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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 12:13:42 GMT -5
I don't get Jackass. DH thinks its hysterical so it must be a dude thing.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Sept 6, 2013 12:14:45 GMT -5
The three stooges... and why every man I've ever known laughs at them.
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Post by movingforward on Sept 6, 2013 12:15:18 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 Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 12:15:39 GMT -5
Are you kidding? There are days I am SO envious of POM! I don't get what that means. I think it had to do with life choices comment and the fact that POM chose not to have kids. ETA: or it's because she's a size 2?
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2013 12:15:52 GMT -5
I don't get Jackass. DH thinks its hysterical so it must be a dude thing. I may be a dude...............
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 12:17:32 GMT -5
I don't get mushroom hunting. Everybody does it now so you don't get enough to make it worth the bazillion ticks, the heat and tramping thru the woods. But I go because it makes DH happy. I'm thrilled to now have Gwen as an excuse to not go.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 6, 2013 12:17:52 GMT -5
I don't get "reality" TV. Never have - never will. I don't get why people have to have a cell phone attached to the side of their head every where they go. I also don't get people who can never be alone. I don't get hunting for sport. If you are starving and need the meat I get it but for sport and killing an animal - I just don't get it. I don't get people who don't love animals or can't understand those of us that do and consider them a family member. I don't get people who can't care for anything outside of themselves. They love THEIR kids and themselves but lack compassion for anything outside of themselves and theirs. But if THEIR kids do something heinous it's ok. Ummm. No, it's not. I don't get how people don't clean or take care of their houses. I don't mean that they don't clean it themselves but don't care to take care of their own investment or place they actually live in. Especially when they have kids. (Think HoneyBBQ's link to those gross houses!) I don't get people who can drive anywhere and everywhere and just "know" which way to go. I get lost in a Super Target. But I do envy them! And the many things that others already mentioned that I realize I've also mentioned again.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 12:20:38 GMT -5
I get lost in a Super Target.
It's okay, I got lost in JcPenney last weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 12:20:39 GMT -5
I get hunting animals for meat... I don't get hanging pieces of them on a wall...
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 12:22:22 GMT -5
I don't get hanging pieces of them on a wall...
So you can annoy your wife by telling her the story of how you caught that fish a bazillion times.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 6, 2013 12:23:01 GMT -5
Are you kidding? There are days I am SO envious of POM! What did I miss? I admit to skimming because I was trying to keep my list from being so long but I'm guessing it's about not working or not having kids. And thank you!
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Sept 6, 2013 12:25:18 GMT -5
I get lost in a Super Target.
It's okay, I got lost in JcPenney last weekend. LMAO!! But I bet you could figure your way out with one of those GPS thingies. I'm not sure I could. 1. They are never right (around here roads change weekly!) and 2. I don't know what they are saying half the time. And I can't see it without my readers but I can't drive or walk with my readers on. I'm thankful to have friends and a patient DH.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 12:28:02 GMT -5
POM is the lady who would drive her car into the resturant by following GPS directions like that insurance commerical. It was all good, by getting lost I stumbled upon a pair of snakeskin flats for $5! I bet DH wishes I didn't get lost so much.
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Post by movingforward on Sept 6, 2013 12:29:50 GMT -5
I get lost every single time I have to go to Dallas for work. I hate Dallas to begin with and getting lost there only makes it even more unbearable
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Post by jeffreymo on Sept 6, 2013 12:49:42 GMT -5
When I watch a movie I don't seem to retain the memory of it like most others. I have movies that I love, but if somebody tried to talk about a particular scene or dialogue, I draw a blank or don't seem to have the recall that they do. This isn't a problem across all memories, just seems to be movies and I guess TV shows to a degree.
It makes it kind of awkward if a co-worker happens to see the same movie as me and wants to talk about it. I have a few exceptions but they're my all-time favorite movies that I've watched 10+ times. I've got friends that go to movies and a week later they're rattling off all the funny quotes from it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 12:52:37 GMT -5
I don't get why the "saggin'" pants fad isn't over already. (I think it might have something to do with cultural infantilism)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 13:02:32 GMT -5
I get lost in Salt Lake City, because there a mountains all around and I expect the mountains to be in the west. That's it. (Lived in Denver at one point and that's where they were, so that's where I expect them to always be.)
I also get lost where I live. Since living with DH, he either drives or I have GPS, so I've never really had to learn the streets. Plus I lived in a grid city for too long. I don't like windy roads that are sometimes noth and sometimes east.
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Post by midwestlily on Sept 6, 2013 13:02:45 GMT -5
The raw food fad. Although I think that's being replaced by the gluten-free fad.
Declawing cats. Trust me, it's not that hard to buy a scratching post and teach Kitty to use it.
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Post by movingforward on Sept 6, 2013 13:09:52 GMT -5
The raw food fad. Although I think that's being replaced by the gluten-free fad. Declawing cats. Trust me, it's not that hard to buy a scratching post and teach Kitty to use it. My cat gets his nails trimmed every 5 - 6 weeks. My mom used to say "that cat gets more pedicures than I do"
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Post by kittensaver on Sept 6, 2013 13:11:10 GMT -5
I don't get war. I don't understand why we glamorize (video games) and patriotized something that is unspeakably horrifying. It damaged my WWII father for life with a case of PTSD and an early death (stress-related heart attack). Why do we kill people who have killed people to show the world that killing people is wrong?
I feel the same way about capital punishment, but that's another whole thread . . .
I don't get NASCAR. I'm NOT being snarky, I REALLY don't "get it."
BUT - I totally "get" weddings. I love them. I planned my own (both moms were busy career women but gave us money) and both of my nieces, and loved every single minute of it. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I think I missed my calling in life as a party planner . So I have to settle for making wedding cakes as presents for family and friends.
I don't get people who don't like animals, either.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 13:19:05 GMT -5
I don't get NASCAR either.
Maybe I should list what I do get...
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Post by shanendoah on Sept 6, 2013 13:23:58 GMT -5
I must admit, I assume that if you don't like animals you have some sort of mental disorder, that's how much I really don't get it. I don't care if you're a cat/dog/horse/bunny/spider/snake/lizard person. As long as you like some animal, I can relate.
I also don't get suicidal thoughts and self harm. I am torn between being glad I don't get them/have never experienced them and wishing sometimes that I understood C's past a bit better. (To the best of my knowledge, he has not had suicidal or self harm thoughts since we started dating seriously. But I know that the appeal of one of his former GFs was that she had those same issues, and "got" him in a way I never will.)
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 6, 2013 13:28:56 GMT -5
Interesting. A lot of what we all don't "get" is the same. I wonder if that's why we've all gravitated towards each other? I agree with the majority of what has been mentioned already. DH planned our entire wedding himself. I figured out what I was going to wear, picked up my flowers, and showed up. He did the rest. Probably would have never happened without him! However, sports I DO get. I don't memorize stats nor do I do fantasy leagues, but I watch sports and enjoy them live when we're able to go. My weekends / free time pretty much revolve around whatever sports season it is. DH is a mall shopper and movie goer so it causes us some problems at times, but we seem to manage. I do ok finding my way around and I can read maps, but I do have to really remember where I park as I've come trotting out of the grocery store many times looking like I'm on a mission but really I'm frantically searching for my truck. I've learned to park in the same areas everywhere I go and if I'm someplace new I purposely note where I've parked. Of course, I also take over this role when DH drives because inevitably as soon as we head towards a parking lot he says, "Do you remember where we parked?"
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 6, 2013 13:29:57 GMT -5
Declawing cats. Trust me, it's not that hard to buy a scratching post and teach Kitty to use it.
Only problem is when you have a kitty that claws because you leave him. Since I had to work to support his catfud habit and was not about to replace the apartment carpeting along with the chair and sofa that he already ruined (despite the 3 scratching posts that he had.....and used while I was there), it was better than needing to rehome him.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 6, 2013 13:30:48 GMT -5
Maybe I should list what I do get... Oh, yeah, same here. Listing what I DO "get" and what doesn't annoy me would be the shortest list ever written...
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Sept 6, 2013 13:34:00 GMT -5
I also don't get suicidal thoughts and self harm. I am torn between being glad I don't get them/have never experienced them and wishing sometimes that I understood C's past a bit better. (To the best of my knowledge, he has not had suicidal or self harm thoughts since we started dating seriously. But I know that the appeal of one of his former GFs was that she had those same issues, and "got" him in a way I never will.)
I didn't either, until I got sick last year. Getting my first hip removed was so freaking painful (despite massive narcotics) that I did NOT want to go through it a second time if my hip was infected. And I wanted not enough to do something about it. I didn't, obviously, when my second hip did come up infected (even though I had plenty of drugs to do the job), but the pain was so bad that it clicked in my brain as to why other people did.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 6, 2013 13:47:52 GMT -5
I also don't get suicidal thoughts and self harm. I am torn between being glad I don't get them/have never experienced them and wishing sometimes that I understood C's past a bit better. (To the best of my knowledge, he has not had suicidal or self harm thoughts since we started dating seriously. But I know that the appeal of one of his former GFs was that she had those same issues, and "got" him in a way I never will.)I didn't either, until I got sick last year. Getting my first hip removed was so freaking painful (despite massive narcotics) that I did NOT want to go through it a second time if my hip was infected. And I wanted not enough to do something about it. I didn't, obviously, when my second hip did come up infected (even though I had plenty of drugs to do the job), but the pain was so bad that it clicked in my brain as to why other people did. I'm sorry for all you've gone through with your hip and I hope it all heals soon! Suicidal thoughts for people in intense, chronic pain and/or debilitating health problems is understandable to me. It's very sad, but I can see how you (general "you") would not want to continue dealing with it if there was no hope for healing.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 6, 2013 13:52:46 GMT -5
but I do have to really remember where I park as I've come trotting out of the grocery store many times looking like I'm on a mission but really I'm frantically searching for my truck
Me too. I drive DH crazy because I park in no man's land. It's so I can find my car again. Nobody else parks that far out so I can see my car as I exit.
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Post by movingforward on Sept 6, 2013 13:53:30 GMT -5
I love professional basketball. I was very close to spending $600 for a playoff ticket when the Spurs and the Heat were playing in San Antonio. I GET basketball. It is fast paced, I understand the calls and like a lot of the players. My life doesn't revolve around it when the NBA starts but I enjoy watching some games, rooting for my team, etc. What I DON'T get are crazy fans that take things to the extreme (e.g. starting fights, letting a team loss ruin their entire week, etc.). That I don't understand...
Like others though, I seriously don't get Nascar. Watching cars drive around in a circle - nope, not appealing to me. But to each their own.
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Post by swamp on Sept 6, 2013 13:54:47 GMT -5
I don't get NASCAR either. Maybe I should list what I do get... As far as I can tell, it's drive fast, turn left.
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