I Just don't get....

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:41 pm

Basketball. What's the attraction?

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:43 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:Basketball. What's the attraction?

Quite like playing it though, but I agree - pointless watching end to end stuff where every attack sees a goal.

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:54 pm

jimbo wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:Channel Five
Depends what region you live in. Freeview may be best if you want to get that.

I've got Freeview. I don't get Dave either. Or ITV2.

I do get Channel 4 but I've never got South Park.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:01 pm

Little Green Man wrote:
jimbo wrote:
Little Green Man wrote:Channel Five
Depends what region you live in. Freeview may be best if you want to get that.
I've got Freeview. I don't get Dave either. Or ITV2.

I do get Channel 4 but I've never got South Park.

I get Dave. Mainly one for students who want to watch a 24 hour feed of Top Gear and Dragon's Den. with obscurely an Airport programme thrown in every now and again. South Park? Terrible reflection on a cheap brand of humour where every other word is an expletive which is expected to bring raucous laughter.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:06 pm

People who feed pigeons!

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:18 pm

Rap (the 'c' is silent)
Reality TV shows
The obsession with mobile phones

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:38 pm

warthog wrote:Rap (the 'c' is silent)
Reality TV shows
The obsession with mobile phones

Total agreement, although they tell me it's age ad I don't understand. Not sure what's to understand. I've lived long and happily enough without any of them.

a1 · Post by a1 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:46 pm

jimbo wrote:South Park? Terrible reflection on a cheap brand of humour where every other word is an expletive which is expected to bring raucous laughter.

no , it did an episode about excessive swearing (mostly in tv shows) causing the apoccolypse. most of the time swearing in it is beeped anyway.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104193

wovlad · Post by **wovlad** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:34 pm

X Factor
Soap Opera's
Being a plastic Manc & proud of it
Not MOTD but the ITV version of the highlights of it, I don't get why ITV have'nt cottoned on to the fact that its crap.
High School Musical ( maybe I'm to old to appreciate it )
Big Brother
Fat people wearing Lycra

Good question this, may add more when I've had some grub

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:15 pm

Things that don't make any sort of sense, like:

Gravity defying jeans with the crotch a foot from the floor and showing half a yard of grubby boxers.

Wide-bottomed pants with the cuffs dragging in the rain and mud.

Shirts and jeans seventeen sizes too big, American Baseball shirts a good example.

Happily letting people charge you a fortune for clothes that look like they fell off a rag cart.

Wearing cut-off pants in the middle of winter.

Dressing like Coco (no offence to ours) or Coca the clown with hair that looks like an accident in art class. Manchester Uni a prime viewing spot.

People who put their feet up on seats.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:23 pm

I'm probably guilty of four of those, Tango. You do get some interesting types watching gigs around the university though I agree.

I don't get...

Hereulho Gomes

Cufflinks

Paying £10+ to get into a club

Girls who sit on their partner's shoulders at festivals.

Animal Collective.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:41 pm

West Ham United.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:04 pm

a1 wrote:
jimbo wrote:South Park? Terrible reflection on a cheap brand of humour where every other word is an expletive which is expected to bring raucous laughter.
no , it did an episode about excessive swearing (mostly in tv shows) causing the apoccolypse. most of the time swearing in it is beeped anyway.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104193

The film is a brilliantly written and hilarious way of saying "yeah, there's swearing, we accept that we're a bit bad at it, but there's also massive over reaction involved with censorship"

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:45 pm

people who don't realise tracy emin is a great artist...

she is stunning...

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:47 pm

People who can't recognise the difference between opinion and fact (is that technically a FACT?)

Anyway, I'm looking at you William.....

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:59 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:People who can't recognise the difference between opinion and fact (is that technically a FACT?)

Anyway, I'm looking at you William.....

at me? why...

just stating an opinion... she is a tremendous artist... imho... as always...

Dujon · Post by **Dujon** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:04 am

http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk

I mean, really and honestly, why?

No, I don't get it either - still, it's fun.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:15 am

William the White wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:People who can't recognise the difference between opinion and fact (is that technically a FACT?)

Anyway, I'm looking at you William.....
at me? why...

just stating an opinion... she is a tremendous artist... imho... as always...

I find Emin's work repellently self-obsessed and 'victimy'...

I definitely don't 'get it'.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:15 am

William the White wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:People who can't recognise the difference between opinion and fact (is that technically a FACT?)

Anyway, I'm looking at you William.....
at me? why...

just stating an opinion... she is a tremendous artist... imho... as always...

As I said, if shes's an artist, just call me Leonardo. She's very good at thinking of ways to take the mickey out of people and make a lot of money doing it I'll admit. Ten grand for a life-size metal starling on a ten foot piece of scaffolding tubing? Oh, aye, she's an artist all right, a con one..

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:27 am

TANGODANCER wrote:
William the White wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:People who can't recognise the difference between opinion and fact (is that technically a FACT?)

Anyway, I'm looking at you William.....
at me? why...

just stating an opinion... she is a tremendous artist... imho... as always...
As I said, if shes's an artist, just call me Leonardo. She's very good at thinking of ways to take the mickey out of people and make a lot of money doing it I'll admit. Ten grand for a life-size metal starling on a ten foot piece of scaffolding tubing? Oh, aye, she's an artist all right, a con one..

Leonardo...

are you sure it was only ten grand? that doesn't sound likely, unless she was making some kind of charity discount? only a tenth of ronaldo's weekly wage?

i don't know that work - but last august she had, imo, and by some distance, the most engaging and visceral and disturbing work in the annual royal academy exhibition... actually i thought it was almost the only interesting piece in the whole exhibition...

all artists of quality produce great work, and the indifferent - great footballers are the same - but artists are often dismissed by those who make no effort to engage with them. This produces in me the same sort of frustrated response to those who think football is 22 overpaid men in their underwear chasing a ball...

Like, of course, some of that's true, but it's a world away from the whole truth...

there are some that don't recognise tango as the joyous expression of sexuality and human exuberance i suspect it is...

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