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Things you just don't get...

  • 17-05-2021 6:22am
    #1
    Gammyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭Gammyeye


    Saturday Night Live on American telly. Is it that I don't get it or is it really that bad?

    It seems really popular but I've watched loads of clips of it and I've never once cracked a smile. I've heard this cowbell sketch was meant to be the best one, but jeez... awful rubbish.

    Any others


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Night Clubs
    Yoy are in the pub with a nice fuzzy buzz having had a great night.
    Then someone suggests go to a night club.
    Place is packed, guinness is €9 pint why?
    Barman hates you, bouncer hates you, other clubbers hate you.
    Lose your coat (coat person hates you), lose wallet, lose phone, lose friends.
    Taxi home goes some stupid way to rip you off.
    You get home and feel awful next day and are too riddeled to do anything and a perfectly good Saturday is wasted.
    I never saw the attraction.


  • #3
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,782 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    The chance of a ride?


  • #4
    YellowFeather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Covid.

    Well, hopefully.


  • #5
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Frank and Honest coffee.

    If anyone from Frank and honest is reading this, will you please take a bit of your large marketing budget and use it to buy coffee that doesn't taste like scuttery shart.


  • #6
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,909 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Sky King wrote:
    If anyone from Frank and honest is reading this, will you please take a bit of your large marketing budget and use it to buy coffee that doesn't taste like scuttery shart.


    Their hot chocolate is bloody nice though, especially a double dose


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  • #7
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Penneys


  • #8
    James..
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭James..


    Mass


  • #9
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,810 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    stoneill wrote: »
    Penneys

    People who want to shop in Penney's.


  • #10
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Dancing. It just feels wrong, even when I'm pissed.
    TikTok. I can see the appeal with Instagram but TikTok is fecking weird.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The continuing prohibition of cannabis.

    Especially when there's reams of evidence that prohibition doesn't work.

    Honestly, the Philippines will decriminalise before we do.


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  • #12
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Tattoos, scarification, rings under noses,
    through lips and eyebrows.

    People who choose to still smoke cigarettes.

    Cigarette butts, leftover bottles, plastic and paper cups strewn in city streets and parks. I was biking and stopped at a favorite spot of mine at the foot of rapids, and picked up four cups and cans a couple of days ago. I turned around and saw 9 rubbish bins from where I stood.


  • #13
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭colm_c


    * Soap operas
    * Tiktok
    * period dramas
    * VW Golfs


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Fair City.


  • #16
    Farrelk
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Farrelk


    WWE. As someone who watches a lot of live sport how anyone can sit through that scripted tripe is beyond me


  • #17
    Living Off The Splash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Living Off The Splash


    Why my neighbour leaves his side gate to his back garden open when he is in the garden. It bangs every couple of minutes.....loudly.......it never occurs to him to close the gate, put a latch on the gate, put a rock against the door to stop it banging....


  • #18
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    A user who was banned years ago and now operates multiple accounts on Boards just to troll people, get threads closed down, talk about poo and generally just 'ruin' the site.


  • #19
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    Tattoos, scarification, rings under noses,
    through lips and eyebrows.
    I was recently in the company of about 10 people and I was the freak because I was the only one without a tattoo or a piercing (and who didn't drink tea or coffee. :D ).


  • #20
    YellowFeather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Fratello wrote: »
    Night Clubs
    Yoy are in the pub with a nice fuzzy buzz having had a great night.
    Then someone suggests go to a night club.
    Place is packed, guinness is €9 pint why?
    Barman hates you, bouncer hates you, other clubbers hate you.
    Lose your coat (coat person hates you), lose wallet, lose phone, lose friends.
    Taxi home goes some stupid way to rip you off.
    You get home and feel awful next day and are too riddeled to do anything and a perfectly good Saturday is wasted.
    I never saw the attraction.

    I would love to go to a nightclub! Cheesy music. Hopping around the place. Somewhat ill advised shots of weird coloured drinks. Oh, and did I mention the hopping around the place dancing?

    Been ages, but it is a lot of fun.

    Saying that, I’d probably last an hour.


  • #21
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    Gammyeye wrote: »
    Saturday Night Live on American telly. Is it that I don't get it or is it really that bad?

    It seems really popular but I've watched loads of clips of it and I've never once cracked a smile. I've heard this cowbell sketch was meant to be the best one, but jeez... awful rubbish.

    Any others


    SNL is sh1t. and I don't get Monty Python either.


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  • #22
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,649 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Costa coffee

    Awful muck.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the purple tin wrote: »
    A user who was banned years ago and now operates multiple accounts on Boards just to troll people, get threads closed down, talk about poo and generally just 'ruin' the site.

    How would the mods not catch that? They have ips.


  • #24
    2lazytogetup
    Registered Users Posts: 844 ✭✭✭2lazytogetup


    on a vaccum cleaner there is this collar on the tube that you rotate to reduce the suction. it lets air in. Its not like you are saving electricity as full motor is still going. not sure why a vaccum would have this.


  • #25
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,095 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    on a vaccum cleaner there is this collar on the tube that you rotate to reduce the suction. it lets air in. Its not like you are saving electricity as full motor is still going. not sure why a vaccum would have this.

    Say you're vacuuming and you hit a sock. Sock gets stuck to the head. You open that valve, the suction is reduced, and the sock falls off. Useful when vacuuming curtains too.


  • #26
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,527 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Sports.
    Coffee and coffee wankery.
    Performance cars.
    Property porn.
    Influencers.
    Celebrity culture.
    Red top rags with really unfunny pun headlines.


  • #27
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,810 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    fits wrote: »
    coffee

    Awful muck.

    FYP


  • #28
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    fvp4 wrote: »
    How would the mods not catch that? They have ips.
    Most likely using proxies for their different accounts. The ips will probably show up as coming from mainland Europe.


  • #29
    BraveDonut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭BraveDonut


    Super hero movies.

    Its just the same movie over and over again


  • #30
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    BraveDonut wrote: »
    Super hero movies.

    Its just the same movie over and over again

    Getting a bit annoying alright,


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  • #31
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    BraveDonut wrote: »
    Super hero movies.

    Its just the same movie over and over again

    Yes, you might as well throw in those damn "bulge-o-rama" comix, while you're at it.


  • #32
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    The obsession (even on this side of the channel) with the British Royal Family


  • #33
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    The obsession (even on this side of the channel) with the British Royal Family

    Outside of the media I think it's limited, they sort of come across as a variation on the Ozzy Osbourne/ Kardassian reality crap


  • #34
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Sports

    I don't get how someone can not like any sport and usually assume that it's not actually true


  • #35
    NiceFella
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭NiceFella


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    on a vaccum cleaner there is this collar on the tube that you rotate to reduce the suction. it lets air in. Its not like you are saving electricity as full motor is still going. not sure why a vaccum would have this.

    I'm not 100% but I think that is for if something big gets caught in the line before it gets down to the ribbed part.

    Not really that effective if that's what it's for.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Unnecessary Movie sequels.

    Similar to the superhero movies post above, do we really need anymore Terminator, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Indiana Jones movies?

    Do something original!


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  • #37
    Dempo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,023 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Gammyeye wrote: »
    Saturday Night Live on American telly. Is it that I don't get it or is it really that bad?

    It seems really popular but I've watched loads of clips of it and I've never once cracked a smile. I've heard this cowbell sketch was meant to be the best one, but jeez... awful rubbish.

    Any others

    SNL has lost so many excellent cast members and its certainly shows, looking back at some older shows, there's some incredibly funny stuff. This weekends skit on Anthony Faucci was actually Hillarious, dealing with the confused CDC face mask recommendations. Worth also looking back at Will Ferrell and Bill Heders time on the show, but yes it's gone down hill and by far the worse sketch was distasteful and unfunny irish airline one, Saoirse Ronan certainly didn't crown herself in glory on her appearance either, it was shocking bad.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • #38
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,527 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Salvation Tambourine wrote: »
    I don't get how someone can not like any sport and usually assume that it's not actually true

    I couldn't give a shiny ****e about watching or yakking obsessively about any of them.
    Sorry to burst your sportsball.


  • #39
    Jimmy Two Times
    Registered Users Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Jimmy Two Times


    Rugby.

    Get the ball,jump on the ground,give it back to your mate, he does the same.

    Then a little lad throws it to a slightly bigger lad who kicks it off the pitch and everyone claps.

    Stupid f*@king game.


  • #40
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Unnecessary Movie sequels.

    Similar to the superhero movies post above, do we really need anymore Terminator, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Indiana Jones movies?

    Do something original!

    But we wouldn't have gotten Godfather 2 or Aliens if no sequels


  • #41
    NiceFella
    Registered Users Posts: 395 ✭✭NiceFella


    BraveDonut wrote: »
    Super hero movies.

    Its just the same movie over and over again

    Yes! And you can throw in James Bond too. Oh wait for it he's in a bad situation and hey Presto he saves the day again. Yawn. Can't understand the appeal.


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  • #42
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Expensive cars....

    Sure if you have heaps of money, but the average joe who busts a gut to get a BMW or whatever.

    There are so many other - better - things you can do with that money.

    I dont get it.


  • #43
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    SNL has lost so many excellent cast members and its certainly shows, looking back at some older shows, there's some incredibly funny stuff. This weekends skit on Anthony Faucci was actually Hillarious, dealing with the confused CDC face mask recommendations. Worth also looking back at Will Ferrell and Bill Heders time on the show, but yes it's gone down hill and by far the worse sketch was distasteful and unfunny irish airline one, Saoirse Ronan certainly didn't crown herself in glory on her appearance either, it was shocking bad.

    One thing about SNL is that its tailor made for youtube, the short sketch model.

    Has it gone downhill? I've looked at a lot of the older sketches, cant say they are better than the newer ones.

    Its clearly a springboard, so inevitably the best performers will leave to do their own show.

    My own personal favourite is probably So Ghetto, love that one.


  • #44
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    I couldn't give a shiny ****e about watching or yakking obsessively about any of them.
    Sorry to burst your sportsball.

    You've probably just not found the one you like. You're not going to enjoy this summer at all so. Olympics and European Championships. Maybe watch some of the Olympics and see if there is anything you enjoy. Badminton can be very entertaining. When you start enjoying a sport it really is great entertainment.


  • #45
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Expensive cars....

    Sure if you have heaps of money, but the average joe who busts a gut to get a BMW or whatever.

    There are so many other - better - things you can do with that money.

    I dont get it.

    Some people buy expensive clothes, some people take 3 holidays a year others like a nice car,


  • #46
    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    SUVs

    Especially electric SUVs. What's the point in something with the same interior space as a hatchback or estate that will be far less battery efficient and uses far more greenhouse emissions to produce? They make no damn sense!


  • #47
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Jimmy Two Times wrote: »
    Rugby.

    Get the ball,jump on the ground,give it back to your mate, he does the same.

    Then a little lad throws it to a slightly bigger lad who kicks it off the pitch and everyone claps.

    Stupid f*@king game.
    There's a few enjoyable moments in between all the stopping and starting. I prefer to just watch the highlights.


  • #48
    2lazytogetup
    Registered Users Posts: 844 ✭✭✭2lazytogetup


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Say you're vacuuming and you hit a sock. Sock gets stuck to the head. You open that valve, the suction is reduced, and the sock falls off. Useful when vacuuming curtains too.

    thanks, learn something new everyday


  • #49
    2lazytogetup
    Registered Users Posts: 844 ✭✭✭2lazytogetup


    - people that spend 40k plus on a house extension cause they saw dermot bannon do it. these people think they will be entertaining daily when they will just be watching tv everyday.

    - i know really rich childless people that are working hard in stressful jobs into their 60s with bank balances over over 1million. they will die rich on paper

    - why jobs with more emphasis on brain (lawyers, accountants) pay so much higher than people good with hands (plumbers, sparkies) or people who use their heart (nurses, social workers)


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Fair City.

    It’s a low budget soap opera produced by RTÉ and set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrystown.

    It’s not exactly season 2 of Twin Peaks.


  • #51
    Experience_day
    Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭Experience_day


    2lazytogetup wrote: »
    - people that spend 40k plus on a house extension cause they saw dermot bannon do it. these people think they will be entertaining daily when they will just be watching tv everyday.

    - i know really rich childless people that are working hard in stressful jobs into their 60s with bank balances over over 1million. they will die rich on paper

    - why jobs with more emphasis on brain (lawyers, accountants) pay so much higher than people good with hands (plumbers, sparkies) or people who use their heart (nurses, social workers)

    Not like they have much else to do I guess?


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