Things you just don't "get".

[Catie Caraco]

I don't get roller coasters. I don't get paying to be frightened half to death. I've done one roller coaster in my life, in the 6th grade, and thought I was literally dying. I swore to myself "Never.Again." and I've kept that promise to myself. Ugh. It also comes with a very nasty side effect of headache/motion sickness. Yeah, I'll pass.

 

[TheLastFeeder]

I just don't get Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law".
I have read it 3 times and all I get is the last page that tells me to burn it after reading.

 

[Spinozaad]

I think it's a blast to go with strip clubs with my matey-mate blokes. It's a good laugh. It's not about the strippers, it's about the sleazy atmosphere, the shitty music, the bombastic presentation. And occasionally you'll have a simply mesmerizing performer.

But really, I think strip clubs are far more asexual than your average night club. Anyway...

I don't "get" a lot of the people on this forum anymore, simply because there's a generation gap and/or experience gap. Then again, a lot of people here seem to have a "Paragon" view of themselves or of life, while I (to keep the Mass Effect analogy going) tend towards the "Renegade".

Life is so much better with a little bit of sleaze.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Y'know I don't *get* alcohol in general. You're seriously telling me to drink something that dehydrates you, makes you ill, makes you look and act like a complete twat and generally lowers your IQ for awhile? How about no?

Sounds like you've never had alcohol.

I've got nothing against tee-totalers, but seriously, it's not nearly as drastic as you suggest. Responsible drinkers don't get ill, don't look or act like a complete twat, and can manage the dehydration.

Ah I suppose you've yet to see Walsall, Manchester, London and practically any UK city on a Friday/Saturday/Sunday night have you? If throwing up in gutters was a sport... As you say, "responsible" drinkers. Not many of those around these days i'm afraid.

Anyway I don't even like the taste of alcohol and i've no intention of going out of my way to find something decent, So moot point, moot point. Anyway, anyway any half serious amount of alcohol might fuck up my medication and I don't want that now.

So i've got three perfectly good reasons to not drink. I'm not judging you for drinking by the way, I can't be judgemental to people if I tried. It's a personality flaw really. I see a random criminal on TV accused of whatever and i'm like "he's probably not that bad, maybe he's just had a bad day. Everyone makes mistakes. Maybe he was set up?"

Though the one thing I like about alcohol is the hilarious terms we use to describe extremely drunk people.

"Yo man I got absolutely shitfaced last weekend!"

If you think about it, that sentence should never be commonplace and should be really weird to anyone overhearing

 

[The Wykydtron]

I think it's a blast to go with strip clubs with my matey-mate blokes. It's a good laugh. It's not about the strippers, it's about the sleazy atmosphere, the shitty music, the bombastic presentation. And occasionally you'll have a simply mesmerizing performer.

But really, I think strip clubs are far more asexual than your average night club. Anyway...

I don't "get" a lot of the people on this forum anymore, simply because there's a generation gap and/or experience gap. Then again, a lot of people here seem to have a "Paragon" view of themselves or of life, while I (to keep the Mass Effect analogy going) tend towards the "Renegade".

Life is so much better with a little bit of sleaze.

You think good evidence for this generation gap would be you still having Extra Credits badges on? XD

What a mess that was... Ah well. Another one would be to ask how many people remember Zeel. You'd get either "who?" from new people or "Ohhhhh god yeah, Zeel. Fuckin' Zeel" from every single other person.

I've seen a few interesting new people on lately though, 's pretty cool.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

That's what we do in the name of status symbolism: we cut off the dicks off of whales and use them for seat upholstery.

My new quote of the day

Also, I don't get people who can't separate fact from opinion. I wonder how I'm able to go on the Internet at all. Like when people argue over whether which console's controller is better or try to defend liking something that is objectively shit. For example, I liked the Doom movie but I'm not going to try and convince anyone it was a work of art

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I don't understand why people are so fucking obsessed with celebrities. I get the whole thing of fantasizing being them or having what they have, but I mean going to the point where we basically idolize them; we hold them to a higher pedestal than normal, non-famous people. Because Justin Bieber or Nicki Minaj did this or that, it gets blown up to high proportions. It's as if we forget that these are still people, and people do dumb shit sometimes.

This.

What I really don't understand is when all the women where I work talk about celebrities like they're all best friends. I'm sorry ladies but just because you saw the wedding photos in OK magazine (or whatever) doesn't mean you are (insert generic celebrity here)'s bestest friend foreverest. They say things like "Oh, but she's such a nice person" when they've never met the person in question! It's quite hard to hold my tongue in these instances but I am severely outnumbered!

Sometimes I feel stupid for getting excited when Miracle of Sound interacts with us on the forums, but then I realise that, hey, this guy's doing something real. He has genuine talent. He's the sort of person we should look up to and draw our aspirations from, not those bloody fakers on the TV. /rant

 

[Stasisesque]

I'm with you on the strip club thing- another part of it I don't get is women who are okay with their partner going to them. I mean, it's like it's only not cheating if you are paying for it?
I don't understand it.

I can't imagine it will help you much in your understanding, but I am one of those women and the plain and simple fact is that I don't consider it cheating at all. It's paying to watch ladies be arousing, I suppose I equate it more with porn than prostitution. If I did consider it cheating and wanted to be a fair and open partner (which I hope to be), I'd have to stop watching any film with attractive men being attractive and sensual in it. I'm not prepared to do that, so there we are!

Ehhh... still don't get it.
Finding actresses/actors attractive is fine to me. Looking at people is fine.
Getting someone to rub themselves on you is over the line.

I mean, if your partner got like a neighbor to give them a lapdance, that would be cheating, right?

Still, if it makes you and your partner happy, then I'm not judging it, I just don't understand it.
Luckily, my boyfriend and I are on the same page about it.

I was specifically talking about the strip part of strip clubs. However, if he wanted a lapdance while there I still wouldn't consider it cheating. There's a difference between a stripper doing her job and a neighbour doing it. Though I feel I should make this clear, my current partner doesn't go to strip clubs, I just have no problem with them and would not consider it cheating if he did.

 

[Artina89]

I have never understood why people like to go out and get so drunk that they pass out in the street. I live in a city, and I have to wake up early in the morning for work, just when the night clubs are closing, and the number of people I see that are passed out and the paramedics have to be called just baffle me. I like a drink as much as the next person, but I like to be in control of my faculties even more.

 

[Eddie the head]

I don't get people who can't distinguish between a good story teller and a good writer. For example, the Harry Potter books are a good story, Rowling is a mediocre writer. This works for other things too, such as people saying that Bob Dylan is one of the best singers ever, even though he's tone deaf (what he is is one of the best songwriters ever).
Basically people who think that people are great at everything because they are good at one thing...

I get where you're coming form. It's like the one picture I saw someone link where they compare the lyrics of some Nickelback song to I want to say the Beatles. The Nickelback song is talking about pressure to conform or something and well "yellow submarine." They seamed to come to the conclusion that the Nickelback song had better vocals because they had "better" lyrics. But I always thought that it was about how you say it, not what you're saying.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Pretty simple, what things can't you understand?

Women.

True story.

 

[Nouw]

Not flushing the toilet.

What the actual fuck? It's pushing a freaking button!

 

[Callate]

"Alpha" males. Or females, either, but it's the males I have to deal with. Men who think that any interaction with other men has to involve some kind of competition. The guys who have to make any conversation (especially around women) about how much more their job pays, or how good they are at sports, or the college they went to, or the black belt they allegedly have in some obscure martial art, or how awesome their cars are. Men who use the fragile framework of polite social interaction to try to get away with insulting other men, sometimes right from the introduction. Even among their friends.

You know what? Some behavior you should get out of by the time you're in your early twenties, and this is possibly the best example. I don't want to have to have my emotional and verbal guard up around people who I'm supposedly on friendly terms with; in point of fact, I refuse. Life's too short to put up with people who think with their dicks, and I've gotten to the point where I will flat call out such behavior and tell people so.

You think you're an apex predator? How cute. Go piss somewhere else; this place belongs to human beings.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Why people like:
-Transformers(I genuinely know people that do)
-Metal Gear
-Twilight(seriously, if its because its core fanbase lack direction in their lives, there are other ways to find them)

Why people believe:
-Conspiracy theories
-Pseudo-scientists

Why (some) people:
-Smoke at 13/14
-Act like dickheads without being aware of the consequences their actions cause
-Are homophobic (Stephen Fry once said that there are (either 426, or) 624 species of animal that have gay sex, yet man is the only species that exhibits homophobia)

 

[PissOffRoth]

Something I do not get, well, I do not get how stuff that is not real can seem to be real. For example, I had a dream about my teeth falling out then spent the whole day with my mouth clenched because I could still feel them slipping away from my gums. Surely, stuff in the head should stay in the head.

It is all in the head. "Feelings" are just signals in your brain. Whether they come from elsewhere in your body or the brain creates the signals itself, it's fairly similar to you at the time.

It's the same concept of people hearing what they want to hear. All of those "misheard lyrics" or songs played backwards "sounds like devil worship" only play tricks on your mind because they lead you on with subtitles. The brain just gets confused, basically.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

The more I think about it, the bigger a puzzle it seems to me - why is it in our generation of enlightened, strong, independent women are Twilight, 50 Shades, and Beautiful Creatures, stories that have female protagonists written by actual women who give them no respect or dignity, becoming not just successful but cultural phenomenons?

Because they're written by old, middle class women? Yes, I'm being a bit stereotypical, but the only way that I can rationalize the perversity of 50 shades as a manifestation of someone's imagination is either through boredom, or sexual repression, with Twilight, well, I presume that its self-insert fiction and beautiful creatures was written by a woman that was "rebelling" against her family's traditions by not marrying someone.

 

[JimB]

I don't get transsexuality. I don't have anything against it or transsexual people, but I don't understand how being male feels different from being female, nor do I understand how a person could only have experience feeling like one and somehow identify it as not feeling like the other. I've asked about it and never been given a straight* answer, so I've just resigned myself to never getting it.

*Rimshot.

 

[Piorn]

Celebrating artists, like musicians for example.
If they make good music, I buy it, no question. But I don't understand why people pay so much money to stand in the mud for hours to see a glimpse of their artist is beyond me.
I don't know them personally, the audio quality is always worse than recorded and it's exhausting.

 

[Doclector]

Something I do not get, well, I do not get how stuff that is not real can seem to be real. For example, I had a dream about my teeth falling out then spent the whole day with my mouth clenched because I could still feel them slipping away from my gums. Surely, stuff in the head should stay in the head.

Sometimes I wonder how "solid" reality is. When you think about it, I could have, a few seconds ago, been a bright orange platypus. But when I turned back, I forgot. Ridiculous? Yes, but how would we truly know? I was the only person in the room, if such a thing happened, I'd be the only witness, and my memory's been wiped.

There is an infinite amount of possibilities, and we can never truly know all of them, let alone test them. Reality's only as solid as our perception of it. The next second we believe to be predictable could be absolute chaos.

People wondering why people drink; This kinda shit is why. It's nice to not think too much for a little while.

I don't get cynical people. Or people who are always negative.

I can't process in my mind what they are thinking that always makes them go to a negative statement.
I don't get when people say ''humans are [insert negative word here]''.
For example if someone says that humanity is selfish, does the person ask himself if they are ?
I can say by experience that a lot of these people that says ''humanity is selfish'' they are themselves.

We should always spend our energy toward something positive. I mean, we have a fantastic brain, we live in a wonderful world with good folks, why always aiming for the negative. Nothing's perfect, but hey, life is life.

Yeah I really don't get it...

As a cynical person, the core reason would be that I consider it better to expect the bad and be surprised by the good, than vise versa. I'd be lying, though, if I said things hadn't convinced me that the bad is always more likely.

I'd also be lying if I said a part of being vocally cynical isn't a bit about "misery loves company". I've never been diagnosed with depression, although I'm being assessed in a couple of months time for some sort of mental problem, but I do sometimes feel really, really shit, and during those times, I often wish that other people could feel the same agony that I feel. It can feel like nobody understands, especially when you're under pressure with work and nobody seems to give a shit how you might be coping, you just wish all these seemingly perfect people had to walk a mile in your shoes.

And so, in leu of a crazy evil science machine, you turn to the internet, and attempt to convince everyone things are just as shitty as you see them to be.

Bitter? Yes. Terrible? Possibly. Understandable? Totally.

 

[Madman123456]

I don't get rollercoasters. Adrenaline rush is there, i can feel it but i don't see how that is "Fun".
I also have difficulties with Celebrities. Stupid pretty People, or maybe just pretty stupid.
The need to put akwardness into storytelling. Movies and Shows are plagued by this. Also: Lovestory. Shoe-horned into Stories that have little place for that.