<p>^Out-of-state. :)</p>
<p>If I remember right, CA on its own would be in the top 10 richest countries in the world.</p>
<p>I don’t get…</p>
<p>Lazy Dental Care: people who don’t floss daily (teeth are three-dimensional!)</p>
<p>Celebrating Halloween All Year Long: failing to get moles removed (why do you think that mole on your nose or chin looks ok???)</p>
<p>Poor Candy Choices: eating Twizzlers instead of Red Vines (Twizzlers have no flavor at all)</p>
<p>Parents’ Magical Thinking: incorrectly assuming that other people want to hang out with your kids, when they have gotten a sitter for their own</p>
<p>Serial Nuisance Snackers: In a theater, other patrons do not want to hear your popcorn and candy bags crinkle throughout the movie (pour your treats into your hand!!!)</p>
<p>Liberals who protested loudly about the war under Bush, yet are relatively quiet now that Obama is in charge.</p>
<p>Rude Neighbors (anyone anywhere who isn’t doing everything reasonable to take care of the environment)</p>
<p>Consuming Alcohol To The Point of Slurring (it makes people boring and sound dumb)</p>
<p>Tattoos </p>
<p>Piercings</p>
<p>Mullets</p>
<p>Handlebar Mustaches</p>
<p>Raw Fish As Food (it is OK as bait, though)</p>
<p>Starbucks </p>
<p>Conspicuous tattoos</p>
<p>crticizing another person’s choice of vacation</p>
<p>Dodge Hemi</p>
<p>ETA: New Jersey’s property tax philosophy</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Pantyhose</p></li>
<li><p>Piercing babies’ ears and putting earrings on them (especially since the earrings and backs are something they could choke on)</p></li>
<li><p>Why any 20-something woman (or any woman, for that matter) would be willing to “date” Jon Gosselin;</p></li>
<li><p>How it can be called “dating” if one of the parties is still married</p></li>
<li><p>Why some young black men think it’s OK if they call other young black men the n-word</p></li>
<li><p>Why some young people consider the term “whore” or “ho” a term of endearment</p></li>
<li><p>Why people are willing to go on “The Bachelor” or “Rock of Love” or any of those types of shows</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Wow , a lot of good points.
I will also add people that do not thank you for opening a door and holding it open for their family of five to pass thru.</p>
<p>People on vacation having extreme impatience while waiting in a line of any sort.</p>
<p>Wives belittling their husbands in public.</p>
<p>Bubble tea</p>
<p>Using oxycontin or morphine as a recreational drug</p>
<p>spending more that two seconds thinking about celebrity moles
fondue
walmart</p>
<p>I Don’t get:</p>
<p>Kate Hudson
Salma Hayek
Ben Affleck
perms
The 3-point shot in basketball (you should get only 1 point if you can’t get it in any closer than that)</p>
<p>Why soccer players can do all those amazing things with a soccer ball, yet when the game starts, they play for 90 minutes and they get like a total of 2 goals. Hey soccer dudes: HOW ABOUT LESS PRACTICING HOW MANY TIMES YOU CAN KICK IT IN THE AIR WITHOUT IT TOUCHING THE GROUND AND MORE PRACTICING KICKING IT IN THAT GIGANTIC FRICKIN’ GOAL?</p>
<p>Throwing a pass for an important 2-point conversion in football.</p>
<p>Looking for a “lost” cat or dog. Hey, if they liked you, they wouldn’t have run away.</p>
<p>How about wives belittling their husbands ANYWHERE?</p>
<p>This new show I saw an ad for – called “Dating in the Dark.” People are dating / make out with members of the opposite sex, but in a dark room whereby they can’t see what they’re doing, but we (audience) can. </p>
<p>Believing that gay marriage negatively impacts one’s own marriage.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, I watched that. :o</p>
<p>Soccer
Today’s popular music
Camping
Facial hair
People that live for sci-fi</p>
<p>I agree with Renee Zellweger- why is she such a big deal?</p>
<p>Why do these people ruin their faces with lip injections, etc. If they (who apparently are setting the examples) would grow old gracefully we would know who actually looks pretty good for 50, 60 etc. Take some pressure off us real people, guys!</p>
<p>I also don’t get Matt Damon & Ben - ruined the Bourne & Clancy movies for me.</p>
<p>I don’t get any one who is such a fan as to go stand outside hoping for a glimpse of some one famous nor do I get papparazzi and why enough people care what an actor is doing to cause an entire industry to rise up paying enough for photographers to make a living taking snapshots of little Suri, etc</p>
<p>schmaltz-- you’re funny</p>
<p>don’t get:
Angela Jolie </p>
<p>I do get:
Brad Pitt</p>
<p>Don’t get: Why he’s with Angela</p>
<p>Don’t get: Madonna and her lewdness on TV when she herself will not allow her kids to watch TV. ( must be nice have full time nannies)</p>
<p>Warning: This post contains graphic content.</p>
<p>Why is everyone waxing off their pubic hair now? I don’t care if I’m the only woman left on this continent, I’m not doing it.</p>
<p>ANY film or book involving “wizardry”
(and that’s NOT for religious reasons…I JUST DON’T GET IT)</p>
<p>Some of the things I do not get:</p>
<p>footwear: flip-flops paired with dressy dresses - real touch of class!
cars: PT Cruiser - WTH were they thinking?
underwear: thongs and “tangas” - why would someone intentionally wear a wedgie?
food: liver - why eat the organ that processes all icky stuff like pesticides and antibiotics?
music: rap</p>
<p>Eating cow tongue. When you’re eating it, do you get confused about whether you are eating it or whether it is eating you?</p>
<p>The writings of William Faulkner. I once read some critic saying when Faulkner describes a man and woman interacting, it’s impossible to tell whether they are making love or playing tennis.</p>
<p>Tennis players grunting when the hit the ball. My wife made less noise giving birth.</p>
<p>Helen Hunt, Tyra Banks (I see cashiers at supermarkets hotter than she is), Tony Danza, David Schwimmer, the humor of Jon Stewart.</p>
<p>How they spliced together the genes of Ben Affleck and Will Farrell to create Ryan Reynolds.</p>
<p>At fast-food places that have unlimited refills, people paying more for getting a “large” drink. Maybe you could work off some of those french fries walking to the drink counter to refill a “small” cup?</p>
<p>When the cashier at a fast food place hands you your cup, and grabs the cup by the rim or grasps it using a finger inside the cup. </p>
<p>Why Miami University in Ohio isn’t more prominent. It’s virtually a copy of the U of Virginia, and its academics are top-notch.</p>
<p>As the creator of this thread, I would like to re-name it “The Official David Arquette ‘I Don’t Get It’ Thread,” because of all the things that have transpired in the history of the earth, nothing is more “i don’t get it” than Courtney Cox being beautiful, rich, talented, and intelligent, and looking out at the billions of men in the world, spotting David Arquette, and saying, “Yeah, THAT one. THAT’S the one I want.”</p>
<p>To expand upon the whole “wizardry” theme in movies, how abut that such a high % of movies for younger audiences involve crap like wizardry, people changing bodies (Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30, Big, etc.), magical kingdoms (Enchanted, etc). What’s wrong with just plain reality?</p>
<p>Schmaltz, you get the real “lol” award today. You made me laugh three times irl.</p>
<p>I don’t get a lot of the stuff already listed and:</p>
<p>Women who dress like their daughters</p>
<p>Cross-dressing</p>
<p>The underwear showing thing (why, why, why?)</p>
<p>TV shows like Maury and Jerry Springer</p>
<p>Why we have to live with reruns in the summer…there’s not enough new video products out there now to get fresh shows all year round?</p>
<p>Daylight Savings Time (not an agrarian economy any more)</p>
<p>Horror flicks</p>
<p>Music when you can’t understand the words - rap, metalcore
Why Barack Obama killing a fly is somehow SO important
How MJ was so unpopular the day before his death, but the world’s greatest the day after
Why people hangout at malls
& lastly: WHY MY INTERNET HATES ME SO MUCH. D: </p>
<p>@ Schmaltz: (addressing the tennis bit) I’m a black belt in Taekwondo and the way my instructor explained it is that we’re supposed to kihap in order to release the built up carbon dioxide… Although, I think the main reason was to scare the opponent.</p>
<p>What I don’t get:</p>
<p>T.V. commercials where you can’t figure out what they are advertising.</p>
<p>How waxing your pubic hair can be a trend - I mean, how can you know
what “everyone else” is doing?</p>
<p>Why the news covers things been happening since the beginning of time
as “news”: train wrecks, car wrecks, celebrity affairs… </p>
<p>Why we have a zillion soccer leagues for kids and so few for adults.</p>
<p>Why so many American men refuse to dance.</p>