Things you just "don't get"?

JustAThought wrote: »

Spiteful bitter women.

I doubt anyone "gets" spiteful bitter people (apart from their fellow spiteful and bitter folk)!

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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?

And the hen plus the kitchen party, let alone the wedding! Or the baby shower plus the christening. Now sometimes the kitchen party can be like a smaller event for people who couldn't make the hen (might be e.g. for mothers, grandmothers etc) and the hen might just be a night in town or a night away but just Ireland. Or the baby shower might be a surprise arranged by friends. And there's no obligation to attend these or give gifts for all of them. But a minority expect attendance and gifts for all, along with the hen or wedding abroad. No shame!

Rex Scary Tendinitis wrote: »

Some would be over the moon at the offer of an excuse of a week away in Vegas with friends, a break from the kids etc

Of course, if there was no issue with a babysitter for a week, or money, or another holiday already planned and sufficient annual leave.

Maybe the husband and wife actually like each other and want to save their holiday time for each other?

A friend of mine told me he was disowned by a childhood friend recently because he wouldn't travel across two continents (at an expense of +€5k) to the guy's wedding after not seeing him for several years. He was apologetic and everything, couldn't take the time off work and couldn't afford it. When the guy blocked him, he said he was surprised at first but ultimately, given the fact that they had stopped contact years before, he really didn't care. I thought it was the definition of petty.

Raconteuse wrote: »

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.

Aaaaah, she got those documentaries after becoming prominent for, as mentioned before, fuck knows what.

sbsquarepants wrote: »

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.

No way. Hubs and I have gone to a lot of stags and hens respectively over the last few years and the stags have been consistently way more extravagant. On my end, the hens have generally made a great effort to make it affordable for everyone and it’ll be a night or two or sometimes just an evening with no overnight stay.

Hubs, on the other hand, has had to travel out of the country for every single stag party and they’ve been two nights usually or even three. A friend of his is getting married in the US this summer (missus-to-be is American) and he is having his stag in Spain. I just can’t get over that. So much expense.

Definitely not just a female thing.