Things You Don't Understand Thread

[teewee1432]

What are the things that make no sense to you. Things that have you facepalming or shaking your head in amazement. I can start off.. one thing that I just don't understand is when did it become cool to not carry an umbrella during a rainstorm? Today its raining in my area and I'm one of a few people that brought an umbrella with me. I was looking to myself like isn't it suppose to rain today. I see all these young people on a regular basis walking in the pouring down rain without an umbrella like its nothing. When did getting completely soaked become cool. I must be getting old I don't understand it.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

This thread.

.......


Joking.


Kinda.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

What are the things that make no sense to you. Things that have you facepalming or shaking your head in amazement. I can start off.. one thing that I just don't understand is when did it become cool to not carry an umbrella during a rainstorm? Today its raining in my area and I'm one of a few people that brought an umbrella with me. I was looking to myself like isn't it suppose to rain today. I see all these young people on a regular basis walking in the pouring down rain without an umbrella like its nothing. When did getting completely soaked become cool. I must be getting old I don't understand it.

I don't know what it is like in Philidelphia, isn't there some tv show that says it's always sunny there? Anyway, crappy jokes aside, umbrellas can be a real pain in the arse, the amount of broken discarded umbrellas I have encountered in my travels are countless.
Even apart from them malfunctioning, they can be obtrusive to other people, they make you take up too much room in a crowded street, the ones with those jagged points could poke someone's eye out...i think people prefer to wear raincoats with waterproof hoods, or hats that they can hang on a radiator afterwards.
But, they can be quite good as well, I like those ones that pop out at the press of a button. I personally would only use one indoors for that reason.
you can pretend it is one of the Penguin's gimmick umbrellas, and the pop out feature is to hit someone in the face with it.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

Justin Bieber.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

edit: y-fronts observations not funny enough.

edit: Also, ties...I guess they are just there for decoration, to cover up your buttons and make it look like your shirt is hanging on by magical means, they are kind of alright in a decorative sense, but then, why do people who wear ties laugh at people who wear head bandanas into McDonalds? They are both the same type of non-practical decorative dress.
i have actually seen this, large groups of tie wearers chasing bands of bandana boys down the street laughing at them?! what is going on?!

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Why learning to drive has to be so difficult here.

Buy CD to do theory test 25
Apply for theory 40

I went to the motor tax office in my city, but I'm told I have to go to the other side of the city to the other tax office, even tough I live further away from it.

Paid 15 for my learning permit.

Now a new law has come in where you have to complete 12 lessons.

I called a driving instructor who never got back to me.

Called another instructor.

So, that's 300 for 12 lessons, meaning I have to wait 3 weeks to save for it.

 

[Duke]

Why learning to drive has to be so difficult here.

Buy CD to do theory test 25
Apply for theory 40

I went to the motor tax office in my city, but I'm told I have to go to the other side of the city to the other tax office, even tough I live further away from it.

Paid 15 for my learning permit.

Now a new law has come in where you have to complete 12 lessons.

I called a driving instructor who never got back to me.

Called another instructor.

So, that's 300 for 12 lessons, meaning I have to wait 3 weeks to save for it.

WOW. I never taught it be so difficult to get a driver's license in another country.

 

[Hotwire]

Fashions like...
Wearing a hat at a bizarre angle.
Wearing your pants below your underwear.
Neon clothes that make the 80's say, "DAMN!"
Wearing pajama pants in public.
There's more but, we'll keep the list short for now.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Fashions like...
Wearing a hat at a bizarre angle.
Wearing your pants below your underwear.
Neon clothes that make the 80's say, "DAMN!"
Wearing pajama pants in public.
There's more but, we'll keep the list short for now.

Make's me cringe.

 

[C. Lee]

Fanboys who can't just like their character....but have to actively insult and attack the fans of other characters.

 

[PyroChamber]

People who go on a dating site to look for friends.

 

[Hawkingbird]

Justin Bieber.

Agreed. Also One Direction. And Essex girls.

 

[Anubis]

People who go on a dating site to look for friends.

Ha!

 

[Victarion]

I don't understand why a 13 year old kid would coerce a manchild into breaking a medallion into fours and sticking the pieces up his rectum. I don't understand tomgirls. I don't understand people who get up in arms over Encyclopedia Dramatica.

 

[bullets]

I don't understand how sometimes a movie can have a great poster , but the dvd cover art is lame.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I don't understand how sometimes a movie can have a great poster , but the dvd cover art is lame.

The Star Wars dvds are a good example of that, the painted posters are classics( the prequels got great painted posters too), but they use new photo shopped images for the dvds. They did use the painted artwork for the vhs boxes in the 80s and early 90s though.
I guess they just want actual photographs on the dvd covers for whatever reason. They use the painted posters for the artwork on the actual dvd disc, so you don't get the whole piece of art, which is annoying.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Anything in math after multiplication.

 

[Tanin]

I don't understand all the fans who don't seem to understand that movies as a whole are about making money and not art. So if they think it will sell it will be done. (remakes and sequels and such)

I also don't understand politics at all.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I don't understand all the fans who don't seem to understand that movies as a whole are about making money and not art. So if they think it will sell it will be done. (remakes and sequels and such)

Yes, on the whole, movies are expected to make a profit, but they are also about the art, the art of making a good movie, a good product, so you can make more profit.
But, there are also movies made that are *not* expected to make a profit, that explore themes that will not catch on with the public in a big way at all, but are deemed important as works of art to be made, so they can be seen by people.
Some of these films are subsidised by government sponsored arts councils, and are given grants.

The David Cronenberg film 'Spider' was one such film, subsidised by arts council grants, and acted in by major actors who worked for basic scale wage, as they knew it would not make money, but felt it was important to make a film dealing with such subject matter.

I also don't understand politics at all.

Why not? Politics is just about people, this forum is swarming with politics, cliques, power battles for territory, people challenging the rules...all that changes are the names of the participants and parties, it is all about power, the rules that went before, as opposed to the rules they want implimented, and people trying to get the message out in tersm of what they believe is happening, and what should be done about it, as opposed to the picture their opponents try desperately to paint, so they can weild power.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Justin Bieber.

Ah, he's just the latest fad for tween girls. Just as harmless as the Jonas Bros., Boy Bands of the '90s, New Kids on the Block, etc...

Fashions like...
Wearing a hat at a bizarre angle.
Wearing your pants below your underwear.
Neon clothes that make the 80's say, "DAMN!"
Wearing pajama pants in public.
There's more but, we'll keep the list short for now.

If it counts for taking the dog out in the morning, I'm guilty of this. I'm not changing at 5am just to take the dog for a walk.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I don't understand all the fans who don't seem to understand that movies as a whole are about making money and not art. So if they think it will sell it will be done. (remakes and sequels and such)

I also don't understand politics at all.

I wouldn't necessarily say that. Movies like Clerks, Evil Dead, El Mariachi etc weren't made with the idea of ''let's make these movies just to make money''.
These directors just wanted to get their films seen.

Money is involved in a big bad way, but art is involved too. Without art, you can't make money, without money, you can make art; it's a ying-yang thing.

For the studio it's all about money, but for a lot of writers, directors, actors, production designers, DOP's, set dressers, prop buyers, costume designers etc it's much more.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I wouldn't necessarily say that. Movies like Clerks, Evil Dead, El Mariachi etc weren't made with the idea of ''let's make these movies just to make money''.
These directors just wanted to get their films seen.

Money is involved in a big bad way, but art is involved too. Without art, you can't make money, without money, you can make art; it's a ying-yang thing.

For the studio it's all about money, but for a lot of writers, directors, actors, production designers, DOP's, set dressers, prop buyers, costume designers etc it's much more.

Yes, this is true, but let's not forget that these film-makers you cited, they did not want to remain in the indie doldrums, they wanted to go on to make big expensive movies, and make a lot of money.

Raimi's first expensive studio movie, after the indie hit Evil Dead, was an outright flop, so he went onto make Evil Dead II, to try and ensure he would have a profitable career with the studios and producers backing him. Before he made that studio flop, he was not sure if he wanted to do an EDII. So, partially, it was a creative choice made in order to have a lucrative career in terms of making money.
You have to want to make money in order to keep making your art as your living, and you want to be as profitable as possible(without sacrificing your artistic integrity, although some wouldn't give a damn about that), they would have had that in mind *even* when making their first indie films.

 

[gohei_]

edit: Also, ties...I guess they are just there for decoration, to cover up your buttons and make it look like your shirt is hanging on by magical means, they are kind of alright in a decorative sense, but then, why do people who wear ties laugh at people who wear head bandanas into McDonalds? They are both the same type of non-practical decorative dress.
i have actually seen this, large groups of tie wearers chasing bands of bandana boys down the street laughing at them?! what is going on?!

This is the most crazy thing I've read all week

 

[Kane52630]

I don't understand Thebumwhowalks.

 

[ThDWgeek]

The fame of the Kardashians, or why they got SIX series of that show.
The Only Way Is Essex.
Any rip-off of the above show.
Most maths and/or physics.