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?

@CuntyMcBollocks no their wings are too light and thin. Many can walk on water though because they're so light and their weight is distributed across many hairy legs they don't apply enough force to break the surface water tension.

@Squeejit

When you lose weight, where does it go? I’ve recently lost a stone, but what happened to the fat that was on my body before?

Oh that's easy-it attaches itself to me

When to use affect, and when to use effect.

I just can't get my head around it and it annoys me.

As the inside of Kit Kats are made from other Kit Kats , how did they make the first one ?

@thelegohooverer
I think DH was quite proud of himself, the boy we saw didn't last very long and she didn't look very satisfied when he'd done. She just walked off to lay somewhere else 😂

@Thewolvesarerunningagain

Ooh, and what happened in the Dyatlov pass incident. That still intrigues me

I think it's been semi solved as being an avalanche. There were lots of explanations as to why the tents ripped and tongues were missing etc that matched the physics of an avalanche.

@CrazyTitsLiz

When to use affect, and when to use effect.

I just can't get my head around it and it annoys me.

Effect is a noun and affect is a verb. You are affected by something if it has an effect.

@lunepremiere79

How does deja vue happen?

I heard it's when an event that usually goes into your short term memory for a while first accidentally goes in to your long term memory then kind of bounces back again quickly so that something that is still happening, feels like it happened before.

@Blerg

Is there a height of tower above which you don’t get bugs / creature infestations - ants, cockroaches, mice etc?

Like you get ants attacking your bin on floor 12, but not above floor 42.

We used to live on the 40th floor and still had ants, cockroaches, spiders etc. I think a lot of the time they used to come up in the lift or in with deliveries!

@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

I'll blow it further. Until the ninth week of pregnancy, you can't tell a male fetus from a female fetus, and they all LOOK female. At that point, what appears to be a rudimentary clitoris and labia begin to change in the male fetus. The openings close, the "clitoris" enlarges to become the immature penis, and the "labia" become the scrotum. IF your DP will allow you to make a minute examination of his penis and scrotum, you can actually see the "seam line" where the formerly female appearing organs fused into the male apparatus that he is so proud of.

I don't begin to understand all of the ins and outs of DNA and cell replication, but I'll tell you right now, I am continuously amazed that something so FULL of minute changes doesn't go more drastically wrong more often that it does!

@Squeejit

When you lose weight, where does it go? I’ve recently lost a stone, but what happened to the fat that was on my body before?

The byproducts of the fat cells breakdown are excreted in urine and breath.

@Artesia

Who first dug up a potato and thought “bet that tastes nice!”. And after biting into a raw potato and realising it was pretty grim, how they thought “I know- if I put it in hot water for a bit it will taste much better”. Ditto grinding up wheat to make flour and using it to make bread- how did anyone ever come up with that idea???

For all the PP wondering about food stuffs etc, read Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel. The main character Ayla invents everything! She is the first to ride a horse and keep a 'pet' dog..Even though it's fiction it does make you think..'Oh yes I can see how that happened. ' If you were a starving Caveperson and saw a bison calf drinking milk wouldn't you try it?

[quote SeaTurtles92]@Staffy1 but did the egg or the chicken come first?[/quote]
The egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens existed. One of the dinosaurs slowly evolved into a chicken like species that we then domesticated.

Who makes the machines that go in factories that make stuff ? Is there a factory for factory machines ? How do they make them so bespoke ? Who designs them ?

Also, what happened to JonBenet ?
And the Stairwell on Netflix - what really happen with that ?

Who put ingredients together to make food, take bread for example, who decided to mix all the yeast and flour first, then decided to bake and taste it... or was it just an experiment gone wrong?!

How much of what we believe to be history, is completely wrong or made up?

*In English, the colour was named after the fruit. We didn't start using it to describe the colour for a long time afterwards. Look at a robin- we call it "red breast" but its breast is orange as that colour was included under the label "red" at the time the phrase was coined.
("Purple" is another relatively new colour name. Purple things used to be described as blue.)

Plenty of languages have a separate word for the colour and the fruit.
Danish: colour- orange, fruit: appelsin
German: colour- orange, fruit: Orange OR Apfelsine*

Just a fun fact: the appelsin/apfelsin/sinaasappel words in germanic languages originally come from the words for chinese apple. Oranges originally come from China and were called chinese apples until the word changed somewhat.

What animals are thinking and how much they can communicate to each other

[quote thelegohooverer]@Angrypregnantlady I think what you saw in Tanzania were Honeymooning Lions. They have sex about 20 times a day for a week, sleeping in between. Dh and I saw a pair on our honeymoon and felt a touch inadequate by comparison

@Mangomoonlight ds is colourblind and it’s fascinating trying to guess what he sees. I first noticed it when he was a toddler helping me pair socks. Apparently a ridiculous proportion of men are colourblind for red/green which is scary when you think about traffic lights.[/quote]
Except that they can see which traffic light is burning and the top one is always red. They don't need to see the colour to see which one is burning.

@wombatspoopcubes

*In English, the colour was named after the fruit. We didn't start using it to describe the colour for a long time afterwards. Look at a robin- we call it "red breast" but its breast is orange as that colour was included under the label "red" at the time the phrase was coined. ("Purple" is another relatively new colour name. Purple things used to be described as blue.)

Plenty of languages have a separate word for the colour and the fruit.
Danish: colour- orange, fruit: appelsin
German: colour- orange, fruit: Orange OR Apfelsine*

Just a fun fact: the appelsin/apfelsin/sinaasappel words in germanic languages originally come from the words for chinese apple. Oranges originally come from China and were called chinese apples until the word changed somewhat.

Yes like if you look at bluebells they are really purple. And the French call goldfish poisson rouge (ie red fish)

Apparently in old English and other old languages apple just meant fruit. So the apple in the bible might have been any fruit. Which also explains pomme de terre - potato in French (fruit of the earth)

if you're interested in how colours affect the way you think, and whether life was really less colourful in the old days (there is a theory that it was, or rather, that humans didn't see colour in the same way) read "Through the Language Glass" by Guy Deutsher. His other book, "the unfolding of language" will also answer a lot of questions about how language evolved. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003D87PPY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

What happens if you're walking the dog alone, break your leg and have to call an ambulance?

Assuming no friends / family are able to come and retrieve DDog, does the ambulance take the dog with you? What if you're many miles from home and can't drop the dog home on the way to hospital?

I've never found the answer to this question so once drove me and the dog an hour home with what turned out to be a badly broken arm

What is unconsciousness? When you are put under general anaesthetic someone can slice you open with a knife and rummage around your insides and you can't feel a thing! How does it differ from sleeping and why can't you feel pain?

@AvocadosBeforeMortgages I’ve always wondered if I was in an accident away from home and my family were with me, who would know I’ve got pets at home waiting for me to return

@Galaxyinmypocket I think I would class myself as an extrovert. I think partly it's a natural need/urge to talk, to be inquisitive and excited about meeting new people i think I am a true introvert and i feel all these things too, and want to be around people, feel uplifted by and like most people, am generally non-judgemental of others, interested and open to hearing other's pov, etc, all those things you say, but for me it is a bit like wanting to eat a whole cupboard of chocolate but not being able to. I love people but get to a point where I have to close down because I am feeling overstimlated and a bit ill. I need to shrug it off and re charge, ideally. Most of the time I don't get a choice though - work, children stuff - so I just suck it up.