Things you just don't "get".

[Dangit2019]

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To be honest, while Mel Brooks is a movie legend, he's not necessarily part of everyday life. Hell, a lot of the people at my school haven't even seen a single Star Wars movie, and even though that's a big deal to me, they don't see the larger appeal because they aren't very interested in movies. It's not that they're oblivious to the world, they probably just don't follow movies that much.

I should clarify- we're at a film school. As in, knowing about film is one of the expectations of the course. And the Mel Brooks example is just one of many. I've encountered people who don't know what Doctor Who is, or have never heard of Michael Jordan. Again, these aren't obscure things- even if you've never watched an NBA match in your life you know who Michael Jordan is.

Oh.

Well that would have been nice information to know beforehand.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

What I don't get? Whenever something I either don't like or find sub-par ends up ludicrously popular or vice-versa, especially a new episode / movie / game of a series (inb4 someone mentions the irony that I am a fairly hardcore Season 1 brony). Whether it's Magic Duel / A Canterlot Wedding in MLP, all CoD games starting with MW2, Infamous 1 (haven't played 2), or the Avengers (I still liked it a lot, but it has a lot of flaws like Loki in his entirety); I just don't get why people enjoy them so much more than I did. Granted, this does happens to everyone; but it still drives me nuts.

Off topic time!:

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...

I can explain this one quite easily. The truth is that a lot of evil shit happens in this world all the time, to the point that nobody out there can come close to actually comprehending all of it. For many people, it gets to the point that all they can see is the evil in the world and people, and the good out there genuinely seems either nonexistant or heavily overrun by the fucked up shit. This gets amplified greatly if one's personal experiences reinforce it (like growing up in the ghetto or having to live with an abusive person).

We live in a world where people are killed over things like sexual preference or religious beliefs, women in many countries are property and are mutilated regardless of age for simply wanting to learn, entire nations are starving to death due to one man's ego-trip (you know what country), and people all over the world that will do absolutely anything (and I mean anything) to get what they want (power, money, revenge, the list goes on) without caring even remotely about who it might hurt or whether it is right or wrong. When all one can see is Mexican cartels, dictators commiting mass murders, CEO's screwing over millions of customers and / or employees for a quick buck, and even politicians defending rape; it becomes quite easy to believe that the evil people in the world are the large majority or that everyone is at least partially evil as the old saying "everyone has a price" goes. I should know, I was once that way.

I'm actually still that way to a notable extent. I have a hard time fully trusting people and typically keep everyone at arm's reach without fully letting anyone in mentally. Most people will probably laugh at what I'm about to say, but the movie "Kickass" completely changed me and killed my belief that everyone has a little bit of good in them. It isn't because I thought the movie was bad - far from it - but the themes of the movie really stuck with me and the villains in particular I could not only see being real, but see the very same mentality they had in many real people. Not everyone thinks of themselves as the good guy, and many of them simply don't care. All that matters to people like those in drug cartels is themselves, and they'll do the most atrocious things they can think of to anyone standing between them and what they want. Not only do these people exist, but they're surprisingly common in the world and the mentality of Darwinism / "only the strong survive" simply encourages it more.

Back to the movie, I simply haven't been the same since I seen that movie. While I was already jaded before, I became exponentially more so after that movie got me to rethink and abandon several of my core beliefs. This combined with all the unusually fucked up things I've been through in my life (not going into details there) killed any good I saw in the world, and it seriously wasn't until I got into Friendship is Magic that I began to remember that I wanted to be a source of happiness in people's lives and that good in the world does exist. Not trying to turn this into a pony thread, but ponies do play a big part in this for me - in particular Pinkie Pie who represents everything I've always wanted to be. I'm still cynical, mind you, but far less so than I used to be thanks to that pink equine.

Anyways, my point is that losing sight of the good in the world can be a surprisingly easy thing to do, especially when everywhere you look there's good old human nature kicking in and fucking things up. If one is knowledgeable about the world around them and isn't a sociopath; then becoming a jaded, cynical asshole is very possible unless they have something to remind them not everything is fucked up. Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to give a detailed explanation on this using my own personal experiences with the subject as an example.

 

[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.

Well, that's festivals, not 'celebrating artists'

I'm not much of a fan of festivals, although I can appreciate that some people like the atmosphere.

Yeah festivals too, but my primary thought was the "cult" fanatics build around a celebrity. I meant it like they celebrate the existence of an artist, instead of the music.

 

[likalaruku]

A list of things I DO get would be infinitely shorter.

 

[Damy]

I don't get feet fetishes, feet are embarrassing and gross!

 

[Bepo_Bear]

I have a foot fetish, there neither of those things

 

[The White Hunter]

Wait wait wait wait wait. Can't find my last post but I saw this in the latest feed and thought:


Laid

: D

 

[anthony87]

I don't get how people can see something Metal Gear Rising and not think that it's the most awesome thing ever.

 

[VoidWanderer]

I don't get how people can honestly think we are the only intelligent species in the Universe. I mean, seriously!?

Also, I don't get the captcha on this site, it terrifies me. I mean my cpatcha phrase is 'garden of eden'...

 

[Frezzato]

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You don't understand strip clubs, and that's good. They're good for all sorts of low-level illegal shenanigans, including drugs but not to the degree that regular clubs can involve.

The truth around my area is that every strip club is also, to a degree, a brothel of sorts. This was evidenced by a friend of mine who brought his married neighbor along for my friend's divorce celebration. The neighbor was an older man, and all the girls were flocking to him and sitting on his lap for extended periods of time. Afterwards we asked him what he was doing and he said that the first thing he asked them was "How much?" to which the girl would reply, "How much for what?" And so forth.

A girl I worked with (in an office) had an unusually calloused right palm and it took me a while to realize it was from her being right-handed and using that primarily to grip the stripper pole. She also griped about how other girls at her "other job" would just have sex with men in the private rooms. It's been an eye opening, disgusting learning experience for me.

Now, not that I don't like girls, which I do, but I'll admit that the few times I've been to strip clubs were great because I was able to smoke indoors again, which was a novel experience.

 

[Damy]

I also don't get why so many guys are into lesbians? i can understand that more than one woman would obviously be attractive to men but two woman that aren't attracted to you? that makes zero sense!

I have a foot fetish, there neither of those things

Well I'm not going to try and convince you out of it, and Yes feet can be clean and not embarrassing, but I just don't get it.

 

[oniryu101]

I don't get people who get a lot of money or power and decide that it makes them untouchable. I did some work with a high class hotel and you would see guests all the time who felt that they were entitled to scream at and harass the waitresses and then yelled about lawsuits when we had to remove them from the building. Its not just rich people who feel entitled either, living in lower class neighborhoods I would sometimes run into small groups of 3-4 "gangstas" who would yell at me and try to mess with me, but would back down while still trying to taunt me if called them on it. Got to love concealed carry licenses.

 

[Mr_Universal]

Musical instruments. I Just don´t get how people learn to use them.

 

[DeltaEdge]

Since there is some debate going on here, I will preface this by saying that although I am personally unable to derive any enjoyment/fulfillment from something, it does not mean that I look down upon it or refuse to accept that other people can like it, and completely understand that it is obviously of great value of the people who enjoy it. It is simply my own ignorance and thought processes that keep me from enjoying it, not the other way around

OT: I don't understand "mature" games. I mean games that have very serious/gritty/adult stories. None of it ever seems to be able to captivate me. It all just feels incredibly disengaging and boring to me. Like, for say, Mass Effect. For reasons I won't go into great detail about, I came into possession of a copy of Mass Effect 2 for Christmas from a parent's friend. Since they were nice enough to get it for me, I felt obligated to make a legitimate attempt at playing it. Unfortunately, I was absolutely bored to tears by it. It was no exaggeration to say that a few minutes into each session of game play, I found myself dying to turn the game off, because I found that it was dreadfully boring, and the characters seemed so bland, I couldn't bring myself to care about them at all.

Call me strange, but I have a preference toward melodramatic characters and fantasy versus harsh realism, which is why pretty much all I play in terms of games are JRPGs, some Nintendo titles, Sonic, and the occasional miscellaneous game like Journey or Scribblenauts.

 

[Tyler Trahan]

Cigarettes, Drugs, Alcohol.

I need to be in complete control of my mental and physical states. Nor do I get why they're "cool" in the first place.

The positives (if there are any) just simply do not outweigh the negatives.

This is how I feel about myself when it comes to drugs, alcohol and the like. While I can totally understand people partaking somewhat in drugs and alcohol I have absolutely zero understanding as to why people smoke cigarettes or do drugs and alcohol to excess. I mean why take a good thing (drinking to a buzz, smoking weed to relax or something) and take it to an extreme where you're puking in a gutter or essentially in a marijuana-coma? I dont understand at all. I also don't understand why people take certain drugs like heroin or angeldust; you know, the crap you never hear anything good about. To me it's just like "Where did you even get the IDEA to try this? Haven't you seen goddamn Trainspotting?!"

 

[AgentNein]

My neighbor is an ant-racist skinhead, apparently those exist, but it still confuses me.
Then again, I like Kamen rider, a thing many people would put on their list.
People who still like fat wreck chords.

Woo, I'll field this one! You see, the whole skinhead culture wasn't originally racist at all. In fact the originators were Jamaicans traveling to the UK to work the docks, and the shaved heads were for the sake of avoiding lice. What followed was was a cross pollination of culture, mostly of the musical variety. The Jamaicans introducing Brits to ska, a precursor to reggae. This along with pub rock sorta became the sound of the burgeoning skinhead culture. Then punk happened, which further shaped it all.

What ended up forming is called Oi. I kinda hate it as a genre, today it's mostly tough guy punk of a very limited variety with songs about drinking and fighting. But none of its necessarily racist. In fact if you run into racist skinheads they're more likely to be into some form of shitty metal.

But I digress! As I understand it the racist side of the skinheads came from neo nazi groups being impressed by the havoc caused by skinhead soccer hooligans and doing their damnedest to recruit some of them. When the media picked up on the whole thing it largely ignored and/or was unaware of the fact that not all, not even most skins aren't racist douches.

Look up the group SHARP. That stands for Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice. Most traditional skins (or "trads") don't consider the nazi skinheads actual skins at all. They've got colorful terms for them, such as boneheads. They actually actively resent nazi skinheads for ruining their public perception, and since 90% of skins love any excuse to fight, it's generally considered a bad idea being a obviously nazi skinhead and showing up at an Oi punk show.

...and only now do I read your second sentence and realize that you probably know all that shit I just said, you were just wondering why they were still a thing. I agree. Anti racist or not, the whole things silly and macho and they dress like toddlers from the thirties blown up to regular people size. I say this as a best friend and bandmate to a skin. I tell him this all the time.

 

[AgentNein]

I don't get ranty comedians like George Carlin or Bill Hicks. I've listened to them before, and maybe there's a joke here or there but mostly it's just complaining about shit. That's what I get from it anyway. And while ill find myself chiming in with a "yeah he's totally right!" From time to time I don't find myself laughing all that much.

I don't get metal. I've never heard such ostensibly talented musicians struggle to make music so grating to my fucking ear holes. Oddly enough I'm listening to and enjoying a d beat crust punk record right now so take this all with a grain of salt.

 

[smithy_2045]

Do people count as a thing for the purpose of this thread? Coz people. Fucking weird things, those peoples. All sorts of unpredictable, irrational and downright confusing behavour from those guys.

 

[SirDeadly]

Clubbing. I do not understand the appeal of clubbing. I do not enjoy it at all. Way too loud and crowded and expensive and full of dickheads.

Someone who agrees with me on this! I don't get the appeal of clubs at all, you spend a shit load of money, think you have fun and then can't remember it in the morning. What I don't get even more than clubbing is people who ask you why you don't go clubbing.

 

[sXeth]

Most of mine have been hit already, I'll throw in straight up normal Bars though.

I don't drink to begin with, but even when I did or if I still did, I can't grasp why I'd pay oft-exorbitant amounts extra to go sit on uncomfortable furniture, eat generally terrible food, watch someone elses choice of tv (or music, whatever), and trying to converse in a noise-polluted room. All with the added issue of having to figure out transportation back to home.

Also;
The common venue of dating being "dinner and a movie". Neither activity really lends itself to social interaction (assuming you like to enjoy your food while its still fresh-pepared, and aren't a jerk chatting up in the theater". Which seems counter-productive to the entire idea of getting to know a person better.