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?

@WhereismyHeathcliff

When you give birth how quickly does your cervix close back to normal...it can take hours to dilate so does it take the same amount of time? Any midwives on here know the answer?

I asked this question after one of my antenatal classes. The midwife said approx four days.

Great thread!

@Staffy1

Also, who thought it would be a good idea to eat something that appeared to come out of a chicken's bum?

Eggs don't just appear to come out of a chicken's bum: they do. Birds don't have a separate vagina, urethra and anus; it all comes out of one tube / opening: the cloaca.

Blackenedsoul:
If you are having an operation on your back, you are wheeled into theatre on your back so how do they turn you over onto your stomach?
Rolled over? Or flipped?
A nurse on your left side will tilt you towards her/him (by putting one hand on your shoulder and one hand on your hip and gently pulling / leaning you towards them), then the nurse on the other side places a glide sheet under you. Then the nurse on your right tilts you towards him/her and the first nurse pulls the glide sheet flat under you. They can then slide you over to one side of the bed and gently roll you over, without you running out of room and falling off the bed. Then pull the glide sheet out from under you again.
A glide sheet is a special piece of material sewn into a tube. The two sides facing each other are super-slippery so they reduce friction and make it easier to move people.
www.careshop.co.uk/7520-thickbox_default/aspen-glide-lock-sheet.jpg

That's assuming they do it the same way as in care homes.

@Doxie8

I'm a total introvert and used to be very shy. I've always wanted to know what it's like to be an extrovert, be able to talk to anyone, be so self assured.

I'm the opposite. It would be interesting to see it from the other side.

Why someone went up a cow and tugged on its titties udders and drank what came out of it.

Who decided, that it was ok to paint a yellow line on a road and then charge people for parking on it?

How Lorraine Kelly is still on the tv doing that awful show. She must know where the bodies are buried.

@Trambledoo

I've always wanted to know why empty shops have their windows smeared with grease or covered in newspaper. Why do they need to stop people seeing inside if they're empty?

Shop owner here, it's to screen out prying eyes whilst we work. Wonderful though the British public are, without a screen we get a contrant stream of knocks on the glass to ask 'what's it going to be?' and attempts at entry. To be honest we just want to get on with the job of shopfitting.

@Staffy1 but did the egg or the chicken come first?

@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 saw a tiktok where a couple (him Korean and her American) compared animal sounds and they where very different!

When you have general anaesthetic do you always have that pipe pushed down your throat? Or can you breathe for yourself?

Yes, it's going very badly wrong if you can breathe for yourself.

My question is who is in charge of collective nouns for animals? E.g. A murder of crows, they're all so random.

@MintyMabel

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.

In the olden days, I told my younger sister we got her for 5 bob (old Shillings, 25p) from the street market. I think they have opened up again if you are interested.

Thank you to all those who have answered the tampon question, I can finally let that one go now, it's bugged me for years!

I collapsed when I was 14 and to this day no one knows what happened. And when I came round, a few days later I came on my period and remember thinking "gosh, that would have been awkward if I had collapsed on my period" hence where my question came from😃 thank you

Your tummy button is on the outside of your body where you were once attached to the umbilical cord. What's on the inside of your body?

If you have a hysterectomy, what happens at the top of your vagina? Is it just a dead end? And if they leave the ovaries there, what are they attached to? Do they just hover?

Why does my Husband always need the sound on his Facebook videos so loud even when it's just that shitty music?

What's going on when you have a headache? Like what is it that's actually hurting if that makes sense? Is it an ache on the brain? Sorry if this is a really stupid question but as a migraine sufferer I'd love to know lol

Who first dug up a potato and thought “bet that tastes nice!”. And after biting into a raw potato and realising it was pretty grim, how they thought “I know- if I put it in hot water for a bit it will taste much better”. Ditto grinding up wheat to make flour and using it to make bread- how did anyone ever come up with that idea???

@MintyMabel

*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?

In the uk we say that dogs say woof woof, in Poland they say How How. My daughters Polish friend taught her that.

@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?

Not just animal noises, also some things we consider basic general knowledge like are tomatoes a fruit or are watermelons a vegetable? My Japanese colleagues were aghast I would even imagine a tomato a fruit. They were also disgusted I wasn't taught astronomy or calligraphy at school, or that I didn't know my blood type. I was strongly encouraged to get to a GP and ask for a blood test to resolve the matter for every concerned party.

How far up is the sky/ how high would you have to go to get into space?

What was named first the orange colour or the orange fruit? And do other languages use the same word for both?

@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?

Oh I know this- there was a study done where they found that cows actually have regional accents. So a cow from definitely would say moo but a cow from wales would say mow and a cow from Scotland would say mew so on so forth.

@Frickssake

How far up is the sky/ how high would you have to go to get into space?

I think it's about 60 miles.

@AzureHawker1

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.

Your body is moved into the clothes, like dressing a baby, no cutting of clothes required.

a cow from Scotland would say mew so on so forth

I just hear a Scottish cow going "och aye the moo" 🤣