18 EVERYDAY ITEMS YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEIR PURPOSE

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1.The Mini Pocket On Your Jeans

When you buy a Jean trouser, don't you wonder what this pocket is for? Well, today is your lucky day! It's where you were supposed to keep your pocket watch when jeans were first invented

2. The Hole In Your Pan Cap

Kids might likely put this covers in their mouths so manufacturers took measures to prevent them from suffocating by placing a hole in the cover so that if it gets stuck in someone's throat, they'll still breathe air into their lungs
3. The Hole In Your iPhone

You'll notice a little hole next to the camera on your rearfacing camera. It is actually a microphone. It allows you to record sound when your camera is turned around
4. Hole in padlocks

The hole is made for pouring engine oil inside the padlock to enable it to be lubricated if rusty
5. They basicaly let your fingers know where the home key is without looking down so you can type quicker than usual
6. Arrow On Your Gas Gauge

Forget what side your car gas tank is ? You don't have to get out of the car to check. The arrow on your gas gauge points to it.
7. Soda Tab

The tab in your can drink is to be used to hold your straw in place while you sip, stop turning it aside
8. Lines on Red Cup

I bet you never thought the lines where important right? Me too
Well, the lines can be used a liquid measurement for different kinds of alcohol
9. Silica Gel Packets

STOP THROWING IT AWAY! It Helps to suck moisture out of its immediate environment to keep it dry cos it absorbs humidity in an enclosed environment up to 50%.
10. The Holes in the Side Of Your Converse Sneakers

The holes have multiple functions. They allow air into your shoe and you can also use them to tie your shoes in different: ways
11. Holes In Airplane Windows

These things have two functions, one is to compensate for the difference in air pressure as the altitude changes and also prevent the window from fogging
12 The hole in your pots handle and fry pan

Thought they are for hanging them? Nah, Not just that alone
Next time you need to put down your utensil just put it in the hole and its will hang over the pan to prevent any mass
13. Pasta spoon

STOP THROWING THIS SPOON AWAY. The main purpose is to drain the water out of spaghetti. BUT the hole signifies the size of one person's portion of spaghetti. A handy way to remember portion and size without scales
14. Zigzag on one side of bobby pins.

The zigzag is designed to go on the bottom, closest to your scalp as it grips the hair better. Who would be known?!
15. Notebook Margine

Margins weren't invented so your writing can be on a straight line, margins were created to safeguard what youve witten on the paper so you don't lose your write up to Rats by leaving blank spaces around the edges for the rats to chew

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Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.

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