“I can't post a question because they come to me when I'm in bed or in the shower.” I’m similar ideas come to me when I’m busy with something I recently got a dot and now I can tell Alexa! Then she reminds me later and I can then add to phone or google or whatever.
“Why are pregnant women told to avoid eg cured meats when the chances of catching listeria are absolutely minuscule? Why are women told different things in different countries?” Risk assessments on this stuff relate to prevalence of those bugs in the country where the food is being consumed and likely has been bought/produced/imported according to that countries regulations. Different countries have different food hygiene rules based on the risks per country - put VERY simply
“How do you put on liquid eyeliner and keep it in a straight, even line - is there a trick to this? I always look like I've applied it when I'm pissed....”
I’d like to know this one as each eye ends up with well applied but different eyeliner when I do it - dd however does it perfectly but cannot explain why. Eg often i’ll end up with one thick and winged and the other thin and unwinged no matter what I do. If I try and correct it ends up a right mess!
“What does it mean when a shop is for sale as a "going concern"? It sounds like it's bad, but I don't think it is?” It means (vaguely trying to recall my accountancy lessons) that it’s not just the physical assets being sold but the business, kind of including the customers/clients as a viable continuing business. Again VERY simply put.
Re surgeons and sustenance/pee breaks - they can and do scrub out to take a break but generally speaking they build up a tolerance for being able to go long periods without food, water or loo breaks, plus plan accordingly ahead of time eg having fruit juice just before heading into surgery - as do many non surgical staff out of necessity. I can hold it for up to 36 hours at a push and it’s a long time since I needed to. And yes also nurses and other theatre support staff can also help out.
8 hours is nothing!
“and he said it was egg mayo. I don't know if he said that just to shut me up.” Sorry but yes that’s pretty likely 😂 bless you for thinking of him though.
“How do I stop my top 6 notes from disappearing into an undignified squeak when I sing in public?” Either sing in the right key for your voice - this sounds like you’re starting in a key one higher than your voice is - or train your voice to sing in the higher key.
“You can put potato waffles in the toaster? Really? I had no idea” you can heat up/cook loads in the toaster! Waffles, potato scones, hash browns, pasties, square sausage, toasties (using toastie bags - these can also be used for beans, mushy peas, tinned sweet corn, creamed mushroom, tinned spaghetti, even scrambled eggs!)
“Nrtft yet but why do toaster companies not make toaster that hold the whole piece of bread in or why to bread makers not make a toast shape that doesn't have a bit poking out of the top?
(Or am I buying the wrong size toaster!)” you can buy bread designed to fit in conventional toasters but I agree I think toasters should be made to fit traditional bread proportions.
I also think eye level grills should make a come back so I can make proper cheese on toast again.
“Do maps look the same around the world? Or do Australian people’s maps show Australia in the centre rather than to the extreme right like U.K. maps do?”
Most maps are London centric for obvious historical/political reasons BUT there are loads (and you can view them online but it can be a head fuck!) with other countries centred, with the “Southern” Hemisphere placed at the top and (this will REALLY blow your mind it did mine) ones with all the countries/land etc to correct scale (bet you didn’t know they usually weren’t eh?) you’ll be amazed at how vast the continent of Africa really is and how utterly minuscule the Uk really is.
“When you fart, which meal does it stink of? What you just ate, or from that morning?”
Gastric not my field of expertise BUT I do know we digest different types of food and different elements of each food at different rates so each fart won’t be specific to one meal but to the foods that finished being digested at the same time - hope that makes sense
“the water goes to Scotland, keeps us from getting cocky about anything more than a two week summer.” I’m on the west coast we definitely get more than our fair share of rain! 2 dry weeks is usually a bloody miracle though we had several last year - which we didn’t cope well with at all! 😂
“why does she see black when she has a green scarf tied over her eyes?” Because to see colour you need light hitting the pertinent part of the eye.
“Am I imagining it completely or did you use to have to buy the Radio Times AND the TV Times at Christmas because the BBC wouldn't include ITV ?” You’re not imagining it I well remember this being the case that the bbc were only allowed to publish bbc programming and independent companies weren’t allowed to publish bbc info. I also remember the EXPLOSION of tv magazines when whatever rule created that situation was abolished - I think early 90’s?
Cold War - less about USA invading ussr and more the fear that ussr would invade USA.