Take a tape measure, wander to the clothing section of a store and find a pair of women’s pants that measure 14" across, totaling 28" for the waist band. How come this might be a size six, often a size eight, or a even size ten? Sure, vanity sizing might account for it being size six, but why the occasional size ten when the majority of pants that waist size are marked eight? Is it for marketing women who need to feel worse about themselves?
Oh wait, let me guess: you were in Nashua or Salem?
The default position should be lid down. Otherwise, why would it have a lid at all? You want it closed so that random stuff doesn’t fall in (as did my brand-new, never-used toothbrush did once), or so that kitties and toddlers don’t treat it as a drinking fountain.
Worse things can happen to toddlers and kittens than a disgusting drink from an open toilet. Toddlers and kittens can drown in a toilet. Keep the lid down if you’ve got either in your house.
You also avoid an aerosol spray of yuckiness when you flush, and you avoid the problem of things being dropped in the toilet. A toothbrush dropped down the toilet unseen can cause the toilet to clog repeatedly (I know this from personal experience). You can use the lid to put down a raised seat without touching the seat (touch the top of the toilet lid instead).
Mr. Chick would be very offended to be told he worships the same deity that the Muslims do.
I can never understand how electricity works. There are electrons flowing around an open circuit, but how does that make the light or the TV or the fridge go on?
Why does the windshield wiper on the passenger’s side always wear out well after the one on the driver’s side does?
Get your backward state to put in left-hand turn green arrows. 
Well, one of them is clinging to the back of your shirt right now. 
I don’t understand how the most popular kind of cheap soap, the hard castile variety, got replaced by Ivory knock offs. I can’t get the hard kind any more unless I would buy handmade soaps at art fairs. The once ubiquitous brands like Jergens have changed to the white floating stuff that turns to goo in the soap dish and leave soap scum over everything including you.
Why do we like music? Why does it affect us so?
I don’t know either. But I think I’ve worked out how plumbing works: I may well be wrong, but it seems to me that the water is always in the pipe as well as under pressure to push it up into the house, and turning the faucet on simply lets it out; the rest of the time the water is still there waiting (I don’t understand why off faucets don’t fail/spring leaks more often due to the water pushing up against it all the time). Perhaps turning on an appliance does the same, and lets the electrons into the circuit, and that being off is holding them back like the faucet holds back the water when it’s off? We both need one of those How It Works books.
Two weeks ago I started a new job where I have to wear tall rubber steel toe-ed boots and work on a concrete floor all day. So I bought two pairs of nice warm cushioned tall “work” socks from the men’s section. Two weeks ago. Today, I can find three. Where is my fourth sock? It’s not under the bed, in the hamper, the dryer, or behind the washer, and the dogs didn’t steal it, I checked. Seriously. Where is my fucking sock?
Pie.
Did ya ever really think about it?
I have never understood how so many people live lives of luxury, yet don’t seem to work hard. And in some cases don’t appear to work at all. I know people who make considerably less money than I do, and they’re always buying new cars, going on fancy vacations, eating at nice restaurants, etc.
I have never understood why so many people are sad and depressed. This is there one and only chance at life, yet they spend every day with a frown on their face and a chip on their shoulder.
Gotta tell ya from the standpoint of someone has suffered from depression for years, it’s not really a choice
Why are so many people in college when they are barely literate?
Why does anyone smoke?
Why do some men enjoying making as much noise as they possibly can?
How is it that some folks are late to everything?
From what I have read, there are two schools of thought:
Because it reinforces our evolutionarily-developed tendency to discern coherent sounds and patterns - both sight and hearing are based on systems of noting change, i.e., nothing something moving against an unmoving background or hearing something patterned or otherwise distinct from the background noise. This has obvious benefits when it comes to hunting and avoiding being hunted. Listening to music and responding to music is like little kittens and puppies wrestling - it’s practice for what were seen to be important survival skills.
The appeal of music is a byproduct of evolving the complex brain we have - I can’t remember where I read about this one - maybe Music, The Brain and Ectasy by Jourdain - but the thinking was that it is a symptom, if you will, of our higher-order intellect. We got skills of rational thinking and self-awareness and music fell out.
I tend to go with the former in my little world…
Point me to the tour. I’ve butchered a deer or two, and would love a few tips.
Not in any market I worked in during high school. The shelves are back to back, with no space in the middle to “fill from the back.” Always check the dates on anything you get from the “way back” of a shelf. Stockers do not pull out old stock, and put in new, then replace old… except in the perishable sections (not always then, either). If the OP is talking about the lip that hangs down, it’s for strength, safety (though the joints that stick out will scratch 'ya just fine) and a place to hang the shelf tag for unit pricing & reordering info.
Angled shelves, have it to allow the stock to slide down, but not out.
Same thing for electricity. Transistors are valves, resistors/capacitors/coils are regulators. Chips are lots of transistors.
MY “Huh?” is why folks think I must know about money, because I work at a financial institution. I’m a computer geek, and only know what my balances are, and what my rate of return is/was because they calculate it for me on my 401k. I do know I don’t have enough, and want more.
They can use the “Oh, I don’t understand computers” and expect me to magically solve problems without information, but expect me to know all the terms they use in their segment of the company. An equity? A security? A negotiable instrument? I recognize those as words, but they have no definition (as it relates to money & markets) to me… same as CPU/RAM/USB/NTFS & NAS are for them.
Because that’s what you do after high school- you go to college.
That’s great, but it still doesn’t inform me about how does the fact that the electrons flowing though a circuit, at whatever rate, cause the electrical appliance to go on. How does that electron flow effect the appliance and result in it doing something?
A couple of other things I’ve pondered:
How did it ever occur to someone to make leavened bread? That’s a hell of a lot of trouble to go through for it to have been an accident. I mean, first you’ve got to cut the wheat, then thresh it, then grind it, then mix it with water & yeast and whatever else, then wait however many hours, then bake it. It seems as though you’d need the equivalent of an ancient mad scientist to have thought of doing that.
Another thing that eludes me is how people knowing full well that the dishwasher is empty put their plates on top of the counter right above the dishwasher rather than putting them in the dishwasher, even when said dish doesn’t need a rinsing.