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

i use toilet cleaner, rubber gloves and a disposable toilet cleaning wipe. followed by bleach.

Why does all the media make such a fuss saying that William and Kate's baby will be 3rd in line to the throne even if it is a girl, because of the new legislation that has been passed.

If the baby is a girl it would have been 3rd in line to the throne anyway, new legislation or not. The new legislation only matters if they have a girl first and then go on to have a boy.

Why is everyone thinking it's so significant RIGHT NOW when it won't be significant for a couple of years, if then? Are they thick or what?

CalamityJ I studied memory before I did pro bono work with families affected by Alzheimer's/dementia. Apparently are memories are stored in a bookshelf/filing system fashion. So memories are always there but as we get older and create new memories they pushed back to make room for the new ones. That's why when a person has Alzheimers/dementia they can suddenly remember things from years and years ago that they've never mentioned before,the affect of the illness is that the "filing system" of our memories gets thrown about essentially and then it's all out of order. So most recent events are not being stored as the most memories etc.

Does that make sense? Not sure I've explained it well.

Thank you lesseroftwoweevils that is very interesting and I have shared with ds .

Why do dogs not get stds?
Why given the size of urban bird populations do we not see more dead and dying birds everyday in the street??

Brilliant idea for a thread. My question is why don't we remember things from being a baby? How does our brain decide what to remember and what to forget?

i have always thought (since hearing it somewhere) that we yawn in order to get more oxygen to our tired brains

If you let the car coast in neutral you use very little fuel, but you do use some as the engine is still ticking over. You would use about as much as you do if you leave the car stationary with the engine running. You should not of course turn the car off when you are driving it as the steering locks and then you are in all sorts of trouble.

John and Simon are the anglicised versions of their real names.
John is Yohanon in Hebrew, Ioannes in Greek (the NT was written in Greek).
Simon is Shimon in Hebrew.
Peter is Cephas, which means rock, so translated as Petros, Greek for rock. Etc etc.

I thought air conditioning used less fuel than if you had it switched off but had the windows open. Something to do with drag I think

Oh thank you

I will be back!

Diary, air con does use more fuel, radio doesn't. Radio uses battery life, if you let it running with engine off, the battery dies (eventually).

I wonder how people without loo brushes clean their loo.

Do we have a double somewhere in the world.

The band The Scissor Sisters. I have been told this name is in some way rude but don't get it?

DiaryOfAWimpyMum I'm not sure if this is entirely reliable but I do remember a Top Gear episode where they were driving with windows down, air con and radio on full blast in order to use up as much fuel as possible.

• something I'm missing!

Air conditioning does use more fuel Diary not sure about radio or driving in neutral though.

I think shrinking is related to our bone mass decreasing? Maybe?

Ooh this is a good place to ask the following question my 12ds asked me this morning...
There is probably I'm missing but "how did Jesus find friends called John and Simon etc in the middle east"
It's like a magic 8 thread!

Euphemia I always wonder about the photos thing too. It would be cool (though so problematic and divorce inducing that they'd never do it) if whenever someone uploaded a photo onto the internet that it did like a face-recognitiony-thing and showed you the new pic of yourself.

I always have a million stupic questions, and yet, I cannot think of a single one at this moment.

Is it true that if you drive with your car in neutral you don't use any fuel?

and

Is it true that the air conditioning and radio use more fuel?

Both things my Dad has told me and I'm a bit

Why we people get smaller in height as they grow older? Or do they not? is it my imagination?

Lowering the tone slightly, why do I always jump thirty feet (not quite!) when my bits are touched at all? It's particularly bothersome when I see doctors etc, and jump. It's not painful or anything, I know it's going to happen, doesn't frighten me so why do I jump?!

Whenever it happens the dr/nurse seems to get a hell of a fright!!

canihave I thought those phobias were a primeval thing? Particularly spiders when they were fucking massive and poisonous larger and more dangerous than they are now in many areas of the world.

Why are there so many bent old people in England ? I know people can stoop a bit when they get older but i find in england there are a lot of very bent old people Is there some degenerative back problem ?