Do you have silly questions too?

Gaer

"Angel whisperer"
First: I've always wondered why the British Parliament wear (or wore) white wigs?

Second: Those little half-moon head rests in Ancient Egypt don't look too comfortable. Were they really head rests? Why didn't they use pillows?

Third: Why is one side of a double door always locked?

Wait! Before you put your silly questions on here, can you answer mine? I'm serious!
 

First: I've always wondered why the British Parliament wear (or wore) white wigs?

Second: Those little half-moon head rests in Ancient Egypt don't look too comfortable. Were they really head rests? Why didn't they use pillows?

Third: Why is one side of a double door always locked?

Wait! Before you put your silly questions on here, can you answer mine? I'm serious!
First: Good question. But I'm sure there's a reason....custom, sure, but why?
Second: I think they did have pillows, they just didn't stand up to lying around within stone walls for thousands of years.
Third: Also a good question. Appearances?
 
First question about wigs, answer "fashion" to begin with followed by tradition.

Second question, "head rests", real comfy, you should try one!

Third question, " one door locked, one open", makes perfect sense to me, can't see the issue, its awkward to try to close two free doors, (and of course there are exceptions where both do open anyway!).

There you do, "all sorted"!

My silly question is " Why doesn't water run up hill"? :)
 
First: I've always wondered why the British Parliament wear (or wore) white wigs?

Second: Those little half-moon head rests in Ancient Egypt don't look too comfortable. Were they really head rests? Why didn't they use pillows?

Third: Why is one side of a double door always locked?

Wait! Before you put your silly questions on here, can you answer mine? I'm serious!
the wigs worn in Parliament way back in the day were simply fashion. It was fashionable for the middle and upper classes on the street to wear wigs and so parliament followed.

However unlike the Courts where lawyers wore wigs..due essentially to cover their heads from the baldness which came with having contracted Syphilis ...seriously?... well not quite as cut and dry as that. :oops:

It all started on the streets in the 16th and 17th century when the upper started wearing the wigs to cover the bald patches which was causd by having contracted Syphilis.. ..so ultimately it became a fashion among the upper classes so everyone would look the same..., and in court ultimately the wig remained long after the syphilis problem, so that lawyers and Barristers would remian looking different to the defendants and general public...

https://people.howstuffworks.com/cu.../why-british-lawyers-barristers-wear-wigs.htm
 
Why does the water in a toilet swirl clockwise.
It doesn't.
I didn't look it up, but doesn't it have something to do with the earth's rotation? I don't know...
https://www.livescience.com/33567-toilet-swirl-direction-equator.html

As boring as it may sound, the direction that toilet bowl water swirls at the equator has more to do with the toilet's manufacturer than it does any physics phenomena.

It is a commonly held misconception that toilet water always drains counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere because of the Coriolis force an acceleration imparted by the Earth's rotation. The influence of the Coriolis force on spin direction is real, but it is generally only observable on very large scales, such as trade winds and hurricanes.

The affect the Coriolis force has on a toilet bowl is much too small to actually see in a flushing toilet but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

In 1962, Ascher Shapiro, an expert in fluid mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who died in 2004, ran an experiment showing that the Coriolis force does affect water drainage, but the rotational effect is so small that it's overshadowed by other factors, such as the direction that water enters a basin or the shape of the basin (which is a function of how the toilet-maker designs the bowl and flush mechanism).
 

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