I saw this when I was in Barnes and Nobles the other day. I was going to ask the guy at the information desk where a book was, but a girl was ahead of me. She asked the guy if he could help her find the self-help section of books... I don't know, seemed kind of ironic.
What makes you scratch your head wondering why it's happening?
Mine: Smoking.
It kills you, it smells, it's expensive, it ages you, it stains your teeth, it makes cough, it ruins your endurance, etc.
I just don't understand the appeal enough to comprehend why someone would even start.
Breaker wrote:Your posts.
I'm heartbroken, Breaker.
... o.O' ...
Yeah, smoking is definitely up there. But it's addicting. =/ And being thought of as "cool" is a very addicting feeling as well. It's a shame, really.
Things that I don't understand, ... not that hard to find. Partially because you can either feign understanding, or just make up your own reason to fill in the gap. 😛 Hey, it's something! XD
Okay. There IS something I'll never understand. I recently came upon a seagull that seemed to like eating hot dogs. I watched it eat three full hot dogs in a row. It just scooped them up in its beak, reared its head back, and jerked it around and swallowed them whole, one right after another. I have no idea whatsoever how it fit all three inside of it. O.O
redheads and women in general
Breaker wrote:Your posts.
What a nice friendly example you set for all our members.
Smoking is up there on my list, with alcohol and drugs. I can see how people get started with it though.
fatcatfan wrote:What a nice friendly example you set for all our members.
But Breaker was *being nice.*
I'll never understand why on earth MTV still exists. Are there actually people who tolerate that madness anymore? Or is it just because Viacom is loaded with so much money from everything else that they keep it alive on a whim?
Or maybe everything that sucks is connected in a giant, sinister web of crapitude, which was carefully crafted to swindle everyone blind.
Reality television - It's idiotic. Why on Earth do people watch it?
Advertising - Companies spend billions of dollars on it each year, and go to great lengths to ensure that we are exposed to it, but how much of it really influences anyone's purchasing decisions?
Beer - It's carbonated bitter. Why would anyone drink it?
Hate - Can't we all just get along?
The term "oversexed" - Is there really such a thing?
When people in resturants walk into the kitchen thinking that the bathroom is around there. I never understood that.
Smoking, drugs, drinking, and fornication are all things I can't understand why people would get into. The effects and/or risks are absurd.
Oh, and sports. Why do people care about them so much? What's the point? Who cares who can hit the ball the hardest or trample other disgustingly overheated players in a giant pasture? I was at a baseball game about a year ago, and what was happening in the field was so boring that the predominate "entertainment" came in the form of idiocy from the speaker and big screen (example: encouragement to make as much noise as possible, with a bogus analyzer animation encouraging people to make more).
Raichu86 wrote:Oh, and sports. Why do people care about them so much?.
Without sports, I wouldnt know what to do with myself. I lost a whole season of Ice Hockey it made me go crazy. Football and Hockey has to be my fav sports, rugby comes in 3rd.
Some reality shows are good. Like that 30 days show. It was actually pretty cool, because its different every week. Also, I liked Surviving Nugent, just because Ted Nugent is insane.
He should be in Strapping Young Lad.
When people ask to borrow a piece of paper. Why do they ask to borrow it, when they know that they won't be returning it? That's why I always ask to have a piece of paper.
I go to a private college that costs a goodly chunk of money -yay for financial aid, scholarships, and grants- yet there are so many kids at my school who blow off classes every day to get drunk every night of the week. If you are paying 30K+ to go to a college, why don't you attend class? It's an expensive way to party for four years... assuming you don't get kicked out after one. Not to say I am not up for some fun, but I don't lose sight of the reason why I'm at school in the first place.
What makes you scratch your head wondering why it's happening?
Everything
Why is it that the phrases "slim chance" and "fat chance" both have the same meaning?
Why is it that people who wear muscle shirts are, for the most part, very skinny and have no muscle?
Women running a Men's magazine.
women choosing to date assholes over us nice gentlemen never has and never will make sense.
People who cut themselves and mutilate their bodies with eating disorders who are proud of it.
Pussies who watch their friends take a beating and do nothing about it.
People who get famous when they have no talent. People who are popular and are total shits.
Women that are afraid to lift weights. "I don't want to get big, bulky muscles like a man." In your dreams, kitten. But hey, I guess fat "legs" and a bulbous ass are better than firmness....
I don't understand people who speak another language to me. I understand why they speak it, but I don't understand it when they speak it to me.
Yeah, that was me trying to be a smart ass.
Anthony wrote:I don't understand people who speak another language to me. I understand why they speak it, but I don't understand it when they speak it to me.Yeah, that was me trying to be a smart ass.
Just shoot them. You have a gun over there don't ya?
mikeron wrote:Women that are afraid to lift weights. "I don't want to get big, bulky muscles like a man." In your dreams, kitten. But hey, I guess fat "legs" and a bulbous ass are better than firmness....
That's exactly why you look for a woman in the gym and not at the dairy bar.
Something I don't understand is why telemarketing companies hire people who can't speak clear english to do their telelmarketing. I hate hate hate hate hate getting a call from some arab fuck who can barely speak english. Drives me insane.
Also, it's cool if you want to visit, but don't fucking move to our country if you don't know or don't plan to learn our language, and then expect to be treated like everyone else. We can't understand what the fuck you're saying, dammit. Yeah, we're gonna give you funny looks when a group of you Indian assholes walk past us, giggling and conversing in your language, more than likely making fun of us.
I also don't understand what is so much fun about calling the girl you were with a week ago and telling her about the girl you were with that night. And then, putting some other girl on the phone and trying to get them into a fight. I'm sorry, dude, but you're totally not worth going to jail for. Fuck you.
Not to cop out on the topic or anything, but not a lot of stuff makes no sense to me. Even if I think something is frivilous or unethical I can still usually understand why the person came to make that decision. If don't understand I still recognize that there is probably a very real reason behind it.
Archibaldo wrote:When people ask to borrow a piece of paper. Why do they ask to borrow it, when they know that they won't be returning it? That's why I always ask to have a piece of paper.
Holy Hell, I love this one. There's something similar to it that I once heard: ... Like, why is it that when you want to know the time you point at your wrist? It's kinda like when you ask to go to the bathroom you point to your crotch.
God, I love that so much. XD
Remaining Ignorant
What I mean by that, is that our society, driven by information, there seem to be so many morons that just cannot find a way to find information. If there is a big debate about something that gets a lot of people up in arms on both sides of an issue, a believe that person owes it to society to look something up and *GHASP* form an opinion even if that opinion isn't one or the other, at least they know why they are stuck in the middle. Instead peoples' motto seems to be "I dunno."
I can't figure out why so many people, even those who work at truck stops, treat truckers like they're ignorant, bad-tempered barbarians. They chose to their jobs. It's not 'cause they were too stupid to get other, "better" jobs. Everything we get comes on a truck, even if it's originally shipped by rail or plane, it still takes a truck to get it to the store. Furthermore, if you'd just spent 4 hours trying to get through D.C. traffic, you'd be bad tempered too.
moocow wrote:That's exactly why you look for a woman in the gym and not at the dairy bar.
Nah, that's too much work. I prefer to drive past the local High School around lunch time. 😉
Insert Chewebacca lives on Endor quote here.
I don't understand how some people can be so serious when asking the dumbest questions.
Case and point: Today I bought the book " The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Here is the conversation between me and a friend...
Friend: Are you really gonna read that?
Me: No, I'm going to rip out the pages and wipe my ass with it.
Friend: oh.
I fear that she was serious.
Good lord, where to begin.
People who say they play golf to "relax".
Girls who go out with guys who have cheated on their four previous girl friends, and are shocked when they find out he cheated again.
People who hated Ocarina of Time.
People who do drugs. Drinking I can understand though 😊
People who are assholes for no reason.
I just don't understand people in general.
Professional Sports (warning, rant time)
I would put this in my blog, but since this thread is devoted to the subject of things I don't understand anyways, and because my friends would murder me in my sleep if I did another rant about professional sports, I'll just post it here.
Now, I get sports. They're fun. They're entertaining. However, watching a sport is the most boring affair imaginable. Unbelievably repetative and monotonous. Same thing over and over again. The only reason anybody would watch is because they care who wins.
That's where my problem lies. It doesn't matter. It's like Double Dare, red team vs. blue team, and it really just came down to which color you liked better. Same thing with pro sports. The teams are totally arbitrary groups of athletes, with the minor addition of a city name to exploit each region with the whole "hometown pride" crap. But really, the players tend not to be from the city in question, and it's not like you know them personally or anything. Friends and family - that I would understand. Hell, even college sports make sense on some level. But the way I see it, it's one arbitrary group of strangers vs. another abitrary group of strangers. And yet, people put their hearts and souls into these corporate entities, as if they mean something personal to them. I know I'm liable to be attacked by any profession sports fans here, but I just don't get it. The major sports corporations are simply exploiting feelings of regional pride in the masses, and people don't even seem to realize or care that they're being exploited.
Oh, and I reverse my earlier statement about the term "oversexed." It very definitely is possible.
Edit: I was already warned 😞