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

But somehow my art teacher sees a really deep meaning in some pieces of work. One of the last classes I went to she literally started to cry over a picture of some concrete blocks put in a straight line because “it’s such a powerful message”, it was very awkward and when we asked her what exactly the deep meaning was she went on a 15-minute rant about us not appreciating the artist’s efforts.

100%

Especially the Russians.

Paper money also relies almost solely on perception.

Lol!!!

But at the same time, there is a LOT of pretense, like the time a major international wine contest went blind-folded and ended up awarding cheap, mass-produced California wine first place.

Yep. And the people tasting chocolate, cigar, apple, etc, drink a lot of wine. It's kind of like when you hear a song on the radio and think "cool music" but the sound engineer who listens critically to this stuff all day every day will be saying stuff like "the bass was a semitone flat on that one note and the cymbal is starting to crack." You perceive more details when you're very familiar with something.

Yes, same. Went to a whiskey tasting, and once you get the vocabulary, the flavours really come out.

I've only ever had one bottle of 'beyond my price range' wine, and OMG was is good.

The only time I went all-in on a sports event was when my little podunk HS ended up in the state championship game. It was after I graduated but my mom (also uninterested in sports) still worked there and she got tickets. We screamed our heads off. Totally utterly shamelessly cheering. Obviously it was our cheering that carried our team to victory. :) I couldn't speak right for a week.

I care if the home team wins, but I don’t care to watch it happen. So boring.

I get over it really quick when all the commercial stations are showing a sport, no movie, no docos, just all sport and majority male sports. Half the population is female, just for starters but cos TV execs are mostly male we have to follow their interests. It's really grating when you have a show but then it's not on for 4 weeks because some a.hole needs even more frickin sports.

My dad refuses to watch baseball on TV. He says baseball was made for radio or in person.

I have a warm spot for baseball specifically. It's because my dad was a fan, and the game reminds me of him. I don't know the players and I don't care who wins, but watching a game is a nice feeling.

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

The popular vote isn't the normal vote because back in the 1700s, wealthy landowners wanted to enshrine slavery into the governmental structure. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-origins

Because we are representative republic and not a true pure democracy.

Agreed. Not my country, not my government, so it's not super important for me to understand the way that it works (I should understand my own country's first) but I've tried, and it's confusing. The actual rules as to why things work the way they do are one thing but then you throw lobbying in there, and any headway you made with trying to understand, just goes out the window.

since the country is so diverse in its make up, from big city people that have never owned car to small towns that are hundreds of miles away from the next small town, there are different lifestyles and needs. the writers of the constitution didnt want the big states to dictate life over the small ones. City people dont get country fold and vice versa. They were concerned for what they called "the tyranny of the majority". straight democracy is little more than mob rule. so the electoral college allows the smaller states a say in electing the president in proportion to their size. the house of representatives is based on the population of each state. to balance that, the senate has two senators from each state regardless of their size. straight democracy has been likened to two wolves and a sheep voting on whats fro lunch

It was a compromise for the slave states. Needs to go away like generations ago.

It doesn't. It doesn't make sense.

As someone that's lived in the U.S my entire life, it doesn't make sense to me either.

The idea is that it's easier to vote for the people who vote for president, which is one of those ideas that sounds good but falls apart as soon as you try it

It’s a representative republic, not a democracy

Because we want to make sure the winner's mandate is broad, as well as deep.

I agree completely and I live here.

You seem to be from a smaller less diverse region of the world.

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Because we're a federation of states, not a single entity. This way, whatever cockamamie schemes California does to inflate its vote tally is of no concern to Florida. And yes, as we speak, California is still adding more votes while Florida was finished within a few hours of the close of the polls. If it HADN'T been this way, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware et al would've told Virginia to go pound sand.

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"It was a nice country while it lasted."

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That's actually kind of what's happening it seems. Some researchers believe that during sleep our brains move memories from short-term to long-term storage and also "defrag" in a manner of speaking. This can only be done safely when the system's (body's) higher functions are "offline". What we perceive as dreams are the mind accidentally observing the process in progress. This may explain why dreams are so hard to remember (short-term buffer is empty) and also why people deprived of sleep for a long time hallucinate while awake (short-term buffer overflow).

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Screw updates. I'm waiting until they install chips. Hoping for Salt and Vinegar :P

This

My husband. He can fall asleep sitting up. I can cocoon myself in fluffy pillows with special covers, a low speed fan blowing, lavender lemon mist spraying, black out blinds and lay there for 3 fvcking hours. Or 24 hours.

You may be a reverse sleeper. Most people have a sleep cycle that starts deep, below the dreaming level, and then gradually lightens through the night to the REM level. And we can (sometimes) remember our dreams. My husband, however, has a reverse cycle. He goes into REM sleep early and it gets deeper throughout the night, so he doesn't remember any dreaming. And he's a b***h to wake up in the morning.

In the 22 years my husband and I have been together he has remembered about 3 dreams. In the past week I can recall som terrifying nightmares that I can’t even put here because BP censors would have a field day!