Things you just "don't get"?

callaway92 · 17-12-2019 6:16pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Something I really don't get:

I don't understand why Greta Thunberg is so triggering & anger inducing to certain cohorts of society, it's weird, like really really weird to me, I don't support or object to her, but every second fb post seems to have a greta meme, it's weird, and I don't think I even want to understand it.

This thread being a perfect example, the most common topic in the first 2 pages is anti-Greta Thunberg posts... Does she really affect you that much?

Jesus..I have nothing against the girl personally.

My problem is that literally nothing she is saying/doing is of her own accord. She is a vile PR shill and being taken advantage of. Can't believe people are too thick to realise that.

I don't know the girl, I dont dislike the girl. It's the FACT that everything is written for her. Every action she does is potted out for her. Not one thing she has done is from her own mind/heart and it's grim.

beejee · 17-12-2019 6:20pm

NSAman wrote: »

Spoilt kids claiming "I took away their future"...kick in d'arse is what that lot need!

Only slightly related, but last Christmas a young relative showed me a picture that someone they knew had posted on instagram or whatever.

The girl had laid out all their Christmas presents on a bed, all expensive items that most people would be over the moon about.

Then the caption underneath "this is all I fooking got, shyt christmas".

It wasn't ironic either, apparently. There's "spoilt" and then there's the next level. Made me want to go on a murder spree.

I won't forget it, absolutely disgraceful.

gmisk · 17-12-2019 6:20pm

Brown sauce....vile.

Also anything that isn't real butter on bread, horrible rubbish.

Woman's make up that makes them look like drag queens...bad ones.
Inglot is like Halloween all year round.

Oh and people who get injections in their lips, bizarre looking.

Tacitus Kilgore · 17-12-2019 6:23pm

callaway92 wrote: »

Jesus..I have nothing against the girl personally.

My problem is that literally nothing she is saying/doing is of her own accord. She is a vile PR shill and being taken advantage of. Can't believe people are too thick to realise that.

I don't know the girl, I dont dislike the girl. It's the FACT that everything is written for her. Every action she does is potted out for her. Not one thing she has done is from her own mind/heart and it's grim.

OOkay, You have nothing against her and don't dislike her but she is a vile PR shill and everyone else is thick.

Man, you have literally justified the things that I don't get post you quoted in reply..

Why is it so annoying to you though - can't you just ignore her like the rest of us that don't care?

Sorry, I'm sure this stuff has been done to death by now anyway, I will continue in bewilderment, as I'm sure the triggered aul lads will continue in spitting out bile.

17-12-2019 6:25pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

Something I really don't get:

I don't understand why Greta Thunberg is so triggering & anger inducing to certain cohorts of society, it's weird, like really really weird to me, I don't support or object to her, but every second fb post seems to have a greta meme, it's weird, and I don't think I even want to understand it.

This thread being a perfect example, the most common topic in the first 2 pages is anti-Greta Thunberg posts... Does she really affect you that much?

Yes.

EDit · 17-12-2019 6:27pm

Twitter & Instagram...not occasional use, I mean I just don’t understand the mentality that accompanies an almost constant living of a life through these sites. Equally, I don’t get your ones that are on there insulting and trolling people all day, every day...where do they get the time, energy, inclination?

Leg End Reject · 17-12-2019 6:31pm

People posting their entire lives on social media and the constant need for validation.

ETA: Snap EDit!

MMyers · 17-12-2019 6:35pm

Celebrity worship. I mean people who are so influenced by celebs or get tattoos of them. It's to like someone's music or movies or whatever, but to worship them is just really weird and quite sad

Andrew00 · 17-12-2019 6:36pm

Why so thousands of priests raped young boys? Did they all turn gay when they entered the priesthood or something? Can't understand it

mariaalice · 17-12-2019 6:37pm

Reminds me of when my brother in law says to his fashion victim son, so what are the sheep wearing today.

I kinda do understand consumerism I'm lucky that having fancy stuff never interested in.

I nearly scumbered to consumerism last week looking at a Huawei phone but then though na I'm not bothered.

17-12-2019 6:38pm

Grown ups who like Anime, My Little Pony, Furries, Pokemon, Digimon and Harry Potter

Higgins5473 · 17-12-2019 6:40pm

I don’t get why when Rugby lads go for a night out it usually involves some massively homosexual/homoerotic or whatever it’s called act, usually under the guise of ‘drunken banter’.

X111111111111 · 17-12-2019 6:41pm

People who snort cocaine and think they are cool or fun. You are walking around with a substance that more than likely entered the country in some poor unfortunates anal passage.

Rubberchikken · 17-12-2019 6:45pm

the phrase 'job done'.

mouthful · 17-12-2019 6:46pm

Women

Stevieluvsye · 17-12-2019 6:47pm

Rubberchikken wrote: »

the phrase 'job done'.

"Job's a guddin" is how you say it correctly

gmisk · 17-12-2019 6:49pm

beejee wrote: »

Only slightly related, but last Christmas a young relative showed me a picture that someone they knew had posted on instagram or whatever.

The girl had laid out all their Christmas presents on a bed, all expensive items that most people would be over the moon about.

Then the caption underneath "this is all I fooking got, shyt christmas".

It wasn't ironic either, apparently. There's "spoilt" and then there's the next level. Made me want to go on a murder spree.

I won't forget it, absolutely disgraceful.

Is that the kids fault or her parents though?
Genuine question

is_that_so · 17-12-2019 6:52pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

OOkay, You have nothing against her and don't dislike her but she is a vile PR shill and everyone else is thick.

Man, you have literally justified the things that I don't get post you quoted in reply..

Why is it so annoying to you though - can't you just ignore her like the rest of us that don't care?

Sorry, I'm sure this stuff has been done to death by now anyway, I will continue in bewilderment, as I'm sure the triggered aul lads will continue in spitting out bile.

I think you've been triggered yourself! Really don't get the fondness for the term "triggered" and other silly labels.

Raconteuse · 17-12-2019 6:53pm

Yeah I don't get the bile towards Greta either. It's a bandwagon though - a Gemma O'Doherty type will say to hate her, and their flock will follow. Same with hating George Soros - like they all even know who he is.

Now I don't get the bandwagon of worshipping Greta either, and it does seem like she is being puppeted, but the abuse?! Particularly that from middle aged folk with daughters...

Andrew00 wrote: »

Why so thousands of priests raped young boys? Did they all turn gay when they entered the priesthood or something? Can't understand it

If they all turned gay, they'd be having sex with grown men.

They were paedophiles with a preference for boys. Not gay.

decky1 · 17-12-2019 6:54pm

all this going to the garage in the morning for cups of coffee/tea on the way to work, [monkey see monkey do]

is_that_so · 17-12-2019 6:55pm

decky1 wrote: »

all this going to the garage in the morning for cups of coffee/tea, [monkey see monkey do]

That's just lazy feckers like moi not bothering to get up in time to have brekkie!

freshpopcorn · 17-12-2019 6:59pm

TKMaxx I've been in it several times to me it either goods that other shops don't sell or goods that may have a fault.
I've seen clothes there that were in other shops and then their sales and they clearly didn't sell and the price was nothing special.
The odd time I saw something okay their there was a fault with it such as a zip or stitching.
I'm generally told you need time and patience and I've given it both of them and I still don't see the fuss.

Tell me how · 17-12-2019 7:00pm

Littering.

Whether in woods or parkland, or at a beach or on a street or even in a restaurant Consciously making an unreasonable mess where you know other people will have to either tolerate it, ignore it or clean it up for you should be an act punishable with an on the spot fine or public shaming in my opinion.

s7ryf3925pivug · 17-12-2019 7:07pm

Andrew00 wrote: »

Why so thousands of priests raped young boys? Did they all turn gay when they entered the priesthood or something? Can't understand it

What shocks you is that they didn't rape young girls?

s7ryf3925pivug · 17-12-2019 7:09pm

I don't get the parallel world thing featured in the latter part of the latest mr robot episode.

ILoveYourVibes · 17-12-2019 7:10pm

Bryant Poor Arch wrote: »

What shocks you is that they didn't rape young girls?

actually they did that too

Cee-Jay-Cee · 17-12-2019 7:13pm

Strictly come dancing.

No explanation needed.

con___manx1 · 17-12-2019 7:15pm

Tell me how wrote: »

Littering.

Whether in woods or parkland, or at a beach or on a street or even in a restaurant Consciously making an unreasonable mess where you know other people will have to either tolerate it, ignore it or clean it up for you should be an act punishable with an on the spot fine or public shaming in my opinion.

I think public shaming would be much better plus a ridiculously high fine like 5000 for any form of littering or maybe doing community service doing litter picking if caught.

whisky_galore · 17-12-2019 7:15pm

Milena Howling Matchmaking wrote: »

Grown ups who like Anime, My Little Pony, Furries, Pokemon, Digimon and Harry Potter

Grown adults with skateboards, esp here with the worst pavements outside of a developing country.

Celebrity culture.

17-12-2019 7:20pm

Christ, I could write a lot about things I don't get, but I'll keep it short.

Irish politics. Never could quite understand why people keep voting in muppets that they actually know are muppets, simply because they've always voted that party or their parents did. Actually, Irish politics in general is a "I don't get" area.

People on Facebook or similar social media. I seriously don't understand why you'd want some asshat from secondary school adding you to share photos of their ugly children. It's especially weird when that asshat bullied you relentlessly in school. Same with girls who rejected you, gossiped about you. or made insulting remarks in the past. I seriously don't get this creepy desire to be linked to everyone else.

I don't get the need to create a host of new words when there are already very suitable words in the English language.

I don't get Rap music and American "Black" culture, in general. I really don't get that they're proud of the things they shouldn't be (gangsters, bitches, whores, etc). I also don't get how its fine for black people to call each other (or other ethnicity) the N word, but nobody else is allowed to.

I don't get why the average Irish or British woman is placed on such a pedestal by Irish/British guys. Oh, I've heard the reasons, but I simply don't get it. (Yup, I've got Asian Fever, but I do appreciate other women too)

vriesmays · 17-12-2019 7:33pm

decky1 wrote: »

all this going to the garage in the morning for cups of coffee/tea on the way to work, [monkey see monkey do]

The tea break was invented by an advertising company.

harry Bailey esq · 17-12-2019 7:35pm

People who moan about yer one Greta Thunberg/ people who laud Greta Thunberg. In equal measure. I've got bloody bills to pay.

ArnoldJRimmer · 17-12-2019 7:35pm

The constant need to pigeonhole billions of people into one group depending on the year they were born. I'm not going to treat someone different whether they're a millennial or a boomer, or any other bullsh!t terms. There are hard working/lazy, smart/stupid, 'any other opposite characteristics you can think of' people of all ages.

Yeah I get why marketing people would do it, but they work in the most c***ish industry on the planet, but for us regular human beings, why are we constantly using these terms?

And the people who keep lecturing me that because I've had a phone for 3 years, its long overdue an upgrade. I was recently complaining about the reduced battery life of my phone, and this was the answer I got from everyone. They cost a relative fortune, I want the fcuking thing to last. What happened to expecting a bit of durability?

Andrew00 · 17-12-2019 7:40pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

If they all turned gay, they'd be having sex with grown men.

They were paedophiles with a preference for boys. Not gay.

So they all turned into peadophiles as soon as they joined priesthood

Arghus · 17-12-2019 7:45pm

People taking photos of their food or drink and then posting it on the Internet or wherever. Do they think people give a fck?

vriesmays · 17-12-2019 7:47pm

Closing the peat industry to help combat climate change when that volocano in New Zealand emits more toxic fumes than from burning all our bogs.

Tell me how · 17-12-2019 7:47pm

Arghus wrote: »

People taking photos of their food or drink and then posting it on the Internet or wherever. Do they think people give a fck?

I know a lad who has an instagram account where he 'only' posts pictures of his breakfast which is always some or other variation of eggs.

Account is essentially anonymous and yet has over 100 followers from around the world.

Irish Guitarist · 17-12-2019 8:00pm

Digital music costing as much or almost as much as a CD. There's a new 5 CD boxset of 1999 by Prince. I was looking at the price of it a couple of days ago. It's something like €65 for the 5 CDs. It costs just €10 less to buy the mp3 files. That's absolute fucking madness.

Nekarsulm · 17-12-2019 8:15pm

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

People who moan about yer one Greta Thunberg/ people who laid Greta Thunberg.

Tell us more!

vriesmays · 17-12-2019 8:19pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Digital music costing as much or almost as much as a CD. There's a new 5 CD boxset of 1999 by Prince. I was looking at the price of it a couple of days ago. It's something like €65 for the 5 CDs. It costs just €10 less to buy the mp3 files. That's absolute fucking madness.

Ask your local public library to order it in and then borrow it to copy to your PC.

Raconteuse · 17-12-2019 8:21pm

Andrew00 wrote: »

So they all turned into peadophiles as soon as they joined priesthood

Surely you've considered that they were paedophiles already?

Tacitus Kilgore · 17-12-2019 8:26pm

vriesmays wrote: »

Closing the peat industry to help combat climate change when that volocano in New Zealand emits more toxic fumes than from burning all our bogs.

Agree, it should be closed to preserve a geographical formation for the next generations to view in awe as I do. Not for the emissions but for the preservation of a very beautiful ecosystem.

We don't need to burn it anymore, for too many reasons.

igCorcaigh · 17-12-2019 8:30pm

Sport.

cj maxx · 17-12-2019 8:35pm

To answer the OP
The ride. I used to get it , but now ? Maybe its old age

Four Phucs Ache · 17-12-2019 8:52pm

Why the simplest of toys bought in smyths or from santa are packaged more secure than a high end electrical item.

Just recently got a new laptop. Cut the seal, it falls out.

Frozen doll set....ties, clips, glue, torture rubber bands, blood, sellotape, screws , crying child, pressure fitted stairs, blood on Elsa's hair....etc

Why.

Tell me how · 17-12-2019 9:03pm

con___manx1 wrote: »

I think public shaming would be much better plus a ridiculously high fine like 5000 for any form of littering or maybe doing community service doing litter picking if caught.

Extra frustrating thing is, that there is so much of it which indicates a significant potion of the population are contributing to it. At least 10% I'd say.

abff · 17-12-2019 9:08pm

callaway92 wrote: »

Jesus..I have nothing against the girl personally.

My problem is that literally nothing she is saying/doing is of her own accord. She is a vile PR shill and being taken advantage of. Can't believe people are too thick to realise that.

I don't know the girl, I dont dislike the girl. It's the FACT that everything is written for her. Every action she does is potted out for her. Not one thing she has done is from her own mind/heart and it's grim.

What I don't get is people expressing opinions on the internet and thinking that by putting the word FACT in all capitals, it makes their opinion inviolate and above any form of challenge.

MMyers · 17-12-2019 9:09pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Strictly come dancing.

No explanation needed.

Did you see how hot Rachel Stevens was on that show?

tbf all "reality shows" are useless b.s

Higgins5473 · 17-12-2019 9:14pm

MMyers wrote: »

Did you see how hot Rachel Stevens was on that show?

tbf all "reality shows" are useless b.s

I enjoyed this one...

Beanntraigheach · 17-12-2019 9:14pm

No satisfaction.

Things you just "don't get"?

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