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  • Cultural phenomena that have entirely passed you by
  • unovolo
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    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.

    DrP
    Full Member

    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

    bigyinn
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    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.

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    emsz
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    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. 😈

    chrismac
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    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

    Stevet1
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    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.

    DezB
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    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” 😯

    perchypanther
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    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.

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    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?

    blitz
    Full Member

    Tax avoidance

    emsz
    Free Member

    before awarding you a seven

    the foufou is neat enough, but your Chachas are a bit underwhelming. 😆

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    the foufou is neat enough

    American Smooth? 😉

    emsz
    Free Member

    Utterly bizarre.

    So flame me, watching some-one who knows what they are doing playing a game that you know and it’s on super hard and they’re taking down a level boss with some cool moves is pretty sweet (if, y’know, you’re a bit of a nerd about it)

    I watch some on line, pretty cool.

    emsz
    Free Member

    American Smooth

    actually, that one’s passed me right by…the whole bald foufou porny thing…very very weird.

    alcolepone
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    I think this thread highlight how middle aged we all are…
    if you guys think playing games has passed you by what about watching someone else play games?!

    https://go.twitch.tv/

    must be about 350,000 people currently watching!?

    I enjoy games, but have no idea why you’d want to watch someone else play them instead?

    DrP
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    My son LOVES watching people play games on youtube: minecraft/Roblox etc etc.

    I find it odd.
    But… it’s no ‘odder’ than sitting down and watching people kick a ball about. Or, watching OTHER people ride a bike on TV.

    So each to their own.

    DrP

    jimjam
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    DrP – Member

    My son LOVES watching people play games on youtube: minecraft/Roblox etc etc.

    I find it odd.
    But… it’s no ‘odder’ than sitting down and watching people kick a ball about. Or, watching OTHER people ride a bike on TV.

    So each to their own.

    DrP

    There is psychological phenomenon here I remember reading about or hearing about whereby if you are familiar with the game mechanics then your brain reacts in the same way when you watch someone playing as it would if you yourself were playing.

    If you don’t know how the game works then you have a much more limited reaction. There’s probably a similar phenomenon at work as you say with people watching soccerball.

    edlong
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    if you are familiar with the game mechanics then your brain reacts in the same way when you watch someone playing as it would if you yourself were playing.

    I remember sat with my mates taking turns to play Wipeout 2097 on the original playstation, on what for the time was a mahoosive telly – not only the player, but every one of us was leaning into the corners..

    TiRed
    Full Member

    Strictly
    Bake-off
    [insert any talent show here]

    Meanwhile… Robot Wars is back!

    twinw4ll
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    The CD player, never bought one, just bought my first car that’s got one fitted and but have no discs to play.
    Never downloaded any racket either.
    Music there’s just too much of it about.

    Cougar
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    Joey Essex? Joey Deacon more like!

    That’s me needing another new keyboard, thanks for that.

    actually, that one’s passed me right by…the whole bald foufou porny thing…very very weird.

    Very common I’m told. Blokes too now. I blame the Internet.

    I find it slightly disturbing that it’s sexually desirable to look prepubescent (or in the guys’ case, like the last chicken in Lidi).

    jambourgie
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    I’ve never like football. But I think I ‘get it’. It’s tribalism innit. Probably one of the last outposts, even in its watered down state. I’ll get slated for having this opinion, but I find the whole casual scene really exciting and interesting. I was too young for all that at the time though.

    Popular music also used to be about tribalism, the sound you were into dictated your dress and put you apart from other tribes. Just like the punks rebelled against the prog rock bores that came before them, we, as kids getting into the rave scene put ourselves apart from the entire system, rock dinosaurs and all!

    All that’s been torpedo’d, mainly by the internet. Local scenes don’t have time to grow and develop a unique identity, because the moment anything cool starts to happen it’s discovered and is old hat within weeks. Which is why everyone seems to look the same these days.

    DezB
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    So each to their own.

    Oh, no point in this thread then.
    And anyway, my “utterly bizarre” comment was about the LIVE shows/tournaments. I even had LIVE in CAPS. 😛

    deadkenny
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    DrP – Member
    Or, watching OTHER people ride a bike on TV.

    Yeah, this one too. Love riding, but people keep asking if I saw this or that event, be it road tour of something, off-road world cup, rampage etc… nah, really can’t get into it. I try now and again but it would just be background noise and I’ll do something else.

    Likewise “sick” edits on YouTube set to some thrash metal track.

    RustySpanner
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    Infidelity.
    Cocaine.
    Posh denim.
    Nike.

    MrSmith
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    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

    Neither do I 🙄

    jonnoss1
    Free Member

    Friends. Never seen a single episode.

    Facebook and social media in general. Just don’t get it.

    Star Wars. Why do people take it so seriously?

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