Things you just "don't get"?

beejee · 17-12-2019 4:54pm #1

Tis the season and all that, people buying presents and all the shopping on overkill.

Wandering around a few shops yesterday it struck me that there are some very popular items/things that I just "don't get". I don't understand the popularity.

I could name loads of things, but I'll stick to two: phones and televisions.

Phones... Madness to me. 500 and 600 and 700 plus quid for a phone. For what?!

I'll buy myself a phone for around 100 quid, job done for years. It will take good pictures, good videos, loads of storage, use the Internet. Job done.

So why are people spending 10 times more on such a basic tool? Oh it can load a Web page 0.0000000007 nano seconds faster? Wow! It has multiple lens to take a picture? Phwooar!

Nah, just don't get it. Whatsoever.

Televisions are the same to me. Big television, very nice.

Spend an extra thousand quid to go from "4k" to "8k"? Crazy. I'm looking at the display televisions on shops, and I don't think I'd notice a difference even if I had a magnifying glass.

I just don't get it.

I understand paying more for a couple extra features, but literally multiples of the price? Nah, it's barking mad.

What don't ye "get" over the silly season? Or are you barking mad too? Woof!

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 17-12-2019 4:56pm

Have you tried having a nap?

Tammy! · 17-12-2019 4:58pm

Cranberry sauce on Turkey

Stevieluvsye · 17-12-2019 4:59pm

Tis the season alright......for poxy threads

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:01pm

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Tis the season alright......for poxy threads

Harvey Norman pr doing damage control in here

andekwarhola · 17-12-2019 5:02pm

Herpes.

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:03pm

Tammy! wrote: »

Cranberry sauce on Turkey

So you're barking mad then

Ham and mustard, cranberry and Turkey, some things were meant to be

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:04pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Herpes.

This year's "hot item"

B0jangles · 17-12-2019 5:04pm

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!

atticu · 17-12-2019 5:05pm

iPhones are the only phones that do accessibility properly.

punisher5112 · 17-12-2019 5:07pm

It's not butter.....

Why is the sky blue....

What's a tracker mortgage....

Gender fluidity.....

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:08pm

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!

Very good example!

Here's a way to make an everyday thing, but with severe limitations for inconvenience.

Imagine a tea machine a la father Ted, bit you can only use Barry's tea forever. Ha!

callaway92 · 17-12-2019 5:08pm

Greta Thunberg and all of that nonsense.

Literally PR people running her whole life for her. It's a child not making one decision for herself - It's like a weird project for odd people running her life.

SBPhoto · 17-12-2019 5:09pm

beejee wrote: »

Tis the season and all that, people buying presents and all the shopping on overkill.

Wandering around a few shops yesterday it struck me that there are some very popular items/things that I just "don't get". I don't understand the popularity.

I could name loads of things, but I'll stick to two: phones and televisions.

Phones... Madness to me. 500 and 600 and 700 plus quid for a phone. For what?!

I'll buy myself a phone for around 100 quid, job done for years. It will take good pictures, good videos, loads of storage, use the Internet. Job done.

So why are people spending 10 times more on such a basic tool? Oh it can load a Web page 0.0000000007 nano seconds faster? Wow! It has multiple lens to take a picture? Phwooar!

Nah, just don't get it. Whatsoever.

Televisions are the same to me. Big television, very nice.

Spend an extra thousand quid to go from "4k" to "8k"? Crazy. I'm looking at the display televisions on shops, and I don't think I'd notice a difference even if I had a magnifying glass.

I just don't get it.

I understand paying more for a couple extra features, but literally multiples of the price? Nah, it's barking mad.

What don't ye "get" over the silly season? Or are you barking mad too? Woof!

I would come off them tablets if i were you

EmmetSpiceland · 17-12-2019 5:09pm

People getting incredibly “worked up” over things that other people do that have nothing to do with them.

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:10pm

atticu wrote: »

iPhones are the only phones that do accessibility properly.

Don't even understand what you're getting at here.

"accessibility"?

Its a phone. A phone is a phone. Is a phone, a phone is.

ILoveYourVibes · 17-12-2019 5:10pm

Why people like 'House' so much it just looks like every other American medical drama. ALL the doctors are grumpy in those!

ShadyAcres · 17-12-2019 5:11pm

I don't get poor people starting threads giving out about what they don't have.
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. Only joking, I'm the same as you OP. I would never spend more than 100 on a phoneðŸ˜Š

Tony_Clifton · 17-12-2019 5:12pm

callaway92 wrote: »

Greta Thunberg and all of that nonsense.

Literally PR people running her whole life for her. It's a child not making one decision for herself - It's like a weird project for odd people running her life.

its all a hoax, that poor girl is being used

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:14pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

People getting incredibly “worked up” over things that other people do that have nothing to do with them.

Incredibly worked up!

It's the most casual of observations, nothing more. If it were any more casual I'd be asleep.

Like seeing a dog eating it's own shoite, it's weird, but I won't get "incredibly worked up" about it. Worth telling a few people to put them off their dinner though.

Edit: on a second read, that probably wasn't directed at my thread, oops!

callaway92 · 17-12-2019 5:14pm

Tony_Clifton wrote: »

its all a hoax, that poor girl is being used

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.

MMyers · 17-12-2019 5:15pm

Star wars fans and Chris Nolan Batman marks. I get people are fans of different movies, but the minute you say you don't like Star Wars or the Dark Knight these marks take great offence, kinda sad, but I just don't get the hype around any of those movies, quite boring to me

Tony_Clifton · 17-12-2019 5:16pm

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.

carbon taxes are the only way to fix any environmental problems, real or imagined

atticu · 17-12-2019 5:17pm

beejee wrote: »

Don't even understand what you're getting at here.

"accessibility"?

Its a phone. A phone is a phone. Is a phone, a phone is.

That is because you don’t use the feature.
I am just giving you a reason why some people spend more than you on a phone.

Hello 2D Person Below · 17-12-2019 5:18pm

How 'Fast and the Furious' franchise is still going.

Should have been sent to the glue factory after Tokyo Drift.

sheroman01 · 17-12-2019 5:18pm

How people think Breaking Bad is one of the best TV shows of all time.

[Deleted User] · 17-12-2019 5:19pm

Anything "Kardashian"

pgj2015 · 17-12-2019 5:19pm

people who spend every day in a pub. I have an odd drink but spending every day in a pub seems depressing to me.

ILoveYourVibes · 17-12-2019 5:23pm

How some people are ok with hanging around creeps ..like oh he is my friend when he is obviously just a creep with no boundaries ..

people who stay mates with people like that

beejee · 17-12-2019 5:24pm

atticu wrote: »

That is because you don’t use the feature.
I am just giving you a reason why some people spend more than you on a phone.

What does this feature do? It's like a collapsible "tabs" thing or something?

Whatever it is, I don't think I'm missing anything, nothing intuitive anyway Or, more to the point, I don't imagine it's anything worth 8 or 9 or 10 times the cost of the phone I have.

Like 1080p to 4k televisions, perhaps? Yeah, I'll take it for an extra tenner, maybe.

NSAman · 17-12-2019 5:25pm

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

Things you just "don't get"?

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