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I Don't Get It

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by downndirty, May 10, 2017.

  1. jdoogie

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    Yep.
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    I've wanted to get into pigeon racing for years, ever since I designed a subdivision next to a guy that did it. We talked for hours about it. It's a gentleman's sport, and I have a bit of a gambling vice, not really for casino games or sports involving people, but betting on pigeons amongst other racers would be fun. I've mentioned this desire on this forum a while back.

    I don't get the vaping lounges. I've never been in one but I've seen them, you can never see in the filthy windows. Are there really people in there?

    I don't get horseback riders. There are very few hobbies that require the huge amount of work, every day, and and the financial investment required to stable, feed, transport and medically care for a horse. My wife wanted a horse, I said fuck no. She asked what I would do if our son wanted to ride, I said fuck no. They were part of my chores when I was a kid, my Dad taught me to properly care for a horse, it is a ton of work. I've built miles of fence, helped Build two barns, shoveled many many tons of shit. I've baled, lifted, loaded on a trailer and unloaded from a trailer in to a barn thousands of bales of hay. We've grown our own oats to make feed. I've sewn sown thousands of pounds of grass seed. Picked many acres of field clean of rocks. You don't just stick them out in a field and forget about them till you want to ride. Where's the fucking fun in all that.
     
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    I get it. Horseback riding is fun and its relaxing and horses are pretty intelligent and responsive animals. But good god almighty is it expensive. You have a barn and such on your property to keep horses? Thats one thing. But I knew multiple people growing up who had horses and kept them elsewhere, my god. Basically sending a child to boarding school, but also renting them an apartment while they are there. I had an internship in college and the IT head of the investment firm I worked at owned 3 horses between his wife and daughter. Over drinks, when buzzed, he basically admitted he lived in a significantly lesser house and could have been driving a really nice car if not for the crazy annual expenditures his family laid out on equine things.

    FOCUS: Tiny houses. FUCK THAT. I get that not everyone has to have a mcmansion. But 150 sq feet with a compost toilet that also serves as a reading nook? Its just absurd to me. A girl I went to college with build a mini house on wheels that was tiny, and then they got pregnant so they were expanding it slightly. THAT SOUNDS LIKE HELL ON EARTH. It also seems like self important "look at me and my minimalism!" bullshit.
     
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    I'm with you on the horses thing. If you live on a ranch and horses are part of you life then whatever, not my thing but I can see it. If you're a suburbanite and you're renting space in a stable and essentially paying someone else to take care of the thing, then yea, I think that becomes more a status symbol
     
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    Yea, sounds like you agree with me.

    Focus: Big loud shouty cars. I don't like showy cars, I like sleepers, modest cars that go quick. My dream car is a de-badged M5, its quick, its quiet etc. I'm not into loud cars with blower pipes and all sorts of body kits.

    For me, its like do I want the drunk hot chick at the bar who everyone looks at? Or do I want the classy girl, sitting in the corner sipping her drink.
     
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    Focus: Who is reading Rex Morgan, MD in the newspaper?

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    It would take a year to read through a five minute story.

    And, yet Bill Waterson and Gary Larson retired . . .
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    C&H, FarSide, Herman. The only newspaper-based comics that were funny.

    How in the fuck can people regard Doonsbury, Cathy or Sylvia as "brilliant"? Is obnoxiousness what counts as brilliance in comic strips?
     
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    Or Family Circus.

    I think there has to be a case for "it was popular because there was nothing else around".
     
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    Also: Herpatology. Ive always wanted to go to the convention when it's in town just to people watch. Has to be a weirder crowd than gun shows.
     
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    Yes, and I'm most likely going to be going to the area where he grew up so I am crossing my fingers SO HARD for some casually told Mike Tyson pigeon stories, hopefully referring to him as something like Mikey. (I have high expectations.)
     
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    The midget I used to work with had cut-outs of Cathy and Maxine comic strips all over her cubicle. The midget part isnt really that important I suppose.
     
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    I don't know about brilliance, but I used to think Doonesbury had some funny bits, like Zonker, until Garry Trudeau got so full of himself. (Maybe when Jane Pauley finally started annoying him, too?) And, though Cathy or Family Circus aren't funny to me, I can see people relating "I am also a regular single woman frustrated that I can't find love!" or "Oh, that Billy is just like my Timmy; distracted on the way back from the swingset - again!"

    So, I mean, I get the appeal of those, where one panel has the joke (or attempted joke). It's the serial strips like Rex Morgan that dumbfound me. It would be like recording a soap opera on your DVR, pulling up the recording, and watching it for 12 seconds at a time, every day, for the rest of eternity.
     
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    I find it to be the most important part of the story.
     
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    I just imagine them being all over the cubicle only up to a certain line, then nothing but unused space above it.
     
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    The idea of being in a cubicle is what keeps me going back to school. It'll happen, and I'm kinda scared of that day (mostly sarcastic), but getting paid is nice
     
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    I don't think it would be unused - that's the line above which her coworkers would come by and pin stuff like kitten "Hang in there!" motivational posters. Or, like Big & Tall shop coupons..
     
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    Ive seen this picture a ton, and I always imagine it was taken in the middle of Tyson smashing the pigeons together to make them kiss.
     
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    I have a leopard gecko I got my senior year of HS. At the time, the pet store in my hometown was charging something stupid for them and I had order a few online that never ate which was really depressing as they wasted away. So I saw there was a reptile show about 20 min away and had read online that its a great place to find healthy ones. So my sister and I went. Ended up getting a great pair from a really nice grandfatherly type. But MY GOD it was a weird crowd. It was like people of Wal Mart with more goth. Snake people are fucking weird, and they were there in spades. Couple idiots casually walking around with boas on their shoulders like fucking Jake the Snake.
     
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    You're not planning on working on it yourself, are you?

    Anyway...

    Along those same lines, I don't understand people who add things to their cars that imply that it's faster/ more capable than it is.
    I'm including trucks that are lifted, with 35" tires, THAT ARE 2WD, AND DON'T EVEN HAVE A POSI.
    You would not believe how many of those abominations I deal with at work; there's a shop down the road that sells cheap tires and lift kits, and they can't seem to balance tires or do alignments. They actually generate a lot of business for us...

    On the other end of the spectrum are guys with V6 - powered cars that try to play them up like they're V8s.
    I don't give a shit how loud your exhaust system is, I can still tell the difference in the sound of a V8 vs. a V6. I don't give a shit if it says "5.0" or "SS" on the fender.

    To me, that kind of behavior is like a guy with a 3" dick stuffing a cucumber in his pants; what are you going to do when somebody calls your bluff?

    Actually, I've got a funny story about fake auto modifications:
    When I was taking my steering/ suspensions class in technical school, one of my classmates brought in a truck that his brother had just bought: A second generation ('99-03) Ford Lightning, my dream truck.
    He wanted to get the suspension checked, so we put it up on the rack and lifted it. Once it was up in the air, it became obvious that this was not a real Lightning.
    The guy swore up and down that it was, that it was a "special edition," while me and another guy pointed out all of the things it was missing, that would be present on a real Lightning. Things like:
    - SVT badging on the tailgate (it just said "F150")
    - Staggered rear shocks (Lightnings were the only 2WD 1/2-ton Ford to get them)
    - 9.75" rear axle with a posi (it had an 8.8 with an open differential)
    - Rear sway bar (the only Ford 1/2-ton truck of that vintage to get one)
    - 4R100 transmission (It had a 4R70W)
    - and most importantly, A FUCKING SUPERCHARGED 5.4 LITER V8 UNDER THE HOOD

    This guy's dipshit brother bought a baseline V6 F150 with Lightning badges on the fenders, and a Lightning body kit and grille.

    A week or so later, he told us that after he told his brother about the bad news, he was ashamed to drive it anywhere.
    I hope he didn't pay the price of a real Lightning for it...
     
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    They could just rip out the dash, so nobody knows what the speedometer says.