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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.
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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?
This is fine
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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.
The Beatles. Just don't get it at all.
Plus size MTB tyres; it just seems a really really stupid idea.
Cameron Diaz.
Reality TV. I can't believe that this is where entertainment has ended up.
Tom Clancy. You can have too much technical detail in a novelzzzzzzzzzzz. Films were OK though.
And the very worst; rocket. horrible stuff which seems to be in EVERYTHING nowadays.
I don't get Instagram. An online photo album like countless others, with built-in filters to make your photos look worse. .
It's a cross between a photo album and a social medium - not unique but just the one that got critical mass at the right time 🙂
Things you just don't get.
1. Celebrities.
2. "National treasure" - not the artifact but the human type.
3. Nobel peace prize.
4. Gourmet or artisan food or drink.
😆
Oh, add Chewkw to the list of things I don't get. (-:
Talking of celebrities: I don't get celebrities who are celebrities because they're celebrities. I'm not explaining this very well, am I.
What I mean is, the types of people who go into Celebrity Big Brother because they were once on the regular Big Brother a few years back. You're not a celebrity, you're Dave from Bognor whose claim to fame is existing in a house for ten weeks; big whoop, so have I, I'd be more impressed if you'd lived outside of one for ten weeks with a bottle of White Lightning and a dog on a string for company.
You wouldn't call yourself a celebrity if you'd been a contestant on Deal or No Deal now, would you? If you won Mastermind, you might get invited back onto a Previous Winners Special, but not on a Celebrity edition. Odd. Just, odd.
Cougar - Moderator
Oh, add Chewkw to the list of things I don't get. (-:
I am your friend. (in a Peter Griffin way)
Cherished plates.
For those who can only afford a regular car that's just like all the others out there, it's the only way to give it a bit of individuality, other than doing stupid things like adding an extra 50-60kg of plastic tat, a huge zorst, or loads of inane stickers.
A friend of mine has managed to get hold of plates for her A3 on which the first letter is the month of her birth, the next two digits are the day, and the last three letters are the name all her friends call her; it's just the five digits.
Not at all ostentatious, but it's a nice touch to an otherwise plain black saloon car.
I've seen others that just make me smile, like H1 MUM, I saw once, or N11 NAA on a car parked round the back of Trinity Road police station in Bristol.
A mate has a personal plate, a random letter and 3 numbers followed by 3 letters that are his initials. He reckons it makes him a better driver, because people can identfy him easily if he's crap.
'Because the number plate is unique'
I struggle to remember a time when I face palmed harder...
The Beatles. Just don't get it at all.
You clearly have no historical context, or understand why The Beatles are one of the most important bands the world of music has ever seen; their contribution will never be equaled.
Sgt. Pepper forced others to truly up their game in both songwriting and studio creativity, and most were found very sadly lacking.
Brian Wilson turned into a recluse who couldn't stop himself endlessly tweaking things to try to equal it, the Stones on hearing it went to producer Glynn Johns and asked him to create new sounds, to which he replied "that's YOUR job!"
To be fair, it was George Martin who helped The Beatles in the studio, but they had the ideas, he helped them make sense of the technology available and create the sounds.
Just listening to the bits recorded to create songs like 'A Day In The Life', where they play live on a four-track, bounce it down onto another tape, then do the next bit on four-track, bounce, then do the next bit, the whole being created using the most basic studio facilities, that would now be done on a 24 channel desk and tweaked in ProTools.
But I guess that if you weren't there, you can't possibly understand how important they are; when they went to America in 1964 and performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, they were singing to 73 [i]million[/i] people! That's 45% of the US population! In January 1964 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' crept into the US chart at 45, starting a 15-week, 5 million-selling run, by February it was No1, and by April 4 they had the top-five consecutive places on the singles chart, and were in the middle of a 30-week run at the top of the album chart with three different albums.
That's back when sales were real, physical objects, actual vinyl records.
It's no comparison with Ed Sheeran, who's current ubiquitous presence in the charts is only due to bloody streaming!
Oh, sorry, if only you'd said. They are now my favourite band.
I don't get why anyone would want to live and work in that Lunnon (been there today horrible noisy crowded place).
Oh yeah I forgot about the Beatles, I don't get them either all sounds a bit twee to me.
You clearly have no historical context, or understand why The Beatles are one of the most important bands the world of music has ever seen; their contribution will never be equaled.
You are absolutely right, and I'd add that I also know nothing of music making. But I still don't get it. I get the Rolling Stones. I get Al Green, public enemy, Nirvana, Madonna, Orbison, Michael Jackson, Prince, I even get Queen, but a beatles song coming on the radio will make me switch the dial.
Cameron Diaz?
I like milkshake. Oh yes I do.
People that put their dog poo in a bag. And then hang it in a tree.
What I don't get is how surprised and offended dog-emptiers get when I rip them a new one for such behaviour.
They [i]honestly[/i] seem to think that it's ACTUALLY OK to do this.
Major SoC vendors who have shipped literally billions of devices, and yet their Makefiles are absolute piles of steaming junk.
Disgression means I can't say who. But chances are you're using one of their products to read this.
You clearly have no historical context, or understand why The Beatles are one of the most important bands the world of music has ever seen; their contribution will never be equaled.
So? Still doesn't mean I've got to like them.
I'm 56 - I've been around as long as the Beatles, so less of this "no historical context" nonsense, OK?
I have absolutely no clue what a disgression, SoC or makefile is.
"disgression"
He means "discretion", I think.
"SoC"
From context, "Software Companies"?
"Makefile"
A packed-up bundle of code/instructions for compiling a programme, IIRC.
(But your underlying point is well-made).
Yeah, discretion. Alzheimer's is finally kicking in.
SoC - system-on-chip.
Also while I'm at it - all those GNU autotools, libtool, etc. They're also junk.
Having lived in Asia for the last 15 years, and now back to the UK
I really don't understand more than 90% on this thread.