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Post by steph08 on Sept 6, 2013 11:01:15 GMT -5
I don't get women over 20 who are obessesed with Twilight. My 48 year old SIL is obessesed with Twilight. I think she's insane. People who think 50 Shades of Grey is a revelation. There, I said it. For a book I keep hearing is "changing sex lives" and is "so graphic/lurid" I found the sex in that book to be incredibly disappointing and the language very vanilla. First you can tell the author has no clue what real S&M is. At times I was wondering if the author has ever had sex period. It was like she walked thru a sex shop and wrote down words without having any clue what any of it actually is. Second grown-ups can use the words "vagina" and "penis". For a "lurid" sex book I don't expect to see phrases such as "his throbbing manhood" and "her sex" tee hee. I've read Harelquin romance novels steamier than that. Watch Real Sex or Cat House on HBO if you want to get weird/lurid/raunchy. I want to ask what kind of sex life did you have before if this book revolutionized your bedroom habits. I have decided that Twilight appeals to tweens and to the over-40 crowd, and that is about it. Seriously, all of my female coworkers are in their late 30s, early 40s and are obsessed with Twilight. Of course, I love Harry Potter, but at least that is a good story!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:01:28 GMT -5
I don't get how 50 Shades of Grey is going to be made into a movie. Unless it's a porno.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 11:01:42 GMT -5
I don't get women over 20 who are obessesed with Twilight. My 48 year old SIL is obessesed with Twilight. I think she's insane. People who think 50 Shades of Grey is a revelation. There, I said it. For a book I keep hearing is "changing sex lives" and is "so graphic/lurid" I found the sex in that book to be incredibly disappointing and the language very vanilla. First you can tell the author has no clue what real S&M is. At times I was wondering if the author has ever had sex period. It was like she walked thru a sex shop and wrote down words without having any clue what any of it actually is. Second grown-ups can use the words "vagina" and "penis". For a "lurid" sex book I don't expect to see phrases such as "his throbbing manhood" and "her sex" tee hee. I've read Harelquin romance novels steamier than that. Watch Real Sex or Cat House on HBO if you want to get weird/lurid/raunchy. I want to ask what kind of sex life did you have before if this book revolutionized your bedroom habits. Through the Wormhole! BADUM DUM *chee*
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2013 11:02:06 GMT -5
Seriously?
I want to smack Bella or whatever the fuck her name is.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:04:19 GMT -5
Through the Wormhole! BADUM DUM *chee
Of course, I love Harry Potter, but at least that is a good story
I do too and I read Percy Jackson and I've read The Hunger Games. I have nothing against reading YA lit but at least pick GOOD YA lit. Twilight is terrible even for the genre it's created for.
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Post by steph08 on Sept 6, 2013 11:07:18 GMT -5
I've read The Hunger Games - the first one was good, but it went downhill after that. Some trilogies just have that feel - like they want to write them as fast as possible to get more money and before the craze goes away.
I have Percy Jackson sitting in my Amazon cart - I have to get around to buying that sometime.
I did a YA class in college - it was great. I discovered "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes" there. Almost everyone read it overnight when we really only needed to read a few chapters. I just re-read it this year.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 11:07:40 GMT -5
I don't get going to big rock concerts. If I want to listen to a band I will through the CD in, it will sound better, I will save a couple hundred bucks, save my hearing and not have to bump uglies with a bunch of sweaty pot heads.
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Post by milee on Sept 6, 2013 11:08:54 GMT -5
On that note, I don't get how sometimes when people ask for input/advice, they don't actually want it... That was a long lesson to learn... I had a friend from a foreign country who really, truly didn't understand this for the first 15 years he lived here. The one that he really, really didn't understand was phatic conversation. When he did realize that it was ritual and not a literal question, he was dumbfounded and angry. He was a hairdresser, so I can only imagine the awkward conversations he used to have with his clients. Unfortunately, I think I was the one that spilled the beans on this one at one of their dinner parties. Friend: What is up with zeze Americans? They ask but they do not listen! Me: What do you mean? Can you give me an example? Friend: Zey ask me "how are you?" and when I tell them, they cut me off while I am speaking. It is like they really do not want to hear about it. Me: Um, from our earlier conversation, I may have an idea what is happening. When your client asks how you are, they DO NOT want to hear 15 minutes of detail about your prostate issues. The only socially acceptable response is, "fine, thank you. How are you?"
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:11:20 GMT -5
I feel the same way about The Hunger Games. She should have stopped with the first book. I didn't feel like the nexttwo really contribute enough to make it worthy of being a triology.
I love Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The next book in The Lost Olympians (the sequels to PJ) should be coming out here soon. I've checked them out from the library so many times I'm just going to buy them.
I read The Kane Chronicles too which are like PJ (same author) but with Egyptian gods. Not as good as PJ, IMO, but I liked them. I'd LOVE to see Riordan combine both series, he references PJ several times in the Kane Chronicles.
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 6, 2013 11:12:58 GMT -5
Most reality shows, especially Survivor. (I do like actual skill competition shows- Top Chef, Top Shot, and science shows. Does MythBusters count as reality TV?) Sponge Bob Square Pants Beavis & Butthead (dating myself here) Titanic (the movie and the actual ship) The Simpsons Seinfeld
The wedding where the groom is just a piece on the board (I had a wedding idea planned in my head from teenage years: winter wedding in the mountains, 6 bridesmaids all in velvet- 3 in sapphire blue, 3 in emerald green, huge family gathering, because I have a huge southern family, etc. But I fell in love with C, a total introvert who would have been miserable in that crowd. Instead, I had only an MoH- who wore purple, we got married on Labor Day weekend in a Japanese Garden. Total attendance (including us): 16)
Women who like being pregnant (this is NOT a bash. just something I honestly don't get. my Aunt loved- at one point volunteered to be a surrogate for us, since she knew I had 0 desire to be pregnant.)
Math without numbers (and heaven help me, this is all C is going to be doing this next year, and he's going to want to talk about it)
The need to make a disaster somehow about you. (I just couldn't sleep last night, feeling all their pain is BS. You had a warm bed to sleep in, a roof over your head, and all of your family alive and well around you. You felt none of their pain. If you really feel that much for them, go volunteer with the Red Cross or one of the many other organizations that are actually going there and do something. But don't sit around your nice, comfy, safe, upper middle class life and tell me how painful the event has been for you.)
Not supporting the troops. (I get not supporting the war/police action, etc. I haven't supported anything we've done since 9/11. But you deal with that by voting different people into office, not by being mean to a bunch of 18-20 year olds who were looking for a better future for themselves. And guess who wants the troops home even more than you do? Their families, the same ones you're calling names for "supporting the war effort".)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 11:17:34 GMT -5
The need to make a disaster somehow about you. (I just couldn't sleep last night, feeling all their pain is BS. You had a warm bed to sleep in, a roof over your head, and all of your family alive and well around you. You felt none of their pain. If you really feel that much for them, go volunteer with the Red Cross or one of the many other organizations that are actually going there and do something. But don't sit around your nice, comfy, safe, upper middle class life and tell me how painful the event has been for you.)
Not supporting the troops. (I get not supporting the war/police action, etc. I haven't supported anything we've done since 9/11. But you deal with that by voting different people into office, not by being mean to a bunch of 18-20 year olds who were looking for a better future for themselves. And guess who wants the troops home even more than you do? Their families, the same ones you're calling names for "supporting the war effort".)
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Post by milee on Sept 6, 2013 11:23:34 GMT -5
... : : : Most reality shows, especially Survivor. (I do like actual skill competition shows... : : : ... I haven't watched Survivor in a while, but that seemed like a skill competition to me. Although I have the physical strength and mental toughness to do well, I would fail miserably because I lack the people skills. I'm grumpy when I'm hungry and it would take 2-3 weeks before I'd know or like anyone enough to make small talk and bond with them. Pretty sure I wouldn't have the chance to bond, because between being grumpy from hunger and not knowing how to chat with the strangers I'd need to form alliances with, I'd be voted off PDQ. ... : : : Math without numbers (and heaven help me, this is all C is going to be doing this next year, and he's going to want to talk about it) : : : ... Oh, no - that is painful. My DH is an electrical engineer and sometimes wants to solve technical issues by talking about them. As a CPA, I have a high tolerance for boredom, but the EE stuff is beyond torturous. But I listen, smile and nod to be supportive. Is there a "happy place" you can go to and daydream about this while he talks or is he going to want you to actually participate in the conversation? I'm hoping for your sake it's the former, but either way... good luck.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:26:14 GMT -5
I don't get people (my SIL especially) that feel since I had one kid surely I must love being a parent and have loved being pregnant so much that I can't wait to have another. SIL asked me about kid #2 less than 72 hours after I gave birth! I'm glad for you being a mother is your calling in life and that you adore being pregnant. Tell you what, volunteer your're uterus and I'll consider having a second one.
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2013 11:27:58 GMT -5
I see your grumpiness and raise you one absolute bitch. I would be voted off before you.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 6, 2013 11:37:08 GMT -5
No, seriously, he was involved with one psychopath and now he's involved with another? It's out there on FB for all to see and just shake their heads at. Thank heavens he isn't really a blood relative as we have crazy in our family but not bat shit like he is.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Sept 6, 2013 11:37:45 GMT -5
I don't get going to big rock concerts. If I want to listen to a band I will through the CD in, it will sound better, I will save a couple hundred bucks, save my hearing and not have to bump uglies with a bunch of sweaty pot heads. If you don't have a contact buzz off what the pot heads are smoking you're doing something wrong. that said, I loved concerts for the most part, but also only went to ones I really really wanted to see in the 1st place. And general admission was always more fun that being told 100 times to get off the chair because I couldn't see. Then again, girls always make friends in a general admission crowd. Always some guy looking to score by being your hero.
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Post by Tiny on Sept 6, 2013 11:42:07 GMT -5
I don't get women over 20 who are obessesed with Twilight. My 48 year old SIL is obessesed with Twilight. I think she's insane. People who think 50 Shades of Grey is a revelation. There, I said it. For a book I keep hearing is "changing sex lives" and is "so graphic/lurid" I found the sex in that book to be incredibly disappointing and the language very vanilla. First you can tell the author has no clue what real S&M is. At times I was wondering if the author has ever had sex period. It was like she walked thru a sex shop and wrote down words without having any clue what any of it actually is. Second grown-ups can use the words "vagina" and "penis". For a "lurid" sex book I don't expect to see phrases such as "his throbbing manhood" and "her sex" tee hee. I've read Harelquin romance novels steamier than that. Watch Real Sex or Cat House on HBO if you want to get weird/lurid/raunchy. I want to ask what kind of sex life did you have before if this book revolutionized your bedroom habits. another example of people living lives of quiet desperation?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Sept 6, 2013 11:42:11 GMT -5
I can think of dozens of things off the top of my head, including many already mentioned.
One that never ceases to boggle my mind: the marketability of hunting and fishing simulations. Some presume to call themselves 'games', but 'games' somehow implies fun, and the developers no doubt changed to 'simulations' after they were sued for false advertising.
Sitting in a boat for half a day waiting for a fish to bite seems torturous enough, but it would at least afford a bit of rousing action to tire the fish out and reel it in, as well as bragging rights and ideally a meal afterwards.
Fishing on a computer? You've got to be kidding me. Who in their right mind pays to catch a virtual fish and virtually reel it in?
Yet in any online or physical market for electronic games, you'll find at least a dozen such simulations for sale. Perennially. That's perhaps most mind-boggling of all. Consumers will buy updated simulations year after year. Act now and upgrade to the 2013 edition. Virtual fish have slightly more polygons. Voice commentary by a slightly older Bob "Wiggles" Stinkbait. New autosize feature allows you to edit the size of the fish after you've 'caught' it; impress your friends!
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Post by midjd on Sept 6, 2013 11:45:59 GMT -5
I would laugh if the same thing hadn't happened to me (repeatedly).
My best friend lived on the outskirts of town (she had one of those addresses like 10000 W 200 N). Despite being driven there by my mom at least twice a month from age 10 - 16, the first time I tried to drive to her house after I got my license, I got incredibly lost and had to stop by a stranger's house to use their phone. (Luckily she moved, because I still can't find that house today).
I also got lost on the way home an embarrassing number of times after we bought this house (we live in a similarly rural area and have one of the 200 E 400 S type addresses). Not all in the first few weeks, either...
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Sept 6, 2013 11:47:17 GMT -5
People who talk about how their lives weren't complete till they had kids. Don't get me wrong I love my kid but I think I had a pretty good life before her too. I can't relate to the conversation because being a mom is just one segement of my life and I don't relate to the idea I had a void in my life till she came along. Same with marriage. I love DH but he doesn't "complete" me. I don't have kids, and I don't want kids... and I get so annoyed when people say things like "my life wasn't complete before I had kids" or "I never really understood what it was to LOVE until I had kids" Often people turn it around on me... and use that as a reason why I should have kids. 1. it makes me sad for them that they needed kids to feel complete or feel they really loved something. 2. it is RUDE. Along those same lines... I don't get the need to push one's life choices onto someone else. The whole "when are you getting married?" "when are you having kids?" etc. DH and I get a lot of comments about us having kids when we've made it public that we have no plans to procreate... but people want to just PUSH it on us. Seriously, how would people react if I started telling them how they shouldn't have kids and how great their life would be without them. "Preggo? Well, you should have an abortion because having no kids is AWESOME! let me enumerate the reasons!" *That* is unacceptable, but somehow it's totally okay to harass a childless person about having kids. For the record, I would never do that... because I have an open mind and can comprehend the concept that some people want kids. I'm highly supportive of those choices. Too bad people don't have the same respect for us.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Sept 6, 2013 11:50:31 GMT -5
I don't get weddings and the obessesion with planning them. I wanted to elope but DH really wanted a wedding so we had one. I didn't care as long as at the end of the day I was married. People thought I was nuts when they'd ask me what theme was I planning, what are my colors etc and I said "I don't know. I'm making shit up as I go". I was also surprised how many people equate how involved you are with planning to how much you love your future spouse. After I said the above my SIL actually asked me "Well you do want to marry DH don't you?" Uh. . I'm wearing my engagement ring so I'm pretty sure the answer to that stupid question is yes. I also found it funny that nobody expected DH to be obessesed with planning or equated how much he loved me with how involved he was in the process. I must be the only woman on the planet who hasn't been dreaming about getting married since she was 5. I was busy designing my own zoo. That was me! i wanted to elope but DH wanted a wedding. The thought of wearing a white dress made me want to vomit, as did the thought of spending so much money on a day... which, if you really think about it... isn't actually ALL ABOUT YOU.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 6, 2013 11:50:39 GMT -5
What I don't get is manufacturer's desire to 'improve' things. Don't f$&@$ with my bra and underwear styles. When I find something I like, that fits, I want to go into a store and grab what I want off the rack, in multiples, pay and walk out. I do NOT want to go through trying on every bra in the store to find the ONE bra that fits, doesn't itch, is comfortable and makes my boobs look good.
No, that little bit of lace that the manufacturer decided to put in place of elastic means that the underwear that I have worn for a decade is now creeping up my butt crack. If I wanted to WEAR a freaking thong, I'd BUY one.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:51:23 GMT -5
another example of people living lives of quiet desperation?
Maybe. I also worry about women who want their men to be like Christian. umm. ..no . .no you don't.
First thing that leapt out at me was the "contract" he has Anatasia sign that informs her he "wont do anything without her consent" but then in the same sentence says he can override it and do what he pleases.
Any man who won't respect mutual consent is one you should run far far away from.
And it makes it hard for me to "suspend belief" because even the most basic research into S&M would have clued the author in that mutual consent is an absolute must.
Hell it has me question if she's ever had sex period because everyone knows you run for the hills if the guy doesn't respect "no means no". You don't sign a sex contract with him. Too "rape fantasy"-ish for my comfort. Similar problem I have with Twilight.
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Post by Regis on Sept 6, 2013 11:51:36 GMT -5
I don't get why my wife still has no idea how to load the dishwasher. We have "slots" that are the same size as the bowls we use daily so they fit nicely. She insists on using three narrower slots and then complains that we have to fire up the dishwasher way too often because there's not enough room for the plates. After 26 years of marriage, I've learned to bite my tongue.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 6, 2013 11:52:39 GMT -5
Are you kidding? There are days I am SO envious of POM!
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2013 11:53:12 GMT -5
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 11:54:11 GMT -5
What I don't get is manufacturer's desire to 'improve' things
I wish Phenomenex would stop this. They keep trying to push their Kinetix columns on me. Last time I told they I tried the sample they sent and the columns are overpriced garbage. If you can't provide me with the brand I want, I'm going somewhere else. They haven't tried to sell me Kinetix since.
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 6, 2013 12:08:23 GMT -5
Also, I think I need someone to explain to me why I'm going to spend the weekend in the woods, shooting people with nerf guns, hitting them with boffer weapons, and possibly being woken up in the middle of the night by "attacks".
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Sept 6, 2013 12:11:10 GMT -5
what I don't get:
the aforementioned wedding thing, and obnoxious parent thing
-Vegans
-coach purses with C's all over them. Ditto the bags with LVs etc.
-people who commute via public transportation in heels
-the twilight obsession- seriously WTF?!?!
-jello
-people who don't cook. EVER.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 12:11:59 GMT -5
Are you kidding? There are days I am SO envious of POM! I don't get what that means.
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