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Things you just "don't get"?

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


    smilerf wrote: »
    Paying 40 a month for 100 Meg broadband or whatever is crazy.
    I have 8 Meg as part of my phone package
    I fail to see what advantage this has.
    Oh look I can download an app in 2 seconds. You have to wait 30
    I mean good grief

    aside from looking up what IPTV and dodgy box services are, most regular streaming services will buffer at speeds you are talking about.

    not a criticism, just some people need huge amounts data far more than others, it doesn't matter what for but to get this you need the right speed for it.

    your "not getting" and "not needing" seem to be somewhat conflated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭smilerf


    aside from looking up what IPTV and dodgy box services are, most regular streaming services will buffer at speeds you are talking about.

    not a criticism, just some people need huge amounts data far more than others, it doesn't matter what for but to get this you need the right speed for it.

    your "not getting" and "not needing" seem to be somewhat conflated.
    I use Netflix never buffers for me


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


    That's great. You just don't need it, some people actually 'need' to transfer data at high speeds. "not getting it" is a bit stupid, sorry.


  • Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smilerf wrote: »
    Paying 40 a month for 100 Meg broadband or whatever is crazy.
    I have 8 Meg as part of my phone package
    I fail to see what advantage this has.
    Oh look I can download an app in 2 seconds. You have to wait 30
    I mean good grief

    8Mbps won’t smoothly run my iptv on a HD channel alone never mind when someone else in the house is watching Netflix, stuff is downloading, someone using FaceTime etc all at the same time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I don't get the level of 'entitlement' (for want of a better word) people feel about public transport, in comparison with other services. For example, when a bus doesn't turn up, what makes people think they have the right to demand an explanation from the driver of the next bus that does turn up? Why do they get so outraged, throw their hands up in the air and make rude gestures when they're waiting for a bus and a different one passes them 'out of service'? And perhaps most laughably, why do otherwise rational people go on Twitter and demand that a bus company pay for the taxi that they chose to get when their bus didn't turn up?

    Why do people, for the most part, not act so petulantly when Tesco's run out of their chosen brand of breakfast cereal, etc?


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


    I can kind of see that attraction there, but what I really don't get is the fake tan. Also fake nails and fake eye brows. It's like there's no appreciation for natural beauty anymore.
    I always wanted to believe that Oompa Loompas would be confined to fiction. The terrors.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    I don't get unpaid internships. If I'm working I want to be paid even if it's €50 a week. The learning excuse doesn't wash for me -- I'm always learning.

    I have seen more and more internships recently that the intern has to pay the business for. In other words, they want people to pay for the "privilege" of working for free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,358 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I don’t get “ renewal of marriage vows “
    Now I know some people might have had difficulties and make a decision to renew their vows . But this new trend of ordinary people a few years down the line renewing vows is mad
    Did they forget what they said or think they were out of date or what ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Sex on a regular basis. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    You'd think that, but they definitely do cook!

    Good to know


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Baked beans.
    Bovril eaters.
    Fried tomatoes.
    People who lovingly keep birds in cages and never let them out :.o
    Spiteful bitter women.


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


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I don’t get “ renewal of marriage vows “
    Now I know some people might have had difficulties and make a decision to renew their vows . But this new trend of ordinary people a few years down the line renewing vows is mad
    Did they forget what they said or think they were out of date or what ?

    That usually happens if one of the partners has been up to no good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    dubstarr wrote: »
    That usually happens if one of the partners has been up to no good

    oe the brode feels she meeds another day out. Dont mind if in her first one she was whale sized & wants better pics or if there had been poor family circumstances for the first ( sadness/sickness, etc) but the whole second expense for anither big day out plus gifts... Im turning mean in my old age.

    Another thing I dont get.People who have Im pregnant lunches (gifts), baby showers ( more gifts), and huge catered /restaurant for a hundred christenings. Its lovely that they’re excited but its an endless expectation on their family/friends.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants



    Another thing I dont get.People who have Im pregnant lunches (gifts), baby showers ( more gifts), and huge catered /restaurant for a hundred christenings. Its lovely that they’re excited but its an endless expectation on their family/friends.


    I think this is largely a female thing. My missus has a friend who got in a big huff with her a while back because she didn't go away with her for her 40th. She was going for a week in Vegas ffs.

    Sure, i'll just put the kids in kennels for the week will I and spend thousands of euros just because it's your fúcking birthday. That's not at all self centered it's a lovely idea, thanks for the invite!

    Some people really need a good kick up the hole! Whatever happened to a night in the pub?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    I can kind of see that attraction there, but what I really don't get is the fake tan. Also fake nails and fake eye brows. It's like there's no appreciation for natural beauty anymore.

    This so much! Then there's the obsession with contouring and massive bushy eyebrows with a life of their own. Add the insta-filters or whatever the f*ck they're called and the end result is that everyone looks the same!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I don’t get “ renewal of marriage vows “
    Now I know some people might have had difficulties and make a decision to renew their vows . But this new trend of ordinary people a few years down the line renewing vows is mad
    Did they forget what they said or think they were out of date or what ?



    didnt vogue williams get married two years in a row to the same guy.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,465 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    didnt vogue williams get married two years in a row to the same guy.:pac:

    Ha Vogue Williams. I have a little project going where I read every article about her on the MSN newsfeed. I had never heard of her before. 3 or 4 months in I am still not entirely sure what she does for a living or shy she is featured in articles. I get that her hubby was a reality TV participant but cannot get why there are 'news' articles about them. They both seem equally vacuous.

    Reminds me of Brian O'Driscoll's wife. Never heard of her and then there was loads of news stories then she disappeared again. Amy something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Ha Vogue Williams. I have a little project going where I read every article about her on the MSN newsfeed. I had never heard of her before. 3 or 4 months in I am still not entirely sure what she does for a living or shy she is featured in articles. I get that her hubby was a reality TV participant but cannot get why there are 'news' articles about them. They both seem equally vacuous.

    Reminds me of Brian O'Driscoll's wife. Never heard of her and then there was loads of news stories then she disappeared again. Amy something?

    Hooverman? :D

    I used to get annoyed by the media coverage of these bints but in reality, the media are only supplying a demand. It's the vacuous idiots who "follow" them that should be exterminated*



    * this might be a bit extreme


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,012 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »

    Reminds me of Brian O'Driscoll's wife. Never heard of her and then there was loads of news stories then she disappeared again. Amy something?

    Amy had an acting career back in 2000.
    She's also a comedian.
    She's as well known as he is.


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


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Ha Vogue Williams. I have a little project going where I read every article about her on the MSN newsfeed. I had never heard of her before. 3 or 4 months in I am still not entirely sure what she does for a living or shy she is featured in articles. I get that her hubby was a reality TV participant but cannot get why there are 'news' articles about them. They both seem equally vacuous.

    Reminds me of Brian O'Driscoll's wife. Never heard of her and then there was loads of news stories then she disappeared again. Amy something?

    She was married to Brian McFadden as well.I have watched her shows before,shes actually a really good presenter.

    Her sis in law now is one of the Middletons


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    Amy had an acting career back in 2000.
    She's also a comedian.
    She's as well known as he is.



    comedian? never knew that. cant find any of her stand up on youtube,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,465 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Amy had an acting career back in 2000.
    She's also a comedian.
    She's as well known as he is.

    Never heard of her outside of BOD.

    Are you sure you're not thinking of Amy Schumer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,012 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Never heard of her outside of BOD.

    Are you sure you're not thinking of Amy Schumer?

    Nope.
    Maybe more an actor that had done comedy than a comedian.


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


    Amy Huberman is an actress on TV and minor films - since before meeting Brian O'Driscoll. She also has her own fashion brand. Being married to him doubtless helped in this regard but that's the way of the world. She seems all right.

    Vogue is part of that vacuous world indeed but she has surprisingly done some documentary presenting. Inoffensive.

    It's people fawning over the likes of them that's a head scratcher all right though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    Nope.
    Maybe more an actor that had done comedy than a comedian.

    Gotta call you out on this one ! Amy Huberman was never a comedian..or indeed an actor that has done comedy ..

    Where has she done comedy ??


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


    Gotta call you out on this one ! Amy Huberman was never a comedian..or indeed an actor that has done comedy ..

    Where has she done comedy ??
    Yeah it was a recent show she did all right but not anything before it.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,867 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Breaking Bad.

    Just, doesn't do it for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,289 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Gotta call you out on this one ! Amy Huberman was never a comedian..or indeed an actor that has done comedy ..

    Where has she done comedy ??

    Striking Out and Finding Joy were laughably bad, if that counts?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Breaking Bad.

    Just, doesn't do it for me.

    Same.

    I watched the whole thing, with Hal from Malcolm in the middle in my head... to me he was just never believable as a serious criminal. It seemed like satire the whole time to me. I guess that's the power of typecasting for you in a nutshell!


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