Things that I *should* like, but have never really got into.

I can see the point of golf

Please explain.

blackhat
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Swimming. I can swim but boy, give it one length of a pool and i am bored. Mind you, give me a snorkel and flippers in warm sea and something to look at and i am entertained for hours

Spot on! It’s a perfect workout of course, it’s something I’ve periodically tried as regular exercise but I just hate it.

Running’s a funny one; in the past I’ve not actually enjoyed it, just enjoyed the endorphins (and being able to eat like a pig) afterwards. But now I live somewhere I can run up into the hills along goat trails and tracks and I’m actually enjoying it

Tv drama and films.

I just don’t get it.  They never live up to the pictures in my head.  Id rather read a book.  I just get bored as well.  Everything happens too slowly.

Foo Fighters – It’s my genre of music but their songs never seem to develop after the into.

Try explaining why you spent 3 times the amount on a tyre for your bike over the basic tyre, despite it being the same make, model and size. But just happens to have a fancier side wall, rubber compound and had a fancy bead.

That’s just things you can’t easily see to look at them.

Coke vs Tesco cola; memory cards; the 2.0 turbo petrol that is in nearly every VAG car. All visually identical save for the writing on the packaging. Some people would have no need of the better and more expensive one. They will either deliberately choose the cheapest knowing it will meet their needs adequately for a better cost to benefit ratio; or the cheaper one will be marketed towards the disinterested customer.

I could explain  “fancier side wall, rubber compound and had a fancy bead.” why these things are better to my mum. She would have no use for a super gravity over a super trail (and if she could still get on a bike with her hip, would probably actually find it detrimental), and there is no way she’d be able to go and buy the correct one a week later but the concept of it is fairly simple.

tinkering with bikes

wheelies, manuals, etc etc unless really really shit ones count

sessioning the tricky bits

Everything happens too slowly.

That’s some speedy reading if you can make books go faster than films 😉

Gigs.

OP @Kramer – Seinfeld.  Curb is one of my all time favourites so I should enjoy Seinfeld right?

Sim rig racing.

I’ve done loads of track days over my lifetime, driven the nurburgring many times, Spa, Bugatti Le Man, ive done 2 years of ‘real’ racing in Renaultsport Clio’s and whilst i am more into bikes than cars these days, i still enjoy hooning round a track in a car.

So when my buddy asked if i fancy an evening at his FiL on his sim rig, i was well up for it. Setup in his office, a wide wrap around screen, Sparco bucket seat clamped to a bespoke rig, force feedback steering wheel (that felt like it could snap your wrists), weighted pedals with resistance…. the full works. running iRacing which is one of the go to simulators.

It was pretty much rubbish. Cars didnt react as you would expect. i know how a car would react with throttle and steering inputs etc and this just didnt do it. Despite all the ‘force feedback’ it was just dull and uncommunicative.

needless to say, i havent been back for another go!

Coke vs Tesco cola; memory cards; the 2.0 turbo petrol that is in nearly every VAG car. All visually identical save for the writing on the packaging. Some people would have no need of the better and more expensive one.

Did you mean diesel?

Soft drinks are a madness, it’s primarily water; Coke is discernibly better than supermarket cola, but is it worth paying £2 over 57p, is it over three times better?  Store lemonade with the monochrome label is something ridonculous like 17p for a two litre bottle, why am I paying three quid for two bottles of Pepsi and thinking I’m getting a bargain?  Back when I was a student I worked in a bowling alley, the pop was the single biggest mark-up in the building.  Customers would cheerfully hand over two quid or whatever it was back then for a vat of Pepsi and then baulk when we charged 9p for a ketchup dip; we sold the sauce at a loss, it cost us more to buy than the serving of cola did.

Anyway, I’ll disagree with you on memory cards. Life is too short to buy crap storage.  Whenever I’ve been tempted away from the likes of Sandisk I’ve always regretted it.

Anyway, I’ll disagree with you on memory cards. Life is too short to buy crap storage.  Whenever I’ve been tempted away from the likes of Sandisk I’ve always regretted it.

I wasn’t even thinking of differing brands here, just the different capacities, write speeds etc all offered. apart from the text printed on them they look identical. I wager take them apart and people still cant tell the difference.

To someone who just needs something to slip into their point and shoot camera for their holiday snaps they are functionally identical (as good as they would ever need) so you may as well buy the cheaper (slower, smaller) version.

someone shooting 8k video likely needs one of the more expensive options.

But I don’t think the first person would be ignorant that a differnce exists between them. Even if they couldn’t use the word gigabyte in a sentence.

Tom Howard  yup.  A novel lasts an hour or two unless its really complex.

Ha ha, thread of the week!

Food (I have zero understanding of ‘foodies’, although I respect where food comes from, and the artistry that goes into making nice food. I just can’t get my head around spending hours to create fancy stuff that will be gone in 15 to 20 minutes. Chicken, rice, and some greens is just fine by me.)

Gigs (I have seen many, many bands play live, but would rather just listen in my living room. Gigs take way too much extroverted energy for me.)

Watching cycling when I am no longer a cyclist (When I rode, I was obsessed. All I watched for a good few years was GCN, and every minute of every Tour I could manage. Not now, though. It’s like, if I can’t do it, there is no point in watching it.)

Breaking Bad (For all people sing its praises, I have never seen a stupider show. Unbelievably fast transition from nerdy, goofy-looking chemistry teacher to dissolving people in acid and making meth on an industrial scale.)

John Mayer

Lauded as an absolute genius on the guitar. On paper I should love him based on influences but I think he’s absolutely awful. Just bland beyond belief and nothing I’ve heard from him moves me at all

Craft beer – either too happy or too citric.

I like hoppy and I like citrus. Can’t abide sours.

I have seen many, many bands play live, but would rather just listen in my living room.

I don’t care how good your hi-fi is, there is no substitute for live music. Mind you most of the gigs I go to now are classical.

As for golf, my mum, bless her, used to say I should take it up as it was good for business. My response was if someone wants to talk business outside the office I’ll see them on the crag.

I’ve never thought about why I should like something. I either do or don’t. I’m not one for trying to like something as I don’t see the point

Yoda, is that you?

Facebook and Instagram.

Just don’t get them. I worked in IT for years and know loads of users but just don’t understand them or how to use them.

I’d much rather enjoy what I was doing than waste time trying to tell & show others how much fun I’m having while not actually having fun because I was too busy trying to post about it in my phone.

Never succeeded in getting back into road cycling The Grand Tour.  Escargot – despite the fact I love shellfish.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. ALL of my friends love it, I can’t stand it.

Coke is discernibly better than supermarket cola, but is it worth paying £2 over 57p, is it over three times better?

Yes. Waaaaaaaaay more than three times

Expensive Hi Fi, vinyl, audio quality, all that jazz.

Give me Spotify, a reasonable Bluetooth speaker or a pair of headphones, and I’m happy.

People.

modern music.
cars that cost more than bikes.
fish based products.

cars that cost more than bikes.

So just cars then?

Red wine – I like the idea of a glass of red by the fire but I always feel like I would rather be drinking something else.

City breaks – I like architecture, photography, sitting outside a pub watching the world pass by but I always feel like I would rather be in the countryside somewhere.

Drones.

I wouldve bitten your hand off to get into drones as a youngster. Now i find them wholly irritaing and obnoxious.

few things to taint a nice day on the beach/in the hills than some buzzy little pita loitering over head.

Shawshank Redemption.

Everyone seems to love it, but It’s so bloody obviously a Christian/Jesus allegory its hard to not be massively cynical about it: Andy is innocent, the warden is ultimately forced to answer for his crimes, Andy perform miracles (beer, the library and music) has disciples, is reborn through the tunnels he uses to escape and stands in the rain in the shape of Jesus on the cross, he even leaves Red directions which work as evangelical scripture, and Red finds Andy dressed in white in a fantasy paradise

Ergh, it’s vile.

And don’t get me started on the Green Mile.

Terrible films.

The Labour shadow cabinet and SKS