well what’s the point of inbibing any drug? To loosen up artistic juices, of course!
I have greasy skin and hair, I need to get that crap off me in the morning. Plus the water wakes me right up after a night of binge drinking. 
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As far as the cell phone thing, I am overloaded often with work and a bunch of errands. Sometimes, the best opportunity I have to engage in a somewhat lengthy conversation with friends or family is when I’m out and about on a cell phone, unless I wait a week before returning a call.
As far as tucking the shirt, I don’t get it when men tuck a collared shirt into khaki shorts with a belt and loafer shoes with no socks.
I will say I never understood this until recently. I had many friends involved with these and never thought about it as something more than paying to hang out with people who you wouldn’t really hang out with otherwise…until having some long conversations with the people involved. I think for many (at least at my college) it’s a way to keep yourself involved with things going on while being told you have to maintain a certain G.P.A. (if you don’t for something else).
I also think it’s a lot of networking for after college. Ya know, maybe ten years down the road you’ll need a job for a short time and an old fraternity brother/sorority sister will be able to help you out.
Just what I’ve learned…
Brendon
wow. you must be proud. you got your pic taken with… some guy… who got on tv. Stuff I do not get is idiots who watch this drivel they call reality tv… I mean, let’s take 10 people, who are basically NOBODY, put them together in a stressfull situation, and watch the HI-larious results… PASS
Did you type this correctly? 
I’d have thought this, at least, was fairly obvious. You buy a new car because you get 3 years full bumper-to-bumper warranty for anything that goes wrong with it mechanically. (This as opposed to buying someone else’s lemon*. ) Then you keep it until it becomes a mechanical pain-in-the-butt because by this stage, it owes you nothing except in terms of general running costs.
We bought our current car new, paid it off in 5 years, and since then it’s been a debt-free, reliable vehicle. So what if it’s nine years old, and getting older? I can live with the shame, really. :dubious:
I genuinely don’t get why this wouldn’t make sense to someone, even if it wasn’t their ideal path. Is it in the interpretation of ‘until it dies’?
Personally, I’d classify that as the point at which it requires repairs often enough to be a significant and ongoing financial and/or convenience/reliability issue. Maybe you - or, more accurately, the people you’re referring to - are interpreting it as ‘until the doors fall off in traffic and the gearbox drops through the floor, or until the engine catches fire’, I don’t know. But I think the point could use a little clarification.
My first car - which I had fully RAA checked and certified before I bought it - was a second-hand horror that cost me so much in ongoing mechanical work that after a while I couldn’t make the payments on the loan and ended up having to renegotiate the terms to seven years - on a $2,500 loan!
But of course, it didn’t last seven years. No, it lasted five.
It was a huge learning experience.
Yeah I shower in the mornings. I’m a greasepot, always have been. My dad’s the same way.
New car thing: Have you ever owned a car? Not being snippy, just asking where this comes from.
I don’t own my own car yet, my dad gave me the car we bought when my brother was born. I’ve only got three years on this turquoise beast. It makes funny noises and the antenna farts when it shuts down. It was made in 1992 and it’s a Hyundai. It gets me from A to B, it doesn’t have a CD player or even a tape deck that works. The antenna won’t extend at the moment. It’s name is the Death Star and it has a picture of Hayden Christensen looking all broody and sexalicious on the dashboard. I will keep this damn thing until I have the money to buy my own car (when I finish Uni, which I have yet to start). All of this rambling rubbish comes down to one thing: why *shouldn’t * I run this thing until it damn well kicks the bucket and its soul makes for the race track in the sky?
I don’t get heterosexuality.
Why would you want to touch THAT?!?!
(Not that there is anything wrong if you do, but it is mystifying nonetheless.)
Got to disagree with you on this one. When I had my last car accident, I whipped out my cellphone and took pictures of the damage. It saved carrying an extra camera around. Other emergencies too: I understand some very useful footage was taken on 7/7/2005.
Plus, I read about some kid in Florida who took a photo with his cell phone of a guy in a car who tried to pick him up after school. They caught the guy and arrested him.
I don’t get why people put spoilers, custom rims, and other modifications on generic economy cars.
I’m not talking about performance mods - I know a few guys who are heavily into that, and their cars are classy. I’m talking about the high school kids that put hundreds of dollars worth of exterior accessories all over picece of shit Civics and Accords. News flash - all real car guys think that you’re idiots. Everyone is laughing at you. You’re not cool.
Having huge collections of DVDs or videotapes. Even my all-time favourite films, I get tired of after about the tenth viewing. Really good films I might want to see twice, maybe three times. Are people really watching these DVDs over and over again? If not, why clutter up your house with pointless mementos (Memento - now there’s a film I could watch several times ) of films you happened to like?
I don’t have a huge movie collection, but I can understand this to a point. It’s the same reason why people have enormous book collections. Actually, for me, there are two reasons. 1)Entertainment for guests. I like being able to say, “I’ve got some movies here. Watch whatever you want.” and 2)For myself, most movie memories have a half-life of about two or three years. Unless it’s a super-fav, I can pop in a movie and watch a significant portion of it before I realize I’ve seen it before.
I don’t know how much more clearly I can explain myself WRT the car thing, maybe you just need to read it again.
Yeah, and I don’t get people who feel the need to insult other posters instead of just saying that they don’t get reality TV. :rolleyes:
I know that your previous response wasn’t directed at me, but it applies to me (I bought a car new in 1994 – when I was the same age you are now – and kept it for 10 years) so I’m going to tackle your questions:
Did you buy it in 1994? If so, why?
Because my previous car was dead.
If you, at this point, are satisfied with a [10] year old car, why would you not have been satisfied with a [10] year old car in 1994?
Because I wanted a car that would last 10 years, and didn’t want to have a car payment for more than 5 years. The best way to do that is to buy new.
Are you telling me that you absolutely NEEDED a new car [10] years ago, but now you’re satisfied with a [10] year old car?
Um, yeah. I needed a car, and decided to buy new so that I could keep it for as long as possible. Those 5 years with a dependable vehicle but no car payment were great. Why is that so hard for you to understand?
When the Mirage finally wasn’t worth the lack of a car payment, I bought a 2-year-old Nissan Sentra. I intend to keep this car for as long as possible, too.
If I can’t stand driving a 12 year old car now, I sure as hell ain’t going to be driving one when I’m 30.
You can’t stand driving it because you didn’t buy it, and you haven’t owned it for all of those 12 years.
Look, there are people who only drive new cars. My father is one: he’ll buy a new car with a huge downpayment, drive it for 2-4 years (until it’s payed off), then trade it in on another new one – lather, rinse, repeat. It’s great for him, and I’d love to be able to do that, but that first huge downpayment is the problem. However, it’s extremely common to buy a new car and keep it for as long as possible … your incredulity at this notion betrays your (relative) youth. 
I hear that. I’ve never driven a truck I haven’t kept for at least 10 years. I’ll get a new one only when the old one dies. I just don’t get the “gotta have a new one” mindset.
I don’t get cell phones.
Yeah, if you are in a business where you need to be in contact 24/7, it’s understandable, or if you have young kids where someone might need to get ahold of you in an emergency, but a lot of people just have them so they can chat with their friends constantly. That I don’t get. What’s this compulsion to run a constant dialogue?
Ring tones? What the fuck? Why would people want to pay extra money to have the “hottest” new ringtone which sounds like the current number-one pop single?
Texting? The only purpose for this feature seems to be to enable people to keep that oh-so-crucial contact in class, or court, or anywhere they can’t speak aloud or they’ll get in trouble. (God knows, they have no problem having very loud converations in places where it’s merely rude to do so.)
I guess I understand status symbols on an academic level. The sociologist in me notes that buying ringtones is just another way of displaying wealth (spending in its most desirable form-- getting nothing tangible for your money) but that doesn’t mean that I can’t still feel that it’s stupid.
Yes, desperation has always been the best factor in rational decision making.
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WHY do you want a car that lasts 10 years? What purpose does that serve? Were you planning on moving to some part of the country where you could not buy any cars for 10 years? If you can live with a 10 year old car 10 years from now why can’t you live with a 10 year old car TODAY? Is there something about old people that makes them crave 10 year old rustbuckets?
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Who the hell cares about your car payment? You can go to the bank and arrange any kind of financing you want, you have a cost of capital and so does the bank, what does that have to do with anything?
I guess that’s it, really. It’s all just setimentality.
The bottom line is that you voluntarily took the biggest hit in depreciation on a new vehicle so that you could have “no car payments”, whatever that means. You don’t honestly think car dealers are giving you something for nothing, do you?
So while I’m happy that there are folks like you willing to shoulder the initial depreciation burden, I don’t understand WHY you do it, aside from the bling factor, which would only apply to luxury vehicles and not shitbox Toyotas anyway.
About the new car thing…
If I buy a new car and keep it for ten years, yes it’s an older car. But I know it’s history. I know how many accidents its been in, if it’s ever been flooded, and how many times its been in the shop. I also know it’s true mileage.
You don’t know these things if you buy some random 10-year-old car off of a car lot.
Perhaps driving only a new car makes sense if you can afford to lease one every 18 months, but for most people, buying a new car and driving it forever is more practical.
This is something that is absolutely none of my business and has no effect on me at all, but for the life of me, I do not understand it.
A friend of mine has a master’s in engineering and after retiring from the military with over 20 years of service, he’s training to become a court recorder, or closed-caption writer or whatever else you can do on those funky little machines. I think what perplexes me most is, knowing how well-educated and intelligent he is, why would he choose a second career that consists of writing down what other people say? I dunno - maybe he’s just tired of thinking hard and being in charge. Maybe he wants a retirement where he can make money doing something he considers to be easy.
And before someone asks, I’ve known this person for many years, and I know him well enough to prefer to avoid a conversation with him about this. I just try to accept him as he is and keep certain observations to myself.
Still, I don’t get it.