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)?

Many theologians do not interpret "virgin" as meaning Mary had never had sex, just that it was her first birth.

Nishi - think Farely's answer makes sense, my dad speaks a number of languages fluently (learnt for business purposes) and if he has to explain how something works, he can do it much more clearly in the language he learnt it himself in (if that makes sense)

claraschu and hazelnutt sorry after I posted that about prayer I googled "evidence for prayer being successful" or something and found that 99% of the studies found it did nothing!

But by then I was late for work and didn't have time to post again. So apologies - and you are quite right.

kim147
Is the voice I hear on a recording the voice I sound like?

*I hear people's voices on recordings and they do sound like the person.

If you don't wash your hair every day, how do you stop it getting wet in the shower?

People can not only see colours differently to each other, but you can be trained to spot very small differences too.

I used to work in a lab that was attached to a factory dyeing cloth and I'd have to dye samples to work out the "recipe" for the factory to bulk dye the fabric. The idea being that changing the amount of one colour a little bit would change the overall colour of the sample you were dyeing. I'd maybe dye 10 samples, each with the amounts of colour a little different, and then match up the samples against the test swatch when done, to see if one matched or to estimate how much to change the colours and try again.

Re: the shower question, I just tie it back. It might the odd drip, but it mostly stays dry.

My really, really thick question is, please explain (in real layman's terms) what a verb, noun and and adjective are? name changes and kills self for such a heinous MN admission

From what I remember at school many years ago....

Verb - a "doing" word
Noun - a name for something (proper noun if it's an actual person or place name)
Adjective - a describing word

So, in the sentence "Maat walked the hairy dog"

Maat = Proper Noun
Walked = Verb
Hairy = Adjective
Dog = Noun

I hope that's right!

Verb = doing word.
Noun = a thing.
Adjective = describing word.

Thats a simple explanation.

You're both amazing. I love MN for these threads.

Jesus didnt have children.
The bible is true.
As far as I can remember, 80% of the UK population believes that God exists.

praying.Depend on your definition of "work".
God can and does say no. God can make Christians wait.
God sometimes says yes to Christians.
God does not approve of testing God, so that would explain the study above.

"If you don't wash your hair every day, how do you stop it getting wet in the shower?"

I use a shower cap. Dead classy look.

Here's another language. I'm reasonably fluent in two other languages (French and Spanish). However, I find it practically impossible to speak French in Spain, or Spanish in France. But I'm Ok switching into either when I'm in the UK. My brain just can't cope with the a forrin language in the wrong country. Why is that?

Sorry - should read "another language question".

80% of the population believing something does not make it true.

label don't feel bad! I remember the utter blind panic I experienced when asked in an interview to describe myself in 5 adjectives. Immediate thought "FUCK what's an adjective?!!". Longest few seconds of my life before my brain clicked into gear.

That is right wannabe. But I put the two sentences seperately.

I don't understand why Darwin put people off Christianity. If you look at The Bible, it tells the story of creation in the same order and with the same types of animals as evolution does - except 'seven days' is more like 'millions of years'.

Is that lone difference really what blew away the faith of countries?

And isn't it far spookier that the Bible gets the order and process of evolution entirely right - when it was written millenia ago with no evidence or scientists, etc - than Darwin did when he finally had centuries of proven scientific history to work with?

Letitsnow re bread crusts in hospitals
I work in a hospital. I make toast for patients (as well as many other things, obviously making toast is not my only job). The bread we use is a normal loaf, like you can buy in a shop, but I can't now remember which brand we use despite looking at it everyday. It has crusts just the same as any other loaf, but I guess we assume patients don't want or won't be able to eat the crust. My patients are young children so don't generally eat crusts, and adult hospital patients are ill and mostly elderly so want something easy to chew and digest which the crust isn't. I don't make sandwiches. They come up pre-packaged from the canteen, but I assume the same reasons apply. So, what happens to the crusts? Probably the staff eat them (we aren't officially allowed to eat bread provided for patients but everyone does) or they end up in the bin.

"the bible is true"

you say that like it's fact.

Trouble is, it is.
[It would be so much easier sometimes if it wasnt].

I appreciate there are many people who do not agree with me.

it is a fact? a proven fact?

I am not getting into this.