What I don't get...

[Assertn]

I don't get how being nice and not ignoring a girl implies leading said girl on. This has happened to me a few times and is always awkward. Just yesterday I was at a party and a girl pulled me aside and asked why I didn't call her after the first party, then tried to figure out why she wasn't my type. Sigh.

Guys have to deal with this all the time, and I think most of us can usually tell when a girl is just being nice vs being interested. Girls don't tell every guy that advances on them whether or not she likes them and why they feel that way, so why should I have to?

[Uchiha Barles]

Did you find her physically attractive? Or more importantly, do you think she thinks most guys find her physically attractive? Those are usually the cases where I've experienced that. If it's the former, you may have betrayed that to her subconsciously. If it's the latter, she may have been too overconfident to consider that you were being social, and nothing more. It's not just a girl thing though, I usually see guys falling prey to that.

It's just one of those things you're going to have to deal with. Her reaction to the rejection though was a little much...

[Assertn]

I don't think its either. If a girl thinks most guys find her attractive, she's less likely to be proactive about it. She has confidence, but she probably doesn't have guys lining up to date her.

Oh I just remembered, she also asked me if I only date asians. Haha...

[Animeniax]

What I don't get is, if I only have $300 to spend, should I get a PS3 that I might use occasionally (once or twice a week for 6 hours total) or springs and suspension parts for my car which I drive daily?

[XanBcoo]

I really don't get why commercials keep telling me to "log on" to a website.

I have never "logged on" to anything. I "log in" to certain websites where I'm a member. I "sign in" to my instant messengers. Is that what they mean? Usually these websites are ones that don't require you to "log" in, on, or around anything, so it's just a meaningless term.

Advertisements seem to just use it to mean "go to" or "visit" a website, so I don't know why they just don't say that. It's as if they're stuck in the mid-90s and are still clamoring about this "internet craze," using buzzwords that make no sense at all.

[Buffalobiian]

I really don't get why commercials keep telling me to "log on" to a website.

I have never "logged on" to anything. I "log in" to certain websites where I'm a member. I "sign in" to my instant messengers. Is that what they mean? Usually these websites are ones that don't require you to "log" in, on, or around anything, so it's just a meaningless term.

Advertisements seem to just use it to mean "go to" or "visit" a website, so I don't know why they just don't say that. It's as if they're stuck in the mid-90s and are still clamoring about this "internet craze," using buzzwords that make no sense at all.

At first I would have blamed the whole "buzzword" thing, as well as people trying to say simple things (visit, go to) in a different, often wrong (log on) way in an attempt to make it sound less "simple", more sophisticated and less boring.

One example my teacher used to point out was the use of "in this day and age", whereas "now" or "nowadays" would have sufficed.

However, the fact that you brought up "mid-90s" reminds me of something. Back when broadband was still a relatively privileged technology, people did quite literally have to log in to the web, only to be disconnected when the phone rang.