how ignorant are you?

[Troubleshooter]

I'm a vast reservoir of ignorance, but I'm still smarter than everbody else.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

It does.

So I should put a bucket under it so I can sell it back to the electric company? If only there were a way I could just pour it into the toaster ...

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

how ignorant are you?

I don't know.


( I'm just a liiiiiiiiittle disappointed that no one said that already.) ...like saying, " what?" when someone mentions anything about hearing.

but, it's true. I'm ignorant of what i don't know. that's got to be the biggest thing.

Calculus? I don't know the meaning of the word.....no really.
i wouldn't recognize a calculus problem if presented with one. I may be able to solve it, but i don't think i would recognize that i was doing it. so...

I can't read music either. but i'll wrap your head in a guitar solo!

in biology, i never could understand the why. i get it that mitochondria create energy from fuel, but i don't get why they do it. or why heart cells pump, or why synapses carry electricity one way or a different way. that's way too deep.

oh, and women.

[mrnoodle]

I'm scared of microwaves, because I don't understand how the stuff that heats things up doesn't escape around the seal of the door and give me cancer.

[jinx]

it does

[SteveDallas]

I was quite amused by the folks who said that "I don't know any math past algebra" or "past trigonometry." If you know even a little algebra, to say nothing of trigonometry, you're ahead of the vast majority of the population, including those with college degrees.

I used to know quite a bit of math, having double-majored in it along with my music history, but I have forgotten most of it.

I'm completely cluess with tools. (Unless you count an screwdriver, which I can use to assemble a prefab unit such as a bookcase.) Even the simplest carpentry or home repairs are beyond me.

I am completely clueless in most normal social settings.

[dar512]

I know lots of stuff - my brain seems to prefer trivia over any other form of data. However, I'm a dunce at finance. I just can't seem to get worked up over it - even though I know I should.


QED = Quod Erat Demonstrandum. Latin for 'by which it is demonstrated'. You can cross that one off your list, noodle.

[Trilby]

I thought QED was Quite Easily Done. See? I'm that stupid.

[Silent]

I know more useless information then anyone else I know. Except maybe Ken Jennings.

That being said, my brain and my body are totally disconnected. I lose my coffee cup on the way to the lunch room usually once a day. It mostly involves me getting distracted and leaving it some where. It's never on purpose.
And God help me if somebody talks to me if I'm on my way to ask someone a question. It's terribly embarrassing to walk into a office and then just stare at the occupant, turn around and then leave because you have no idea why you're there.
And I can't spell worth shit.

[Tonchi]

I always believed that the more a person comes to know, the more she realizes that she does not know anything. That is definitely me, and that is why I am at The Cellar. I bungled into your forum while seeking data on something else I didn't know, and was so astonished by the range and spectrum of intelligence here that I stayed. Mostly in the shadows for 3 months though, because I felt so ignorant that I didn't have the nerve to write anything. I always believed, though, that the only way I could advance my knowledge in any way was to play with the guys who knew so much more than I did that I would always be clawing to keep up with them.

As for something concrete that I am ignorant about, suffice it to say that I was always considered "weird" as a kid, the kind you ask to do homework for you but don't want to hang around with. Having taught myself to read before I was 5, I never learned to PRONOUNCE the words. By the time I was in 2nd grade, I was into Greco-Roman mythology and Paleontology. So I could tell you all about things that most adults didn't want to know but I never pronounced the words correctly, and since the adults had no idea about the subjects they never corrected me. I came in second for the entire state of North Carolina in the National Honor Society ancient mythology contest when I was in High School, simply because it was written instead of oral. Until well into college, I never had any idea that I was saying most of the words wrong, but fortunately at that level there were others with my interests and I had the chance to learn it properly before I made too great a fool of myself. Can you imagine? I knew all about ancient mythology and geography and archeology but never knew how to pronounce Ulysses. I always said it YOOL-is-seez

[chainsaw]

I'm baffled by microwaves, too. Why is my food hot, but the inside of the microwave is not?

Math is beyond my comprehension. Yes, I can add, subtract, multiply and even divide, but if I try to reach beyond that, I'm lost. The highest math I ever completed was my Jr. year of high school and that was retard math (very basic algebra).

Gum is weird. Why doesn't it ever dissolve?

How can a nurse puncture my vein to draw blood and not go straight through it? And why does it have to be taken from a vein? Isn't there blood all over in my body?

CD's, DVD's, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, vinyl records, etc. How does stuff get in there? And how does it work?

*shrug*

[Catwoman]

Originally Posted by chainsaw

CD's, DVD's, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, vinyl records, etc. How does stuff get in there? And how does it work?

I don't get this at all and it really bothers me. I will marry the first person to make me understand.*






*This may not be true.

[russotto]

CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records are stamped. CD's and DVDs additionally have a layer of aluminum sputtered over the stamped surface, then laquered. Cassette tapes are molded in multiple pieces, the tape attached to the reels, then snapped together. VHS tapes the same thing.

Do I at least get a one night stand for this useless information?

[LCanal]

The stuff on cassette, VHS tapes is magnetically encoded onto the tape.

Double date?

[mrnoodle]

I don't get how everything computerized can be reduced to 1's and 0's, and how quickly these 1's and 0's can be manipulated to make, say, the letters and colors on my screen. It's mindboggling. Don't even get me started on integrated circuits, which take the 1's and 0's and reduce them to electrical current.

Or at least I *think* that's what they do.