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What have you always wanted to know?

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PurleaseSqueeze · 19/04/2021 16:49

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?

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katmunchkin · 20/04/2021 21:56

Can't see that this has been asked already, but how do animals and babies think? I mean, they don't know words, so literally, what is in their head?

itsnotmeitsu · 20/04/2021 21:56

@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.

This has taken me back. My parents were teachers, but didn't teach at the schools I attended. However, for a few weeks my dad was a substitute teacher at my primary school. At one point I addressed him as 'Daddy' and quickly corrected it to 'Mr D....'. It was a small community, but nobody, including my parents, had bothered to inform me how to deal with the situation.
Janetino52 · 20/04/2021 21:57

Sorry to correct you here Missfelipe. Doctors CAN write themselves and other people a private prescription. While it is NOT illegal to write a prescription for themselves it is unethical.

nopuppiesallowed · 20/04/2021 21:57

DaddyCool60
True. But what started the big bang?

LouH1981 · 20/04/2021 21:58

@PollyPepper Ooh yes, good one!

TableFlowerss · 20/04/2021 21:58

@sparepantsandtoothbrush

What happens to second class post? Is it separated from the first class post and then just sits there for an extra day waiting to be sorted and posted?
Brilliant 🤣🤣
serin · 20/04/2021 22:00

Why do dogs and cats not have big belly buttons like humans do?

PixellatedPixie · 20/04/2021 22:06

@berryhead2013

I have always wanted to know where the first headline came from if they only live on heads I have googled to no avail nobody knows is it the government??????
Head lice that specifically live on humans would’ve evolved with us since earliest human times or would’ve at one point jumped species from another animal to humans. Some creatures then evolve to only live on one specific animal eg humans only. There are lots of species of parasite who have evolved to live on one specific host animal only.
ShowUsTheMeaningOfHaste · 20/04/2021 22:10

@serin

Why do dogs and cats not have big belly buttons like humans do?
They do have belly buttons 🙂 they don't look like ours, I think they are typically like a small flat scar but they do have them. All mammals do (with some minor exceptions I think).
clareken260 · 20/04/2021 22:12

The post is sorted, and then sorted at the delivery office into walks, then first and second class. First class must go out that day. Second doesn't if there is a huge amount of first.

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 20/04/2021 22:19

@SallySycamore

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!

Ooh! See I had never thought about this - what happens if one of you die before it’s consummated?!

stclair · 20/04/2021 22:19

Why the contestants, Paul, Prue etc on GBBO wear the same clothes on both baking days. And they always look fresh and clean the next day.

PollyPepper · 20/04/2021 22:19

stands on chair, takes deep breath

CAN A MAN PLEASE ANSWER MY ORGASM QUESTION WE NEED TO KNOW.

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 20/04/2021 22:20

I’ve thought of another.

What language do people “think” in if they are bilingual?

masterofthechef · 20/04/2021 22:24

why can't Boris sort his sticky out hair?

Firstdatesboxsets · 20/04/2021 22:24

Not read full thread so these may have already been corrected.
Re GA: no we do not always intubate. Frequently use an LMA (laryngeal mask airway- airway that sits above the opening to the trachea) ...or rarely now just hold a mask- but still do that in kids dental lists.

It is also quite common to allow a patient to breath under GA- frequently done using an LMA.

Re surgery on airway- different options depending on where the surgery is: nasal tube, small airway call an MLT (micro laryngeal tube), high frequency ventilation, tracheostomy.

Queenofbeebers · 20/04/2021 22:26

I don’t know if the hysterectomy question has been answered but I still have my ovaries and no room.

I asked the doctor that exact question. His answer was to be careful of a prolapse and practice my pelvic floor. Which to be fair I’m shit at so imagine if I sneeze too hard stuff might just drop out.

NotACompleterFinis · 20/04/2021 22:27

@TheSuezCanalTugBoat

Why are male lions so big, strong, and muscley when they just sleep in the sun all day? Confused
Because they don't eat any carbs!
DanFmDorking · 20/04/2021 22:27

@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!

Socks are afraid of the wash. When you wash them they choose one of their number to act as a sacrifice to the clothes god in exchange for deliverance from the wet and sudsy hell. The sacrifice is slowly unravelled during the course of the wash.

The sock retreats by whatever means into the pipes leading out of the washer. It hibernates deep in the bowels of the house until it receives some sort of signal, then it pupates into a coat hanger, and makes its way out, come what may.

In effect, socks are the larval form of coat hangers.

Queenofbeebers · 20/04/2021 22:28

PollyPepper

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

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??

This really intrigues me too. I’ve also wondered what it feels like to have penetrative sex with a woman as a man or penis haver as I’m told it’s called now

Frickssake · 20/04/2021 22:28

why can't Boris sort his sticky out hair?*

I'm sure I read somewhere that he only has messy hair in public

masterofthechef · 20/04/2021 22:33

@PollyPepper

stands on chair, takes deep breath

CAN A MAN PLEASE ANSWER MY ORGASM QUESTION WE NEED TO KNOW.

apparently like when you are holding in the toilet and getting more desperate then find the toilet and ....release , but pleasurable.
allofthecheese · 20/04/2021 22:45

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

I’ve thought of another.

What language do people “think” in if they are bilingual?

My native language! Same for my husband (whose native language is different to mine).
Cowbells · 20/04/2021 22:46

apparently like when you are holding in the toilet and getting more desperate then find the toilet and ....release , but pleasurable.

@masterofthechef that can't be right. Why are they all so obsessed with sex if it's no more exciting than that?

Cowbells · 20/04/2021 22:47

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

I’ve thought of another.

What language do people “think” in if they are bilingual?

The language of the place where you live. When I lived in France I thought and dreamed in French.