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I'll second the left-handed golfers one - even though I'm left-handed I play(ed) golf right-handed. I feel like I need to watch the TV in a mirror every time I watch Phil Mickleson play. It's just wrong.
And left hand guitarists..
I find them hard to watch.
White underpants.
G10 light fittings.
Morecambe.
Otherwise sensible people who are religious.
Quickpar. How can you repair ANY part of a damaged archive with the same blocks? Black magic.
People who say "I haven't had an explanation" when they actually mean "I haven't had an explanation I understand/accept/agree with"
This winter's weather.
Why is it (usually) much easier to stay upright on a moving bike than a stationary one.
Computers in general
People who stand still on escalators.
People who think that busy doorways/entrances to things are a great place to stop for a chat.
Groups of people who prop the bar up preventing others from seeing what ales are on tap instead of buying a pint and finding a seat.
Men who wear scarves and nothing else
Not sure if I'm curious or concerned........ 😕
One of my old schoolmates. He's right handed but when playing cricket (or any other racket sports) would always bat left handed.
All those screaming teenagers waiting for Binners to leave the hotel, so they can grab his hair.
Why don't they just drug a maid, put her clothes on and get his hair from the plug hole. It's much more civilized
I went to a mcdonalds on the A3 in Hampshire, there were police and squaddies in there...felt really weird...
I can't think of a time I've been to a mcdonalds and there hasn't been the police in there - I thought it was just a natural waiting ground, helped but the fact they get free food...
Squaddies walking around in their uniforms...I mean, why wouldn't they? (my dad did after all) but it's just odd when I see them in largely civilian settings somehow.
And a "things that mess with your head sort of way" when you try to grasp the length of time humans have been knocking about on the planet, (2 millions years or so) and the space that we occupy is mostly the same spaces that they did...
Gay people.
Drivers who stop at roundabouts when there's nothing coming.
People who use New Psychoactive Substances. (Not that this is 'normal')
One of my old schoolmates. He's right handed but when playing cricket (or any other racket sports) would always bat left handed.
Like me with an ice hockey stick, couldn't be doing a right handed stick but hold other bats/clubs/racquets right handedly.
Hopefully I'm as far from a hand-wringing-self-righteous-stw-arse-head as it's possible to be, but seriously did you just say that??
I think he did...
Holy shit.
Perhaps he reads a lot of Enid Blyton and meant as in 'happy'.... Maybe...
Most people are gay when lonely 😆
Most people are gay when lonely
What? Did I say something?
I suspect that this
Gay people.
may require a bit of expansion?
You would not believe how many kabaddi players there are.had to google it.... wtf... like some weird, slightly homo-erotic school boy game of tag.
Years and years ago Channel 4 used to televise Kabaddi late at night. Post pub (after the loooong walk home I used to have to do) its was basically either Kabaddi or Ceefax on the telly when I got home. It took quite a long time (and by that I mean several weeks) for me to suddenly realise 'hang on, this game doesn't seem to involve a ball'
may require a bit of expansion?
To what degree?
The amount of times Joe Cocker keeps being resurrected. I think he may have some kind of concealed electric motor.
well, in a thread entitled "Normal everyday things that mess with your mind" merely saying Gay people and leaving it at that seems, at the very least, a little short on information about why?
nickc - Member
I suspect that thisGay people.
may require a bit of expansion?
I suspect that he means that while he has no problem with gay people, the concept of gayness 'messes with his mind', as per the thread title. Which is fair enough. Those people who have said they get weirded out watching left-handed golfers, no-one jumped to any conclusions about them being bigoted towards left-handed golfers. This is much the same, I suspect. It's perfectly possible to not get your head around being attracted to your own gender, but also to have no problem accepting that being gay exists and is nothing to be concerned about.
[edit - the confusion probably arose because some folk have gone OT and started posting about "things they don't like, that other people do" rather than concepts that they struggle to grasp.
WillH, your sensible commentary is not welcomed here, the pitchforks are at this very moment being readied. 😆
🙂 Sorry, I'm quite enjoying this thread and didn't want it to descend into an anti-homophobia argument (apologies to essel for ruining his excellent trolling 😆 )
well, in a thread entitled "Normal everyday things that mess with your mind" merely saying Gay people and leaving it at that seems, at the very least, a little short on information about why?
'Messing with my mind' is probably an overstatement, I just don't get it, like a lot of stuff on here. Squaddies in uniforms for instance, I live 2 miles from an RAF base & often see military staff in uniform in Morrisons, so what?
Why are they called escalators & not 'speed stairs'?People who stand still on escalators.
Here's 2 blokes, one's gay & the other isn't. They love each other dearly. Who's the gay one?
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Ah, [b]you're[/b] a great big mincer. Glad that's cleared up 😀
We all say things that probably didn't come out right, carry on.
9.5/10 trolling. Excellent.
Ring doughnuts have only one side and thought to be the shape of the universe as no matter what direction you set off in you get to your start point. Was on bbc 4 so must be true.
tasty though
Grunty, who is gay or not is irrelevant. Who is riding a road bike with a peaked helmet is what is messing with my swede.
*tips helmet*
Eeeerrrrr... Try not to visualise 😉
When people talk so hip.
It twists my melon, man 😀
Women 😯
It's good though that he's accepted that it's actually perfectly normal and that it's him that has the problem, innit?
maccruiskeen - MemberYears and years ago Channel 4 used to televise Kabaddi late at night. Post pub (after the loooong walk home I used to have to do) its was basically either Kabaddi or Ceefax on the telly when I got home.
And that right there is why anyone in the UK knows what kabaddi is. It's like when channel 5 used to have the x-games and suddenly every student, pisshead and stoner in the country had an opinion on skidoo racing. Or that thing channel 4 used to show at 4am that was nothing but videos of spaceships taking off, to try and stop people coming in from clubs from chewing their own faces off (I think they did other versions but in my head it was all spaceships)
Or that thing channel 4 used to show at 4am that was nothing but videos of spaceships taking off, to try and stop people coming in from clubs from chewing their own faces off
A fe years ago we got a visual editing (V-dj's) company in to do 3 humoungus video screens at our dance tents at the wickerman festival, i recognised clips of that show ^ and mentioned it to the VJ's - turns out that it was his company that produced and sold them to C4.
That year we were very popular with a 500+ person queue (one in - one out) to get into our large marquees… 😀
Married people, regardless of gay or not gay. Why!
No one is interesting enough to spend the next sixty years of your life with.
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Cat owners that don't control them. There is no law that says your cat can do what it wants anywhere it wants. Pooping in gardens causing car accidents and stealing property! No!
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Milk
Haha! Good responses, I like, & thanks for letting me troll. being gay isn't something that 'messes with my head' but I still don't 'get it'. I have actually told him, ('him' being the actual roadie in the pic) but he just laughs. Daft git, but I still love him.
Grunty, who is gay or not is irrelevant. Who is riding a road bike with a peaked helmet is what is messing with my swede.
I'm a MTBer on a road bike!
People who stop on roundabouts on the other hand..... 👿
DezB - Member
Drivers who don't indicate. It really does mess with my mind! something so damn simple and everyone who drives takes LESSONS! and has to pass a TEST! and yet....
The eedjit in the silver Merc yesterday who overtook me, indicated to pull into my lane(a we bit sharp!)then braked to pull into a layby but misjudged it due to the snow / blizzard conditions and clipped the kerb!!!! Luckily I had room to swerve past him after the car following him went past otherwise he would have had a sore arris.... 2.5tne of 4x4 isn't easily stopped on snow covered roads....
The current fashion to save the car battery by not using lights when it is dark due to the street lights being on so that they can be seen!
Three remote control units (one for each) for 1 TV, 1 Sky Box, 1 Surround system...
Three sequences to turn on/off all of that crap.
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Washing Machines that "Beeeeeeep"! loudly when they finish the cycle of washing my gear. Then proceed to "beeeeeeep" for the next three minutes until the doors opened.
Salad. It's had heck knows what sliming,pooping,peeing and other yucky stuff happen to it and all humans do is rinse it under a cold tap then eat it. WTH! You've just gobbled natures toilet.
I thought left handed golfer was a euphamism.
I get a bit freaked out thinking about the oceans and some of the crazy creatures down there. (Thats one suggestion btw not two).
And that right there is why anyone in the UK knows what kabaddi is. It's like when channel 5 used to have the x-games and suddenly every student, pisshead and stoner in the country had an opinion on skidoo racing. Or that thing channel 4 used to show at 4am that was nothing but videos of spaceships taking off, to try and stop people coming in from clubs from chewing their own faces off (I think they did other versions but in my head it was all spaceships)
Who remembers C4 televising the 'International Inuit Olympics' - the greasy stick pull, kick the high thing, the awkward jump. All in front of a stadium packed with dozen or so competitors' couple of dozen family and neighbours.
I suspect that he means that while he has no problem with gay people, the concept of gayness 'messes with his mind',
In a nutshell: Derren Brown
Space.
I just can't get my head round the distances involved.
Ridiculous.
Space.
I just can't get my head round the distances involved.
Ridiculous.
+ 1, gives me a bad head. (miles more than gay people)
Here's 2 blokes, one's gay & the other isn't. They love each other dearly. Who's the gay one?
One is leaning towards, one is leaning away, so invoking the "only if you push back" rule it is clearly the chap on the left.
Death, or more specifically, being dead........forever
esselgruntfuttock - Member+ 1, gives me a bad head. (miles more than gay people)
Gay people give you head?
I can't get my head round what was here before the universe was created.
And the fact space never ends.
Better head than space apparently Northwind. Has he seen Uranus yet?
Nah, you need a powerful telescope to see uranus. And a powerful microscope to see urpenus.
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Gay people give you head?
I never even said that, read again thick chops. If I'm pissed, what the **** are you? On spice or something?
I'm confused as to why anyone would buy a Nissan Juke.
Why hasn't Brian Blessed been knighted and given full body armour
He's the replacement for Trident.
Why isn't Brian Blessed standing on the beach, holding a Trident and shouting at any dodgy looking warships that come into UK waters.
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Why hasn't a fight been setup for Blessed Vs Putin
men wearing scarves
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single occupancy in cars when people could have walked cycled or used public transport or shared a lift
Some of us might well be going somewhere a bit further than a couple of miles, have nobody else who is interested in the same destination, and there's no public transport, or at least nothing that goes to the fairly remote destination or if it does, only does so twice a day.
I went for a walk today, it was eight miles from where I live, I've nobody to go with, and there are no buses on a Sunday.
Some people should get out of the cities and spend some time living where public transport to anywhere other than other large towns doesn't exist.
Scarves. What's the problem with something that was designed and worn 3500 years ago? It's a handy thing to stop cold draughts from blowing down your neck.
Anyone who has issues with a practical item of everyday clothing needs to have a quiet word with themselves. 🙄
Water. Yes, it's made up from two colourless, odourless gasses; so exactly how the beejayzus can it be wet?
And what is 'wet'?
There are lots of things that annoy or just generally piss me off, and a huge number that I plain just don't understand, but there aren't [i]that[/i] many that make my brain itch, water is one, and I try not to think about it too much.
I think I need a drink now. 😕
The lack of a LIKE button on here.
It stresses me right out.
😕
Soldiers walking around Tesco's in uniform but not driving the tank there
Self-service checkouts..."Please take your receipt, please take your goods" I'm checking my receipt..."Please take your goods"...
Hydrogen bond innit. The configuration of the atoms means that the molecule has a positively charged end and a negatively charged end. So they tend to stick together. And they can pull other ionic compounds apart.
What I want to know is how come snowflakes are all different? Salt crystals aren't, they are all the same.
People who stand checking their receipt at self service tills, why not move away to check it?
That the government still allows alcohol and cigarettes to be legal, despite knowing of the massive health risks and danger they pose to the population.
In Sweden and Finland apartment doors open outwards, always freaks me out a bit.
Electricity.
There is no law that says your cat can do what it wants anywhere it wants
They're legally classed as free-roaming animals.
As is Brian Blessed
The fact that we can now use piss, shit, etc but **** is still frowned upon?
bikebouy - Member
The lack of a LIKE button on here.It stresses me right out.
This * googleplex
People who think googleplex & googolplex are the same thing
Tow along suitcases and small laptop type bags, on wheels.
Yarp, why do I want to kick them sideways to see the impending speed wobble on behalf of the tow'er... 😳
It's just cruel.. 😆
Scientists have calculated that the age of the earth is 4.543 billion years.
That fact alone is totally stunning, our life span is but the blink of an eye and anything that we choose to do in our life matters not one jot.
But if they have calculated the age of the earth that means that there was a point in time when the Earth just didn't exist?!
Water. Yes, it's made up from two colourless, odourless gasses; so exactly how the beejayzus can it be wet?
And water is pretty good at putting out fires, despite the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen are pretty good at doing precisely the opposite.
People who start a thread asking for advice then argue against the advice that is offered before disappearing in a huff.
That the government still allows alcohol and cigarettes to be legal, despite knowing of the massive health risks and danger they pose to the population.
Why in Britain, alcohol is treated the way it is. It doesn't have to be one way or the other: either drinking everywhere (including on the Tube 😯 ), to a complete ban. It [i]is[/i] possible to drink in moderation like civilised human beings!
It is possible to drink in moderation like civilised human beings!
Although 60% of sales are to problem drinkers....
[quote=GrahamS ]And water is pretty good at putting out fires, despite the fact that Hydrogen and Oxygen are pretty good at doing precisely the opposite.
Strangely, most products of combustion contain things which are good at combusting, yet aren't good at combusting themselves 😉
Death, or more specifically, being dead........forever
^ that, but more than that, consciousness/sentience in general, how it happens, and how it can just 'stop' when you die, is it even a real thing? blah blah blah, ties my head in knots that does.
Confused?
You won't be after next week's episode of Soap...