Things you don't "get" anymore

Yes! And in one of my many Mexican restaurants locally (we can’t get a decent burger, steak, or anything but Mexican & Pizza here) they brown the cheese on top- yum! :cook:

We had a place in San Jose with what everyone called the “coma burrito” because if you ate the whole thing you went into a “food coma”… but they were sooooo good.

And you could make them to order, so it was always “sin arroz, mas queso- por favor”.

Sure, but most of the ones in Chicago are without rice to begin with, and they are still a bit just too much for me (with a few exceptions.) Maybe when I was a ravenous teenager they were okay. (And, yeah, I know I don’t have to eat the whole thing, it’s just they feel out-of-balance to me.)

What I don’t get anymore is the obsession with ancestry. I was once fascinated with my own but shortly after I did the DNA thing, I couldn’t care less. Anyone more distant than a grandparent or a second cousin is a complete stranger to me and I can’t think of a single reason I should care more about the story of a Civil War soldier related to me than one who isn’t.

going back on track:

I don’t get Playlists

I mean I understand them … you have one for parties, for working out, for reading, etc… but what happens to the 1000s of good songs that don’t really fit a category ??? You’d never hear them …

yet I have some 400 CDs on my cellphone (well SD-card) and like to listen to Pink Floyd - DSOTM from start to end … because it was intended to be listened in such a way …

my teenage daughters however … listen just to what I call “the tip of the ice-berg” … e.g they know (and like) ZZTop - La Gange … but they don’t know any other zztop songs … Manfred Mann’s - Blinded by the light … but no other MM works …

so I understand them but playlists (of stored music or streaming) just doesn’t gel with me …

50+ if that matters :wink:

Have had the same experience since childhood in a bengali family too. I simply cant eat food without a drink to wash it all down. When I was little, I made the excuse that the food was too hot (too much chili peppers) and mom kept making food blander and blander :slight_smile:

central european upbringing and family: same thing …

you don’t drink while eating or you will fill your stomach with water (that’s what we were drinking back then) … and then you don’t finish your meal … also a no-no

I always chalked it up to “post-war” upbringing of my parents iow at times where every calorie was welcome :wink:

I have a playlist for those.

There’s no requirement that a playlist contain only songs that fit a certain category - I have a playlist on my phone and the only category those songs fit is " Songs that are on my phone that aren’t Christmas songs"

Me neither. Well, except for the playlist called an album. I do like shuffle. My old player shuffled everything, which led to segues from Bach to the Beatles to Captain Beefheart. Though when it cut from tracks that were supposed to go together it was frustrating.

I don’t get people who prefer boneless chicken wings to traditional chicken wings.

They’re glorified chicken nuggets and dont have that “wing” taste which is the entire point of eating chicken wings.

I have a really big playlist that I call “Radio”. It’s even set up for heavy rotation, medium rotation and light rotation.

"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

Good one. The entire point to me of eating chicken wings is the crispy skin. Or rather the skin :meat ratio. I don’t like overly meaty wings any more than I like overly scrawny wings. There’s a sweet spot where it’s nirvana.

I thought Breaking Bad started off good. But then the writers decided there must be lots of marital drama between Walter and his wife. I stopped watching the series at that point.

(As a side note, I wish movies would stay more focused on the plot and not have romantic side stories. The most “plot focused” movie I’ve ever seen is All the President’s Men. No family drama, no romance scenes. Just the plot.)

There’s also the whole primal “gnawing on bones” experience.

Huh. I think that is exactly what would happen in real life. We haven’t finished the entire series yet.

honest Q:

how to you assign those 1000s of songs to a playlist? … one by one?

if so - isnt that a lot of work? … I mean being album oriented like I am … when I want to hear Karin Carpenter, I click the album and go … If I want some pretty far-out jazz, I click on Jan Garbarek etc…

It took some time to do it. But, it was going down the list, selecting the songs I want. Then add them over as a group.
I make playlists for groups, different types of music, etc. Or, play an album.
And I won’t get into my spreadsheet where I keep track of my playlists, and when I heard them last, and my “schedule” that gives me suggestions on what to play next based on the frequency I want to hear the playlist.

I have exactly 10.762 songs on a 128 gb SD-card …

I guess I am good as it is :smile:

Playlists are essentially just the modern version of a mix tape to me. (In fact, several of my playlists are duplicates of old mix tapes I got or made in the 90s and early 00s.) I’m much more album-oriented than the average listener, but many times I just don’t want to listen to a whole album from start to finish, but want some variety. And the decline of “the album” has been going on at least since I was kid, with folks buying singles or even taping songs off the radio, not interested at all in an artist’s complete work, just the hit song. This is especially so in pop and dance-oriented music. Who needs an entire album of LA Style, when “James Brown is Dead” is the only song they’re interested in?