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?

By multiple codes, what I mean is if I just sat here pointlessly generating codes twenty times in a row but not using them, would that then confuse HSBC's system, next time I try to log in and use the next code it gives me? Because wouldn't their log in system think that I should be on an earlier code? But actually, I just didn't use that.

I'm aware this still might not clarify my question. I might be overthinking this

Are college roommate in America ever really as mismatched as movies make out? Do they really have no choice who they share a room with? Are there no single bed rooms?

@FruityPolos

Are college roommate in America ever really as mismatched as movies make out? Do they really have no choice who they share a room with? Are there no single bed rooms?

My best mate went to UCLA and was in university accommodation. She didn't get to choose her roommate. Single rooms were £££ more than shared. She is the sort of person who can get on with anyone, universally liked with loads of people calling her their best friend. She loathed her first year roommate!

Whether literally everyone in the Middle Ages believed in God or whether there was the odd quiet atheist who thought it was all bollocks. And if everyone really did believe in God how did so many populations square that with all the polticially-motivates conversions. And while we are at it how can people be so committed to their own religion when they can just look at a map or a history book and see it is largely determined by where and when they were born?

@tellmetologoffIamaMNaddict

Whether literally everyone in the Middle Ages believed in God or whether there was the odd quiet atheist who thought it was all bollocks. And if everyone really did believe in God how did so many populations square that with all the polticially-motivates conversions. And while we are at it how can people be so committed to their own religion when they can just look at a map or a history book and see it is largely determined by where and when they were born?

In the UK, yes almost certainly everyone believed.

God/Satan/Heaven/Hell where not ideas or theories but real physical beings/places. You were born and brought up in the knowledge that they were real things, just as you and I were born and brought up knowing that the earth is round. It was a fact.

The vast majority of people had little to no knowledge of other areas in the UK to where they lived, much less other countries. We can see now how things have been geographically affected, but when you were a small holder in Derby or a butcher in Newton Abbot, how much did you care about what was going on in other countries? Of course there was the crusades but realistically only those who had committed to the religious life or those who had family involved, would know much about it.

Atheism would be far more likely in the highly educated, therefore the rich, of which there were very few. And they would have enough sense to keep their gobs shut and go through the (legally required) motions of church every Sunday, baptism of their children with a few days of birth etc.

@emmathedilemma

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

Carefully in their own vehicle. Usually before snow gets too bad and often in the wee hours before people will start driving to work.

Where I'm from it was often the police that make that phone call in the middle of the night.

My dad did snowplowing for years.

I wonder if it puts some people off applying or if it's just accepted that that's what happens at college. At least in UK uni halls you have your own bedroom even if sharing a kitchen etc, but sharing a room with someone you hate while sleeping would fill me with dread! Although I'm not that sociable to be fair 😁

@KeflavikAirport

American Sign Language is more similar to French SL than BSL because the guy who set up America’s first school for the deaf came to England to study SL in the early 19th century, was told to get knotted and went to France to study SL instead.

I read this too. I’ve no idea why the BSL expert(s) were so unhelpful, but the consequences were pretty far-reaching.

@PurleaseSqueeze
Sorry, my comment about geography was about the contemporary world.
I do realise that the odds were heavily stacked in their believing in god for all the reasons you say (and because the enlightenment hadn't happened!) but I just wonder if there were any outliers. And I wonder how they dealt with the cognitive dissonance of forced conversion (although more so in the Dark Ages.
Also most primary sources from the period were written by monks so it isn't exactly an unbiased account. I just always wonder if there are any atheists in the same way as we have flat earthers today I suppose. We will never actually know because history doesn't give us omnipotence

@FruityPolos

I wonder if it puts some people off applying or if it's just accepted that that's what happens at college. At least in UK uni halls you have your own bedroom even if sharing a kitchen etc, but sharing a room with someone you hate while sleeping would fill me with dread! Although I'm not that sociable to be fair 😁

I think it’s culturally completely normal in the US, so isn’t as strange or uncomfortable a prospect as it would feel elsewhere. (I’d hate it.) I remember being fascinated when my US friends would talk about how lots of their undergraduate reminiscences about sex consisted of having to arrange for your roommate to be elsewhere for a night, or feigning sleep while someone wrangled surreptitiously around in the neighbouring bed.

We can have two different types of orgasm, I have no idea if women can.

SimonJT, tell us more!

@ChristmasSexyTime

By multiple codes, what I mean is if I just sat here pointlessly generating codes twenty times in a row but not using them, would that then confuse HSBC's system, next time I try to log in and use the next code it gives me? Because wouldn't their log in system think that I should be on an earlier code? But actually, I just didn't use that.

I'm aware this still might not clarify my question. I might be overthinking this

No they always just want the latest code, system just updates every time you request a new code

If your spouse dies between making their vows and signing the register, you are married (well, widowed). The signing is a record of the making of the vows, and the witnesses sign to testify that they witnessed that event.

No they always just want the latest code, system just updates every time you request a new code

@sweetclems - how does the system (ie at the bank's end) update if the customer is just sitting at home with a handheld device generating codes without communicating with the bank? That's the scenario @ChristmasSexyTime I think is describing. I'm not entirely familiar with HSBC, but I know for Barclays, the device is not connected to the internet in any way and will happily generate a new code without any communication with the bank website, so when you login to the bank they have no idea that you are now 20 codes further on than when you last logged on. (Unless it's based on the clock, but that requires careful synchronisation).

Always wanted to know if a previous lover was as sincere in his love for and attraction to me, as he said.

@DadDadDad

No they always just want the latest code, system just updates every time you request a new code

@sweetclems - how does the system (ie at the bank's end) update if the customer is just sitting at home with a handheld device generating codes without communicating with the bank? That's the scenario @ChristmasSexyTime I think is describing. I'm not entirely familiar with HSBC, but I know for Barclays, the device is not connected to the internet in any way and will happily generate a new code without any communication with the bank website, so when you login to the bank they have no idea that you are now 20 codes further on than when you last logged on. (Unless it's based on the clock, but that requires careful synchronisation).

Yeah I read back and realised what was being discussed and errr... no clue!

*Twin 1 born 31st August 11.59pm, twin 2 born 1st Sept 00.07. This would mean they would be a whole school year apart.

I know the answer to this, as there were such twins in one of my dc's year. The parents were given the option of entering both twins in the same year, so both children went into the 'oldest in year' cohort.*

It would still be an issue with outside of school sports etc too, and I doubt they'd be as understanding, in many cases.

Thanks Dilbertian - so they are registered as exactly when they are born, but get to choose for school? The clocks changing one really intrigues me - imagine thinking you're the eldest twin, only to find out years later that it's a time-travel anomaly!

@Biddie191

*Twin 1 born 31st August 11.59pm, twin 2 born 1st Sept 00.07. This would mean they would be a whole school year apart.

I know the answer to this, as there were such twins in one of my dc's year. The parents were given the option of entering both twins in the same year, so both children went into the 'oldest in year' cohort.*

It would still be an issue with outside of school sports etc too, and I doubt they'd be as understanding, in many cases.

Thanks Dilbertian - so they are registered as exactly when they are born, but get to choose for school? The clocks changing one really intrigues me - imagine thinking you're the eldest twin, only to find out years later that it's a time-travel anomaly!

All the sports DS is in go by calendar year, rather than academic year. Which is a pain, as he's the youngest in his class, all his friends are a year or more older than him (not in the UK, so less rigid rules about school start age), and it means they're all in the age cohort above for sports because they were born in the calendar year before him.

For the bank security code thing... My old bank one was like a miniature calculator. Not connected to the internet in any way and nowhere you put your card in. You just turned it on, put your numbers in, and it gave you a code. There was the "logging on" code or the "confirming transaction" code where you also enter the last four digits of the bank account you're transferring to.

My understanding is that the magical mini calculator would do some like the following (please do not take this too literally!):

My bank account number X the date X the time I entered the code X the bank's magic number = logon code

My bank account number X the date X the time I entered the code X the bank's magic number X the last four digits of the bank account I was sending money to = transaction confirmation code

So when I put the code into the bank's website, which was only valid for fifteen minutes, the website would have a list of "correct" codes that could have been generated from my personal magical security calculator in the last fifteen minutes. Was it one of those? You're in. Was it not? Beep boop, try again. I got three goes before it would shut me out.

Change any of the details in the equations (e.g. different bank account) and it would give a different list of acceptable codes. Obviously the equation/algorithm is more complicated than that, but that's basically how it worked.

@Frazzledd

How she works out 'which door leads to the castle/which door leads to boom boom boom boom certain death.....!' in Labyrinth.....I thought I had it this weekend, tried to explain it to DH and apparently I don't....

You need these!

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Should I close my eyes when the hairdresser washes my hair?

I always do. I channel my inner cat and enjoy the head-rub

Should I close my eyes when the hairdresser washes my hair?

not sure, but if the alternative is staring glassy-eyed at the ceiling then... I guess so?

@Crabbyboot

Should I close my eyes when the hairdresser washes my hair?

I do. OMG I love having my hair washed! Roll on May 19th!

@MammaSchwifty

Should I close my eyes when the hairdresser washes my hair?

not sure, but if the alternative is staring glassy-eyed at the ceiling then... I guess so?

I think you should close your eyes so you don't get splashes of shampoo.