Things you just don't get

Mrs_Doyle

Sleepy wrote:

You can add me in on the 'not understanding why girls will buy something functional because it's prettier in pink'. I can understand the girl's liking clothes, furnishings, accessories etc for being pretty but in terms of a PSP, MP3 player, Mobile Phone etc, WTF?

I mean, I'd have bought the Wii no matter what colour it was...

I think women, in general, are more susceptible to marketing and advertising.
Or at least, more inclined to make a small purchase (something for a €1000 or less) based on a clever marketing campaign.
Men on the other hand, are more inclined to make bigger purchases (cars, boats etc) as a result of a clever campaign.

At the moment we all have disposable income available to us, and it seems as if we are just looking for something to spend it on.

Women would have never bought into the original PSP or DS, but make it pink, and it is the latest 'must have'.

Paulj

Have to agree with a lot of the things mentioned already including:
-the female obsession with pink thingies
-tv soaps
-reality tv
-tabloids newspaper

I also just cannot understand people's obsession with the lives of celebrities and famous people!!! :mad:
I mean, can we not just leave them live their silly lives and then we can get on with our silly lives! :rolleyes:

free2fly

Sleepy wrote:

The purpose or value of a HR department.

I'm an HR Manager. I'd be happy to enlighten you on this one

Metric conversions. No matter how many times I'm told they just don't stick!

Fraggle Rocks

Biochemistry
Pharmacology

Of which i have to know rather a lot about by next week. Balls.

plonk

Why all bottles of beer dont have twisty caps?

Sam Vimes

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Specialised pink items - such as phones and PSPs. It boggles my mind that companies feel that an item in pink will attract more female consumers, when it in fact just makes items look vastly tackier. What boggles the mind more are people who actually buy into this bizarre gender discrimination.

you'd be surprised and disappointed. i work in a phone shop and a few are pink. a particular phone that hasn't been on sale for a while was available in grey for 79 or pink for 99. the extra 20 didn't throw anyone off as far as i could see.

also, it was the worst phone ever inflicted on the irish market. some conscientious parents asked me if it was any good and i told them the above. the invariable reply from the girl was "but its pink". they were always back the next week with it faulty

netwhizkid

Long Division, never learnt it in School and cannot for the life of me work it out.

slipss

Yeah what systemerror said the whole infinity thing. I just can't get my head around it for some reason. I mean I read loads of explanations of it when I was younger from the blunt two sentence spelling it out explanations to the long steven hawking style 200,000 word explanations about it, but its just beyong my realm of understanding for some reason. I mean I just don't buy that the universe goes on for ever, if you travel far enough you must reach the end of it but then if you do reach the end and you go twenty feat farther then you must go farther and if you do go farther then where you were a minute ago it can't of been the end unless when you get to a certain point then you end up back where you started from in which case you should be able to just go back in the other direction a couple of feet and you'd find yourself at the other end of the universe but it obviously doesn't work like that because other wise when I reversed my car out of my drive way this morning I would have reversed into a different galaxy or dimension or something and I don't think I did because I ended up in work an hour later and there was this bloke with a hat sitting outside and he asked me if I had any spare change and I gave him a few euro and then...ehm...yeah, like that.


Also I don't get how a coctail sausage tastes nicer when its on one of those little wooden spikes than if you just eat it off of a plate.

slipss

slipss wrote:

I mean I just don't buy that the universe goes on for ever, if you travel far enough you must reach the end of it but then if you do reach the end and you go twenty feat farther then you must go farther and if you do go farther then where you were a minute ago it can't of been the end

If distance/space is defined only within the universe then there's no "further", since there's no space/place not contained in the universe. It's not like a room or the end of a road.
...hurrah for muddled explanations

(Also, can't *have*, not "can't of")

slipss

bluewolf wrote:

If distance/space is defined only within the universe then there's no "further", since there's no space/place not contained in the universe. It's not like a room or the end of a road.
...hurrah for muddled explanations

(Also, can't *have*, not "can't of")

I was using the einsteinian "can't of".

dreamerbeliever

flanger20002003 wrote:

Okay, so what's the deal with these 'angel' characters you see lined up along Grafton Street at the weekends? I mean they stand there dressed up in white or blue robes, with their faces painted the same colour, and basically stay there statuesque for an hour...I mean WTF is the point?! As a one time busker it kinda annoys me that they expect money, at least a busker shows some sort of liveliness, plays a few choons etc., these guys do pretty much nothin'...Just don't get 'em...

Firstly, anybody who uses the spelling 'choons', deserves a smack.
Secondly, what do you mean they do nothing? As far as I can see they put a lot of effort into the costumes and I think it does liven up Grafton Street.

Merrick

I don't get why some people - when they have an accident or something, which is often their own fault - then proceeed to believe they're entitiled to compensation and start sueing everyone they can think of.

That and Irish grammer, I've been learning it since I was 4 years old and still have to make some sentence structures up as I go along.

mikemac

Why people constantly press the lift button to get the lift to come to their floor faster. You know it won't speed up the lift so why do it?

This applies to pedestrian crossings also

InFront

slipss wrote:

Yeah what systemerror said the whole infinity thing. I just can't get my head around it for some reason. I mean I read loads of explanations of it when I was younger from the blunt two sentence spelling it out explanations to the long steven hawking style 200,000 word explanations about it, but its just beyong my realm of understanding for some reason.

Well the universe isn't definitely infinite, but at the same time its edge is definitely beyond our reach, because nothing can move faster than the speed of light. So in that context, it at least has no end.
Aanyway, I know this isn't for giving explanations, but I have trouble with the infinity thing too. I usually try to imagine it as randomly circular motion, whereby you never cross back on your line of origin and then I'm satisified (though if you think about that carefully it still doesn't satisfy you, not really)

I am confused by the theory of four dimensions, either in gen. relativity or in geometry in general. Four (or more:eek: ) dimensional manifolds? I just can't see it!!!

Wez

I can't understand how I'm expected to spend so much money in photography! For each set of colour prints (we've just moved onto colour film, and we're just slapping them in the 1 hour photo processing to save hassle) it's costing around 15 euro, and about 5 sets of these in a row have come out either completely blank (camera wouldn't wind film on) so wasted about €45 (which I didn't have BTW!!) on film that gave me nothing to work with (not to mention about 5 hours work per roll!) happened again today, and I know that everything was perfect! I've done countless roll and developed them myself perfect! I swear that shop in Dundrum is doing this just to spite me!

Now my camera's broken! I've gotta buy a new one, either a film, which I prolly won't use after this year, or a digital which I'm looking at atleast 400 euro for a basic slr, realistically need to spend like 5-600 on a half decent one. AND I HAVEN'T GOT A PENNY TO BUY THIS CAMERA!!!

And just to rub it in, I was cycling home after getting this bogey roll developed and my chain broke in the middle of the junction under the bridge! I hate my life!!!!!!!

/rant (for now..)

Bateman

At Old Trafford at the weekend, two young lads were arresed, handcuffed, had DNA samples taken, and were put in a holding cell for hours...

...for throwing till rolls onto the pitch. :eek:

Sleepy

free2fly wrote:

I'm an HR Manager. I'd be happy to enlighten you on this one

Sounds like an interesting thread. No offence intended but I've never seen a HR department that wouldn't have achieved better results by simply distributing the HR employee's salaries amongst the rest of the companies employees.

whiskeyman

Bateman wrote:

At Old Trafford at the weekend, two young lads were arresed, handcuffed, had DNA samples taken, and were put in a holding cell for hours...

...for throwing till rolls onto the pitch. :eek:

They should have been told to pick them up before being receipted*...





*(reseated... my worst, and finest, pun ever)

daiixi

I don't understand why my flatmate has just come home and done her breakfast bowls from the last two days but only one spoon (the other is left in the sink) and why she didn't bother to wash the mug or wipe down the sink.

nlgbbbblth

why someone would call themselves 'seabee'

StupidLikeAFox

note, pitch, octaves etc etc in music. Cant tell one from the other, or couldnt tell if a note was higher or lower than the next (unless of course they were extremes)

Zonko

exCrumlinBoyo wrote:

Humans in general. We strive to obtain the one thing that will make us happy only to find that we are not happy and strive to obtain the next thing that will make us happy…. What is with that s hit? Everyone is guilty of it. The grass is greener and all that c rap.

Buddhists call this being a "hungry ghost". Sort of like in Pac Man.

Pet

ColHol wrote:

note, pitch, octaves etc etc in music. Cant tell one from the other, or couldnt tell if a note was higher or lower than the next (unless of course they were extremes)

You poor thing, you don't play an instrument do you?


I second the 4 dimensional geometry thing. It's beyond my fathoming.

SystemError

daiixi wrote:

I don't understand why my flatmate has just come home and done her breakfast bowls from the last two days but only one spoon (the other is left in the sink) and why she didn't bother to wash the mug or wipe down the sink.

:eek:
I dont understand people who do that either

Cunny-Funt

Karl Hungus wrote:

Bad music. It's just beyond me how anyone can possibly like the stuff that's in the charts.

I remember a discussion about U2 on the music board, where someone kept going on about how the band have sold. It boggles me that there are actually people in this world who are so stupid, so shallow and so easily led, that their only reason for 'liking' something is that they sell more than the next band. I say liking there with a grain of salt, because I don't actually believe these people actually do like something in the common sense of the word, but rather profess to liking something because it's what they're supposed to like.

None of that ever suprises me, because without such people there probably wouldn't be shows like You're A Star, Big Brother, or I'm A Celebrity* Get Me Out Of Here. It's the same reason that for some unconcievable reason that every idiot seems to go wild about Paris Hilton. "OMG, she's really really rich, I worship her."

Anyway, I just cannot understand the mentality. I suppose it's like wondering how an ant thinks. It just does it's thing.

*My arse

Oh yeah, and the whole religion thing, but I guess that's covered by the easily led idiots rant.

This is something I rant about on a daily bases. It makes me feel a little better knowing at least one other person isnt brainwashed as I often feel I'm the only one.

DilbertPartII

why i get so stupid at times!:mad:

Splinter

why a can of coke tastes better than a bottle of coke...

free2fly

Sleepy wrote:

Sounds like an interesting thread. No offence intended but I've never seen a HR department that wouldn't have achieved better results by simply distributing the HR employee's salaries amongst the rest of the companies employees.

good one there Sleepy! Made me laugh. No offense taken.

Dec McC

i cant understand why a perfectly intelligent person can manage to resist peer pressure through their teenage years and then take up smoking when they hit 20

Sam Vimes

splinter wrote:

why a can of coke tastes better than a bottle of coke...

that's a weird one alright

nlgbbbblth

Dec McC wrote:

i cant understand why a perfectly intelligent person can manage to resist peer pressure through their teenage years and then take up smoking when they hit 20

I don't see the problem with that,

Surely it is better to start at 20 than say 11 or 12?

Less damage to your lungs etc.

flanger20002003

How they get the figs into the fig rolls

*sorry, couldn't resist*

BlueSpiral

How people hold grudges, I can't be angry at someone for more then a day, even if they want to fistycuff with me, but I luckily haven't been in that situation yet.

The above is probably a reason for my outlook on this one, I find it very hard to understand how people can be very pessimistic, They wouldn't just have "the glass half empty", they quickly come to the conclusion that thier glass of whatever is nearly gone and they will grow thirsty in a matter of minutes and have to spend precious money.

Girls going to the bathroom in groups, I'm a girl and I'm still confused. I haven't seen any group toilets in there as of recent.

OliviaM

I just don't get why I always trust people and yet they turn out to be monsters when you can't give what they want.:mad:

JC 2K3

Why popular culture is so shallow.
Why the majority of people buy into excessive consumerism.
Religion.

Basically, what I don't understand about the world is why most people are idiots or at least have some idiotic qualities about them?

Creamy Goodness

i don't get why people actually liked that crazy frog.


ohh the reason why coke tastes better from a can is because the container it's in, you can get quite a plastic-y - for want of a better word - of plastic bottled coke. you notice the way glass bottle coke is nicer than plastic bottle aswell?

i also don't get guys who wear pink shirts and try to deny it by saying it's salmon; it's the same ****ing colour, i don't care if guys wear pink but christ don't try and deny it like.

Ruu_Old

Cremo wrote:

i don't get why people actually liked that crazy frog.


ohh the reason why coke tastes better from a can is because the container it's in, you can get quite a plastic-y - for want of a better word - of plastic bottled coke. you notice the way glass bottle coke is nicer than plastic bottle aswell?

i also don't get guys who wear pink shirts and try to deny it by saying it's salmon; it's the same ****ing colour, i don't care if guys wear pink but christ don't try and deny it like.

Watching Friends?

Ross: Has anyone seen my shirt? It's a button down, like a faded salmon color.
Monica: You mean your pink shirt?
Ross: Faded salmon color.
Monica: No, I haven't seen your pink shirt.

Creamy Goodness

Ruu wrote:

Watching Friends?

Ross: Has anyone seen my shirt? It's a button down, like a faded salmon color.
Monica: You mean your pink shirt?
Ross: Faded salmon color.
Monica: No, I haven't seen your pink shirt.

just pure coincidence that it was on friends, haven't watched friends in years (last time i watched it chandler and monica got married).

Bard

There's quite a few things I just simply don't get.

• How people can find Bo Selecta the slightest bit funny. At all.
• How George W. Bush could have been democratically elected for a 2nd term, practically validating the original farcical 'election', when ANY alternative to him would probably have been better for the American people and the world as a whole.
• How our own esteemed leader, Bertie Ahern, seems to have such high-quality Teflon like properties, allowing no sh*t to stick to him whatsoever.
• The abject ignorance towards very basic technology that blights a great proportion of our population.
• Why certain brands of beer can't be made to taste as good from taps as from bottles (and vice-versa).
• How seemingly intelligent human beings can be suckered in by such ridiculous concepts as scientology.
• ... and sometimes (more often than not, if I'm honest) - the female brain.

I'm sure there's more...

That Same colour illusion thing, though... I get that.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=52613626&postcount=1
Or in particular, the comic itself

Flashraziel

Bard wrote:

[*]The abject ignorance towards very basic technology that blights a great proportion of our population.

I really don't get this either. My brother has been waiting since xmas for me to set up his mp3 player for him. Even after I explained you just put the disc in, press the install button that pops up and follow the instructions. Some people have a mental block that just won't let them even try to understand. Another example is my dad. the DVD player has laid idle for ages and when I asked him why he said he couldn't set it up. I mean, the plug goes in the plug socket and the other wire(scart) goes in the only scart shaped hole on the tv. Hardly rocket science. I could really go on for days.

Ok one more, In the College library the computers are all turned off when the library opens. Most peple come in and just turn it on and off they go. There are however a contingent of people that walk up to a computer, shake the mouse about, maybe hit the power button on the monitor and then try the next one. Boils my blood.

Its the 21st century people! Get used to it.

I also don't get how I can waste so much time when I know I have a lot of work to do.

kevmy

Bard wrote:

There's quite a few things I just simply don't get.

• How people can find Bo Selecta the slightest bit funny. At all.
• How George W. Bush could have been democratically elected for a 2nd term, practically validating the original farcical 'election', when ANY alternative to him would probably have been better for the American people and the world as a whole.
• How our own esteemed leader, Bertie Ahern, seems to have such high-quality Teflon like properties, allowing no sh*t to stick to him whatsoever.
• The abject ignorance towards very basic technology that blights a great proportion of our population.
• Why certain brands of beer can't be made to taste as good from taps as from bottles (and vice-versa).
• How seemingly intelligent human beings can be suckered in by such ridiculous concepts as scientology.
• ... and sometimes (more often than not, if I'm honest) - the female brain.

Agree with all above except for the scientology. Because noone even slightly intelligent/ not mentally disturbed is in scientology except for the five guys at the top sharing out the cash on one of lifes greatest scams.

molypiper

I don't get why some spend lots of money on drugs.

Raiser

Why does society insist on foisting Mathematics on children and students in general, when you can buy a calculator in the 2 €uro shop for €1+€1 ???

- I know the wise hypothetical voice will only say "but Raiser - what if there was no calculator available? What would you do then?"

- To this I reply "What if there was no paper and I snapped your pencil in half and stuffed it up your......."

astrofool

Raiser wrote:

Why does society insist on foisting Mathematics on children and students in general, when you can buy a calculator in the 2 €uro shop for €1+€1 ???

- I know the wise hypothetical voice will only say "but Raiser - what if there was no calculator available? What would you do then?"

- To this I reply "What if there was no paper and I snapped your pencil in half and stuffed it up your......."

Because you look stupid when both taking out a calculator in the middle of a shop to add up your purchases and when just bundling all the money you have onto the counter and letting the shop assistant take/rob the necessary from you.

Feral Mutant

Why is there always paint on the bottom of coke cans? Most of the time, it's colours that aren't used for the design on the can.

Where do pineapples come from? I don't mean geographically, I mean how are they grown? Do they grow in the ground, on trees, what?

Raiser wrote:

"What if there was no paper and I snapped your pencil in half and stuffed it up your......."

Thankfully, due to society foisting mathematics on me, I'd be able to work it out in my head.

Raiser

Why do men have nipples?

foolass wrote:

Because you look stupid when both taking out a calculator in the middle of a shop to add up your purchases and when just bundling all the money you have onto the counter and letting the shop assistant take/rob the necessary from you.

Nonsense - Why would I look stupid if I was just doing what every other maths-less citizen was doing?

- You're right about the thievery though - we should prob. teach every 50th child maths so that they can be employed to watch all of the opportunistic till-fumbling gits like hawks.

Felt Up Mutt wrote:

Thankfully, due to society foisting mathematics on me, I'd be able to work it out in my head.

Your head is no match for my Casio FX115MSPLUS - I don't care if you happen to have a % button between your eyes - you aint beating me in delivering exact answers to 8 decimal places.

- Also imagine the wealth of information that could reside within ones Cranium if the vessel wasn't already jammed with theorems and trigonometry as a matter of course ????

Pherekydes

Raiser wrote:

Your head is no match for my Casio FX115MSPLUS - I don't care if you happen to have a % button between your eyes - you aint beating me in delivering exact answers to 8 decimal places.

But how do you know it's right? By the way, an exact answer is exact, not to x number of decimals.

Mathematics = Mental discipline. Nuff said.

What I don't get:

Why do people watch reality TV? It's not real.
Why do redheads dye their hair blonde because their colourblind boyfriends, who can't tell the difference between red and blonde hair, say they don't like red hair?

Why does everyone get tattoos, just to be different?

Why do females with big rolls of flab around their midriffs wear those tops that expose their flabby midriffs?

Why do drivers shout at drivers who do stupid stuff, "You stupid bast*rd", except when the other driver is a foreigner, then they shout, "You stupid black bast*rd"? Quite apart from the fact that they can't be heard?

InFront

Raiser wrote:

Why do men have nipples?

Yeah, I wonder about that as well. Why on earth are they there?!

Raiser

How is it that when you were growing up your Mum knew about all the drug dealers who gave away drugs for free, but all of the ones you encounterd expected payment in the local currency ?

Slow coach wrote:

But how do you know it's right? By the way, an exact answer is exact, not to x number of decimals.

Mathematics = Mental discipline. Nuff said.

Casio have sold their billionth calculator in the past few days; I ask you to note two points; they knew exactly how many they had sold & they were not sold as paper-weights

http://world.casio.com/corporate/news/2007/cal_one_billion.html