The Mind Boggles

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This thread is about opinions you absolutely cannot understand.

In most political debates I'm quite good at seeing the other side - I don't agree with the assumptions other people are making but I can sympathise. But every now and then something so bizarre and mad seems to lie behind an opinion that I simply can't empathise or even understand at all.

An example might be monarchism. I can understand the lets-keep-the-monarchy-the-alternative-might-be-worse idea, but to actually think of monarchy as a de facto good seems absolutely mad to me.

It doesn't have to be politics, of course - cultural or aesthetic opinions can be equally boggling.

So what can you simply not get?

― Tom, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How Creed won the Turner prize.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Racism. And other irrational prejudices. And hatred of mayonnaise.

― alix, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

s club 7. no, really!

― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mayonaise is plhegmy, white and bland. There is nothing irrational about it's hatred.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Misused apostrophes.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lets get this straight: Mark, are you angry about misused apostrophe's, or people who get angry about misused apostrophe's? If the former: are you more bothered about it's absence when needed, or it's presence when unecessary? Is it only repeated misuse that get's your goat, or can you forgive the occasional typo/brain misfire?

My mind boggles over people who get upset about misused apostrophes. I am one, but I don't agree with my underlying assumptions and I can't sympathise with my pedantry.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Mark.

― Will, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THAT AND PEOPLE WHO THINK ALL CAPS AND LOADS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS AUTOMATICALLY MAKE SOMETHING FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Will, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha ha ha. i don't get it.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuv Ellie.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how exactly does a mind boggle? what does it look like?

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gale says THIS FELLA's mind is boggling:

http://www.furryfriendsfoundation.com/Pictures/mac.jpg

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How Creed won the Turner prize.
Their record wasn't THAT good. hahah Just kidding. I just had a discussion about with my mother. I never thought I'd have to defend art again. I had to do it when I was ten. It was all deja vu (or deja dit?)

― helen fordsdale, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How could anyone not like Bon Jovi?

― james, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Liking Baxendale. Believing in evolution but not that humans and modern apes had a common ancestor.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How cutting social programs is a good thing.

― anthonyeaston, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Exclamation points are funny when follwed by an Arabic number one!!!!!!!!1

― 1 1 2 3 5, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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