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Do you know the feeling when you can’t hear what someone said, even though they’ve repeated it four times already? Chances are, you won’t ask for the fifth one and simply nod, hoping that what they said didn’t require a more extensive answer.

Well, not understanding something people are talking about often evokes a similar feeling. So, instead of asking questions or saying that they don’t know much about something—which they might do under different circumstances—individuals choose to pretend that they know what's being spoken about.

A curious member of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community wanted to learn what makes people pretend to understand something when they actually don’t. They started a thread about it and in their answers, netizens covered nearly any topic there is, from computers and politics, to sleep, baking, and beyond. If you’re curious about what it is that they only pretend to understand, too, scroll down to find their answers on the list below, and feel free to upvote them, if they refer to something you don’t understand that well, either.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things How some “fine art” is considered “fine art” when it looks like some s**t a 1st grader made.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Wine tasting. You guys can taste chocolate, cigar smoke, nuts, fruits, etc., all I can taste is fermented grapes. I'm sure I can come up with a bunch of random words, and they'll buy the whole farm.

StudBoi69 , Valeria Boltneva Report

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to a ton of wine and food pairings in my local area which is a big wine producing place in the world. Definitely there seems to be a lot of phony baloney hype when it comes to describing the nose or the sensation on the palate or whatever, but it is true that a wine that is properly paired with the right food you take a smell, you take a little sip, and you go okay this is what the wine tastes like. And then you take a bite of whatever food it is, mmm that's pretty good... And then you go back to the wine again and all of a sudden you can taste the description that they were giving you and you go oh wow, that's neat. It tastes better now it tastes different, and occasionally, oh yuck, this tastes a lot worse. "Taste the season/sip and sizzle" used to be amazing to go to. Amazing. What a wonderful way for locals to go out and visit the various wineries and have a really good time. Giant thumbs down for changing completely how these events run now. Totally different 👎

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The love some people have for watching sports.

To edit/elaborate, I went to a Big 10 school. I honestly had no idea how much of a religion sports were to people when I first started; I was truly there for, well, my education. After 4 years of trying to pretend my way into understanding, I couldn't will myself to get into it.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get it either. I'm not going to judge you if you're into it, but don't ask me to take part because frankly, idc if the home team wins.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The United States Government.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an outsider, your election system doesn't make sense to me at all. Why isn't the "popular vote" the normal vote? How does it make sense to give all the votes of a state to whoever got more votes?

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't and it's done that way to ensure control. Back when the US had colonies, they would send a representative on the colony's behalf since all the people in the colony could not make the journey to vote (illness, lack of finances, etc), hence, the electoral college was born. It worked great when the US was a certain population but now there are so many people and we have the tech, there's really no need for an electoral college. But, you know how it is, old white dudes hate giving up power

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Half of americans doesn't know how the government works. They elected Trump...

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What do you mean? We have absolutely the best government money can buy.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US system isn't good but the UKs first-past-the-post isn't fit for purpose either.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way it "works" or how it was supposed to work? It was a grand experiment. I fear that I will not live long enough to see if it survives.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it needs a major overhaul. However there are no true democracies, as there is no system that would be able to govern using it. It's always about the popular vote.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are not a democracy, you are/were a democratic republic. God only knows what you are about to become over the next 4 years but the prospects don't look good.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If we vote democrat, we get attacked by violent criminals. If we vote republican, we get attacked by violent fascists. No matter what we do, we're getting attacked. Where's that comet?

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Name me any government anywhere which makes sense.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's probably nowhere that's perfect, but there are plenty of countries that have a better system than the USA. Australia's system has some nice features, such as a preferential voting (not first-past-the-post), compulsory voting (so no BS elections where fewer than 70% voted), and an independent electoral comission (which avoids gerrymandering and other politician tricks).

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Sleep.

I’ve been doing it for over 30 years but I still for the life of me can’t figure out how it works.

One second I’m totally conscious on my bed with my eyes closed, and the next moment I’m awake.

Like wtf is going on.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Space, time, and gravity, and their relationship with each other.

Also, gravitational lenses (I think?), where gravity of a massive or dense planet bends light around it so that the planet becomes a magnifying glass to see objects even further into space that would otherwise be blocked from line of sight by the massive planet.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still can't wrap my head around that singularity that went bang.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The Electoral College.

It's not even a real college!

Tracyannk28 , cottonbro studio Report

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not alone, the rest of the world doesn't understand either.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The capillary effect

So here's a narrow tube - ok

Here's water - ok

Water goes up against gravity - WHAT THE F**K IS THIS BLACK MAGIC FUCKERY

Edit: woah this blew up.

anon , MesserWoland Report

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Water is a very weird substance. They say it is the only material that floats in itself as a solid. That property allows life on earth.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things My job, fake it till you make it. I didn't know over half of my job when I got hired. I researched most of it the weekend before and ask a lot of questions.

Vlaed , Anna Tarazevich Report

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd rather hire you than someone who 'thinks' they know it all.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Baking. I'm in my last semester of culinary school and I'm taking a baking class. I swear, it's like f*****g voodoo and witchcraft in there. I'm pretty sure we sacrificed a virgin the other day to make the foccacia proof properly. I'll stick to regular cooking.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard people say that cooking is art and baking is chemistry. Often, a person is not both an artist and a scientist, so they prefer one over the other.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things How computers work, on the most fundamental level.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I pretend not to understand them so nobody bothers me at work with their It problems

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things When people try to talk to me quietly and I don't want to make them repeat is for the 5th time.

eat_my_cannoli , cottonbro studio Report

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After the second or third time someone mumbles to me I just respond with, "WHAT DID YOU SAY," in a loud but non-threatening tone. It usually gets the point across. I've been playing drums for over 20 years and my hearing is pretty bad as a result. People need to project their voice and annunciate syllables so I can understand them. If someone continues to mumble with their mush mouth I just ignore them. Usually, I will give strangers some grace and explain my hearing isn't great, but there are people I see almost daily who can't seem to grasp the concept.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Cryptocurrency I know enough to get about 25% of the way there but then I just don't get it... Something about computers doing complicated math for ... something... or someone ... then that being a block... using that block to make money... that might not actually be money but it is money to someone so I guess that's what makes it money

**EDIT**

I got so much info from this comment maybe I should have said something about my research paper.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because the rest might be conning. there is some mathematics ok, but nothing to do with the prosperity of the small "investor".

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things People are commending my wife and me on raising our kid (10 months now). Truth is we are totally winging it and she's just been really pleasant so far ... too pleasant.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The biggest parenting secret (and, if we're being honest, adulting in general) is that we're all just winging it. You can ask for and try advice from those more experienced, but honestly, it's only a 50/50 shot that it'll work 🤷‍♀️

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things I just don't understand how people are happy to work 9-5 for decades for a mere 2 weeks off.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things My job. I'm a software developer but my true job title should be "Creative Googler".

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People don't realise just how broad software engineering is. There are so many langauges, packages and libraries to deal with that you can't possibly remember them all. I have a "working set" of stuff I am using and usually a quick google will help remind me of other stuff I have done in the past and vaguely remember.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Magnets. I mean, day to day I walk around in my lab coat with a clip board, pretending I know all sorts of things. Yet, for all my scientific know-how one question continues to plague me: *Magnets; how do they work?*.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things How air conditioning works.

Every time I try and research it, I get a lot of smug answers about "you know it doesnt actually MAKE cold, it just PULLS heat from the air..."

OK great. How does it do that?

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Expansion and compression of a gas. When it expands it draws heat in, when it compresses it exudes heat.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things I got near perfect scores in my physics classes for engineering and literally nothing about our universe makes sense to me. I just treat it like a religion and have faith in it. I'm just an engineer and not a scientist so it should work out, I think.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People who are science majors in college are actually doing all the major experiments the famous first scientists did. It proves the science to the student and becomes the building blocks of understanding science. It has nothing to do with faith or belief. You actually do the experiments and prove stuff to yourself.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Confidence. I don't know how the f**k you become confident but I pretend like I am and it seems to work.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The belief that it seems to work means you're no longer pretending?

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things 3D printers. Like, I can't even wrap my head around the concept, but then I'm just over here like, if it works why can't we just 3D print everything??

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watch one work. See how slowly it builds up layer after layer after layer. Then compare that to, say, a stamping press that can turn out thousands of identical pieces in just a few minutes.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics are liars.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understand it, don't understand it, both and neither. Or none of those. I'm confused... again!

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things When people talk for to long I pretend like I understand what they're saying but in reality I wasn't paying attention.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always wondered how people fail to know they are talking too long or dominating a conversation. Do they fail to see people's attention fading away?

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Having children. I have two stepkids and so far I just don't think the time, money and stress is worth "it". Then I think what is "It". I've asked several people why they had kids and mostly they say to continue their line. ??? I still don't get it.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wanted to have a child, because I have always felt loved by my family of origin and I wanted to give that love forward to my own child. As a family, I feel part of a unit of love and that's fantastic! Also I'm a caring person and I loved the idea of caring for a child that is my own and help that child to develop into a person and be happy. It's a delight to see them grow and learn everyday and it makes me proud beyond measure. Also I wanted to experience pregnancy, because it's a super power. To be able to grow a person in my body, give birth to them and nourish them with my mother milk was a very empowering experience that I'm very glad I was able to make.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Computers and software. Plot twist - I am a software developer.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 7 layers of the OSI Model show how computers and software work together.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The stock market.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things My job. I’m very new there; my co-workers tell me to not hesitate to ask questions. When I do, they’re b****y. When I figure it out on my own and end up doing something wrong they jump down my throat “Why did you do this that way!?”, “Why would you do that!?”. I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t. Whatever.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things SEO. My company is at the top of nearly every search involving one of the keywords that should direct you to it. I spend like $10 a day on AdWords and everyone thinks I'm a god-tier advertising hacker. I have no idea how or why things have worked so well in my favor.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can totally understand that. SEO and SEA manager here. I do not really understand what I am doing most of the time, but develop a sense of what works and what does not... Just some worshipping and kneeling before the allmighty algorhythms that no human being will ever be able to understand.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things The Monty Hall problem. I'm convinced I'm a lost cause so there's not really any point trying to explain further. I've heard the "think of it as a hundred doors" or "a million doors" thing dozens of times.

I've sometimes felt like I'm on the very brink of an epiphany in understanding but when it comes down to it I can't avoid the idea that if Monty was an alien and the car was a speedboat and the goat was a centaur and there were 3017 doors to begin with and Monty only opened a door ever 4.6 hours and it's in Mozambique and I don't know, whatever the f**k happened *before your choice*... when you have the two doors in front of you and one is the prize and one is the bogey, 'sticking' is just choosing door A and 'changing' is just choosing door B. There's a 50/50 chance.

I 'know' (perhaps 'believe' is the word) it isn't 50/50 because greater mathematical minds (obviously) than mine have proven that it's more beneficial to 'swap' doors. In the real gameshow scenario I would swap in the knowledge that clever people say that I should... But I just don't get why it's not 50/50. Regardless of what happened before, there are two doors to choose from, one is a prize, one isn't. 50/50.

I just pretend I understand because 1. I trust that it's true. 2. I hear the same "imagine it's 100 doors" every time someone tries to explain and it never gets through.

I take some small solace in the fact that the very *reason* it's famous is because it's so incredibly counter-intuitive.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Gramps always said 'Everything is 50/50, because it either is/will or isn't/won't.' That app that says 60% chance of rain? Nah, it either will rain or it won't. 3 doors, one with a prize, pick a door, it either is the prize or isn't. He even used it when he was diagnosed with cancer. I like the simplistic approach, but I also like better odds.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things That unerring sense of rightness in their actions.

There are so many people who just **do** things without taking time to properly scare themselves out of it by thinking of all the anxiety-inducing repercussions. Look for another job? I'll need to change my morning routine, my commute, no more lunch hour at home, all these new people to deal with, getting as depressed in the new job as at the old job. I just thought myself into inaction.

Yet, I've seen people who just take that leap and I don't know how to do it without feeling like I'll fail or interpreting the landing as a failure and not a stepping stone.

You never learned proper fear and shame and self-loathing!

I hear what you're saying, the only way to get over it is to continue failing. To embrace it, revel in it, become the failure before exiting, triumphant, at the end! I guess I just don't *get* it or understand how I *haven't* been doing that but most of the advice says I have to keep trying until I get it so I will continue persevering.

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#31

30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Directions. I listen to you giving directions because it makes you feel good. It's 2018, I'm always going to follow my space phone to your house.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Neither Google nor Waze can find my house, please follow your phone, then you'll end up in a field 4 km away and I don't have to set the geese on you:)

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Physics, I understand the concepts, just not the math.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am studying physics as a retirement project. I am annoyed to discover that nine tenths of the difficulty with maths is because physicists think it is cool/desirable to condense their equations and invent compact notations to minimise the number of lines on a page they take. If you expand them out and plug some example numbers in, you're most of the way to them making sense. Programmers suffer the same affliction with computer code - for some incomprehensible reason, compact is "better"

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Football.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would like to add the off side rule to this. But I pretend to understand so I don't have to listen to some guy, condescendingly explain it.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Politics. Anything politics. It's all just a jumble to me.

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#35

When I'm buying a car and the dealer starts spouting a bunch of car lingo at me. I nod my head like I'm impressed. We both know he's just making things up, but we both also know that I can't call him out on it. So I continue to nod, and he continues to b******t me with a straight face.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one has got a 1.5L inline straight 6, V8, four cylinder, diesel with fuel injection and super a revolutionary cooling system using...and get this...a radiator. Also comes with reverse gears, forward gears, a 6 forward for those that like counting, a trunk and a boot so you can always have a shoe, a glove box for loose papers and a cubby holder for gloves. Five seats and some of the best rear view mirrors in the business. As an added bonus we'll throw in four wheels and some alloy, light weight, mag, nitro filled, silicone lined wheels. Oh and how could I forget, this model also comes with a stereo with ammmm and fmmmm.

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#36

Everything about relationships. I don't understand when a guy likes likes me...

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Everything, my dude.

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I'm not sure how people form interpersonal relationships. I have to try SO HARD to care about people beyond my wife and son, to the point that it's physically exhausting 'faking' pleasantries. I understand "yeah, make friends. Have friends. Blah blah" ... But I just dont understand the DESIRE to do so.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You and I could be friends. We'd never actually talk, but friends none the less

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I'm currently living in Brazil, I have to talk Portuguese all day and have important work conversations day long, they think I understand, the fact is that I don’t.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cara, mas português é uma lingua tão fácil! Eu falo desde criancinha. (But dude, Portuguese is such an easy language! I speak it since I was a little boy.)

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How microwaves work. It's wizardry to me.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The most basic way my friend explained it: Little waves radiate from a thing that makes electrons move a certain way, and bounce around the inside, and the make the water particles vibrate so they rub against each other. Like when you rub your hands together, the friction makes them warmer and warmer until they get hot, that heat spreads through the food.

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My fiancee's mental health issues. Nothing major, but she has some panic disorder I don't remember the exact name of. I don't get it, but I try to be understanding.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well that's good that you're trying to be understanding and supportive but maybe try doing some research and learn about her actual disorder. I can almost guarantee that your fiancee will greatly appreciate it.

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30 Times People Were Very Confused And Pretended To Understand Basic Things Taxes, stocks, investing. I’m very financially uneducated and have tried several general finance books but if anyone knows of any that could best educate me please let me know. Google Amazon and YouTube haven’t given the best suggestions. I’m sure I could just learn it on YouTube actually.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, " by Andrew Tobias. Cuts through all the c**p, explains how things work.

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Politics.

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My father is a "Scrum Master" for "Agile."

He has explained to me on I think two separate occasions what that means, but I have never been able to commit it to memory. If it ever comes up in conversation with company, I just smile and nod.

Edit: Thank you, kind Redditors, for the explanations!

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It means he has to do stand-up comedy and a morning gang-bang or something like that. ;-)

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Life.

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in brief, we are here to feed our (energy) vampire masters, whose ambitions and hunger always grow.

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Tattoos. I’ll compliment people on them. I do think they are cool. My roommate was big on them in college. But at the same time, I feel like it’s really just a trend and people are doing it to “be hot” or some s**t. It’s weird. I don’t get it. Do people regret it or atleast acknowledge they did it just to be cool? “I wanted to express myself bro”. Ok. For instance I love the Joe Rogan podcast but his tattoos are kind of like “ok man we get it- you’re a badass” I get the vibe in real life a lot. Just being honest.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And a recent medical study found people with tattoos have a much higher incidence of a particular form of cancer. Duh! Like injecting a colored chemical under the skin is a safe thing to do.

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How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure about you, but I'm pretty sure my eyes are real.

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#48

My retirement account. I know I'm putting money in there, but how's it's invested & if I'm saving enough...?

Also what happens when I change jobs!

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All answered with just a little bit of research....

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Women.

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