to ask a silly question?

[brizzlemint]

....As microwaves are made of metal inside why can't you put metal things inside them when you are cooking something?

and if you have a silly question please ask it to make me feel less of a fool!

@Yabbers is that like those men who can't wee if there's someone else standing at the urinal with them?

Baby pigeons!

@MsChicken
I get Exploding Head Syndrome to! I don't talk about it much as people think I'm nuts! I only found out that not everyone got it last year when I googled it after a particularly bad episode, and realised it was a thing.

yabbers If I’m building a sneeze and someone looks at me, I can’t sneeze. Why?

Because you’re not looking up at the sun and can see them obviously

I get the exploding head thing! For me I usually think I've heard the doorbell and yes, sometimes I do get up to check. Other times I hear a door slamming or a bang outside. It's so weird.

Asparagus doesn't make my wee smell but I can smell DH's when he's eaten asparagus. Sugar puffs however do make my wee smell funny

My question is a bit morbid, sorry, but how are people identified by dental records? Do they just get a general idea e.g. age/sex/ethnicity or can they tell that it's Joe Bloggs from number 64? I don't get how it works. What if you've never been to the dentist? How do they know who your dentist is?

Awww baby pigeons. They look like ugly seagulls!

Yay LittleMissBrainy!!!!!! Finally someone else who has it. Everyone looks at me like I'm mad too. I have a friend who has that sleep paralysis thing and that's completely reasonable apparently but not the noises. I've worked out that it's definitely worse if I'm stressed.

millie I thought that was when they had an idea of who it is but body is badly decomposed or unidentifiable?

MillieMoodle and your exploding head, hooray!

@Mitzi

I have no idea. Given the risk of peeing when sneezing, maybe it is 😄

Dental records aren't transferred from one dentist to another either so they have to know which dentist you go to. I expect they ask families of missing people when a body is found and suspected to be somebody [grim]

Mitzi they don't. It's confirmation bias. You just make a mental note of it when they do.
Also, they're constantly changing so if you're approaching the lights in heavy traffic you'll be expecting it, and of course they'll eventually change.
Sometimes, in a city with loads of lights (like Southampton) you seem to get caught in a "red loop" where all the light gods are not smiling on you that day. I don't know if that's actually a thing though. Bloody hate driving in town.

I can answer the forensic dentistry one, although I don't practise dentist anymore, I still do a spot of forensics.

I'll answer it in the morning though as I'm in bed.
Still don't understand the microwave one. Why don't the walls heat up?

*Don't practise dentistry

Also, they're constantly changing so if you're approaching the lights in heavy traffic you'll be expecting it, and of course they'll eventually change.

There are a set of lights here which I have driven through every day for the last eight months, they let 6 cars through at a time and every single time I have been the 6th car there and they are always on red when I get there. I've never driven up to them and seen them already on green.

Still don't understand the microwave one. Why don't the walls heat up?

They can get slightly warm after a long while, but that is due to heating by convection, rather than by microwave action.

There are two reasons why they don’t get warm by the microwave action -

1. There are no liquid molecules inside the metal to be excited by the radiated microwaves

1. The metal of the oven is at earth potential so any inherent electrical power in the radiated microwaves will be safely dissipated.

The red light one - there is a tiny little person inside the lights and they look for certain cars. When they spot them they press a button to turn the lights to red. If you get a rare green light it is because that person is not on shift and the person on shift has a different list of cars they have to stop.

If I have a sneeze stuck I can also sneeze when looking at bright lights, mints also make me sneeze. I wonder if there is a genetic link. But I don't know if my pee takes on the asparagus smell as I think I have only eaten it twice in my whole life.

Toast should land butter side up because the side that has no butter is lighter and so has less force and the force of gravity is therefore able to act on it more than the side with the butter which is heavier and therefore better able to withstand the forces of gravity.

Brizzlemint, PhD, advanced physics (butter)

I read the sneeze thing is nothing to do with the sun. There is something which tickles your nose(hair?) which makes you want to sneeze. When u tilt your head back that something (snot?) moves and tickles the nose hair(?) some more making the sneeze happen. So actually if you need to sneeze just tilt your head back. No sun required.

I apologise for the very technical and scientific explanation

@BooksAreMyOnlyFriends, I feel your pain. I suffer from this too, I thought maybe it was because I'm used to seeing the mirror image of myself but I've tried flipping a photo and nope, still look shit.

DH says I don't look that awful in real life, I just don't photograph well at all.

But say I'm out and about, @mightskys and I change direction and so the sun is in my eyes when it wasn't before. I sneeze. So I haven't tilted my head. Although that's something I HAVE learned to do when I have a sneeze brewing. (but thanks for telling the internet that I have a particularly snotty nose!)

@MitziTheTabbyIsMyOverlord well obviously when you turn you automatically subconsciously look at the sun. Sorry about your snotty nose 😂

In all honesty I have no idea. I read it once and it seems to work for me so I always thought that was the reason

Baby pigeons look like bollocks

The buttered toast reminded me of this perpetual motion machine

I sneeze at the sub and when chewing minty gum. Didn't know it was a thing.

Don't know what smelling ketones or pear drops are but i can smell bad ,proper germy colds on people. It's a musty,sweet,snotty smell.

Why does my eye twitch when I chew food?