I can't believe people don't know that?

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Does anyone else get annoyed when people ask this? To me, It's sounds so smug and ignorant at the same time.

Now I understand Google is free and that we have answers to all things at our fingertips, but you would need to have starting point first. You can't just tap on your device Google, fill in the gaps in my knowledge or tell me all the things I don't know, about the history of everything.

We can't know everything and this is so different from those who don't want to know stuff.
Like the guy I went on a date with last year - I made a throw away comment about us being typical Gen Xers and he asked me what tf is a Gen Xer and when I tried to explain he promptly stuck his tongue in my mouth 🤭 he didn't give a shit, obviously. Like I said, that's a bit different.

"I hate to tell you this, but fish don't have fingers"

Fish don't have fingers?? Next you are going to tell me that chickens don't have balls.

Chickens with no balls would be a Capon

I often wish there was a "like" button on here.

There is. Are you on the app or the desktop site?

I wish there was the opposite !
I'd like to see a button that effectively says youaretotallywrongandtalkingoutofyourarseyoustupidperson.

You know things I don't know, and I know things you don't know. Be careful when you look down on people, you have farther to fall.

Thank you. I have genuinely learnt something. We are so use to seeing images in books with all the planets in a neat row, you forget they are all circling the sun at different rates.

It’s just something a cerebral narcissist would say, they always have to let you know how thick you are. It’s how they take source.
I just can’t believe you don’t all know that. 😀

They might know things you don’t. It isn’t necessary to know the things you’ve mentioned.

I was reading this thread yesterday and chuckling along but now... I've just been 'ah ma gad you didn't know that'-ed by my DH! We were trying to decide what film to watch and I've never seen the Imitation Game - Benedict Cumberbatch is so bloody annoying.

Anyway, DH said Keira Knightlys in it, and I said oh, as his love interest? DH then did the youdidntknowthat about Alan Turing (the codebreaker) being gay, that he's a gay icon and that he was pardoned and it was a huge deal etc.

Am currently running a bath and having a glass of wine while he watches it 😂

I'd never heard of Freddie Mercury until he died although I could remember hearing Bohemian Rhapsody somewhere, it was just a song in the background though.
There is an awful amount of inverted snobbery, you're allowed to sneer at my lack of knowledge or interest in modern culture, but God forbid I should criticise your lack of knowledge of, say, ballet, Shakespeare etc..

O.M.G. crab sticks aren't made of crab?
Probably why increasingly described as sea food sticks, to stave off Trading Standards.

Sherlock Holmes, I think I can understand. You have a museum, and tourist walks.
Then you have incoming 47th Potus, who talks of Hannibal Lecter as a real person!!
Like to be around, when he learns Georgia is a real country not just a U.S. state.

And a prairie oyster has more to do with buffalos than with the sea!
What about a Bombay duck?

Oh good, I feared that might be a bit of nerdiness too far!

US dollars are also very widely accepted round the world.
I hate the thought of so many people learning their History from tripe like The Crown although I do remember vividly getting an excellent grade in 'O' level History because I had read a series of racy books set during the French Revolution. my teacher was so impressed that I had obviously read around the subject! Thank you Denis Wheatley.

GB does not include Northern Ireland, the UK does, that's why our official name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Isles is simply geographical rather than political.

I find it incredible that people don’t know other countries have their own alphabet. That say David is pronounced differently in French than it is in English.
I once spoke to someone who thought that the staff in the job centre made and passed laws. After explaining that they don’t have that power, he replied with ‘Well if they don’t, who makes the laws?’ He had no idea that a thing called parliament existed and those elected to parliament had the power to do this. He was utterly mind blown.

I thought that Donald Rumsfeld's speech made perfect sense!

And a 'bollocks' button alongside it!

I don't say it, but I do think it. It's called research! Yes you need a starting point. Those who can't be bothered to search annoy me! It's laziness

I get this a lot when it concerns films, especially ones that were released mid 80s - mid 90s. I have never been a massive film fan,it takes a very special film for me to actually want to sit down and watch it. And during the mid 80s to mid 90s,I was pretty much up to my eyes in bringing up my kids. But the incredulity and eye rolling I get when I say I've not heard of such and such film,or no,I don't know the scene from that film you're talking about!

It’s impossible to know or research everything in the world.

It’s also incredibly boring.

I have absolutely no interest in trains for example and I’m not going to waste my time researching everything there is to know about trains.

It’s not lazy when you have absolutely no interest in it.

You mean they can’t be bothered to research the things you find interesting. Maybe they’re researching other things. Isn’t that what this thread is all about? People being smug that their own brand of knowledge is more important than someone else’s?

Can you elaborate on Donald Rumsfeld’s speech?

edited - do you mean the unknown unknowns?

Most people in the US don't have passports.

A few friends and I are going to Canada from the US in late Winter. We were going to go in September but one woman aged 60+ did not know she had to have a passport to go to Canada. She hasn't been on a vacation, other than fishing with her husband, in 35 years.