LauraRae is unregistered.What was her new name?
Ruffian. 
(I was wondering who dug up this buried thread, and why! But heck, thank you for doing so.)
Teaching: The ultimate birth control method.
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.
Hell, I’ll add more to my old thread. It’s been a while, there are new Things I Just Don’t Get:
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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).
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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!
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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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Teaching: The ultimate birth control method.
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… 
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.
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)
P.S. Magic: The Gathering isn’t an RPG.
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
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
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everybunny needs somebunny, sometime…
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 - Shadow of the Pigeon
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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
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no wait, I mean, and now - back to the thread
(This post brought to you by a very obscure Monty Python reference.)
What the hell, I am sick.
That would be zero sense of responsibility. Good grief.
Teaching: The ultimate birth control method.
- 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
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).
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?
Ahem. I’m winning this little contest. Stuff you don’t get?
WOMEN.
Coldfire
"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
- 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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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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The Legend Of PigeonMan - Shadow of the Pigeon
Weirdo of the Night