The official "I don't get it" thread

epiphany
Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:42:26 +0000

Gigantic piercings and oversized male earrings (both ears) on anyone who is not from an indigenous group of people. (And don’t get why the opposite sex of those so adorned would find that sexy, unless they are from an indigenous group.)

To go along with that, chopsticks and pencils driven through such piercings on men. (Eewwww.)

(Not even closely related):
Oprah.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m thrilled that she’s successful and rich. She deserves her success, and she’s done some good with it, as well. I don’t get adulation and surrender of one’s own ability to make choices, by the females who worship her. I don’t get believing that someone else’s common sense and ability to become informed about everyday events is superior to one’s own. It’s as if she’s privy to some rarefied repository of knowledge not available to the non-famous.

For that matter, I don’t get TV talk shows, period. Never have. (Never got Phil Donahue either.)