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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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CombatBarbie · 19/04/2021 20:01

@emmathedilema they are on shift rotations 24/7 when temps fall. My brother is a snow plough driver.

PinkArt · 19/04/2021 20:02

My mum was a supply teacher for my class occasionally and I had to called her Mrs Pink Art. It was ridiculous cause everyone knew she was my mum!

Feelingconfused2020 · 19/04/2021 20:09

@PerpendicularVincent

Wow a maths degree and all that background for £14k in London.? Is that even minimum wage for full time in London? Surely a typo!!

TalbotAMan · 19/04/2021 20:17

@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??????
The apes we're descended from had hair all over. The lice were free to go wherever they pleased. Gradually the hair retreated to the head and nether regions and the lice eveolved to specialise in one or the other. Later we started wearing clothes and some of the lice from the head moved out to live in the clothes.

The genetic differences between the three species of human lice have been used to estimate that we lost our body hair around 1 million years ago, but only started wearing clothes 170,000 years ago.

TalbotAMan · 19/04/2021 20:18

@Somethingsnappy

Where do babies come from? I don't believe the stork theory anymore.
We got ours from the local hospital.
Mummyoflittledragon · 19/04/2021 20:20

If there really is a higher being eg God... and such a thing as the supernatural / possession etc.

Somethingsnappy · 19/04/2021 20:22

@TalbotAMan. Mystery solved!

Poppins2016 · 19/04/2021 20:29

@PurleaseSqueeze

My form tutors son was placed in the same tutor group and just used "Dad"! I suppose it probably varies by school, though...

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PurleaseSqueeze · 19/04/2021 20:35

@Thewolvesarerunningagain

Ooh, and what happened in the Dyatlov pass incident. That still intrigues me
Yes to this! Very creepy.
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81Byerley · 19/04/2021 20:38

@Somethingsnappy

Where do babies come from? I don't believe the stork theory anymore.
No, whoever told you that was lying. The doctor brings them in his bag.
PerspicaciousGreen · 19/04/2021 20:40

@giftswap2020

If a woman is taken ill/unconscious and is rushed to hospital, and they are on their period and have a tampon in, does someone check if they are on your period/tampon in, so they could change it for them?
Wow, it's never occurred to me before that someone must have to change coma patients' pads. Genuinely thank you for this insight!
JesusInTheCabbageVan · 19/04/2021 20:40

Stork theory is correct. I saw it on Dumbo, the stork brought babies for all the animals.

MrsMoastyToasty · 19/04/2021 20:49

Who decides which French and Spanish nouns are masculine or feminine ?

(Babies are made when the mummy goes to the hospital and a nurse puts some jelly on her tummy and rubs it in with a plastic stick and checks its in by looking on her computer. This is according to DS-who knows everything).

JustPurple · 19/04/2021 20:50

@potter5

Rules of rugby.
Rugby Union has laws instead of rules.

If the ball is in somebody's hands they can run in any direction and/or pass it towards their own try line. Defenders can tackle from any direction.

If the ball is on the floor with players over it, that's a ruck. Nobody can touch it with their hands but anyone on their feet can try and push other players away from the ball. You can only join a ruck from your side of the original player on the floor.

If the ball is off the floor with players over it, that's a maul. You can't try to bring any players in the maul down but you can join in the pushing if you come from behind the back foot of the last person on your side.

When you get the ball over the line and touch it to the floor in a controlled way, you score 5 points. There's 2 more on offer if you can get a kick over the posts from anywhere in line with where the try was scored.

Meloncoco · 19/04/2021 20:50

@Winterfellismyhome they absolutely mimeSmile

Tiggeri · 19/04/2021 20:54

@Advic3Pl3as3

1. How do women with really long fingernails put in/take out their tampons? Don’t the long nails make it really awkward?
  1. If you’re injured/unwell and unconscious and you wear contact lenses do the A&E check whether you’ve got lenses in and take them out?
And do they check if you have a tampon or moon cup if you're put in a coma or something???
MintyMabel · 19/04/2021 20:54

How does the snowplough driver get to work when it snows?

I know this one @emmathedilemma. I used to live next door to the snowplough driver. He took it home with him.

lurkingfromhome · 19/04/2021 20:55

I’ve wondered for years what the going rate for a celeb appearing on a panel show is. If you show up and do your bit on a 30 minute show like Would I Lie To You or QI or whatever, how much would you clean up? I’m assuming enough to make a tidy old living.

PerpendicularVincent · 19/04/2021 20:57

[quote Feelingconfused2020]@PerpendicularVincent

Wow a maths degree and all that background for £14k in London.? Is that even minimum wage for full time in London? Surely a typo!![/quote]
Exactly, it must be wrong - no wonder there are hardly any applicants, it's not even minimum wage!

LouLou789 · 19/04/2021 20:59

@Advic3Pl3as3

1. How do women with really long fingernails put in/take out their tampons? Don’t the long nails make it really awkward?
  1. If you’re injured/unwell and unconscious and you wear contact lenses do the A&E check whether you’ve got lenses in and take them out?
And what about going for a poo? Wiping your bum would be precarious enough but when you wash your hands, could you make sure you didn’t have anything under the nails?
MintyMabel · 19/04/2021 20:59

Where do babies come from? I don't believe the stork theory anymore.
The supermarket. You see them in people's trollies all the time.

SimonJT · 19/04/2021 21:00

@Somethingsnappy

Where do babies come from? I don't believe the stork theory anymore.
Mine came from the back seat of a ford mondeo, other models are available.
MintyMabel · 19/04/2021 21:01

Also how on earth cameras work

Pixies.

MintyMabel · 19/04/2021 21:06

If a woman is taken ill/unconscious and is rushed to hospital, and they are on their period and have a tampon in, does someone check if they are on your period/tampon in

Nothing to do with changing it but I have always let my husband know to look out for the symptoms of TSS and tell paramedics to check for it if I ever collapse. I've wondered if it is part of a checklist for a woman brought in to A&E.

WerkWerkWerkWerkWerkWerkWerk · 19/04/2021 21:07

What on earth our brains are capable of, and how in the hell it all works!! Apparently we use 5% of their capacity (this may be BS but sure I've read this), and with that 5% we have quantum physics, moon landings, decorative llama pot plants, and self-cleaning ovens, to name but a few human achievements. Where will humans go next?!

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