Things I *just* don't understand ...

[threebikesmcginty]

I don't understand how magnets work.

Magic glue

 

[Haitch]

I got some new specs this week and the instructions (WTF?!) told me to avoid all contact with mercury. They were silent on strontium 90.

 

[CharlieB]

I don't understand how glue works.

 

[CharlieB]

I also don't understand why the letters on a dot matrix display italicise when the lettering's in motion. The LEDs don't move (do they?).

 

[Theseus]

I don't understand the security model for this software I am trying to deploy

 

[krushavik]

When this happens I put my full beam on on smile.

I don't understand why people ( mainly women I must add in a non-sexist manner ) wander aimlessly round the supermarket, finger up bum, mind in neutral getting in the way of those who just want to get in buy stuff and go.

I don't understand why drivers, especially when it's dark, have to sit with their foot on the brake pedal at traffic lights giving you a face full of high intensity brake light.

 

[krushavik]

I'm retired and you won't get me nowhere near a shop at weekends. The only shop I go in is one that sells mugs of tea and cakes halfway thru a bike ride.

Why do retired people shop at the weekend?

I know some shops give them a 10% discount on Wednesdays - Should then not have a 10% surcharge on Saturday to keep them away when everyone who does not have much time to chat to the girl on the checkout want to shop.

 

[krushavik]

I don't know where all the leaves go for their holidays in winter.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't know where all the leaves go for their holidays in winter.

My back garden.

 

[upsidedown]

I don't understand why water expands as it gets colder.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't understand why water expands as it gets colder.

Coz it turns into ice, duh

And everyone knows ice is bigger than water. Apart from the North Pole. That's smaller than all the water around it.

 

[tyred]

I don't understand why anyone watches Eastenders.

 

[Sam Kennedy]

I don't understand why water expands as it gets colder.

There is a partial negative charge on the oxygen atom, and a partial positive charge on the hydrogen atom, this forms a hydrogen bond, as the temperature decreases, there is less kinetic energy, so the hydrogen bonds will be less likely to break, forcing the molecules into a crystalline structure, which means the water will expand. * ** ***


* (I've made it even harder to understand haven't I?)
** (I got an 'E' in Chemistry)
*** (There are people here who know a LOT more than me about Chemistry!)

 

[NormanD]

I don't know why Sam answered that!

 

[ThePainInSpain]

why the Spanish talk so fast, and walk so bloody slow......................