<p>Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>I don’t get the attraction. I don’t get the celebrity. I don’t get the devotion of media bandwidth. I don’t even get gossiping about her…I can think of far more interesting people of which to have bootlegged sex videos talked about.</p>
<p>Anyone else with things They Don’t Get?</p>
<p>Why I still like Pokemon…but I don’t care what anyone says :)</p>
<p>Olives- blech</p>
<p>Race Car Driving- watching on tv</p>
<p>beanie babies - completely useless</p>
<p>I also don’t get why when I tell people I have a 1600, people call me smart, and when I tell people I’m a creationist, people call me stupid…</p>
<p>What happens when I say the two things at once?</p>
<p>I don’t get fascination with celebrities in general. They’re just people. I can see being interested in reading someone’s biography, or having a conversation about them, but I don’t get it when people pay money for, say, a piece of a sheet that Brad Pitt slept on, or whatever. I just feel like I have better things to do with my money, not to mention my time.</p>
<p>I’m a “to each his own” kind of person, but I utterly don’t get reality TV in general and why people are so willing, even eager, to display the most private aspects of their lives for the amusement of strangers in particular.</p>
<p>On Paris Hilton - I’ve often wondered what kind of education she received. I’ve thought googling for it, but I’m afraid of what might come up if I do. Anyone know?</p>
<p>I don’t get kicking a meaningless field goal with 30 seconds left in a game just to blow the point spread!</p>
<p>I don’t get football.</p>
<p>I don’t get why a DJ would play Fifty Cent’s “Candyshop” at an afternoon Bar Mitzvah reception in a white suburb.</p>
<p>Further, the “Candyshop” song is on the DJ’s promotional CD that my son was given that day. They bleeped out the word “nympho” but left in all of the sexually loaded lyrics. (?!) It is such a dirty song that both of my kids shush me if I even hum it.</p>
<p>I don’t get Paris Hilton
" " American Idol
" " reality tv
" " the popularity of authors like John Irving and Dan Brown
" " the propensity of people to wear low riding pants, who * really* shouldn’t be
" " buying bigger : house, car, pants than you need
" " Rula Lenska</p>
<p>ek4–who’s Rula Lenska?</p>
<p>I don’t get why the extreme right can be against abortion but for capital punishment.</p>
<p>Also why we let the media (especially TV) pass off celebrity gossip as hard news…</p>
<ol>
<li> Anything to do with celebs</li>
<li> Reality TV</li>
<li> Local News - too much like Entertainment Tonight (I want news not the same crap they report on ET) & I don’t care about the reporter’s or newscaster’s opinions nor do I care about their lives in general, just give me the NEWS!</li>
<li> Most of the television shows (Desperate Housewives, etc. - sorry:))</li>
<li> I love music, but am so tired of all the swearing & sexual content</li>
</ol>
<p>OOPS, almost forgot - salaries of celebs & sports people</p>
<p>-celebrities (i like movies, but don’t know the names of the actors and don’t care to…and I don’t care who they marry or what they do in their “real” life)</p>
<p>-American Idol (I’m with EK - a singing contest? Wow, that’s a new concept (sarcastically)</p>
<p>-running (I wish I could learn to love running - but it’s pure torture - why do people love it so???)</p>
<p>-Yoga (does standing on one leg really relax you?)</p>
<p>-having really expensive homes, cars, etc…(when you’re on your deathbed, will you think “wow, what a great, big house I had!” LOL)</p>
<p>-Sacrificing life’s experiences just to save money with no purpose in mind (not for college, retirement, etc - just saving to increase your net worth - ugh!).</p>
<p>-War</p>
<p>“It is such a dirty song that both of my kids shush me if I even hum it.”</p>
<p>And why were you humming it? ;)</p>
<p>It’s a filthy song!</p>
<p>
DD used to collect them years ago. We were in Florida one year and happened to find a Bronty the Brontosaurus beanie baby. I had never seen one, so I bought two … one for DD and one for her best friend who accompanies us on most family vacations. When we got home, a friend who was just nuts for beanie babies couldn’t believe I had found a “Bronty”. She told me they were very valuable. We checked online, and I’m thrilled to report DD and best friend decided they would rather have $350 each than a beanie baby. I was shocked that someone would pay that price!</p>
<p>Well, to switch it to my son. I REALLY don’t get how he can remember every golf shot on every hole of every round he’s ever played even from 3 years ago but can’t remember that he has a science test tomorrow and should bring home a book to study!</p>
<p>ek4–who’s Rula Lenska?</p>
<p>My thought exactly</p>
<p>Alberto vo5 hairspray had a series of commercials with a Polish actress who would announce that she was “Rula Lenska” for Vo5- don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
And everyone in the US would go " Who?"</p>
<p>*Wrestling (talked about fixed “sports”)
*Football (too many men at my office who played and are now basically crippled with bad backs and bad knees and who now send their sons off to have the same experience - ugh)
*Reality Shows (reminds me too much of ancient Roman entertainment - watching Christians being eaten by lions)</p>
<p>EK, except for Rula (now I get it) your list could’ve been mine.</p>
<p>Dan Brown esp. Da Vinci Code has to be the worst written book I’ve ever read–silly plot, cardboard characterization (or lack of) and egregiously embarrassing “research”…every time I look at the NYT Best seller list, I think, Hunh?</p>