Imagine yourself in a situation where you are feeling very nauseous, but wish to eat something. (Perhaps because of medical advice, perhaps because you know it will make you feel better, perhaps because of medication - whatever situation might make that set of circumstances true for you.)

Now, o LJ, tell me...

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And now, more important things.

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Another day for pointless curiosity... how are you at eating things when you don't know what they are? I made sausages at the weekend (post on the topic coming soon), and offered some pieces of cooked sausage to colleagues to see if they could guess what was in it. Both happily chomped down on mystery food without any info. I regard this as ( Read more... )

A million years ago, when I'd just left university, I was chatting to someone who told me she was a project manager. Oh yes, I said, what does that involve ( Read more... )

Today's utterly pointless piece of curiosity... assuming that you are dressed, do you know what colour your pants are? (Note for Americans: I'm talking about underwear.) I don't require to know what colour they are (though you are of course welcome to tell me, if you wish) - I just want to know whether you know (without checking).

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Just because I'm curious:

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This is assuming witting consumption rather than burgers of dubious origins.

Lots of people have been doing a 25-days-of-Christmas thing, answering a different question each day, and I've been enjoying reading their answers. I haven't been doing it myself, because I've already banged on endlessly about Christmas ( Read more... )

So. Deprecation. Do you know what it is ?

I don't mean self-deprecation, or coughing deprecatingly, or similar. I also didn't try to write "depreciation" and miss. I mean the word as used in the following sentence:

I'm afraid that method of doing it has been deprecated.

Poll I'm just curious. When I started work in '99, I assumed the company I worked ( Read more... )

Bother.

I probably don't have time this weekend to visit Hendricks Horseless Carriage of Curiosities in London, but I charge anyone who does have the time to visit it on my behalf ( Read more... )

Is there a name for the psychological effect whereby you think you don't know the answer to a question just because you've been told it's hard ( Read more... )