Things you don't get

tevey08

I don't get the latest fashion craze in teenage men wearing tight jeans/tracksuits and having fluffy fringes.

How technology has ruined nights out, everything you do recorded and pictures to remind you how dumb you are

People posting 50 millions stories on their snapchat.

ederkeh

Radio advertising that involve conversations between 2 people

Martina1991

tevey08 wrote: »

I don't get the latest fashion craze in teenage men wearing tight jeans/tracksuits and having fluffy fringes.

I hate that haircut. It's the mullet of our generation.

topper75

Donald Trump wrote: »

That one isn't hard to understand. Irish person went to America back in the day. Overstayed their visa. Now has a family and business there and is paying taxes and contributing to society.

Since 9/11 they can't travel home and expect to get back into the US. Half their family is there and half their family is in Ireland and they can't regularize their situation.

...

But that is the whole problem [bolded bit]. One does not simply walk into Mordor. So I am not sure why I'm supposed to have sympathy.

I don't get why people think they can take on the bookies (endless data, actuaries, algorithms, and computing power) and win over the long term. Maybe they are crushingly hopeless at maths.

Widdershins

Fashion. I don't get why people care about their clothing being 'in'. Nor do I 'get' why people have to have the latest models of mobile phones.

Fans. Indepth knowledge of and fascination with the famous person's background and personal live as well as their whole career. Now and then, it's interesting to be told a surprising fact about someone very famous from a fan, but I couldn't take that level of interest.

Fake tan. I think women look better without it. (that'll go down well)

Rubberlegs

I don't get people posting pictures of their kids on Facebook. I don't buy the excuse it is to share them with family, there is email for that. I don't get the constant over sharing of every mundane detail of their lives or airing their grievances with an ex,. I don't get the people who pander to their constant need for validation telling them they are great the whole time. Easier to say I don't get Facebook

Wanderer78

73Cat wrote:

I don't get people posting pictures of their kids on Facebook. I don't buy the excuse it is to share them with family, there is email for that. I don't get the constant over sharing of every mundane detail of their lives or airing their grievances with an ex,. I don't get the people who pander to their constant need for validation telling them they are great the whole time. Easier to say I don't get Facebook

Never had an account, never want one. The behaviour on it is very very strange, but I can see it's merits

Rubberlegs

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Never had an account, never want one. The behaviour on it is very very strange, but I can see it's merits

I had an account but deleted it, it was wrecking my head. I just don't get all the attention seeking at all, it turns some normally sane people into a$sholes. I do miss all the funny stuff though:(

alberto67

OP, I don't get it.

_Roz_

Wanting children. And the general attitude towards people who don't want children.

Fashion, makeup.

Irish drinking culture.

A preference for cats over dogs.

The way Irish people conduct conversations by talking loudly over everyone else talking loudly until the last person talking actually gets to be heard.

People who don't trust science insofar at least as to not feed them bleach to cure autism etc.

Wanderer78

73Cat wrote:

I had an account but deleted it, it was wrecking my head. I just don't get all the attention seeking at all, it turns some normally sane people into a$sholes. I do miss all the funny stuff though

From the outside, I'm finding a lot of the behaviour odd even unhealthy for society, I must look at some of the research on it, I'd imagine a lot of negative outcomes are being found. There is a lot of funny stuff on it though, and informative stuff to.

Widdershins

Why people come down on the side of cats or dogs and ask if you're a ''cat or dog person''. Nobody asks if I'm an elephant or tiger person, is it because cats and dogs are seen as natural enemies and we're all taking sides? You can like both. Sometimes cats irritate me and I prefer dogs, and vice versa.

MagicIRL

Tax reliefs.

I recently found out I'm Gluten Intolerant. Turns out there's a tax back scheme for gluten intolerance due to gluten-free food generally costing more than regular food.

Why not just charge less VAT on gluten-free food? It seems like it would remove the entire process of having to apply for this tax back and cut out allllll the administration costs. Plus, anyone who buys gluten-free food immediately benefits.

I'm sure there's other examples where this would apply too, but I just can't get my head around why this isn't the system already.

Rubberlegs

I don't get why people who aren't into cats/dogs are looked at like they have just said they torture them for kicks. I am not into them but I would never hurt one , sheeesh !

Fanny Wank

Most things tbh

No socks with shoes and trousers that are both too tight and too short

Posting to Facebook/Tweeting about every single thing you do

The complete influx of Americanisms into the daily vocabulary

People who get "famous" for being famous (definitely a case of hate the game not the player here)

Newspapers. **** me I can't think of a single one that's available in Ireland that isn't terrible

How impressionable people are (based on stuff they read online and/or on social media)

Loads of posts on boards that are full of accroyms, Americanisms, idiotic flavour of the month buzz phrases. Quite often read a post thinking "I recognise all those words but the sentence make no sense"

Use of hashtags in speech and outside Twitter

Related to the above misuse/over use of the word "literally". I literally explode with rage every time it happens

Widdershins

Why do cats love cardboard boxes so much?

Gunslinger92

The appeal of going to electric picnic.

Permabear

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_Kaiser_

Bambi985 wrote: »

Drivers who don't indicate. Why? You literally have to move your hand a few centimetres. It takes less energy than actually making that decision to drive in a certain direction. Why would you not?

It's endemic in Cork... seriously, I do a lot of miles every week but almost no-one in Cork bloody indicates., and every time I'm down there it's infuriating and often dangerous. :mad:

alberto67 wrote: »

Speed limit is 120km/h on the motorway and still humans are building cars capable of 200-250 km/h...

Most Irish humans can't even drive at the 120 when there's no reason not to though. The amount of dawdling out there is ridiculous. Then you have the Traffic Corps wannabes holding up lanes of traffic because "it's a limit, not a target"

GTFO-of the way!


Other things...

- Most social media. Vacuous, narcissistic shyte from people who seem to need constant validation from other similarly-minded people to get through the day.

- The Irish "ah shure it'll be grand!" attitude to everything. No wonder the country is so inefficiently run and wasteful. This attitude is EVERYWHERE.

- Related to the social media point, the types who actively look to be offended (even more nonsensical when they try to be offended on someone else's behalf.. regardless of whether that other group is actually offended!)

- The obsession with property ownership in this country. Yea, we know renting sucks.. but the answer to that isn't to coerce everyone into overpriced mortgages that they may not really be able to afford (we've seen what happens then!). It's to reform the rental market properly so that BOTH options are viable long term choices.

- The drinking culture. I like the occasional pint as well, but almost everything in this country socially revolves around going to the pub. God forbid you don't drink.. you might as well be a leper in many circles.

_Roz_

Widdershins wrote: »

Why people come down on the side of cats or dogs and ask if you're a ''cat or dog person''. Nobody asks if I'm an elephant or tiger person, is it because cats and dogs are seen as natural enemies and we're all taking sides? You can like both. Sometimes cats irritate me and I prefer dogs, and vice versa.

Plenty of people like both, I have some time for cats myself. But in terms of people who come down on one side or the other, it's usually because they either like a self-reliant animal which does their own thing, or because they love having an animal which entirely depends on them and is incredibly loyal to them for it. My brother is a cat person. I'm mostly a dog person. My mother is both.

Grayson

myshirt wrote: »

I also don't get why it took over 300 pages in Principia Mathematica to conclusively prove that 1+1=2.

Especially considering Godel disproved it

_Kaiser_

_Roz_ wrote: »

Plenty of people like both, I have some time for cats myself. But in terms of people who come down on one side or the other, it's usually because they either like a self-reliant animal which does their own thing, or because they love having an animal which entirely depends on them and is incredibly loyal to them for it. My brother is a cat person. I'm mostly a dog person. My mother is both.

We had 3 Rottweilers and a cat when I was younger and the cat ran the show

The dogs loved her though - they grew up with her from birth and sometimes she'd allow them sit with her Was always funny though when she'd stroll into the room and make them wait while she drank from their water dish.

Widdershins

_Roz_ wrote: »

Plenty of people like both, I have some time for cats myself. But in terms of people who come down on one side or the other, it's usually because they either like a self-reliant animal which does their own thing, or because they love having an animal which entirely depends on them and is incredibly loyal to them for it. My brother is a cat person. I'm mostly a dog person. My mother is both.[/QUOTE

I suppose it's when they're really anti-the other animal that I don't get. It seems normal to have a preference, since they're the two most common domestic animals but they're so different in character.

_Roz_

Widdershins wrote: »

I suppose it's when they're really anti-the other animal that I don't get. It seems normal to have a preference, since they're the two most common domestic animals but they're so different in character.

Ah yeah, I like cats, my brother likes dogs. I grew up owning cats. My preference is just dogs, as they suit my personality more.

Boom_Bap

I don't know the correct procedure for hanging a bra on a clothes line or clothes horse.

Grayson

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I don't know the correct procedure for hanging a bra on a clothes line or clothes horse.

Take it off first?

gerrybbadd

MagicIRL wrote: »

Tax reliefs.

I recently found out I'm Gluten Intolerant. Turns out there's a tax back scheme for gluten intolerance due to gluten-free food generally costing more than regular food.

Why not just charge less VAT on gluten-free food? It seems like it would remove the entire process of having to apply for this tax back and cut out allllll the administration costs. Plus, anyone who buys gluten-free food immediately benefits.

I'm sure there's other examples where this would apply too, but I just can't get my head around why this isn't the system already.

This couldn't work, as different VAT rates apply to different types of food.

For instance, bread has no VAT on it. Biscuits have the 13.5% rate, and if they have chocolate on them, 23% rate.

Boom_Bap

Grayson wrote: »

Take it off first?

Good tip. Should I do this before or after putting her in the washing machine?

duffman3833

i don't get iPhone's
overpriced useless crap which now costs €1k

zcorpian88

The way county GAA players are treated like celebrities and have every opportunity handed to them because they play GAA, especially when it comes to half decent jobs, thick as planks some of them and in a good job.

These kids with these douchey haircuts, fluffy fringes and that fecking slick mohawk looking one that looks like a greasy turd on their head.

In order to get a job in IT a lot of employers require a degree, not a firm believer in that, some people have a natural aptitude for computers but don't feel that college is for them and don't get a look in. You'd be surprised how many people with IT degrees that know f**k all about IT and need their hand held all the time and the guy without a degree knows a hell of a lot more but the college environment doesn't sit well for them.

Permabear

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Omackeral

How come I've never ever seen an ad for a Chinese takeaway on TV?

seamus

I've said it before here, but fashion.

Looking at pictures of what other people wore. People going up and down catwalks in ridiculous looking clothes.

My brain just doesn't compute it at all. Something like "Exposé" is just an hour of WGAF to me. At best I see the appeal in attractive women on the telly. For everything else I may as well be looking at a discussion on the finer points of the work of Henry Dumas. In Japanese. My brain just disconnects.

Boom_Bap

Permabear wrote: »

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Would the wet cups not stretch the fabric between the cups as well?

Widdershins

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Would the wet cups not stretch the fabric between the cups as well?

Not really, because of the difference in the way the weight is pulling it down.

Permabear

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Fanny **** wrote:

Related to the above misuse/over use of the word "literally". I literally explode with rage every time it happens

I feel the same about the word "absolutely".

Squeeonline

paid enough for my job.

fancy pigeon

Why some people always have to be right. Never wrong. No matter what

What are they trying to prove, apart from being perceived as a colossal anus

myshirt

Omackeral wrote: »

How come I've never ever seen an ad for a Chinese takeaway on TV?

How come no one has ever heard of a Chinese funeral in the Death Notices?

Donald Trump

topper75 wrote: »

But that is the whole problem [bolded bit]. One does not simply walk into Mordor. So I am not sure why I'm supposed to have sympathy.

Well they basically did just walk in. It was extremely easy to do and blind eyes were turned by all involved because it benefited everyone.

I don't think they care about your sympathy. They just want to regularize their situations. From their perspective, everyone is winning by them being there so it makes no sense to do an action that damages everyone.

It doesn't benefit the States by making their lives difficult. In fact, if they had a process to regularize them that could be involve paying fines and getting into some structured process.

Of course I'm not suggesting that everyone whose feet touches US soil should be allowed to stay there indefinitely. But if someone is there for 20 years, what is the point of deporting them at that point? Maybe leaving behind US born children.


Have a look at this documentary. Well worth watching

topper75 wrote: »

I don't get why people think they can take on the bookies (endless data, actuaries, algorithms, and computing power) and win over the long term. Maybe they are crushingly hopeless at maths.

Yeah......I'm not sure what you are trying to say about maths. It's a legal issue.
If you are saying that the probability of getting away with it over the long term is small then, ironically, you are completely wrong as the opposite is true. If it were not, then there wouldn't be 50,000 odd illegal Irish over there for decades.The issue is that in order to make sure they aren't caught, they can't/don't do things.

If those 50,000 were some of the hypothetical maths-illiterate people you are talking about and took risks, they wouldn't still be there

Donald Trump

myshirt wrote: »

How come no one has ever heard of a Chinese funeral in the Death Notices?

Whoa whoa whoa. Are you trying to imply that the chicken from the local takeaway may not, in fact, be dog or swan meat (allegedly and completely unsubstantiated)?

myshirt

Farmers. I never got farmers. They've got these big sheds that for some reason no one is allowed into.

Inside these sheds (potentially) could be anything. 20 foot high chickens, cows with four arses, god knows what else. There is something going on here.

Wibbs

seamus wrote: »

I've said it before here, but fashion.

Looking at pictures of what other people wore. People going up and down catwalks in ridiculous looking clothes.

My brain just doesn't compute it at all. Something like "Exposis just an hour of WGAF to me. At best I see the appeal in attractive women on the telly. For everything else I may as well be looking at a discussion on the finer points of the work of Henry Dumas. In Japanese. My brain just disconnects.

I'd kinda be similar. Though for me it's less fashion per se, more the ever speedier rotation of it. We've pretty much always had "fashion". We've been described as the "Naked Ape", but for my money we're far better described as the "Decorated Ape". We wear different fashions for reasons like; status, attractiveness, group affiliation and so on. These days though it's more the status and that novelty hit that keeps the cash registers ringing. And to do so fashion, particularly women's fashion* regularly goes so far up it's own arse it needs a glass navel to see out of trying to find and describe and sell novelty in the shape of the same bullsh1t that has gone before. Breasts are "in", White is the new black, flares are cool etc. The kinda guff you hear on Xpose and the like where various talking heads spout inanities touted as fashion advice in cringeworthy mid Atlantic accents. As John Lennon once remarked; Haute couture, French for bullsh1t.

There are few enough things I don't get. At least I see why others may get them. That fantasy(if that's what it's called?) stuff like Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones. Leaves me ice cold. Winter is coming indeed. I tried to wade through GOT but TBH came away with it feeling like a soap opera more aimed at women who follow soap operas with side order of murder and swordplay to keep the boyfriend in play. Dunno why, but that's the vibe I got from it. LOTR? God no.

Harry Potter. OK for kids yeah and great that it got kids engaged in books again, but for adults? Really don't get the attraction. I find her writing over explanatory and creaky - again fine for kids - and the plot have so many holes of reason they would pass decent muster as teabags.

X factor a given. Though again it's the soap opera thing I suppose?




*that's a cultural bias of our own. For many cultures and throughout history it was the men that were the dolled up primped up peacocks, that would climb over the bodies of they families for the latest in thing.

gormdubhgorm

Morrissey the lead 'Singer' of the Smiths

I can understand how people like different styles of music some I like and some I don't.
I can understand why people like the different styles of music OK that is what thier into fair enough
But I really don't get Morrissey at all. That kind of patronising half singing/half talking way of his. He could not be more pompous if he tried.

Worse still some Radio DJ's like Tom Dunne seem to have him up on some pedestal as some sort of lyrical/musical genius.




Morrissey:

'Heaven Knows I am miserable now....'

My reaction:

Cheer up Morrissey I am getting miserable just listening to you. You are not in f**king musical.









Morrissey:

'I was looking for a job, and then I found a job'

My reaction:

It's a pity you didn't find another one!

You are very annoying.

You will get a box soon if you don't shut up.








Morrissey:

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die?

My reaction:

Can you blame them!?









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5rtytry56

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Why some people always have to be right. Never wrong. No matter what

What are they trying to prove, apart from being perceived as a colossal anus

Rampant across the spectrum of Irish Politics. They're always right because they're watching things unfold from their cool vantage point as they said they themselves said they would , but nobody was listening to them, (actually they never said it)

na1

I never got the definition of the word: "homeless"
Strictly speaking most of people here are homeless. They don't have a house of they own.
For example I am homeless myself. The bank owns my house, and if I stop paying my bank the next thing the bank do - they will kick me out of their house! no sympathy or remorse.
The same for people paying rent to their landlords.
The people who are mostly referred as "homeless" can have the roof over their had as soon as they start paying the rent or the mortgage. So they are either don't want to pay, or don't have money to pay, and don't want to apply for rent supplement

Sleepy

Fake Tan. No matter how much the bottle, the beautician, the glossy magazines or other women lie to you, it never looks natural and you look better without it.

Religious Belief, or more particularly, those who can't acknowledge that their faith is a choice to disregard a complete lack of evidence and logical reasoning in favour of a "good" story.

na1

Sleepy wrote: »

Fake Tan. No matter how much the bottle, the beautician, the glossy magazines or other women lie to you, it never looks natural and you look better without it.

Most Indian/Thai  girls want to make their skin lighter, most European girls want their skin tanned.
I'd say if our bodies tend to loose weight, and gaining weight would be a challenge, then most of the girls would take weight gaining pills.

Shenshen

The obsession with school uniforms in this country.
Listening to people you'd be forgiven for believing the world would end the moment children would be allowed to choose what to wear themselves.

And I'm sure it just simply won't - I grew up in Germany, I don't think there are any schools there that have school uniforms (there may be a few obscure weird private ones, but I've never heard of or seen any), and we still learned to read and write, a decent enough amount of maths, 2 foreign languages (3 if you want to count Latin), biology, chemistry, etc etc. All without destroying our classroom in orgies of anarchy, without stripping our teachers naked and painting them purple, and actually even without really caring what the other students wore.