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.

Excel. Baffles me.

Also maths.

How photographs work.

I find things like inflation and finance related stuff really confusing.

The earth goes round the sun which is what causes the seasons. The earth rotates on its axis as it moves round the sun, so that's what gives us night and day.
One rotation of the earth - 24 hours. Once round the sun - one year.

I really hope I don't get grief & accusations of being homophobic from this as I genuinely am NOT! But one thing I truly don't understand, is why in many lesbian relationships, there is one who is very masculine and then with gay male couples, there's usually one who is very feminine in nature) Obviously I'm NOT saying I believe there's anything at all 'wrong' with it, I just wondered if there was something I wasn't understanding? Perhaps it's just coincidence as I'm not massively social so I don't get out very much! I've just never met or known it to be any other way. Whereas with heterosexual couples, femininity & masculinity seems to vary massively from couple to couple.

I too suffer from Dyscalculia.

I came on here to say what a PP has already said: anything financial generates a blank stare and tumbleweeds in my brain. To name but a few: exchange rates, stocks & shares, interest/interest rates, investments, mortgages (we’ll always rent but that’s another story), taxes, insurance, credit cards, pensions - you name it, I don’t get it.

I’m degree educated and hold down a demanding job, but can’t get my head around any of the above no matter how hard I try!

One of these days I’ll sit down with a financial advisor and get them to explain it to me like I’m a primary school pupil… it really should be taught in school but the cynic in me can see why the government wouldn’t want us educated on this area! (Off to make a tin foil hat now…)

Sound through air is like a ripple on a pond - it's a pressure wave, it needs a medium through which to travel. Air is a gas, it's made up of particles that can be pushed/squashed closer just like water on a pond is pushed when a pebble is dropped into it.

Down a telephone line, the sound is digitised (sampled and turned into a sequence of numbers) and then at the other end turned back into sound via a speaker. Speakers use magnets and electricity to vibrate an amplifying surface.

For a mobile phone, once the sound is digitised it can be sent to a mobile phone tower which sends radio waves out that are detected by other towers and sent on, until the tower nearest to the target mobile phone is reached.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're confused about?

but you're on a river, you close the lock, the river keeps running & water builds up, boat floats higher, , open the lock & boat carries on down the river.

it's just forcing the height of the river under the boat temporarily until it's floating at the same height as the new bit of river, if there was more water in the stretch of water it wouldn't be necessary.

Affect and effect.

To the point where I just won’t use them!

I google it, think I understand it, then realise I don’t.

Daylight saving - the one that's earlier in the year, started during the blackout in WW2 to reduce the number of casualties due to darkness. The Germans would never raid during daylight hours

How people buy houses. How did they manage to get jobs that were secure enough and well paying enough to be able to save up tens of thousands of pounds in advance and then convince a computer that they'd be worth lending even more to?

And how if they haven't bought anywhere before because they couldn't afford a home where they lived and worked, how do they convince a lender that it's OK, they'll definitely be able to get jobs in the cheaper area (cheaper because there are fewer jobs paying less than in the more expensive area) by the time the first payment is due?

People.

I can understand loads about science, physics, maths, computing, natural world, engineering, economics, civil engineering, quantoms, space, and I'm quick to learn any of those kind of concepts but people? Nope. I don't get how some people's mind works. That is why mumsnet facinates me.

The US political system. DH is the opposite to me and knows all about it in great details. He's tried to explain it to me, about the senators thing, congress etc. I THINK I just about understand the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. But that's only since Trump because I started to think of the Democrats being like our Democrats and more on the left, more intelligent and forward thinking etc, with Hilary Clinton etc. And the Republicans as being like our Tories, more right-wing, arrogant, stuck in their ways with many outdated sexist and racist views.

This has boggled my mind further!

I don’t understand anything very much.

Im the exact opposite to you! Perhaps we could train each other? XD

Envy is actively wanting something someone has for yourself. Jealousy is simply wishing it was you/was yours

How to use the drill. I get the whole process but when DP does it, it results in a round little hole suitable for the job. When I do it, I just take a chunk out the wall.

Also, stocks/shares. I just dont get it.

Oh, also, politics. So much seems to obvious but apparently im naïve.

I don't understand about the earth, sun, moon, orbiting, and why we have different seasons and weather, and why it's either always light or always dark at the poles. I don't think I even understand what a year is.

Philosophy.
Eg Bertrand Russell's book about Western philosophy is very well written and easy to follow, but I don't get how it's all supposed to be relevant for my life. None of these men seem to have anything interesting to say about the world we actually live in. It's all so.... pointless? Why is studying philosophy seen as so important for general knowledge and culture? I just don't get it!

It's not homophobic but it is a bit ignorant if you don't know many gay or lesbian couples to make assumptions. There are many 'femme' gay women, for example, who don't tend to get immediately identified as lesbian, and people seeing two femme or more stereotypically 'feminine' women together tend to assume they're friends. It can also be down to our cultural gender stereotypes - playing to traditionally masculine stereotypes is one way to identify yourself as gay, while on the flip side, wanting to appeal to men can push many women into a narrower range of stereotypical interests/behaviours/clothing choices etc (you see this in older women as well as gay women - a far higher percentage with short hair and comfortable shoes!)

Cricket/football/tennis - I just nod and smile 😂

@CandleWick4 sorry!

Affect is you, effect is them. So this reply affects me and im hoping my response has an effect on you.