{"id":823,"date":"2005-05-18T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T04:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=823"},"modified":"2005-05-19T00:02:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T05:02:14","slug":"five-things-i-dont-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I Don’t Get"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes! Hammertime of Team Hammer’s Musings<\/a> has tagged me with a meme<\/a>. In a way I’m honored. In another way, I’m annoyed, as I remember how difficult it was coming up with interview questions for him on a previous meme<\/a>. He made the most of my poor questions<\/a>, so I owe him. Memes can truly be as frustrating as fun; nevertheless, I’ll go with the flow and see how this one works.<\/p>\n

List five things that people in your circle of friends or peer group are wild about, but you can’t really understand the fuss over.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Charmed<\/em><\/strong> — This is my girlfriend’s favorite television show … by a freakin’ mile. Many a time its scheduling has had to be taken into account during our social planning. I’ll admit she’s quite willing to record but I know she’d rather watch the broadcast. I’ve caught maybe ten minutes — nice eye candy but quite the silly, trite yawner. As the old saying goes, there’s no accounting for tastes. That, and she willingly puts up with me. Yup, she’s a keeper. Besides, sooner or later Charmed<\/em> will go bye-bye.<\/p>\n

2) Reality TV<\/strong> — Survivor<\/em> and its ilk have nothing to do with reality or entertainment. A fad that can’t fade fast enough.<\/p>\n

3) The designated hitter<\/strong> — This is probably the result of moving to an American League area after growing up in cities on the senior circuit landscape. Call me a purist, but I prefer the idea of all nine playing the same game at the plate and in the field. I prefer the strategy required with juggling the line-up for a pitching change. I despise the fact that the DH has now spread like a plague to practically every level of the game, be it minor league, college or high school.<\/p>\n

4) Atkins\/ South Beach<\/strong> — First, the diet: nothing tragic, but how about eating reasonably and exercising? Second, the dieters: do y’all have to treat it like a new-found religion? The time-tested zealots can be particularly condescending and annoying.<\/p>\n

5) Starbucks<\/strong> — Bad coffee. Bad prices, pompous employees, pathetically elitist menu and, oh yeah, bad coffee. One should be able to order coffee by saying a size, preferably in English, and uttering the word coffee instead of some eight-syllable mumbo-jumbo. One should then receive a cup of joe that does not taste burned. One should then hand the employee of the establishment a buck or two. One should definately then receive change. That is all that Starbucks is not.<\/p>\n

I now get to tag five people to do this meme themselves. Participation should be viewed as purely voluntary. How about\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Eric<\/a>
\nPhil<\/a>
\nJohnL<\/a>
\nRaven<\/a>
\nand any other volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yikes! Hammertime of Team Hammer’s Musings has tagged me with a meme. In a way I’m honored. In another way, I’m annoyed, as I remember how difficult it was coming up with interview questions for him on a previous meme. He made the most of my poor questions, so I owe him. Memes can truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}