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?

Following on from the language comments.....

People in other countries associate different sounds with animals. For example, UK toddlers may call a dog a "Woof!" however Japanese toddlers say "Wan Wan". I find it fascinating!

@sparepantsandtoothbrush and anyone else intrigued by the post... it is indeed separated and the second class post sits there for an extra day. I have just asked my resident postie DC who has confirmed

Ex-postie Dad has replied - pp was on the right track. Post is separated; 1st class post is dealt with first then after that, the 2nd class post is sorted.

@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?

Language theories: you might like these: www.thoughtco.com/where-does-language-come-from-1691015

They're serious, despite the names. Some of those techniques are still evident and seen in many different cultures when speakers are trying to encourage language development in babies by more playful and repetitive sound production. There are also still hybrid pidgin languages that attract a lot of analytic interest, usually a meeting of 2 or more different communities for specific reasons like trade. None of the theories are fully convincing though.

*People in other countries associate different sounds with animals. For example, UK toddlers may call a dog a "Woof!" however Japanese toddlers say "Wan Wan". I find it fascinating!

But....is the actual noise the dog makes the same in those different countries?

I posted a second class letter on my way home from work. It arrived the next day. Amazing.

@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?

I got a brick thrown through my school bus window and it hit me in the head and knocked me out... the nurses removed my contact lense in my injured eye before the swelling got so severe that it couldn't be removed... I'm assuming the checked for lenses because they wouldn't have known otherwise?

@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?

I read something about this ages ago. Birds have been known to have chirping accents and they now think that cows moo in regional accents.

It always amazes me that animal sounds have different names in different languages. Our local languages and the way that language interprets the sounds makes them so different. I never realised this until I was reading a Welsh children’s book to DC. In English pigs go oink, oink. In Welsh they go soch, soch!

They check, remove tampon and put a pad in, they do not insert another tampon

@DinosaurDiana

When driving a car with the heater on, why does it blow cold air when you turn around a corner or roundabout ?

Either you're driving an old land rover, or your heater is broken...

NB: Other unreliable cars and electrical faults are available.

Learning a lot from this thread

Dyatlov pass incident written Jan 2021
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov

I’ve never been able to fathom the Labyrinth door answer, even after pp trying to explain!

@WerkWerkWerkWerkWerkWerkWerk

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?!

Well, you're right that the 5% thing is bollocks, we use all our brain.

In our last year at primary school my friend’s dad was our class teacher. She called him Mr (Surname.)

Some years later.... I taught in a secondary school where there were quite a few children of members of staff. It would have seemed odd there if they’d called their parents anything other than Mum or Dad.

It probably depends on the sort of school and the age of the students.

Hungarian.

@DinosaurDiana

When driving a car with the heater on, why does it blow cold air when you turn around a corner or roundabout ?

Depends on the car, but I think it's to do with the power steering pump sharing belts/power with the heater blower motor, so that when steering more tightly it draws the power away from the blower motor so it loses power

@MintyMabel yes the animals make the same sound!

Apparently sound synapses are formed in the brain during first few years. This explains why my Japanese English speaking friends cannot distinguish between L and R sounds. They memorise spelling of words such as “rock” and if they encounter a new word starting with the L or R sound they cannot distinguish the beginning sound. However, Japanese children attending an English immersion nursery (from age 1) can - as those connections have successfully been formed.

There’s a special machine in slough that makes malteasers round - the only place in the world (or was about 15 years ago)

I’m really sorry if people might find this upsetting but I genuinely wondered about this one day and I want to know the answer! When you die and they dress you before your funeral does someone actually dress you like a giant doll or do they just cut the clothes up the back and arrange them to look like they are worn.

@Blerg

Is there a height of tower above which you don’t get bugs / creature infestations - ants, cockroaches, mice etc?

Like you get ants attacking your bin on floor 12, but not above floor 42.

So, essentially yes there is a height limit bugs will go to. I'm not sure what it is, but I know that robusta coffee beans that are grown at low altitudes need pesticides whereas arabica coffee beans are grown at high altitudes and don't need pesticides.

Must be something to do with air pressure.

@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?

@sparepantsandtoothbrush I love this question 😂😂😂😂

@PerpendicularVincent

www.reed.co.uk/jobs/product-data-analyst/42472655?utm_medium=display&utm_source=RTBHouse&utm_campaign=UK_Reed_Web&utm_content=dist

This job keeps coming up whenever I view a thread and I need to know if they've made a mistake. That salary can't be right!

I suspect this is one of many I see where they wish to bring in a person on an ICT (Inter company transfer). They want someone from India - they advertise at a low salary and can’t fill the job so can justify the ICT. This is why young people can’t get a start in IT because companies have redefined skills shortage to mean we can’t get UK staff as cheap as offshore ones.

Also my dds p1 class last year was taught by the parent of one of her classmates and DD said the child called her mum. Maybe it would just have been too confusing for a 4/5 year old to call her Mrs X.

My mum was my teacher for a while in middle school and I had to call her Mrs Xxx but i ended up just not calling her anything, it felt too weird!

If you have a GA, you always have to be intubated.