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)

The fact that we can see stars billions of light years away, or at least we can see the light that has travelled from them and taken that long to get here. But what we see when we look in the night sky doesn't actually exist any more. We are looking into the past and I can't get my head round it.

The universe, time, magic tricks, measuring for curtains...

The fact that energy can’t be destroyed or created. Where does it go when it leaves the body? I’ve watched people die, and it’s literally like watching a light go out.

Where does the energy go?

Just humanity in general. Billions of people on Earth all with their own things going on that you'll never know about.

So sorry for your loss @peachgreen its something I've never been able to understand either.

Plumbing
WiFi
What Gs are as in 5g

How something as heavy as an aeroplane can actually stay airborne! I've lived under the flight path of Heathrow airport for 38 years,and even after all that time,it's a constant source of amazement to see that these massive lumps of metal don't just drop like a stone from the sky!

That thing about dogs recognising other dogs regardless of their breed is fascinating, although dogs are fascinating generally.

How little babies are born just perfect miniature human beings, and how people come in such different shapes and sizes.

@Tupperwarelid

How do fax machines work?

Why do we speak different languages? If humans are one species why do we have different languages?

Why is an orange called an orange but a lemon isn’t called a yellow?

@Tupperwarelid I know the answer to your last question! Orange the colour was named after the fruit. Until at least Tudor times, anything orange (in England) was called 'red' - hence "robin redbreast" when really their chests are orange. I'm guessing we had yellow before lemons were brought to England!

Thank you so much anoymouscoward

Apparently sighthounds recognise other sighthounds.. Our husky only acknowledges other huskies. No other ddog makes her bat an eyelid..

Cameras

Where gold comes from

That you can have cancer and be treated entirely for free on the NHS but a dental filling will cost you £50.x

Time, it's harder to understand the more I think about it.

That Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams are different people.

How TV works

@WorraLiberty

How you can record your own voice/music/TV onto a string of brown tape in a cassette.

Showing my age now

Ah, I came on to say the same thing. I was just having this conversation earlier today!

Dogs- we cannot 'understand ' their language however we know they love us unconditionally.
The point of existence, I love my family and would so anything for them...but why? In the great scheme of things what difference does it make
Autism- I work with a severely autistic older gentleman. His whole life revolves around a very menial routine, he cannot cope with any deviation and as such he is permanently anxious and misses out on most of the 'fun' things in life. I cannot understand how his brain works or why he is the way he is.

Re autism, on the flip side, I don't get how all your brains work.

Why you don't categorise things as easily as I do, how you can't hyper fixate and research and problem solve, how you get so bogged down in personal politics and intricate dull rituals around social conduct. Why you think that if it's fun for you, then it's the absolute definition of fun, and that we're 'missing out'.

How we're still at a point in the human race where we think it's acceptable to breed or capture and then kill billions of animals every single year, and that believe that's justified because they're not human.

I will never understand this for as long as I live.

@whatsat I wasn't having a dig at anyone, this guy lives in a residential home due to the severity of his autism. He has genuinely zero capacity to enjoy anything other than his one fixation (which is something very menial that most of us do without a second thought) his whole day is consumed thinking about this one thing. He has missed out on so much of life just because of the way his brain functions. I can't comprehend how that is fair and why it happens to some people and not others.

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

The ending

Who decided that trees were to be called “Trees”. They’re not man made so it can’t have been an inventor. Yet surely someone must have decided they were to be called trees. I hope that makes. It’s not your intelligence I’m insulting. I sometimes have difficulties explaining what I mean.

It would take you 32 years to count to one billion.

The way we say “My arms, my legs my head ect. Like these are possessions of ours but not actually us. Does this mean we are a mind with a body rather than a body with a mind.

Where the name Peggy comes from Margaret.

The town in the movie Tangled where Rapunzel is locked in the tower is called Corona.
We were locked down because of Corona. To me it’s almost like someone predicted the future here.

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Tony Blair MP (I’m a Tory Plan B)
Ian Botham (Oh man I bat)
Clint Eastwood (Old west action)

How people don't realise how our system is so fragile and reliant on everything doing as they're meant to, or it will all collapse like a house of cards.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider The Peggy/Margaret thing explained by rhyming - Meg/Meggy being short for Margaret and then being rhymed with Peggy. Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret, because of Marguerite daisies.