What don't you "get"?

[Tubbs]

If anyone wonders why I have a Myspace, it's only so I can put my music on a website, preferably one that many people go on. Like I've said many times before, I hate Myspace and I'll put the songs on my own website when I make one.

 

[Matt]

Myspace is place where people write blogs about what they did at the weekend, does it get anymore exciting. Who gives a fuck about your insignificant, phoney, socially conditioned existence, you’re not unique; you’re a self-absorbed stack of pig shit.

I'm gonna remember that.

 

[Jax]

1) People who are assholes online simply because they can be. They're either completely pathetic, or..well yeah, they're just completely pathetic.

2) People who purposely make themselves look stupid to be fashionable. "Teh" and "pwn" and such..I just can't fathom looking like an idiot deliberately just to appear cool. I guess maybe looking stupid doesn't bother those who are stupid to begin with..I don't know. As the thread title says, I don't get it.

3) People who expect to have information spoon fed to them rather than making even the slightest effort to find it themselves. I get this a lot with the fan club; I give people the info they need & they can't even be bothered to read what they're sent, much less look for the info they need..they'd rather e-mail me & expect me to hold their hand.

I could go on and on, but I'll leave it at that.

 

[wchuck]

I don't get people who don't like classic rock.

CLASSIC ROCK??? CLASSIC ROCK??
















CLASSIC ROCK???




what about HIP HOP, RAP, RNB, TECHNO ... etc

 

[Alexander*_Reborn]

how classic we talking?

if its the beatles,,, no thx....

zep or deep purple on the otherhand, pwn.

Christ is it like a hanging offence to say you don't care for the Beatles or the Stones for that matter? You tell people you’re into rock/metal and stuff and they'll always say 'well it all came from the Beatles you know'. When you say that you’re not really into the Beatles/Stones they'll look at you like you just burst into their house on Christmas day and pissed on the turkey.

It just sounds so earth shatteringly ordinary to me (read pop music) and everybody else thinks it's come from the celestial mind of god. Now Zep on the other hand, fucking legends and no mistake govnor.

 

[Matt]

2) People who purposely make themselves look stupid to be fashionable. "Teh" and "pwn" and such..I just can't fathom looking like an idiot deliberately just to appear cool. I guess maybe looking stupid doesn't bother those who are stupid to begin with..I don't know. As the thread title says, I don't get it.

totally agree with you on all counts.

 

[Setsu]

I don't get why some people always feel the need to go at least 5 over the speed limit. I could be doing just fine, going the limit and such, then some asshole comes up behind you and rides your ass till they turn off. I"m sorry, but I slow down just to piss those bastards off. GET A HINT

The only time you're supposed to break the speed limit is to keep with the flow of traffic. I was the damn flow of traffic in many a situation yet people seem to still feel the need to go 10-20 over.

I could see if it was an emergency or something, but it really never seems to be one. It's always some jackass who feels the need to prove his masculanity. Your car going faster does NOT make you a better person FYI.

Us Americans are always in such a rush... It's sad really.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

There is a universal traffic law that applies to all vehicles, from motorcycles to cars, to pedal bikes, and that's slower traffic keep right. I don't have a problem with people doing the limit, but if you're doing it in the passing lane, and you're NOT passing, then you are just another obstructionist asshole on the road. And if you're talking on the phone while doing the above, you are my enemy, and I will put your ass in a ditch. If you're being passed on the right, TAKE A HINT, and move over...

J-Dubya

 

[Taliwakker]

There is a universal traffic law that applies to all vehicles, from motorcycles to cars, to pedal bikes, and that's slower traffic keep right.

Unless of course you live in one of the many countries of the world where cars actually drive on the left hand side of the road

 

[Beelzebub]

I don't get how people drive on the left side of the road.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Unless of course you live in one of the many countries of the world where cars actually drive on the left hand side of the road

Tie me kangaroo down, sport, Tie me kangaroo down!
Universal applies to everywhere but Oz!
J/K, I SOOOOO want to visit Oz.....

J-Dubya

 

[Taliwakker]

and our steering wheels are on the right hand side of the car....i tried driving in the US 10 years ago and i think i gave a few motorists a scare

 

[J-Dubya 777]

and our steering wheels are on the right hand side of the car....i tried driving in the US 10 years ago and i think i gave a few motorists a scare

I'm sure the same thing would happen if I were to drive around Australia or Europe for that matter.....I wonder how long it would take me to get "used" to it?

J-Dubya

 

[HackerX]

I don't get why americans put the month before the day in dates, i.e

mm/dd/yy instead of dd/mm/yy

 

[rakeman]

Good point, HackerX. Also, the Metric system owns Imperial, and everyone knows it.

I don't get how a $5 t-shirt can become a $25 t-shirt just by adding a brand name. Also, how destroyed jeans that will wear out sooner, cost more than normal jeans! Or how anyone pays hundreds of dollars for sunshades (Oakley's etcl). Or how people spend more money on their car rims than I spent on my car!

I don't get how anyone with any mental awareness at all can listen to Country music. Seriously. Maybe classic southern rock, that's different. But I don't listen to that either.

The Paris Hilton one was good. She's famous because she's rich?! What the hell? I thought it happened the other way!

 

[Yngvai X]

I'm sure the same thing would happen if I were to drive around Australia or Europe for that matter.....I wonder how long it would take me to get "used" to it?

J-Dubya

Europe wouldn't be a problem; the only European country that drives on the left is the UK. However, Euros drive stick, so that could cause a problem if you're used to automatics.

 

[theVikingR]

Europe wouldn't be a problem; the only European country that drives on the left is the UK. However, Euros drive stick, so that could cause a problem if you're used to automatics.

Allegedly the reason we drive on the left is that in days of yore, highwaymen would stand in the middle of the road and since most people are right handed, riding your horse on the left meant having your dextrous arm in line with the centre of the road and thus a cleaner shot with your pistol or stronger blow with your sword.

 

[Beelzebub]

In parts of Dublin they painted "LOOK RIGHT" on the roads in front of sidewalks, for the idiot tourists I assume. Do they have that where you are, too?

 

[theVikingR]

They do in central London, but that's attributable in part to labyrinthine one way systems which are as confusing to locals as they are to tourists.

 

[Alexander*_Reborn]

They do in central London, but that's attributable in part to labyrinthine one way systems which are as confusing to locals as they are to tourists.

I don't find it confusing but then again I am the only English person in London. In fact driving on the left is the only thing unique about England now. Thanks to globalisation an entire cultural institute or innovation and common sense has been replaced by Starbucks and Blockbuster Video.

Most Americans who come to London expect to find us all wearing bowler hats having tea parties on the ceiling in old Westminster saying things like 'jolly good old chap' or perhaps proletariat cockneys up chimneys covered in smog, 'step in time Mary Bloomin Poppins'. The only culture the English have left is football hooliganism and singing the old 'one world cup,two world wars' song to any Germans passing by.