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?

@Dullardmullard
So if they come to the UK that would be illegal to work for that wage but not if they stay in their own country that’s sad
Everyone on the thread is missing the point. This job is almost certainly being advertised so that the company can bring a worker to the UK, most likely from India on an inter company transfer visa.
The person will be paid around 14K plus accommodation which will be valued at around a further 10k (approx figures) so that hey meet the requirements -
www.visalogic.net/uk/tier-2-visa-intra-company-transfer/4/134

I have personally seen (pre-pandemic) floors and floors of buildings full of these workers in London and other cities - they are brought in by outsourcing companies where companies outsource their IT functions.

This has been going on for some time, it's not a new thing.

In theory companies have to prove no UK worker is available. In practice, no-one really checks or cares and they can place ludicrous "ads" like the one quoted and use them as "prrof" they can't recruit in the UK when in fact they never wanted to.

@DynamoKev There would be nothing to stop the maniacs who want to importing a car from Germany.

I'm not a driver so might get some of the words wrong, but I can think of ways to get round the importing maniacs. For example, make it illegal to register/tax a car in the UK without a limiter chip. (So they'd be able to import it but have to SORN it and not drive it!) Or can't pass an MOT without a limiter chip (though no doubt cheeky buggers would pop one in for the MOT then remove it!) I wouldn't be implanting chips in tourists' cars at the border, but it shouldn't be that hard to think of an effective way to force anyone who owned a UK car to install a limiter chip. Especially these days with those insurance black boxes.

In fact, car insurance not being valid without a limiter chip would be a good one!

What about marriages where there isn’t a husband/a wife, wonder when it becomes legal in those.

When the legal system of their country gets beyond outdated inhumane 'moralities', and they've signed the register?

[quote PerspicaciousGreen]**@DynamoKev* There would be nothing to stop the maniacs who want to importing a car from Germany.*

I'm not a driver so might get some of the words wrong, but I can think of ways to get round the importing maniacs. For example, make it illegal to register/tax a car in the UK without a limiter chip. (So they'd be able to import it but have to SORN it and not drive it!) Or can't pass an MOT without a limiter chip (though no doubt cheeky buggers would pop one in for the MOT then remove it!) I wouldn't be implanting chips in tourists' cars at the border, but it shouldn't be that hard to think of an effective way to force anyone who owned a UK car to install a limiter chip. Especially these days with those insurance black boxes.[/quote]
I think you're over estimating the level of enforcement we have.
Every single day I see/hear cars with
Illegal number plates
Illegal HID light conversions, illegal colour lights.
Illegal exhausts
Historically it has been impossible for us to demand UK only features in a car due to EU rules, The last time we tried it in the late 1980s with Dim/dip headlights, the EU actually took us to Court and made us stop. Maybe now we can do this due to Brexit - but I wouldn't underestimate the determination of people who want to drive illegal cars - and there is no shortage of them.

@Winterfellismyhome

When singers record music videos, do they sing or lip sync

@Winterfellismyhome

They sing.
Well the singer in the band I manage does anyway.

@MorrisZapp

Why do firemen sleep upstairs and slide down poles instead of just sleeping downstairs?

Is it because if they slept downstairs, they'd be the fire service equivalent of the "sleeping policeman" road humps and they'd get run over?

[quote FelicityBeedle]@Iamblossom
I don’t know the answer to your exact question, but our need to take a breath is based on CO2 levels rather than O2 levels, and is sensed in the carotid. We get the urge to take a breath quite prematurely, we could hold our breath for a lot longer, and some people who hold records for free diving and breath holding have trained to overcome this instinct and can therefore hold breath for 15-20 minutes until O2 is very seriously depleted in the lung. So even if we don’t continue rapid breathing once unconscious, we likely wouldn’t come to harm as the oxygen debt would be repaid and the CO2 levels will drop[/quote]
Thankyou 😁

Can you fall off the edge of the universe, surely there must be an end to it.

Can you fall off the edge of the universe, surely there must be an end to it.

It's not a flat plane. Imagine it more like the surface of a balloon, but the balloon is constantly inflating so you will never reach the end.

@DynamoKev @Dullardmullard

That’s not what’s happening here. A poster a few pages back found the job on the agency’s own website. It pays £24-26k. Somebody made a typo putting it on Reed.

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl

Can you fall off the edge of the universe, surely there must be an end to it.

It's not a flat plane. Imagine it more like the surface of a balloon, but the balloon is constantly inflating so you will never reach the end.

Until it pops?....big bang theory 🧐

[quote Ninkanink]@Cowbells I think and dream in English now after many years of living here. When I go home to Denmark it takes a week or two and then suddenly it’s like a switch goes and I think and dream in Danish. It always feels very odd.[/quote]
That's what happened to me when I came back to UK. Was thinking and dreaming in French and then suddenly the French clicked off and back into English. It's weird. But I liked my first dream in French. I felt like I belonged.

@startingagainperson

But if orange was named after the fruit orange, what did we call the colour of sunsets?

Maybe crog?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.sporcle.com/blog/2018/09/the-color-orange-or-the-fruit-orange/amp/

@Gwenhwyfar

"Just discussed this one with OH. He thought maybe the first person who made one, called it that. But then I said, ok but what about flowers, or grass, or chickens?

And that got me thinking. Do chickens in spain make the same sound as chickens in the UK? I mean, we speak a different language, have animal sounds evolved differently too?"

Animal sounds vary in different languages. Usually similar-ish because they're trying to make the same sounds, but not exactly the same. Ducks go quack quack in English and coin coin (the oi making a wa sound) in French, for example.

One theory is that all words start as a kind of onomatopaeia.

Marine biologists discovered that whales and dolphins have distinct dialects depending on where their pods hang out.

What does it feel like to love music? What does music do for you, what's the experience of listening to it like for you?

I know I'm missing something when I see how music moves other people. For me music is something I might put on to occupy me during a car ride or while doing housework but I'd never sit and listen to an album or listen out and about. It's background noise, pleasant sometimes, and there are songs I like, but it doesn't really go beyond that. I also tend to focus on the lyrics above anything else.

@ErrolTheDragon

What about marriages where there isn’t a husband/a wife, wonder when it becomes legal in those.

When the legal system of their country gets beyond outdated inhumane 'moralities', and they've signed the register?

If I remember I’ll ask on Saturday.

I have always wanted to know .... Do they charge to see Stonehenge?

@OssieShowman

I have always wanted to know .... Do they charge to see Stonehenge?

Yes

www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/prices-and-opening-times/

If I remember I’ll ask on Saturday.

If that means congratulations are in order... congratulations!

@BobISMyUncle

Why is a telephone number pad and a calculator number pad opposite to each other, i.e. on a calculator the 1 is bottom left, but on a telephone, it's top left?

I have literally never noticed this before today. I just had to check, and blimey, you're right!

Well, the school subjects thing is quite easy to understand. People think other countries teach similar subjects to those that they teach. Calligraphy might be more popular in countries with certain writing systems?
Astronomy is just a branch of science. We do get a little bit of it in school

Of course @Gwenhwyfar it's obvious that different subjects are taught in different countries, what I was wondering was why the Japanese would find these differences disgusting

It's such an odd reaction to something so mundane that I thought there must be more to it, there is not one thing that I can think of that would be disgusting

@AgathaAllAlong

What does it feel like to love music? What does music do for you, what's the experience of listening to it like for you?

I know I'm missing something when I see how music moves other people. For me music is something I might put on to occupy me during a car ride or while doing housework but I'd never sit and listen to an album or listen out and about. It's background noise, pleasant sometimes, and there are songs I like, but it doesn't really go beyond that. I also tend to focus on the lyrics above anything else.

Me too! People think I must be a puritan fun sponge, for feeling this way, but I'm not. And people think I'm weird that I love singing with a choir, but have no interest in listening to recorded music.

I imagine that people who love listening to music get the same buzz as I do when I sing in a choir. When I'm singing with others I feel that I am experiencing the music, whereas when it's just playing on a machine it feels totally separate from me and a bit irritating.

@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....

Probably because he knows you'd metaphorically slap him if he told you the real reason he does it, that he fully knows.

It's been bothering me for some time, and everyone I ask, including a BT person, doesn't know. The BT person suggested it was something to do with avoiding confusion when making a telephone call, but couldn't expand on that. So, no further forward. I'm hoping that there is a vastly more superior intellectual person on here that can offer an explanation!!