A thread for those questions you wouldn't dare ask in real life/normally!

[LittleMissGerardButlerfan]

Please feel free to ask questions and if I know the answer I will tell you, also feel free to answer others questions!

My stupid question is

Would I be able to see nits in my sons very short hair if he had them? (He has short brown hair)?

Peters' projection is a real eye opener isn't it?

Julie I would phone during the day as you can leave a message if they are busy and then call back when they are free.

All these thoughts of space are making my head hurt! The thought of it going on and on forever

juie i'd say anytime TBH. my dad gets calls all times of the day and it doesn't bother him. we were well used to him leaving the dinner table but didn't mind because if it was just asking him to come out to quote all he need to take was an address and time that would suit. if it was to discuss anything more than that he would just say "can i call you back, i'm just at my dinner" he didn't mind it at all. it's good to be busy!

JulieAnderton I feel exactly the same way about contacting tradespeople.

I don't know if this webpage is any use in your area but you leave your details and they contact you!

suckmabigtoe - Biting insects usually inject a small amount of an anaesthetic-type substance, so it's only when they've finished sucking your blood that you get to feel the itch, and by then they're ready to move on to their next victim anyway.

Farely, I think (but I may be wrong) that men and women see colours differently. My ex especially could never see the all the shades between white and brown (off white, cream, magnolia, beige, fawn, taupe, etc) that I could. It was either white or brown to him.

We used to have the blue/green argument frequently too.

My question is so stupid, I'm a bit asking it. Why arent people near the south pole upside down with all the blood rushing to their heads? Whenever I've asked this before, people wave their hands knowingly and talk about gravity, but I still dont understand.

the song 'someone left the cake out in the rain' is meant to be v rude,why??????????????

Love that kim Am a big west wing fan.

I felt all smug when it was on, because I had a peter's projection on my wall as a student.

Going back to the bilingual thing. DH is bilingual Dutch/English.

When I first met him, he had been living in Holland and spoke Dutch in his sleep.

He's been here for 13years and now sleep talks in English.

When I was revising for my French GCSE I started thinking in french. It was really odd.

I got an A* so it paid off :o cant remember much now though.

I'm not bilingual by any stretch but live and work in a foreign language. I sometimes dream in the foreign language.

I think the reason men got the upper hand is exactly because women were always pg/breastfeeding infants - it's quite common for women to become anxious and fearful and PFB at those times, and quite easy for Mr Caveman to say "Tell you what, Ugga, you stay here and keep PFB safe and I'll go and hunt the wooly mammoth for tea," and then later heard to remark "for Ugg's sake, Ugga, I've been out all day hunting and you haven't even tidied the ugging cave!"

Eventually the other cavewomen advise Ugga to LTB.

I don't understand the concept of praying.

If you are praying, are you actually trying to appeal to God's better nature? "Please God, don't let my dog die." If you didn't ask, would he just let the dog die? If you did ask, and the dog dies, does this mean he heard you, but chose to ignore you? If the dog lived - was this God deciding to be kind?

There was a woman after that recent tornado who's dog was found alive, when it crawled out of the rubble as she was being interviewed. (It was very moving btw :) ) and she said "God answered my prayer!" and I thought - what about the parents of those children that died - did God not answer their prayers? But he listened about your dog?

If the answer to all this is along the lines of "God has a plan" - what is the use in praying? If he does as he pleases anyway?

This is something I don't feel I can ask in real life, in case I cause offence. I am an atheist, so really what I am intrigued about is how believers view this. There are lots of very sane and clever people that pray - I am totally confused by this.

Prayers, in Christianity are requests to God.
Nothing more, nothing less.

@ balloon!

Actually my answer is a bit short.
Prayers can also be praise, thanks, general chat.

But in the context of what you asked,
You make a request to God.
He can basically answer yes, no or wait.
God can change his mind. So yes, the dog may have died otherwise.
Also likes to be informed. imo, He knows exactly what is happening to Christians, but not what is happening exactly to non-Christinas [I could be wrong on that particular bit, not sure].

brilliant balloon

I think they did some studies in recent years that showed that prayer did seem to work. IIRC a group of people suffering from an illness were prayed for (not sure whether they knew it or not) and their recovery rates were better than the non prayed-for group.

I'll confess to being irritated by trivial prayer requests "Please pray for me as I have a busy week" sort of thing, as I worry that a really important prayer might get overlooked. I acknowledge that is a ridiculously simplistic way of looking at it.

Balloon, try Ben Goldacre, Bad Science, for an analysis of studies about praying-

What happens to the crust from bread in hospitals, I have eaten tons of hospital sandwiches and toast yet never had the crust of the bread, do they throw away 2 slices from every loaf? Bake super long loaves?

I've seen quite a few homophobic (mostly American) people justify it by saying 'it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'. If they believe Adam and Eve in the bible as being literal then they had 2 sons, the 4 of them populated, why is this seem as fine but 2 men being in love is not

Why do people think posting the colour of their bra, where they like to keep their handbag and names of fruit as helping breast cancer?

In a male female relationship sex is normally classed as intercourse, in a lesbian relationship what is classed as sex and what's more of a fumble.

I don't really get archeology. I mean, I understand how objects can get buried under the earth, but when archeologists say that they have discovered a medieval church several feet below the ground for example, I don't really get it. What is it that they have discovered? Is the the church's foundations? But then they sometimes say that they have discovered a wall. Has the entire building sunk?? I just don't get it when there are other medieval buildings still at our current ground level.

Letitsnow9, there was Adam and Eve. Who had Cain and Abel.
A few verses further on it says "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch".