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

Ok...but I hate honey because to me it smells of wee...it reminds me of wee anyway, can't quite say why but I can't stand eating it...anybody else think that?

Ha fryone, weird isn't it? But why? Have we got lungs full of nectar?

I just mentioned this to DP and he said he smells honey too. 26 years we've been together and I never knew that

MarianaTrench
Why do my sneezes smell like honey?!

WOW, I thought I must be weird and the only person who could smell this! And not just mine, if someone sneezes near to me, their sneezes also smell like honey.

Agreeing regarding BSL.

Lip reading is a big part of sign language (I've been told off often for watching people's hands when they sign rather than their faces).

Some words you use the standard English lip pattern for others have their own special lip pattern (sticking tongue out or sort of puffing or saying an unrelated word). A lot of signs for different words are very similar (Liverpool and Lesbian are pretty close) or identical (red, boy, Russian) so you need the lip pattern (and context I guess) for it to make sense.

Body language and facial expressions, the speed and size of your signing also convey meaning. My BSL teacher had the most amazingly expressive face

Well done [grins]

Dont know. MNHQ I presume. Someone must like you at MNHQ!

Why do my sneezes smell like honey?!

The internet tells me this is reasonably common but no explanation as to why.

re the BSL - a lot of signs have mouth patterns that accompany the sign. In a lot of words the mouth pattern is similar to the lip pattern you make when you speak. Not always the case though - eg to differentiate between "big" and "very big" you would make the same sign but to signify "very" you would blow out your cheeks whilst making the sign for "big".

If the earth got sucked into a black hole what would happen? Would it explode?

God, im going to have space nightmares tonight

Life on planets can die from catastrophic events. I suppose planets can die too... Some planets are gases, some are dense solid and rocky. Small ones could 'collide' with bigger ones, pulled together by the planets gravitational fields. I'm guessing.
You've made me want to dig out all my old uni notes.

It does depend on their size... Those that go supernova and create blackholes are massive about 20-30times the size of our sun!

I suppose planets could be destroyed by asteroids or by being sucked into a star.

Stars are big balls of burning gas. When they run out of gas to burn they die. Supernova is only one case of a dying star, usually it is a lot less dramatic. I think it depends on the size of the star as to "how" it dies.

Space stuff makes my head explode.

How do stars die? Can planets die? Is that how the world will end?

Pattie, good question.
There will be no bad things I dont think, so nits and worms? and germs probably not.
Humans yes and animals.

Isaiah 65
"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent - its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain".

Fellatio I want the answer to that one as well!!

lion re: signing/mouth I was asking with regards to the translators who are not (well not often) deaf themselves.

Only anything that can accept God as their saviour.

(P.S There is no heaven.)

If god is the creator and there is a heaven. Who or what goes in when they die? Humans? dogs? Cats? Nits? Trees? Worms? Germs and bacteria? Is it the equivalent of a spiritual earth?

Why did MNHQ fuck with my inbox?

Pizza boxes - square ones can lie flat and fold easily for teenage workers whereas origami may be required on CV for round creations

Signing/mouth - I think this is the similar to Stephen Hawkins; the muscle memory is there to try to make the correct sound; a bit like autopilot. Some deaf people can speak fairly fluently (whereas others can't) as well as sign and I think the people signing and mouthing are probably in this category - they use speech more in everyday life.

I also have crunchy ear thing, but my jaw also does a very loud click, almost as if I can dislocate it on one side and pop it back in. Only vaguely understandable explanation I have had for that was that it is to do with having braces - orthodontists just look at teeth, not jaw alignment and it's effects. I had train tracks in ma yoof and it did start around then so I am going with that explanation for now!

Anyone else get cramp in their feet when they point their toes? My gymnastics teacher hated me for this but a chiropodist acquaintance once told me it was to do with having short tendons in the front part of your ankle anyone know?

Oooh I was on a thread like this years ago and dildo space hoppers came up

I think I asked these then too:
If you can get malaria and other diseases from bites (mozzies etc) can you also get AIDS/HIV? I assume they suck up blood rather than just injecting as that is how they feed, no?
Why do they design those metal gates for parks/schools that when you pull the bolt across you easily catch your finger and get a blood blister? (Looks at forefinger with giant blister after this morning's gate incident)

I will now see if I can answer any before I try to sleep...

I think that most people's brains are not capable of truly understanding such concepts. I gave up trying to fully get my head around them and just find useful analogies to use instead.
Some people claim to be able to picture 4 dimensional space or even higher but quite frankly I don't believe them.