Things you are too embarrassed to admit you don't understand

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I don't think I really understand what a fascist is.

The rule of thumb I give people is that 99% of the time affect is a verb and effect is a noun.

You can have effect as a verb eg ‘effect a change’ but it’s rare. There’s also a noun ‘affect’ but that’s still rarer.

Why can we send rockets to space but we can't find cures for common diseases like cancer and diabetes? Is it lack of money and resources or lack of brain power?

I’m a university lecturer in English Literature and I still have to Google benevolent and malevolent. 🤦‍♀️

You're a teacher and can't understand that some people don't understand the difference between gross and net?

Finance isn't taught in primary/secondary schools up north, don't know if it is down south. Get off your high horse, resolve the problem and become a proper teacher.

Matched betting. The number of times I’ve read, re-read and read again how it works and I still don’t understand it. I asked DH to read through it and he couldn’t grasp it either, yet it was so frequently mentioned here as a way to earn money. I couldn’t even grasp the basics of it!

I’m surprised by this too, especially if they’re in paid work. Surely you just have to look at your payslip, which shows the gross pay, all the deductions, and the net pay (highlighted) which is the amount you receive. If you see that every month I don’t get how you can confuse the two.

This didn't baffle me, or least I'd never thought about it until just now...
Now Its 4am and I have no idea how I'll ever think about anything else.

Gravity? Would love a simple explanation of something I thought I knew about but realised I know nothing about

When websites don't work, I never know if it my computer/ phone bring rubbish the internet provider signal weak or overloaded or the website (and it's glitching for everybody).

As for memory, the cloud, bites mega bites.
Just clueless. 🙄

Omg how have I never thought about this, as now I’m wondering too. I often wonder how planes fly but try not to have this thought when I’m in the air!!

I'm of a similar vintage, and I only learned the terms noun, verb etc when I went to secondary school, as at primary we just used "doing words" and "naming words" etc. Adjectives are only describing words for nouns (eg red, tall etc), because you use adverbs to describe verbs (eg quickly, loudly etc). That's about the limit of my grammar knowledge though, as while I can vaguely remember that things like conjunctions and prepositions exist I couldn't define one, and have absolutely no clue what a past participle is.

Credit cards

Money. I just don’t. I can’t budget and it feels like no matter how much or how little I have I feel constantly stressed about it. Tried every app and budget going and still feel genuinely confused by it.

I am really envious of people who are good with money.

Also, and this is really embarrassing, I can never remember what a verb, adjective or noun is. Total mental block.

I actually manage to hold down a well paid job and come across as reasonably intelligent IRL, I promise 😉

Oh, me too. Was like trying to translate the bible into a new language for all it’s simplicity as far as I was concerned 😂

Essentially, you take advantage of the free bets you get from various bookies as a new member and cover all outcomes, so you can't lose.

However, it's very time consuming and the bookies are on the lookout for it, so it's hard to make it worthwhile these days. Not impossible, though.

So glad it’s not me. I honestly thought it was. I remember when DC were in Primary school and always questions around this and no matter how much I tried to teach myself it’s never stuck.

My 16 year old and her friends love it so am guessing it’s a younger demographic, although she’s getting v bored of it after a few series and didn’t really watch this one.

Just think of gross as 'eww fat' as it includes tax, and net is the other one.

Me too, maths baffles me, always has, always will.

People think I must be good at maths as I'm a computer science graduate and work in data science/software engineering. They won't believe I'm as thick as shit with maths.

Something that blows my mind is that when I am in the car on a phonecall through my bluetooth/car speaker, when my satnav gives directions and loudly speaks in the car, the person on the phone can't hear it.. but can hear me and everyone else in the car, even other cars beeping.. but not my satnav voice. Would love this to be answered. Makes no sense.

I don't know if anyone else answered you but this how a lot of PO systems work.

You want to buy stationery. You raise a purchase order in your system which contains the key pieces of data:

• what you are buying - stationery
• who you are buying it from - vendor/supplier
• how much you are going to pay
• which department is paying for the stationery

When the stationery arrives you go into the system to the po tell it your goods arrived.

When the invoice arrives it has the purchase order number on it which gets matched to the order in the system.

Of course all manner of problems can occur: the goods don't arrive, or only some of them, the supplier doesn't put the PO number on the invoice, they charge a different price etc etc.

I don't know if this helps?

'I went past the park' - past is a preposition in that sentence, not the past tense of the verb "to pass".

How to pronounce ‘meme’.

Whenever I've heard it, it's rhymed with cream.

Me neither, and I include the moon and tides in this 😁