Things you're ignorant about

[Robb]

No, I'm not going to tell you this time. :D

You have to tell us!

Myself, I'm ignorant as to what, exactly, is happening when a farmer burns a field. I know it's somehow good for later crops, I think, but I'm not really sure what's going on there.

Also, I'm not real clear on whether a "school zone" means there might be kids around school hours, so slow down, or there might be kids anytime, so slow down. Basically I just slow down.

[Katherine Brengle]

1. I think it has something to do with phosphates...

in the soil, but I am really not sure either.

I think a school zone is a school zone, but I am more cautious during daylight hours.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. It increases seed production, therefore increasing the yield for the farme

in following years.

I am ignorant on how to use a micrometer, and ( I found this out today) how to put a windshield wiper blade in. :hi:

[KittyWampus]

3. Calculus, scares the living crap out of me just looking at it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Often I am ignorant of my own hypocrisy, my own sinful nature,

and my annoying habits.

[jpgray]

8. I can point those out for you

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Yeah, you and a lot of other people, I'm sure.

:spank:

[bluethruandthru]

5. How chickens mate

Just can't get it!

[Ariana Celeste]

10. I have no idea.

Once when some buddies and I were drinking I presented my theory, and they all laughed at me, and didn't tell me how it works, so I assume they must have thought I was joking! :blush:

I'm a city girl. :)

[XemaSab]

12. It's called a "cloacal kiss"

Both the male and the female have a cloaca (which is Latin for sewer), which is the opening that the poo (which is black) and the pee (which is white) and the sperm and eggs come out of.

During mating the cock mounts the hen and presses his cloaca against hers, and sperm squirts out of his cloaca and enters her cloaca, where it then travels up and fertilizes the egg.

Got it?

[bluethruandthru]

33. Thank you!

I feel like I can cross one of those "Things I always wondered about" off my list!!
I have to say that it doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun for the chicken!

[trackfan]

43. That reminds me of a joke:

A guy walks into a diner and asks if there are any specials. They waitress says, "Yeah. Beef Tongue".

The guy says, "YUCK. That's disgusting! No way I'm gonna eat something
that comes out of a cow's mouth!?......I'll have a couple of eggs."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. how computer programs work

just dont get at all

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Can you make a left on red onto a one way street in CA?

Just don't know. :shrug:

[Robb]

11. For some reason, I think you can

...unless a sign tells you otherwise.

I had a cop in Colorado tell me I could pretty much do whatever I wanted to (u-turns and such I couldn't do on the coast) as long as it was safe. If a cop saw you and thought it wasn't safe to perform the move, you got a ticket.

I think he was putting me on. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Kerrytravelers......

You can make a left on a red light when.....

You are on a one way street, and you're in the far left hand lane, and the street that you want to turn onto is a one way heading to your left also....

Otherwise, no, I don't believe you can.....


Does this help?


:shrug: :hi:

[Kerrytravelers]

37. I think so. I just don't want a ticket.

[Floogeldy]

13. Things about which you are ignorant.

Grammar. ;)

[Robb]

29. There are some things up with which I will not put

Plus, every drop of ink is sacred. Succinctness! :D

[Floogeldy]

40. Dizackly!

And here I heard you were a dingbat! ;)

[XemaSab]

14. I am ignorant about plants

I have a degree in soils and I have taken several classes pertaining to plants, but what they are, I don't know. :shrug:

[Floogeldy]

20. They are plants.

What on God's green Earth do you mean?

[XemaSab]

22. The difference between

different filaree species.... like who the fuck cares? :shrug:

[Ptah]

15. There were a few times my father burned the stubble

and straw in his grain fields.

If I remember correctly, it was to reduce the fiber in
the soil, as the next season we surveyed and reshaped the
contours to facilitate irrigation of the next crop.

I'm ignorant about how people went about extracting
large stone pieces from quarries.

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

18. If there's too much coarse organic matter in the soil

The bacteria can compete with the next year's plants for some of the soil nutrients, and burning volatilizes the carbon and reduces the carbon available for said bacteria, but that's about all I can say on the subject.

:shrug:

[Ptah]

21. I have no doubt

Like I said, I'm not exactly sure I remember the motivation.



:hi:

[ZombieNixon]

16. The art of random conversation.

I'm notoriously terrible at it, to the detriment of my social life. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Quantum Physics

and the obvious - Rocket Science.

[EstimatedProphet]

23. The ash left behind is high in phosphates

and lower in nitrogen and carbon. Typically phosphates are the hardest nutriend of the three to keep active in a system and they tend to limit the system biomass production.

[XemaSab]

24. Thanks!

I was just saying yesterday that I don't know how the hell I made it through soil fertility!

[EstimatedProphet]

35. LOL

Interestingly enough, that was from limnology. I guess it works the same way in a pond too!

[Robeson]

25. Java scripting.

[Dangerously Amused]

26. Things I'm ignorant about??

Um... how would I know?


Wait a second... this is a TRICK QUESTION, isn't it?













Edit: Preview is our friend.

[Ptah]

27. I am ignorant of the methods for extracting large slabs of

stone from quarries.

:shrug:

[reyd reid reed]

28. There's not enough bandwidth

In the world to list all the things I'm ignorant of. And the older I get, the more I don't know.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Life.

[Redstone]

31. Pretty much ALL pop culture.

I don't watch TV, am not interested in professional or college sports, and don't listen to commerciial radio.

Redstone

[LaurenG]

32. It balances the soil and I'm ignorant about classical music,

fine art, rocket science, engineering, where electricity comes from.... the list is so long.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

34. World War 2 fighter planes

:shrug:

[DanCa]

36. If ignorance is bliss am in eden

There's too many subjects that I have problems with. I would see that my most glaring fault is that I am not mechanicly inclined.

[skygazer]

38. How technology works

I can use it but have absolutely no comprehension as to how it works. Discussions of technical matters dealing with computers and microchips and programming and all that make my brain hurt. I still can't figure out the damn telephone, let along the computer. :dunce:

[JoeBidensWhiteTeeth]

39. I'm ignorant about Bush's brain

I just can't figure out what's going on in there...

[swimboy]

41. s and p orbitals

That was the sign I should leave the world of chemistry.

In math, it was Summation of sequences and series. There were really only three answers: zero, one, infinity. The more certain I was that I was beginning to get it, the more certain that I was dead wrong.


Then there is the whole universe of the things I don't know that I don't know. "Cloacal kiss" graduated from that realm today and yet I don't feel like celebrating.

[seaglass]

42. Why I can't get a job. Probably not so much ignorant as

not knowing which of the myriad of reasons it is.:(