I Just don't get....

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:51 am

http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/vi ... 590#442590

I thought the art discussion merited a thread of its own, so here goes, paintbrushes at the ready...

Porrohman · Post by **Porrohman** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:34 pm

Women.
The French.
The media interest in Jade Goody.
Broadband or PC tech support lines.
Chavs/assorted skinheaded scum who hang around outside the co-op.

People who think watching tv chefs is entertainment.
Yogurt it`s gone off milk ,even if it does have new bizerdum what makes you shit better.
Lionel Ritchie.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:36 pm

Porrohman wrote: Chavs/assorted skinheaded scum who hang around outside the co-op.

Don't suppose you mean the Highfield Road one, Porrohman? Or have they branched out.

General Mannerheim · Post by **General Mannerheim** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:39 am

every co-op in the land! but dont be too harsh on the 'shaven' hair style...

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:54 pm

Never did quite understand the fad for taking a decent sweater and tying it around your ass by the sleeves.?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:30 pm

I'll tell you what I don't get, and I've noticed this more at the Burnden Park Asda than aywhere else: People that think that it's quite ok to wander round the store eating stuff that they haven't paid for. What do they think it is? A fecking finger buffet? I want to approach them and enquire "Everything alright for you there? Anything that anyone can get you? Piece of fruit? Can of pop perhaps?"

Oh, and young girls that wander around in daylight hours, outdoors, wearing pyjamas. Get dressed you scruffy bitches!

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:40 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Never did quite understand the fad for taking a decent sweater and tying it around your ass by the sleeves.?

Well, I've certainly done this though not as a fashion statement. On a long walk one can get hotter and take it off - very convenient to tie it round the hips instead of carrying it.

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:41 pm

People taking fag-breaks several times a day when they should be working

Dr Hotdog · Post by **Dr Hotdog** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:03 pm

Raven wrote:I'm with you on Duffy, what a shite noise!

Also (some are older things that people rave about as being greats etc)

RNB
Chris Moyles (actually nearly all of Radio 1)
Coldplay
Woody Allen Films
Pink Floyd
Led Zepellin
George Michael
WWF wresting or whatever its called now
Mel Brookes films
James Bond films
Mariah Carey (can't hold a note so warbles!)
Train Spotting
Pulp Fiction and the other one
Tom Cruise

Lots more too

For me, those three things highlighted are three of the best things of the last 50 years, especially the Floyd and Woody.
I also expect people to say "Jazz" on this thread, but that's because they don't like music.

I don't get "animal rights types" either..........

This place is fecking barmy!

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:52 pm

good point ... Jazz.

Can't stand it ... yet, oddly, I like music !!

How weird is that ?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:02 am

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Never did quite understand the fad for taking a decent sweater and tying it around your ass by the sleeves.?
Well, I've certainly done this though not as a fashion statement. On a long walk one can get hotter and take it off - very convenient to tie it round the hips instead of carrying it.

That's the point though Monty. You did it for a reason. How many of the hamburger queens and false-tanned, bottle-bleached "model" types do you come across on your long walks? Even worse, the wine-bar yuppies who do it.

Dujon · Post by **Dujon** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:11 am

Apologies to the well behaved youngsters who visit this site as I'm assuming that you will think that my remarks are directed at you and your peers - they are not:

The lack of courtesy exhibited by people these days. Yes, it's always been around and always will be but it seems that the niceties of social interaction are disappearing and being replaced with an overt attitude of 'bugger you, mate, I'm looking after myself'. It doesn't matter whether the exchange occurs on the road, in the local shops or just walking down the street.

As examples I give you:

On the road. I suspect that most of us have met the driver who, disregarding his or her own mortality, slides into your safety space and thus forces you and everyone else driving behind you to slow down momentarily in order to regain the lost space. This produces what I call the caterpillar effect.

In the local shops. Apart from outright rudeness the smiling customers who, a bit like the motorists described above, politely request you to allow them to pop in front of you because they only have a few items and then, having shown that you are the weak link in the chain, a shed full of others try the same ploy.

On the streets. Do you remember the days when if a couple walking down the footpath would automatically drop into single file when meeting a sole soul or other souls coming the other way in order to allow them space? I have experienced this a many times over the the years and appreciate it. Both myself and my wife do it naturally when we are walking together; it's just something you do without thinking. A week or two or go the message began to seep into my brain (it's hard to change habits I guess) that it was always us who seemed to be diverted to the road or into the shrubbery. As far as I know the usual strategy for people passing each other when the width of passage is limited is to drop shoulders back and swing for a second or two in order to avoid physical contact. So, on a walk the other day I met a group coming the other way (probably a Mum, Dad, and two teenagers) and decided to test my hypothesis. It turned out to be, as I thought it might, as though I was invisible. Chatting among themselves and oblivious to their surroundings they tromped along as though they were the leaders of an army of legionnaires or an advance part of the S.S.. Holding my line of attack (as does any general) resulted in a clash of bodies.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:53 am

Tangodancer wrote:
People taking fag-breaks several times a day when they should be working
Whilst agreeing with most of your post Bobo (and certainly with no desire to start another smok/non-smoke debate) I guess you're an employer? Well, anyway, thanks to your views and those agreeing with you, I can now enjoy standing outside in the pxxxing rain, wind, hail and even the odd snow to do something I've spent most of my adult life doing inside. Please don't say "stop smoking" or I may resort with "stop drinking". It's a small pleasure ruined for a number at the whim of a greater number. Smoke breaks are a product of your desire, not ours.

Its thinking time. Improving the quality of my work.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:31 am

Bobo.

Not sure what happened to your last post, it just disappeared. I'm sure it isn't anything I did as I just hit quote to reply to it. I'm having some problems with my home pc right now and that may be why it happened. Appologies anyway. I agreed with all of it except the smoking bit (as I would).

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:40 am

Hehe, at first TANGO I thought you were saying you didn't 'get' Bobo

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:11 am

Verbal wrote:Hehe, at first TANGO I thought you were saying you didn't 'get' Bobo

I'm so sad.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:15 am

Tears of a clown?

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:28 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Montreal Wanderer wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:Never did quite understand the fad for taking a decent sweater and tying it around your ass by the sleeves.?
Well, I've certainly done this though not as a fashion statement. On a long walk one can get hotter and take it off - very convenient to tie it round the hips instead of carrying it.
That's the point though Monty. You did it for a reason. How many of the hamburger queens and false-tanned, bottle-bleached "model" types do you come across on your long walks? Even worse, the wine-bar yuppies who do it.

Actually over here it is seldom seen outside the "shoulder" season (mid-Spring/mid-Fall) - we either wear T-shirts or parkas otherwise! Sweaters are either too hot or nowhere near hot enough.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:01 pm

Paying £85 for a pair of gym shoes.?

Wearing baseball caps in restaurants?

Putting feet up on chairs and coffee tables ?

Wearing hoods.

Wearing gloves to play football.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:04 pm

People who smoke.

Why pay to slowly kill yourself?

Can perhaps understand people that began years and years ago, but those who started recently? Why?

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