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?

@Frazzledd My theory on this has always been that she chose the right door because she eventually got to the castle...but I may over thinking it! Hands down my favourite film ever!
Plus I always thought they were called ‘oobley ends’ and have only recently found out they are called oubliettes 🤣

@PissTestRightNowDaniella The risk isn’t to you, it’s to your unborn baby. We have the antibodies to fight off bacteria like listeria which is more likely to be found in soft cheeses and shell fish but the baby doesn’t. (At least that’s how I understand it) xx

if a female great dane and a male chihuahua mated, would the offspring be viable and healthy? what would they look like? has it been done?

Not quite as extreme, but I do know of an instance where a daschund impregnated a german shepherd. Apparently she lay down at the bottom of a staircase and he went up a step or two. Not that I'm countenancing this sort of backyard breeding at all, but the puppies were pretty cute. Like dwarf german shepherds with big ears.

How was it first determined where babies came from?

@NotMeItsYou

How do you do eye tests on young toddlers who can’t read or recognise letters?

I know this one! Either the ophthalmologist or optometrist puts some cumbersome glasses frame on the toddler and then adds lenses and looks through their set of lenses to check the focus whatnot OR if the child can point or vocalise they test then with shapes and images.

DD has had eye tests since age of 3 and DS since 18 months. Both have worn glasses since those ages too.

However, the shape/image thing only works if your child actually cooperates. My children did not. DD refused to speak at first because she was so shy and DS refused to point to a triangle or a truck or a duck because he's so bloody stubborn.

@WhereismyHeathcliff

When you give birth how quickly does your cervix close back to normal...it can take hours to dilate so does it take the same amount of time? Any midwives on here know the answer?

Not sure if anyone else answered.

It takes up to 6 weeks for the cervix to completely get back to normal position but if starts closing straight away.

When I check the perineum and vagina for any trauma shortly after birth it appears nearly closed (You could stretch it open if you needed to, for instance if the placenta didn't come away and you needed to do a manual removal of the placenta) but when you look directly at it without touching you could probably fit a pencil into it.

Personally when I gave birth my cervix closed too quickly that my placenta got stuck in my uterus and has to go to theatre for it to be removed as was to painful to do it in the room.

@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.

A friend of mine had her child in her class. He said he thought it was silly to call her miss when everyone in the class knew she was his mum , so he called her mum. No one died or blinked.

Why do you never see baby pigeons.
They're always fully grown. Always.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan, oh wow! last time I googled it (years ago) I didn't find anything. Off to look now, cheers!

@iloveeverykindofcat aah, glad the pups turned out ok! genetics is amazint

Why do you never see baby pigeons.
They're always fully grown. Always

I once saw some in a pigeon nest which had been made in a planter in a beer garden. It was right next to a table and cannot have been peaceful for the birds in question. they looked like mini versions of something out of the dark crystal, half bald, with grey scraggly feathers.

Why so many nasty people are popular and evil people revered while kind and decent people get overlooked and ignored socially and in employment.

How do palaeontologists know what colour dinosaurs are? Or is it just guess work?

@Staffy1

How computers work. How anyone thought to and managed to invent the first one. I suppose the same goes for a lot of clever inventions.

The original computers were counting machines, see Charles Babbage etc. essentially they evolved from needing to do complex calculations really fast.

Does the Queen wear brand new pants every day, or does she put them in the wash basket, and who actually washes them?

@ISpeakJive

How do palaeontologists know what colour dinosaurs are? Or is it just guess work?

Guess work based on sounding terrain and likely behavioural habits.

The period/tampon thing from @giftswap2020 - I was unconscious for almost a fortnight and my period arrived in the middle of it - helpful! They just sort of ignored it as there were so many pads down there a way and I had a catheter and other tubes. It was free bleeding which was a bit shocking when I woke up and wondered what on Earth had happened to that areas too. The nurses kept expecting me to remember my period dates but I’d been unconscious for 2 weeks so was absolutely clueless. I assume they would check for tampons etc when inserting the catheter.

@Mangomoonlight

How was it first determined where babies came from?

I think there was a lot of observations of animals going on. When you think about it our ancient ancestors must have been developing sceintific theories by endless experimentation. I mean as in finding and testing what foods were safe to eat, then how to cook when they found out how to make fire, then the uses of metals. The one great advantage they had is they had almost limitless time if they did not get ill or injured.

@Gwenhwyfar

"It's happened to me - twice!"

Could be a coincidence.

It's happened to me too, when I shared VERY small office with one colleague.

@Cattenberg

I haven’t had time to read the whole thread, so sorry if this has already been mentioned. I’m fascinated by Jury Service and want to know more about it e.g.

In England, why are 15 potential jurors called into a room, just for 12 of them to be “randomly selected” to serve on the jury? Why do this, unless the selection isn’t random at all, but a chance to weed out anyone who seems unsuitable?

Is the jury foreman told how to direct the deliberations (e.g. to begin by asking each juror for their initial verdict), or can they choose how to do it?

Has a jury foreman ever stood up in court and given a different verdict to the one agreed by the jury? If so, what happened?

I'm on Jury service at the minute (haven't been called in yet thankfukly) and we were told its in case any of the jurors know anyone related to the case, including witnesses.

@BusLaneLady, there's a book of photos, mainly important occasions, which were photgraphed in B&W, that have been retouched and repainted with reference to the colours and dyes available at the time the pictures were taken. Without going to check, I think it was called the colours of the century.

@DailyCandy

Why do you never see baby pigeons. They're always fully grown. Always.

They get relatively large/well developed before fledging compared to other birds, I think. I'm not sure, but perhaps this is related to the ability of pigeons and doves to feed their young on so-called 'crop milk'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_milk

@Buggersticks

Does the Queen wear brand new pants every day, or does she put them in the wash basket, and who actually washes them?

I absolutely cannot believe that Her Majesty would be so crass as to never rewear pants. She was young during the war, for heaven's sake! She was probably darning her own woollen undercrackers! A woman who has Tupperware on the breakfast table would not throw away perfectly good knickers.

@Cowbells

Why so many nasty people are popular and evil people revered while kind and decent people get overlooked and ignored socially and in employment.

Nasty people are often fun to be around, often confident too. It's unfair.

"It's happened to me too, when I shared VERY small office with one colleague."

Still likely to be a coincidence.

Imissmoominmama the raptors like magpies and jays pick the bodies clean of flesh and the rest biodegrades. Foxes also clean up fallen bodies, and eat the flesh.