Cringeworthy things us blokes say

[FredClogs]

Impasse said:

I usually stick my earphones in when I'm at the gym. That way I don't have to listen to people talking about rugby, football, or celebrity dancing/baking/talent shows. Those types seem quite vacant especially when they insist that I have seen the show which forms such a large and important part of their lives.

It's called social interaction, chatting and being friendly... They're so vacant the way the have their "human interaction" where as you putting your headphones on and listening to 1970s prog rock (no doubt) are really aiding civilisation.

FWIW I have my headphones on at the gym too, but that's because I'm a border line sociopath with anxiety issues and a holier than though attitude to plebeian culture - but at least I can admit it.

[Impasse]

Good for you. However, none of that will suddenly make me enthusiastic about ball games or reality shows let alone stir up a desire to discuss them with strangers.

[43034]

davhill said:

Well correct me if I'm wrong (which you will). I always understood that the thing what goes Chuff-chuff or Brrrrm
is the locomotive while the whole thing including carriages or wagons is the train.

If not, how else could there be Diesel or steam locomotives?

That is true, but there's multiple units where one of the carriages has an engine and the other carriage is just a trailer car.


I said it was really tehcnical, but they can pull things.

[Impasse]

doogz said:

So, everyone else is chatting away, and you're in the corner, silent, on your own, with your headphones in.

And they seem vacant?

I don't watch reality TV shows. But I don't feel the need to be a dick about it either.

I don't do much sitting in the corner of the gym, no. That might come across as being a bit odd. Normally I'm either running or or using the various chromed torture devices as per the previous guidance of the twenty-something instructor. Your gym experience may vary of course.

[Ari]

FredClogs said:

They're so vacant the way the have their "human interaction" where as you putting your headphones on and listening to 1970s prog rock (no doubt) are really aiding civilisation.

Anyone..?

[TheJimi]

doogz said:

Impasse said:

I usually stick my earphones in when I'm at the gym. That way I don't have to listen to people talking about rugby, football, or celebrity dancing/baking/talent shows. Those types seem quite vacant especially when they insist that I have seen the show which forms such a large and important part of their lives.

So, everyone else is chatting away, and you're in the corner, silent, on your own, with your headphones in.

I'm gonna speak for Impasse here, but, err yeah.

I go to the gym to train, and train hard. That means keeping up a certain level of focus, that precludes "chatting away"

Moreover, most people who train solo have headphones / earphones on. So contrary to the picture you're trying to paint of Impasse "in the corner" - he's actually very typical of just about everyone who trains on their own.

Nice thread this.

Ah'm oot.

[anonymous-user]

TheJimi said:

I'm gonna speak for Impasse here, but, err yeah.

I go to the gym to train, and train hard. That means keeping up a certain level of focus, that precludes "chatting away"

Moreover, most people who train solo have headphones / earphones on. So contrary to the picture you're trying to paint of Impasse "in the corner" - he's actually very typical of just about everyone who trains on their own.

Nice thread this.

Ah'm oot.

Ah was oot afore ye

[mister_ee]

Type R Tom said:

So in the last few months you haven’t been to London (3 locations), Cardiff, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Leicester, Brighton, Milton Keynes, Gloucester or Exeter because they are all host cities and have had a fair amount of publicity around the fact.

Not so difficult to believe, I live in Leeds and I only found out they were playing at Elland Road a couple of weeks ago when it took bd ages to get to B&Q

[shirt]

blindswelledrat said:

I know all about Rugby and some celebrities but I don't think that Jimi/Aw111 stance is odd at all.
If something doesn't interest me then I don't register it.
For example, although I watch an average amount of TV I could not name a single advert that currently runs because my mind completely switches to something else when they are on.
Same with many other things that simply don't interest me. FOr example I couldn't name a single current golf player (unless tiger woods still plays).
I couldn't name a single American footballer or baseball player despite them theoretically being more famous than our own sports people.

i do find it a bit odd.

i haven't watched tv at alll in years and have spent most of this year on work sites in africa and asia. haven't been to the uk since may, hate most modern music, and don't follow any sport other than some motor racing.

yet i could answer all the questions here and probably more. for sure i couldn't tell you who's no.1 in the charts and who runs the queen vic these days, but that doesn't mean i live under a rock. i have friends, read the news, listen to the radio, chat to people at work.

i didn't know the world cup was on until someone at work told me. i know we never left the group as the internet didn't let us forget. i know the final was a NZ victory over australia as i have mates from each country slating each other on facebook.

i think golf is a ste sport but i know jordan speith is the world's no.1 as the paddy hurt his foot or something and couldn't play the US open. i know adele has a new song called hello.

i pick up on all these things and [a lot] more without looking for them. living in scotland's not an excuse as i was in Myingyan for 5mths this year and still managed to remain reasonably informed.

i think to not be aware of current events and pop culture to be the sign of someone with a simple life and not many friends to be honest. anyone with a reasonably diverse social life and an active mind which reads the papers / browses online forums must be pretty blinkered to avoid absorbing such details.

[AW111]

I think it's a combination of a couple of things : if you're not interested in something, you don't pay attention, so what remains is "Adele mumble mumble", added to the fact that most media attention to "celebrities" is trivia about their lives, not actual news, so I tend to just filter it out, and only the name remains.

I'm not one for posting "Adele who?", because I'm neither proud or ashamed of what I remember; if I want to know, it's only a web search away.

[Zoobeef]

shirt said:

i do find it a bit odd.

i haven't watched tv at alll in years and have spent most of this year on work sites in africa and asia. haven't been to the uk since may, hate most modern music, and don't follow any sport other than some motor racing.

yet i could answer all the questions here and probably more. for sure i couldn't tell you who's no.1 in the charts and who runs the queen vic these days, but that doesn't mean i live under a rock. i have friends, read the news, listen to the radio, chat to people at work.

i didn't know the world cup was on until someone at work told me. i know we never left the group as the internet didn't let us forget. i know the final was a NZ victory over australia as i have mates from each country slating each other on facebook.

i think golf is a ste sport but i know jordan speith is the world's no.1 as the paddy hurt his foot or something and couldn't play the US open. i know adele has a new song called hello.

i pick up on all these things and [a lot] more without looking for them. living in scotland's not an excuse as i was in Myingyan for 5mths this year and still managed to remain reasonably informed.

i think to not be aware of current events and pop culture to be the sign of someone with a simple life and not many friends to be honest. anyone with a reasonably diverse social life and an active mind which reads the papers / browses online forums must be pretty blinkered to avoid absorbing such details.

Exactly!

[TheJimi]

doogz said:

So your idea of me painting him 'in the corner' is wrong.

Suggesting that everyone that dares to be sociable is 'vacant' is normal.

Nowhere did I suggest that. YOU are assuming I am suggesting that. You do understand that I can disagree with a point you made, while simultaneously disagreeing with a point made by Impasse?

doogz said:

This thread is very typical of Pistonheads these days, social retards everywhere.

Thanks.

doogz said:

I'm not suggesting you need to go talk to people in the gym, the music they play in the one I go to is mostly gash, I regularly have my headphones in. But that doesn't mean everyone else that doesn't is 'vacant' or 'council'

If that's really the case where you go, find a better gym, yours must be too cheap and council...

Again, please quote the bit where I suggested that everyone else is "vacant" or "council"

shirt said:

i didn't know the world cup was on until someone at work told me.

Right.

So how is that *any* different from me saying that I *knew* the rugby world cup was on, but just that I didn't know where it was being held?

shirt said:

i pick up on all these things and (a lot) more without looking for them.

I'm in awe. No really, I am.

shirt said:

living in scotland's not an excuse

Indeed it's not, and incidentally, as excuses go, what your excuse for using this point out of context? Since you clearly missed the context, I'll spell it out for you - Type R Tom asked me if I'd been to a list of cities in England recently, presumably because if I had, he'd rightly have expected me to have twigged that the rugby wc was being held.

As it is though, I hadn't been to any of those cities recently, and indeed, hadn't even been in England this year. Hence why I referred to me living in Scotland. See? Context. Not excuses.

shirt said:

i think to not be aware of current events and pop culture to be the sign of someone with a simple life and not many friends to be honest. anyone with a reasonably diverse social life and an active mind which reads the papers / browses online forums must be pretty blinkered to avoid absorbing such details.

Yeah, thanks man.


(sigh)

TheJimi said:

ah'm oot

Edited by TheJimi on Friday 6th November 13:09

[killingjoker]

BS30 said:

stuartmmcfc said:

"I promise I won't come in your [insert desired location] "

Sister.

Mum

[TheJimi]

doogz said:

I'm really sorry I bothered though.

In the context of this thread, I *really* know what you mean

[jogger1976]

Swanny87 said:

"Pulls like a train"

So, you're comparing your car to one of these? Pretty st car then...

That's not a train, it's a locomotive.

[P5BNij]

jogger1976 said:

Swanny87 said:

"Pulls like a train"

So, you're comparing your car to one of these? Pretty st car then...

That's not a train, it's a locomotive.

And a ste one at that, utterly horrible things to drive. My other half's Pug 107 auto has more guts, and better seats!

[Ari]

doogz said:

I'm not assuming anything. I'm certainly not assuming that you're suggesting that I'm showing that I do not understand that you can disagree with a point I made whilst simultaneously disagreeing with a point made by someone else.

I'm glad we cleared that up.

[LeoZwalf]

"Car XYZ was in my possession for 18 years, 480,000 miles and all it EVER NEEDED was routine servicing and a bulb."

[Fane]

"When he offered me £xxx for my car I laughed in his face and walked off."

[Ste1987]

Fane said:

"When he offered me £xxx for my car I laughed in his face and walked off."

"Then I told him I've found the same car with same mileage and age for £2k cheaper!

...What do you mean it's a Cat D?"