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Viviennemary · 20/04/2021 20:03

If there are ghosts. If there's a God. If there is an afterlife.

PerspicaciousGreen · 20/04/2021 20:05

I haven't always wanted to know, but maybe someone can tell me: does it use more data to do something in an app or a mobile browser? Like, I could download the Amazon app and order from it, or just type amazon.co.uk into my phone and do it on the website. I don't like having loads of apps so I try to avoid them, but I'd be keener if they saved me data.

EscapeDragon · 20/04/2021 20:11

@iloveeverykindofcat

How do veterinarians have conversations with their doctors, and vice versa? Do they talk like any other patient/client, or do they use medical speak and translate for each other? Also, how well could a vet actually treat a human, in an emergency? (I mean a hypothetical society has collapsed, there are no doctors, someone has appendicitis scenario. I know its not legal for vets to treat humans).

I asked a vet this once. He said yes, a vet could theoretically be able to treat a human.

Presumably they study primates as part of their course, and that's what humans are at the end of the day.

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 20/04/2021 20:13

@PurleaseSqueeze

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?

A friend of mine (who incidentally is a GP) has DH who is a Consultant who does lots of cosmetic surgeries and he was not allowed to do her breast reduction.

I think it can get complicated...

HowBest2Invest · 20/04/2021 20:15

You wouldn't find a chick in your supermarket box of eggs even if it had been fertilised. In fact some supermarket eggs might be fertilised (anyone else read about the person who bought duck eggs from the supermarket, popped them in their incubator and hatched some ducklings over lockdown?). Most wont be though because most commercial egg farms don't have any or many roosters around.

Basically whether the egg has been fertilised or not it has to be kept very warm, 35-40°C, for a few days before a chick embryo will start to form. If an egg is kept at this temperature (either by a broody mother hen or by an incubator) for 21 days a chick should hatch out. You also need to turn the egg regularly and humidity conditions need to be right for the chick to be healthy and hatch successfully, but that's a different matter.

mrshonda · 20/04/2021 20:17

The identity of Jack the Ripper. I've puzzled over that for years.

XingMing · 20/04/2021 20:18

A schoolfriend, whose father was a vet, explained that vets were more qualified than doctors in diagnosis because "animals can't explain what hurts or how it feels" and needed an extra year of training for that reason. If I were badly injured in a car crash, I don't think I would care much whether the vet or the doctor arrived first. It's always about airways, breath and circulation, in any mammal. And stopping any serious blood loss as quick as possible.

Gwenhwyfar · 20/04/2021 20:30

"A schoolfriend, whose father was a vet, explained that vets were more qualified than doctors in diagnosis because "animals can't explain what hurts or how it feels" "

Same would go for paediatricians working with babies.

NamechangeApril21 · 20/04/2021 20:31

@NotMeItsYou

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

They use wee pictures

BusLaneLady · 20/04/2021 20:32

If washing machines have a black hole or some Bermuda Triangle going on which sucks in socks where you have non matching socks? I've washed socks on it's own and still some come out without a pair!

FlowEr262 · 20/04/2021 20:34

DH has just said that really it doesn’t make much difference with 1st and 2nd class post, with low volumes of actual letters (rather than parcels) at the moment everything is thrown in together.

So I will carry out an experiment and let you know

NamechangeApril21 · 20/04/2021 20:34

@Spottyphonecase

If identical twin males married identical twin women and then went on to have identical twins each couple, would the children all look alike and have closer dna than most cousins?

The children would be biologically brother and sister.

bendmeoverbackwards · 20/04/2021 20:34

@MammaSchwifty

Eggs - how is it known if eggs contain a chick or not? Is it possible to find a chick inside an egg bought from the supermarket?

egg laying chickens are laying unfertilised eggs, that is, they are not getting any sexy action at the farm or battery shed. Therefore, the eggs can't have chicks inside.

Thank you

HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 20/04/2021 20:35

@ISpeakJive

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

I read about that in this book: www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/michael-j-benton/dinosaurs-rediscovered/9780500295533?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9_mDBhCGARIsAN3PaFMfrxVyDy9aLnPc0uLGicKCtPF_vswFV6nC1EvL0r-4NT2UtXYe7sIaAmgZEALw_wcB

It was a while ago so I'm hazy, but different coloured pigments have different shapes, and those shapes leave impressions that can be seen in fossils. So you can look and say yep, this skin once had green pigments in it.

shinynewapple21 · 20/04/2021 20:35

@Iwanttoknowthis
I don't think that's correct that the word for orange as a colour is masculine in French as it would be an adjective rather than a noun and so change depending on what it was describing .

Viviennemary · 20/04/2021 20:36

What happened to Madeleine Mccann. And who was responsible. I thought they had caught the culprit but then everything went quiet.,

BorderlineHappy · 20/04/2021 20:40

Where do all the missing people go.

People who are there one minute but gone the next.In the blink of an eye,and yet nobody sees anything.

iloveeverykindofcat · 20/04/2021 20:44

@BorderlineHappy

Where do all the missing people go.

People who are there one minute but gone the next.In the blink of an eye,and yet nobody sees anything.

I had a phase of being really into these. Look up Brian Shaffer. That one is really weird.

Some people definitely do it on purpose though. They engineer their own disappearance and start a new life.

GrandTheftWalrus · 20/04/2021 20:48

@DailyCandy

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

Before they put nets round my balcony I saw baby pigeons all the time. There were nests all the time with babies.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 20/04/2021 20:52

@NotMeItsYou

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

DD had an eye test before she could read, she was a bit older than toddler age though. The optician showed a chart that had pictures on it, like dog, penguin etc.

LouH1981 · 20/04/2021 20:52

I’d like to know why my husband puts his dirty washing ON TOP of the lid of the laundry basket rather than in it and also puts the empty cardboard toilet roll on top of the new roll rather than in the bin. This continues to baffle me. He offers zero explanation....

DynamoKev · 20/04/2021 20:52

@PerspicaciousGreen

I haven't always wanted to know, but maybe someone can tell me: does it use more data to do something in an app or a mobile browser? Like, I could download the Amazon app and order from it, or just type ]] into my phone and do it on the website. I don't like having loads of apps so I try to avoid them, but I'd be keener if they saved me data.

There’s no easy simple answer because it depends on the provider. Just going and ordering something should give a very slight advantage to the app (less data) in theory, but both apps and websites can be using data for stuff they aren’t telling you about. Also apps have different settings (like whether to auto play videos) which can make a difference. Also if you have WiFi at home it’ll generally be unlimited so not a big issue and you can set apps to only work on WiFi.

JudgeJ · 20/04/2021 20:54

@mrshonda

The identity of Jack the Ripper. I've puzzled over that for years.

Probably the same person who actually shot Kennedy, one of those things we'll never know. I've read quite a few books about the Ripper and there are loads of names bandied about. One of the best ones I read named the artist Walter Sickert, it was by Stephen Wright, Jack the Ripper, the FInal Solution.

nopuppiesallowed · 20/04/2021 20:54

Something that has amazed me for years. People know that a Mercedes car needs a designer and someone to make and assemble it. So why do so many people think that our even more complicated world is just the result of a big bang?

sammylady37 · 20/04/2021 20:54

@XingMing

A schoolfriend, whose father was a vet, explained that vets were more qualified than doctors in diagnosis because "animals can't explain what hurts or how it feels" and needed an extra year of training for that reason. If I were badly injured in a car crash, I don't think I would care much whether the vet or the doctor arrived first. It's always about airways, breath and circulation, in any mammal. And stopping any serious blood loss as quick as possible.

Doctors dealing with patients with advanced dementia would be in similar situations, or doctors dealing with people very severely mentally ill who may not be able to reliably tell their symptoms