**Why people support Microsoft.
Why people vote Republican.**
Just about everything else, I can either understand, comprehend, or learn from Unca Cecil. But these two keep me stumped, and I doubt Cece will tackle 'em…
Syncopation isn’t too hard to understand, especially if you know 4/4.
Just say: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. If you have 2 instruments, one will play on the 1,2,3,4 and the other will play on the and’s.
trumpet: 1…2…3…4
horn: …and…and…and…and
Get it? Or you can do the OomPa’s. Just listen to a german drinking song. Ooms are the 1,2,3,4 and Pa’s are the “ands”.
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*Originally posted by Gekiganger *
**I still don’t understand why anyone likes Tori Amos’ music. **
This hurts my feelings.
You have completely redeemed yourself.
I don’t understand photography either. I also don’t understand how audio CDs work. Or records or tapes, for that matter.
… must … restrain … urge … to explain … must … restrain … urge … to … explain …
I don’t understand people who have complete cable packages and still watch network tv, particularly sitcoms.
The appeal of Marilyn Manson.
A friend of mine keeps trying to convert me. “If you just listen to this CD you’ll understand…”
No, I won’t. Get that crap off of my stereo.
Gangsta rap.
I’ve tried. Really. My daughter listens to it sometimes. It’s just not happening.
Statistics. I can read the finished product, I understand what they mean, but the actual class I have to take next semester again? Nope.
Adam Sandler.
Look. Someone, please, PLEASE give me a straightforward breakdown of the differences of Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis. I now understand that one of them is the standup comic and the other is the musician. But which one does the telethon? Which one do the French like? Which one married his 13-year-old cousin?
I have the same problem with James Dean and Jimmy Dean sausage, sometimes.
I still fail to comprehend advanced color theory, involving multiparametric color volumes and all that… My brain just won’t wrap around it.
I also fail to understand why the American public is letting so many mistakes be remade by our leaders, when all we need to do is look at the history of the past 150 years for lessons, especially wrt stock market speculation, corporate monopolies and drug prohibition.
Finally, I can never understand why the most evasive bugs in my code are the ones that I can search and search and search for and never find, but when I turn a copy of the source over to another engineer, they find it immediately.
Wind-chill factor.
I’ve been a software engineer for over twenty years, and I don’t understand how modern hard drives can store 90 gigabytes in something the size of a paperback book (not to even mention that the actual platters that do the storing are smaller still). Sheer magic.
On a more serious note: I don’t understand how some people can be unspeakably cruel and not even have any remorse about it. I was watching one of those stupid People’s Court clones the other day. A woman who had bad asthma moved into the apartment of a friend who had cats. One of them, a kitten, got in the woman’s way one time too many so she put it in a bag, rode the subway somewhere far away, and just left the kitten on a street corner!!
She showed no remorse whatsoever, she came off just totally pleased with herself. The judge called her cruel, the normally dispassionate announcer/interviewer asked her one question and then couldn’t even handle talking to her. Everyone in the audience called her cruel. And yet she still strutted out, waving her fist as if she had the righteous cause. How does someone get to be like that? I’ll never understand.
What’s the difference between Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis?
One of them does the most amazing, incredible and wonderful things for children that you can possibly imagine. The other used to work with Dean Martin.
[sub]I’m going straight to Hell.[/sub]
I saw that one two. She pissed ME off. ::mad::
I second the Dave Matthews Thing. I dislike that music very much.
Telethon: Jery Lewis
French adoration: Jerry Lewis
Married his 13 year old cousin: Jerry Lee Lewis.
Things I don’t understand:
-the difference between current and voltage, and various related topics, such as why a squirrel can run along a power line without getting hurt, and why putting your hand on a huge-ass tesla coil makes your hair stand up, but doesn’t actually hurt you
-Fast Fourier Transforms (Even back when I was studying math in college and understood lots of other abstruse stuff)
-Complex numbers, and even worse, quaternions
-Why so many people listen to modern (rock) music to the seeming exclusion of everything else
-Why so few people listen to showtunes
-How it can be that there are people who (a) aren’t very competitive, and (b) don’t like to play games, and how they can be members of the same species as me
Zen.
Current is the actual movement of the electrons, measured in amperes.
Voltage is the potential difference between the positive and negative ends of the circuit.
The squirrel does not get fried because it is not grounded. Two basic rules electricity follows: it wants to go to ground and it wants to take the path of least resistance. The squirrel has more resistance than the wire. The squirrel is also not a path to ground, so there’s no reason to go through it.
I can’t answer the Tesla coil question.
Yeah, but look at those 1 in a 1,000 stories, they spin a great tale that draw you in, way in: Rocky I, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (okay, sure, you have to read all the way through the series, but the bad guys win in the end), US v. MicroSoft…[sub]what? that’s not fiction? Huh…[/sub]
How anyone could hurt an animal.
How can you do that? Just say, “I don’t care about the life of this defenseless creature, so I’m going to beat the living crap out of it, because it will make me feel like more of a human being”. I don’t understand that.
2 of my cats I got when they were kittens, maybe 7 weeks old. We took them even though we don’t have the room, and my father is allergic, because the barn that had them had too many. They were going to put them into a bag and thrown them into a lake.
When I was little, a friend of mine told me about some neighborhood boys who would go down to the creek, find the biggest toads they could, swing them above their heads in a bag and laugh when they died. They did this for fun!!!
Kids who put animals into microwaves. Adults who have beaten dogs to death because it “didn’t know who was boss”. People who have let horses starve to death because they’re too lazy to either feed it, let it graze, or sell it.How anyone could justify the killing of a family pet because the neighbor’s bratty kid antagonized it into biting
Am I just being ignorant here? I don’t understand how anyone could hurt an animal. Someone explain it, please.
Additive light colour and subtractive light colour. Actually, I just don’t understand colour.
And I also don’t understand how people of religious persuasions can be so blind to some obvious truths, like, for example, absolute unequivocal facts.
The 7-layer OSI reference model.