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

[Doingtheboxerbeat]

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.

Not homeschooled but she didn’t spend much time at school and when she was there she didn’t pay much attention in lessons. She said she expects she was taught about lots of these things but just didn’t retain the information.

We strongly suspect she has ASD which contributed to her non school attendance. She is very very good at practical things, passed her driving test after 5 lessons, can build even the most complicated flat pack furniture without instructions and never ever gets lost, she’s great at maths but if you asked her about any current affairs she shrugs and says she doesn’t know or care.

There is definitely no brain injury, she just thinks if something doesn’t directly affect her then she doesn’t need to pay attention and has always been the same, a lot of our conversations are me being amazed that she doesn’t know something and taking the time to explain it then her asking me why she needed to know that. I’m just glad I wasn’t her teacher in school and that her kids have me to help with homework!

My OH knows all sorts of random bits and quite often comments ‘how can you not know that? You’re a teacher.’ It drives me mad. I’m always very tempted to respond with ‘at least I know when to use to, two and too correctly’, but I don’t because in spite of his little jibes, I wouldn’t want to put him down.

Curiosity about life around you helps gain some insight and information. Some of the most knowledgeable people I know have had limited formal education are so experienced in life and learning They are fairly quiet and are always listening. The pompous ones cling on to the odd facts and spout to be heard . Sometimes some facts are easier to remember than others, I can recall stuff I wasn’t aware I’d stored .

I've noticed a lot of spelling and grammatical errors in online posts.One that I see frequently is using their and they're incorrectly.Maybe it's just me wondering but where were these people when spelling and grammar were taught in school?

An American friend of mine was astonished and disbelieving that I had not learnt American history at school. He was genuinely gobsmacked that the whole world didn’t learn it!

Me too! We all make typos and errors, but sometimes it’s genuinely difficult to understand the poster because their spelling and grammar is so poor.

I had a friend say to me "I didn't know we had a general election!" About a week after the election in July, I genuinely don't understand how she managed to avoid it

This is timely, because I swear I had to gently tell my friends DD that her children couldn't go abroad with their dad on his passport and that they needed their own😱.
To be fair to her, she's never been abroad but instead of looking it up for herself, she insisted she was right because he said so 😖.
I googled it in front of her to save heartache later.

This is literally what my thread was about, doing research when you have a starting point - this level of ignorance is what is getting lost on some of the replies.

This is literally what my thread was about, doing research when you have a starting point - this level of ignorance is what is getting lost on some of the replies

Yes, exactly this.

@Doingtheboxerbeat don't go on to the "getting a joke 30 years too late" thread. Your head will explode 😅

It's way too late for that - that ship has sailed 🫣😂.

@Doingtheboxerbeat

I might have to hide it as is it making me irrationally enraged.

I'm absolutely going to look for that later 🤭.

This reminds me of the time when there was a series about Anne Frank on the TV. One poster on a now defunct BBC message board severely berated other posters for "giving away the ending" before the last episode had been aired. I'm afraid I did judge.

Oh my goodness 😱 that's fair.

I didn't know about that until I watched that episode! It was every upsetting. I wasn't alive at the time though but I do have good general knowledge and like history so I was surprised I hadn't heard of it.

We did WW1 literature at AS level and all I really remember is all the sex at the start of Birdsong by Sebastian Faukes (Faulkes?)

I read the Jean Plaidy novels when I was doing Tudor history for A level. My teacher got a bit frustrated with the lack of accuracy, but was pleased I was reading round the subject too :)

I got an A in the end (before A stars were a thing) so it did me no harm