Things you don't get

Bambi985

What are some things you just don't understand?

I'll start.

Drivers who don't indicate. Why? You literally have to move your hand a few centimetres. It takes less energy than actually making that decision to drive in a certain direction. Why would you not?

Trolls on social media and/or comment sections a la the Daily Mail, Sindo, journal.ie, youtube, twitter etc. They're like a cancer of the internet and it's baffling how incredibly nasty and awful some can be at the most innocuous things. Calling someone a whore that they hope is raped or a f**got that deserves to die or any number of bloody awful things, when they've done something simple like uploaded a harmless video or expressed a generic opinion? I just don't get it.

Lots of finance-related stuff. Stocks, bonds, index funds, compound interest etc. I've read up on investing, I've had banker friends sit me down and explain as you would to a five year old and I'll just sit with a blank stare on my face until they give up. Just does not compute.

How popular porridge is as a breakfast choice. How does anyone love porridge? It's got the texture of cement and the bland taste of something you'd be fed in prison. So bleh.

Which leads onto my next one - morning people. People that spring out of bed full of the joys of the day ahead. How can someone be so happy to leave their warm, toasty bed to face the soul-destroying prospect of work, or commuting, or worst of all running on a treadmill in the morning?

Overly religious people.

Why people start smoking. I might understand people who did so decades ago before the health implications were widely known, but in 2017 why would somebody suddenly decide to spend a fortune on something that could very possibly kill you, that makes you stink, that turns your teeth yellow and that isn't considered "cool" anymore?

Mint Sauce

Tv3

myshirt

Tracker mortgages

Roger Hassenforder

Brendan O'Carroll

BillyBobBS

People who start threads about things they don't get.

Cortina_MK_IV

Chinese writing.

northgirl

Any

Sue Pa Key Pa

Teenage girls never having the phone out of their hands. Just enjoy your youth ladies

Four Phucs Ache

A fly has a whole house to play with but decides it wants to bounce off my face when I'm having dinner or watching telly.

A whole fookin house.

Why my face.

longshanks

Yorkshire puddings.

myshirt

Women. I never got them until that guy posted about 20 AF threads on pick up techniques in the space of one week.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Facebook & Twitter.

Why someone wastes their time re-registering to troll, when they know they'll be banned in double jig time.

Car adverts on TV that hardly show you the car.

alberto67

Speed limit is 120km/h on the motorway and still humans are building cars capable of 200-250 km/h...

Berserker

Game of Thrones.

dd972

How some people are born with personalities that give them some sort of God like power and dominion over their lives, end up in the right line of work, their faces always fit, they marry the right person and are generally able to influence how others percieve them whilst others are born with personalities that make them victims of circumstance, targets for piss taking and bullying, fail at work and relationships, **** up all the time and have no social capital or respect.

philstar

Bambi985 wrote: »

Drivers who don't indicate. Why? You literally have to move your hand a few centimetres. It takes less energy than actually making that decision to drive in a certain direction. Why would you not?

x 100 ...totally concur esp in this country..."ah sure it takes too much effort"

Donald Trump

Enough sex with supermodels

myshirt

Why there isn't absolute revolt by young public sector workers against the older ones

Collie D

"The plight of the undocumented Irish"

Donald Trump

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Teenage girls never having the phone out of their hands. Just enjoy your youth ladies

They're just holding them there with their fingers hovering over speed-dial to the local cop shop because they see you within 100 yards.

osarusan

Why people watch stuff like X Factor, Love Island, Big Brother or similar.

Donald Trump

Collie D wrote: »

"The plight of the undocumented Irish"

That one isn't hard to understand. Irish person went to America back in the day. Overstayed their visa. Now has a family and business there and is paying taxes and contributing to society.

Since 9/11 they can't travel home and expect to get back into the US. Half their family is there and half their family is in Ireland and they can't regularize their situation.

DACA is different because those people are all Mexicans. Even the ones from other countries. That's why I have to end it.

CalamariFritti

And why is Mexicans different to Irish? Arent they having families?

keano_afc

Phony celebrity culture.

Queuing up for hours to meet some reality TV wannabe who will be back stacking shelves in a couple of years. I'll never understand the culture of worshipping these people.

pauliebdub

People who spend ages queueing for ****e, like Starbucks, 5 guys, the release of a fashion range or the latest ****e gadget. I can never understand it.

Taxburden carrier

'Celebrity ' Operation Transformation

Donald Trump

CalamariFritti wrote: »

And why is Mexicans different to Irish? Arent they having families?

Mexicans don't get sarcasm

Bambi985

keano_afc wrote: »

Phony celebrity culture.

Queuing up for hours to meet some reality TV wannabe who will be back stacking shelves in a couple of years. I'll never understand the culture of worshipping these people.

+1. "Fans" in a general sense I don't get. Having respect for someone who has achieved something exceptional and achieved a level of notoriety with that is one thing. Travelling and/or queueing for days and forking out hundreds to see them perform live or get an autograph and worshipping them like they're some kind of god is another. I often wonder if these people have some sort of mental illness?

myshirt

pauliebdub wrote: »

People who spend ages queueing for ****e, like Starbucks, 5 guys, the release of a fashion range or the latest ****e gadget. I can never understand it.

I am with you on everything except Five Guys. Serious outfit and well worth queueing for.

Sue Pa Key Pa

Why people take 1,000's of photos on their phone that they will never look at again.

philstar

myshirt wrote: »

I am with you on everything except Five Guys. Serious outfit and well worth queueing for.

whats this 5 guys??

mohawk

osarusan wrote: »

Why people watch stuff like X Factor, Love Island, Big Brother or similar.

Holy Fcuk Yes. This. I just cannot fathom why people watch this and then they talk about it like they know the people. Then of course the people in it become 'celebrities'

The whole celebrity culture is such BS.

donegaLroad

dd972 wrote: »

How some people are born with personalities that give them some sort of God like power and dominion over their lives, end up in the right line of work, their faces always fit, they marry the right person and are generally able to influence how others percieve them whilst others are born with personalities that make them victims of circumstance, targets for piss taking and bullying, fail at work and relationships, **** up all the time and have no social capital or respect.

Its the 'Pecking Order'

definition: an informal social system in which some people or groups know they are more or less important than others.

pauliebdub

philstar wrote: »

whats this 5 guys??

A fancy chipper in Dundrum. The milkshakes are gorgeous but the food is ordinary.

SpliffPolitics

Blokes that wear no socks with runners.

PARlance

Trivial Annoyances

Barry Badrinath

northgirl wrote: »

Any

Well Bon Jovi, miss lady!

Noveight

People who hold the Irish football team in high regard when in reality they're a pretty dull "hoof it - head it" outfit.

Colser

People who record everything on their phones .Why can't they enjoy concerts,school plays,sporting events ect.without having their phones out constantly recording..it's so annoying to be somewhere and some dipsticks have their phones stuck up in the air continuously.

donegaLroad

the Snapchat thing where girls have a dogs face

Frats in North American universities... Sigma Alpha etc

how people can claim to love Sushi

the fashion trend where guys wear their jeans only half pulled up

Hellrazer

Text speak--how hard is it to type one or two more letters?Instead youve removed that many letters from the text that I need to use google translate to understand it.

gormdubhgorm

Wearing baseball caps backwards
Pre-Ripped Jeans
Those gamers on you tube that make a fortune playing video games while others watch

I am sure a combination of all three would be dangerous for my health....

Cookie_Monster

why any company / entity bothers engaging with Twitter. It's just a platform for generating hate and faux outrage over nothing and must be a such a waste of time money and effort to bother with

Junkyard Tom

Long sums that mix letters and numbers, it's not natural, they shouldn't mix.

KraftyKennedy

How people actually like the taste of coffee.

jimbobaloobob

I don't understand cricket no matter how often it's explained or how often I've watched. I think I have it then..... No I just don't get it.

Your Face

Music television

Tom Mann Centuria

Youtubers and "social influencers" (I also don't get how that's even a thing), and what dark spells they must use to get my children watching their inane drivel for hours on end.

myshirt

I don't get why factorial zero equals 1

0!=1


I also don't get why it took over 300 pages in Principia Mathematica to conclusively prove that 1+1=2.

RhubarbCrumble

No satisfaction.

ederkeh

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

No satisfaction.

Don't or can't?