The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIII

[Muhammed]

I have a bruise on my arm. It has been there for a long time now and i keep on assuming it will be gone in a few days but its always looking at me whenever i'm getting dressed.

Worrying? Doctor-go-to-worrying?
Or
Ignore and die of mysterious disease?
Or is there a third door?

Go to your local pharmacy and ask for wound healing lotion.. Its pretty effective and does not require a doctors prescription.

 

[Borachio]

I have a bruise on my arm. It has been there for a long time now and i keep on assuming it will be gone in a few days but its always looking at me whenever i'm getting dressed.

Worrying? Doctor-go-to-worrying?
Or
Ignore and die of mysterious disease?
Or is there a third door?

How long have you been ignoring it? If it's less than a month, I'd wait another month, then go a-quack-bothering. Assuming it doesn't hurt, or look like it's getting worse that is.

Spoiler :

Actually, ignore it and die of a mysterious disease is the favoured approach. Otherwise you risk ridicule from the quack. Which is far worse than death, imo.

The third door is home remedies. Have you tried bathing it in urine? Or rubbing it with sand paper? Or getting some tasty blonde to kiss it better?

 

[Farm Boy]

The third door is home remedies. Have you tried bathing it in urine? Or rubbing it with sand paper? Or getting some tasty blonde to kiss it better?

Home remedies work better when you mix them. Rub it with sand paper then have a tasty blonde pee on it.

 

[timtofly]

Has the earth been expanding for the last 4000 years?

 

[Borachio]

I don't think so. Why do you ask?

There may be some additional accretion through solar radiation and meteorites, but I'd have thought it would be marginal. There should be some marginal loss of stuff like helium to compensate as well. But in the end, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Changes in the activity at the core of the Earth should be pretty much stable in that time-frame as well (I can't remember if the magnetic polarity, even, has reversed either, I don't think it has*). So I don't see why you might suspect the Earth would be increasing in diameter because of that, either.

*Nah. Definitely not. The last one was 780,000 years ago.

 

[ace99]

The Himalayas grow an inch or two a year I'm told. So in a way....

 

[Arakhor]

The Atlantic Ocean widens about 2 cm a year or something like that, but no, I very much doubt that the planet itself has gained mass in any significant fashion in a very long time.

 

[ace99]

maybe if we got hit by more asteroids....or not.

 

[Borachio]

The Himalayas grow an inch or two a year I'm told. So in a way....

Well this is true. But then at another region something will be sinking.

Then there's the rebound of continental plates still going on from the last ice age.

But these effects are all tiny. Relatively speaking.

 

[ace99]

Well this is true. But then at another region something will be sinking.

Sounds like the average frat house.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Quackers: If it's painful or you are truly worried, go to a walk-in clinic and have it looked at by a doctor. Better safe than sorry.

@timtofly: Must be all those Tim Hortons doughnuts and McDonald's cheeseburgers... or maybe just cosmic dust that keeps falling on us, like it has since the planet first coalesced out of the proto-planet stage all those billions of years ago.

Or maybe it's malnutrition, since humans have been doing all kinds of abominable things to starve our planet of natural nourishment...

I agree with you. There is a definite pros and cons system to be considered when deciding whether or not to move into a place like that, and for me, I would much rather not go to college and be screwed than move into that place. While yes, I could go get an education and start working at Marineland (ughhhhhhhhhh) as planned, it would also mean that the moment I step foot into that door, my individualism immediately ceases to exist. My only choice of entertainment would be things that they themselves have personally okay'd. Conveniently enough, the only thing they okay happens to be Biblical things such as Bible Study and prayer (since when is prayer entertaining?).

Unless you would be actually living IN their dwelling and not in a separate suite, they cannot legally do that. I never took crap like that from my own family, even when I was a kid, and for damn sure I wouldn't take it from anybody else as an adult.

I remember when I "came out" to my mother as an atheist... she was upset and disgusted - I got the distinct impression that she would rather I had confessed to running a whorehouse than simply not believing in any god (that was a hypothetical example, guys - I never did that, and never would ).

Very true! Sometimes I wonder if renting a place from someone is more just a game of "Who is going to screw each other first?" rather than "This seems reasonable, let's sign a lease and be cordial towards each other." If the tenant gets an idea first, then the landlord has a boatload of troubles. If the landlord gets an idea first, then the tenant has a boatload of troubles. It would be nice if there was a more prompt checks and balances system in place.

Yep. Two of my previous landlords/ladies have flat-out lied to my face about things pertaining to the property and maintenance. It's getting to the point where I'm considering taping every conversation I ever have with landlords/rental companies, for proof.

 

[ace99]

I remember when I "came out" to my mother as an atheist... she was upset and disgusted - I got the distinct impression that she would rather I had confessed to running a whorehouse than simply not believing in any god (that was a hypothetical example, guys - I never did that, and never would ).

Well that finally explains the 'somewhere else'. It's Canada.

 

[Arakhor]

Running a brothel was almost respectable in 15th Century Florence. Blame the Catholics!

(In other news, it's the 484th anniversary of the Protestation of Speyer today, the event often considered to be the formal beginning of the Protestant movement.)

 

[ace99]

One of the Pope's ran a brothel out of his palace I'm told. Not sure which one.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The Atlantic Ocean widens about 2 cm a year or something like that, but no, I very much doubt that the planet itself has gained mass in any significant fashion in a very long time.

At the expense of the pacific.

 

[anyoldguy]

Has the earth been expanding for the last 4000 years?

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but Vsauce made a YouTube video in which he said that the Earth is getting 50 million kg lighter every year.

 

[madviking]

maybe if we got hit by more asteroids....or not.

Space dust, man. Tons of it are falling onto the Earth.

 

[ace99]

That makes sense. I was distracted by the thought of whores. Wish I was Pod....

 

[timtofly]

At the expense of the pacific.

So the Pacific is not widening either?

 

[Borachio]

I don't see why it should be. IIRC the pacific is surrounded by subduction zones.