONGREL.....

THEY'RE ALL MONGRELS until someone decides to give them a name

Nope. It's a humour thing.

Ah - they're just not funny. That makes sense. 😉

Mrs Browns Boys
Religion
America and Guns
Gambling
Adult Gamers

morning piss coloured hope components

I dont get people who think the BBC is bias.

Surely its the most accountable media source we have?

The "biased BBC" claims usually come from those small minded folk who can't understand why everyone doesn't share their extremely limited world view.

@mahalo - if your pee is purple then maybe you need to seek medical advice 😆

The BBC has taken an increasingly pro-government line in recent years thanks to threats to the license fee and the installation of Tories in senior positions.. Laura Kuenssberg doesn't even really try to disguise her contempt for Jeremy Corbyn.

Premier Member privileges after I flounced as a result of a (to me) totally unjustified and unfair 48 hour ban and revoked my subscription in high dudgeon......

In my defence, it was a wheel size thread.

29ers.

whitestone - Member

The "biased BBC" claims usually come from those small minded folk who can't understand why everyone doesn't share their extremely limited world view.

Like Nick Robinson, former chair of the Young Conservatives and former political editor at the BBC, who said he was shocked at the way the BBC rubbish Jeremy Corbyn. Or on that subject, Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail, who accused Robinson of bias...

Cucumber sandwiches. WTF is with that? Put a bit of bacon or cheese or something tasty in there, for Christ's sake.

Slebs, definitely. I've tried, but...the Kardashians... The only way is Essex... Made in Chelsea? I mean, fair play to those doing it and making a living out of it, but those that watch it...

Anyone who supports Trump. How? I mean, in the early days when there was a promise of a change - I can kind of get my head around that although I didn't agree with it. But now? Really?

Mrs Browns Boys/Miranda....WHO FINDS THIS FUNNY? How is it funny? Is it some in joke that only cool kids get?

James Corden, very annoying person.

Warmed up boring cars aka 'hot hatches'

People who think it matters that their car is a "sports car" even though it's slower and no better handling than a hot hatch.

Edit - doesn't apply to all sports cars or all owners of slower/poorer handling sports cars.

Peter Kaye
+1

And Bob and Vic...

+1

Obvz I missed Brexit, I don't get that nor the people who voted for it [i]at all[/i]

Celebrity TV and all the vacuous publicity that accompanies it.

I've more, but I'm bored.

[i]Things you just don't get....[/i] (cont'd)

That people are baffled by other folks having a different sense of humour from them.

I don't get the magpie urge that most folk seem to have of having to buy new shiny toys all the time and then measuring their status by how many of these toys they have.

That people are baffled by other folks having a different sense of humour from them.

I’m genuinely baffled by Harry Hill. i appreciate people find the chubby mr nice guy James Corden humorous (i don’t) but I’m struggling to understand how Mr Hill is called a comedian? he hosts a show with other peoples home videos of hackneyed staged accidents but thats not him being humorous.
He wears pointy collars and has a moronic gormless open mouthed gape face, is that what makes him a comedian?
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Foot fetishists... Seriously of all the awesome body parts feet? Really?

[i] is that what makes him a comedian?[/i]

Nope. He did stand up. It was very funny. Now he does other stuff - see the "best TV" thread.

Agreed. Harry Hill's ability as a comedian should not be judged by his scripted voice over work for a dread piece of TV shite. His judgement, self esteem or overdraft probably could be though.

That people are baffled by other folks having a different sense of humour from them.

😆

tjagain - Member

I don't get the magpie urge that most folk seem to have of having to buy new shiny toys all the time and then measuring their status by how many of these toys they have.

I go half and half on this one, I always want shiny new toys, but I don't measure my status by them because I don't think my shiny toys would measure up very well 😆

Mad Men
Calling someone who is not your father or mothers sister Auntie

Calling someone who is not your father or mothers sister Auntie

I'd hate to be a woman married to one of your uncles. Harsh way to treat the in-laws, but it's your choice.

no satisfaction

Lightweight/Enduro knee pads

also my wifes apathy to anything going wrong when travelling abroad

yoshimi - Member

Lightweight/Enduro knee pads

Testify! All the downsides of a proper pad, and less useful. (only benefit is for wearing under trousers)

Inverse snobbery and taking pride in being stupid/wrong

Piles. Well I do get them, but I don't like it.

Littering
Lager
Facebook- However I do use it and hate it.
People only riding freeride at revs
Mtb tyre costs even at bro deal
Hope technology

Insidious Americanisms on an otherwise 'I say, we're all very British, what...' forum:

Rob Hilton - Member
Me either!

Malvern Rider - Member
<snip>...an 'innocent' smoking hot mom...

Etc

High performance cars that have four, or more, doors.
Fit and healthy people on eBikes.
Bottled water. Even though I have to buy the bloody stuff when travelling.

Some interesting comments about hot hatches/saloons.. What's wrong with a 4/5 door car you can take to the tip, get bikes in/on, seats 5, but that goes like stink and handles better than some sports/convertible cars etc?

Don't get me wrong, I'd have an Elise and a Golf if funds/space allowed.. but a hot hatch is an excellent compromise.

pay rises, no surprises they're giving none away

What's wrong with a 4/5 door car

jealous of utility value?

People living well beyond their means just to
a)keep up with the neighbours
b)present an image that they aspire to
c)think they appear 'impressive'.

Lowered 4x4's.
Saw a bloody great Porsche Cayenne this morning that had been lowered to the height of a normal hatchback.
WHHYYYYYYY??
Isn't the whole point of a 4x4 the fact that if you fancy towing your horsebox over a bumpy field on the way to Waitrose, you can.

Bonnet covers
Wigs
Dog breeds with health issues.

Lowered 4x4's.
Saw a bloody great Porsche Cayenne this morning that had been lowered to the height of a normal hatchback.
WHHYYYYYYY??
Isn't the whole point of a 4x4 the fact that if you fancy towing your horsebox over a bumpy field on the way to Waitrose, you can.

As low as a normal hatchback? Really?? Are you sure you didn't mistake it for a Panamera?*

* I realise it is hard to mistake these two cars, but a Cayenne being the same height as a normal hatchback seems equally unlikely!

So not one person adopted my subtle <CLANG> suggestion of nice things you don't understand?

See? Think differently kids.

This message is brought to you by someone not entirely perfect that nearly took out a contract on a stupid colleague today.

But you know, try 🙂

My (now ex) lodger, who was a chef, I use the term lightly, a wetherspoons chef, using metal utensils in my brand new non stick pan.

living in London.
cheap shit tools.
Tesco marketing

Nope...it was definitely a Cayenne.
About as low as you could possibly drop it.
Quite why you'd want to drop an obscene amount of money on one of these then muck about with the springs to make it 'sports car like' is beyond me.
Why not just buy the Panamera?

Why not just buy the Panamera

Before the 918 spyder came along, the cayenne turbo S (or what ever the top of the range was) was the most powerful road car Porsche ever made. To some people, that matters above all else.

Cherished plates.

car people

Mrs Browns Boys

+ a very large number

Is the assumption that if an Irish person says something it's funny? A bit like black people having natural rhythm?

@newrobdob fashion -
"and I'll stress the point, time to blow the joint.
Expose the pose to keep you on your toes.
Mind revolution soul evolution,
the final conclusion to all this confusion.
Not packing a knife or a gun or anything man
'cause I'm not that threatening"

I don't get when littering became acceptable. Shocking.

People that put their dog poo in a bag. And then hang it in a tree.

Hang it. In. A. Tree.

I get why why other people don't 'get it'. But in order to play by the thread rules I'd have say 'I don't get why other people don't 'get it'. It's usually just the difference between 'like' vs 'dislike/disinterest'.

Example: I used as a teen to 'enjoy' killing animals with air-guns. And then I stopped liking it. Moreover, I actively disliked it. So I stopped doing it. But I 'get' why people do it. Same with cars. Before I could drive I lusted after a red Nissan 240Z. I never got one. I now find cars boring. But I 'get' why people make cars their lives, even if I never did. Does that make sense? Can't stand some (normally racist, sexist, and boring) comics. But I get why their audience like them. I just don't like them. There's usually a reason for everything, IMO. *Edit: even that bag of dog poo hanging there.

Count Zero -
Like a great many things in life, I don't get the point of starting a thread about things you don't get.
You either do, or don't, end of.

See, if that were true then it would be a thread-ender. Except, er...

And another - I don't get why people wear team uniforms of any type covered in advertising logos. I don't mean the pros who are paid to I mean the fanbois who copy their heros with logo plastered outfits

^ I remember having the 1977 England football team strip as a kid. Father bought it as he was a big fan of football. Whilst wearing this kit I was (in my mind) vicariously hot shit by proxy. Also bagged some playground cred showing my support for Enger-land and having new stuff. That's why! Maybe some grown-ups feel the same way? That, and it looks new and official and ace to those 'in the know'? Weirdly, I never even watched football, excepting if by accident.

Wear the team colours fair enough - but why plastered with advertisers logos when you are not being paid to be?
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This looks stupid IMO
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^ Yeah, you don't like it. But only 'official authentic same as' is 'official authentic same as', innit?

Mrs Browns Boys

Me too.

And Ricky Gervase too. About as funny as a boot in the baws as they say where I'm from.

Wear the team colours fair enough - but why plastered with advertisers logos when you are not being paid to be?

Wearing the team colours [i]is[/i] and advert. Are you being paid to be a brand ambassador? 🙂

I don't get Instagram. An online photo album like countless others, with built-in filters to make your photos look worse.

I don't get why when out running yesterday I passed two dog poo bags literally ten yards back from a dog poo bin. Why wouldn't you walk to the bin [i]when you're already out for a walk?[/i]

People. I don't get people.

People. I don't get people.

Agreed. People are strange. And the strangest people I meet seem also to think me strange, yet for different reasons. Almost as if liking/disliking different stuff to them immediately puts me in their mental filing cabinet marked 'Strange' . Strange strangers are the strangest of all.

You'd think we'd all agree that leaving shit lying around is a bad thing. But people do it all the time.