Things people pretend to know but in reality know shockingly very little - Its easier to pretend you are smart than to actually be smart.

[870EVO]

I'd say computers. Since I used to do internal helpdesk work at a bank. Now the calls I would get from other banks, these people are around computers all day, use them all the time. Some of the shit I got..... I mean I got the usual "I forgot my password" thing, those were the most common.

But shit like just finding a folder in a drive. Forgetting the computer was turned off at the wall socket. The printer wasn't even plugged in. Some didn't even know what part was the computer, the screen or the box? Just basic, basic stuff. You need to call Helpdesk for this? I don't even know how these people functioned in their daily lives. Or even functioned at their job. How could they drive a car?

 

[Llama king]

I'd say computers. Since I used to do internal helpdesk work at a bank. Now the calls I would get from other banks, these people are around computers all day, use them all the time. Some of the shit I got..... I mean I got the usual "I forgot my password" thing, those were the most common.

But shit like just finding a folder in a drive. Forgetting the computer was turned off at the wall socket. The printer wasn't even plugged in. Some didn't even know what part was the computer, the screen or the box? Just basic, basic stuff. You need to call Helpdesk for this? I don't even know how these people functioned in their daily lives. Or even functioned at their job. How could they drive a car?

People use they're phones more than computers

 

[74164978231]

People use they're phones more than computers

I shit you not;

At my last job which was 50% helpdesk, during the start of corona and getitng people setup working from home I encountered a person who had zero idea you could access gmail from a website. To them gmail was nothing more than the envelope icon on their phone.

Cell phones have done an amazing job at dumbing down humanity.

 

[870EVO]

People use they're phones more than computers

I could give them a pass if they were just a random person. But they worked in the bank, at least 50% of their work time was spent sitting in front of a computer. And these people never had any inclination or curiousity about learning anything about basically one of prime objects they were using.

I mean I'm sure most people in banks were fine, I was just getting the calls from the idiots I guess.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Being healthy.

It's not hard to live to an old age and be healthy and fit. Here's a list:

1. Eat well.
2. Be active.
3. Work out.
4. Don't smoke.
5. Don't drink alcohol.
6. Take care of yourself.
7. Practice personal hygiene.
8. Don't get into dangerous situations.

It's so fucking easy. People couldn't be more autistic when it comes to this shit.

Doing these simple things will make you look like a god amongst the retardation that is humanity.

 

[Vingle]

eing healthy.

It's not hard to live to an old age and be healthy and fit. Here's a list:

Same thing with skincare. People neglect that and SPF in younger years, but when they get wrinkly. They panic and get all kinds of fillers and shit that will do everything much worse. Even celebrities, that has access to the best dermatologists you can get.
A face lift is the LAST thing one should consider.

 

[Absolutego]

People use they're phones more than computers

That's going to cause major problems down the line. Gen X and Millennials are the last generation where general computer skills were widespread through the population - zoomers are almost as bad as boomers when it comes to fundamentally not understanding how computers work.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Pop culture.

I cannot STAND most modern 'music', moviemakers are even running out of BAD ideas, and I would rather dance on hot coals than watch the average 'comedy' or the latest TLC 'series' where they showcase another walking argument for eugenics and/or euthanasia.

But if I don't at least know WTF is circling around culture (not unlike turds in a toilet) I can't relate to most non-nerds and I sound like a cave-dwelling trog when someone goes "ooh did you see THAT MOVIE?"

Thank goodness for piracy so I at least don't have to pay to skim Avatard 2 or pay for NetFucks.

 

[.iota.]

their own bodies ...

how they develop, how they move, how they heal, and what they need to function properly.

a degree in exercise physiology exposed me to how absurd and ridiculous people are about their bodies.
a degree in nursing exposed me to how ignorant and obstinate people are about their health and well-being.
after years of such exposure, i lost most of my faith in humanity.

now, i work with a degree in horticulture. simply stated, plants > people.

 

[ditto]

A personal favorite is any variation of women's oppression. I always love when I get some uppity broad explaining things like how unfair it was women couldn't work during the industrial revolution. As though they didn't or it was even desirable to work those hellish jobs. I swear to God most Americans think history began in 1950s America.

Women's sufferage is like this. In most places men only had the vote a few years before women and even then it wasn't a secret ballot.
Universal secret ballot is never what is celebrated.

 

[Charlie Rockwell]

Languages (specifically, their grammar). Especially the people who barely have a grasp on their native language. How do you expect to learn another language when you don't even have a solid foundation with the one you use every day? It seems to me like you'd be doomed to fail.

In a similar vein, political geography. There's shockingly few people that know where places that aren't immediately relevant to their daily life are. Singapore? that's a place in Europe, right? Is Idaho north or south of Kansas?

 

[skjora]

Nutrition is a big one. Absolutely everyone seems to have some retarded pseudo-scientific view of it based entirely on gut feeling, with particular sets of beliefs about it strongly correlating with political and social views.

 

[shameful existence]

Critical thinking, the scientific method, value of expert opinions and "objectivity".

I've encountered people who believed a person should not have an access to scientific papers outside of their field of expertise, because there's no way they could interpret them correctly as this magical ability is given people strictly through formal education. Others seem to think scientists are somehow much less prone to bias than other professions and that data collection and interpretation are inherently rigid, bias free processes. Evidence unclear or messy? Trust the scientist's guess. Impossible to replicate? No worries, that doesn't affect the scientific quality of our science. The whole idea that science is this thing performed outside of layman's reach and its conclusions are to be accepted without skepticism, because that's where science ends and science denial begins. Questioning things as a symptom of a lack of critical thinking. Questioning politicized things as a symptom of dangerous opinions. I've noticed it tends to be the IQ 105 types who are the most insufferable. Retards and geniuses are usually more reasonable.

 

[YourFriendlyLurker 2.0]

Basically every topic lol. Deep knowledge of things are not trendy in XXI century. It's all about "one guy said".

 

[General Emílio Médici]

At the risk of being too generalist, society itself.

99% of people seem to have no concept that they are a tiny part of the whole and do not actually appreciate and understand how fucking unusual the current state of affairs is. And I don't mean "the pandemic" or even "the woke stuff" I am talking about the entire goddamn post WW2 world of globalization and Cold War followed by the US Hyperpower status.

Your regular person has no idea how unfathomably complicated the insane logistical webs and infrastructure of banking and the likes of it around them are. They have no real concept of how fucking easy things could just collapse at any given point, ESPECIALLY in Europe and your average MovieBob coastal elite liberal. Ask your average Joe how the thinks a place like WalMart makes sure they are able to stock fruit grown 3 continents away at a affordable price and somehow know how much to buy and how to price it not to go broke, they can't. Query them on what they would do if they woke up one day and the electricity grid had had a power failure, no concept beyond "wait for the government to solve it".

 

[Tilapia]

Women's sufferage is like this. In most places men only had the vote a few years before women and even then it wasn't a secret ballot.
Universal secret ballot is never what is celebrated.

Sorry, what?

Okay, first of all, *suffrage.

Secondly, what do you mean by "in most places"? Are you speaking about the United States, where women had voting rights in certain places, mostly in the sparsely-populated West, prior to the 19th Amendment? There was near-universal white male suffrage in the United States in 1856, while women's suffrage, except in certain low-population Western states/territories, did not come until the 1910s, at earliest. 21 states did not grant women suffrage at all until the passage of the 19th Amendment.

If you're talking about countries outside of the United States, there are many recent democracies that have granted men and women suffrage at the same time but most of the Western European democracies followed the same pattern where universal male suffrage was granted far more than "a few years" before women could vote at all.

You are the exact kind of person pretending to know more than you actually do. You don't even know how to spell suffrage.

 

[Charlie Rockwell]

In a similar vein, political geography. There's shockingly few people that know where places that aren't immediately relevant to their daily life are. Singapore? that's a place in Europe, right? Is Idaho north or south of Kansas?

Relevant:

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

That's going to cause major problems down the line. Gen X and Millennials are the last generation where general computer skills were widespread through the population - zoomers are almost as bad as boomers when it comes to fundamentally not understanding how computers work.

I remember when I was doing an office/typing course, the instructor said that the skill of typing and using an actual keyboard correctly/at speed is dying out due to the younger generation being so used to the touchscreen keypad over a physical one, so when they do type, it's way slower than what most jobs would want (data entry/secretarial etc).
As for my own 'thing people think they know a lot about but don't' ill add to the earlier fish as pets and say literally any other pet that isn't a dog or cat. Rabbits need way more space than people give them (a small hutch isnt enough), hamsters, rats and guinea pigs require more stimulation and care than most people give them, and insects/reptiles are not an easy first pet (most require very specific diets and environments that can cost a lot of money and knowledge to replicate). Heck, even the standards for dogs and cats have slipped recently, especially after lockdowns, where people are now getting rid of their badly trained dogs that they no longer have time for.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

The Jews.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

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