Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand

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jamaican_eagle

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How songs like Hello by Adele actually become #1. Who are the people who actually request the song? I've never met someone who liked that song. And who attends concerts of people like those? How do some things and people actually become so popular?

Smoking. Absolutely pointless and anyone who does it is an idiot, regardless of your reason.


Development of technology - seriously, how did some nut come up with ideas like how to connect this and that and Bam! You have the telephone, and how do laptops even work if they're so small? How does shit go together and work so perfectly in a 1cm thick screen?
I actually tried cigarettes for a little while to fit in more at social events, but its never worked for me.

Weed, however, is another story.
 

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I use a vape. I like it. Helped me quit cigarettes altogether.

The other week I stayed at a hotel with all craft beers and the room had mason jars instead of beer glasses. I should have bought some skinny jeans to complete the image. Haha
 

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you did nothing wrong. natural instincts kick in and you dont know what you are doing. next time it maybe different. similarly its natural when blokes get together to talk shit "yeah i wouldve kicked the shit outta him", "if i was there....i would've fought him IRL". but only you knew the circumstances, and most importantly your family were unharmed.
http://www.theonion.com/video/report-average-male-4000-less-effective-in-fights--36321

Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine

WASHINGTON—Contradicting the long-held belief that they would just go off and destroy anyone who tried to mess with them, a Department of Health and Human Services report published Thursday revealed that U.S. males would be on average 4,000 percent less effective in a fight than they imagine. “Despite the typical American male’s conviction that he would viciously beat down anyone who came at him and end the whole thing with one punch, we found that in the event of an actual violent altercation, most adult men would almost certainly injure themselves far worse than any assailant,” read the 80-page report, which went on to confirm that nearly all American males would be unable to execute a single maneuver they envision themselves capable of performing, be it an uppercut, a roundhouse, or grabbing an opponent by the back of the neck and smashing his face down into the bar. “Predictions of being amped up on massive adrenaline rushes or having multiple friends jump in to back them up are similarly unfounded, with over 75 percent of confrontations instead projected to end with panicked apologies or pleas to be let out of a headlock.” The report stated, however, that the majority of men correctly estimate that such fights would last a total of six seconds.
 

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I'd like to know that stats for women in the same sort of study - I think people would be surprised as evidenced by quivorir's wifes response - women do have that maternal thing going on where it's to protect the child at all costs (broad sweeping statement bound to offend).
I know with one of my daughters that without fail in the fight or flight scenarios she has encountered* her initial reaction has always been to instantly lash out and hit and attack.

*her encounters have only been in the home where someone has accidentally frightened the bejesus out of her, no actual strangers trying to get in the laundry door.
 

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How people find that You're Back In The Room show with hypnotised people so hilarious.

People in the audience are pissing themselves laughing while I'm sitting there watching it like this.

I've been to a taping of an old channel 9 show a decade ago. It's definitely instructions by production staff to laugh at your hardest. Those that aren't doing so wouldn't be used in the crowd shots either.

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