What have you always wanted to know?

[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?

I've SO enjoyed this thread and have learned so much. Guide dogs and poo? Who knew? Brilliant!

@LouH1981

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....

My husband chucks the empty toilet roll in the bath.

I never got it. Until he explained that Favourite Kitten (the one who sits with him while he poos for 40 minutes every day) likes to attack it into submission.

Anyway- I have always wanted to know why DH takes 40 minutes in the morning to poo.

@LynnShelley

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?

Because they aren’t in any way comparable. A car can be designed and constructed by humans. We can’t make universes but we are starting to understand the physics involved. Are you really saying car makers could have designed and made the universe?

GP’s tend to get whatever they want when visiting their own GP as it’s like a doctors code . I know this as my family have members who are GP’s it’s like the shared knowledge of medicine gets a bit overrided and the prescriber gets blinkered , just my opinion

Re Post, anything better than 2nd class is given priority, 2nd class is only handled after all the rest and if there is not enough space in the van it is left for the next van

Something else I've always wanted to know is if an ambulance has the lights and sirens going and is going to an emergency, if they knock a pedestrian down do they keep going and call another ambulance to deal with the accident? Or do they have to stop to treat the person they have knocked down?

@BusLaneLady

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!

I saw a tweet about this by Dawn French - the missing socks reappear as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any boxes.

@MammaSchwifty

And condoms have been around for centuries made out of thicker rubber or even leather or animal stomach lining I think.

and in the latter part of the 20th century, Tresco carrier bags

And in the case of a friend of my mum, clingfilm.

People who are colourblind still see some colour it’s usually just the wrong one - so if at traffic lights they would look for the red light to light up in whatever colour variation they see.

Not sure about woman’s cervix’s but dogs take a little while - there’s a disease they can catch if they go out into the grass too soon after giving birth which can pass onto the puppies through the milk

So why do so many people think that our even more complicated world is just the result of a big bang?

'just a big bang.... and 'just an unimaginably vast interval of time, plus 'just' an unimaginably vast (infinite?) amount of matter, over which an unimaginably vast number of stochastic processes are constantly occuring.

@FruityPolos

Something else I've always wanted to know is if an ambulance has the lights and sirens going and is going to an emergency, if they knock a pedestrian down do they keep going and call another ambulance to deal with the accident? Or do they have to stop to treat the person they have knocked down?

They have to stop

@BlueLobelia Ha! I love this!
Well...if my husband is anything to go by it’s usually Toilet + TikTok = 1hr gone 🤣

@Mangomoonlight

How was it first determined where babies came from?

Probably when humans started domesticating animals.

In very, very early societies, people probably assumed that women just spontaneously got pregnant. Cue lots of fertility goddess worship.

At some point they realised you needed a male- if you just stick a load of cows in a field and no bulls can access them, you won't get any cows or milk.
For quite a while there was then a theory (among male scientists) that women were just passive incubators- a flowerbed for the men's seeds. Even once they developed microscopes- there's an amazing diagram of a tiny, tiny person curled up inside the head of a sperm. Women / wombs just keep it warm for a while until it gets a bit bigger.

I'm not sure how or when they worked out that the woman provides half of the genetic "recipe" and pretty much all of the raw materials to make a baby.

@katiedidnt

Given people speaking British English can generally understand those speaking US English and vice versa, can people signing BSL and ASL get the gist as well? Or is there no commonality?

If my friend speaks Spanish, I vaguely understand her. If I speak Italian, she vaguely understands me.

Is there the same level of an ability to get by with BSL and ASL or is more akin to comparing, say, English and Russian?

I believe BSL and ASL are completely seperate languages. IIRC, ASL is actually closer to French sign language, as the first sign language teacher over there was actually French.

@itbemay1 thank you, I have always wondered.

There was an ambulance station near the high street where I grew up and I was always scared of being run over by an ambulance coming out at great speed.

@NotMeItsYou

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

Ooh I know this one (sorry if it's been answered already I'm catching up).

The use pictures. My children have both been eye tested from two years old and they use a book of basics black and white pictures (of things like a boot, a house, a cat etc things that a toddler will know). As long as they can speak then it works.

For non verbal children or children to young to speak well, they put lenses in front of their eyes and examine the eyes reaction to the lenses I have no idea how or what they're looking for though.

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

At what stage are you actually legally married? What would happen if you said your vows but one of you died before you signed the register? (Cheery I know)

Do you not have to consummate it for it to be legal?

(I'm basing this on what happened with Catherine of Aragon, so might be a bit out of date!)

@NoProblem123
Yes there are definitely factories which make machines which make other machines . DH worked in manufacturing and for a while worked somewhere which made the machinery which he operated in other roles .

Loving this thread! Mine are not very highbrow but keep me awake at night!

1. How do bus drivers use the loo when working?

1. How do they serve the food up at the same temperature on master chef to give everyone the same chance?

1. Why is it Liver-pool but the Lie-ver building and the Lie-ver birds ( ancient sit com for younger members)

I'd love to know what a male orgasm feels like

I heard that if a man had a female orgasm they would die as it is so much more intense, I am almost certain this isn't true! Which one is 'better' I wonder??

How did ancient people work out that certain foods that are poisonous when raw are edible when cooked in very particular ways? Ie cassava.

When I cut my knee open the fat was yellow but when you buy meat from the butchers the fat is white. Why is this?

What do they do with the "holes" in polo mints.

How does a tablet stop a headache?

@LynnShelley

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?

Because a car doesn’t evolve over millions or billions of years. Simples.

Did Jesus really exist?
I'm not religious but I think on balance he probably did. I just don't believe all the son of god, miracles, resurrection stuff.