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

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 02/06/2013 17:14

Please feel free to ask questions and if I know the answer I will tell you, also feel free to answer others questions!

My stupid question is

Would I be able to see nits in my sons very short hair if he had them? (He has short brown hair)?

OP posts:
LoveBeingUpAt4InTheMorning · 03/06/2013 19:36

Yes planes have windscreen wipers.

My question, why do we believe facts we read on mn?

mooface · 03/06/2013 19:32

What's the difference between being tipsy and being drunk? And how does one know how to prevent overdrinking into the latter?

CaptainJamesTKirk · 03/06/2013 19:23

Hopeful bump?

wannabedomesticgoddess · 03/06/2013 18:51

I want to know that too Captain.

Hope someone can answer!

CaptainJamesTKirk · 03/06/2013 18:49

Oh. The thread went all religious :( so I'm still going to be in the dark re: my question on sign language translators.

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 18:45

I agree to disagree too. It wouldnt make people become Christians, even if there were proof.

MardyBra · 03/06/2013 18:33

Well maybe we should technically agree to disagree breeze. I'm on the side that seeks proof. Smile

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 18:30

I agree Alis and MardyBra. Smile

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 18:26

i dont. i have a cough and it hurts when i laugh.

MardyBra · 03/06/2013 18:25

There have been many on the philosophy/religion board Ilikethebreeze.

They all go like this:

"I believe in God, so it must be true."
"Well, show me some proof?"
"There is none - you just know."
"So there's no proof then."
"Yes there is because we believe it."
"That's not proof though."
"yes it is."
"No it's not"
"yes it is."
"No it's not"
and so on.

Alisvolatpropiis · 03/06/2013 18:25

But it isn't proven fact? Ilikethebreeze. That is the only fact here. That is why being religious is often referred to as "keeping the faith". One must have faith to believe because it cannot be proven.

There isn't really anything about it to debate,on this board or the philosophy board.

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 18:20

I dont want to get into it either!
If you want to start a thread about it on the philosophy board, suck, I will happily contribute.

CaptainJamesTKirk · 03/06/2013 18:19

I have a question and I admit I'm probably an idiot for not knowing, but I've always been too embarrassed to ask...
When you see someone doing British Sign Language (the translators) say on CBeebies they move their mouth as if forming the words but they're not forming the actual words, they're not saying them like a lip reader would read them IYSWIM? What are they doing with their mouths and please excuse my ignorance.

MardyBra · 03/06/2013 18:18

Ilikethebreeze "Trouble is, it is.
[It would be so much easier sometimes if it wasnt]."

I'd take the easy route, love. It'll save a lot of argument too.

wannabedomesticgoddess · 03/06/2013 18:16

I am not getting into this.

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 18:13

it is a fact? a proven fact?

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 18:12

Trouble is, it is.
[It would be so much easier sometimes if it wasnt].

I appreciate there are many people who do not agree with me.

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 18:07

"the bible is true"

you say that like it's fact.

happypotamus · 03/06/2013 17:57

Letitsnow re bread crusts in hospitals
I work in a hospital. I make toast for patients (as well as many other things, obviously making toast is not my only job). The bread we use is a normal loaf, like you can buy in a shop, but I can't now remember which brand we use despite looking at it everyday. It has crusts just the same as any other loaf, but I guess we assume patients don't want or won't be able to eat the crust. My patients are young children so don't generally eat crusts, and adult hospital patients are ill and mostly elderly so want something easy to chew and digest which the crust isn't. I don't make sandwiches. They come up pre-packaged from the canteen, but I assume the same reasons apply. So, what happens to the crusts? Probably the staff eat them (we aren't officially allowed to eat bread provided for patients but everyone does) or they end up in the bin.

Corygal · 03/06/2013 17:55

I don't understand why Darwin put people off Christianity. If you look at The Bible, it tells the story of creation in the same order and with the same types of animals as evolution does - except 'seven days' is more like 'millions of years'.

Is that lone difference really what blew away the faith of countries?

And isn't it far spookier that the Bible gets the order and process of evolution entirely right - when it was written millenia ago with no evidence or scientists, etc - than Darwin did when he finally had centuries of proven scientific history to work with?

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 17:49

That is right wannabe. But I put the two sentences seperately.

Alisvolatpropiis · 03/06/2013 17:36

label don't feel bad! I remember the utter blind panic I experienced when asked in an interview to describe myself in 5 adjectives. Immediate thought "FUCK what's an adjective?!!". Longest few seconds of my life before my brain clicked into gear.

wannabedomesticgoddess · 03/06/2013 17:33

80% of the population believing something does not make it true.

LunaticFringe · 03/06/2013 17:30

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MardyBra · 03/06/2013 17:15

Sorry - should read "another language question".

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