To ask what you should know but don't

[Donotunderstandmyhouse]

I have a thread (embarrassingly) atm about the the fact that I have no clue about my own boiler and heating system. Please could I ask you to make me feel slightly less inept as a parent to be and an adult by asking what you do not or did not know that you should ? I'm talking things like one of my friends knew nothing about council tax when we first moved out of our parents homes 🙈

[alibongo5]

@Donotunderstandmyhouse - now I get it! Mine is relatively straighforward but I bet some are really un-user friendly - like dvds and video players - they used to be dead straightforward but they became really complicated and impossible to use.

And totally agree @ateaspoonplease - I never have been able to understand who's fighting who and why and who I should be supporting and who are the "baddies".

[brizzlemint]

I simply cannot get my head round the American electoral system no matter how much anybody explains it to me but I do understand the offside rule so I'm not thick

[Donotunderstandmyhouse]

@alibongo5 while I would like to say mine is complex I feel it's probably that I am being daft 😚

[Heulog]

I don't understand what if means when people say they are Protestant/Catholic/Church of England/Wales/Christian. I've always been too embarrassed to ask.

[SuperSara]

Anything about Shakespeare’s work. I am completely clueless about it.

I know it’s not vitally important but it seems to be something I should know something about.

[Bluelonerose]

What the different buttons are on my microwave for.
I only use it to cook beans and heat up left overs but the other buttons well they're just like pockets on baby's clothes totally pointless.

[Charley50]

The radio. And TV.

[IncognitaIgnorama]

@Heulog - Christianity is the over-arching religion and all followers of it are Christians: the others are denominations (types) of Christian - with the same basic belief (Jesus as Son of God, died for people's sin, rose from the dead) but differences in ritual, approach or elements of belief

@GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman thank you for that! So how does a career average salary one (TPS) work, or is that essentially the same?

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I have no idea what WW1 was all about.

[Jengacritical]

How to calculate percentages. I know I learnt it at school, but now I have to google it every damn time.

[chaoscategorised]

This one's awful and I'm very embarrassed, but I still get very confused about which bit of the island of Ireland is which. And where Belfast/Dublin/other cities are. It's made Brexit news a wee bit confusing.

[Ohyesiam]

I didn’t know we were supposed to know about our heating system. I mean I can work out how to operate it, but what else are we supposed to know?

[Tunnocks34]

Don’t know how to set the timer on my boiler.

Don’t know how to use a semi colon. I’m a teacher too and I still don’t understand how to use ones (not an English teacher!)

Don’t know how to turn the water off to my house. An issue which arose recently when we had a severe leak whilst OH worked away and I had to ring my dad to help me.

Don’t know what ww1 was about.

No clue about politics. I know I agree mostly with Labour, I read manifestos etc but I don’t understand Marxism etc.

Not really sure what stuff goes in what recycling bin either. I know paper, plastic etc but I don’t know which plastic is recyclable so I just put it all in a bag which OH sorts out daily.

[Tunnocks34]

I also could probably only name about 2/3 African countries.

[Tunnocks34]

jenga original number divided by 100, and then multiplied by the % your looking for.

[Giggorata]

I don't know the names of the streets in the village I have lived in for 20 years, how to adjust the display on my car or how to work my mobile phone properly.

[Jjacobb]

God so much,
Boiler/heating system, I could work the old one but have recently had a new one installed and I'm clueless.
Setting the clock or timer on the oven and microwave
The X box, in fact all of the gaming gadgets, I'm just not interested
The list is endless.

I was a single parent for 10 years and was incredibly self sufficient. Since marrying I admit I'm really lazy and will get dh to do most of the technical stuff we need. It's shameful really.

[Ohyesiam]

I don’t know about any of these things, and that’s fine. I am completely happy with my limitations. It comes with being in your 50 s . Some people are all rounders, but no one can be good at everything.

[brizzlemint]

With boilers you need to know how to set the temperature of the water and radiators and how to repressurise them.

WW1 started because British, France and Russia (and somewhere else, I can't remember) were allies but Germany was an ally of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by a terrorist group from Bosnia when they were in Serbia. The Austro-Hungarian empire then demanded some actions from Serbia and threatened to go to war if they didn't meet them. Germany stayed on the side of the Austrians but Russia sided with Serbia and Austria declared war on Serbia, then Germany declared war on Russia and France.

[Jjacobb]

Oh, how the moon and tides work, and why sometimes you can see the moon and the sun at the same time. I have googled it many times but my brain just can't understand it.

[Thestral]

I don't know how the internet works.

I waste hours, days and months of my life pissing about on here, but I haven't the foggiest about how what I type on here waves phone in air gets to you over there. It's got to be magic.

[brizzlemint]

Re the tides.

Imagine the Moon as being a magnet and the Earth as being a larger magnet.
Now imagine the water as iron filings.
The Moon can pull the iron filings towards it but the Earth has a stronger pull on the iron filings so they stay on the earth.
Because the moon is pulling on the iron filings (a tidal force) you get a bulge towards the moon (a tidal bulge) on the side of the Earth that is closest to the moon and also on the side furthest from the moon.
These are the high tides.

As the Earth rotates different parts of the Earth get a high tide at different times - when the beach you are on is going through the bulge you get the tide, when it isn't the tide is lower. The reason you get two high tides and two low tides a day is because of the two bulges of water on opposite sides of the Earth.

[FluffySocks123]

@ScreamingValenta

Pedals on a car -:

Left to right
CBA
Clutch, break, accelerate
To change gear, break, go faster


The lights on the car depend on which car it is - so I can't help with that! Hahahaha

[longwayoff]

The name Liam. I have believed this to be an Irish name,like Sean or Niamh for instance, since I first heard it sometime in the past 50 years. Someone mentioned to me the other day that it's an abbreviation of William. Duh. So obvious that it shouldn't require explanation

[brizzlemint]

I thought Liam was an Irish name as well.