Cringeworthy things us blokes say
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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 s
te 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.
Resurrecting an old argument but I missed this post.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 s
te 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.
I genuinely get your point but you are, I think, ignoring mine.
Everyone (including you) has something that interests you so little, that whilst you may hear something you just don't store it in your memory.
So for example Strictly COme Dancing is huge in the uk but do you know any of the competitors/dancers etc? Of course not, in the same way that you don't know all the tampon brands (except Tampax for some reason).
Or maybe you do? Maybe all this argument is just down to memory differences. Some people remember every snippet of information that ever enters their head and use it to win pub quizzes.
Others, like me, discard 70% of information that ever enters as 'irrelevant' although I don't know what my brain is doing with this theoretical spare capacity.
It even has its own Wikipedia article. Looks like it has been around a long time. I have to say it has never bothered me (and lots of things bother me)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_time_no_see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_time_no_see
I'm another one of the people with no awareness of something apparently important to others: in this case sport.
I'm my time I've travelled in and out of London past Twickenham on a regular basis, and lived near enough to Richmond for it to be a night out destination.
In both cases I've found it to be massively busier than normal, and subsequently been told that some vitally important rugby match was on that I had been unaware of.
If sport comes on the radio/TV I just change channel and I don't read the sports pages, so I literally have zero knowledge of it.
In my defence, I don't make this point to appear superior but ignorant, with a poor grasp of travel/entertainment planning.
I'm my time I've travelled in and out of London past Twickenham on a regular basis, and lived near enough to Richmond for it to be a night out destination.
In both cases I've found it to be massively busier than normal, and subsequently been told that some vitally important rugby match was on that I had been unaware of.
If sport comes on the radio/TV I just change channel and I don't read the sports pages, so I literally have zero knowledge of it.
In my defence, I don't make this point to appear superior but ignorant, with a poor grasp of travel/entertainment planning.
daddy cool said:
A little bit of me dies inside whenever someone refers to doing a trackday (ie, a non-compulsory, fun activity that they have chosen and paid to do) as "track work".
"yeah, im running Toyo R888's for track work"
Oh, fk off. You arent an F1 test driver.
And saying "running" too. fk off again.
Agreed "yeah, im running Toyo R888's for track work"
Oh, f
k off. You arent an F1 test driver.And saying "running" too. f
k off again.
Alex@POD said:
LeoZwalf said:
"Bucket list"
When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
That's old, and also makes sense. It's things you want to do before you "kick the bucket".When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
Ari said:
Alex@POD said:
LeoZwalf said:
"Bucket list"
When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
That's old, and also makes sense. It's things you want to do before you "kick the bucket".When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
Edited by Einion Yrth on Thursday 26th November 21:25
'I'm all over that!'
I've had to stop myself from saying this as I realised what a tt it made me sound.
I'm also one of those who doesn't have any interest in sport, which my friends still seem to find a bit perplexing. I just switch off when they start going on about the weekend fixtures, nothing interests me less. I can hear them, but I'm not listening if that makes sense.
My fascination with music/cars/photography etc equally has them switching off.
I've had to stop myself from saying this as I realised what a t
t it made me sound.I'm also one of those who doesn't have any interest in sport, which my friends still seem to find a bit perplexing. I just switch off when they start going on about the weekend fixtures, nothing interests me less. I can hear them, but I'm not listening if that makes sense.
My fascination with music/cars/photography etc equally has them switching off.
Edited by Baz Tench on Tuesday 1st December 20:59
Einion Yrth said:
Ari said:
Alex@POD said:
LeoZwalf said:
"Bucket list"
When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
That's old, and also makes sense. It's things you want to do before you "kick the bucket".When did this start? I've only noticed it this year. Everyone seems to have one except me. I have things I want to do.
Edited by Einion Yrth on Thursday 26th November 21:25
For me it's the 'of' for 'have'.
Though this migh be ' Cringeworthy things us bloke write' rather than say.
Since it's not a typo or an auto correct issue, it shows a lack of knowledge of, or care for the most basic
structure of the writer's/speaker's native language.
It's unfortunate because while the poster might have a valid point or opinion,
this use of 'of' nullifies any potential validity of the poster's argument.
I simply stop reading and move on to the next post.
Is it just me?
Though this migh be ' Cringeworthy things us bloke write' rather than say.
Since it's not a typo or an auto correct issue, it shows a lack of knowledge of, or care for the most basic
structure of the writer's/speaker's native language.
It's unfortunate because while the poster might have a valid point or opinion,
this use of 'of' nullifies any potential validity of the poster's argument.
I simply stop reading and move on to the next post.
Is it just me?
Rulle7 said:
For me it's the 'of' for 'have'.
Though this migh be ' Cringeworthy things us bloke write' rather than say.
Since it's not a typo or an auto correct issue, it shows a lack of knowledge of, or care for the most basic
structure of the writer's/speaker's native language.
It's unfortunate because while the poster might have a valid point or opinion,
this use of 'of' nullifies any potential validity of the poster's argument.
I simply stop reading and move on to the next post.
Is it just me?
I would of thought not.Though this migh be ' Cringeworthy things us bloke write' rather than say.
Since it's not a typo or an auto correct issue, it shows a lack of knowledge of, or care for the most basic
structure of the writer's/speaker's native language.
It's unfortunate because while the poster might have a valid point or opinion,
this use of 'of' nullifies any potential validity of the poster's argument.
I simply stop reading and move on to the next post.
Is it just me?
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