Things you don't 'get' that others do?

[MingtheMerciless]

Also Boxing, you very rarely see an old boxer without shakes, memory loss or broke.

[ZRX61]

Religion. It's 2024, not 1424.

[Docca]

The meeting up at biker cafes and riding in large groups. Sounds like hell.

Riding the same roads each week. And, sometimes, crashing on bends they've been around umpteen times.

Alton towards Basingstoke riders, looking at you.

I drive that route almost every day; dropping my daughter at college.


Do drop by for a coffee if you're in Alton

[Sunny]

This differentiation of people by sex:

Even after all these years. I don't get the wimminz.

That's not a late life admission of the ghey,or anything,just an acknowledgement of the random unpredictability that is ever present in wimminz of the female kind.

I can relate to this...

You guys do know that there's quite a few of those wimminz folk that don't get other wimminz either, right?!!

In general, it easier to have men friends I've found

In my experience, some people are cunts, some people are likable, and the rest fall in between.

I tend to judge people on personality. Rarely does it have anything to do with which set of genitals and hormones they have going on.

[Horse]

The meeting up at biker cafes and riding in large groups. Sounds like hell.

Riding the same roads each week. And, sometimes, crashing on bends they've been around umpteen times.

Alton towards Basingstoke riders, looking at you.

I drive that route almost every day; dropping my daughter at college.


Do drop by for a coffee if you're in Alton

Ta, but rarely visit the town nowadays as rellies have moved*. And, on principle, I used to avoid popular 'biking roads' when training (eg Cliddesden, Candovers, Old Alresford instead, nicer and quieter).

* There's a bend at Herriard which has high-grip surfacing. Applied after a rider ran wide and went head-on into another bike, nasty outcomes [We were going to visit rellies that day ended up detouring along little lanes] After, I was chatting to a copper, who wasn't a fan of the new surfacing - thought that it would encourage riders to go faster.

There's too many places, particularly heading North, on the 339 which can lull riders into a false sense of stupidity. Long straights leading to a series of bends. 'Waterworks' at Shalden is the worst, then around Lasham airfield is another.

Edit: QMC? ('74-'76 )

[Horse]

Wearing trendy wooly hats on hot days, and indoors.

[ZRX61]

Hoodies.

[Rockburner]

Riding the same roads each week. And, sometimes, crashing on bends they've been around umpteen times.

Alton towards Basingstoke riders, looking at you.

I drive that route almost every day; dropping my daughter at college.


Do drop by for a coffee if you're in Alton

Ta, but rarely visit the town nowadays as rellies have moved*. And, on principle, I used to avoid popular 'biking roads' when training (eg Cliddesden, Candovers, Old Alresford instead, nicer and quieter).

* There's a bend at Herriard which has high-grip surfacing. Applied after a rider ran wide and went head-on into another bike, nasty outcomes [We were going to visit rellies that day ended up detouring along little lanes] After, I was chatting to a copper, who wasn't a fan of the new surfacing - thought that it would encourage riders to go faster.

There's too many places, particularly heading North, on the 339 which can lull riders into a false sense of stupidity. Long straights leading to a series of bends. 'Waterworks' at Shalden is the worst, then around Lasham airfield is another.

Edit: QMC? ('74-'76 )

Is that the "high-grip surfacing" that lasts about a month before dissolving away and leaving an extremely patchy low-grip road surface that is worse than it was before?


(hmm - maybe this should be in the "pet hates" thread....)

[Ian]

Hoodies.

Worse still black hoodie over a black facemask on a scorching hot day coz U is trying to look like a gangster ( but you are only 13).

[Docca]

Yeah- QMC. Now 'Outstanding'


My eldest who has just gone to Uni went there, my daughter now there and I suspect the rest will follow. Fab' college


Things I don't get:


Racism, sexism. Men who hit women. Violence of any kind, but especially men who hit women. War in general. I think I'm more of a quaker. People who can hold their attention and focus for more than 10 minutes at a time. People who think this taste in something is better than another persons'. Where to put the apostrophe in words.


Stuff I get but just don't like: jazz, soap operas (TV in general), the drive to have so many genders. Bran flakes. The Welsh.

[Horse]

People who can hold their attention and focus for more than 10 minutes at a time.

People who can do the same job day after week after month after years ...

And not just 'factory' production line type work. There's also people who - I'm making this up as a for instance - spend their entire working life studying ants' belly button fluff. Or being an accountant.

I realised years ago that a few months is the most I can do 'the same' l. Even recently, where I'd run a year-long project, there would be different stages and activities.

[Noggin]

This differentiation of people by sex:


In my experience, some people are cunts, some people are likable, and the rest fall in between.

I tend to judge people on personality. Rarely does it have anything to do with which set of genitals and hormones they have going on.

Despite my tongue in cheek comments in this thread, I do agree with you. I judge people as they behave or as they behave to me.

However, overall I've always found men easier to get on with than women. Not all men and not all women. It's very much a generalisation!


But yeah - personality and how they behave to people like waiters or others that can have no effect on their life (bar that particular coffee/meal etc).

[Taipan]

The Vicar of Dibley.

[Mr Moofo]

The Vicar of Dibley.

Mrs Brown's Boys
Strictly - and the 4000 spin off shows
Twitter
Computer games
Craft beer

[Horse]

Mrs Brown's Boys

I wonder how long that will last before it gets cancelled and never shown again.

Craft beer

... Just off to the pet hates thread

[Noggin]

I have never understood the Monty Python films. I don't even find them funny

I always thought it was because I watched them sober and my friends that watched and loved them were pissed, stoned or both.

A few people were quite upset by LoB.

I was never upset by it. The humour just totally passed me by!! Kind of annoyed me really as all my friends loved it. Some can still recite the whole film! LOL It just never made me laugh, didn't seem funny!

[Horse]

A few people were quite upset by LoB.

I was never upset by it.

Just an excuse to post the video of the TV programme and the advertising. If you haven't seen the video, have a try.

[Wossname]

Radio 1.(which I never listen to). Except I’ve tried recently, because of…
Radio 2. A pitiful shadow of its former self.
Radio 4. prime time programmes such as 9.00 Sat morning - Nicky Bedi - horrendous presenter. And all their prime time “comedy” programmes at 6.30pm with the exception of I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue. Still funny AND clever.

Somebody must like that stuff, but not me.

[Ian]

Or more succinctly
BBC A pitiful shadow of its former self.

[Taipan]

Salt. I dislike it, a lot too. Spoils my meals when chefs over season the food with it. I watch people pour it all over their dinners and for me, that's just ruined a good plate of food.