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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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.

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.

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!

Naos · 17-12-2019 5:27pm

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.

Except it's not? https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/iphone/

iPhone Accessibility wrote:

So a person who’s blind can take group selfies. A person who’s deaf can call Mum from abroad. And a person who can’t move from the neck down can send text messages to friends.

Perhaps these more expensive items are not worth it to you because you are not aware of or do not use the features that make them more expensive.

Even a camera on a phone - if photo's are important to you then there's no way a 100e phone will do the same job as a newer iPhone/Samsung etc.

B0jangles · 17-12-2019 5:33pm

I swear we should have a version of the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game here on boards, except it would have to be "One Degree of Greta Thunberg." You play by mentioning her name in a thread, but you have to create some kind of link between her and the thread topic, no matter how tenuous that link is, or how insane the compulsion to do so makes you look.

Favourite crisp flavour thread?
'You know Greta Thunberg's favourite flavour is... tofu and despair because her future is so bleak AMIRITE???"

Man United megathread?
"I bet Greta Thunberg thinks 'Man United' is actually plan to unite the human race to fight climate change - what a FOOL!"

mikemac2 · 17-12-2019 5:35pm

Vinyl

Where was this craze 10 years ago? It's become quite big and people spending time hunting for that "gem" in the street markets. Are they making profits out buying and selling, fair play I guess if they know what to look for

Does it truly sound better or is that in your imagination?

Raconteuse · 17-12-2019 5:45pm

Climate change denial. I mean, questioning the narrative I understand - but out and out insistence that it's a hoax? Based on what?

Anti semitism - I even saw someone blame Islamist terrorism on the Jews recently :pac: just seems like a box some folk feel they should tick.

SAMTALK · 17-12-2019 5:46pm

I don't get the whole Alexa thing tbh

Shuhada Davitt · 17-12-2019 5:50pm

i "dont get" the way most irish people have a one-up-manship type personality. they always want to be better, delude themselves to think they ARE better. they always want to seem like they're "someone".

i dont get it - but my theory is that it's because we're irish and that's all. nothing special, just irish, so they play up on everything they have to make themselves seem better or more worldly or something.

i dont get it.
i dont get modern "feminism" either.

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-12-2019 5:52pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

Vinyl

Where was this craze 10 years ago? It's become quite big and people spending time hunting for that "gem" in the street markets. Are they making profits out buying and selling, fair play I guess if they know what to look for

Does it truly sound better or is that in your imagination?

the old vinyl does

but played on a system from that time

Tacitus Kilgore · 17-12-2019 5:52pm

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.

Tony_Clifton wrote: »

its all a hoax, that poor girl is being used

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.

Tony_Clifton wrote: »

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

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?

tupenny · 17-12-2019 5:55pm

Instagramers bloggers influencers, and how so many people are brainwashed by them.
I'm talking women in early 30s here, not young kids, worshipping these people. Its bizarre to witness.

100% agree re. Phones and tvs! I'd add cars to that. People in next few weeks out to get their 2020 car. Dont get it

MMyers · 17-12-2019 5:55pm

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?

I think it's the authoritive way she talks. I listened to her first speech and wouldn't listen to her again because i find her irritating, but i don't hate her nor like her

facehugger99 · 17-12-2019 5:56pm

People spending €50-60k on a car.

Buy pretty much the same car, 3 years old for around 1/3 of the price and you've about €35k to spend on other stuff.

Shuhada Davitt · 17-12-2019 5:57pm

tupenny wrote: »

Instagramers bloggers influencers, and how so many people are brainwashed by them.
I'm talking women in early 30s here, not young kids, worshipping these people. Its bizarre to witness.

100% agree re. Phones and tvs! I'd add cars to that. People in next few weeks out to get their 2020 car. Dont get it

the car thing is exactly what i said about the irish one-up-man-ship - people go and spend thousands and put themselves into debt to get the best car so they can think in their own head that they are "better" than their neighbour.

horrible... i call it "little mans thoughts".... although women are as bad.worse even when you consider fashion/makeup/wanting to be the "hottest in the room".

Nekarsulm · 17-12-2019 5:58pm

I don't get the whole Elf on a Shelf thing, nor Aldi soft toy carrots.

Shuhada Davitt · 17-12-2019 5:58pm

facehugger99 wrote: »

People spending €50-60k on a car.

Buy pretty much the same car, 3 years old for around 1/3 of the price and you've about €35k to spend on other stuff.

they do it cos they think they are better than everyone else.
the irony is, they do that, then they are in debt and definitely no better than the neighbour down the road in a banger with money in his bank

CalamariFritti · 17-12-2019 5:58pm

Fortnite. Its a crap shooter with crap graphics and crap 'feel' and crap features but has cult status with the really young crowd for some reason. Ok the last man standing thing is kinda cool but played it a couple of time and there was nothing there for me.

Other than that contemporary tv shows. Strictly, soaps, love island, all that crap. Wtf? Who in their right mind is being entertained by that?

MrAbyss · 17-12-2019 6:01pm

The Late Late Toy Show.

It's bollox!

Tacitus Kilgore · 17-12-2019 6:01pm

MMyers wrote: »

I think it's the authoritive way she talks. I listened to her first speech and wouldn't listen to her again because i find her irritating, but i don't hate her nor like her

There are so many that hate her but have never even listened to her though, that's the really disturbing thing tbh - it's populist hatred against a child. Again, it's really fucking weird and I don't get it.

Other things I don't get -

good fuel economy.

MMyers · 17-12-2019 6:04pm

Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »

There are so many that hate her but have never even listened to her though, that's the really disturbing thing tbh - it's populist hatred against a child. Again, it's really fucking weird and I don't get it.

Other things I don't get -

good fuel economy.

Completely agree with you, but her parents have put her in the position and I believe they'll make plenty of £££'s off her fame. It's similar to Justin Beiber, millions hated him for no reason when he first hit the music scene, no wonder he's become an abnoxius little twit

whisky_galore · 17-12-2019 6:07pm

Funko Pops. Ugly plastic yokes with a faint resemblance to a pop culture character.

Blind allegiance to big brands; Cola Cola, Budweiser, Tommy Whatshisname.

The Greta phenomenon.

topper75 · 17-12-2019 6:14pm

NSAman wrote: »

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

Tell them they'll get their future back when they learn to behave.

Things you just "don't get"?

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