Things you just "don't get"?

magic_murph · 19-12-2019 4:46pm

Mayonnaise

The Nal · 19-12-2019 4:54pm

Radiohead

Seamai · 19-12-2019 4:55pm

magic_murph wrote: »

Mayonnaise

Prefer salad cream TBH, it's got more of a kick to it.

Gwynplaine · 19-12-2019 5:23pm

The Nal wrote: »

Radiohead

My name for them...."The Depressing Dorks"

con___manx1 · 19-12-2019 5:35pm

The absolute rubbish movies that come out now a days.
Why does there have to be a strong woman in every new action film? I no its all about inclusiveness but at least a few films should be like the old movies. I'm not sexist by the way.
The new terminator is an example or the last few predator films. Pure dirt compared to terminator 1 and 2 and the original predator. Cinematography is mostly dead. The only decent film I seen this year was the joker.

gormdubhgorm · 19-12-2019 5:35pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

A few other EU states have monarchs, you don't hear much whinging about those here for some reason. Why is that I wonder?
Their countries, their own business, up to them to retain or dispense with them.

I don't see the point of any monarch or any 'figurehead' anywhere.
Also I would be in favour of getting rid of the office of President in Ireland. But it was argued to me on the legal forum that it would cause constitutional issues and there is nothing better to replace it with.

It was argued to me by an English in law that the Royal family give back more money than they put in. I could not find any concrete evidence for it though. It all seemed agenda led.

gormdubhgorm · 19-12-2019 5:39pm

con___manx1 wrote: »

The absolute rubbish movies that come out now a days.
Why does there have to be a strong woman in every new action film? I no its all about inclusiveness but at least a few films should be like the old movies. I'm not sexist by the way.
The new terminator is an example or the last few predator films. Pure dirt compared to terminator 1 and 2 and the original predator. Cinematography is mostly dead. The only decent film I seen this year was the joker.

I agree and they make it really obvious as well basically the polar opposite to the Bond girls of the 60's who were 'helpless'.

Nowadays they seem to juxtapose a strong woman with a buffoon of a man.
It has done a 180 in 60 years.

whisky_galore · 19-12-2019 5:43pm

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I don't see the point of any monarch or any 'figurehead' anywhere.
Also I would be in favour of getting rid of the office of President in Ireland. But it was argued to me on the legal forum that it would cause constitutional issues and there is nothing better to replace it with.

It was argued to me by an English in law that the Royal family give back more money than they put in. I could not find any concrete evidence for it though. It all seemed agenda led.

It's their country, that aspect doesn't affect us at all hence it's none of our business.

gormdubhgorm · 19-12-2019 6:30pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's their country, that aspect doesn't affect us at all hence it's none of our business.

That's obvious but the thread title is. Things you'just don't get' and I don't get the point of symbolic figureheads that do not actually serve a purpose regardless of what country they are from. That includes Ireland and Michael D as most of his constitutional powers are rarely used. He is just there because they could not think of a better system.

con___manx1 · 19-12-2019 6:37pm

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I agree and they make it really obvious as well basically the polar opposite to the Bond girls of the 60's who were 'helpless'.

Nowadays they seem to juxtapose a strong woman with a buffoon of a man.
It has done a 180 in 60 years.

Progressiveness is ruining everything ðŸ˜

wakka12 · 19-12-2019 6:41pm

callaway92 wrote: »

100%. It's vile then looking at the droolers latching on her every word. Not one word in a speech has been from her at all.

Actually pisses me off so so much.

How do you even know? And what is so bad about it even if it was somebody helping/writing for her? She could just be an impassioned and intelligent young girl

I believe it's her writing it because most of what she says is not particularly unique or compelling. But her passion and frustration come across and thats what people identify with and admire.

Mister Vain · 19-12-2019 8:32pm

con___manx1 wrote: »

The absolute rubbish movies that come out now a days.
Why does there have to be a strong woman in every new action film? I no its all about inclusiveness but at least a few films should be like the old movies. I'm not sexist by the way.
The new terminator is an example or the last few predator films. Pure dirt compared to terminator 1 and 2 and the original predator. Cinematography is mostly dead. The only decent film I seen this year was the joker.

Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamiliton were strong women back in the day, but they were able to do it without being disparaging towards men. Nowadays it seems the only reason to have a strong woman in a movie is to fight against the evil patriarchy.

Linoge · 20-12-2019 12:08am

Deleted User wrote: »

Passengers who clap pilots for doing what they're paid to do -- namely, land a plane.

I think this is sometimes misunderstood. Some countries, the majority of passengers have been away from home for a long time - so aren't clapping for the pilots, but are clapping because they have landed and are finally home.

In USA it is prob for pilots though, agree

20-12-2019 12:11am

That it's now acceptable to call a biological man a "woman", without further inspection.

glenjamin · 20-12-2019 1:24am

People who take 5 minutes videos of a band performing at a gig then uploading it to Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Who in their right mind do they think wants to sit through that? And do those that do record it to their phones ever sit down and watch it back?

Greyfox · 20-12-2019 1:24am

I don't get Minecraft, it looks like the most boreing game ever made

Yamanoto · 20-12-2019 7:34am

How Christy Moore is held in such high esteem.

lazygal · 20-12-2019 7:37am

Why Fairytale of New York is such a sacred cow.

sk8erboii · 20-12-2019 8:14am

Greyfox wrote: »

I don't get Minecraft, it looks like the most boreing game ever made

I never played it but I know the concept. Its literally just virtual legos. These toys are reliant on the creativity and intelligence of the player to be engaging. In other words, if you think these games are boring you might quite literally be low intelligence.

Wanderer78 · 20-12-2019 8:16am

sk8erboii wrote:

I never played it but I know the concept. Its literally just virtual legos. These toys are reliant on the creativity and intelligence of the player to be engaging. In other words, if you think these games are boring you might quite literally be low intelligence.

Or maybe just not interested

tritriagain · 20-12-2019 8:17am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Or maybe just not interested

Or intelligent.

sk8erboii · 20-12-2019 9:45am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Or maybe just not interested

Yeah you need a certain amount of IQ to be engaged by these toys. Look at the hobbies of Einstein, Darwin, and countless geniuses. Its building building building.

The typical low IQ yob would look at the toys and say ‘I dun geddit’ because they’re literally too stupid to see the endless potential.

20-12-2019 10:35am

sk8erboii wrote: »

Yeah you need a certain amount of IQ to be engaged by these toys. Look at the hobbies of Einstein, Darwin, and countless geniuses. Its building building building.

The typical low IQ yob would look at the toys and say ‘I dun geddit’ because they’re literally too stupid to see the endless potential.

Minecraft is the most basic kind of Lego, though. I'd rather get some Technic or build my world in Maya.

I get that Minecraft is fun but to say it requires intelligence is fairly bizarre. You can go crazy in it sure and make very complex things with those switches or whatever but that's a minority of players.

sk8erboii · 20-12-2019 10:39am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Minecraft is the most basic kind of Lego, though. I'd rather get some Technic or build my world in Maya.

I get that Minecraft is fun but to say it requires intelligence is fairly bizarre. You can go crazy in it sure and make very complex things with those switches or whatever but that's a minority of players.

The most basic kind of lego is lego. Though you might be right, I never played minecraft. From what I hear the creation of your own parameters is what makes the game engaging. That requires an ability to recognize meta-games and mechanics. In other words people make games via minecraft. This is the same appeal of the Sims games.

I played mainly grand strategy with set parameters but insane micromanagement. I liked to play within well established mechanics.

Sunny Disposition · 20-12-2019 10:42am

The charm of Bertie Ahern. Never knew why people liked him so much, total blind spot for it.

20-12-2019 10:43am

sk8erboii wrote: »

The most basic kind of lego is lego. Though you might be right, I never played minecraft. From what I hear the creation of your own parameters is what makes the game engaging. That requires an ability to recognize meta-games and mechanics. In other words people make games via minecraft. This is the same appeal of the Sims games.

I played mainly grand strategy with set parameters but insane micromanagement. I liked to play within well established mechanics.

I like grand strategy as well. Imperator:Rome is coming along nicely if you're looking for a new game.

Come to think of it, the ultimate Minecraft is something like the Elder Scrolls Construction Set. I used to play with it when I playing Morrowind as a teenager. Using the same tools the devs use to make a house or something was great.

iamwhoiam · 20-12-2019 10:46am

sk8erboii wrote: »

Yeah you need a certain amount of IQ to be engaged by these toys. Look at the hobbies of Einstein, Darwin, and countless geniuses. Its building building building.

The typical low IQ yob would look at the toys and say ‘I dun geddit’ because they’re literally too stupid to see the endless potential.

You need a certain level of intelligence to realise that not everyone has the same skills . Some people may not have the skills you have but are far superior in others skills and artistic intelligence . Being aware of that is where intelligence shows

sk8erboii · 20-12-2019 11:18am

iamwhoiam wrote: »

You need a certain level of intelligence to realise that not everyone has the same skills . Some people may not have the skills you have but are far superior in others skills and artistic intelligence . Being aware of that is where intelligence shows

Reads like a desperate excuse to deflect your own low intelligence

iamwhoiam · 20-12-2019 11:38am

sk8erboii wrote: »

Reads like a desperate excuse to deflect your own low intelligence

Hahahaha ! Hilarious attempt at a put down !!

20-12-2019 11:41am

sk8erboii wrote: »

Reads like a desperate excuse to deflect your own low intelligence

?

Winning_Stroke · 20-12-2019 11:49am

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The charm of Bertie Ahern. Never knew why people liked him so much, total blind spot for it.

I think a lot of it was that he grew on people. Look at him when he first became FF leader, he was a strapping, young (comparatively) man with a fresh approach. Then on getting power the country just got better and better. Nearly a decade of this warmed him to a lot of people.

Wibbs · 20-12-2019 12:00pm

sk8erboii wrote: »

Yeah you need a certain amount of IQ to be engaged by these toys. Look at the hobbies of Einstein, Darwin, and countless geniuses. Its building building building.

I don't recall Einstein's hobbies beyond music(violin IIRC), Darwin's interests were obviously zoology and collecting and experimenting with examples he built up over the years and chess and backgammon. Don't see much building building building there. Outside of architectural and engineering geniuses where that sorta thing was part and parcel of their interests(Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by wooden building blocks as a kid and non doubt he''d have loved lego) and writers who built inner and outer worlds, I can't recall too many of the other geniuses into the building type stuff. One of the more consistent traits of all of them tended to be collecting, sometimes to the point of obsession. Few enough would have been interested in working within restrictive well established mechanics either. Working outside the well established is one of the main features of actual genius.

Greyfox · 20-12-2019 2:25pm

sk8erboii wrote: »

I never played it but I know the concept. Its literally just virtual legos. These toys are reliant on the creativity and intelligence of the player to be engaging. In other words, if you think these games are boring you might quite literally be low intelligence.

You sound like a friend of mine who's always on a high horse. It's still just playing with Lego and as I'm over 12 i require something more engaging and intelligent then Lego. It's a boring game because you dont get much interaction with the world, I don't see why adults would enjoy virtual leggo

Omackeral · 20-12-2019 2:27pm

sk8erboii wrote: »

The most basic kind of lego is lego

Duplo tho fam

Greyfox · 20-12-2019 3:39pm

sk8erboii wrote: »

Reads like a desperate excuse to deflect your own low intelligence

This post says someone clearly doesnt understand the fact that been creative is not the same thing as been intelligent.

storker · 20-12-2019 5:49pm

lazygal wrote: »

Why Fairytale of New York is such a sacred cow.

I've never liked it, but I'd defend it against those censorious clowns who seek to ban it.

whisky_galore · 20-12-2019 6:01pm

The panic buying on run up to Xmas, esp food.
For godsakes shops are only closed for ONE DAY, you would swear people were preparing for a nuclear winter.

Sprouts.
Here's a thought, if you don't like them, don't buy them, cook them and have them for Xmas dinner!

mikemac2 · 20-12-2019 6:24pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The charm of Bertie Ahern. Never knew why people liked him so much, total blind spot for it.

He does be on Eamonn Dunphy´s podcast The Stand. We all know Bertie´s dodgy history but he knows his stuff about Northern Ireland & Brexit

Comes across quite impressively.

Not much point listening now though as it's months old

Arghus · 20-12-2019 6:25pm

Darts.

Seamai · 20-12-2019 7:31pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

The panic buying on run up to Xmas, esp food.
For godsakes shops are only closed for ONE DAY, you would swear people were preparing for a nuclear winter.

Sprouts.
Here's a thought, if you don't like them, don't buy them, cook them and have them for Xmas dinner!

I'm cooking for 8 on Christmas day, I don't care that some of the guests think that sprouts are an integral part of Christmas dinner, I refuse to let them inside the door of my house, Satan's farts, that's what they are, stinking the house out while they are cooking and while being digested afterwards
It doesn't matter what people do to tart them up, bacon, chestnuts (another thing I don't get, mealy and tasteless) or garlic. Not on my watch.

Better Than Christ · 20-12-2019 8:00pm

storker wrote: »

I've never liked it, but I'd defend it against those censorious clowns who seek to ban it.

It shouldn't be banned, but I don't see anything wrong with radio stations bleeping that word, especially considering the song's ubiquity at this time of the year. If someone (for whatever totally not-homophobic reason) desperately wants to hear that word, it'll still be available on Spotify or whatever.

There are aspects of that song that I really love. The piano introduction, for example. Or Kirsty MacColl's voice - especially the way she sang the lines "the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay..." and "well, so could anyone". No other female vocalist can do the song justice. And it's a long time since Shane MacGowan has been able to either.

Better Than Christ · 20-12-2019 8:01pm

Yamanoto wrote: »

How Christy Moore is held in such high esteem.

lazygal wrote: »

Why Fairytale of New York is such a sacred cow.

Yeah well, fuck ye both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwXBtmRTsFs

Christy's brilliant.

21-12-2019 3:13am

Arghus wrote: »

Darts.

Same. I used to be decent at it but at end of the day, it's a sport where you can't influence the other player. In pool or snooker, you can.

Golf is like that as well but I enjoy it because being out on the course is so enjoyable. It's more of a battle with yourself trying to improve each part of a hole.

ILoveYourVibes · 21-12-2019 3:20am

Pilates instructors who hold all their classes between 9 am and 1 pm on weekdays ...do they not realize everyone is in work or getting kids to school etc.

yesto24 · 21-12-2019 9:02am

sk8erboii wrote: »

I played mainly grand strategy with set parameters but insane micromanagement. I liked to play within well established mechanics.

Looks like you don't have much imagination or creativity. Maybe you are not as intelligent or have as high an IQ as you think you do.

vriesmays · 21-12-2019 11:48am

The acclaim for the woman wining the darts match. She only got in because there was a brace of places reserved for women. She wouldn't have qualified otherwise. She beat a man younger than herself.

BeerWolf · 21-12-2019 12:07pm

B0jangles wrote: »

Those pod coffee machines

what the hell are they about? - like, why would you spend a fortune on a machine so's you can spend a fortune on little pots of crap coffee? Little pots that are apparently a pain in the ass to recycle.

Buy decent beans, a grinder and an aeropress.

There, now you have good coffee and you're not knee-deep in stupid little pots!

They're like Printers. Cheap machines, expensive as sin cartridges -- they make their profits off the consumables.

tupenny · 21-12-2019 12:16pm

gmisk wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance but what is the outside rule?

Offside, Assuming they are attempting being funny..

21-12-2019 12:30pm

I don’t ‘get’ how this thread differs from the TA thread

vriesmays · 21-12-2019 12:33pm

Building homeless accomdation in Dublin 2.

Things you just "don't get"?

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