October 12, 2006

I just don't get these things

Though they're popular, I just don't get these things.

  • MySpace. The site simply sucks. I know how many friends I have. I talk to them. I don't care how many people have clicked a link on a page that loads playing some crap pop melodrama.
  • Pet fetishism.
  • Poker. One person wins, everyone else loses. Feels like self delusion to me.
  • The phrase, 'I'm just saying.' It's empty and gutless. Say or don't say.
  • Terror about terrorism. What really are the chances? Damned slim. Here's a better snapshot of what to worry about and what will kill you.
  • Shoe shopping.
  • Shoe collections.
  • Cheap cheese.
  • Cheap food, period. Food should be expensive: you put it in you.
  • Why we lie to children and then instruct them to tell the truth. Examples: santa claus, the easter bunny, strangers as suspicious.
  • Tattoos: what do I want on my body that I'll still want in 50 years when it's discoloured and stretched and wrinkled? A dolphin becomes an elephant.

What don't you get?

Posted by James Sherrett at October 12, 2006 11:24 AM
Comments

People who leap out of their seats and elbow their way to the front of the plane immediately after the plane stops at the gate. Just so they can rush through the terminal and come to a crashing halt at the immigration line-up and/or the baggage carousel. Don't get those bastards at all.

Oh, and skinny jeans. The latest, and possibly cruelest, fashion prescription ever.

Posted by: Craig at October 12, 2006 11:37 AM

You don't get shoe shopping? Didn't you post about those clown shoes you bought out of recycled newspapers or something?
Alright, what if I put that I don't get blogs? Does that make it pretty funny?
Bad popcorn. The worst part is, I still buy it.

Posted by: StheB at October 12, 2006 12:33 PM

I don't get stupid people.

That's not to single anyone out. I'm implying that in general. That is, I'm just saying.

Posted by: John Bollwitt at October 12, 2006 01:09 PM

Regret.
Regret is the implication of wishing away a past experience. But where would you be without the knowledge of the experience you regret in the first place?
Oh, and street sweepers. Net time you see one in action, pay close attention. They do nothing.

Posted by: Josh at October 13, 2006 11:50 AM

I used to not get poker, but now I do. It's an excuse to sit around and watch your friends get drunk enough that they forget how to count.

Posted by: Aaron at October 14, 2006 09:10 PM

I just don't get how the price of snacks at movie theatres and sports venues is so out of sync with anywhere else.

I mean, pop costs just pennies a glass, and I expect popcorn costs even less. Then you tack on the advertising subsidy on the packaging...Where's the rule that says they can charge 4 to 5 times as much as any other snack outlet or fast food joint?

It seems those snacks are usually pretty popular, I just don't get it.

Posted by: Jordan at October 16, 2006 08:54 AM

I don't get the commercials for air freshners. The ones with desperate housewives running around the house, balletically spraying everything from the dog to the kids room to the bathroom to horror-of-horrors the kitchen, then taking deep inhaling breaths. It's poison. You kill things with this spray. I don't understand the product, but I definitely don't understand the selling point of the commercials. Get high on poison that you spray throughout your house. They don't have commercials of people sucking on moth balls, and yet they wildly inhale air freshner?

Posted by: Monique at October 18, 2006 07:17 AM