Horse racing or even just horses, can't begin to understand the fascination with them.
Monarchists, some people seem to love the Windsors more than life itself, wtf is all that about?
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Horse racing or even just horses, can't begin to understand the fascination with them.
Monarchists, some people seem to love the Windsors more than life itself, wtf is all that about?
Hearts, or any general violence. Celebrity talent/challenge TV.
Kardashians
"Famous" YouTubers.
The Simpsons
Frazier
Strictly
Big Brother
Cricket
Athletics
Practical jokes
Hiking
etc, etc .....
I've come to the conclusion I must be a miserable old ghet. :yawn:
Guinness. A truly awful concoction.
"reality" tv.
Whisky, absolutely revolting stuff.
They fidget spinner things...how is that an entertaining thing to anybody?
My 8 year old barely watches TV anymore, instead he's got his favourite blogs on YouTube, mainly Minecraft tutorial videos but also a couple of other gamer channels. I kind of get the attraction of watching something and then trying to replicate it. I'd rather he was watching something that then stimulates his fantasy in an interactive sense instead of sitting him in the comatose world of Peppa Pig an the likes.
Expensive things that don't last. Washing machines, computers, fridges, TV, dishwashers. People know how to make components that last, so why do we tolerate having to replace this assembly line rubbish and get a new one shipped from Guangdong every three years?
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. It’s alright, but not as good asThe White Album, Revolver or Rubber Soul. So no idea how polls always seem to vote it the greatest album of all time.
Jeans hanging down around yer erse cheeks.
Game of Thrones. Watched a series and a bit then admitted defeat, just don't understand the hype at all.
Cocaine. Crap drug that's expensive, people taking it don't look like some 'classy' socialite, most just mark themselves as chavs with more money than sense.
Big bushy beards. I don't care how fashionable they are, most guys with them just look daft.
...the whole 'time passing faster as you get older' thing. It's shocking. At this moment Liz Kershaw is playing a Manics song from the This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album which she says is TWENTY years old today.
Which obviously makes no sense. I'm hurtling towards old age at breakneck speed and it's no fair.
Star wars, what a load of sheite.
Cars.
A mode of transport to get me from A to B. I can't be bothered with the inevitable questions when you buy a new one. How many miles to the gallon? How does it drive? What's the engine? Shall we take it a spin?
Do these people do the same with other big purchases? How does that fridge cool? How many BTUs does that oven have? Shall we put that washing machine through a rinse cycle, see how she flows?
If you had a new one of these, you'd take it out for a drive. Believe me.
https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/...ia/first-drive
Wheat beer. I love loads of different styles of beer but the appeal of wheat beer eludes me.
The clothes in Urban outfitter's.
I struggle to understand betting odds.
I'm ok with 2-1 etc but when it goes to 13-8 , 11-4 I'm struggling.
I also know what the prices mean but can't fathom them at a glance as in what is a better price.
Guys wearing skin tight jeans with no socks!
On a similar note people who don’t dress appropriately for the weather.
Was a game recently and it was bloody Baltic (Celtic I think) and I had a pair of big boots, two pairs of socks, long johns, jeans, thermal vest, t-shirt, hoodie and a big jacket.
Walking outside there was young guys wearing trackies with no socks and trainers and basically a tracksuit top.
I don’t get how these young guys are surviving these matches without freezing to death?!
Same applies to people who wear jumpers and big coats in the summer, always think they must stink and be really uncomfortable.
Reality tv programmes, total pish. Every single one of them.
Dogs, and pets generally actually. I'd keep some fish, but just don't understand the appeal of anything else.
Radiohead
The Big Bang theory
Mrs Browns boys
monarchists
Tories
Pate
Generally when I am putting a coupon on in the bookies I try to do a quick sum always remembering to add the stake back on.
To use your 11-4, I would figure 3x4 =12, ie 4 goes into 11 almost 3 times, so for a £1 bet you would get back almost £4.
If it was the other way round, 4-11, I would count the 11 as £1.10 and figure that the 4 would be worth a bit less than 40p to the pound.
To accumulate £1 using those bets, the stake for the second bet is the potential winnings from the first. In this instance, £4 @ 4-11 = approx 4x40p = £1.60 + £4 stake.
Given you started with a quid, that would make those odds roughly 4.6/1. Because I was I bit loose with the figure, and to make it a bit easier for the next sum, I would round the £5.60 down to £5 and go about it the same way for the next odds. ie, 7-5 = 7x£5.
Follow this process regardless how much you plan to bet, and then simply multiply the figure by 5,10,20 etc.
Hope this helps rather than baffles you more😜
Skinny jeans. Saw a pair in Debenhams that were waist 42 with a 30 leg and the style was skinny???
This. Why keep a wild animal in your house? More so, why do people keep them in the kitchen? It is a dangerous place for them and it is hardly hygienic. My sister in law recently got a puppy and the whole family are obsessed, my wife especially. They treat it like a child. At Christmas, it got presents wrapped and with tags from ‘Granny and Grandad’ from my in-laws and from ‘Auntie and Uncle’ from my wife and I. Weird. I am biased though as I have an extreme phobia of dogs.
I would add F1 and cricket as spectator sports to the list. I can see how they might be mildly entertaining to participate in but they are utterly boring to watch.
I'll field this one.
I thought cricket was stultifingly boring though enjoyed playing it in PE at school.
I travelled a bit in Australia one summer in my early twenties, watched a fair bit of cricket and got the bug - it's obviously a lot slower than football or most other team sports but you just need to accept that it works at a different pace. Once I made that leap then I started to appreciate all the subtleties and nuances of the game.
It's a really rich, fascinating game for a spectator if you get to grips with the basics of it and realise just how many variables are involved.
Parents who let their kids annoy the **** out of other guests in a restaurant or other public place. I know this might border on a peeve but it's not the annoyance I'm on about here, it's the failure of parents to teach their kids that in later life annoying other people can be detrimental to your health and the shape of your nose.
Bootcut jeans.
Business Consultants. Essentially management who can't do their jobs bringing in someone who doesn't have a clue about their business telling them how to do their job by spouting a lot of corporate language pish while getting paid mega bucks for it.
Internet forums? WTF are they all about?
Kids have too much power these. A quick smack did me no harm when I was young. It taught me what the boundaries were and that set me up for my future life and the responsibilities that I would face. Kids today are been given no boundaries and that worries me, tbh.
People/adults who feel the need to post their entire lives online.
- getting ready for a night out
- 85 pictures of night out
- feeling rough today, need hugs
- cba with work
- bored at work
- takeaway for tea
- watching Corrie/game of thrones/teem moms/whatever
- going to the gym
- at the gym
- on the treadmill, gotta lose 8 stone by Friday for the wedding
and on and on and on
No one gives a toss. And inevitably they’ll get defensive about their private life if someone makes a comment about something they’ve posted.
The Foo Fighters. Do absolutely nothing for me.
You can discipline and teach boundaries without smacking. I have four boys very close in age and could happily take them anywhere knowing theyd behave. I never smacked them. Teaching a child to behave by hurting them just seemed odd to me. Maybe thats one of the things I dont get :greengrin
I don’t get why people park on the double yellow lines outside Asda at newhaven when there’s a great big car park there?
Same applies to people parking in the drop off areas at supermarkets when there’s always spaces in the car park?
Folk who go on holiday and spend 2 weeks doing things they could do here and barely even acknowledge they are in a different culture. Guy in my work goes to the same place every year and is delighted that he can have a full fried breakfast, go a wander all morning then get to the Red Lion pub at lunchtime and drink John Smiths all afternoon before having a roast dinner for his dinner then getting back on the pints.
Each to their own but I don't get it at all.
People who complain like hell on social media or to a friend about a meal or other experience in hotel,bar, pub restaurant etc. When you ask them if they complained at the time most say "no, the manager asked if everything had been okay and we just said yes, we even left a tip".
The darts. Cant think of a more boring thing to watch on telly. Looks even worse being there!!
I think that’s a bit black and white and there’s a danger of criticising people’s parenting here which I think is wrong and not what this thread is for.
I give my boy a smack on the bum when I feel he deserves it but I’m reluctant to justify it on here.
Like Mrs S. I feel I could take my 4 year old pretty much anywhere and not worry about his behaviour, I feel the way my wife and I have disciplined him has contributed to that.
Each to their own though.
Not sure if this is the correct thread but I think it ties in with the earlier posts about time running away as you get older.
For about 5 years I met the same 3 guys most Saturday nights. We went for a few pints then went back to someones flat to watch MOTD then sometimes we headed out and other times we called it a night. We played 5 a sides together, a couple of us played 11s together, we were what would be termed best mates. Then it just stopped and I can't pinpoint why. There was no falling out and we have seen each other since but for some reason our friendship loosened.
The obvious answer is that life happened. One guy got engaged and is now married with 2 kids and still lives in Aberdeen, I moved back to Edinburgh, live with my partner and have a baby, another lives in Warsaw and the final guys lives in London. I have seen members of the group as individuals over the last few years and we all still consider each other mates but it's just a strange thought that the chances of us all having a beer together as a group of 4 like the old days is pretty slim. I sometimes struggle to get how that happens.
I really don’t ‘get’ the increasing submission to and prioritisation of the modern-day agent of ignorance, the mobile phone.
Fair play though, the perceived ‘need’ for these devices is arguably the finest confidence trick since organised religion!
Why everyone is using the word literally and mostly wrongly.
Ed Sheeran.
It's not really in any way related to your post, but I saw a thing on Facebook recently that I found quite poignant.
One time, many years ago, you went out to play with your mates for the last time, but none of you realised it at the time.
You just sort of drift, evolve, move on, and stop doing the things that you did, replacing them with something else.