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?

Have just googled the 3 seashells in demolition man and Sandra bullock says:- one for a number one, second for a number two and the third for clean up 🤷‍♀️

If all living sponges were squeezed and taken out of the sea then how deep would the ocean be?

Who put 'Bella in the Wych Elm?

@olbndanszombie

Have just googled the 3 seashells in demolition man and Sandra bullock says:- one for a number one, second for a number two and the third for clean up 🤷‍♀️

So like a bidet then that waters your arse and bits and then you drip dry?? Or does it blast warm air there.

Inquiring minds wants to know 😂

If you've got the three shells, the third one must surely be warm water wash and warm air dry.

Not always wanted to know, but I would love to know how to pour Zoflora without a little bit dripping down the side. It is really puzzling me! I can pour liquids without any trouble but for some reason I have a problem with Zoflora.

Dilbertian
When you suffer from lack of rhythm. Pick a song with a heavy drum beat, always dance following the drum. Try at home. I promise you will get it.

LudoBear
Fingers crossed and I will have a word with the big man upstairs x

Why is my head full of useless knowledge that I can recall at a whim but I can't spell and some words will not no matter how many times I look them up stay in my bloody head.

@MintyMabel

Language. Who decided "we'll call this a table" and everyone in the country agreed??

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?

My 2 year old and her equally 2 year old cousin once had a very heated argument about if chickens say “cluck cluck cluck” or “bruck Bruck bruck”.

There was tears and a fist fight.

It was agreed that they say both.

@Iwanttoknowthis

Mine is weird as hell, but I've always wanted to know, but I've name changed as I get that it's weird.

What do men's balls look like, without the sack? I imagine them to be like boiled eggs, but I could be completely wrong! I've never dared Google it...

My son found this out for the good of science when he was about 4 or 5. He came through in a slight panic one morning after having had a boiled sweet the night before and said "Mummy! I have a lemon sherbert in my penis!"

What if the colour I have learnt is red is actually someone else’s orange.

We learn this is red, we both call it red. But what if the colour we both actually see and call red, we actually see as different colours but we would never know as we have been taught that is “red”

[quote thelegohooverer]@Angrypregnantlady I think what you saw in Tanzania were Honeymooning Lions. They have sex about 20 times a day for a week, sleeping in between. Dh and I saw a pair on our honeymoon and felt a touch inadequate by comparison

@Mangomoonlight ds is colourblind and it’s fascinating trying to guess what he sees. I first noticed it when he was a toddler helping me pair socks. Apparently a ridiculous proportion of men are colourblind for red/green which is scary when you think about traffic lights.[/quote]
Re. Colourblindness
A lot of men learn the order of colours eg. traffic lights or the shapes of things that others identify by colour

@Biddie191
I know twins one born 11.55pm and the other 00.05am
Was never an issue, they're recorded as same day and always celebrated same day

@Sleepisoverrated150 I think this too!

[quote ForwardRanger]@Biddie191
I know twins one born 11.55pm and the other 00.05am
Was never an issue, they're recorded as same day and always celebrated same day[/quote]
On 31 August or other crucial cut off date?

I wonder if it's 31 August and school cut off is an issue they slightly fudge the time of one of the deliveries to make live easier for the family.

@Sleepisoverrated150

What if the colour I have learnt is red is actually someone else’s orange.

We learn this is red, we both call it red. But what if the colour we both actually see and call red, we actually see as different colours but we would never know as we have been taught that is “red”

Women see many more shades of red than men do. So it is quite possible that five colours you call vermillion, crimson, scarlet, maroon, burgundy a man might call bright red and dark red.

@FlyingBurrito no it wasn't a date that affected schooling

@Sleepisoverrated150

What if the colour I have learnt is red is actually someone else’s orange.

We learn this is red, we both call it red. But what if the colour we both actually see and call red, we actually see as different colours but we would never know as we have been taught that is “red”

I constantly disagree with blues/greens with DH- I say (shades of) blue, he swears (shades of) green- never thought to have the colourblind convo with him!

@Doxie8
To answer your question, I guess I could be classified as an extrovert in that I have no qualms about asking anyone pretty much anything. I wouldn't say I am happy to, but I can switch into on mode and do so. I have bowled up to all sorts of people and asked all sorts of impertinent questions, including two prime ministers. It has never worried me, they are people like you and me, and generally people are very happy to talk about themselves.

@Sleepisoverrated150

What if the colour I have learnt is red is actually someone else’s orange.

We learn this is red, we both call it red. But what if the colour we both actually see and call red, we actually see as different colours but we would never know as we have been taught that is “red”

Colours are rather subjective aren’t they. I suppose it depends on your own personal view. Years ago I had a lovely linen jacket which when held against a navy skirt, the jacket looked purple but, if I held it against a purple skirt the jacket looked navy. I could never wear with either of the skirts because it just looked odd.🙄

I crochet and quilt, which inevitably involves a lot of colour conversations and it becomes very clear that people see colour in different ways. For instance there is a 'blue' that exists in plants, like some hostas have blue leaves, I always thought it was called that because it's blue relative to leaves in general, if I saw the colour on a plant I'd call it blue but if I saw yarn that colour I'd call it green, but it turns out that to some people (about a third of the crochet class) it really is blue. Also quite a lot of people really don't see yellow very well.

What really blew my mind in my 30s was the colours pink and red. Some languages have red and light red, in the same way as we have blue and light blue, or green and light green, but in English if you keep adding white to red there is a point where it tips over into pink, and we all seem to know where that point is, it's not something that has ever split the class opinion. I went down a rabbit hole of wondering why red is special that way in English, and also how it is that you can have a 'red' that is paler than a 'pink' if the red is a bit orangey and the pink is a bit blue.

@Sleepisoverrated150

What if the colour I have learnt is red is actually someone else’s orange.

We learn this is red, we both call it red. But what if the colour we both actually see and call red, we actually see as different colours but we would never know as we have been taught that is “red”

I have always wondered about this! It may be that the whole world looks completely different to someone else from the way I see it! It is quite fascinating to think that we all call a particular colour, e.g. 'red', but actually it represents a completely different thing to another person. But we can never know the answer, can we??

@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?

Yes this is possible. I am a CODA (Deaf parents) and work in a Deaf-led organisation where we have Deaf staff from Eastern Europe. There is some commonality in all our languages.

In addition to that there is an International Sign Language that is relatively easy to understand across Europe. I have strong memories of my parents having a chat with a Deaf German lady who approached them in the market once!