# Where is your ignorance most unfought? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 31, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305 "2007-01-31T19:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/21 "2007-02-01T20:17:52Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] I’m no sort of handyman at all (fixing things, carpentry, plumbing, etc.). Fortunately I have a friend who is and is capable of helping me out when necessary. Guess I’m way over on the “theoretical” side of the spectrum (vs. applied or experimental)… [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s me. Both of my brother’s can fix anything, but I piddle with something at home (laying tile, replacing a window, whatever), and if I can’t figure it out within 10 minutes, I give up. Also, classical opera. I’ve read about and listened to it, but I can never quite appreciate it, and I know there’s something I must be missing. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/22 "2007-02-01T20:31:03Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] I have a gold card. Lets shop. Happy to help. [/QUOTE] I was going to say, Here’s my credit card. Go have fun. Same idea. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/23 "2007-02-01T20:40:38Z")
About the only thing that I _don’t_ want to know more about is upper-crust society, especially celebrity society. I Just. Don’t. CARE. Everything else, from Aardvark Husbandry to Zoological Sciences, I’d love to know about, and tend to pursue semi-obsessively for short bursts as they catch my attention. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/24 "2007-02-01T20:41:47Z")
**Politics** and **government**. Fortunately for me I am dating a guy who is pre-law, and his undergrad degree is poly-sci. Once I have acquired all of his knowledge I will set him free 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/25 "2007-02-01T20:45:37Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] But for the sake of the thread, I’ll say needlepoint. [/QUOTE] Philistine! How did you manage to land a wife? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/26 "2007-02-01T23:00:28Z")
Higher mathematics, electricity and electronics, world history, physics- there’s so much I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/27 "2007-02-01T23:13:42Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] What about the rest of you? What did you never learn in school, know nothing about now, and foresee yourself remaining uninformed about until death? [/QUOTE] Women. Marriage hasn’t helped…if anything, I’m regressing. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/28 "2007-02-01T23:48:03Z")
Absolutely all aspects of classical music. I can’t play an instrument, I can’t read music, I don’t have a clue what “keys” and “time signatures” are, and it’s no use trying to explain any of it to me - in five minutes I’d have forgotten it all. I know that some piano keys are white and some are black, but if there’s a logical reason for this I’m afraid it’s beyond me. There doesn’t seem to be a logical reason for \*anything \*in music. Many of my friends are amateur musicians, by the way. One plays a bassoon in his local orchestra. A bassoon is a large wooden thing with a tube sticking out of the side. It makes some sort of noise when you blow into the tube. I mention this just to give you an idea of my level of knowledge of the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/29 "2007-02-02T04:46:59Z")
The game of craps (please, don’t even try to teach me – my own son tried to teach me and ended up taking over $100 of my money. Hey, wait a minute!) And sports of almost any kind. I simply do not understand the whole jock culture, yet it comprises an unnaturally large part of my life. Maybe I’ll explain that in a thread of my own some day – suffice it to say I provide the voice to some significant local sports teams, and I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/30 "2007-02-02T04:59:59Z")
Religion. Never learned more than maybe a paragraph about any major religion, and I kind of tune it out whenever someone starts rambling on about who’s army killed whoever’s messiah, etc. I figured long ago that they can’t all be right, I have no way of telling which one (if any) is right, and that I did not have nearly the free time to learn about them all. Being a completist in nature it’s all or nothing, so I went with nothing. Just not a high priority. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/31 "2007-02-02T15:23:25Z")
Sports. I like playing many sports like Basketball, Racquetball, Tennis, bowling, etc. Just don’t like watching them and talking about them. Computer games. I am drawn to them on occasion, but I am not good at them, don’t play them that much, and could never get the whole “doing it over and over again” to get past one level. If I can’t get it the first or second time, I tend to lose interest. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305/32 "2007-02-02T16:18:04Z")
**The Middle East** Every now and then I embark on a project to educate myself. I don’t know whether to just accept failure or press on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-ignorance-most-unfought/390305.md?page=1)