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Things you just "don't get"?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    So they all turned into peadophiles as soon as they joined priesthood
    Surely you've considered that they were paedophiles already?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Closing the peat industry to help combat climate change when that volocano in New Zealand emits more toxic fumes than from burning all our bogs.

    Agree, it should be closed to preserve a geographical formation for the next generations to view in awe as I do. Not for the emissions but for the preservation of a very beautiful ecosystem.

    We don't need to burn it anymore, for too many reasons.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,837 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Sport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,418 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    To answer the OP
    The ride. I used to get it , but now ? Maybe its old age :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Why the simplest of toys bought in smyths or from santa are packaged more secure than a high end electrical item.

    Just recently got a new laptop. Cut the seal, it falls out.

    Frozen doll set....ties, clips, glue, torture rubber bands, blood, sellotape, screws , crying child, pressure fitted stairs, blood on Elsa's hair....etc

    Why.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,226 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I think public shaming would be much better plus a ridiculously high fine like 5000 for any form of littering or maybe doing community service doing litter picking if caught.

    Extra frustrating thing is, that there is so much of it which indicates a significant potion of the population are contributing to it. At least 10% I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,899 ✭✭✭abff


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Jesus..I have nothing against the girl personally.

    My problem is that literally nothing she is saying/doing is of her own accord. She is a vile PR shill and being taken advantage of. Can't believe people are too thick to realise that.

    I don't know the girl, I dont dislike the girl. It's the FACT that everything is written for her. Every action she does is potted out for her. Not one thing she has done is from her own mind/heart and it's grim.

    What I don't get is people expressing opinions on the internet and thinking that by putting the word FACT in all capitals, it makes their opinion inviolate and above any form of challenge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭MMyers


    Strictly come dancing.

    No explanation needed.


    Did you see how hot Rachel Stevens was on that show?


    tbf all "reality shows" are useless b.s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭Higgins5473


    MMyers wrote: »
    Did you see how hot Rachel Stevens was on that show?


    tbf all "reality shows" are useless b.s

    I enjoyed this one...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    No satisfaction.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Social media. People posting their lives all over Facebook, Instagram etc. Firstly, I've no desire for people to know my business. Secondly, I'm not that interesting and neither are most people. And thirdly, if you're posting pics of your kids, you're a c**t. Let them post their own pics when they're old enough to decide for themselves.

    When did we become so narcissistic or was it always so but we just never had a medium to inflict our mundanity on the world?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,679 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    How so many attractive girls end up dating drug dealers.

    Boy racers.

    Irish 'Country and Western' music and its popularity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,835 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Grown ups who like Anime, My Little Pony, Furries, Pokemon, Digimon and Harry Potter

    2zo1ki.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Piers Morgan.I dont get the egotistical sap.Why hes on TV and he just goes after people.

    Anyone who corrects your grammar or spelling on any internet forum.Just go away.

    Greta[again]theres just something about her i cant take to.

    Taylor Swift or Ariane Grande,they have to be the most boring women in pop.And yet they sell loads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭jimwallace197


    Ryan Tubridy, Kathryn Thomas & most of all Leo Varadkar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,039 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    How so many attractive girls end up dating drug dealers.

    Boy racers.

    Irish 'Country and Western' music and its popularity.

    Free drugs I suppose. :D:)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,159 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    they do it cos they think they are better than everyone else.
    the irony is, they do that, then they are in debt and definitely no better than the neighbour down the road in a banger with money in his bank

    I don't get why people think everyone with a new car has no money and owes a fortune.

    Some people have a new car and are not in debt and have money in the Bank.

    Some people have a banger and no money in the Bank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,835 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Free drugs I suppose. :D:)

    You never dab into your own supply


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    People buying coffees several times a week. Can they not make them at home?
    The obsession with the weather.
    Never ending football news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,418 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    You never dab into your own supply

    Is that you Twin ?
    Don't get high on your own supply :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,980 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The obsession that a lot of people have with cars, especially young lads. I don't get it at all. It's just a hunk of metal that gets you from one place to another as far as I'm concerned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Hybrid cars.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Vinyl

    Where was this craze 10 years ago? It's become quite big and people spending time hunting for that "gem" in the street markets. Are they making profits out buying and selling, fair play I guess if they know what to look for

    Does it truly sound better or is that in your imagination?

    I am Stop. and I'm a vinyl addict.
    I started buying records in my early teens and never really stopped. I have maybe 10k LPs and about 2k 45s.
    I can't fully explain it to you in one post. I very rarely buy stuff online, I prefer to get the fingers dusty. The thrill of the hunt. Never know what you might find.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭MoashoaM


    I don't get the "Veganism: Who is behind the Agenda?" thread.

    And this one might show my age but I don't get the hubbub about "no malarkey". I use the term every now and then. Up there with "flimshaw" and "Argle bargle"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭the14thwarrior


    i don't get the new craze for charity.
    Instead of Kris Kingle everyone gets to donate a present to a charity of your choice. WTF.
    Boxes for homeless people or "rough sleepers" to donate stuff
    reverse advent calanders for tins of stuff etc.
    charity boxes for christmas stuff

    the "we are not buying you a christmas present we are giving a donation instead" company crap.


    spent our youth getting new PJ, a pair of slippers, an annual, one selection box and perhaps one big toy which meant a bike to last you for the next five years, or a pair of adjustable length skates to last for 7 years, if you were lucky..........
    one tin sweets in the house and no one dared touched the carmel cos that was mammys
    and now the do gooder young ones are trying to guilt us out of christmas....


  • Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Natalia Squeaking Rumor


    i don't get the new craze for charity.
    Instead of Kris Kingle everyone gets to donate a present to a charity of your choice. WTF.
    Boxes for homeless people or "rough sleepers" to donate stuff
    reverse advent calanders for tins of stuff etc.
    charity boxes for christmas stuff

    the "we are not buying you a christmas present we are giving a donation instead" company crap.


    spent our youth getting new PJ, a pair of slippers, an annual, one selection box and perhaps one big toy which meant a bike to last you for the next five years, or a pair of adjustable length skates to last for 7 years, if you were lucky..........
    one tin sweets in the house and no one dared touched the carmel cos that was mammys
    and now the do gooder young ones are trying to guilt us out of christmas....
    I've never heard tell of any of this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Message boards that have about a dozen variants of the same thread about relatively trivial and generally avoidable things that other people do that irritate you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭Archeron


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    I don't get the whole Alexa thing tbh

    1980s, don't take lifts off strangers
    1990s, don't talk to strangers on the inernet
    2019, give a stranger on the Internet your address and then take a lift off them. Alexa, order me a serial killer!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    MoashoaM wrote: »
    I don't get the "Veganism: Who is behind the Agenda?" thread.

    And this one might show my age but I don't get the hubbub about "no malarkey". I use the term every now and then. Up there "flimshaw" and "Argle bargle"
    Oh yeah the extreme upset that other people being vegan causes.

    The description of traits held by every nationality as an Irish thing.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    i dont get why everyone has to have a conversation about everything these days


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