Things you don't understand

KKkitty

Most "reality TV" goes over my head. No one can buy a house, go on a date, move into a house with strangers or have a dinner party without a camera crew following them. I used to like Come Dine with Me at the start but I became uncomfortable with other contestants snooping around the host's bedroom. If any of us were having guests in our homes the bedroom would be off limits. Most reality TV is scripted anyway so it's like a soap opera.

Guy:Incognito

AllForIt wrote: »

British Premiership football, supporting 'teams' when you don't even live or have any connection with the city the football team represents.

Strictly Come Dancing. Most ppl are not into ballroom dancing so I don't see the popularity of that TV show, unlike XFactor where most ppl are actually into music/singing.

Teams are real things. Why the inverted commas?

I don't understand why you have to support a team purely base on an accident of birth.

If your in Dublin are you obliged to support the team geographically closest to you? What if someone was closest to Rogers when they were in milltown but are now closer to pats, should they switch? If a new kildare team springs up, do fans on the border have to abandon their teams and follow the kildare team then? Do I have to like gas cos I'm Irish?

You're going to have to get the rules down on paper so we all know what we're allowed to do.

Ken.

93 posts in and no one has mentioned fig in to fig roll. I am ashamed of every last one of ye.

Guy:Incognito

TheTorment wrote: »

Magnets.

How do they work?

The explanation is in The name. It's pronounced with a j sound on the g. Mag(ic)net .

Yourself isit

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Teams are real things. Why the inverted commas?

I don't understand why you have to support a team purely base on an accident of birth.

If your in Dublin are you obliged to support the team geographically closest to you? What if someone was closest to Rogers when they were in milltown but are now closer to pats, should they switch? If a new kildare team springs up, do fans on the border have to abandon their teams and follow the kildare team then? Do I have to like gas cos I'm Irish?

You're going to have to get the rules down on paper so we all know what we're allowed to do.

Nobody is disputing your right to support the team of an unrelated city in a different country. It's just odd.

Richard Hillman

Birthday celebrations over the age of 18.

I can accept people who get to the likes of 80, 90 and 100 etc but you have just turned 36, why should I care? Why do I have to turn up to celebrate it? I don't care that it is your birthday.

NIMAN

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Birthday celebrations over the age of 18.

I can accept people who get to the likes of 80, 90 and 100 etc but you have just turned 36, why should I care? Why do I have to turn up to celebrate it? I don't care that it is your birthday.

100%, I see grown men of 40 now acting like kids with their little cake and their faces plastered all over social media.

Grow up.

pgj2015

Envy and jealousy of others, I hear it all the time, people pretending to be friends with someone then bitch about them behind their back because they are jealous of the other persons house, job,girlfriend, car etc. I don't get why anyone would be jealous of someone else, like sure im sure dan bilzerian has a pretty cool life but I would not switch mine for his or anyone else's.

Tigger

thelad95 wrote: »

As I said, this is a cliche assumption about child psychology. I went too a primary school where we could wear our own clothes and this was never the case. Anecdotal evidence obviously isn't blanket proof but as I mentioned earlier in Finland, no schools have uniforms and empirically, bullying over clothes largely doesn't happen.

bullying is the strong exerting position over the weak
what they mention is secondary

Tigger

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Birthday celebrations over the age of 18.

I can accept people who get to the likes of 80, 90 and 100 etc but you have just turned 36, why should I care? Why do I have to turn up to celebrate it? I don't care that it is your birthday.

ill accept 18-21-40-70
but everything else is shut uo

Tigger

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

People recording stuff with a vertical phone.

this a million

lazeedaisy

pgj2015 wrote: »

Envy and jealousy of others, I hear it all the time, people pretending to be friends with someone then bitch about them behind their back because they are jealous of the other persons house, job,girlfriend, car etc. I don't get why anyone would be jealous of someone else, like sure im sure dan bilzerian has a pretty cool life but I would not switch mine for his or anyone else's.

I was going to say Mean Girls! I work in mostly a female environment, all old enough to know better, from 38 to 60 plus, but it's a huge trial some days to get through the day without a sarky mean comment, all in the name of envy!

Citroen2cv

Magnetism

dr.fuzzenstein

Citroen2cv wrote: »

Magnetism

Wait till you get to gravity. The greater your speed, the greater your gravity until your hit light speed and your mass is infinite. At that point time stops for you and you'll collapse into a black hole. And that's just the straight-forward, easy stuff.

AllForIt

KungPao wrote: »

How the human brain operates. Just a meaty mass with electric pulses or some ****. Hurts my own brain just thinking about it.

A lot is know about the brain but human consciousness is NOT fully understood. It's still a mystery to medical scientists so it's not surprising it's on your list of things you don't understand as no one does fully.

AllForIt

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I don't understand why you have to support a team purely base on an accident of birth.

If your in Dublin are you obliged to support the team geographically closest to you? What if someone was closest to Rogers when they were in milltown but are now closer to pats, should they switch? If a new kildare team springs up, do fans on the border have to abandon their teams and follow the kildare team then? Do I have to like gas cos I'm Irish?

You're going to have to get the rules down on paper so we all know what we're allowed to do.

Think your being a bit touchy there. The theme of the thread is 'things you don't understand'. My point wasn't so much why ppl support teams outside of their locale but why they support any at all to the exclusion of all others.

When watching today's Womens Wimbledon Final one doesn't see one side of the court full of Williams fans and the other side full of Muguruza fans. Rather the fans are generally enjoying tennis for tennis's sake. When it comes to supporting soccer teams it seems more about being fanatical about the team rather that being fanatical about the game of soccer. Why can't a soccer fan go and watch any soccer match and enjoy it for the sake of enjoyment of watching soccer just like in Tennis and other sports. I don't understand the mentality of it which is why I mentioned it in this 'things you don't understand' thread.

Capt'n Midnight

Citroen2cv wrote: »

Magnetism

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
When you're perfect in every way
I can't wait to look in the mirror
Cause I get better looking each day
To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord It's hard to be humble,
But I'm doing the best that I can

Sheepdish1

I don't understand why or how:

1) people think that children in schools with no uniforms cost parents more. It's less washing anyway and clothes don't fall apart. Also my kid is in a school with no uniform and it is less hassle and expense than using uniforms. Never any issues with bullying over clothes etc and I don't really know why people assumes this happens. Bullies will find something to bully about no matter what so uniforms / non uniforms don't make a difference. Out dated, expensive and ridiculous rule IMO....as long as there's a dress code there is no need for them

2) so many people like watching football / sport on tv. I'm not a fan of sport but I have often wondered are there people who watch football just because everyone else they know does....it just seems extremely boring to me watching people kicking a ball up and down a pitch. Maybe if they played it I would understand how they watch it but most people I know who watch sport don't play any sport of any kind, it just seems odd😄

3) people get so hung up if you talk about the meat process when they are eating. I really don't get this!!

I don't eat meat but never really did as grandparents were butchers / famers / hunters. No big deal... I saw the process from an early age and it turned me off meat.

I don't have a problem with anyone who eats meat as each to their own but find that sometimes at meals I get asked why I don't eat it etc.

when I tell people why, e.g. The idea of eating a fluffy animal grosses me out, the cruelty in some of the rearing (chicken cages) / don't like the idea of slaughter etc they tell me to "stop talking about it" that it will turn them off their food.

I've no problem with meat eaters and find it really really strange that people who eat it get so uncomfortable when they talk about where it actually comes from?! I find this really odd.

I also don't understand why people are disgusted at certain cultures eating animals we deem as pets...a pig is no different to a dog IMO.... Well maybe taste wise but its still an animal

Four Phucs Ache

I love space, stars , galaxies etc and watch and read about it but what gets me perplexed is thinking about it .

Every now and then since a child I close my eyes and imagine there are no planets, no stars and no galaxies , then I remove the vast blackness that is left.My brain automatically replaces the void with just a vast white space.Then I say fook that and continue with my day.

In my lifetime I will never know or understand this.

Robsweezie

how anyone could find a bounty bar delicious

Faze11

Really don't understand why they removed the word gullible from the English dictionary. I used it regularly.

Lorelli!

Robsweezie wrote: »

how anyone could find a bounty bar delicious

Because it's the taste of paradise

Capt'n Midnight

Robsweezie wrote: »

how anyone could find a bounty bar delicious

Yeah the Lidl ones are nearly as nice

RobbingBandit

Cats, ****er swishing his tail at me I'll fix you ya little pox, there now no more cat.

What the importance of a 21st birthday is. Is it just another American event that been absorbed into our culture?

Tsipras

AllForIt wrote: »

British Premiership football, supporting 'teams' when you don't even live or have any connection with the city the football team represents.

So do you only like Irish music?

Not any of them foreign UK/USA bands you have no geographical connection to

Badly Drunk Boy

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

I love space, stars , galaxies etc and watch and read about it but what gets me perplexed is thinking about it .

Every now and then since a child I close my eyes and imagine there are no planets, no stars and no galaxies , then I remove the vast blackness that is left.My brain automatically replaces the void with just a vast white space.Then I say fook that and continue with my day.

In my lifetime I will never know or understand this.

So...you don't believe that our existence is a simulation, á la The Sims?

Do you know of Ah Pook? Listen to this lovely bit by William S Burroughs. (Only the last 15 seconds is sort of relevant but the rest is good too.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajahePtEaY

worded

Lorelli! wrote: »

Because it's the taste of paradise

That beach is in Crete and I was on it

That model ..... well I promised I wouldn't say anything

God I'd love one now

AllForIt

Tsipras wrote: »

So do you only like Irish music?

Not any of them foreign UK/USA bands you have no geographical connection to

I refer you to the reply I gave earlier.

Robsweezie

How poker, blackjack etc. is played