<p>well I did agree with a post about Bollywood… ;)</p>
<p>but then I responded to another post about god and creating life- sorry!</p>
<p>lastbastion, this is a thinking encouraged zone. </p>
<p>There was a time when I didn’t get why parents are so lame when you are 17 but seem to smarten up later on. </p>
<p>About that same time I didn’t get how someone could be smarter than me and disagree with me, or how two people smarter than me could disagree with each other. Then I didn’t get how someone not as smart as me could disagree with me and end up right. Now I try to listen to everyone, someone said a wise man can learn from fools.</p>
<p>I don’t get cable…$500 and up to watch “I dream of Jeannie” re-runs. Buy the dvd’s</p>
<p>I don’t get people who think they are proud to live in a democracy but don’t like opinions.</p>
<p>I don’t get why you can drive from Sacramento to Ohio without a toll and then hit a toll on every road after that…</p>
<p>Ties…millions of smart men starting the day by tieing slip knots around their neck because some dead queen didn’t like seeing men’s buttons. I really don’t get that.</p>
<p>I don’t get snowmobiling or motor bike riding to enjoy nature.</p>
<p>There is a whole lot more I don’t get, and I don’t get why that is.</p>
<p>I don’t get why I as a taxpayer support President Bush’s townhall meetings; but I can’t attend them unless I get a ticket from the local Republican party. And then I’d have to sign a loyalty oath. I didn’t notice having to sign a loyalty oath to pay my taxes this year !</p>
<p>I don’t get why I get invited to the local republician barbeque- I can count on one hand the times that I have voted for a republician and I sure don’t know how I got on their mailing list!</p>
<p>Oh, I get those two just above me, I get it all to well - ah democracy in action…</p>
<p>I don’t get hardcover books- why not just put everything out in paperback the first time- I would by more books and by them sooner</p>
<p>I don’t get cumberbuns (sp?) no man looks good in them</p>
<p>I don’t get most modern art - like warped plank against wall</p>
<p>I don’t get viagra commercials- suddenly marriages are saved, and 80 year old men can do it again</p>
<p>I don’t get rats as pets</p>
<p>Ditto to modern art, Viagra commercials (or Viagra in general), and rats as pets.</p>
<p>A really fit man looks great in a cumberbun, and some really unfit ones really need Viagra!</p>
<p>hahahahaha</p>
<p>::::racking my brain to try and think what cumberbun was:::: I was thinking it was something to put on your hair!</p>
<p>A Cummerbund!</p>
<p>The waist sash called cummerbund (or cumberbund) was borrowed after World War I, from military dress in British India.</p>
<p>No… men don’t really have waists usually, so it doesn’t really fit</p>
<p>I don’t get old men that catcall and whistle out of their cars when I’m out running. Maybe they just got a fresh batch of Viagra? Same with construction workers. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>Amen! I don’t get why Americans are so darned preachy. I’d love to see a Righteous Free Parent Cafe. </p>
<p>I don’t get the Myth of Meritocracy. I was born into it and so were my kids. Lucky us, not brilliant us.</p>
<p>I don’t get the drive for perfect kids. I have friends who moved out of Korea because in Korea, parents don’t have dinner with their children. Ever. The children are too busy meeting socially mandated perfection standards. </p>
<p>I don’t get paperback books (sorry!). Why spend five cents on something that reeks of chemicals and yellows to oblivion in a few years? Why not buy invest in something that can be recycled to libraries?</p>
<p>I buy both paperbacks and hardbacks sometimes even of the same book
You just can’t read hardbacks in bed!</p>
<p>Bohemian- When that has happened to me (not lately, I’m afraid) I just assume it’s because I’m moving so fast I’m a blur. And regarding the harddbacks, I always feel guilty when I drop them in the tub.</p>
<p>I don’t get why colleges expect you to have stuff to them by X date if that date is a holiday or a Sunday.</p>
<p>Ek: Didn’t your mother teach you how to read a hardback in bed? </p>
<p>1morebutterfingers: Never dropped a whole book into the bath–but I have doused a few. Those cannot go to libraries, obviously, but they can go to elderly aunties who appreciate the larger type. </p>
<p>Anyway, I now live in a land of library devotees. Paperbacks cost $35 and bookstores don’t stock many hardbacks. Borders recently opened and I must admit, it is a slice of Americana heaven for a hardback lover.</p>
<p>well I am as blind as a bat and I like to read on my side, but then my glasses get bent, so I have to hold the book about an inch away from the end of my nose!
Something that I thought I wouldn’t like but I do. Ebooks for your PDA.
So cool for a change of pace.
When we camp I can read in the tent without a flashlight and I only need one hand to hold the book & turn the page!</p>
<p>Just had dinner with a bunch of my young nieces. I don’t get why their parents let them load up their plates with tons of food, and then ask, “How much do I have to eat?” And then the moms portion off a tiny corner and say, “You have to eat this much if you want dessert.”</p>
<p>How 'bout saying, “Take only as much as you are going to eat?” Still gives the girls “control” but saves a lot of money! (And leaves more for me.) ;)</p>
<p>I don’t get why “common sense” is called common when it isn’t.</p>
<p>Why text books cost more than a good pair of shoes- $150 for a BOOK!!! Yikes</p>
<p>I give away alot of my books, you know mysteries, the fun ones, so I never buy them in hard back, I like to share ;)</p>
<p>And why you can’t get a digital camera for $200 that can do most of the stuff yo not, not just half</p>
<p>Shortly after we were married, TheMom read one of my autographed first editions in the bath tub. I didn’t find out until a couple of weeks later. I could have fainted. She came to accept that I’m a little weird about books.</p>
<p>I don’t get watching golf on tv…pointless…you see the ball on the tee, and then you see it bouncing on the fairway. Of course…I don’t get the point of golf period. Why would you try to hit a tiny ball with a stick to a hole that is so far away you can’t even see it?</p>