Things you just don't get !

[Mulligan]

Yes, I do not get it either? It's just a game. The whole thing about this player/coach this and that player/coach that is not at all interesting. I remember on tv there was a young man who mentioned that he did not get hardly any any sleep the night before some championship game was to take place, where he was a fan of the team playing. He then became so excited that the team won, that he was up all the following night and could not sleep? (He got hardly any sleep for two days)

If you want it to be more than a game, so to a sportsbook in Nevada and pick a team and put $500 on it. I promise your "interest level" will pick up immensely watching it. I convinced my disinterested GF to put $200 on a college football game. She was a wreck the whole game and barely knew what was going on, but she was anything but " disinterested" watching it

 

[Moemg]

Nose and tongue piercing ! I really don't get that !

 

[Silver]

I don't get animal cruelty....or cruelty of any type actually. Where does evil like that come from within a person?

 

[frayne]

Tattoos and ornamental rings and piercings !

I understand wanting to express one's individuality but these things I just don't get.

 

[ls99]

The idea of rooting for the home team, say in football.

Are there any teams in the US where all or most of the players are from say, Pittsburgh? Heck the owners trade players like playing cards.

As for the pillow thing, agree with Walt34, makes DW happy, so it shall be. But I'm sure there is a lot more to it than women will ever tell men. Must be a Psych 15000 course to get it revealed.

 

[Nemo2]

Tattoos and ornamental rings and piercings !

I understand wanting to express one's individuality but these things I just don't get.

I have a tattoo on each forearm acquired when I was 14 1/2........for 6 months I thought they were great.......for the following 54 years I've disliked them intensely..........nowadays I see young people, especially young girls, with them and always think "You'll be sorrry".

 

[Nodak]

Hip-hop and Rap along with almost everything mentioned in this thread.

 

[omni550]

I have a tattoo on each forearm acquired when I was 14 1/2........for 6 months I thought they were great.......for the following 54 years I've disliked them intensely..........nowadays I see young people, especially young girls, with them and always think "You'll be sorry".

Nemo,

It sounds like, with your intense dislike of your tattoos, you might be a candidate for tattoo removal, no?

omni

 

[ls99]

This thread is the E-R.org version of "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney"...

20 more years and 4 more inches of eyebrows, I think will qualify me. But by then they will say Andy who?

 

[Nemo2]

Nemo,

It sounds like, with your intense dislike of your tattoos, you might be a candidate for tattoo removal, no?

omni

'Back When' I saw people who'd had them removed, (pre-laser, etc, technology), there was a 'non-tannable' scar remaining which indicated that a tattoo had been removed and, IMO, looked just about as bad as the 'too itself.

Now....I turned 69 in September....I've lived with them this long and I just kinda ignore them.......but if I had to do it over........I wouldn't do it, (get them, that is).

 

[ERD50]

I just don't get:

Some people who complain about the high price of gas, and the low price of houses.

I guess you just can't please 'some people'!

-ERD50

 

[Chuckanut]

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

 

[tryan]

Doctors who smoke.
Financial "experts" who LOOSE money.

 

[M Paquette]

That neighbor's house. You know, the one with plastic slip covers on all the furniture, and plastic runners down the hall. The one who has folks enter the house through the garage and kitchen, rather than sully the museum exhibit under plastic in the front of the house.

I don't get it...

 

[freebird5825]

I don't get the planking thing either.

Mr B and I go to the Legions and VFWs in the area as a matter of course. We see people spending money (lots of it in some cases) that they really cannot afford on these little cardboard pull-ticket contraptions
http://www.pull-tabs.com/pull-tabs.htm
A closer view and the prizes
http://www.pull-tabs.com/pull-tabs-5.htm

that fill something called a Bell Jar.
http://www.alliedbingo.com/home/ab2...odes_rules_and_regulations_of_the_state_.html

Mr B calls it "cardboard cocaine".

I don't get it. I have counted the number of possible cash prizes, the number of tickets issued in a lot of tickets, and have concluded that the math w*rks against being a winner.

 

[Meadbh]

Tattoos and ornamental rings and piercings !

I understand wanting to express one's individuality but these things I just don't get.

+1. I definitely don't see the point of this....

 

[ls99]

That is why God invented paper bags.

 

[Moemg]

What I don't get is College Football Signing Day ? My So gets so excited about it and he is on the phone the week before to his kids about it . I just don't get it but I don't tell him that .

 

[NW-Bound]

Well, I just don't get anything at all, all the current TV shows, what I read in the media, the Internet, the music on the radio, etc... It's better I not start to enumerate them, lest I get banned from this forum.

Ask me how DW/my returns have done over the last three decades? Well, that's worth discussion...

Yes!

Even more interesting is how our portfolio will perform in the next three decades.

Umm... Never mind... Even if there is a way to tell, perhaps I should not know right now.

For I may be just too depressed I will make some very bad moves, and that makes that bleak future a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[DangerMouse]

I don't understand why anyone cuts down a living tree to adorn their living room for 2 weeks of the year. I mean, isn't it better for every tree to remain living to purify our air rather than end up on the woodchipper?

 

[samclem]

I don't understand why anyone cuts down a living tree to adorn their living room for 2 weeks of the year. I mean, isn't it better for every tree to remain living to purify our air rather than end up on the woodchipper?

Most of these trees are crops, grown at a tight spacing and probably wouldn't thrive if left to get bigger. During the time they were alive they did a great job of removing CO2, and the little trees that replace them will also do a great job.
If the tree farmer didn't grow those trees, maybe he'd be growing corn for ethanol, which would be even worse for the environment.

 

[Ronstar]

Well, I just don't get anything at all, all the current TV shows, what I read in the media, the Internet, the music on the radio, etc... It's better I not start to enumerate them, lest I get banned from this forum.

+1

For me mainly The Bachelor (or Bachelorette), Dancing with the Stars, Housewives of whatever, any soap opera or reality show.

 

[ItDontMeanAThing]

Twitter.

 

[ItDontMeanAThing]

I used to not get what I called non-comedy comedy, which others called snarky comedy. Examples include The Onion, The Office, Parks & Recreation, Tina Fey and the like. Then I heard it described as sarcastic comedy and suddenly got it. Neither snark or sarcasm are forms of humor. The audience for non-comedy needs to feel superior to someone and can only do that by laughing at fictional versions of characters so exaggerated as to be 1 in a million.

 

[Walt34]

But I'm sure there is a lot more to it than women will ever tell men. Must be a Psych 15000 course to get it revealed.

Just about. Twenty years ago or so I read an earlier edition of this book http://www.amazon.com/You-Just-Dont...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323611307&sr=1-1 and it was like the Book Of Revelations. "Oh, so that's why she does that!"

Still, so many times why she does what she does is still on the hazy edge of consciousness for me. The reverse is true for her. The brains are wired differently. Sometimes it's frustrating.

But she's cute.