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Grr…this reminds me. I was taking a graduate level EE antennas/transmitters class that I had studied inside and out. The final was 50% written and 50% oral. The written had typical analysis problems (in a submarine, in salt water, 50’ antenna, talking to shore, etc) and math crunching, and I aced it. The oral?
I was handed a wipeboard marker and told to “derive Maxwell’s equations”. In my freshman classes, we had to do that and I had it down cold. Now, it was such a curve ball that I hadn’t thought about in 5 freakin’years that I totally blanked, and ended up failing the stupid final. Still pissed off at that asshole professor.
Hmm - I can do all of these things. Can I get a Man Card even though I’m a woman?
Mine’s a weird one. I should know how to spit properly.
I work in the wine industry and when I go to tastings I spit, as does everyone else. Thing is, other people can do it so very neatly, nary a drip in sight. I’m acceptable at it, but compared to other folks I kinda suck. Cohorts have told me to just practice at home with water and a small bucket… which I’d do if I really gave a crap. But, since I am adept enough to not make a mess, I don’t really care and so have not felt the urge to practice.
I guess I really don’t understand radio.
You know those radio shows like Opie & Anthony Loveline, Howard Stern? People are always constantly talking about them right? So they obviously have a lot of listeners.
So if these shows are so popular then how come I’ve never heard them on my radio?
I mean there’s only a few possibilities:
- They’re on the radio everywhere except where I live
-This seems improbable. - They’re only on the air in one place (New York?)
-Then why are there so many fans that SEEM to be living all over the country? - They’re all listening to them on the internet
-That can’t be right, because Howard Stern was mega-popular before the internet.
So what’s the deal?
(Re-reading this post, I realize I sound really, really, really old, but I’m actually 25 and I understand most everything else in this world)
What time of day do you listen to the radio? I believe many of these shows are broadcast during the mid-morning. If you’re listening in the afternoon or evening, you won’t hear them.
Which, in my opinion, is a good reason to listen to the radio only in the afternoon and evening.
Shows like the ones mentioned are syndicated. Plus, radio stations try and have some sort of identity - sports, or talk, or some music genre (oldies, classical, country, etc and so on). If you never listen to the talk radio stations it’s unlikely you’ll run across these shows.
I thought of another one. I can never remember which months have 30 days and which have 31. That “30 days hath” rhyme doesn’t help either, because I can’t remember which months are mentioned in the rhyme. 
Also, I use 20% as a base for tipping instead of 15%. I like to pretend it’s because I’m generous, but really it’s because I can never seem to figure 15% in my head. I can take 10% and double it to get 20%, but if I try to take 10%, then add half of the 10% to get 15%, I lose track of the numbers.
“Thirty days has September
All the rest I can’t remember”
Oh, good, an easy one.
See the knuckle of the little/pinky finger on your right hand? That’s January. The space between it and the next knuckle? That’s February. The knuckle of your ring finger is March. Keep counting space, knuckle, space, knuckle until you get to the end of your hand (ignore the thumb and its space). Then continue onto the left hand at the index knuckle with August and keep going. The second time along, you’ll get to December on your ring finger knuckle.
Here’s the trick: all the knuckles are 31-day months. All the spaces in between knuckles are 30-day months (or February). You can also do it with just one hand, and just restart at the same spot you began for August.
Knuckle calendar. Make a fist, start on the first knuckle as January, and go from knuckle to the dent between them. When you get to July, you run out of knuckles, so start over from the first knuckle.
All months that fall on a knuckle are 31 days. The ones that fall between aren’t. I still use this.
It just occurred to me that I don’t know how to add bleach to my laundry. I’ve never used it before. Do I add it at the beginning? At the rinse cycle? How do I know when it’s rinsing unless I sit there and stare at it?
I thought of something else. Until about 18 months ago, I thought wombats and wallabies were the same type of animal. I didn’t notice this until I read something about wombats burrowing into the ground, and wondered how something shaped like a small kangaroo could do that.
As with several other posters, for me it’s definitely left vs. right.
I’m a college graduate, an English teacher, a pilot, speak three languages, but I never could grok left vs. right.
I thought that after I got married, it would be easier by virtue of the constant presence of a band of gold on my left hand, but somehow, this hasn’t made it any easier.
Left…right…arrgh!
AMAPAC
One just came to mind due to a certain Pit thread.
I’m a social work student, doing social work, and will be officially a social worker in one year. I don’t know anything about feminist theory or gender oppression. We had a year-long course dedicated exclusively to race and racism, but we haven’t addressed gender in any comprehensive way. I don’t even really know about the history of women’s rights in the United States. One way or another I need to get educated.
I have no idea why putting salt on the ice helps make ice cream colder in old fashioned ice cream machines/double bag ice cream makers/ball-shaped ice makers.
On percentages when something is half off- you guys are all doing it the hard way. Do the subtraction first: 100 minus the percentage off. Then multiple that by the price and move the decimal place over two. For instance, this $19.99 whatever is 30% off. 100-30 is 70. Round up a cent because it’s hardly important, 20 times 70 is 1400, move the decimal place over, you get 14.
Yeah screw that stuff, I never understood it. I just rely on people around me and my cell phone and computer to know how many days are in the current month.
And thanks for the replies about my radio programing. It looks like I just live in an area with crappy radio. I have been listening to O&A on youtube for a few days and I likes what I hear, and I’m thinking about getting a satellite radio.
I’m vice president of the debate club at my high school, and don’t know the first thing about 4/5 types of debate our school participates in. :smack:
I don’t know how to drive a stickshift.
Also, e=mc²… “the speed of light squared” … I have no idea what that means.
186,000 miles per second squared.
I know what the number is, but how do you “multiply” matter by this or any other number? I’ve never gotten that either.
I didn’t know a flashing red arrow is a stop sign. I got a 60 dollar ticket for not coming to a complete stop. It used to be a yield but they changed it last year.