What can't you wrap your head around?

[RosieLemonade]

For me it's how colour works. The whole part with reflecting light. Just how can that be true? (I know it is)

That Victorians lived in my house.

I understand people lived here before me but I find it so hard to wrap my head around people from a totally different time sleeping in the spot I sleep in, sitting in the same garden etc. Mind blowing!

Another one, how someone knows where Madeleine McCann is, yet it's just a complete mystery to the world.

I listen to a podcast about unsolved murders called Someone Knows Something, and when I first discovered it, the title alone really sort of gave me a jolt… that reality that someone (likely someone besides the killer) knows the truth. Yet families live out their entire lives never getting to the bottom of what happened to their loved one. It’s frustratingly sad.

that someone who used to live in our house died on the road next to us. we can actually see the lamppost he crashed into from our kitchen window.

his mum is friends with a friend of ours (that's how we got the house, private sale).
and his son is good friends with one of our kids so when the boy first came here he walked through the door and said "I used to live here".
that was so strange

Bitcoin. I've read dozens of articles on it, including all the ones that claim to provide a simple basic explanation that everyone can understand, and I just cannot get to grips with it at all.

I can grasp that it's a kind of virtual currency and that the blockchain is basically an online ledge of who owns how many bitcoins ... but that stuff about the computers having to do super complex mathematical problems that use loads of electricity to "mine" a bitcoin - nope, I'm lost.

That the food we eat, based on recipes handed down the generations for thousands of years, is probably based on the deaths of lots of people - those who kept trying different food stuffs (many of which will have been poisonous). How many of them died so that we could have this body of knowledge about food that we have today?

@lurkingfromhome

Bitcoin. I've read dozens of articles on it, including all the ones that claim to provide a simple basic explanation that everyone can understand, and I just cannot get to grips with it at all.

I can grasp that it's a kind of virtual currency and that the blockchain is basically an online ledge of who owns how many bitcoins ... but that stuff about the computers having to do super complex mathematical problems that use loads of electricity to "mine" a bitcoin - nope, I'm lost.

Ditto. I get to a certain point in my understanding and then it's like my brain shuts down.

When people describe their home extension plans I can't visualise them at all. (Bit niche that one...)
You’re not alone there, I have a complete inability to do this, I’d struggle even if it was in my own house!

Mine is this: a car fits in a lane. Cars usually have 2 seats in the front and 3 in the back. A bus fits in the same lane but has 2 seats, an aisle, and then 2 more seats! It melts my tiny brain!

Live television. Still blows my mind that something can be happening and people can watch it almost anywhere in the world

@KatherineJaneway

The ending of Trading Places.

Hang on, what's confusing about the end of Trading Places?

@Squaffle and the poster you were responding to, a friend of mine is an architect who also teaches architecture to first year undergraduates, and he says it's not wildly unusual to find that students arriving on the degree course turn out not to have the ability to visualise a space from a drawing. Which is pretty much Architecture 101.

Anyone wanting to shag Boris Johnson. I genuinely can’t fathom how he’s so popular with women, nobody knows how many children he has. He’s hideous inside and out, I don’t get it. Ditto Hancock, the news shocked me mostly because I can’t believe any woman would risk their marriage for that.

@Youdiditanyway

Anyone wanting to shag Boris Johnson. I genuinely can’t fathom how he’s so popular with women, nobody knows how many children he has. He’s hideous inside and out, I don’t get it. Ditto Hancock, the news shocked me mostly because I can’t believe any woman would risk their marriage for that.

Power, obviously.

I can't get my head around people that can't get their head around the fact that people have different opinions to themselves

The Muslim/muslin thing reminded me of the time I went baby shopping for my first born with my dear old Gran. I had a checklist I’d found online and went into boots with her on the hunt for muslins. My Gran had no idea what they were and I was just as clueless so she asked the checkout woman where they kept the Muslim squares . I died a bit inside but always makes me smile when I think about it now.

@weleasewoderick23 me too! It's a mystery! I'd hire an interior designer if it weren't so expensive!

@Youdiditanyway

Anyone wanting to shag Boris Johnson. I genuinely can’t fathom how he’s so popular with women, nobody knows how many children he has. He’s hideous inside and out, I don’t get it. Ditto Hancock, the news shocked me mostly because I can’t believe any woman would risk their marriage for that.

Years ago, DH was doing a project that involved the mother of one of BJ's children, an art consultant, Helen Something (the woman who was involved in the court case about whether the public had the right to know that BJ, then mayor of London, had had a child from an extramarital affair) -- she was nice and perfectly ordinary in a vaguely jolly hockey sticks way.

DH said I kept looking at her as if she'd grown an extra head.

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

The complexity of systems. I have friends who are massive systems and I don't understand how they keep track of everyone or ever reach compromise on anything.

I don't understand, what do you mean by 'systems' @TheLovelinessOfDemons?

That our pupils are holes.

I only found that out last year

The obsession with eyebrows.

The history one has interested me recently. I keep wondering how Covid will go down in history and how will certain people (Boris, Whitty etc) be remembered in years to come.

That a googolplex is one with a googol zeros beside it!

I mean I get that a googol is 1 with a hundred zeros… but the idea of counting to a number with a hundred zeros and for every number you count you put a zero next to your one to get a googolplex…. Well you can see my ongoing struggle to get my head around it!

I know it's fiction but I can never get my head round how John Connor is able to send Kyle Rees back in time when for John Connor to exist in the first place, Rees has to impregnate Sarah. So how can John exist to send Rees back in time if he hasn't been conceived because he hasn't sent Rees back in time yet?

It makes my brain hurt.

5 week months

Crypto currency...I asked my dad if he understood bitcoin. He said no. My dad is the sort of person that "gets" this stuff so I guess I'll need to figure it out myself. I know it's mined, but how do people know what they are mining?

Another one for me is how our bodies can contain elements such as gold, copper, iron? I'm assuming that it's ingested, but where are the elements? in our blood?

@Nanny2many

Clocks changing and time differences in different countries

Geographically China has 7 time zones but the whole country is on 'Beijing time'

So it's a load of bollocks really 🤪

Humans climbing up Everest.