# Ignorance that you're okay with

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 24, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624 "2017-02-24T13:09:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624/41 "2017-02-25T16:39:01Z")

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I understand the rules and scoring for a lot of sports: football, baseball, basketball, tennis and golf. Games too: chess, checkers, Monopoly, most card games. I know who’s winning or losing and why.  
The two sports that elude me are soccer and hockey (yeah, the one with the puck). For some reason my brain refuses to comprehend what’s going on. Red lines? Blue lines? But I’m okay with not knowing that.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624/42 "2017-02-25T17:07:20Z")

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Personally, I have a nonzero level of interest in everything. I can’t imagine not wanting to know something, and yeah, if you tell me some obscure trivia about some sportsball game, I’ll make an effort to file it away for future reference. But I have to prioritize: There’s not enough time to learn everything, so I only actively seek out the information that is above some threshold level of significance to me, and some of it, I expend considerably more effort to pursue than others.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624/43 "2017-02-25T17:45:23Z")

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Grammys, Oscars… that kind of stuff. Literally _could not_ care less.

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**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorance-that-youre-okay-with/780624/44 "2017-02-25T20:44:40Z")

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What the current inhabitant of the white house said, did, or tweeted today. It’s just too much of an embarrassment to me.  
I am interested in what villainy the congress is up to, but the news media apparently doesn’t think anybody is interested in that. :dubious:

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