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What things in life do you just not “get”? By that I mean you can’t understand why others do or don’t do something that seems to obvious to you? Let’s keep this nice and not start slagging people off in reply.
I’ll start bike related but feel free to pull off topic.
I don’t get why people don’t wear Lycra on an MTB. It’s cooler in the heat, warmer in the cold, can shed off water and generally is a perfect material to ride any kind of bike. To me, it just works better in every aspect of what you’d want from clothing to cycle in.
I also don’t get why people buy a 160mm trail bike and then complain they have to drive 2 hours to get to good trails as the local ones are dull. They’re dull as you’re over biked, buy a hard tail and you’ll find them interesting again.
Stand up paddle boarding. What's that all about?
Parachuting as a hobby, surely it's much the same every time?
Jetskis.
Football.
Mass gatherings during a pandemic especially when there's no toilet facilities...
Dogs.
EDIT: And the Beatles.
Talking babies on adverts....shudder.
Why people go out of their way to go to a lovely place, then decide to leave their litter all over said lovely place...
Nah, dogs are fine....I don’t get Cats. No love for their owners, sleep and eat around the neighbourhood, paw prints on EVERY surface....
Yep, its Cats I don’t get!
Human behaviour.
Other people doing things differently to me. I can only assume they have different opinions or something, maybe they grew up in a foreign country and speak a funny language. One can only assume.
Slightly less flippant, watching sport. If I had the time to sit and watch it, I’d rather be out on my bike.
I'm with Fadda. I just don't get litter.
But also why go on holiday to somewhere foreign and then drink in English pubs, eat English food, dance in night clubs to largely english music, and spend the few daylight hours you are awake sat on some crowded beach slowly turning red. Why?
Women's road racing. There, I've said it. Flame away, I deserve it.
I once left a pub in Scotland, as i walked out the back door this dude was really beating on this girl. Like punches to the face. I step in and threw him in a burn below the pub. Then the girl starts beating on me for beating his ass.
Babies. People seem incredibly fascinated by them, and insist that other people should also be fascinated by them.
Other people
Buying the latest stuff.
Then deciding the next latest stuff is way better and buying that.
Leaf blowers.
Reality tv shows
Country music
All-inclusive holidays to malaga where the furthest anyone goes is the bar in the pool
Roadies
Oh, and Lycra on an MTB. Unless you're in an XC race.
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Other people doing things differently to me. I can only assume they have different opinions or something, maybe they grew up in a foreign country and speak a funny language. One can only assume.
Sanctimonious people - I mean, why bother? If you're so morally superior, why feel the need to degenerate yourself by commenting?
YES, leaf blowers! Have always struck me as a solution looking for a problem. What’s wrong with the good ol’ fashioned broom.
They just seem to encourage neighbours warring with each other; on Monday neighbour A blows leaves onto neighbour B’s drive. Tuesday, B blows onto A, Weds, repeat.....
White forks
Coloured rims
Tan wall tyres on mountain bikes
I don't understand why my missus and MIL both just put used dishes and mugs in the sink, run a splash of tepid water over and just wander off, when the dishwasher is directly next to the sink.
It's almost exactly the same amount of effort for them to create these ad-hoc bacteria farms as it is to just dump it in the magic cleaning box...
Nah, dogs are fine….I don’t get Cats. No love for their owners, sleep and eat around the neighbourhood, paw prints on EVERY surface….
Yep, its Cats I don’t get!
I'm the polar opposite I'm afraid, You wouldn't bring home a drooling, acute ADHD sufferer who rubs their arse on your carpet rather than use loo roll and is generally incapable of simple tasks like going outside for a walk on their own, Oh and they might tear your kids face off... but you'll buy a Dog?
At least you know where you stand with cats, give it food, install a cat flap so it can come and go as it see's fit, treat you with general indifference until it wants feeding or something warm to sit on.
TBH that sounds like some of the better romantic relationships I've had...
Peaky Blinders, Game Of Thrones and other modern TV dramas - jeez, could you put a LITTLE bit of pace into them...?
Ooh, little yappy dogs.
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It's always the little annoying ones which bark the most, like they have napoleon complex. Get a proper dog.
Tories 🤷♂️
Littering, isms, and old people rapping!
Domino's pizza.
Don't get it. Expensive, limp, cheesy mess of a thing delivered luke warm to your door in only 90mins.
Pretty much any frozen pizza for 10% of the cost would be nicer IMO.
Sanctimonious people – I mean, why bother? If you’re so morally superior, why feel the need to degenerate yourself by commenting?
Sorry I don't always think to use a 😉
Buying highly inappropriate bikes for the riding they do, such as fatbikes for tarmac commuting.
Err... 😳
Getting very tempted to buy something with 29er/700c wheels, now I think my rear FatNotFat 29er wheel is dead.
The courts continually letting off bike thieves. & When you collar one & give them a kicking, you get nicked 🙄
Elvis juice I mean what the **** is that? On the strength of popularity on last EDL I bought me a bottle tonight. It’s large price for a small bottle full of bollocks! Beer-flavoured grapefruit pop! Thankfully have some proper cider to chase it away 😬
(And I normally like me a cool citrus hop on a summer's night. Gah)
Cars as status symbols
Bikes as status symbols, you know who you are.
People not picking up dog shit. You've let your dog crap in the middle of the path that you walk your dog in every time you take it out. You are at as much risk of stepping in it tomorrow as I am. It's really not hard to pick it up and take it to a bin.
IPA - Ale for lager drinkers
People not picking up dog shit
That's just selfish laziness. The ones I don't get are the ones who bag it then tie it to a fence / tree. They've done the hard bit! What do they think happens next? I just don't understand.
People with no spacial awareness.
Ed Sheeran, Adele - the twin pillars of mediocrity.
White lycra, those overshoes roadies wear, rear mud guards, E-bikes (I know! Sorry)
Anthropocentrism
- Litter dumped off the beaten track +1
- Offroad bikes with flared drop bars in the same position as proper handlebars with ergonomically sound brake levers.
- Ageing guys still ruled by their ****er egos desperate to be top dog. As seen red faced tossers in German cars all over the place, and in the Oval office. Get your slippers on and chill dickhead!
- Compromising the performance of your bike to avoid being uncool. Like being a tubby guy riding around in the mud is seen as cool by anybody really....
Lycra on mountain bikes. I mean, I get it on road bikes, cos aero is a thing, and road bikes is all about the numbers innit, ave. speed, big miles, watts, all that shit.
But on a MTB? Weird, makes you like Mr motivator, looks shite with knee and elbow pads and has no advantage whatsoever over well fitted shorts and top - I'm no fan of 'baggies' either, some seem to think it's either lycra or mahoosive ill fitting, seat catching shorts. Er, no, but something that fits your bloody legs.
Folk that don't ever dig or do any trail maintenance, does my nut in, as if it's someone else's job, your times too precious to put a bit back into the sport. Wallopers. It should be compulsory, if ye ride, ye dig.
Folk that claim gravel bikes are a better option than their MTB. Bollocks it is, either your local trails are shit, or you can't actually do any of the tech around you, so you buy a bike that gives you an excuse to ride dull lanes/extreme roads.
Rugby.
Horse racing.
Anchovies.
Smoking.
4K TV.
All utterly pointless. 😊
Street magic TV shows, were the magician approachs random people who seem unable to see the film crew.
Towie, made in Chelsea, who watches that shite.
Billionaires still wanting to make more money, despite doing nothing with it while people starve to death.
Multi millionaire celebs who think donating their time to comic relief etc instead of money is the right thing to do.
rear mud guards
Woo hoo!
Folk who are happy to ride around with a large streak of mud all the way up their arse and back, looking like they've crapped themselves, not a good look 😉
Spending more than 10 minutes preparing food.
Life
The increasing prevalence of lad culture in cycling/mtbing. It can GTF quite frankly.
I totally get that lycra is better to cycle in, no matter what the bike is, you’re still sitting on a saddle (or standing) turning pedals, want to keep cool but not cold, want a garment to dry quickly, want complete freedom of movement with no waistband, no slippage, no keks, no seams and nothing flapping. Quality bibs/bib-shorts with insert are as near to perfect as it gets when cycling, Unless going to the shops or pub.
It’s how lycra looks that is the issue. People don’t like it because it’s unfashionable nowadays (and obesity is on the rise)
There are so many entries here I could just copy and paste. However, I've also got a few of my own.
1. Speeding (I mean, you're endangering countless others to show what, exactly? That your right ankle can pivot? Well done, you! FFS.)
2. #17 of 'The Rules' (Why can't a person wear the kit of their favourite team or rider? Weird.)
3. Food (why I am not remotely interested in it, but simultaneously can't really control my intake of it)
4. People who occupy positions in the workplace that don't need to (a man or a woman whose spouse makes plenty on their own, for example, or someone who already has a lot of money. It's not the desire to work I don't get - if by work is meant 'accomplishing something worthwhile in life'; I'm talking specifically about doing the 9-5 thing day in and day out when one could easily quit and spend the rest of their life doing volunteer work with the homeless or doing woodwork or writing a book or cycling)
Tories 🤷♂️
Politicians in general.
Much of what's been mentioned.
Football.
Babies (kids in general for me)
Litter*. McDonalds trampists in particular.
Helium ballons. (see *)
Too many to mention really.
Tattoos and piercings (on men and women): “Ooow look at me I’m so original” er no you look like every other scanky chav going, ergo the complete opposite.
Forgot whisky snobs. Yawn.
Folk that don’t ever dig or do any trail maintenance, does my nut in, as if it’s someone else’s job, your times too precious to put a bit back into the sport. Wallopers. It should be compulsory, if ye ride, ye dig.
Now on that one - tome digging trails is vandalism. Just do not do it!
Edit - If I see blocked drainage I will unblock it. But to me digging MTB trails unless its land you own or have permission on is just vandalism
Washing up bowls in sinks. They just get in the way of everything a sink should be used for.
The one I really do not get ( like cynic al) consumerism in general
I have something that works. It does not need to be replaced. why buy the same thing in a different colour or whatever it is. I don't think I have a single bike part that is less than ten years old ( bar consumables) ( a couple of rims - but to me they are consumables)
I have never bought new any furniture, cutlery, crockery, TV, Hi fi, curtains, etc - none of that sort of stuff. I have a load of crockery/ cutlery I acquired or bought second hand. It works. who cares if its not matched.
I have friends who pay thousands of pounds for house furnishings - a £3000 rug was one example. I just do not get it.
Coffee snobs. Get over yourselves.
Camper vans.
Either buy a proper ****ing motor home or an actual van and tent you indecisive toss pot.
People quite content using mismatched cutlery to eat their meal.
Micro-adjusted bike fit. It's probably more of a roadie thing. Zwift is the logical conclusion. If the laws of evolution somehow favour roadies we'll end up all leg.
Women who have completely ruined their eyebrows thinking they can do a better job than nature. Why?!
Disco
27.5 wheels - negligible gains over 26 and well basically not 29 (which all sensible progressives adopted in 2013 with the Spesh e29 😅).
Why the mrs can never finish a drink.
I’m always finding half a glass, half a cup or half a bottle of something around the house.
So many already mentioned. Especially leaf blowers and speeding. I’ll add money, never understood the pursuit of it or why we’re in the position where we’re basically beholden to it. Also estate agents and rim brakes.
half a glad
People who don't use the edit function to correct their typo's. 😈
Whiskey/Vodka/any alcoholic spirit that you have to drink out of a thimble, it all tastes vile to me.
The need to have the lastest car/bike/anything (Basically materialism)
Arguing on Facebook with strangers.
Influencers.
I’ll add money, never understood the pursuit of it or why we’re in the position where we’re basically beholden to it.
You could give all your money away and report back on how free you felt?
Actually I don't get trite political statements of all persuasions. Always make me wince.
People who've never owned a motorbike .. You'll soon learn all about speeding 🙂
People who don’t use the edit function to correct their typo’s
People who don't understand apostrophes.
There are many things I don't get, most of them already covered in this thread. Littering is probably the one that makes me most annoyed though. I cannot work out why anyone would think it's acceptable. Judging by photos from Bournemouth beach and from the Liverpool football celebrations I am in an ever decreasing minority though.
Washing up bowls in sinks. They just get in the way of everything a sink should be used for.
Why do people DO that?!?
If you have a single drainer sink it allows you to empty cups and glasses and rinse off plates before washing. Not everyone has a dentist-spec kitchen to go with their T6 Combi and Santa Cruz.
Pheasant / “game” shooting
Now on that one – tome digging trails is vandalism. Just do not do it!
Edit – If I see blocked drainage I will unblock it. But to me digging MTB trails unless its land you own or have permission on is just vandalism
The local trails I was working on yesterday have permission, but I have absolutely no qualms about digging trails in the god-awful commercial plantations that litter my local landscape. And you can comfort yourself in the knowledge that I really couldn't give a flying **** what you think on the matter 🙂
Music.
Nothing more that noise pollution.
TikTok.
Music.
Nothing more that noise pollution.
You'll love this.
Guns, apart from Nerf ones.
Agree with litter, i don't get it, armed police to enforce picking up litter might be acceptable.
Nationalism, we're all clinging to the same rock hurtling through space.