I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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Women's clothes sizesI don't understand how a pair of women's trousers can be "a size 12", for example. Why don't they show the waist/length in cm/inches, like men's do?
I don't get how some people in my office can get away with talking incessantly about the banalities of their diet/holiday/Doctor Who/house prices, while not doing any work ever, and still be respected by the boss. Grrr.
Also, I don't get why mainstream/popular gay culture is so often awful (Shirley Bassey, Weather Girls, Judy Garland, Village People etc), when so many of the greatest/most influential cultural figures in history have been homosexual (Leonardo, Hockney, Warhol, Wilde, Beethoven, Novello, Woolf, Rufus Wainwright and so on). Why aren't the talented ones celebrated instead of the shit ones?
Jeff Buckley's Grace. I've tried, really I have.
Fashion tribalism. I'm all in favour of people dressing to look nice, but why align yourself with a group of people and dress just like them? Why not have a bit of individuality? Why should the music you like decree how you dress any more than, say, the newspaper you read?
Lastly, Zoe Williams. Why do people employ her?
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