What dumb thing do you not understand...

[Nonny]

I use overnight lows for my temperature blanket, just to be a rebel.









j/k - I don't knit or crochet. I can sort of half-assed crochet (learned in high school for a play), but I got one of those knitting kits once, knit like 1/4 of the scarf with help from two friends who knit, and I'm pretty sure it's stuffed away with my crafting supplies still 10+ years later.

[lac]

Dec 29, 2023 18:45:52 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Dec 29, 2023 18:42:14 GMT -5 tacokick said:

You don’t want to track climate change via yarn each year?? I almost would think you’d be into it.

I don’t understand when people make temperature blankets and do the average temperature of the day! That drives me bonkers.

I think that's why I *don't* want to do it, because climate change means it will mostly be the hotter colors. Although using acrylic yarn to track climate change temperatures has an absurd irony.

I didn't realize there was a subcategory to these blankets, and that people aren't just using the high temperature. I'm getting in too deep now.

I like to think of them as an archeological archive of our lives when whomever comes next finds them…

[bears]

Dec 29, 2023 19:07:17 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Over scheduling your kids so your entire lives revolve around their extracurricular activities

This mystifies me. We all really love our downtime.

I don't understand pricey sunglasses. I have destroyed so many pairs. IFL my goodrs and love having options.

[Wallflower]

Fantasy football. I'm not into football but I love ice hockey, so I get the appeal of watching live sports and getting enthusiastic for "your team." But fantasy football just doesn't make sense to me.

[sent]

Gifting adults random stuff when said adults can afford to buy their own stuff and already live in houses filled with stuff.

[Nonny]

Running. I can understand why people like it, but it's definitely not for me.

[underwaterrhymes]

Dec 29, 2023 19:12:05 GMT -5 bears said:

Dec 29, 2023 19:07:17 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Over scheduling your kids so your entire lives revolve around their extracurricular activities

This mystifies me. We all really love our downtime.

I don't understand pricey sunglasses. I have destroyed so many pairs. IFL my goodrs and love having options.

One of my best friends has zero downtime and very little time with her spouse because he does all of the extracurriculars with the one kid and she does the other kid. They’re also the house that all their kids’ friends come to after school. To her credit, she also has a very active social life with her girlfriends and she travels domestically a ton, but she never ever rests. She likes it that way, but I really value down time and sleep and so I look at her life with zero envy - only exhaustion. Her house is always clean too. I don’t know how she does it.

[sequins]

OOOOOhhhhhh. Nice thread.

Feel free to classify me as a hater!

1. People who have made Taylor Swift their personality this year.

2. Exclusively reading books that are light on everything but sex and then calling them their spicy novels. And also making this their personality. Booktok and book influencers (that term alone tells me we are in the end times).

3. Still don't understand Christmas gifting for everyone in the family. The number of people who post things like, I have an uncle who has everything and doesn't need anything, what can I give them? And then people respond with random leather things or grilling things. So many people have piles and piles under the tree. Blows my mind. It's not like we all don't shop all through the year. I do realize that I'm very triggered by the waste and excess around Christmas.


ETA: I'm realizing that this is not what pixy0stix asked at all lol but what is ML without a judgy thread over the holidays

[fernweh]

People who make their Alma maters their entire personality. I have a coworker who talks about where she went constantly, has a tattoo of their logo, wears clothing almost exclusively in the school’s colors. You have been out of school for a decade, I don’t need to hear every 3 hours where you went to school.

[sugarbear1]

Hangovers. Like, I cannot drink more than one drink if I know I have to function the next day. It just doesn't appeal to me and I cannot understand people (those who do not suffer alcohol addiction) willingly doing that.

Not exercising. I don't care what you do, but I don't understand people who can't carve out 30 minutes a few times a week to invest in their health. I know that sounds judgy.

Slow walkers. WTF are you looking at?

[dancingnancy]

The amount of money people are paying for concert tickets. I am a concert goer and have paid good money for face value tickets, however I am the mother of a Swiftie and the amount of money people are not only paying for tickets but to actually travel (fly) to other cities and get hotel rooms…..blows my mind. DD and I are flying to Ireland in April and our airfare combined is the cost of one TSwift ticket in Vancouver (obviously not face value cause those are almost impossible to get) that I looked in to cause it’s also her bday. Just….no.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Dec 29, 2023 18:42:14 GMT -5 tacokick said:

You don’t want to track climate change via yarn each year?? I almost would think you’d be into it.

I don’t understand when people make temperature blankets and do the average temperature of the day! That drives me bonkers.

I gave in and googled temperature blanket one post too soon.  I had never heard of these/seen them/knew they existed.  Wish I had just kept reading till your post.  

I can't think of anything fun to add that hasn't already been said and it's making me sad.  I want to play.

[konapoppy]

Dec 29, 2023 19:51:17 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

Not exercising. I don't care what you do, but I don't understand people who can't carve out 30 minutes a few times a week to invest in their health. I k is that sounds judgy.

Slow walkers. WTF are you looking at?

You are right- that is judgy!

[Deleted]

I was going to say cryptocurrency and NFTs because I honestly for the life of my can’t figure out how these things work, then I realized I misunderstood the prompt.

But my answer remains, I can’t figure out why people would invest in nothing.

[MixedBerryJam]

Multi-generation vacations. The concept of paying actual money? For the honor of sharing bathrooms with my brothers in law? At a destination I don't care about but everyone else wanted? And always ordering what grandma wants for dinner? And watching my niece and nephew while my in-laws have a date night and nobody fucks for the entire week because EVERYONE I KNOW IS UNDER THIS ROOF? Inconceivable to me.

[artichokie]

Uggs
Keto and Ketosis and how it all works

[SusanBAnthony]

Dec 29, 2023 20:03:12 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Multi-generation vacations. The concept of paying actual money? For the honor of sharing bathrooms with my brothers in law? At a destination I don't care about but everyone else wanted? And always ordering what grandma wants for dinner? And watching my niece and nephew while my in-laws have a date night and nobody fucks for the entire week because EVERYONE I KNOW IS UNDER THIS ROOF? Inconceivable to me.

This is cracking me up!

(We totally do multigenerational trips with my fam who I actually like.)

[lilypad1126]

Super hero movies.
Collectible knickknacks.
Disney as a personality.
Video games (though this prob stems from growing up with a gamer where gaming was their whole personality).

[sproctopus]

Dec 29, 2023 19:51:17 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

Hangovers. Like, I cannot drink more than one drink if I know I have to function the next day. It just doesn't appeal to me and I cannot understand people (those who do not suffer alcohol addiction) willingly doing that.

Not exercising. I don't care what you do, but I don't understand people who can't carve out 30 minutes a few times a week to invest in their health. I k is that sounds judgy.

Slow walkers. WTF are you looking at?

This take is so ableist it's wild.

[ssmjlm]

People who root for sports teams they have no connection to. There are people that are huge university X fans and they not only didn’t go there, they didn’t even go to college. Or people who love NFL teams and have no connections to the team in any way. Never lived there, no family lived there, etc. Did you just like their colors or something?

People who do triathlons and marathons. One friend does them all the time, then her family is all “oh we can’t do anything because she’s doing this race and it’s all day” and I’m like there is no way I’m spending multiple weekends for someone to swim, bike, run.

Kids not in high school on X travel team. Your kid is not destined for the pros, you’re ruining their body. What happened to good ole rec leagues?

[jlt19]

I didn’t use to understand in-app/game purchases. But now that DS would rather spend his Xmas money on Fortnite stuff instead of baseball cards, I’ve changed my tune.

The entertainment lasts much longer, there’s no additional stuff in my house, and less environmental waste to “produce” it (assuming here). But there’s no waste for when he’s finally done with it, so that’s helpful.

I guess I still don’t “get” it and would never do it myself, but I’m much less eye-rolly about it!

[TR]

Oh yeah, ditto video games and phone games.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Football and the NFL. Dumbest shit ever, sorry.

[noodleoo]

Ooh I thought of a good one! People who FaceTime in public. For example: my H’s parents are obsessed with FaceTime and will call H’s siblings in the worst places or at the worst times. They are at a fancy restaurant today and his mom FaceTimed his brother from the table. They do this every time we go out to eat and it is so embarrassing. And she always does it right as the food is delivered and we all have to wait to eat while she shows him our food and finishes talking to him.

[heygrey]

Amazon, but particularly Amazon Prime

The shipping is never 2 days anymore. The environmental/human impact is insane. Most of the stuff people buy is unnecessary.

[konapoppy]

Dec 29, 2023 20:33:52 GMT -5 noodleoo said:

Ooh I thought of a good one! People who FaceTime in public. For example: my H’s parents are obsessed with FaceTime and will call H’s siblings in the worst places or at the worst times. They are at a fancy restaurant today and his mom FaceTimed his brother from the table. They do this every time we go out to eat and it is so embarrassing. And she always does it right as the food is delivered and we all have to wait to eat while she shows him our food and finishes talking to him.

Someone did this in the library the other day. WHY?!?!?

[sproctopus]

Dec 29, 2023 20:26:44 GMT -5 TR said:

Oh yeah, ditto video games and phone games.

If you don't want to see my Pokémon Go pokedex, just say that.😮‍💨

[pixy0stix]

Dec 29, 2023 20:36:28 GMT -5 sproctopus said:

Dec 29, 2023 20:26:44 GMT -5 TR said:

Oh yeah, ditto video games and phone games.

If you don't want to see my Pokémon Go pokedex, just say that.😮‍💨

I started playing again this year, and I both love and hate it.

[sugarbear1]

Dec 29, 2023 20:21:41 GMT -5 sproctopus said:

Dec 29, 2023 19:51:17 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

Hangovers. Like, I cannot drink more than one drink if I know I have to function the next day. It just doesn't appeal to me and I cannot understand people (those who do not suffer alcohol addiction) willingly doing that.

Not exercising. I don't care what you do, but I don't understand people who can't carve out 30 minutes a few times a week to invest in their health. I k is that sounds judgy.

Slow walkers. WTF are you looking at?

This take is so ableist it's wild.

Of course some people cannot (exercise or walk expeditiously), and I understand that. But if you're out and about Christmas shopping and staring at your phone while wandering, I'm annoyed.

[quesyrah]

Dec 29, 2023 20:21:41 GMT -5 sproctopus said:

Dec 29, 2023 19:51:17 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

Hangovers. Like, I cannot drink more than one drink if I know I have to function the next day. It just doesn't appeal to me and I cannot understand people (those who do not suffer alcohol addiction) willingly doing that.

Not exercising. I don't care what you do, but I don't understand people who can't carve out 30 minutes a few times a week to invest in their health. I k is that sounds judgy.

Slow walkers. WTF are you looking at?

This take is so ableist it's wild.

I was trying to find a funny way to say that not all of us have the ability to walk fast….

I do try to stay to the right hand side at least. And I’ll throw that right back at you…when you pass me with a mad dog glare, WTF are you looking at? Never seen a disabled person before?