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Things you just "don't get"?

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  • #1472
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,967 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Whoops, you're right I should have said cocaine.

    I was thinking that. But, that’s not to say that people aren’t getting hurt by the hash “trade” as well.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #1473
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    The term "WOKE" really gets on my wick. Why does crap like this make it's way into mainstream parlance.

    I was in Italy last September and saw a lot of kids (and I mean kids, not even teenagers) wearing tee shirts that had the word "PYREX" printed across the chest, I thought this was strange and wondered if Pyrex had branched out into clothing, a little digging revealed that the label Pyrex takes it's name from the term "Pyrex Vision" which is related to the production of crack cocaine. Why would anyone let alone kids walk around with this on them?


  • #1474
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,158 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Seamai wrote: »
    Why would anyone let alone kids walk around with this on them?

    Clueless adults buying them for their kids who don't grasp the other meaning of the word, possibly understandable in Italy obviously as English isn't their first or most familiar language.


  • #1475
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    I'm not a fan of egg mayonnaise, but I've always thought coleslaw looks more like vomit, what with the diced carrots and everything. I'm quite fond of it, all the same (coleslaw, not vomit).

    Goat's cheese. Now there's something I don't get.

    There's a particular smell from goat's cheese that reminds me of school when I was 6/7 and I can never put my finger on what it is.
    I think it might be the fact the school was part of a convent and the kitchens were still working but why were they always cooking goat's cheese!


  • #1476
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    I had an aversion to caraway seeds until recently, when I was for 4 or 5 my grandmother took to to visit a friend of hers (Mrs K) and the woman had a tomcat so there was a smell in the house, to this day I can remember asking my Gran what the smell was and her putting her finger to her lip. A plate of seed cake was produced so I always associated caraway seeds with the smell of Mrs K's tomcat.


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  • #1477
    Tony the Pony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Tony the Pony


    Several things,

    The continued success and popularity of the Beatles. I really don't understand what sets them apart. As musicians they're no better than average. McCartney and Lennon were good songwriters but again I don't understand what sets them apart from other songwriters.

    I also fail to understand the popularity of Rugby Union. Unfortunately I had to sit through that game yesterday and I thought my skull was going to explode through sheer boredom. To add to this all the armchair experts in the room with me all talked a good game but had no idea what was actually happening and couldnt explain the game to me.

    I also don't get why RTE employ Tommy Tiernan as a TV presenter.


  • #1478
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,889 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Tony the Pony wrote: »
    I also don't get why RTE employ Tommy Tiernan as a TV presenter.

    He is pretty good imo.
    That said his show was interesting midweek tv but its not Saturday night stuff.


  • #1479
    Tony the Pony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Tony the Pony


    mickdw wrote: »
    He is pretty good imo.
    That said his show was interesting midweek tv but its not Saturday night stuff.

    I think he's brutal.

    He's inarticulate.


  • #1480
    vriesmays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    I don't get why my job promotes diversity when the office has no attractive women or intelligent men.


  • #1481
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭patmac


    “Smashed it”
    It’s everywhere, anyone that achieves anyone anything remotely mediocre has ‘smashed it’, especially on reality tv shows. It was mentioned at least 3 times on a cookery programme recently, where it could be applicable if they were making omelettes but they weren’t.


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  • #1482
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »
    It was more so the ignorant presumption that I complain about things that politicians have the power to change if I complained hard enough, so because I don't vote, I'm "warned" not to complain, when I never have, and never will.

    So you don't believe in democracy?


  • #1483
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Piers Morgan!


  • #1484
    Shuhada Davitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Shuhada Davitt


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    I was thinking that. But, that’s not to say that people aren’t getting hurt by the hash “trade” as well.

    the only reason people get hurt in that industry is BECAUSE it's illegal.


  • #1485
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seamai wrote: »
    The term "WOKE" really gets on my wick.

    Anyone who describes themselves as woke is an absolute wankpuffin.


  • #1486
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,449 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Anyone who describes themselves as woke is an absolute wankpuffin.

    I don't think I've ever seen someone in real life describe them selves as woke. I've only ever seen it used as an insult


  • #1487
    Millicently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭Millicently


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    I don't think I've ever seen someone in real life describe them selves as woke. I've only ever seen it used as an insult
    Nah, there's less of it around now but there were Tshirts and all sorts with wokeness slogans etc etc. Maybe the lack of it is because there's less coverage of BLM and Antifa and more coverage of Climate Change Slacktivism.


  • #1488
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Maybe it's like SJW which I believe is what they used to call themselves before it turned into an insult.


  • #1489
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,449 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Millicently wrote: »
    Nah, there's less of it around now but there were Tshirts and all sorts with wokeness slogans etc etc. Maybe the lack of it is because there's less coverage of BLM and Antifa and more coverage of Climate Change Slacktivism.

    And did they actually call themselves woke? Have to say I've never seen it in real life. But I've never seen a BLM t-shirt in real life either so Maybe its just the people I knock about with.


  • #1490
    Millicently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭Millicently


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    And did they actually call themselves woke? Have to say I've never seen it in real life. But I've never seen a BLM t-shirt in real life either so Maybe its just the people I knock about with.
    I think it's more of an American thing tbh. Some BBC guy is complaining about being described as woke for 're imagining' classics. Apparently substituting women to play the part of a male character and using characters from ethnic minorities in the roles of white characters is important now, for some reason. So if in the next re imagining on the BBC of say Mr Darcy, is a strong black woman who identifies as a man, well that's not woke apparently it's aiming old stories at a contemporary audience.


  • #1491
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,449 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Millicently wrote: »
    I think it's more of an American thing tbh. Some BBC guy is complaining about being described as woke for 're imagining' classics. Apparently substituting women to play the part of a male character and using characters from ethnic minorities in the roles of white characters is important now, for some reason. So if in the next re imagining on the BBC of say Mr Darcy, is a strong black woman who identifies as a man, well that's not woke apparently it's aiming old stories at a contemporary audience.

    So the guy called himself woke or, as I said earlier, other people called him woke as an insult?


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  • #1492
    Millicently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭Millicently


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    So the guy called himself woke or, as I said earlier, other people called him woke as an insult?
    He took it as an insult, it used to be seen as a positive thing but there's been a bit of a backlash against it and now being seen as woke is a bit of a negative thing. Take Gillette's American ad that massively backfired and cost them a fortune, the term 'get woke go broke' is very apt there.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right

    The article is a good example. I think it comes down to some people thinking that being white means we should be lectured to by non white people on how privileged we are, whatever that means, somehow all the problems faced by women and minorities are because they don't have white skin or penises.


  • #1493
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    I dont understand the point of modern colloquialisms like cockwomble and, sorry OMackerel, Wankpuffin.


  • #1494
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,449 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Millicently wrote: »
    He took it as an insult, it used to be seen as a positive thing but there's been a bit of a backlash against it and now being seen as woke is a bit of a negative thing. Take Gillette's American ad that massively backfired and cost them a fortune, the term 'get woke go broke' is very apt there.

    Right, so he didn't call himself woke. Someone else called him woke as an insult - exactly like I said to begin with.

    Yeah, I don't see people calling themselves woke in real life.


  • #1495
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,808 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    the purple tin wrote: »
    People who use hash and say it doesn't harm anyone, completely safe drug etc.

    Thousands of people in Central America have been killed and often tortured horribly first so that you can buy your hash.

    no they haven't


  • #1496
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,808 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Widdershins wrote: »
    I dont understand the point of modern colloquialisms like cockwomble and, sorry OMackerel, Wankpuffin.

    you don;t need to understand them


  • #1497
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    you don;t need to understand them

    I'm posting on a thread that asks what kind of things people don't understand.

    You don't need to tell me what or how to think.


  • #1498
    Millicently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭Millicently


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Right, so he didn't call himself woke. Someone else called him woke as an insult - exactly like I said to begin with.

    Yeah, I don't see people calling themselves woke in real life.
    Did you read the link? At one point calling oneself woke was considered a good thing, it then backfired and is now rarely used as anything more than an insult. Like seeing BLM and Antifa graffitied around Ireland seems to have stopped thankfully.


  • #1499
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Widdershins wrote: »
    I dont understand the point of modern colloquialisms like cockwomble and, sorry OMackerel, Wankpuffin.

    That’s because you’re a pisswallet.


  • #1500
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    That’s because you’re a pisswallet.

    You think you are funny but you aren't.


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  • #1501
    secondrowgal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    Brooklyn 99 and Curb your Enthusiasm.

    Absolute muck. Just don't get them.


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