I hate

Brake fluid. Horrible stuff. Hate the smell too.

It's all about the tonic you mix it with apparently.

How YouTube has removed embedded video previews in playing videos. Now there’s just loads of dead end references in otherwise well-constructed content, if that makes sense.

I do that. But I'm like, real smart and stuff. The counter point is that many techies won't tell you they don't understand what you're telling them unless you make it real clear that you're happy to explain it. ie. I'm trying to tease from them the admission, sooner rather than later, that they don't know what they should be doing. I don't want to find out a week later they've floggled the toggle instead of toggling the floggle.

Kind Regards,
Throbber

The fact that you had to explain that really boils my piss

Shit. I say that all the time. Sorry!

It depends.

I often use it like hippy does on the basis that:
a) The person I'm speaking to may say they understand it but actually doesn't, and the negative effects of them not understanding something could be a pain in the arse for lots of people further down the line
b) and/or I've been shit explaining something and they're being polite and not telling me that

However, some people definitely use it in a hugely condescending way, similar to the way people say "Only an idiot wouldn't think that..." when trying to stop people questioning why someone is talking shite.

Meanwhile in the real world, it's often necessary to confirm someone's understood what you've told them.

Simply assuming they have because they've not indicated otherwise is bonkers.

My experience is if you ask “do you understand/have you understood this” the vast majority of people will respond “yes” because they do t want to appear stupid or are unable to admit they didn’t understand or don’t want to tell me that my explanation has been inadequate.

Asking “what have you learned/ what do yo understand” is a much more effective question as I can then verify if they have received my intended communication.

I like to say “And what have we learned today?”

I hope you work in a primary school!

Just jokes, in my world that phrase would earn me a broken nose

My experience is if you ask “do you understand/have you understood this” the vast majority of people will respond “yes” because they do t want to appear stupid or are unable to admit they didn’t understand or don’t want to tell me that my explanation has been inadequate.

Agreed, but it's then very much their fault and your conscience is clear.

When teaching in a group scenario the closed “have you understood” question is a quick way to get an affirmative response. My conscience wouldn’t be clear as I know that the question is poor and doesn’t guarantee understanding. Very few people are emotionally resilient or robust enough to admit they don’t understand publicly. It is dangerous for me to assume my explanation has been clear and unambiguous.

My role as an instructor/trainer/mentor is not being delivered when I am asking questions which are this poorly formed. Also I can’t assume someone has understood or been paying attention. My role is to hopefully elicit understanding so asking participants to explain things back, ideally in their own words helps me gain clarity as to have I communicated effectively.

It is the role of the communicator to communicate in a manner that the recipient can understand.

See Post Office Horizon Inquiry .

See Post Office Horizon Inquiry

Parklife!

In our safety critical work environment, I'll give a briefing and then ask questions based on the information I've just briefed.

"Dave, where's the Place of Safety?" "Bob, where's the nearest hospital?"

This is expected from all briefings so it ensures people 99% of the time are listening, and also weeds out those who are not and/or any misunderstanding.

So much this, checking what they have understood, not if they think they have understood!

Soooo - primary school then?

Naw, the world of my wife

I say "does that make sense?" from time to time because a) sometimes an off-the-cuff explanation of something complicated or technical is not very clear b) sometimes people give 0 feedback in a conversation and you have to check they're still alive

If someone quizzed me on what they'd just told me in a professional environment it would come across extremely passive aggressive... Maybe fine to do that in your cases but a good way to make literally everyone hate you in an office

"Hello Dave, we need to do XYZ in project A because of reasons and we need to put that in this report. Now explain to me in your own words what you have learned from this conversation"

I’m getting a haircut, that’s the hate part one.

Second part. They have talksport on, a boxing guest just said that Saudi boxing is doing so well because they take the politics out of it. Epic.

*Might not be talk sport but either way.

Kid in a Haaland replica kit lobbing whole slices of white bread into the Thames

Being the guy that has to do all tech support at home.

Running updates on my personal arch linux systems: type a single command, enter a password, boom all and every piece of software from my OS kernel upwards is updated.

Updating my OH's Windows 10 laptop, that they haven't updated for months and have asked me to sort?

World of fucking hurt.
World. Of. Hurt.

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