Stuff You Just Don't Get

This is kind of a spin-off of my Playgirl thread. What stuff out there is popular, but has zero appeal to you? It's not necessarily something you despise (i.e., Spice Girls, Clinton)...just something that does nothing for you, but makes way too many other people go "oooh!"...and you just don't get it.

I'll start:
Playgirl (duh)
Cola drinks
Tequila shots
Soap Operas
Chihuahuas
SUVs
Woody Allen and his movies
Uma Thurman
Potato Salad
Porshes
Longaberger baskets
Lowered cars
Beanie Babies (well...except the cats! ;) )
Gone With the Wind
The funky plastic colorful kitchenware that's hip now
Birkenstocks

How about ya'll?


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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."

I'll bite:

-Celebrities (I just dont see how people get so worked up over them)
-Soap Operas
-Ricky Martin
-The Southeast Asian Decorating craze (Uh yeah, like a balinese peasant sleeps on silk pillows, lives in an expansive "Balinese Villa", and all the other stuff. It's nice if you genuinely like the style but dont do it because the Joneses or some decorator are doing it. :))
-Beanie Babies
-All of the teenie bopper pop singers
-Rice Rockets (Japanese economy cars that are "customized")
-Limp Bizkit
-Kid Rock
-SUV's
-Choppers
-Fast Cars
-Vacations to Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
-Paris
-Euro-Asian cooking (We call that making do in my home)

I used to not have a problem with some of those things but since some have become trendy, they all are becoming quite trite.

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"Let me show you something
that you've never seen before
like a light im gonna shine on you
forever is a word i dont often get to say
but if you say it loud enough i'll say it too"

-Furbies
-Beanie babies
-Anime
-Marilyn Manson
-Star Wars (well, Return of the Jedi was good)
-Y2K chaos
-Ricky Martin
-Little-boy bands (Backstreet Boys and clones)
-Golf
-Old Navy, Tommy Hilfiger, and whatever other brand names are charging exhorbitant amounts for kids to walk around everywhere doing free advertising
-MS Excel

As for clothing...
-Any pair of sneakers costing more than $35
-Any pair of jeans costing more than $30
And I'll definitely go along with the Woody Allen movies.
But I noticed both of you that said SUV are from CA, here in the northeast we get snow and a trip to a real supermarket usually involves a half hour drive.

I don't get:

-the allure of fake nails and big hair
-why Backstreet Boys and 'NSync are so popular
-how people can whine about their life and not do anything to address the issues
-Ditto on Woody Allen
-selling/trading in a perfectly good car after two years 'cause something 'new' is out
-the hoopla about Pulp Fiction (that'll get me some heat! :) )
-consumerism: the need to buy things to make you feel good about yourself;buying into the culture of advertising
-Beanie Babies
-Elvis memorabilia
-country music

brain is dead today;can't think of much!

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son"

- most movie critics
- Woody Allen
- Kickboxing aerobics
- Tae Bo (*sigh*)
- bad drivers (well, specfically why are there so many of them, and why do they have to drive when I am driving?)
- the judicial system (*double sigh*)
- gun control nuts
- anti-gun control nuts

-blue-rinse hair
-those rubber covers on the front of cars to stop the paint getting chipped or something.
-strapping mobile 'phones to your belt when your pocket would do fine.

• Jeans with the crotch down to your knees
• Top 40 music
• Wedge-shaped cars w/o any styling
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Mozart [the top 40 of classical?]
• television
• cellular phones
• virtual business cards in email
• guys shorts with the legs down to the knees


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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

Gambling - It just doesn't work for me. I see friends, relatives, and co-workers buying lottery tickets and going to casinos and I just don't understand the appeal. They tell me they enjoy thinking about the possibility of winning huge amounts of money. Well, I enjoy thinking about the possibility of being rich but I don't see how spending my money away on Lotto and slot machines has any connection with that.

Car crashs - I see a lot of action movies that feature cars chasing each other around and crashing in spectacular fashions. What is the attraction of watching cars drive around fast, crash through fruit stands, flip over, or go over cliffs and explode? My advice - cut the car scenes and add more sex scenes.

Austin Powers - A friend of mine says this is the funniest movie he has ever seen. Obviously there are a lot of other people who loved it. I was really looking forward to it because I had heard it was funny, but when I saw it I didn't think it was anything special. I'm not saying I hated it, but I'd rate it about a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Coffee - I can drink it but I've never understood the appeal it holds for other people. I probably actually drink about four or five cups of coffee a year.

- Woody Allen, just to keep the theme going
- People who bring their work home
- Jerry Springer
- Extreme sports
- The Weather Channel



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There aren't enough days in the weekend. -- Steven Wright

- ditto on Ricky Martin
- ditto on Ally McBeal
- anything ever produced by Aaron Spelling
- golf
- hip-hop/rap
- aLtErNaTiNg UpPeR aNd LoWeR cAsE tYpInG
- baked beans
- Star Trek
- materialism
- high school mentality among people in their 20's, 30's and 40's
- 60-80 hour work week = necessary for success
- Julia Roberts
- good looking = talented
- MBAs
- the stock market
- Cher
- artificial humming birds (I saw these at the pool store)
- 4X4 vehicles driven by people who freak out if they get dirt under their fingernails (Thanks for screwing up the demand curve people! I would actually make good use of a 4X4 if I could afford it!)
- ditto on Leonardo DiCaprio
- people who think "y'all" is spelled "ya'll" ;)

--The crappy movies that Hollywood puts out and paying $8.75 to see them
--Breast Implants
--Women who are constantly on a diet or "watching what they eat"
--Stephen King, Daniel Steele, John Grisham, etc.
--Ditto on Backstreet Boys and N'Suck

-- George W. Bush: even if I were republican I wouldn't understand why money's being thrown at the vaguest candidate in the field.

-- Reality Bites
-- Pi (movie, not the number)
-- Clueless
-- the British Royal Family ( I get why the Brits obsess, but Americans?)
-- rock/rap hybrid bands
-- gaudy, tacky jewelry
-- people who can have fact upon fact upon fact thrown at them and refuse to compromise when they believe something contrary to those facts (and I'm not just talking religious fundamentalists here... stubborn people in general)
-- Jimmy Buffett
-- this Wavy Gravy character I've seen in every Woodstock retrospective this month. Who is he and WHAT is that thing he's carrying?
-- anal sex
-- hot dogs

Pardon my "ya'll," Strainger. I'm a displanted hillbilly (born in West Virginee, thank y'all very much!) who never quite learned the correct spelling of such euphenisms.

Still, when I think about it for 3 seconds, DUH. :)

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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."

Platform shoes. What is the deal? They're horrible. They were ugly in the 70's, and they're ugly now.

Strainger said - "4X4 vehicles driven by people who freak out if they get dirt under their fingernails (Thanks for screwing up the demand curve people! I would actually make good use of a 4X4 if I could afford it!)"

I agree. I can't stand people who spend thousands of dollars lifting their trucks, getting huge mud tires, buying a winch that can lift a bus, and then only driving them around town, being real careful not to run over a little curb or anything. What a waste.

Hey Strainger, get a 4X4! A good used Toyota truck or 4Runner is not very expensive, they're easy to work on, and they are so much fun! You have trails all over Arizona, too. You can't believe what you ever did without one (I felt the same way when I got this damn computer). Mine has a permanent coat of mud on it and sees the trails at least once a month.

- Zima
- the X-Games
- Woodstock '99
- Woodstock '69
- That DJ Jesse on MTV
- The stupid new Saturn with a third door on the (street?) side
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Differences between "Vegans" and "Vegetarians" (like us carnivores really care...)

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"...send lawyers, guns, and money..."

Warren Zevon

Gee..I sooo don't fit in here...people have posted things that they don't like, and I like most of those things!

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MaryAnn
Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck!

Ditto on these:
Soap Operas
Chihuahuas
SUVs
Longaberger baskets
Lowered cars
Beanie Babies
-Golf
-Old Navy
-Elvis memorabilia
-country music
the British Royal Family ( I get why the Brits obsess, but Americans?)

And let me add these:

Hunting for sport

Forrest Gump

Caffeine free diet Coke

Holocaust denial

Camping (let's go be uncomfortable for several days and nights)

Office parties on Dec. 24, with a guy dressed up as Santa, lots of red and green decorations, and a gift exchange, and insisting on calling them "Holiday" parties, and expecting the Jews to join in and feel truly included, as everyone wishes you "Happy Hanukkah," when Hanukkah ended a week ago.

Brad Pitt

Tom Selleck

Romance novels

Floating basketball art

People who drive to the gym to work out

People who will give money as charity to disabled people, but won't let them work to earn it.


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--Rowan
Shopping is still cheaper than therapy. --my Aunt Franny

Friends (TV show)
Diet Soda - Why do people drink this foul crap when unsweetened iced tea tastes so much better?
KoRn - I was forced to one of their concerts and I just don't see what the big deal is.
People who drive pick-up trucks, but never put anything in back.
Religion

- Leonardo DiCaprio (C'mon, he looks like he's 12 years old)

- Stuffed animals propped up in the rear windows of cars

- Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, and about half the bands who were at Woodstock

- George W. Bush

- Wearing pants so low they're almost falling off and your underwear is on display. Get a belt, for chrissakes!

- Ally McBeal



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The reason i dislike SUV's is because everyone i know who owns one, drives it because "it looks cool". Not because they live in the mountains, or in a rural area where it would be useful, they live IN the city on the coast! The only exception is my older brother, but he drives 45 minutes a day to work and often through dirt roads, etc.(His work is in a small rural town). The people im talking about are the same ones who freak if they get dirt under their nails (Like my twin brother and all his friends). Oh heres more:

-Jeeps (Again used by people who would cringe at getting their nails dirty)
-Vegans, Vegetarianism, and all that stuff
-Enterntainment Tonight (I really hate how they always brag how theyre the only ones let in to interview stars at movie premiers *Duh* theyre using you to sell the damn movie LOL)
-Rosie O'donell
-the free tibet people (It's not that i dont think supporting freeing Tibet is bad (thats a good thing), i just dislike how it's the current charity for celebrities to jock).
-cell phones




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"Let me show you something
that you've never seen before
like a light im gonna shine on you
forever is a word i dont often get to say
but if you say it loud enough i'll say it too"

Two more:

Fake wood veneer paneling nailed over drywall. Does anyone think that actually looks good?

Men who let their hair grow long on one side, and comb it over a bald spot.


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--Rowan
Shopping is still cheaper than therapy. --my Aunt Franny

Floating basketball art?

I guess I truly don't "get" this one. What is it?

And my contribution to the list is "gambling". When I went to Vegas, I spent the first 10 minutes gambling. No fun.
After that, I spent the next 4 hours at Luxor playing video games.

I thought of another one.

- movie/video game ninja. Everybody is always flipping out over ninja. *sigh* Ninja can do this, ninja can do that. Ninja = assassin. No mystical abilities and other junk.

- movie/video game samurai. Same as ninja above.

- movie/video game martial arts in general.

I'll add some more:

- BIG ditto on gambling. There are lot's of other things I'd rather do with my time and money.
- Actors who feel that they have to whisper to sound dramatic or tough
- "Music" that pounds. Frequently heard in dance clubs and aerobics rooms. You listen to it, and all you hear is that incessant "POUND! POUND! POUND! POUND!" I used to tolerate that sort of "music," but now I just detest it.


Dirty Devil, I've considered upgrading my Tacoma 4X2 to have larger wheels and tires (possibly purchased from a 'pull-a-part' place - the wheels anyway) to at least acheive better clearance. However, I think I'll shop around for a good used 4X4 pick-up and make a final decision from there. Although, on 3 occasions, I haven't let the "4WD Only" roads stop me!

Why people with glasses are stereotyped as nerdy, childish, or senile
Why TV and movie drama has to show people being brutalized
Why contemporary TV "comedy" involves vulgar speech we thought we'd grown out of when we finished junior high school
Why some employers think they need to lie to employees about their evaluations
Why drivers choose to ignore stop signs (and red lights)
Why people keep getting drunk when hangovers hurt so much
Why feminists bristle at men who try to be courteous (opening a door, offering a seta on a bus, etc.)
Why older siblings sometimes carry hostility to younger siblings into middle age :(

[bantmof]

Buying cars with automatic transmissions.

Watching pro WWF-style wrestling.

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peas on earth

[SpidyReb]

First off I gotta second Ricky Martin, NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys and the rest of these teeny bopper bands. Let's not forget the worst of the worst...Hanson.
Also, the Kennedy's- Nothing personal, but who really cares.
Rosie O'Donnels' talk show
The Phantom Menace- The most overhyped movie of the decade?
People who spend $30,000 on a truck/car and live in a trailer park.
The current backlash against 80s music, as if because it's 10 years old it sucks.
Madonna
Celine Dion
Republicans


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Any magician can pull a rabbit out of a hat, show me one who can pull a hat out of a rabbit and I'll believe.

[Miss Gretchen]

People who don't flush public toilets. What the hell are they thinking? "Why, I'll save water! In a little while someone else will be delighted to sit on this toilet that's had my crap in it for hours! I'm going to save the environment, one flush at a time!"

Do they do this at home? Can you imagine what their houses must be like? What they must smell like?

Had a bad experience in the Donut shop washroom today. Can you tell?

[Lumpy]

Things I just don't see the attraction of:

-Professional sports.

-Drinking.

-Strip joints

-Having the radio on all day just for the noise.

-Rollercoasters that make you literally puke.

-Deafeningly loud music.

-Piercing.

-Stories about how pointless and absurd existence is.

-Comic books with "arty" bad drawing.

-Crying over losers O.D.ing

-The Kennedys

-The British royal family

-Gambling

[jazzmine]

little dogs - I mean, what's the point?

all the boy bands - I never did, nor will I ever, stand next to a stage and scream and sob because HE looked at me.

Running around telling everyone how your man or woman did you wrong, and not bothering to say anything to said man or woman. Geez, stay single or something.

Heavy Metal - What's the point if you can't understand the words?

Ditto on the Kennedys

Double Ditto on the English royalty. Like they have anything to do with America?

Trisha


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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein

[AuraSeer]

Blair Witch.

Lots of people are saying, "The creators are geniuses!" No, the creators had one good idea: to have the actors improvise the entire movie. They wrote less than one page of dialogue, and showed the actors how to work the cameras. After that, all they did was follow the actors around and make spooky noises.

I also hear a lot of "The acting is so believable and realistic!" Well, no kidding. If you want actors to look like they've been in the woods for three days with little food or sleep, what could be better than to send them out into the woods for three days, then steal their food and make noises all night?

One more thing: the story is fictional. Get over it.

[CptHowdy65]

Woodstock 99 - WHY?????????
(For Tetzel - Wavy Gravy was an announcer at the one and only Woodstock, and then went on to other "hippie" things, currently runs a school for clowns and circus performers for underprivileged kids in N. Cal)

Rosie O' Donnell

Singers that think they can act
Actors that think they can sing

For me the music stopped in the very early 70's and with a few exceptions hasn't been much since

Ally McBeal, Friends, any "Greatest....from Fox TV

Songwriters that sell out to advertisers

Advertisers that think we are to dumb to make up our own minds without a song that sold a bizzilion records

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere

Anyone else's sex life (as long as they are adults and consenting)

All for now

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The worst thing that can possibly happen is not be used for something by someone - Kurt Vonnegut

I'm adding a few:

Rock gardens...esp. the mini-ones with sand and the teeny rake
Golf
Cigars, cigarrettes, smoking in general
Drinking just to get drunk
Getting drunk=fun, college rite of passage, etc.
Acrylic nails
Pierced nipples, genitals, and tongues
People who bring young babies to movies
Disney
Romance novels
Shopping when you have no money--just to try on clothes "for fun"
Bottled water
High heels
Pineapple on pizza
Teenagers with beepers
Spending $30 for itty bitty underwear (saw a teeny tiny thong at Victoria's Secret yesterday)


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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."

[Guy Propski]

Ballet and modern dance--I like to think I'm an art lover, but this particular branch is a closed book to me. All I can think is, "what the hell are they jumping around for??"

Ricky Martin--he'll be nobody in another year, just like all the other heart throbs before him. Why don't people realize this?

People that appear on Jerry Springer--if your boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other told you that you're going to be a guest on this show, wouldn't you pretty much figure out that you were going to get dumped? Why do they always look surprised?

Smoking--how do you start? I tried it once, and I threw up.

Those "Wild on..." shows on E!--If you're going to have a show that's about nothing more than titillation, why have it on a network that blurs the nudity? That's like having a cooking show and blanking out the key ingredients!

Howard Stern--what is the attraction? Once you get past the initial guilty pleasure of his crass behavior, what is there? To me, his shows are nothing more than a group of sycophants trying to get Stern's abusive approval. And, again, you have a show that has nudity where you can't see it. Folks, it's radio; they could all be nude and you'd never know! What's the point?

R-rated movies on TV--I sat through "Fargo" on TBS last week. Somehow they looped in new dialogue to replace the multiple obscenties, thereby taking a lot of the edge off this fine film. Why bother? They left a lot of the gruesome violence which, in some ways, is more obscene than the language.

Adding Elmyra to "Pinky and the Brain"--thereby changing the show from one of my all-time favorites to something unwatchable. Do network executives get paid to screw up my favorite shows?

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"Don't rush me! I'm thinkin!.....and my head hurts.."--Yosemite Sam

[Mojo]

Adding Elmyra to "Pinky and the Brain"--thereby changing the show from one of my all-time favorites to something unwatchable. Do network executives get paid to screw up my favorite shows?
Its like Scrappy Doo all over again. Or JarJar Binks.
I'm not a proponent of running a formula into the ground but, if you're going to make changes, do it for the better.

I'm still trying to find out what "floating basketball art" is. All searches I've tried come up with nothing.

[dougie_monty]

Why did you say that, bantmof? You don't understand why people buy cars with automatic transmissions? I am not so impaired myself by I know that authomatic transmissions are a godsend for amputees, including war veterans (I know personally a veteran who lost both legs in World War II. His car has an automatic transmission).

[bantmof]

You don't understand why people buy cars with automatic transmissions? I am not so impaired myself by I know that authomatic transmissions are a godsend for amputees

Oh, I understand why people who don't have all their limb buy them. But only a small number of people fall into that category.

For everybody else - let's see - they get worse gas mileage (not as much now as in the past, but still some, depending on how you drive - it's usually not hard to beat the EPA estimate with the manual tranny), they are often more expensive, often heavier (translating into performance penality), always give you less control over the car, and most of all, take all the fun out of driving.

It just seems to be a north-american thing. In europe, an automatic transmisison will seriously hurt the resale value of a car. Over here, it seems like we prefer to have everything "done for us" so we don't have to know how ourselves. And that's the philosophy I don't get.

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peas on earth

[HelloKitty]

Things I don't get:

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Cargo Pants

Caffeine free Mountain Dew

Jackie Chan

Why funerals for people killed in shootings or air plane crashes are fodder for TV news

The Taco Bell dog

Why people keep working in jobs they hate

JarJar Binks

[AzRaek]

Why buy automatic transmission? Because you can get a remote-starter for it and warm up the car in winter if you don't have a garage. Or just to mess with the kids outside.

[Gilligan]

So many things already here so I'll try not to repeat:

Old Navy tech vests - these commercials started recently - is it the new fashion to look like you work at K-mart?
Performance art - I don't disput your right to call it art, but, does anyone actually enjoy this?
Sportscasters - I'm not a sports fan, but I might enjoy watching more if it weren't for them.

[Jophiel]

Steven King, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz and all those other "2 New Best-Sellers A Week" horror writers.

ICQ and IM - I have enough ways for people to bother me already without adding more

Fanatically watching cooking shows when you never cook or Gardening shows set in Georgia when you live in Michigan and couldn't grow those things in a greenhouse.

Free PCs that have 1.2gig hard drives and 16megs of RAM and require a 3 year subscription to an ISP at over $20/mth. But they're in all the news these days.

By the way, I'd never want to drive a manual transmission during the stop-go-go faster-wait-stop!-ok, go.. joys of Chicago rush hour.

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"I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn't."

[ConMan]

* WWF, WCW & any others! From about 1976 on, it has gotten bigger every year. Why?
* Northerners who move south & bitch about it not being like back home. Why move then?
* the happy hampster dance - UGH!
And just about 75% of everyone's list so far!


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"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
E A Poe

[Persephone]

Things I Just Don't Get:
Blood-spattering video games
Celine Dion
Giant pants
People trying to ram religion down my throat
How Borders went from being a really good bookstore to the most pretentious place in the universe (I'm from Ann Arbor--I remember the original)
long CASUAL dresses, with sneakers
Short dressses at proms
Teletubbies
Pokemon
...and most of the stuff listed in the other posts.

[Gr8Kat]

Big blockbuster action-adventure special effects extravaganzas.
Boy groups, girl groups, "divas," most any top 40 pop, hip hop, R&B, it all sounds bland and lifeless to me.
History revisionism. I hate it when I learn something on the History Channel that they misrepresented or completely left out of history class. I mean, I want to learn the truth, but it frustrates me that they think we can't handle it in school. (insert Jack Nicholson impression here) (And then I get paranoid and wonder if even the History Channel isn't telling the whole story...)
The F-word seventy-nine jillion times in a movie. I really believe most people just don't talk that way. I even worked at a gas station and was surrounded all day by truckers, loggers, hunters, and rednecks (some of which were all of the above), and most of them still didn't talk like that. Except maybe on the CB.
Revamping classic characters or logos to "appeal" (they find this appealing?) to younger, "hipper" (I question that if they find this appealing) audiences, like the new animated Colonel Sanders. Before you know it, he's going to be using the F-word, too.
Professional athletes and super models. Excuse me? We pay people to play games or look pretty? People do this for a living?? No, I don't get it.
People who hate small dogs. What's to hate? They're real dogs, they bark and wag their tail and roll over, they're just the compact version. Y'know, so that if they decide to turn on you, you can take them. I like that in a dog.

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[Gr8Kat]

OK, I borrowed that last remark about being able to take the dog from Norm MacDonald, but there's truth there. I really wouldn't want a dog that could make a meal out of me if he so chose. I guess I don't get those, either.

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"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it," Jack Handy

[matt_mcl]

Porn magazines. Why would I BUY such an item when I can get it for free on the Internet?

[dougie_monty]

To bantmof (sp?) Perhaps this merits its own spot in MPSIMS; but stick-shift cars seem beyond my ken, and perhaps beyond many others' as well. (A girl I went to high school with had been driving the automatic-transmission family Oldsmobile; she bought a VW bug for her own use. She told me, the Christmas after graduation, that "driving a stick-shift is like learning to drive all over again!")
You are right about gas mileage, but at my age (50) the 'relearning' the girl spoke of (she was 18 then) would be prohibitive in terms of time, stress, and expense.

[wireless]

Ditto on "wrestling".

Here are my additions:
Mariah Carey - hunh?
People who move to Arizona (from up north/east) and then want a green lawn - it's the desert!
Calling in to those TV shopping channels and talk to the presenters like they're your friends and you have some kind of personal relationship.

[Shirley Ujest]

Beanie Babies
Designer Anything
People who pay full price and don't think twice
All the trendy coffee shops
Day time tv
Soap operas
Talk shows
Today's music
People who pay $15,000 or more for an 8-10 hour party.
Living together (why buy the cow when the milks for free)
Nordstroms

[Shirley Ujest]

Clarification.

I meant to write "People who pay $15,000 for their weddings....etc"

More things I don't get:
Demi Moore
The Moral Majority
Politics
People who rip on whatever else someone is reading (I read romance novels..yeah, I know, it 'splains everything) As long as they are reading and exercizing their brain, leave 'em be.
People who follow any thing (religion/politics/celebrity) blindly and with fervor.
Required classes to get a degree. Why not just shell out a couple of grand to bypass this waste of time to get to the core glasses. Isn't that what the universities are after anyways?

[Byzantine]

Loud gang-bang music (my neighbor does this with his friends outside and then they talk... how they can hear each other over this POUNDING BASS is beyond me. I did retailiate after one drunken bash that ended at about 4am. I waited until 6am and played the 1812 overature at full blast!)
people who don't water/mow their lawns until critical mass. (same neighbor)
people who shouldn't even have a dog who have a passel of kids that they seem to hate.
hitting. Hitting anyone or any animal. It's the most childish reaction to anger on the planet.
rock videos where the star(s) are totally obsessed with themselves (Kid Rock comes to mind)
supposed friends who come to dinner and then WON'T leave!
oops getting off track on things I just don't like... things I don't get:
women who obsess about their apperance and can only talk about diets, nail polish, hair goop and the like. Who cares?
men who obsess about sports especally when they look like a flight of stairs would knock them cold for hours.
RAW or WAR or whatever that parade of steriodal freaks is.
actor obsession. One person I know gets 'into' a new actor, buys all the films they were ever in and then becomes disillusioned when she finds out they are married. I just find this whole thing beyond understanding.
american obsession with cars. It's just transportation, isn't it?
religions who send people to my door. If I want what you have I'll look you up.



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You can count the number of apples in one tree but never the number of trees in one apple.

[dougie_monty]

H. L. Mencken
Scorn for people who wear glasses
Riotous public outrage about trial verdicts
Why Pete Rose was barred from the Hall of Fame while George Steinbrenner owns a racetrack
People's tendency to gather in doorways and walkways, when others want to get through

[pricciar]

Ok, Pete Rose was banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, because he bet on the game of Baseball.
This is surely a great debate, but Pete Rose bet on baseball, even though the rule that you get banned from the game if you bet on the sport. The rule wasn't new, it had been around for a long time. He bet on the game and he payed the price.
Now, he cries about how he should be allowed in the game, and that he was treated unfairly. Baseball can't answer these charges, because the agrement that was signed, says Pete Rose is out of the game, and Baseball can't talk about any of the evidence it had. So, he can cry all he want about how unfair it was, but baseball can't answer any of these charges. If it was so unfair, why would he sign that?

I do think he should be allowed in the Hall of Fame, and so should Shoeless Joe Jackson.

hmm things I don't get:
Blair Witch Project (see the other thread for more of my opinion)
SUVs
Starbucks
coffee in general
gourmet pizza
high car payments. (Hey, student loans are enough for me)


pat

[dougie_monty]

"Baseball can't" this, "baseball can't that..." really convenient rules, huh? Add "Baseball can't touch George Steinbrenner"! I read that, after banishing the so-called "Black Sox," Landis played the stock market with funds from the commissioner's office; he tried to do the thou-shalt-not bit on Rogers Hornsby, who made no bones about playing the horses. He knew Landis was playing the stock market with someone else's money (Unaccetptable conduct for a federal judge!!) and threatened to expose Landis if he lowered the boom on Hornsby.
I noteod also that Ferguson Jenkins and Orlando Cepeda, both convicted on drug charges, were admitted. These days the Commissioner's office is as draconian as the Taliban.

[pricciar]

Baseball's rules _don't_ state that you are kicked out of Baseball for getting charged with drug charges.
Baseball can and has touched George Steinbrenner. He was banned from day to day operations for two years after paying some two bit thug to give him information on Dave Winfield.
Landis was an awful judge, and awful racist, and an awful man. I don't stick up for the commissioner of baseball, I just say that banning Pete Rose was a part of the rules that were already clearly established. Rose signed an agreement that stated he would leave baseball, and that baseball would no longer talk about the evidence it had.
ok, if you want to discuss this more we should probably start a brand new thread.

pat

[chief]

Diet Soda - its CRAP. whats wrong with water instead? it doesnt even taste good. like the other post, iced tea is MUCH better!!

the music industry.. too many crappy bands and too many stupid people buying that crap

and many of the other things that were previously posted..

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[DoctorJ]

To me, there are two questions here. There are a lot of things that I understand the appeal of, but am not drawn to at all. (I can understand what a 13-year-old girl sees in the Backstreet Boys, but I am personally not interested.)

Then there are those things that I just don't understand. Rosie O'Donnell and Adam Sandler are fine examples of this category.

Anti-Semitism, particularly in our day and time, is another. I have never thought much about my ethnic background (since it is so varied) and I can't understand hating someone so severely for it. Aren't we all Americans by now?

Gambling was mentioned by a lot of people. The appeal of gambling is very polarized--either you enjoy it, or you can't see the point of it. My gambling buddies and I finally decided that the gamblers are people who 1.)love games, and are obsessed with getting their minds around them, and 2.)enjoy winning money more than they hate losing it. For example, if I win $10 at the blackjack table, I'm really happy about it, but if I lose $10, I'm not really going to miss it.

(I should point out that playing the slot machines for long peroids of time is not gambling--it is putting money into a machine and losing it at a very predictable rate. The real gambler would want to put it all in the machine at once and give it a pull. We know that if you put quarters in that machine for four hours, you approach statistical significance.)

Also on my short list--collections of figurines, body piercings, and selling insurance.

Dr. J

[bantmof]

You are right about gas mileage, but at my age (50) the 'relearning' the girl spoke of (she was 18 then) would be prohibitive in terms of time, stress, and expense.
It might not be as bad as you fear - in fact, I'd almost lay odds you'd pick it up faster than an 18 y.o would! It does feel odd at first, but most people become adept at it in short order, and before long you don't even think about it any more. But I guess it's a good thing there are choices - yours seems to be much more popular than mine! :-)

Anyway, I guess it's all a matter of what you're used to. I can get in an automatic and drive it around, but it feels awkward and requires some extra mental attention. It also feels sort of disconcerting to me since the fluid coupling in the auto tranny gives me a "disconnected" feeling. It's hard to describe - remember those huge 60/70's land yachts where the steering was "mushy" and you could turn the wheel a bit in each direction before the car would start to turn? It feels like that to me, except for the engine. But the newer ones are definately better on that front than they used to be.

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peas on earth

[dougie_monty]

Here's something I don't get, and never did get:
How the Blues Brothers were on a "mission from God" when they rammed their car through a shopping mall, killing innocent people and wrecking property.
Maybe they were God's murderers, like the Crusaders? :( [sarcasm]
If Aykroyd and Belushi, or their characters, were on a "mission from God" by doing this, I am Mikhail Gorbachev's niece!!

[sunbear]

LauraRae is unregistered.What was her new name?

[Ruffian]

LauraRae is unregistered.What was her new name?

Ruffian. :D

(I was wondering who dug up this buried thread, and why! But heck, thank you for doing so.)

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[drewbert]

Dennis Rodman: he keeps getting traded away because the team doesn't want to deal with his crap anymore, but new teams sign him up anyway. Just go away already!

NASCAR. Who wants to see cars go around and around and around. They SAY that they're not there to see the wrecks, but what else is there to see? I went to a race once and marvelled at the guy a couple rows down flipping the bird at presumably his least favorite driver each time he sped by at a couple hundred miles per hour. Did he really think the driver would notice?

Role-Playing Games, including computer games like Final Fantasy, or D&D or Magic: The Gathering, etc. I just don't get 'em. And believe me, I've tried.

The tendency for people to believe in the least likely thing possible (UFOs, spontaneous human combustion, conspiracy theories, etc.) The fact that the "Learning Channel" caters to these people.

People who lean on their car horns instead of getting out of their car and actually knocking on the door of the person whose attention they're trying to get.

Tom Green. I don't even WANT to get him.

[Ruffian]

Hell, I'll add more to my old thread. It's been a while, there are new Things I Just Don't Get:

1) People who complain about student scores when they don't know the dynamics of a school. A district that has high-income, educated and monocultural (be it white, black, Asian, Hispanic, etc.) population will have substantially higher test scores than a district of low-income recent immigrants, whose parents don't speak English, didn't finish elementary school, and who take their kids to Mexico/other countries for months at a time in the middle of the school year (I had 4 go during testing last year).

2) Teachers who just do not acknowledge that having a summer off is a pretty huge perk, and that our salaries are pretty rich considering actual work days. (Hours are another thing.) I work a total of 185 days a year, 180 of which are in the classroom. That's pretty sweet, and it's lame to whine about pay in consideration. I have great respect for those of you who work in other fields, and wouldn't dare complain about pay or time off to anyone!

3) Parents who think defending their children in all situations actually helps their child, pointing fingers everywhere but at their kid. Oh, how fun it is to teach a child who has zero since of personal responsibility. 8 years old, and they already think there's a conspiracy against them.

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[dougie_monty]

Hey, Ruffian: That I get! It makes sense for parents to train (if that's the right word) their kid to learn that eventually he'll have to fight his own battles.
I saw an example of this--fictional, I admit--in an Archie comic. The conniving rich bitch Veronica Lodge astonishes her tycoon father by suiting up in old overalls and working on a car! The more autonomy a child--even a teenager--acquires, the better... :)

[salinqmind]

Most sports.
Most TV.
The little brown hamster actresses - i.e., Jennifer Hewitt, Natalie Portman, Katie Holmes. They are anorectic nobodies, no looks, no personality, no charisma.
Kate Moss. Puffy and Jennifer.
Carson Daly on TRL on MTV. Is this guy the luckiest sack of shit on the planet? Nothing to look at, clearly hates and fears his fans, and probably gets more ass than a toilet seat in a Times Square ladies room.
Rollercoasters and theme parks - just what is fun about hurling and a heart attack?
Nintendo. Furbys.
The ubiquitous Jack Russell terrier, currently being surplanted by the chihuahua.
GWYNETH PALTROW.
QVC, HSN - why is it everyone who calls on the air raves about the product? How come no one ever calls and says, "This electric dog polisher is an overpriced piece of crap and gave me an electrical shock"?
John Grisham, dullest author on the planet, has practically his own book outlet in every airport.
Those hideous three-quarter length sleeved cotton shirts being foisted on women in the hideous Old Navy stores. Old Navy is taking over one half of one wing of a mall here. How many pairs of overpriced blue jeans and ugly shirts can be fit under one roof?
Cell phones - I cannot imagine who in the world I would want to call badly enough to pay all that money and lug that thing around. My mother? My husband? The time and temperature? Fuck that!
Nail parlors. Where did they come from? Who are all those women in there, sitting in a glass box paying money for a manicure?
Standing in line behind some total loser who is scraping together pennies to buy a lottery ticket, as if God's mighty hand is gonna reach down from heaven and touch him, and he will ride home in a Rolls Royce. Well,hey, you never know.
Little teeny shitbox cars driving on icy winter roads as if they were all alone on a quiet country road in mid-summer.
How the most obnoxious kids with the most obnoxious parents get to be the "in-crowd" leaders in the schools. I know scum floats, but how, how, how do they DO it?
Blue lipstick. Hair that looks filthy and uncombed but is actually meant to look that way with the help of special styling products.
On guys (please!) - shaved heads. Chemo treatments? Lice infestation? Professional wrestllers? And goatees. And that sort of Amish beard with no mustache. And not only the Amish beard but the beard braided and tied with a ribbon so everyone can see it better.
That 300 lb. fat gal who works at the library and has three inch long nails and a nose ring and possibly an eyebrow ring and looks like a horses's ass but thinks she's all that and will barely give you the time of day.
Cigars. Not in my house, bub.
Tabloids and the women who love them. My mother buys every copy every week - why? They all say the same thing!

I may return to expound on things I just don't get. Much of life and most people puzzle me.

[Utinni!]

drewbert, RPGs are weird. You're either into 'em or you're not. Some people just like to escape by pretending to be someone else for a couple of hours.

To answer the OP...

-Real-time strategy games (other than Homeworld...that game rules!)

-Why everyone bashes on Jar Jar

-My little cousin (not quite the sharpest sword in the armory)
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"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left."

[Anti Pro]

No smoking areas in small restaurants placed right near where there is smoking, it just don't work folks.

Monster Trucks

Tattoos, think what they'll look like in 20 years.

Newspeople bantering, 'Aren't we congenial?' We don't care, just tell us the news and leave.

Jerry Springer/Howard Stern

Tailgaters, are you going to get there faster if you attach yourself to my bumper?

Blair Witch

Spam

Salespeople who are rude to kids.

'Customer Service' in most any store. They need to get a name that really fits what they usually do to their customers....and 'serve' just isn't correct anymore.

People on cell phones in restaurants,or stores talking too loud. Or in their car paying no attention to the road.

dougie, I don't remember anyone getting killed in "Blues Brothers" . . . perhaps you should watch it again.

I don't get people who waste 60 hours of their life beating some silly Playstation game.

I don't get people who take a "Stop" sign as a suggestion.

I don't get why some overweight jerk on Springer has three girls wanting to beat each other up over him, yet I am in good shape and a nice guy and I have no Valentine.

I don't get where all the semi-attractive, intelligent, non-game-playing, non-materialistic, non-concieted females have gone. (Well, I know some of 'em post on this BB ;))

I don't get why in the hell anyone would want to watch "Real World", I have enough problems of my own, why do I want to watch these peoples troubles ??

I don't get why MTV doesn't play music videos anymore.

I don't get why I have become the new scourge of humanity because I enjoy a smoke or two.

I don't get animal rights activists that wear leather boots.

I don't get vegetarians that eat double chocolate fudge sundaes, isn't that just as bad for you ?

I don't get people who order the triple cheeseburger with cheese fries, and a diet soda.

Whew, I feel MUCH better now. Thanks :D

[bunnymom]

Scream-1,2 or 3
Titanic
Sandals with HEELS for cryin' out loud.I haven't been able to buy a pair of flat-soled sandals in years!
the lottery

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[GuanoLad]

Drug use - but you knew that.
Sports
Obsession with cars
Pokemon - it is the crappiest animation in any Anime cartoon I have ever seen in my entire life, it is wacked out weird, it is just bizarre pointless shit. Why is it so doggone big with kids? I mean, okay, Scooby Doo was crappy too, but at least it had charm. Pokemon has nothing!
High heels, stockings, suspenders, excessive make-up - the whole revoltingly crass dressing up crap
Sexual abuse
Boxing
Pit Bull terriers - their only purpose is to be vicious little brutes
Poodles - yergh!
Bank fees - like they aren't super duper wealthy already?
Steak - no, I'm not a vegetarian, quite the opposite. But what's the big deal about steak? It's just thick slabs of meat
Cream buns - what a revolting combination, cream and bread!
Chocolate cake - it ain't great. It's horrible
Picasso - talent? If he has it, he has never proved it to me
Grunge - ha!

I'm sure there's more.

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The Legend Of PigeonMan (http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - Shadow of the Pigeon
Weirdo of the Night

Guano, don't make me lay a ThunderShock on your ass.

No really, you may not "get" Pokemon and thats ok, but oddly enough - there are several SDMB posters who do, and love it. Including me. It helps to have a really big inner child. Anyway just wanted to mention that . . . and now


The Larch
and now

The Larch

no wait, I mean, and now - back to the thread

(This post brought to you by a very obscure Monty Python reference.)

[Ruffian]

What the hell, I am sick.

That would be zero sense of responsibility. Good grief.

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[Alpine]

- bringing a cell phone to a movie, and using it without getting up and leaving
- baseball
- golf
- boomers who refuse to get over themselves, who think both activism and music died in the early 70's
- SUVs for daily use. Even in the mountains where I live, you can do just fine with a front wheel drive & some studded snow tires. No need for a Ford Expulsion or whatever, ya gas hogs who drive too fast.
- the 14,000 square foot "second home". "It doesn't bother the elk; I see them all the time!"
- "Corporate culture"
- tattoos
- platform shoes & bell bottoms. ugh
- living in a city
- hypocrisy
- television
- children
- most movies ("Hollywood")
- 40 hour work week

[Havoc]

Here's a portion from my rather diverse list of concepts which I just CAN NOT understand despite all of my attempts to do so.
(1) Cricket
(2) D & D (but not Magic: The Gathering)
(3) American (NFL) football (as opposed to Canadian (CFL) football -- pardon me while I look for something flame-retardant here)
(4) Drug abuse / Alcohol abuse
(5) Jazz music
(6) Auto racing
(7) Economics (I've got a pair of C grades from the courses in which I've tried to learn that).

[salinqmind]

Drew Carey.
WalMart.
Yogurt in a long paper tube (coming to a dollar store near you.)
Bras under spaghetti strap tank tops.
Why is David Arquette in every other movie, even if he is married to Courtney Cox?

[Coldfire]

Ahem. I'm winning this little contest. Stuff you don't get?

WOMEN.


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[labradorian]

- suburbs
- televangelism
- ditto on clone bands (Backroom Boys et al.)
- ditto on Woody Allen
- infotainment programs (ET, Hard Copy, et al.)
- IRC and ICQ
- the Sun Belt, or even Florida vacations
- cellphones
- .pdf files
- Gap, Hilfiger, et al.
- conspicuous tatoos
- goatees
- motorcycles
- parenthood


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[GuanoLad]

I'm always surprised so many people, especially Americans, find Cricket to be so incomprehensible. I mean, I can understand just not learning the rules, and so watching it is confusing - I do that for many sports. But it seems to me that they look at Cricket, and it appears illogical to them. Yet I find cricket to be very straightforward.

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[Gr8Kat]

Life.

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[drewbert]

P.S. Magic: The Gathering isn't an RPG. :)


Point taken. Still, my rule of thumb is if the game has more rules than baseball, it's too much work for a game. For me, at least. If I'm gonna relax with a game, I want it easy - I'd rather spend my mental energies (what's left of 'em, anyway) on productive things :)

drewbert, going back to blowing up aliens now. (yes, I know some of you don't get it! ;-) )

[salinqmind]

Bryant Gumble. He was off the air for months and there was no massive outcry at his departure. Who thought it would be a good idea to give him another job? Although I guess he does a good job, no one lilkes him.

[Shayna]

I'll ditto:

Woody Allen movies
Cell phones (if I were President, I'd ban them before guns!)
Pokemon
Rosie O'Donnell
comb-overs (Do they really think they're fooling anyone???)
Tongue and other unnecessary body piercings

And I'll add:

Grunge Rock
High heels with blue jeans
MORONS who forward me those STUPID urban legend emails because they really believe they're true (like someone will really show up in your driveway with the keys to a new car just because you send me a damn email. Sheesh! When I laughed my ass off at a friend who sent me that one and dared to ask her just how in tarnation she thought they'd get her address, she actually replied, "well, you never know, so just in case..." What turnip truck did she fall off of???)
The Simpsons & South Park
People who vacation at the beach and lay by the pool.
Drugs (even in "moderation") and drinking to get drunk.

And the #1 thing I just don't get, never have and never will...

Shopping How on earth can women spend all day in malls and stores? Especially just looking? Jeez Louise, I can't think of a bigger waste of time, let alone one that's more frustrating and annoying.


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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

[Gazelle]

I don't get . . .

. . . women who complain about not being able to find a husband then go on to date men who crackwhores wouldn't touch.

. . . women who mother their husbands. Gee, I wonder why your sex life sucks. Could it be because you think of him as a son?

. . . men who refuse to help around the house.

. . . how anyone could not know how to iron.

. . . people who ignore bad feelings or situations, hoping they'll go away.

. . . fake people. You don't like me? I think I'll live.

. . . people who think saying "No" is the worst thing in the world and will make up any lie to get out of saying it. You just wanted to stay home and veg' that weekend instead of coming over? I can totally understand that. Why did you say you were going on a trip?

. . . tanning.

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[dougie_monty]

To Gabriel: Didn't you see the end? Jake and Elwood ram their car through a shopping mall, running people down and wrecking the place. Don't tell ME that's a "mission from God"!

dougie,
the point of contention was that they KILLED people . . . not mass destruction - I will admit there was some gratutious destruction, but hey its just a SNL flick ya know ?

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[OpalCat]

I don't get vegetarians that eat double chocolate fudge sundaes, isn't that just as bad for you ?

Well, my vegetarianism has absolutely zilch to do with being healthy. It's about the animals. And no I don't wear leather.

Oh, and I used to drive standard, but when I had a kid I got an automatic. It is a lot easier to deal with the kid when I don't have to worry about shifting too.

Things I don't get:
meat eaters
beanie babies
those huge baggy pants
why people think Julia Roberts is attractive
why people think Hugh Grant is attractive
some other stuff I can't think of right now.

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[labradorian]

- Cher

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[Kyla]

Okay, my list:

I don't get...

...any movie/TV show about high school students who have "meaningful relationships", and act like 35-year-olds (e.g., Dawson's Creek). Hello?!?!? Did any of these writers actually GO to high school?

...why people have such a problem with vegetarianism. I won't bug you about your eating habits, and I hope you won't bug me about mine.

...navel piercing. Ugh.

...tanning salons. WHY? It looks awful and completely fake (especially in February) and it's BAD for you.

...ditto on Republicans. I try to be understanding, really, but why do they have to say all that stuff I don't agree with?

...frames and animation. Stop it!

...the appeal of Top 40 music. My friend listens to it, and going places with her can be torture. ("Have you heard that new Celine Dion song? I love it! Let me play it for you!")



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"This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. That's where I saw the leprechauns."

[Angkins]

Mr. Bean, I can not stand the sight of him.

Anything made out of yarn that is not at the very least 85% cotton, I can't even touch them.



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-The Green Mile

[Kepi]

Things I don't get:

Jimmy Buffet
Coffee
Sushi
Tattoos
Renaissance Fairs
Maui (give me Kauai any day)
Basketball
Nightclubs


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Brady Bunch Quote Of The Week:

"Judging from the reaction around here, I'd say Davy Jones is the hottest thing since pepperoni pizza." - Carol

[Poysyn]

- WWF and WCW - I know other people have mentioned it

- Cigars - why do people smoke these things? I mean cigarettes are bad enough but god these stink!

- When a "controversial" movie or book comes out and there is a big public outcry - don't they realize this is all advertising and will create more sales? if they just ignored it many of these things would probably just go away?

- Parents who don't want condom machines in junio high/high school bathrooms - do they really think seeing these machines will inspire thier children to have sex?

- Modern Dance - I've tried, just don't get it

- Bars that charge for water - bastards.

- Vegetarian food that looks like meat - like veggie ground - what's the point

- The NHL - They complain about high player salaries and how they are having trouble affording them - so don't - drop those "top" players down to the IHL and pick up on some rookies who would give their right arm to play the game. The top ones will come back when they realize that's the way things are. I mean, how much money should one player make?

-Tattoos on women's stomachs - if you are going to get one, get it somewhere that won't alter in size a whole lot

- Women I know that sleep with various men hours after meeting them and don't understand why they are not in a relationship.

- People who complain constantly about their weight - do something about it then!

- Gel nails - for goodness sake, who notices your nails anyway?

- Jerry Springer

- Jerry Springer's guests - Why do these people seem so surprised when their SO brings them on this show with bad news? It's Jerry Springer for goodness sake, do you really think it will be good news?

That's it for now. This thing ended up longer than I thought. Sorry about that :)

[Rilchiam]

People who drink, not to enjoy the buzz, but solely to pass out or black out. Alcohol should be respected, or the person drinking it will get no respect.

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[OpalCat]

- Vegetarian food that looks like meat - like veggie ground - what's the point

Um.. I think the point is so that people who don't want to eat meat, but still LIKE meat can eat something they enjoy and still follow their beliefs (health, moral, whatever). Not a difficult concept to grasp.

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[Anti Pro]

How to write 'long and deep'

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[TVeblen]

Things others "get" but I don't:

* golf; tried it, hated it, boring as hell
* shopping; my idea of misery is a mall
* opera; I've studied and listened and listened; I can understand it but not enjoy it.
* religion; any and all of them
* professional sports; personal and emotional involvement with corporations.
* microwave cooking; fine for popcorn, etc. but it's so much easier and infinitely better done on a stove
* most Hollywood blockbusters; I used to love movies but anymore they leave me saying "huh?"
* fashion; so much of it is expensive and makes attractive people look like dorks
* people who don't like animals; not saying they don't have a right, just can't understand it at all.
* aggressive driving; car as ego? all that dangerous maneuvering that proves...what?
* non-readers; I just can't imagine life without reading; what do they replace it with?
* rap and thundering car speakers; if it shakes the pictures on my walls, what the hell does it sound like inside the car? Why not just hang around the airport and listen to jets accelerate?

Obviously befuddled by life,
Veb