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

[ClassicStripe]

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

Try thinking of it as a 3D version of a roundabout.

Or, get a ball and a book, rotate the book round the ball keeping the two in touch. the book will never suddenly flip.

I must have read why the sodding First World War happened countless times and I still can't remember

To be fair, this one’s a chestnut of a debate for a reason. Most historians can only agree that the whole thing was an unholy mess.

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Effect/Affect

Because it does something useful on the way round, e.g. boils a kettle. So some of that electrical energy will be converted into heat energy which will be converted into tea. Your provider then bills you for the amount of electrical energy used.

Effect is a noun, a thing. "This has an effect" "The effect is amazing."

Affect is a verb, a doing word. "heat affects water" "we are affected by inflation"

Confusingly you can use effect as a verb but it means something different. For example "to effect change " means to bring about change.

I don't understand how radio waves, phone lines, mobile phone signals, records, cassettes, cds, etc actually carry sound. And I used to work in radio lol.

How to adult... Im sure Im still not doing it right, Im just an anxious 15 year old trapped in a middle aged body trying not to make eye contact in case someone mistakes me for a grown up who just knows all that shit we are seemingly suppose to know.

This is all about bases. Try thinking about adding up money. How many pennies make a pound? (100).

Then think about adding up time. How many seconds make a minute? (60) How many minutes make an hour? (60. Then confuse yourself by how many hours make a day. Not a consistent base. 😂)

Binary is simple by comparison. When you get to 2 you move on to the next column to the left.

Light travels at approx 300,000 meters per second. That means that something that's, say, 300,001 meters away happened a second before you can see it. Multiply those meters many many times and you're looking further "into" the past.

I'm going to get this tattooed on my arm. Affect and effect have always annoyed me.

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I haven't googled this but the way I believe it is you are jealous of people or your personal situation , envy is more about things . So you can envy your neighbour's car / house / new shoes but you are jealous of her taking your husband out in the car in case he decides the car is worth spending more time with her

Probably explained that badly .

And Chemistry... I did it for FOUR YEARS at uni, still dont understand it one bit.

Its like an alien language and I can stare at it till the end of time and it still means NOTHING to me.

Its a miracle I pulled a 40% pass grade. Luckily I'm great at biology (just naturally make sense) which made up 90% of the course.

Jealousy: you want something the other person has AND you don't want them to have it

Envy: you want something the other person has but you don't want them to not have it

@Bananas1350 that makes me sad. I wish I could sit down with you and take you through it. It makes life so much easier .

Gravity.

Moon and earth: the moon was flung into existence in the vicinity of earth. Because of gravity, it's stuck in orbit around the earth. Space is a vacuum, there's nothing to stop the movement of the moon around the earth, no way to deplete the momentum. It's a silent, beautiful, endless ballet.

Similar with the earth and the sun, and all other planets and their satellites. Not identical, but close enough.

Weather and its relation to the sea.

Maths aside from the very basic.

The difference between petrol and diesel. I've got multiple letters after my name but I joke that despite this I suffer from A.B.T (A Bit Thick).

The difference between affect and effect

the difference between seen and saw

Ah no, I actually meant the geometry of the movements! I can just about keep track in my head of the movements of the earth spinning on its axis, and tilting back and forth, and moving around the sun, but then the moon is orbiting the earth (how frequently? at what angle?) and is also in a state of full -> new moon depending on where it all is in relation to the sun...it's too much! DH somehow manages to keep track of all this in his head, which IMO is some sort of superhuman capability.

@JusthereforXmas Same for me with the physics. Four years, no clue. I got 38% but they must have felt sorry for me and let me pass 😖Also similar with feeling like I'm still 15 but I have total responsibility for two young people who depend on me. What??!

I don't understand how space can go on forever. I imagine a big wall somewhere. But then, what's on the other side of the wall? 🤔

Locks are only on canals surely? Not rivers. It's about levelling up the water when there's a gradient so the canal boats can travel along i.e. canals can't do hills!

My DH says I don't understand thermostats but I do (I think!).

This is a bit embarrassing considering I have a masters degree in science, but I cannot remember or understand what adjacent means, sometimes at work consultants will ask me to select something on an image that is adjacent to another thing and almost every time I get it wrong 😳 I just thought it meant next to something, but obviously not! I’ve tried googling it and loads of different explanations come up.

Good explanation but I think there’s a typo that might cause a bit of confusion to the pp who asked this question. I think you meant to say if you earn £1000 per month and get a 300% pay rise you would then earn £4000 a month.

I don’t understand infinity. How can there be no end to the universe? How can it just go on forever? But even if it had an end what would be on the other side of the end? And then on the other side of whatever that is? I’m getting a headache just thinking about it…

I get what the pp meant about gay relationships. My sister is a lesbian and in her relationship she is more 'girly' than her dp. And in male relationships I've seen one partner be more/less overtly masculine than the other. I think maybe it's because gender is a scale so both women and men will be at different points along it when it comes to masculinity or femininity and opposites attract? Maybe people (gay and straight)seek out partners who have different qualities snd it's just more noticeable in gay relationships because we expect people to be a certain way that corresponds with biological sex.

Re disingenuous - that's pretending you know less about something than you really do, to trip someone up. Asking leading questions to trick them.

How if the world is round, how the people who live at the bottom aren't upside down

because there isn't a top or bottom really..we see it like that in pictures but it's in space...it's a ball in space essentially and space doesn't have a top or bottom.