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)?

Easter is more or less the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox.

How is your sexuality determined? Because I have a friend with identical twin brothers - and one is heterosexual, one is homosexual. They have identical DNA so why is this? I understand that you can't make someone gay or straight, they are who they are...so why would these two be attracted to different sexualities? I vaguely assumed your sexuality was sort of genetic.

Why is it I can always remember how good chips taste, but I can never remember how good I feel after going to the gym??

hug
It is like if I have my hair cut. DH just does not notice.

DiaryOfAWimpyMum Sun 02-Jun-13 19:58:05
Who made the map of the world and who checked it to see if its correct and each country is in is correct place?

Depends on who you believe really.

This is where you think you are

This is more likely where you actually are

why cant i find a lovely boyfriend?

sowornout sexuality is more neurological than DNA related,or that's how I've interpreted it.

I would like to know who was the first person to find a potato in the soil, look at it and think "If I boil that for twenty minutes it will be edible." :o

I mean, fruits and plants above ground are obvious food choices. But who discovered root veg were edible? And how long ago?

flat I would, but I am not up on social etiquette!

WRT the question of why men have always seemed to have the upper hand, I have always thought it was to do with the fact that before contraception was invented, women would spend a lot of time pregnant or breastfeeding, so tied to the home while the men went out and did things. That's just how I imagine it though, not based on any actual research.

What do Chinese keyboards look like and how do you type...even my Chinese mate doesnt know!

I would like to know that too wanna!
And who discovered how to make medicines, especially the earliest ones.

Do identical twins instinctively recognise themselves in old photos? (Ore working memory)

wannabe it was probably trial and error. Eaten raw = killed them or made them very sick, maybe a potatoe accidentally rolled into a fire, was rescued, eaten = nobody sick/dead, result! Tell everyone!

God, I need my bed. Wine at lunchtime does me in. every single time. Why do I do it anyway? Where's the learning curve? Flat on the ground.

Chinese keyboards, according to Google.

Voices sounding different when recorded: I think it's because when we hear ourselves speak, some of the sound goes via the air to our ears, and some of it gets conducted by facial bones, and there's a slight difference in timbre. Other people or recording devices only pick up the sound via air.

Ruby, no. We have pictures we don't know who is who. And not even my mum does.

another language question.

What is it about individual foreign languages that makes the speakers pronounce English in a particular and discernible way. e.g a French, Italian or German accent when speaking English?

SIOB = sharp intake of breath (a la builders )

IYSWIM = if you see what I mean

i always sort of thought that sexuality stemmed from the type of personalities you preferred to be around/were drawn to. but then i prefer to be around women but find men attractive mostly but also some women. then again i dont know what is nature and what is nurture. we're still living in a world where hetero is the 'norm'.

Scissor Sisters question - yes it is rather rude . Apparently it means this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribadism

amiga, it's to do with the way their mother tongue is pronounced. The vowels&consonants are spoken differently and it takes a lot of practice to get rid of the foreign accent by pronouncing English with English sounding vowels/consonants.
E.g. French and German have no "th", it's an unknown and unfamiliar/uncomfortable way to connect those consonants.

thats the same for an english person speaking german or frence amiga french people can detect an american or an english person speaking french because there is always a hangover of your own language.

i'm from NI and speak (a bit of) irish- i can tell when other irish speakers are from ulster or from say dublin. i can also tell that the father of my son's friend is irish but has spent time in SA and america because there is a hangover of each area in his accent.

There was a documentary a few years ago about whether people see colours the same - article here

My question is - when is the best time to phone a tradesperson to ask them to come over to assess a job and provide a quote? If I call during the day then they are likely to doing a job and be halfway up a ladder/head under a sink, but if I phone in the evening or weekend then I'm worried that I'm interrupting their dinner/family time! (Can you tell I need to get in touch with a plumber, but keep putting it off as I hate doing this sort of thing and am making excuses that it's never a good time to phone!)