Things I just don’t get
Things I just don’t get…
NASCAR
First of all it’s not a sport, which I’ll leave for another blog possibly this week. I just don’t get the appeal of it at all. I tried to watch it but I just feel like a redneck when I do so. Also hearing all those people with a southern twang make me feel like I am using IQ points rapidly.
It kind of offends me that this activity is bigger than hockey. I don’t even think there is a comparison.
The appeal of Ashlee Simpson
She isn’t attractive. She doesn’t have any talent. Her father annoys me. Her sister is turning out to be a total whore, okay maybe that last one isn’t all that bad.
Retro Fashion
I know everything that is old becomes new again. Which is lame frankly, there are a reason why certain fashion items are no longer cool. I don’t get why there is an 80s rebirth going on, 80s clothing sucked. And why when fashion comes back in is it only a trend that happened within twenty years? Why not be daring and bring something like the petticoat back?
Ellen Degeneres
Her day time talk show is horrible. She is a horrible interviewer in fact she is so bad that Martha Stewart seems to have more personality when asking questions.
I never found her funny but her show is everything that is bad about daytime tv. Yet people flock to it. Please explain that to me.
Why does Jump Around by House of Pain still make white people dance?
I don’t get it. White people just groove to this song. Ok I will never use the word groove again. This song always puts white people in a good mood. I don’t get it. Also why does Pour Some Sugar on me by Def Leppard automatically make every girl dance like a total street hooker?
Why is this kid in every new sports movie?
I just noticed this the other day while sitting through a quality double feature of Rebound and Kicking and Screaming…. Don’t knock it, it’s better than sitting through Disney movies and Narnia.
What are some things you just don’t get?
Have fun in NYC! 
On 07/24/06 at 12:19 pm
Jen Trance said:
I don’t get Nascar either. How is driving IN A CIRCLE nine thousand times a sport? Stupid. I think it’s so popular because the redneck attention span doesn’t allow for much more to be going on.
And yeah, I’m OK. Rough week, but I’m recuperating.
On 07/24/06 at 1:15 pm
Tori said:
Isn’t that the kid that played Bean on Even Stevens? And aren’t I lame that I would even know that?
Oh, and I love Ellen. LOVE her. Love. Seriously, do you understand the extent of my love yet?
On 06/3/08 at 1:31 am
spamth said:
Hi, Kev.
I don’t get hockey. I truly wish I did. I played two years in gradeschool, but I was glad to quit.
Back and forth, and back and forth. It’s noisy. Ice is not a natural or aesthetically pleasing environment.
Fights are spectacular, but they display the worst part of our nature. A player gets angry and reacts violently. One think I like about sports is how they are analagous to everyday life. But fighting in hockey bears no such analogy.
Hockey is a game of tactics, but not strategy. Any given moment is almost completely independent of any previous play. Basketball suffers from the same weakness, but not to the same extent. At least fouls build against a team and against a player. Plus, b-ball has many more moments of success(scores).
Regarding auto racing; I do consider it a sport. It is a game of skill and coordination, not chance. Success is the culmination of an entire team’s efforts, in broadly ranging roles.
Anyway, this thread is almost two years old, but is the first that came up when I Googled “hockey ‘I don’t get it’”. I’m here because I sincerely want to know–what do you like about hockey? I am Minnesotan. I WANT to like it. Please help me.