Things you just don't get...

Kaybaykwah

Sky King wrote: »

You realise fiction is art? As is filmmaking?

Excepting the fact that 95% of fillums are filler. Another 4% may contain the germ of a decent work, the remaining 1% is top notch.

Art is bandied about too gingerly as a descriptive for film. It may be Art when outstanding, but a lot is rinse and repeat, unfortunately.

RandomViewer

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

Excepting the fact that 95% of fillums are filler. Another 4% may contain the germ of a decent work, the remaining 1% is top notch.

Art is bandied about too gingerly as a descriptive for film. It may be Art when outstanding, but a lot is rinse and repeat, unfortunately.

Film is a commodity, same as music and books,
Anyone claiming its art are just being pompous

Kaybaykwah

Kewreeuss wrote: »

I thought Canada Goose was a drink!

Right. I also thought Ransomware was them dainty little cups and saucers you find at flea markets that were once made in Stoke-On-Trent.

Mecrab

Women's obsession with Penney's.

Finty Lemon

Deleted User wrote: »

Why some men listen to radio shows they utterly despise just so they can complain about them on the internet. Same goes for the Late Late Show etc.

Like there is so many other things you could be watching, listening to, or doing. Is it a bonding thing or something? Some form of masochism?

Has me confused.

Simple. Its Friday night. End of a long week and all that so you have to put in the 'quality time. The wife insists on watching LLS probably because her mother is watching it too and they will talk about tomorrow morning. . Its utter torture due to the t₩@t in the host's chair but you are imprisoned in yours. You cannot believe what RT is getting away with. The only solace is to vent. Simple.

How Fast & the Furious is still going.

sonofenoch

Sky and the F1 grid commemorating the anniversary of George Floyd.......'son, brother, thug, drug addict, convicted armed felon'

RandomViewer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How Fast & the Furious is still going.

It's 2 hours of pure escapism that doesn't have people with superpowers or elves

RandomViewer

People who dress head to toe in sports gear but smoke like trains

Antares35

People's obsession with IKEA, particularly on a Sunday. Drop the kids into the playgroup. Go shopping for flat pack furniture that will make the inside of your house look like everyone else's. Pick up loads of shíte you don't need like fake plants and scented candles and lightbulbs with plants in them. Pick the kids up and go for meatballs in the aeroplane quality food restaurant. Go home and some poor sod has to spend hours putting together furniture. A dead man wouldn't want that life.

the beer revolu

sonofenoch wrote: »

Sky and the F1 grid commemorating the anniversary of George Floyd.......'son, brother, thug, drug addict, convicted armed felon'

In your opinion did George Floyd deserve to be killed, face down in the street?

sonofenoch

the beer revolu wrote: »

I'm your opinion did George Floyd deserve to be killed, face down in the street?

Course not, but neither is the death of every other Tom, Dick or Harry commemorated .........if that was the road to go down, how about former footballer Dalian Atkinson who died while been tasered by Police ............suppose his death never caught a populace move

Rothko

RandomViewer wrote: »

Film is a commodity, same as music and books,
Anyone claiming its art are just being pompous

And paintings and sculptures aren't commodities?

Mister Vain

RandomViewer wrote: »

It's 2 hours of pure escapism that doesn't have people with superpowers

Yeah I'm not so sure about that. :pac:

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

Why some men listen to radio shows they utterly despise just so they can complain about them on the internet. Same goes for the Late Late Show etc.

Like there is so many other things you could be watching, listening to, or doing. Is it a bonding thing or something? Some form of masochism?

Has me confused.

Why do you think it's only men? Don't worry, I know you won't reply.

EmmetSpiceland

Finty Lemon wrote: »

Simple. Its Friday night. End of a long week and all that so you have to put in the 'quality time. The wife insists on watching LLS probably because her mother is watching it too and they will talk about tomorrow morning. . Its utter torture due to the t₩@t in the host's chair but you are imprisoned in yours. You cannot believe what RT is getting away with. The only solace is to vent. Simple.

That explains why you watch it, F, but a lot of these guys don’t have a wife, or partner, and will still “torture” themselves watching it. Some will even announce, before the show has even started, that they have their “barbs” ready to go. Doesn’t matter if the show is good, or not, they’ll be slating it, the host, RTÉ and Noel King regardless.

Doesn’t explain the radio side though. Lads listening back to Newstalk’s ‘Breakfast Show’ later in the evening so they can give out about Dr. Ciara Kelly. Obviously because they aren’t up when the show airs but, you’d have to admit, that is fairly deranged “behaviour”.

Have to say, if my partner was a fan of a show that caused me to become visibly upset, and angry, I would just go do something else or watch tv in another room.

Thankfully, that’s the not the case and I would have a well balanced “temperament” so not so easily upset. Certainly not enough to whinge about it online in such a pathetic manner.

bodhrandude

I like this thread a perfect cross between the Trivial Annoyances and Those Little Things threads.

Kaybaykwah

bodhrandude wrote: »

I like this thread a perfect cross between the Trivial Annoyances and Those Little Things threads.

Those are all fine threads and I'm really proud to be woven into this one.

EmmetSpiceland

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

Those are all fine threads and I'm really proud to be woven into this one.

A rich tapestry.

tom1ie

Tv adds being so much louder than the programme you were just watching.
Seems to happen on all channels now.

Beechwoodspark

Mecrab wrote: »

Women's obsession with Penney's.

“Penney’s for a few bits”

whisky_galore

RandomViewer wrote: »

People who dress head to toe in sports gear but smoke like trains

They dress for comfort, it's not like they see the inside of a gym, unless they're robbing it.

Swindled

Why people with white skin, native Europeans, native European cultures, and heterosexual males are bad, and all other skin tones /ethnicities / cultures /sexes / genders are good.

Ubbquittious

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

Harley "effing" Davidsons.

The "effing" stands for fart.

Anything with a motor that makes more noise that it could potentially suppress is a reasonably assumed deficiency about the owner/operator.

Speedboats, snowmobiles, cars and trucks with unmufflers. Nuff said.

In the 50s Chrysler made a car powered by a gas turbine and they sent it out to some beta testers. Some large number of them said in a survey that it wasnt loud enough

RandomViewer

Ubbquittious wrote: »

In the 50s Chrysler made a car powered by a gas turbine and they sent it out to some beta testers. Some large number of them said in a survey that it wasnt loud enough

It's like someone buying a 1990s Civic and not revving it flat out all the time

RandomViewer

whisky_galore wrote: »

They dress for comfort, it's not like they see the inside of a gym, unless they're robbing it.

Skangers would be few and far between where I live but we seem to have a lot of fat lads with expensive sportswear who couldn't get out of your way and smoke incessantly,

Swindled

Mecrab wrote: »

Women's obsession with Penney's.

Cheap fast fashion.
Women who know how to dress well and fit their clothes, will look just as good in Penny's gear. Women who don't will not look good in any gear, no matter the price. Count yourself very lucky when your woman prefers shopping in Penney's to expensive high street fashion. Never discourage it.

Kewreeuss

Graphic novels, comics for adults, whatever they’re called.
I don’t get it/them.

Mister Vain

Gogglebox. You're watching people on the telly watching people on the telly.

The J Stands for Jay

Swindled wrote: »

Cheap fast fashion.
Women who know how to dress well and fit their clothes, will look just as good in Penny's gear. Women who don't will not look good in any gear, no matter the price. Count yourself very lucky when your woman prefers shopping in Penney's to expensive high street fashion. Never discourage it.

Ah yes, buying a couple of skips worth of cheap penny's clothes is preferable to spending the same amount on quality clothes that will last. Never mind the environmental damage, the plight of the sweatshop workers or the glorification of the influencers' disposable lifestyle.