What have you always wanted to know?

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I was wondering today whether GPs see other GPs if they are ill? Can anyone tell me? I'm assuming yes as they wouldn't be allowed to prescribe medications for themselves?

What other random things have you always wondered/wanted to know?

Following on from the stalk and baby question....but seriously how does a single sperm added to an egg then know how to make as actual human, it blows my mind. Does the woman grow the baby or does it grow itself? Like if you have a boy have you actually made a penis?? 😆😆 And then once born how do we actually grow, like my dd1 has grown about 2 inches over night, how does the body figure out how to do this 🤯
I know some scientist will be along to discuss cells and dna etc but the act of it blows my mind ha x

@MintyMabel

Language. Who decided "we'll call this a table" and everyone in the country agreed??

Just discussed this one with OH. He thought maybe the first person who made one, called it that. But then I said, ok but what about flowers, or grass, or chickens?

And that got me thinking. Do chickens in spain make the same sound as chickens in the UK? I mean, we speak a different language, have animal sounds evolved differently too?

My Mexican father used to say, "qui qui ri qui" when he saw a rooster. That's how Spanish speakers in Mexico hear the sound.

There's a Korean restaurant outside of my estate called, "Hoodadak" that specializes in chicken wings. The name is apparently the sound a chicken makes to Koreans to equal our "cock-a-doodle-do".

Sorry, not a chicken, a rooster!

How does deja vue happen?

If a woman is taken ill/unconscious and is rushed to hospital, and they are on their period and have a tampon in, does someone check if they are on your period/tampon in

Yes, the nurses give you a wash and it's pretty obvious if this is the case. But no they don't replace it with a new one - they just remove the old one and put a pad in place.

@blueshoes

If people did not have nit combs or other ways to kill those buggers, how would a head lice infection not get totally out of control. Wouldn't everyone be walking around with a head full of lice? Or does the head lice population reach a point of equilibrium in your hair.

I think what used to happen a lot is people had their head completely shaved. It used to happen to the boys at school in the 70s when there was an outbreak of headlice and I think it's one reason why a shaved head on a young person is seen as a bit suspect by older people like me.

Doxie8 I was going to ask the same question!

[quote FruityPolos]@Buslanelady I always think this, I was a child in the 80s and always think the 70s had some weird yellow /washed out look. I think it's down to the look of films and TV from that era but I do wonder if things looked more dull in real life as well 😁[/quote]
In my memory, on the one hand the 70s were very bright and sunny as we had several summers with prolonged heatwaves so it felt like the whole country was baking under a scorching sky for weeks on end. But the winters were dark and gloomy as we had power cuts and I do think lighting was less powerful in most homes. It was also very brown: our living room had a brown floor, brown settee and other seating, brown dining table and chairs and sideboards, brown paint on the walls and brown curtains and a load of kids in brown clothing camouflaged somewhere in the midst. So it was dull compared to the psychedelic 60s.

@emmathedilemma

How does the snowplough driver get to work when it snows?

They have a vehicle capable of getting through really bad weather (I'm in canada)

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What on earth our brains are capable of, and how in the hell it all works!! Apparently we use 5% of their capacity (this may be BS but sure I've read this), and with that 5% we have quantum physics, moon landings, decorative llama pot plants, and self-cleaning ovens, to name but a few human achievements. Where will humans go next?!'

"Well, you're right that the 5% thing is bollocks, we use all our brain."

Ive not phrased this very well. Some of the largest data centres have storage capacity at 20% of a single human brain...
Most of the knowledge we gather, or daily events, our brain just discards or stores. I know I can only access a fraction of what I've learnt/experienced on a daily basis (and I wonder if that is why something can put me in mind if a specific point in childhood, but I just can't work out what specific point??)
So there is tons and tons of storage capacity I'm not using, or just can't access. I wonder if a genius can actually just access all of those hidden layers that my sub-par brain has decided to file away for 'some time never'

If a woman is taken ill/unconscious and is rushed to hospital, and they are on their period and have a tampon in, does someone check if they are on your period/tampon in, so they could change it for them?

Someone will have to catheterise her if she’s unconscious so yes the HCP would likely notice the tampon string and remove it as tampon or mooncup can make the catheter harder to insert not to mention overflow. They won’t insert a new one though just put a pad in place (A&E doesn’t stock tampons. And the toxic shock risk probably forbids it)?

If she was awake a nurse might remind her she’s on her period and ask her if she has pads/tampons in her bag but it would be up to the patient to insert them. And she might be told not to if there’s any suspicion of a gynae problem or UTI or if she’s having surgery.

@Krook

Now we've solved the tampon/hospital thing I'm wondering what if you use a mooncup? It's not visible from the outside, no-one would know it was there!

It’s the same as the tampon question. If you arrive into hospital unconscious they’ll put in a urinary catheter - the mooncup would be obvious during placement of this

@Thewolvesarerunningagain

How do they make Maltesers perfectly round?

There's a machine like a tumble drier. I saw a documentary on it once.

What happened/will happen to all the Japan 2020 olympics branded materials that were produced before covid hit. Will they still be used or will they be binned and reproduced?
I’m thinking there will be a heck of a lot of stuff that will have been produced in advance if the 2012 Olympics were anything to go by: posters/ street signs/ banners/ toys/ lanyards etc etc .... I’m really hoping they will just stick to the 2020 and avoid unnecessary waste. Does anyone know?

I have always wanted to know if a horse can get a parking ticket.

@AzureHawker1 I just asked someone I know who works in the funeral industry & the attached is her response

@sarahc336

Following on from the stalk and baby question....but seriously how does a single sperm added to an egg then know how to make as actual human, it blows my mind. Does the woman grow the baby or does it grow itself? Like if you have a boy have you actually made a penis?? 😆😆 And then once born how do we actually grow, like my dd1 has grown about 2 inches over night, how does the body figure out how to do this 🤯 I know some scientist will be along to discuss cells and dna etc but the act of it blows my mind ha x

Biochemist dh says it's to do with the genetic information in the cells. Yeah that's that explained clearly then.

@blueshoes

If people did not have nit combs or other ways to kill those buggers, how would a head lice infection not get totally out of control. Wouldn't everyone be walking around with a head full of lice? Or does the head lice population reach a point of equilibrium in your hair.

They would pick nits out of each others hair and eat them like monkeys do.

@lunepremiere79

How does deja vue happen?

That is so weird... I was thinking about that just before I got to your post....

What is the purpose of an itch? It's not like when a person has pain which is sending out a warning signal.

@ReginaaPhalange

Can blind people 'see' their dreams? Do deaf people have an internal voice?

The vast majority of deaf people speak. Those who don't mostly sign so they all have access to language. There are very, very few deaf people with no language.

@Missfelipe

Not a GP but I know that doctors are prohibited from prescribing for themselves and people with whom they have a close personal relationship unless in an emergency. So I presume they do need to see another doctor if they need something.

I used to be married to a doctor and when we went travelling she wrote out a private prescription for malaria tablets for herself the kids and myself. I think it’s just certain drugs they aren’t allowed to prescribe.

@Thewolvesarerunningagain I only learned about The Dyatlov Pass incident because I love "Ask a mortician" on YouTube. is the Dyatlov pass video she released recently, and yes, avalanche seems the most likely. Her video is great Edutainment.

Caitlin is a great mortician in terms of her character and how she debunks stuff. Also a fascinating subject anyway.

@MyOtherProfile

An ex of mine from years ago was at the same school his mum taught at. I can't remember now whether I ever asked him but I wonder now in that situation, would the child have to call them Miss X or could they say Mum?

I've taught colleagues children more than once. They had to call their parents Mr or Mrs in school.

My mum was my headteacher and I can confirm you have to call them Mrs X etc. I did get confused and occasionally called her mum (which she was always very cross about) or other teachers mum (which was embarrassing). It was crap.

@Advic3Pl3as3 I have always wanted to know that about contacts too. And tampons / cups. If you’re in a coma, you can’t very well leave one of those bad boys in to let you go toxic!