Things you simply don't get...

Like plus, plus.

 

And trickle down!

 

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Ewww.

 

No, I was asking about what you juxtaposed against the ugly art movement. I was starting a new career and family in the 80s and had no time for art, other than guitar music. I could look at that Crisby painting all day.

I don't like ugliness. Here in the Dallas area, we have a modern art museum that features a pile of elephant dung as an exhibit. I'm no prude, but that is unfunny and insulting.

I have no idea what this "broader art movement of the 1980s" involved and would like to hear more. Can you send me a link to a description of it or send me a PM? This is a serious inquiry. I know that one of my children, born in 88, would be interested as well.

Also I wonder if it was a reaction or reflection of some other aspect of society, like commerce, the environment, space exploration, labor, whatever. When I think of the 80s I think of the Cars, Loverboy, Prince, The Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel. It was all just so luscious.

 

A winning Powerball number.Probably on account I refuse
to gamble.
Next question ... Jose ?

 

in a casino, like a Trump casino, if you gamble using leverage you could make a net profit.

for powerball if you leveraged 100 tickets instead of just 1 ticket, you would have a higher chance of winning.

if you refused to gamble, you would have a higher chance of not losing.

 

Something else that I don't get is the attitude of the ignorant when they learn something that triggers their confirmation bias.

Rather than being appreciative of having a fallacious misperception replaced with factual knowledge they are resentful.

Why is learning something treated as an affront and result in rancor?

I just don't get it!

 

I don't know I guess one need ask all these Climate Change
scientist.Talk about " confirmation bias ". This " settled science "
hoopla is like a script for Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

 

I don't get why people would want to turn a perfectly fun thread, in the casual chat forum, into an arena for debate

 

You take that back!!

 

I don’t understand banks any more. They used to have nice tellers who knew you but now you are directed to a machine.
A pleasant concierge will offer to train you in independent operation of these machines.
(I also don’t get concierges either. I grit my teeth when they ask you how they can help and then put you in a queue. Bad enough that you can go and do some shopping and they’ll text you when you’re next in the queue. This is fuel for another hate, but not now)

A bank is a place where you put your money until you need to use it, and the bank will pay you a pittance for this service. It wouldn’t kill them to have tellers instead of machines.

 

City living. Especially Seattle. It took me over an hour to drive 12 miles today. F that place. Why do so many people live there? The weather is crap, the roads don't make any sense, the cost of living is rediculous... I just dont see the appeal.

 

Once upon a time banks ONLY had tellers and exceptionally SHORT working days. EVERYONE was FORCED to spend their lunch hours waiting in long queues to draw their money. On paydays it was a nightmare because the queues were out the door and down the road.

The bank I was using was one of the first to install an ATM and the next payday I walked right past that long queue and up to the ATM and withdrew the cash that I needed and was on way again with plenty of time to stop and have some lunch before heading back to the office.

So I grit my teeth any time I have to go INSIDE the bank to do anything because it always takes far longer than doing it online or at a convenient ATM.

FTR tellers are paid a pittance and have no incentive to work any harder or faster or even smile unless they are ordered to do so by their boss.

 

Easier to find heroin in the city

 

This, 100%. Cities are good for visiting, not living.

 

For me it's Quentin Tarantino movies.

Reservoir dogs was good once, and dusk till Dawn had its moments.

But I got up and walked out of the theater pulp fiction. I would have done so at kill Bill 1 but the people I was with would have seen that as rude. I absolutely refused part two. I watched inglorious bastards on DVD and I couldn't take it anymore. I turned it off and returned it without even finishing it.

I don't understand what people like about this meaningless drek.

 

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Partisanship above all other things. It seems like simple tribalism

 

He's the film industry's version of odd food that only wierd people like.

 

I'm wondering if it's not the reason why people like his movies.

I think people like sushi for the same reason.

Hear me through.

Sushi is the only food that you say that you're going to go eat. Nobody says they had hamburgers last night or crab. But they do say they had sushi. I've been told I don't understand it.

What's to understand it either tastes good or it doesn't.

I see the salat in the culture of this new age bohemian kind of snobbery. "If you don't like this bizarre odd thing it's just because you're not eclectic enough." Said the guy with the derby and a scarf even though it's 95 degrees outside.

I guess I'm just not hip enough

 

That's a good way of putting it.

 

Another thing that I tried to like and I just couldn't, Rick and Morty. I enjoy some of these adult cartoons. But that one was just bad really really bad and I couldn't figure out why.

 

Agreed. Simply put, that **** is stupid. It's most definitely a niche sort of thing that resonates with a specific type of person... like a person who's functioning on a rare wave length.

There's one Rick and Morty scene that legitimately had me rolling, full disclosure - I may or may not have been inebriated through the consumption of one substance or another.

 

Well the off the wall stuff that's in this makes me want to like it. But Rick is the ultimate Mary Sue. I think Rick Sanchez needs to replace the monitor Mary Sue.

There was some good stuff there it's just that the characters ruined it.

 

For sure. The problem is that it just doesn't come together. It's not relatable. Bob's Burger's is another head scratcher. Bill Burr (who I love despite his white guilty stuff) completely bombed with F is for Family. The "comedy" in all these type of cartoons is just super eccentric.