Things I Don't Get

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I don't get why bogans put weird stuff in their ears.

I don't get why some people fail to realize that my TI-30X IIS calculator is not some new kind of mobile phone.

I handed it to some younger friends and said, "I can't get any bars on this thing.  Can you figure it out?"

They spent almost a full minute looking for the "Settings" key.

I thought that you were Canadian. "Bogan" is an Australian term ( I only know cause I just googled it, never heard the term before).

Haha!

What do you use your scientific calculator for, Fnord?

Actually, for making calculations while I am on the phone.

Funny that you mention this because we use little portable "computers" on the job taking inventory of stuff in stores...lasers to read bar codes, key pad to count the stuff, and to transmit the data to the boss's laptop. A few weeks ago a certain young lady new hire would refer to these glorified pocket calculator devices as "phones". Phones?!?

The only term she could come up with to refer to them is "phone"?

Took me aback when I heard her use the word "phone" that way, but....I guess to the younger generation a device like that IS kinda like the "phones" that they know. Except that you cant talk through them.

I grew up when a "phone" was something plugged into the wall that you talked through. And that was the ONLY thing you used it for. But to some young folks today a portable device that does EVERYTHING BUT THAT can be called a "phone".

I don't get why people walk around looking at their phones, they're not even looking where they're going.

Haha, fair do's.

"She blinded me with science" - I had forgotten all about that music video before seeing your .gif.

I don't get why an extremely obvious picture of a castle is considered a stadium by Cloudflare I'm majorly technology challenged.

I don't get why it costs over $600 to neuter a four-month kitten with teeny tiny boy parts, in a 15-minute procedure, when it's like $100 max anywhere else in the world. I don't get how they think people can afford pets especially when the food is supposed to be premium stuff so they don't get sick and need expensive vets. That premium stuff is close to $100 per 2lb bag. I should start eating it myself.

Prices for pets are a rip off, even in countries that have a relatively cheaper fare compared to your country.

Businesses pray on the attachment to pets that owners exhibit and know most of the time they will pay anything for anything for their pets.

One of the charities that does cat and kitten adoptions here requires a ten page written application, with references from three people, and all sorts of banking information like how much you make per year, how much you pay in taxes, all your household expenditures including heat and food etc., and you have to show proof of what will happen to the animal if you die. You need a backup person who gets their own background check, including what would happen to the animal if that person also dies. It's like a chain of command. You have to prove that you can afford at least $5000 / year for veterinary fees and you have access to bank loans or credit for the excess. Oh they also prefer you to be home all day so the animal will never be alone. Funny, considering the income requirements.

These kittens still cost about $200 to adopt, despite it being a charity. Many aren't fixed.

I applied for a kitten in 2021 and never even heard back from them. I had mentioned being home all day and being autistic but maybe they didn't like that.

I get my kittens from random people selling litters online, instead.

I was watching a Utube vid about...Natalie Wood or something (cant even remember now what it was), but decided to put it on mute, and click on closed closed captioning so as to not wake up my neighbor downstairs. But the text that appeared had nothing to do with the Natalie Wood story. It was describing what doctors found when they dissected the brain of Albert Einstein when he died! So I am watching pics illustrating one thing while I am reading a totally different story...watching footage of Hollywood stars at the Oscars while reading about how each of Einstein's brain lobes compared to that same brain lobe of a regular person (which woulda been kinda interesting had I been in the frame of mind to hear about medical forensics) and getting my own brain fried for a moment by the incongruity. So yeah...sometimes they screw up and dont get the right text with the right pics (moving or still pics) out there in the Netverse.

I don't get people who turn any discussion into inane hairsplitting about linguistic rules that they don't actually know how to use.

*AHEM* That's "I do not understand why people turn discussions into acts of inane hair-splitting regarding the rules of linguistics, the proper employment of which they have no apparent comprehension themselves."

Just joking!!  I am one of those unfortunate people for whom proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling are near-obsessions.

I don't get people who bang on about "I'm not partisan, I'm above all that. I don't agree with either side, I'm an independant thinker," then proceed to vomit forth reams of absolutely textbook partisan propaganda for one of the sides they supposedly don't support. This isn't a rare pattern, either.