THINGS YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT’S EXPLAINED TO YOU

(July, 2023) Reddit asked: “What can you not understand no matter how many times it’s explained?” Some of the responses:
– “How to whistle with your fingers in your mouth.”
– “How a sewing machine works. Yes, I know, ‘there’s a bobbin.’ HOW DOES THE THREAD GET BACK THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE?”
– “I understand that sound is carried through sound waves, but I don’t understand how my phone knows what my mom’s voice sounds like. In my brain, her voice should come through the phone a metallic neutral computer voice.”
– “Condensation – like how the outside of a cold cup gets wet on a hot day.”
– “Tennis scoring.”
– “What a balk is in professional baseball.”
– “How parking garages are laid out.”
– “How time is slower when you are in space and you age slower even though it’s been the same amount of time on Earth.”
– “The home buying process. Why is it so complicated? Why can’t I just be like ‘Here is money. Give me house.'”
– “When a fly flies around in a moving car, how does it not slam into the back windshield.”
– “How, exactly, gravity keeps us from being upside down.”
* Hey, dummies! This is why they make those “___ for Dummies” books.
* Why has no one mentioned the end of “Interstellar”? “Hey, I’m stuck in a five-dimensional tesseract – whoops, look – I’m back on Earth!”
* Of course, I still can’t figure out the ending to “The Wizard of Oz,” so maybe I’m not the best person to ask.
* How is Bitcoin not on this list? And what the hell are blockchains?
* One thing I DO understand is what happens if we don’t get to the traffic report right now.
* PHONE TOPIC: What is something you don’t understand?