Things you're shocked people don't know

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm always surprised by those who don't seem to understand how science works. I assume these people took science classes in school and know what the scientific method is, yet they remain utterly clueless as to how scientific research is done. They have this strange idea that science is just about opinion and belief and that it's only about who has the most convincing and vehement argument, not who has the best research and facts. Clearly, they've gotten mixed up between science and politics...

It also depresses me how computer illiterate most people are. Even for people who work with computers all day, they know how to do virtually nothing on the computer if it's outside their normal job functions.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't even like football, but I still know how the game is played.

I don't.

Well, I *barely* know how football works. I know the absolute bare essentials of the game. But I don't know what a first down is, for example.

My obsession with baseball is obvious, and part of it is because I actually understand it. I am well familiar with that game. I can follow it, talk about it, argue about it. Football doesn't do that for me.

 

[RoJoHen]

A team gets 4 attempts (downs) to move the ball 10 yards. If they move the ball 10 yards, the downs reset themselves, and they go back to the first down (so they have another 4 attempts).

So if you say "4th and 1," that means it's the 4th down (last attempt) and that they have one more yard to go to reach 10. If they make it that one yard, they earn a 1st Down, which means they retain possession of the ball for another 4 Downs.

 

[Miss Chicken]

My sister was shocked when I didn't know who Susan Boyle was.

 

[Starbreaker]

I had to explain to someone who Martin Luther King Jr. was the other day.

I'm surprised at how many people don't know Firefox exists... and still put up with Internet Explorer 5.0 or something stupid.

Some people still don't know about Hulu and Wikipedia.

 

[Finn]

^hulu is understandable since many people are not into tv and movies that much.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

That having different beliefs does not make you stupid, evil, or otherwise inferior.

Also, anything to do with manners and common decency.

 

[mari]

It also depresses me how computer illiterate most people are. Even for people who work with computers all day, they know how to do virtually nothing on the computer if it's outside their normal job functions.

This. I've learned to charge ridiculous amounts of money to install printers, though, and I keep getting away with it!

Also, people who don't know how they like their coffee and hold up the drive-thru line. What, your personal assistant has the day off so you came to Starbucks yourself?

 

[John Picard]

That having different beliefs does not make you stupid, evil, or otherwise inferior.

Also, anything to do with manners and common decency.

QFT on both accounts.

 

[Mr. B]

I am always shocked when an American doesn't know the rules to a major American sport.

I might have been more understanding... it was a female, but she was in the high school band and attended most of the football games.

 

[RoJoHen]

I had to explain to someone who Martin Luther King Jr. was the other day.

Was this person 4 years old?

I am always shocked when an American doesn't know the rules to a major American sport.

I might have been more understanding... it was a female, but she was in the high school band and attended most of the football games.

Yeah, she really has no excuse.

 

[Lookingglassman]

That NuBSG is better than ST:TNG.

 

[Finn]

That NuBSG is better than ST:TNG.

Most people don't know either....

 

[Kestra]

Last week while speaking to an out of town friend about the Super Bowl, I had to explain what the kickoff is before I could talk about the onside kick that opened the 2nd half.

I am always shocked when an American doesn't know the rules to a major American sport.

I don't even like football, but I still know how the game is played.

I didn't know anything about football until I went to a college game a few months back. I just never sat and watched a game before, or had anyone explain any of it to me.

 

[RoJoHen]

Did you never play football in PE class?

 

[Kestra]

Not that I can think of. I did learn to square dance, though!

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, me too. But we also played, ya know, sports. Even the girls!

 

[Kestra]

I did volleyball, tennis, badminton, running type things, baseball (if it counts when you close your eyes and swing the bat wildly). Oh and basketball, but that ended when I accidentally hurt some guy. But no football.

 

[Jetfire]

That having different beliefs does not make you stupid, evil, or otherwise inferior.

Also, anything to do with manners and common decency.

Agreed.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That NuBSG is better than ST:TNG.

Most people don't know either....

In my case it's not "agree".