Anyone got really stupid questions that someone else on here might be able to answer?

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I only ask because I have a really stupid question but haven't asked in case you talk about me ...

So if someone else could ask something ridiculous first that would be great!

Woodlice you are not alone. And I still don't get it

@thefamousfiveplusone I changed my passport to my maiden name first of all, so used that to register DC.

However if you have a copy of your divorce certificate and take a copy of your marriage certificate which shows your maiden name on it that is also accepted. My divorce certificate is under married name, so I paid a tenner to get my marriage certificate which I’ve subsequently kept and it’s been really useful. Pretty much everything I have is in my maiden name. But when applying for a marriage license producing the divorce and old marriage certificate meant the registrar did not put my old married name anywhere on the notice of marriage, she said otherwise she would have had to.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider countries south of the equator when they see the Moon high in the sky see it “upside down” to us ie they see the reverse side lit. But we all see the same phase of the moon - it takes 27 days to orbit earth and when UK sees a full moon, so does Australia

@thefamousfiveplusone in the exact same situation (in Glasgow if it matters), I just told the registrar I was moving back to my maiden name and they registered my name as such. No ID required at all.

With gears the lower the gear number the bigger the gear wheel. So if you are in first gear you are using the biggest wheel and it makes the bike wheel go round once for each pedal rotation. If you are in a higher gear the wheel is smaller so it makes the bike wheel go round more often for each pedal rotation. That's why you use a high gear to go fast - you can pedal at the same speed but the bike wheel will go round more often. But going up hill is hard so you have to pace by going down a gear.

The growths on trees may well be 'Witches Broom' or Mistletoe www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/06/witches-broom/

Thanks @BlueSkyAtChristmas. Very interesting

My son asked me where Semtex was made, I think it might have been the former Czechoslovakia but I didn't want to google it!

@thefamousfiveplusone I looked at changing my name back by deed poll and it did seem simple enough, however, I found it much easier to go to a local solicitor and get them to draw up the paperwork for me. It basically says that I renounce name x and henceforth want to be known by name y.

Cost about £100 and was done within an hour

@Awwlookatmybabyspider sorry realised I didn’t quite answer your question. The degree to which we see the moon during the daytime depends on the phase of the moon and it’s degree (0 to 180). I don’t think you can see a full moon in daytime. I’m sure someone more interested in physics can explain a bit better!

Please explain this in layman's terms, I just can't understand this even though my family try and explain and very cross with me because they think it's obvious. Why are people in Australia not upside down?
If you picture the world as a globe and, using blu tack as gravity, put a Lego man (or woman) on the UK and a lego man (or woman) on Australia, it wouldn't matter how much it rotates although they would get knocked off by the stand the ones in Australia would be upside down.

Murder and Assassination

Assassination is usually carried out on prominent people, political or religious leaders for example, and its motives are political or religious or occasionally financial. The victim is often not personally known to the killer.
Murder is the killing of another human being, often for personal reasons, envy or jealousy for instance, and the victim and killer are often known to one another.

@Redshoeblueshoe

Back at ya Wood

You can refer to people from New Zealand as New Zealanders. You could just New Zealandic like you use Icelandic but it's a heck of a mouthful and I can't remember ever having heard/seen it used.

The least popular one is Australian.

^use not just

What causes an itch? I've always wondered this since I was a child and I thought today that I still don't know the answer! I'm going to have a google

@AuntieAl because of gravity and your relative position on the globe. Gravity pulls you towards the earth’s centre. That is the point of reference. It depends on your position as to who is upside down. The earth is not one way up or the other. It constantly rotates as it orbits the earth. It has 2 magnetic poles (although the north is weirdly shifting!) and humans determined which was the right way up ie North. It could have equally been the South Pole that was on top. It’s just the way the powers that be drew the first global maps .... and that stuck when the world’s first globes were created. The earth could either be viewed with the northern hemisphere on top, or the Southern Hemisphere on top. Hence why people in Oz are not upside down

@WoodliceInSunderland the trick is to act like you know everything and intercede with a random rule you just made up.

Others will react in kind. The in joke is there are no rules!

On some tv vet programmes they always wear masks when operating (Supervet) but in others they sometimes do and sometimes don't (Yorkshire Vet). Why is that?

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?

Oh yes I have often wondered when we can see both the sun and the moon in the daytime, and think it must be very dark on the other side of the world. Regarding the moon, some years back I went to live in New Zealand and amazed at the fact that the moon went the opposite way.

the moon:
the mistake is to think that the moon rises at night and the sun during the day. That is not actually true of the moon at all. The moon is visible (as in on our side of the world) at many various different times of the day and night. We usually can't see it or don't notice if it is around during the day, because of clouds and bright sunshine etc.

You can get charts to show what time the moon rises and what time it goes down. So when it has gone down in UK it will still be visible in other countries.

Is it true that our thoughts aren't our own. i.e, they come to us before we've even thought them, but by the time our brain has processed them, we think we've thought them?

What's beyond space? And where does it end?

@AdaColeman great explanation for the point at which murder becomes an assassination... so it’s the difference between killing for a personal motive (murder) and killing to eliminate a public figure due to what they represent or their power/ threat to certain group(s) (assassination)