Bruce Daddy I think the reason why your mother is so obsessed with you getting married is that she wants you to be some other womans problem, not hers.
Just tell her your gay.
vegetarian food - where there are more flour and beans than green vegies.
i don’t get this ‘don’t get’.
this i get. how a person treat those beneath them is a good measure of that person’s character.
try asking yourself why there is a need to believe/know that there is an afterlife, and imagine someone free of that need.
Beautiful.
Manual transmissions:
I can understand wanting a manual because it’s cheaper, easier to repair, etc.
I don’t understand reasons like this for wanting a manual transmission (from this thread):
I’d be overjoyed if I could just get into my car, tell it “go to work”, and spend the commute time reading or napping instead of driving.
It also gives you more control, and slightly better gas mileage, and an automatic still usually costs more when you’re buying a new car. So there are some practical reasons for getting a manual transmission.
On the not-so-practical side, it makes it more fun to drive (but then, you don’t get why driving can be fun, so that’s kinda lost on you too…)
I don’t get people who don’t find driving at least a little bit fun. You’re sitting in a contraption that weighs several thousand pounds that uses EXPLOSIONS to propel you to insane speeds! And you get to control the direction and the speed! What’s not to like? I demand fun from my vehicles and purchase vehicles accordingly. My current vehicle is a 2 seater, 4WD off-road sportscar (sort of) with a 5sp and a T-top. Definitely not practical. But FUN!
To the store, WARP FACTOR 5!
I don’t get…
The pride of ownership… I can’t stand seeing people my age (mid-20s) talking about buying a home. For christ’s sakes, people! You’re in your 20s! How can you sign up for a loan that you pay off over the course of 15 to 30 years? Why would you want to spend time mowing a lawn and cleaning out gutters and performing other maintenance? Quit worrying so much about money and live a little!
Obsession with the House of Windsor… At least with celebrities, you see them in movies and stuff. But why anyone who lives outside the UK would care one bit about a bunch of idly rich inbreds is beyond me.
People who don’t care about music… you know the type. They only own greatest hits albums and movie soundtracks (certain films excepted) and never go to concerts. And if they own an iPod, the only songs off it are singles off albums, and never complete albums. They might be good singles off good albums, but it never occured to them to try listening to the songs that aren’t on the radio.
People in their 20s who are in a rush to grow-up… This goes with the mortgage thing I mentioned above. I’ve run into a few people my age who don’t seem to get that they’re in the prime of their lives. Instead, they never joke around, they never act the least bit silly, and they care more about “getting that big promotion” than anything else. You were probably hitting the beer bong (or just the bong) 4 years ago, and now you’re obsessed with getting into middle management. Ugh.
People who actively dislike kids… I’ve noticed this more and more, especially among younger women. They talk about how kids are icky and disgusting and gross. I guess they were pictures of cleanliness as children. To me, a 4 year old with ice cream all over his/her face is, simply, the picture of happiness. If you don’t want to have kids, that’s fine. Not everyone feels that need. But to not enjoy spending time with them or to not find them adorable just seems cold.
Midwest fashion sense… or lack thereof. I’m from there, so I know what I’m talking about, and I know not everyone there dresses this way. But when did sweatshirts with puppy dogs on them, or airbushed wolves howling at the moon become fashionable?
These are the only people I DO get. The rest of ya are a mystery…
I don’t get why there are so many things that people don’t get … just google or wiki or Ask Cecil!
That said, I don’t get how Adam Sandler ever became a star. What’s up with that!
And yeah, try as I may, I don’t get rap, no way, no how.
I also don’t get people wearing super low rise pants that go down to the butt crack. Yech.
People who can read and don’t believe democracies are better than tyrannies.
Being bloated - I’ve reached middle age and have never had the experience.
Being in debt for materialistic stuff.
Going to a museum if you don’t have a framework to appreciate what you’ll see
Oops, I forgot:
Making topical anesthetics illegal - think about this the next time you have to remove a splinter from your toddler
I don’t get why people who have children yet can hardly support them, continue to have more children.
I don’t get pedophilia and why it is so common.
I don’t get people who don’t care much for music.
I don’t get why people get plastic surgery. I mean, to willingly have your face chisled and skin stretched etc. seems rather stupid to me. Save your money for when a major accident occurs and you need to go to the hospital.
So basically I don’t get people. 
It’s common?
I’d say so.
It is on big-boards:
What’s even more mystifying are those people (usually “rugged” men) who hate cats and treat them like vermin, going so far as to shoot or drown cats if they went onto their property (Crafter_Man?), but you know they’d bawl like babies if anything happened to their good old hunting dog. I can understand having a pet preference, but the hatred that some dog lovers have for cats just doesn’t make sense. They’re both pets, people.
I don’t get:
Mixtape aficionados who insist on putting their mixes on cassette tape instead of CD, even if they have CD-making capability. Look, I understand that vinyl is slightly superior to CD–I use CDs because they’re more convenient, and sacrifice the quality for that. But it’s more labor-intensive to make a mix cassette than a mix CD, and the sound quality is detestable–it’s not the slight difference between vinyl and CD, it’s a total breakdown in quality. And I am not an audiophile by any stretch, so I don’t see how someone who claims to “love music” would put it on a clearly inferior format like tape, when it is just so easy to click and drop songs onto a CD.
Bolding mine.
I believe START was referring to the fact that the SDMB wasn’t in the top ten, according to big-boards.com.
Thank you! To me, it’s just as unnatural-looking and repulsive as obesity.
And before everyone beats up on me - I am obese myself, and yes, it is ugly. That doesn’t make the obese person less worthy, so saying that does not make me “intolerant” or a “fat bigot”. Bill Maher is a fat bigot because he hates fat people simply because they are fat - I love or hate people on the basis of who they are, not what they look like. But I can love someone and still think they are unattractive, and I can hate someone and still think they are stunningly beautiful. So there.
I don’t get people who don’t read. Not people who CAN’T read (although, that, in itself, is mystifying); people who are technically literate but never read anything that isn’t a label or sign (or possibly TV Guide).
I also don’t get the urge people (including me) have to smell or taste something putrid and then immediately proffer it to someone else saying “Taste/smell this! It’s disgusting!” which is then followed by the person ACTUALLY tasting/smelling the disgusting substance. I do it and I don’t get it.
I don’t get the advertising/cheap-argument-winning ploy that goes as follows “…and a million <insert group member here>'s can’t be wrong!” Yes, yes they can.
I also don’t get the mindset found commonly in tourists that the place they are visiting is some form of gigantic theme park, therefore they are allowed and entitled to do things like walk in the middle of the road with no regard to traffic rules, or walk into my home without knocking or asking permission, or wander around my yard picking my flowers.
I don’t understand why Oprah is idolized.
Actually, I don’t understand why celebrities are idolized.
Oh, and I also don’t get school board elections. It’s such a negligible position, but people are nasty and ruthless about it. I’ve heard of towns where candidates key one another’s cars over the election! And everyone runs on one stupid pet platform like introducing creationism or trying to start after-school programs, positions that would be just as well served by a grass-roots campaign, so that they could leave the governing to people who actually knew something about local government. Once these candidates’ pet issues were resolved, they ceased to be effective. (This is a big pet peeve for my mom, who is an elementary school teacher and feels that more often than not the school board prevents her from doing her job.) And then people drive themselves into bankruptcy printing up all those signs and buttons and whatnot, and you know what? It doesn’t even matter because the incumbent always wins. And the reason that they win is that nobody votes in school board elections except people who already have kids or people who know the candidates, and these people tend to be more conservative in the classic sense, they fear change. Most people I know, including some parents, skip over the school board position part of the ballot entirely. So much fighting for so few votes.
This is also true for county commissioner positions, except those are slightly more important.