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)?

[Muuuuuuumcanihave]

Thanks TSC

[suckmabigtoe]

yep ive had the top off and scooped a few mugfulls of water out thinking that might help but it's still over filling. is the floating device like a big round buoyancy float?

[acrabadabra]

hoolit I just lolled. I never lol

[lostmykeysagain38]

If you are bilingual, which language do you think/dream in?

[interalia]

If you drive (coast) in neutral it does use less fuel but it's also dangerous because you have less control of the car. Air con definitely uses more fuel.

How do you pronounce 'Byzantine'? Bizz-an-tyne or Bizz-an-teen? By-zan-tyne? hmm Every time I say (not often) I say it differently because I don't know.

I can;t think of any more right now but I have loads

[MardyBra]

To answer the languages question a while back, most European and a lot of Asian languages are all descended from one common language (proto Indo-European - no ). They have all gradually changed over the centuries so they are no longer multually intelligible, but linguists can track many of the changes. There are a few languages like Basque which are completely different and have a different origin.

Here's a family tree of how they all diverged

[EccentricElastic]

Where is the end of the universe, or is it infinate? If not, and you reach the end of it......what then?

[MardyBra]

"If you are bilingual, which language do you think/dream in?"

I'm not bilingual, but I've learnt other languages and have had dreams in them when living in that country. I usually dream in English though.

[Coffeeformeplease]

suck, yes, that's the one. Check if it's hooked to the lever of the flush.

lost, in both languages. Sometimes depending on who you dream about, which language they speak, iykwim

[LittleMissGerardButlerfan]

I wonder that too Eccentric it freaks me out!

[suckmabigtoe]

ok ive had another look inside and there is a drip coming from the part where the 'tap' looking part where the water comes from joins the pipe that feeds it. i tried tightening it but the drip became a stream so i loosened it again and it became a bigger stream so i've put it back to where the drip is least frequent. i think the threads on the parts that screw together must be worn out or maybe a washer needing replaced? the whole thing needs replaced tbh. drips coming from all over the bathroom now.

[Coffeeformeplease]

lost, I think in my mother tongue. always. dreams are 50/50.

[Maat]

I sometimes get double deja-vu, where I feel I have done / been here before but also remembered feeling I have done / been here before, before.

IYSWIM

I find anything to do with the mind fascinating. I remember reading that time seems to go quicker as we get older as we experience time as a percentage of our life. So, for example, a year seems really long to a 5 year old because it's a fifth of their life. However, it's only a 50th of my life, so it seems to go quicker.

I don't know if that's a load of bollocks but it seems to make sense to me.

[hugoagogo]

When I get dejavu it's not a millisecond; it's something I dreamt about or happened sometimes years before happening now. More about feelings than vision.

People definitely see things differently-there were two people in monsoon the other day arguing about a top being pink or orange-it was orange you eejit.

My daughter and I have the blue/green argument quite regularly.

My question is where are the seeds on a carrot?

[ImTooHecsyForYourParty]

Why do nice people bend over backwards to accommodate arseholes instead of telling said arseholes to get stuffed?

That's something I could never ask someone who was allowing a total arsehole to walk all over them, although it is something that I always wonder.

It's ok to tell people to not treat you badly.

They don't care about your feelings so why are you concerned to put theirs ahead of yours.

And, as a follow on to that, when I see you doing it. again. Am I allowed to shake you until your teeth rattle as I try to hammer it into you that you are worth more than that?

[DiaryOfAWimpyMum]

I wonder about that eccentric

[lostmykeysagain38]

Coffee - thank you. My friend is bilingual but always writes her shopping lists etc in English. Are you the same? (Sorry - nosy!)

[suckmabigtoe]

my lever doesn't connect to the float it connects to some sort of mini tank within the cistern. i''l get my dad to have a nosey at it.

[hugoagogo]

I also have lots of tennis questions:

What? How? clay courts Why are they not filthy after playing?

Why do they bounce the ball before serving?

Why do they hit their feet with the rackets?

[Coffeeformeplease]

suck, sounds like a simple problem though. Washer or even replacing the whole float thingy should not be more than £20 for parts.

[QueenofLouisiana]

herrings language one- you can find dialect continuums where the dialect gradually changes over distance. It is easy to understand people near you on the continuum, but further away the language changes a lot and becomes less comprehensible. You see this with accent and local dialect words in Britain, it used to be more obvious in places like France, where lots of distinct dialect languages were spoken.

So, as I am from the NE of England I can tell the difference between someone from Newcastle rather than my home town, but DH (a London boy) can't. However, I use words in common with Geordies that my DH would never use.