Things you just "don't get"?

Conor Bourke

riclad wrote: »

Small tattoo,s are ok,if they are discreet . i think large tattoo,s that cover part of the arm
are awful.large tattoo,s =low class chav .males that have large face tattoo,s
,well i think they are low level criminal,s or psychopaths .
if you are in professional rock band or a heavy metal band then maybe theres an excuse, eg having a tattoo is just part of the image.
In general large tattoo =small brain .
i,m not saying there are not nice looking tattoo,s or tattoo,s that can look
good,if its a good design and in a place where its not too obvious.
i understand some in countrys like new zealand tattoo,s are part of the native culture .
theres a presenter on fox news ,he says he never wash,s his hands,
as he does not believe in bacteria .
i have not seen 1 person with large arm tattoo,s and thought that looks
nice or artistic .

Love how this was just tucked in in the middle of the tattoo rant.

Jayesdiem

riclad wrote: »

Small tattoo,s are ok,if they are discreet . i think large tattoo,s that cover part of the arm
are awful.large tattoo,s =low class chav .males that have large face tattoo,s
,well i think they are low level criminal,s or psychopaths .
if you are in professional rock band or a heavy metal band then maybe theres an excuse, eg having a tattoo is just part of the image.
In general large tattoo =small brain .
i,m not saying there are not nice looking tattoo,s or tattoo,s that can look
good,if its a good design and in a place where its not too obvious.
i understand some in countrys like new zealand tattoo,s are part of the native culture .
theres a presenter on fox news ,he says he never wash,s his hands,
as he does not believe in bacteria .
i have not seen 1 person with large arm tattoo,s and thought that looks
nice or artistic .

Large tattoo = small brain? Please, read over what you’ve just written and consider how it true it could actually be.

dubstarr

riclad wrote: »

Small tattoo,s are ok,if they are discreet . i think large tattoo,s that cover part of the arm
are awful.large tattoo,s =low class chav .males that have large face tattoo,s
,well i think they are low level criminal,s or psychopaths .
if you are in professional rock band or a heavy metal band then maybe theres an excuse, eg having a tattoo is just part of the image.
In general large tattoo =small brain .
i,m not saying there are not nice looking tattoo,s or tattoo,s that can look
good,if its a good design and in a place where its not too obvious.
i understand some in countrys like new zealand tattoo,s are part of the native culture .
theres a presenter on fox news ,he says he never wash,s his hands,
as he does not believe in bacteria .
i have not seen 1 person with large arm tattoo,s and thought that looks
nice or artistic .

I find that deeply insulting.Im no chav.

I think judging people you dont know on what they have on their skin is small brained.
Plus any one with tattoos dont care what people think.I didnt get my tattoos for you or anyone.I got them for me.

iamwhoiam

riclad wrote: »

Small tattoo,s are ok,if they are discreet . i think large tattoo,s that cover part of the arm
are awful.large tattoo,s =low class chav .males that have large face tattoo,s
,well i think they are low level criminal,s or psychopaths .
if you are in professional rock band or a heavy metal band then maybe theres an excuse, eg having a tattoo is just part of the image.
In general large tattoo =small brain .
i,m not saying there are not nice looking tattoo,s or tattoo,s that can look
good,if its a good design and in a place where its not too obvious.
i understand some in countrys like new zealand tattoo,s are part of the native culture .
theres a presenter on fox news ,he says he never wash,s his hands,
as he does not believe in bacteria .
i have not seen 1 person with large arm tattoo,s and thought that looks
nice or artistic .

I would much prefer to spend time with a person with tattoos than with a person who was judgemental

Leg End Reject

After reading the TA thread, I don't get why people have carpet in a high traffic area like a hall.

vriesmays

I don't get why CEX refuse to order in DVDs from their other stores.

The Nal

I don't get why people buy DVDs in 2020.

Ash.J.Williams

The Nal wrote: »

I don't get why people buy DVDs in 2020.

lived on them for a month last year,...no broadband

asked my nephew had he any movies on a usb device and was met with "what year is this 2006?"

hellsing101

The Nal wrote: »

I don't get why people buy DVDs in 2020.

Some people like to have physical media, I like to keep a few DVD's of films that I enjoy or boxsets of shows and still buy the odd one in CEX from time to time.


Also older people who don't use streaming services or don't have broadband probably buy them for something to watch when Last of the Summer Wine isn't on.

kerplun k

insolvency

Ash.J.Williams

kerplun k wrote: »

insolvency

ivan yeates a prime example....fecks off to wales for a year and comes back dept free to a big job!

cj maxx

Reality TV . Heap of sh1te

freshpopcorn

The Nal wrote: »

I don't get why people buy DVDs in 2020.

I buy the odd few DVD's in CEX for about €2.
I joined Netflix and other sites and it didn't do much for me and I found I didn't get much use out of it.

PsychoPete

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I buy the odd few DVD's in CEX for about €2.
I joined Netflix and other sites and it didn't do much for me and I found I didn't get much use out of it.

Very much quantity over quality

the purple tin

The corona virus is so dangerous and contagious they keep telling us on the news, yet they are more than happy to send their reporters all over the world to do a quick and pointless update to camera at the site of the latest outbreak

Potential-Monke

the purple tin wrote: »

The corona virus is so dangerous and contagious they keep telling us on the news, yet they are more than happy to send their reporters all over the world to do a quick and pointless update to camera at the site of the latest outbreak

They like to send reporters over to anything for quick and pointless updates. Why do we have to have an RTE reporter in America covering stuff? No need for someone to be at the court case of Trump. Waste of money, but that's what the licence is for.

the purple tin

Potential-Monke wrote: »

They like to send reporters over to anything for quick and pointless updates. Why do we have to have an RTE reporter in America covering stuff? No need for someone to be at the court case of Trump. Waste of money, but that's what the licence is for.

That's true, but now they are putting their reporter and crew in danger sending them to virus hotspots. Putting us in danger too when they arrive back home.

Potential-Monke

the purple tin wrote: »

That's true, but now they are putting their reporter and crew in danger sending them to virus hotspots. Putting us in danger too when they arrive back home.

Shur, are you not a real reporter if you don't put your life in danger? It's like the Americans sending their reporters to the war zones. Because we don't start warsfreedom initiatives, we send ours to areas that can kill the viewers.

Quantum Erasure

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Shur, are you not a real reporter if you don't put your life in danger?

don''t take unnecessary journeys

Runaways

The whole thing about the Big Bang.

I just find it bizarrely implausible and unprovable

Hokum

Gwynplaine

Potential-Monke wrote: »

They like to send reporters over to anything for quick and pointless updates. Why do we have to have an RTE reporter in America covering stuff? No need for someone to be at the court case of Trump. Waste of money, but that's what the licence is for.

What about them sending George Hamilton and Jim Beglin to cover Champions League games? Surely it could be done from at home. Some waste.

Wibbs

Well we can observe that the universe is expanding(doppler shifts an' that), stars and the like are flying apart from each other, so if we run the oul tape backwards it means they were closer and closer together over time, which strongly suggests a point where they were, well a point.


God. Earlier. Observing health and safety protocols.


Funny enough the term "the Big Bang theory" was originally used as a disparaging term by those who believed in what is known as the Steady State theory(IE the universe was always the same pretty much), but over time became the name for it. It was IIRC originally called the "Cosmic egg" or Primaeval Atom" theory, thought up by a priest whose name embarrassingly escapes me. I think he was Belgian or French?

Wayne Jarvis

Wibbs wrote: »

Funny enough the term "the Big Bang theory" was originally used as a disparaging term by those who believed in what is known as the Steady State theory(IE the universe was always the same pretty much), but over time became the name for it. It was IIRC originally called the "Cosmic egg" or Primaeval Atom" theory, thought up by a priest whose name embarrassingly escapes me. I think he was Belgian or French?

You should be embarrassed Wibbs. His name was Georges Lemaître. I didn't have to Google that to find out, I already knew because I'm dead smart. And I definitely did not copy and paste the below paragraph from Wikipedia, I typed it out myself using information from my brain and I helpfully included notes and annotations because I'm a nice Guy like that. Just to clarify again, I had heard of this theory before reading your post, I had heard of this man before reading your post, I didn't have to check online for any information I have included here and I am dead smart. I am embarrassed on your behalf Wibbs. SMH.



Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître RAS Associate[1] (/ləˈmɛtrə/ lə-MET-rə, French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] (listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Jesuit-educated Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2] He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble–Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".[12]

cj maxx

I'm mortified for ya Wibbs

Conor Bourke

Things I don’t get: faux modesty

Runaways

Guy Person wrote: »

You should be embarrassed Wibbs. His name was Georges Lemaître. I didn't have to Google that to find out, I already knew because I'm dead smart. And I definitely did not copy and paste the below paragraph from Wikipedia, I typed it out myself using information from my brain and I helpfully included notes and annotations because I'm a nice Guy like that. Just to clarify again, I had heard of this theory before reading your post, I had heard of this man before reading your post, I didn't have to check online for any information I have included here and I am dead smart. I am embarrassed on your behalf Wibbs. SMH.



Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître RAS Associate[1] (/ləˈmɛtrə/ lə-MET-rə, French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] (listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Jesuit-educated Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2] He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble–Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".[12]

That was brilliant thanks

Esel

God dropped one of his marbles and it shattered.

Don't ask what God dropped it onto - that's a mystery!

whisky_galore

The sheer amount of faffing around in the run up to a US presidential election, fcuking caucus this and Super Tuesday that.

Gwynplaine

whisky_galore wrote: »

The sheer amount of faffing around in the run up to a US presidential election, fcuking caucus this and Super Tuesday that.

Why is there so much coverage of it here? Nonsense.

whisky_galore

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Why is there so much coverage of it here? Nonsense.

The usual Irish infatuation with the U.S.
Closer to Boston than Berlin.

I have interest in the final result, but as to who takes Iowa or Florida or wherever, who cares?
What a weird, unnecessarily Byzantine way to choose a country's president.

Titclamp

Why are we here? Why do we need to be here?
No one actually has a clue.

the beer revolu

Creamy salad dressing.
Was in Austria a few weeks ago and every time I ordered a salad, it came absolutely drowned in white, creamy dressing:(
Who likes this stuff?

As for ranch dressing, that can go rightly fcuk off, too.

Nothing should go on a salad except homemade vinaigrette.
No nice salad dressing has ever come from a shop.

Widdershins

Why people buy pretty old houses and proceed to destroy all their character.

I also don't get people who resent books, reading, any kind of art and design and fashion.

I really don't get the idea of eating particular foods and nothing beyond them because that's what was served to you, growing up. Youre not going to be struck down for eating an 'exotic' furrin vegetable that isn't a potatoe!

The nice thing about being an adult is we have our own choices and the means for them.

Seamai

the beer revolu wrote: »

Creamy salad dressing.
Was in Austria a few weeks ago and every time I ordered a salad, it came absolutely drowned in white, creamy dressing:(
Who likes this stuff?

As for ranch dressing, that can go rightly fcuk off, too.

Nothing should go on a salad except homemade vinaigrette.
No nice salad dressing has ever come from a shop.

I like it, sometime I make my own as a change from the vinaigrette with mayonaise, dijon mustard and cider vinegar.

the beer revolu

Seamai wrote: »

I like it, sometime I make my own as a change from the vinaigrette with mayonaise, dijon mustard and cider vinegar.

Peasant!

Seamai

whisky_galore wrote: »

The usual Irish infatuation with the U.S.
Closer to Boston than Berlin.

I have interest in the final result, but as to who takes Iowa or Florida or wherever, who cares?
What a weird, unnecessarily Byzantine way to choose a country's president.

And after all the pushing and shoving invariably you end up with a clown at the top.

Himself grew up there and from time to time we go there for family reasons, we both hate going there (not the family), I can only think of all the money I'm spending to get there when I could be spending it going somewhere I really like. The first time I went there it all felt very familiar, nothing exotic about it I'd seen it so many times on TV and films.

Seamai

the beer revolu wrote: »

Peasant!

Sometimes I'd even crumble a bit of blue cheese into it.

the beer revolu

Seamai wrote: »

Sometimes I'd even crumble a bit of blue cheese into it.

Worse!
A peasant with notions!!:eek:

Seamai

the beer revolu wrote: »

Worse!
A peasant with notions!!:eek:

It get's better, I don't understand why people think that fondue is so naff. I really like it, I make a great one with comté and emmenthal. Definitely a pleb now

Leilak

paddys day parade ...... why??? whats it all about ?? oh and green guinness

the beer revolu

Seamai wrote: »

It get's better, I don't understand why people think that fondue is so naff. I really like it, I make a great one with comté and emmenthal. Definitely a pleb now

This is acceptable, once, while on holidays.

What a feckin waste of Comté:(

Seamai

Leilak wrote: »

paddys day parade ...... why??? whats it all about ?? oh and green guinness

It's the Yanks, they destroy everything they get their hands on, they've done it to Hallow'een and are hell bent on doing the same to our national holiday and we just let them.

Seamai

the beer revolu wrote: »

This is acceptable, once, while on holidays.

What a feckin waste of Comté:(

I get what you're saying, I'd use the cheaper supermarket Comté for cooking, (sometimes I'd substitute something else). Nothing nicer than a good aged Comté, that I keep to eat on it's own.

the beer revolu

Seamai wrote: »

I get what you're saying, I'd use the cheaper supermarket Comté for cooking, (sometimes I'd substitute something else). Nothing nicer than a good aged Comté, that I keep to eat on it's own.

There's some hope, I suppose.

Another thing I don't get is cheese in salads. I don't mean a feta salad or a goats cheese salad or something like that. I mean little cubes of cheddar or emmental in a mixed salad. Eugh! French people seem to do that.

I have many salad issues, it seems.

Widdershins

The princess detests salade...

Seamai

Widdershins wrote: »

The princess detests salade...

But we have it flown in fresh from Guernsey with our organic yogurt every morning.

El_Duderino 09

Leilak wrote: »

paddys day parade ...... why??? whats it all about ?? oh and green guinness

The party on St Patrick’s day is about the sense of community and shared culture. I’ve no problem having people with other cultures living in Ireland. But I’d like Irish people, like myself, to keep our own historical and cultural traditions alive.

I’ll take part in paddy’s day. I’ll learn the stories and fairytales and teach them to my children. I don't worry about other cultures "taking over" as long as we keep our own culture alive and well. Other cultures can just add to Irish culture as long as we keep our own culture thriving.

Alun

the beer revolu wrote: »

Creamy salad dressing.
Was in Austria a few weeks ago and every time I ordered a salad, it came absolutely drowned in white, creamy dressing:(
Who likes this stuff?

Austrians, obviously, and Germans too. Oh yes, and me

Alun

Seamai wrote: »

It get's better, I don't understand why people think that fondue is so naff. I really like it, I make a great one with comté and emmenthal. Definitely a pleb now

Made my first fondue in ages just last weekend as it happens! Used Gruyere and Emmenthal though.

Alun

What I don't get with salads in Germany is that you get the salad before your meal, and most Germans eat it all first before the main course appears. I used to live there and I always loved the puzzled expression on the waiters' faces when they delivered the main course and the salad was there uneaten. They'll even sometimes go to take it away assuming you didn't want it!