A thread for those questions you wouldn't dare ask in real life/normally!

I have a creation one too.

If no god created the universe - where did it come from. what was before the big bang? first there was nothing in the universe and then there was stuff? tiny little bits of stuff just came together, right? But where from?

But if there is a god, where did god come from? if the argument is that the universe couldn't possibly just be, then a being capable of creating a universe couldn't just exist from nothing and must therefore have been created. So why don't we worship a being capable of creating a being capable of creating a universe?

But. That means that there is a being capable of creating a being capable of creating a being capable of creating a universe.

and so on and so forth.

but if there isn't a god, and therefore a god's god and a god's god's god etc - where did the universe come from? Where did those first scraps of material come from that started it all off? How was there enough of it to make an entire universe?

Hugo, there aren't any seeds in/on a carrot. It's part of the root of the carrot plant. If allowed to, the carrot plant above the ground would develop flowers. If the flowers are pollinated then seeds form.

queenoflouisiana my Irish DH still can't get his head round the different words and the Mackem/ Geordie language differences. I tried to explain pit yakker to him yesterday and it nearly finished him off !
Why is Sunday TV crap ? Always has been.

LittleMiss & Diaryof ....sometimes I think about it so much it sends my brainwaves dizzy, as I think it truly is beyond my comprehension, at least in our lifetime maybe

a follow on from my toilet question

does anyone ever look inside their cistern? it's grim

next question

does anyone ever clean the inside of their cistern?

numtum

You can't rationalise your way out of being scared of a spider, as when you're confronted with the object of your fear, you enter fight or flight mode, which is a purely instinctive thing, where your thinking brain shuts down. You are functioning purely in the animal part of your brain. rational thought doesn't exist there. That's also why we don't form clear narrative memories of traumatic events - the part of our brain that forms narratives isn't "switched on."

lost, my shopping lists are bilingual , though mostly mother tongue.

We have English all around us, but mother tongue only at home. I speak mother tongue to dc, always. They don't speak English to me.

thanks coffee

If there is no sort of intelligence behind creation how did it happen?There must have been a beginning and matter has to have an origin-nothing [absolute nothing] has no atoms/molecules to expand/explode/change whatever.So my question is how did 'it' all begin?

maat it makes sense to me to and is always the way i thought of it.

Kim, first page. Yes if a tree falls and there is no one there, it makes a sound!
Eccentric, the universe is always increasing.we would never get to the end.

I too want to know how the french decided on what is feminine and what is masculine.

herrings language one- you can find dialect continuums where the dialect gradually changes over distance. It is easy to understand people near you on the continuum, but further away the language changes a lot and becomes less comprehensible. You see this with accent and local dialect words in Britain, it used to be more obvious in places like France, where lots of distinct dialect languages were spoken.

So, as I am from the NE of England I can tell the difference between someone from Newcastle rather than my home town, but DH (a London boy) can't. However, I use words in common with Geordies that my DH would never use.

suck, sounds like a simple problem though. Washer or even replacing the whole float thingy should not be more than £20 for parts.

I also have lots of tennis questions:

What? How? clay courts Why are they not filthy after playing?

Why do they bounce the ball before serving?

Why do they hit their feet with the rackets?

my lever doesn't connect to the float it connects to some sort of mini tank within the cistern. i''l get my dad to have a nosey at it.

Coffee - thank you. My friend is bilingual but always writes her shopping lists etc in English. Are you the same? (Sorry - nosy!)

I wonder about that eccentric

Why do nice people bend over backwards to accommodate arseholes instead of telling said arseholes to get stuffed?

That's something I could never ask someone who was allowing a total arsehole to walk all over them, although it is something that I always wonder.

It's ok to tell people to not treat you badly.

They don't care about your feelings so why are you concerned to put theirs ahead of yours.

And, as a follow on to that, when I see you doing it. again. Am I allowed to shake you until your teeth rattle as I try to hammer it into you that you are worth more than that?

When I get dejavu it's not a millisecond; it's something I dreamt about or happened sometimes years before happening now. More about feelings than vision.

People definitely see things differently-there were two people in monsoon the other day arguing about a top being pink or orange-it was orange you eejit.

My daughter and I have the blue/green argument quite regularly.

My question is where are the seeds on a carrot?

I sometimes get double deja-vu, where I feel I have done / been here before but also remembered feeling I have done / been here before, before.

IYSWIM

I find anything to do with the mind fascinating. I remember reading that time seems to go quicker as we get older as we experience time as a percentage of our life. So, for example, a year seems really long to a 5 year old because it's a fifth of their life. However, it's only a 50th of my life, so it seems to go quicker.

I don't know if that's a load of bollocks but it seems to make sense to me.

lost, I think in my mother tongue. always. dreams are 50/50.

ok ive had another look inside and there is a drip coming from the part where the 'tap' looking part where the water comes from joins the pipe that feeds it. i tried tightening it but the drip became a stream so i loosened it again and it became a bigger stream so i've put it back to where the drip is least frequent. i think the threads on the parts that screw together must be worn out or maybe a washer needing replaced? the whole thing needs replaced tbh. drips coming from all over the bathroom now.