Things I just do not understand..

[MamaLema]

Preface: In winter we wear thermal wool socks that keep your feet cozy up to 5 degrees. They're pretty expensive for socks about $15 each. We were all wearing a pair.

One WDW trip, we were driving from Canada and stopped in SC for the night. We unpacked nothing but toothbrushes and I made sure everyone put their socks in their shoes so we could get going quickly the next morning.

The next morning DS's one sock was no where to be found. We searched everywhere and never found it and no one understood how it got lost when nothing was unpacked.

Our family still refers to our trip as the trip with the missing sock.

 

[MickeySP]

Nobody eats quiche. It's so old hat. Sushi is the new quiche.

I still love quiche now you are just being rude. Oh I forgot just checked I'm all good not a man

 

[maxaroni]

Yes I am Bajan. Driving here can be tricky if you're not used to it! If you're used to wider roads you may keep pulling too far to the left because you're not used to oncoming traffic passing so close to you. We Bajans are experts at getting by buses on narrow roads with just inches to spare. Sorry about your wrist - glad you had a great time to make up for all the mishaps!

Your country is beautiful and everyone we met were so friendly, kind and hospitable. We did travel on a reggae bus and it was an experience. A good one, though. Restaurants were wondferful, too.

I'd go back to Barbados in a heartbeat. However, not sure we'd rent a car....lol. We are used to wider roads and that was it exactly, pulling to far left.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

If you can back out, you can back in.

As it turns out, Aisles and spaces can be narrower if the parking spaces are on the diagonal and traffic flows one way down them. That doesn't lend itself to backing. Moreover, most cars are front steer making it harder to maneuver while backing. And there are more precise steering movements to be made when getting into a spot than getting out of one.

http://gizmodo.com/the-physics-of-why-you-get-confused-when-you-reverse-a-1671611821

 

[CPanther95]

As it turns out, Aisles can be narrower if the parking spaces are on the diagonal and traffic flows one way down them. That doesn't lend itself to backing.

That also greatly increases your ability to view traffic as you're backing out - and confines it to only being from one direction.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Actually no. Backing out requires slightly more space between rows than backing in does. If your rear tires were the steer tires (like on a forklift), the opposite would be true.

Forklifts are rear steer because they only drive very slowly and have a very short wheelbase compared to a car and on such, it allows for greater control of the forks.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

I don't understand watching golf on tv either. It doesn't seem very exciting to me

Golf is for people who can't take the excitement of baseball !

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

That also greatly increases your ability to view traffic as you're backing out - and confines it to only being from one direction.

Of course the diagonal scheme has its drawbacks too like when some idiot decides to drive the wrong way in one at 30 mph because well he doesn't need to park.

 

[MickeySP]

Golf is for people who can't take the excitement of baseball !

Hey!!!! At least it's not the last 2 minutes,well 90 minutes of a NBA game.


Still not getting

Wham
Beck
Any Boy Band.

 

[DawnM]

I don't understand watching golf on tv either. It doesn't seem very exciting to me

We have cable for the golf channel.

Well, maybe not entirely, but my husband watches it a lot. He was a pro golfer for many years before I met him, so he just loves golf.

 

[DawnM]

The point of imaginary numbers

This is embarrassing to admit, but when I was in 9th grade Algebra (yes, in the old days we took it in 9th grade), I didn't get the point of using a letter for an arbitrary number. In fact, I had such trouble that after the teacher explained that A=8 in the first problem, I thought ALL A's were 8s and just plugged in "8" every time I saw an A.

Yeah, I wasn't all that great in Algebra.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I don't understand why I'm watching "Police Academy" for the 27th time when I didn't like it the first time I saw it.

What up wit dat???

Because you have a gazillion channels and nothing to watch?

 

[Julie's Haircut]

You mentioned Toby Tyler. . . all is forgiven and forgotten.

Go in peace.

Thank you for the absolution, Father. I shall sin no more against Man.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Easy.
First separate the pie into pi and e.
Multiple the reciprocal of pi by the cubed root of e.
Raise to the negative power of Avogadro's number.
Divide the whole mess by zero.
Voila!!

The real reason the dinosaurs became extinct.

 

[Suger Mag]

Nobody eats quiche. It's so old hat. Sushi is the new quiche.

Hah! I don't understand people who do not appreciate quiche... warm or cold it is tasty either way. We eat it all the time, but then again I have layer chickens, so fresh eggs are something we have in abundance and need to use up constantly, and quiche is so easy and can be made in so many flavors.

 

[jevs]

The offside rule.
Text talk SRSLY M8
People who think wearing their jeans around their knees is a good look.
Anyone who doesn't think leopard print is the best thing ever.
Australians who argue that Crunchies are better than Violet Crumbles, they all should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Baggers at the grocery store who put everything but the cold items in the insulated bags!!

 

[sam_gordon]

The offside rule.

In which sport?

 

[jevs]

In which sport?

Football/soccer

6 years of living in the UK and 10 years of marriage to a Brit - yep, still clueless

 

[sam_gordon]

Football/soccer

6 years of living in the UK and 10 years of marriage to a Brit - yep, still clueless

I'll take a crack at explaining...

At the time of the kick (pass), a player is offsides if:
A) There are fewer than two opponents between them and the endline (the goalie counts as an opponent)
B) They are on their attacking half of the field.
C) They are closer to the endline than the ball is.

The player will only be called for offsides however if they either make a play on the ball or distract an opponent.

In this picture, if A passes to B, B is offsides and "the flag goes up". However, if A passes to the other red player, there is no offsides foul even though B is in an offsides position.

I probably didn't help, but oh well.