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.

‘AvoiR’ not avoid - autocorrect’s not having it!

The menstrual cycle. I've only just found out, at the age of 50, that the first day of your cycle is the day you start bleeding. I always thought, if I thought about it at all, it was the day after you finished bleeding. I've never wanted or tried for children, though, and think I'd be a bit more clued up about it if I had!

I also don't understand cryptocurrency but I'm not sure I'm all that 'embarrassed' about it.

APR/AER regarding interest rates. I understand what gross/net generally means but not in relation with interest rates!

I’m a Level 2 qualified cricket scorer, AMA 😎

Bacon. I really don't understand the differences between all the different types of bacon. 🤷🏻

Millennial are people that were turning 18 and the millennium - I think roughly 1980-2000

Gen X are roughly born 1965-1980 - the first generation that really used computers in daily work, I think it originally had associations with Silicon Valley

Baby Boomers are the post-war generation 1945-65 who basically had an nice easy life of job security and post-war wealth.

Gen Z I think are those born 2000 on ....

How to work our tv. It's about 12 years old and has had lots of boxes and controllers added to bring it up to date. If I turn it on, and it's not on a screen I don't know what to do with, then I turn it off and do something different instead.

Was a spider in Compo’s matchbox wasn’t it?

A long time ago I worked with a guy who had worked in the Congo for a few years who mentioned this exact thing. He said that there were lots of fungi which looked edible and no way of knowing if they were safe (this was before the days of PCs, Google etc.)
One of his workmates had a pet monkey. They used to offer a fungus to it and if it was happy to eat it they would take some and boil it for a while, then cautiously sip some of the water. If no-one got ill they would try a little of the fungus itself.
So probably early man ate stuff which he'd seen wild animals eating first?

It is not possible for women to understand the offside rule, brains are wired differently. 😁

Me neither. 19 years. About 3 procurement systems.

I no longer have a job that requires me to make purchases thank goodness!

I looked into this when we were buying a new car a few years back as a few people I know lease. Basically the advantage is that you don't own it so you get to give it back after say 3 years and then lease a newer model. Your payments are less than buying a new car upfront as you can just pay bit by bit. But over the life of the lease you will pay more.

The obvious disadvantage is that you don't have a commodity to sell at the end so you're just paying for you usage over the time scale. I couldn't see any way in which it was financially beneficial to us to lease but we had sufficient funds to buy a car outright. I think if you want a specific car but can't afford it, leasing is a short-term solution, but overall you will pay more.

Net and gross.

I remember that gross is bigger, as it is the French word for fat.

Simplified explanation...Practice is the noun. It's "a GP's practice" because it's a building, so a place.

Practise is a verb. This is the one that can change and needs someone carrying it out. I practise the piano every day. As a child, I practised the piano every day. Tom practises the piano every day.

Practice doesn't change (unless it's plural). Football practice lasted 2 hours.
My practice is always improving.

I don't understand the basics of our legal system. Who makes the laws, what the Lords do, what the processes are for laws being changed. The difference between an act, a bill and a law.

Whoever invented bread or cake etc

Who thought putting all those ingredients together would create that

I went to 6 schools when there was no national curriculum (many other children have been to more, I know). So I never learned about clauses and anything more complicatedthan nouns and verbs. I'd be lost if I had to help my grandchildren with their homework. Similar problem with some areas of maths, though I filled in some of the blanks when doing teacher training.
Anything financial, so I'm glad I married a finance wizard. ☺️

A bill is before it goes through Parliament. So a bill is the proposed law. Then it goes through the House of Commons who consider it and possibly amend it. Once they've finished, it goes to the Lords who also consider it and amend it. Then it goes back to the Commons who pass it. If they then make more amendments, it will go back to the Lords and so on. This process is called ping pong! Once it's passed in the Commons, it becomes an Act. Then it gets laid before Parliament and becomes legislation or law.

I gave up biology at 14 and know practically nothing about any medical issue. I had to look up blood circulation recently to try and understand why I have high blood pressure.

Also with all this talk of "gut microbiome" etc where actually is your gut?

Everytime I’m in plane I think well this shouldn’t be possible.

I work in finance and I still wonder why they can’t just decide to keep interest rates low and that inflation doesn’t need to be high. To be fair I’m not in a finance-y part of finance and would never admit this to my colleagues!

oh dear lord neither do I understand mine, no matter how often its explained.

@VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia cool. So we will be of some use after we're gone. That's comforting

Why the sky is blue but space is black 😅

British Summer Time was first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1916, during World War I. The purpose of implementing BST was to save fuel consumption by making better use of daylight during the summer months. Since then, BST has been used yearly, with its start and end dates adjusted over time.

Oh and NFT’s. How can these things be worth money? 😳