[Closed] Cultural phenomena that have entirely passed you by

I can't say I'm bothered about computer gaming, there's a couple of lads in the office (plus my boss!) who are well into it, I just hear a "woooosh!" as the conversation goes across my head.

Dabbing.

The Internet

Football

Tubeless

Gaming also.
Watching box sets on telly box.
Gravel.

Football, TV singing contests and reality type programming.

Smartphones.
I have better things to do with my time.

[quote=sbob ]Smartphones.
I have better things to do with my time.

clearly...

The whole mass grieving over Diana then and 20 years later.
Didn't get it then, don't get it now.

Netflix/Amazon prime

GoPro

Facebook

The proud massacre of English grammar in the name of linguistic evolution.

any kind of gambling, but for a few years almost all my mates were playing poker flat out. Whereas I didn't have a clue

reality tv
soaps
instagram
nandos

Patriotism

Mobile phones.

The whole mass grieving over Diana then and 20 years later.
Didn't get it then, don't get it now.

She’s not died again has she ?

Taking photographs and videos and absolutely ******* everything, social networks.

sbob - Member

Smartphones.
I have better things to do with my time.

Oh the irony.

Football, Reality TV, Soaps, Sports Betting, Horse Racing, Drugs..
Couldn't care less about these things.
Isn't it for the most part just that? We have no interest and so don't participate in it. Much like Cycling, the majority of the public know you can ride bikes, but that's it, it passes them by.
Thread should just be called 'Things that don't interest me but are popular'.

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nealglover - Member

The whole mass grieving over Diana then and 20 years later.
Didn't get it then, don't get it now.

She’s not died again has she ?

I think you're confusing her with Joe Cocker.

Joe Cocker's dead, why did no one on here tell me that?

Football, I've have NEVER understood the appeal and the whole "we" thing just annoys me.

Internet *things* Ice Buckets, Dabbing, etc.

Buying everything in white.

Coffee, it used to be an after dinner thing or what spivs drank when they should be drinking tea - now everyone seems to queue up every day to drop £5 on a cardboard cup of frothy milk with some coffee in it, same goes for bottled water, it has to be one of the most ecologically wasteful things to do - I mean I live in Wales, we can't move for endless supplies of beautiful water that's rained itself all over mountains and into streams and that - but no, for a long time (before coffee took over) you had to spend £2 on a plastic bottle of the stuff shipped from France - just seemed madness to me.

Tea, but I admit I'm the odd one there.

Vinyl, I can't think of another format that was made obsolete and then came back - I suppose it's Horse Riding for Music Fans, a car / motorbike / bicycle is better in every practical respect than a horse, but some people still like them.

Mrs. Browns Boys - I've found out who watches it, it's my Wife Aunt, she's a lovely old Lady and enjoys it, but I just don't know who the other 6m people who watch it are.

Smart Watches, it's like a second screen for your phone, but why? Especially the really expensive ones - I know some people think spending a lot of money on a 'time piece' is a good thing to do (I don't, it's daft) but at least they'll last a lifetime if you want, but £5k or more for a fancy one? It'll be desk drawer fodder in 2 years.

I've reached my grumpy old man stage in my life, so I could go on and on.

the 80s

it was sh1te

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Taking photographs and videos and absolutely ******* everything

I used to do that, spend all holiday taking snaps to upload to FB, GoPro to send to my mates, half an hour pissing away with a pic to insta it.

Had to have a word with myself, you can live your life through a 4" LCD screen to try to impress your mates.

Tried to explain it to my Son on Sunday night - the 4 of us went to see the fireworks at the rugby club, Wife, Daughter (3) and I all enjoying them, he's watching them through the screen of his phone moaning because you can't see them all. Just enjoy it.

Facebook
Twitter

it's my Wife Aunt

You married your aunt? I guess that's normal in wales 🙂

One I am currently ignoring is linking everything to your phone via an app.

Heating, lights, washing machine even saw on the tv last night you can buy ovens with cameras in so you can watch you food cooking on your phone.

Dogging.

Fashion trends
Brit pop
Raves (actually, anything involving electronic music)
Mainstream celebrity reality TV shows.

Not exactly passed me by, but just about most games and films from 2000ish+ are just "meh" to me. Not interested any more, yet used to be big into it all, especially films.

More so with the comic book superhereo films. I loved 70s Superman, 80/90s Batman, Blade, coped with a reboot Batman, liked early X-Men. But now with hundreds of the things coming out all the time with bombarding senses action aimed at short attention span kids, I just don't see the appeal and lost track of it all. Friends raving about latest Thor whatsit and got no idea what they're on about. Not seen any of them or other related films.

Anyway, last console I bought was the Wii. No interest in anything since.

Couldn't be bothered with the rest of The Hobbit films after the first. Gave up on Tarrantino after the first part of Kill Bill, yet loved his stuff before. I've even lost interest in Star Wars!

Grumpy old man or middle age change in tastes. Got me into mountain biking though.

nandos

Likewise. Don't get it. Eaten plenty of stuff like that. Just don't get Nandos. Just a brand place to hang out at.

ITV
Those famous for 5min TV shows where you embarrass yourself in front of celebrities and a screaming audience while dancing/singing
Soap operas
Rap music
Idolising cars and enjoying sitting in traffic in them (plus earning £20k and living with M&D while driving a £40k BMW)
Resort holidays spent in a compound with people you would rather avoid if you were back home.

Resort holidays spent in a compound with people you would rather avoid if you were back home.

I'm with you there, some friends have been to Mexico, Egypt, Bulgaria etc etc, never leave the resort through fear of bandits or whatever - you might as well go to Spain if all you want it Sun and cheap Booze.

Bulgaria is actually lovely away from the resorts, couldn't tell you the name of the places because Bulganise is incomprehensible but we went to a nice restaurant up the Mountains about an hour out of Varna (also nice) that was only a lift and some trails away from paradise to me. Why anyone would want to spend 4 hours on a plane to spend a week in Sunny Beach is beyond me.

Dabbing
Football
Taking pictures of food (just bloody eat it!)

P-Jay - Member
I'm with you there, some friends have been to Mexico, Egypt, Bulgaria etc etc, never leave the resort through fear of bandits or whatever - you might as well go to Spain if all you want it Sun and cheap Booze.

Coming back from bike trip in Spain and driving along the coast, just amazed at the amount of resort hotels which are just complete compounds and the people there likely never see outside the hotel. Such a waste.

Friends Reunited
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram ..

I do like a good mtb forum though

Musicals ..they are the worst thing ever and just make me want to puke ..

My wife has never seen Terminator or Terminator 2. shameful

ITV

AKA ChavTV. We rarely ever watch it, maybe a film or similar. Even Channel 5's better than ITV.

North Face clothing

Drugs

I was early 20's at the time of madchester. I loved the music, the scene, i just never got into the drug stuff. I smoked a bit of cannabis for a time but the speed, E, acid...... nope.

Oddly, i quite fancy a go now, see if i really did miss out.

Hipster's.
Pop punk/Metal
Twitter
Package Holidays
Plus/Fatty wheel sizes

I was involved in BMX and Skateboarding in the 80's
Grunge had a big impact on my music tastes, and still does today.

i really did miss out.

FTFY

My wife has never seen Terminator or Terminator 2. shameful

My wife has never seen Ghostbusters, shes 42!

The TV show 'The Royal Family'. I was in Australia when the first series was on, so had no idea what every one was on about and thought it was crap.

Clubbing - I've been in a nightclub once in my 49 years!

And all the stuff you see on the telly now about the late 70s and early 80s - it was such a cool time, but growing up in a sleepy village meant this cool stuff happened to people on telly. There were 2 or 3 punks in our Comp school.

Fun.

Humour.

1. Gaming, as per the OP. I remember all of my friends trading Atari cartridges, and not being remotely interested.

2. Clubbing. Went once or twice, wasn't interested. I think I'm probably just too introverted.

3. Gigs. Same thing as above. Oh, and the sound quality seems to always suck. Too loud and too muffled.

4. Drugs. I was almost naïve about them. I was friends with some of the guys who did them, but never touched them myself, and almost didn't really notice them when they were right in front of me.

5. Action movies.

BMX & skateboards. I was into roller skating (proper Bauer ones, not the ones you put onto the bottom of your shoes) and we used to play street hockey, do 'urban' skating in the parks in town etc.

Tinder

Dabbing? I'll have to look that up. Computer gaming for me too. Used to play "leisure suit larry" in the days of floppy disks but that was only at work.

Never seen Star Wars.

Ah, BMX. I was probably having a long intermission from cycling when BMX became a "thing". I think I might have held a BMX bike once. These days if I went out wearing a baseball cap on back to front and a pair of jeans halfway down my arse my wife would be "having a word" 😳

Rocky Horror Picture Show
X Factor and all that jazz
Shisha Pipes
Cyclo Cross
Pulled Pork

Snapchat.... my 70y/o FIL is a Snapchat ninja.
X-box/PS etc. never interested me at all - our 11y/o son has an X-box but I've not touched it other than setting up the Wi-Fi etc. for him.

Nandos - it's just chicken, can get the precooked stuff from supermarkets that's just as good.

Have to agree with the Lady Diana thing, I didn't know her personally so don't see why I would mourn her death so much. I don't cry when regular people die who I don'w know so really dont see why I would mourn her just because she was famous.

The death of Kurt Cobain, a lot of people used to go on and on and on about it and I never got it then and still don't understand why. again on the same page of 'I didn't know them personally'.

Facebook/Twitter
Reality TV

No regrets

What the f, is dabbing?

Its something kids used to do.

Musicals ..they are the worst thing ever and just make me want to p

This, so much this. Hate the things with the exception of Little Shop of Horrors, because Levi Stubbs.

Also second Facebook and Twitter. Never used any form of social media other than this place. Just seems utterly alien and bizzare to me

Mrs M had never seen any Star Wars movie until this summer when we watched the (original) first one. She said at the end that she’d thought it was okay until she realised it was set in space!

I interpret ‘passed me by’ as meaning things one is completely unaware of, which are popular among large numbers of people. Well, I’m struggling to think of anything that’s really popular that I’m completely unaware of, what with news and other stuff so ubiquitous these days, I see references to all sorts of odd stuff that makes me do the eye-rolley thing , but leave me bewildered by the popularity of them.

Tattoos
Top knots
Beards

Star Wars - saw one of them as a kid, no interest since
Star Trek - never watched more than 5 minutes, no interest at all

Them Kardashians.

I've established that the p/matriach used to be an Olympian, and a man.

And I know one of them's married to that rapper who sounds like he's named after a train station.

And that's genuinely it. I'm aware that there are more of them, but I couldn't name any, and I genuinely don't know how they became famous originally...

..and I'm happy if I remain as ignorant on the subject until the day I die.

Its something kids used to do

Also
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Them Kardashians.

Still have no idea who they are....

Millenials, Instagram, road bikes, the whole celebrity thing, Kasabian....

Still have no idea who they are....

Greggs.

I'm never giving them my money.

Them Kardashians.

Still have no idea who they are....

Footy
Tatoos
Strickly
That baking show
In fact pretty much every show where the gullible vote people off

(not so much passed me by... but more a case of have no interest whatsoever in knowing anything about them, and can't understand why anybody gets even remotely fanatical about them)

Greggs is lukewarm grossness
KFC - I currently have a 100% chunder to "dining" experience there. Although least I aimed mine at the big white telephone, unlike my (female) colleague who decorated the outside of the window of the KFC branch.
Nandos - never been, but have passed by several.

Football, Reality TV, Soaps, Sports Betting, Horse Racing, Drugs..
Couldn't care less about these things.

Pretty much all of the above.

I don't really get spectator sports at all, but the sheer obsessiveness of football is sufficient to put me off. Why watch someone else having fun rather than doing something yourself?

I've followed some sports in the past - I used to go to Manchester Storm ice hockey games and I'm partial to a spot of American Football - but they're kinda niche sports here so you can get away from it occasionally. Yet after a couple of years maybe the novelty of hockey wore off and I stopped going, and aside from catching a few games on holiday recently about the only American Football I watch these days is the Superbowl. For me it's like, I like music and love going to gigs, but even with my favouritest band I wouldn't go and see them on every leg of the same tour playing the same set every week.

So yeah, I don't get it, the whole sports / football thing completely passed me by. All those armchair experts who know better than the professionals and will drone on and on about players and statistics and who's shit this week, you know the ones whose opening gambit when meeting someone new is "what team do you support" and when told "I don't really follow football" proceed to talk at you about it for fifteen minutes? Gods kill me now, they're only slightly less tediously boring than people who have drugs as a hobby and iPhone owners.

Pop punk/Metal...

Grunge had a big impact on my music tastes, and still does today.

Odd, without the first 2...

Like CZ, can't think of anything that passed me completely by, but gaming never interested me. Even when my kid was into it, played a few games with him and couldn't imagine wasting hours doing it on my own.

slowoldman - Member

That's a really funny clip. 😆

Mind you Channel 4 news is heading in the same direction ... 😆

I am going to speak like that funny Mitchell & Webb youtube clip. 😛

this political correctness fad has passed me right by

Resort holidays spent in a compound with people you would rather avoid if you were back home.

My stepdaughter & her husband spend 3/4 of a fortune on these type of holidays! All inclusive, butler service, a bed the size of Centre Court at Wimbledon, etc, & daren't even leave the hotel grounds!

But for me,
Football, gaming, drugs, lots of television & technology, celebs, 29" & 27.5" wheels, fatbikes. My list is endless!

this political correctness fad has passed me right by

Same here, **** em!

Last week I found out that there are professional gamers that are classed s as e-atheletes and the gamers teams earn millions of dollars a year in prizes with sponsorship on top.
I had a snes and a Xbox back in the day but generally the whole gaming thing has passes me by.

hodgynd - Member

I do like a good mtb forum though

Oh the ironing! 🙂

Football, what a waste of a good patch of grass!

Ed chuffin’ Shearan for me. All I get is ‘but he’s so talented’, but that may be the case but his music is so bland and boring and no better than the plethora of bland boring pop acts being churned out these days.

wobbliscott - Member

Ed chuffin’ Shearan for me.

I don't think that he counts as a cultural phenomenon tbh.

bigyinn - Member
The whole mass grieving over Diana then and 20 years later.
Didn't get it then, don't get it now.

Spot on.
I knew a girl who spent 8+ hours queuing (with her entire family) to sign the remembrance book or whatever it was. She certainly wasn't alone.

Absolutely bizarre.