I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc

Resa77 · May 2013

Happy Friday! Let's play a game...tell us what trends/obsessions/traditions you don't get, or what unpopular opinions you hold? Doesn't have to be wedding-related or Catholic-related, but certainly can be!

bibliophile2010 · May 2013

I'll bite. Nail art. I didn't get it when it was a little flower on your big toe when you got a pedicure, and I really don't get it now that there are a million pins on Pinterest for things you can supposedly do to your nails at home (but probably don't actually look that great unless you are really good with polish). I'm all about polish, but don't really get nail art.

erin5286 · May 2013

Haha Biblio - some of the funniest "pinterest fails" that I've seen have been attempts at the nail art ideas gone horribly wrong

I'm sure I have plenty of things I could post, but my brain is failing me today. I had the day off of work yesterday for my birthday, so it was REALLY hard getting myself up and in to work today. Is it 5pm yet?

Resa77 · May 2013

I don't get...
-Twitter. FB has statuses, which are the same thing, plus it has pictures, etc. Then again, I don't have many friends who are on Twitter, so I guess it wouldn't be much fun for me.
-People who leave long, drawn-out voicemails when they know you're going to just call them back anyway, and you're going to repeat everything you said in the message.

Unpopular opinions...
-I don't think Channing Tatum is attractive.

Resa77 · May 2013

Omg I have a FB friend who attemps all sorts of fancy nails, and posts pictures with captions like "so proud of my nailart!" And it looks AWFUL. Every time I see it I can't help but wonder, how on EARTH can she think that looks nice?

SusieSunshine2 · May 2013

I really don't get the mustache obsession. I have no idea how it started and why it has last as long as it has.

erin5286 · May 2013

I hear ya on Twitter. I also don't get "oversharing" on Facebook - like, maybe it's kind of a funny story that you were giving your toddler a bath and she pooped in the tub, but seriously, don't post a picture of it... gross.

Resa77 · May 2013

Kristan, I'm impressed! I personally enjoy some nail art, but I just can't help but laugh when someone's nails look like a 5 year old painted them lol.

bibliophile2010 · May 2013

Ditto others on the moustaches. For serious. They perplex me.

SimplyME22 · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc : I actually tried some nail art a while back (like, did it myself) and think I did a decent job! I don't get the obsession with "rustic" weddings ... mason jars, burlap, etc. I just find it odd.
Posted by TXKristan[/QUOTE]

My wedding is somewhat "rustic" - there is definitely burlap, lace, and twine elements. My venue is essentially a big wooden lodge with vaulted ceilings and lots of windows, so it fits. I lean more towards natural elements, so I think that's why I ended up in that direction, to each their own...

But, while on the wedding topic, I'm not a fan of hotel ballroom weddings. Maybe it's because my prom was in a hotel ballroom, but it just feels stuffy to me, I yearn for natural light.

Random FB rant, I can't stand when people feel the need to upload every single photo they took, even the blurry ones. But they keep adding them, little by little and my feed keeps updating to show them all...

caitriona87 · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]I hear ya on Twitter. I also don't get "oversharing" on Facebook - like, maybe it's kind of a funny story that you were giving your toddler a bath and she pooped in the tub, but seriously, don't post a picture of it... gross.
Posted by erin5286[/QUOTE]

How awful. Poor kid. I dunno I'm sure some would find me stuffy about that kind of thing but I really can't stand it. Would you like your embarrassing mishap publicized like that? No? Then why do it to your kid? Just because they're little doesn't mean they don't deserve some privacy & respect.

itzMS · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]I hear ya on Twitter. I also don't get "oversharing" on Facebook - like, maybe it's kind of a funny story that you were giving your toddler a bath and she pooped in the tub, but seriously, don't post a picture of it... gross.
Posted by erin5286[/QUOTE]

I had a FB friend that posted a picture of her daughter's first poopy in the potty. WHY?!?

I don't get pregnant lady belly touching. I'm around 10 weeks (we just announced to family and close friends last week) and 3 people have already touched and/or talked to my belly.

professorscience · May 2013

There was a great article sometime last year about "oversharing" our kids on Facebook, and how it's a big invasion on their privacy without their consent. I keep getting griped at (light-hearted, of course) for not posting "bump pictures." It's weird to me that Facebook has broken down that wall. It certainly doesn't bother me to share my pregnancy with others, but I also don't see the point in posting a picture of myself once a week just because I'm pregnant (which I guess can be my "I don't get it").

professorscience · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc : I had a FB friend that posted a picture of her daughter's first poopy in the potty. WHY?!? I don't get pregnant lady belly touching. I'm around 10 weeks (we just announced to family and close friends last week) and 3 people have already touched and/or talked to my belly.
Posted by itzMS[/QUOTE]

Ugh, this is so obnoxious. My MIL and SIL are the WORST about just grabbing my belly and THEN acknowledging me. Some rando stranger friend of my MIL even grabbed my stomach when we had JUST started announcing (so I was not showing at all). It is so weird. I read somewhere that the snarky response is to immediately grab that person's stomach as well, to show them how inappropriate it is.

My kids are the worst. We have a bunch of pregnant teachers at my school, all with varying levels of personal space (not to mention the pregnant students), so I keep getting kids who ask (or worse just reach for me) and then whine, "BUT MRS. ___________ LETS US DO IT!"

Calypso1977 · May 2013

i dont get toilets or old bathtubs as planters in one's front yard.

i have too many unpopular opinions to list here. ;-)

amaryann210 · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]Random FB rant, I can't stand when people feel the need to upload every single photo they took, even the blurry ones. But they keep adding them, little by little and my feed keeps updating to show them all...
Posted by SimplyME22[/QUOTE]

This!!! I'm a photographer as a sideline, so perhaps I'm super conscious of what I post online and feel the need to edit everything, but some of the photos people put up just make me crazy.

I shot a wedding within the last month and the MOB asked me if I would send them all the photos, "even the fugly ones" and I flatly refused. You hired me to do a job, I'm not going to send you crappy photos. Sigh.

SimplyME22 · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc : This!!! I'm a photographer as a sideline, so perhaps I'm super conscious of what I post online and feel the need to edit everything, but some of the photos people put up just make me crazy. I shot a wedding within the last month and the MOB asked me if I would send them all the photos, "even the fugly ones" and I flatly refused. You hired me to do a job, I'm not going to send you crappy photos. Sigh.
Posted by amaryann210[/QUOTE]

Oooo, you lead me to another one, when someone knowingly posts an unflattering photo of someone else and tags them in it. Thank goodness for privacy settings where you can at least keep it off of your own wall. But seriously, when did we turn into a society where highlighting someone else's misfortune or whatnot is the "trend?"

Resa77 · May 2013

I just have this feeling that when I'm pregnant, I will totally kick someone in the groin as a reflex to them touching my (ticklish) stomach. I mean, do pregnant women lose their ticklishness?

Bump photos=love, though. I am always a bit annoyed when my FB don't post cute pregnant photos. Even if you don't do the "pose sideways every week" thing, I just want to see the bump!!! (I realize my annoyance is perhaps a bit unfair, but I just wanna see the bump pics!)

I really mothers who get all excited when their daughters start menstruating, and tell all their friends and stuff. But I REALLY REALLY don't get the girls who run around telling everyone -- their father, their teacher, etc -- that they got their first period. I didn't even tell my own mother I started my period, until I passed out from cramps one day and had to tell her what was wrong. Idk, I just think there's something very private about puberty.

professorscience · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]I just have this feeling that when I'm pregnant, I will totally kick someone in the groin as a reflex to them touching my (ticklish) stomach. I mean, do pregnant women lose their ticklishness? Bump photos=love, though. I am always a bit annoyed when my FB don't post cute pregnant photos. Even if you don't do the "pose sideways every week" thing, I just want to see the bump!!! (I realize my annoyance is perhaps a bit unfair, but I just wanna see the bump pics!) I really mothers who get all excited when their daughters start menstruating, and tell all their friends and stuff. But I REALLY REALLY don't get the girls who run around telling everyone -- their father, their teacher, etc -- that they got their first period. I didn't even tell my own mother I started my period, until I passed out from cramps one day and had to tell her what was wrong. Idk, I just think there's something very private about puberty.
Posted by Resa77[/QUOTE]

I have definitely NOT lost my ticklishness, and once early in my pregnancy DH tickled me so hard I threw up. I was definitely not happy with him. It's the weirdest thing. Something about seeing a pregnant woman just removes all inhibitions for the rest of the world. We suddenly no longer have personal space.

I also remarked to my husband that I felt like my MIL saw me as little other than an incubator for her grandchild. And I love my MIL. But as soon as she found out I was pregnant, everything became babybabybaby. My feelings were kind of hurt when we were down at the ILs house for my birthday, and MIL had promised a cake to celebrate, but I guess she forgot. So later we asked about it and she was like, "Oh, does the baby want cake?" No, ma, I want cake, dang it!

monkeysip · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]I don't get... -Twitter. FB has statuses, which are the same thing, plus it has pictures, etc. Then again, I don't have many friends who are on Twitter, so I guess it wouldn't be much fun for me. -People who leave long, drawn-out voicemails when they know you're going to just call them back anyway, and you're going to repeat everything you said in the message. Unpopular opinions... -I don't think Channing Tatum is attractive.
Posted by Resa77[/QUOTE]

Yes, Yes, and Yes.

I'm still holding out on the twitter. I may have to use twitter for my new teaching job next year, but I'm still not getting a person account. To me, it is the epitome of narcisism.

Riss91 · May 2013

My husband (and many journalists) use Twitter to follow breaking news and/or other stories being published. I don't see anything narcissistic about that. Most of the "bad" stuff you get with Twitter is the same stuff you get with FB.

erin5286 · May 2013

I just thought of another thing to add - I don't get, and it kinda bugs me, when couples say "we're" pregnant... no, you aren't both pregnant, only the mom-to-be is! I have made my H promise that he won't ever say that, and will only say things like "Erin's pregnant" or "my wife is pregnant"

professorscience · May 2013

Haha, I say "We're pregnant" all the time. I mean, yeah, I'm carrying the baby, but DH played a pretty significant role!

I've considered getting a Twitter JUST to follow the Pope. And then I look up some of my students' Twitter feeds and my desire to have one goes away.

bibliophile2010 · May 2013

I have a Twitter that I follow people (mostly public figure-type people) on, but I have literally never tweeted. I don't know that I plan to. I try not to overshare on FB. I didn't announce I was pregnant until 20 weeks. I didn't post weekly bump pics (or many at all). It's just not my style.

I don't have a problem with "we're pregnant" though I don't recall using it much. I also use the plural to talk about certain facets of my husband's schooling, and that's kinda the same way to a lot of people. For me, it's really, truly being a family unit and having one set of actions affect everyone. I get, though, why it bugs people, since it's not literally correct.

Luckily, I didn't have a lot of random tummy-touchers or I would have lost it. I think touch is one of my higher-up love languages, but as such I consider it very personal, so I only want to be touched by people I really care about, if that makes any sense at all.

monkeysip · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]My husband (and many journalists) use Twitter to follow breaking news and/or other stories being published. I don't see anything narcissistic about that. Most of the "bad" stuff you get with Twitter is the same stuff you get with FB.
Posted by Riss91[/QUOTE]

I totally get that, and my school uses it to communciate with students and update them on things in our program. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm really referring to how a lot of people use twitter just to share their every thought and action. Like ANYONE cares to read that (I know people use facebook that way--but I think the format of twitter allows for that more, especially when twitter first began).

monkeysip · May 2013

In Response to Re: I don't get it/Unpopular opinions/etc:
[QUOTE]I just thought of another thing to add - I don't get, and it kinda bugs me, when couples say "we're" pregnant... no, you aren't both pregnant, only the mom-to-be is! I have made my H promise that he won't ever say that, and will only say things like "Erin's pregnant" or "my wife is pregnant"

Posted by erin5286[/QUOTE]

I agree with this, but it also kind of bugs me that we refer to pregnant women (and the baby's father) as "mother to be" and "father to be". No... they're mothers and fathers... of unborn children. But I know that's just kind of one of those social language habits that are difficult to break.

Legu · May 2013

ItzMS you are about to lose ALL personal space. You will be called fatty, people will walk at you handsfirst. They will ask if you want a boy or a girl, then smile knowingly when you reply "healthy baby". Once you know the gender if you find out, they'll ask what you're having, and look horrified when you say a puppy, or whatever. Once you get about 30 weeks along, people will tell you you look tiny, are you sure you're already 30 weeks? Or huge, are you sure it's not 35 weeks/twins? They will ask you "have you dropped it yet"... This is just the immediate ones that spring to mind. My boy's four months old. Moustache. This started with "Movember" Began in Australia, I believe where the men do not shave their moustache, and grow as long as possible throughout November, and raise money by doing so for charity. Some special someone cottoned onto it and now moustaches are "cool".

HisGirlFriday13 · May 2013

I love bump photos, but I despise the baby over sharing on FB. My 'I don't get it' is WHY people feel the need to tell me their opinions on having a Catholic wedding. Is it your wedding? No! Did I ask you? No! FI and I are Catholic; ergo we are having a Catholic wedding and if you don't like it, I don't care! But speaking of babies, I don't get why people think pregnant women are somehow suddenly incapable of normal, everyday activities. FI's aunt is driving me up the wall demanding that I replace my cousin, who will be 38 weeks pregnant at our wedding, as a reader, 'Because it just won't look right.' I posted about it on chit chat; I'll get all worked up if I post it here, too. Suffice it to say, I am thisclose to having not very nice words with her.

TeaForMe · May 2013

A few things... I agree with the Channing tatum statement. Not my cup of tea. I didn't even share the ultrasound pic of our son which showed he was a boy. It seemed invasive, even if you can't really see anything. There is only one appropriate thing to say to a pregnant woman and that is, "you look great!"

[Deleted User] · May 2013

I know I am late to this thread, but I don't get it when your ring finger is painted a different color than the rest of your fingers. I think this is a trend started on Pinterest or something. I also don't get the whole craze about social media: FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The people that post every stinking thing about their life on FB really bugs me especially when it is stuff everyone does everyday.

Calypso1977 · May 2013

"we're pregnant" bothers me too. "we're expecting" is more accurate because you are in fact both expecting the arrival of a baby.

ultrasound pics bother me. its a medical record. can you imagine if I posted a pic of a colonoscopy?

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