Stupid Question Thread

MrCostington

I'm taking this idea from motorsport forum I use. This is the place to ask random questions about any subject, that do not warrant their own thread. Despite the title, please keep the phrase "no stupid questions, only stupid answers" in mind:)

Here's mine, it concerns where one is born. I recently, for the first time, had a close look at my birth cert. I always say I'm born in X place, but found that the actual hospital is some distance away. So, say I was born in Holles St hospital, and then brought back to my parent's home in say Trim Co Meath, would I say I'm born in Dublin, or Trim?

And related, often in documentaries about famous people, they will be standing outside some house and say this is where Jimmy Star was born. Do they literally mean he was born in that house, on the kitchen table :) or that's where his parents lived when he was born?

Kingslayer

If you can be arrested for being drunk in public, but not in a public house, does that mean a public house is not a public place?

Oscar_Madison

Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?

Hermy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210519#Comment_122210519

A public house is a licensed premises.

Ash40

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058354171/stupid-question-thread

I have often thought about this actually and still don't know the answer. But I always assume that they mean the parents were living in that house when he/she was born. As for the other part, I spose it depends if you're asked where you're from or where you were born? But it def is food for thought lol

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211556#Comment_122211556

I suppose in the old days when the norm was to give birth at home with a midwife the 'was born here' would be accurate.

TinyMuffin

what would a chair look like, if your knees bent the other way.

Oink

I totally disagree. As far as I am concerned, if your mum gave birth in Holles st then you were born in Dublin. and took you back to what would become your childhood home. Of course that’s in Meath but I guess it can’t be helped..

Oink

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211706#Comment_122211706

look at your cat’s chair and you’ll know.

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211382#Comment_122211382

And its a funny one, it is a public place that you are free to enter, but say the landlord bars you, it is now a private place that you cannot enter.

Hermy

It's not strictly a public place - it operates under license and all who frequent it, be they the owner, the staff or customers, do so under the conditions of that license.

MrCostington

@Ash40 Nice to know I'm not the only one to have wondered about this!

@Kingslayer Yes that is true of olden times, so if there was a documentary about William Shakespeare, he probably was born in the actual house the presenter might be standing beside. But I've seen this for more modern people that were more than likely born in a hospital.

@Oink LOL well I actually worked in Trim for a while, lovely town.

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122210553#Comment_122210553

I don't know, but I do know that she wrote Islands in the stream while she in the bath.

Leg End Reject

The county you were born in is the one you're brought home to from the maternity hospital.

If it was the county the maternity hospital is in very few would be born outside counties with a maternity hospital nowadays.

It probably is asked that way from the time of babies being born at home and when there was no way to get to a maternity hospital in time/before maternity hospitals existed.

Hermy

Your birth cert records the place where you were born, not the place where you were brought home to.

Suit of Wolves

Why is blue light (from TVs and computers) called blue light if it doesn't necessarily appear blue?

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213240#Comment_122213240

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/census-questions-place-of-birth-1.4834408

From here about filling in the census form.

https://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2027consultation/census2022householdformquestions/

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213524#Comment_122213524

I hope this can be a stupid answers thread as well, so here goes.

I haven't a clue but I'd guess because it's mixed in with other colours. When colours are mixed the colour changes.

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213524#Comment_122213524

My very basic understanding is that it is part of the visible light spectrum. Screens emit visible light allowing us to see the images they contain, that won't be 100% blue light but blue light is talked about because of the effects it can have on us.

Hermy

That's interesting. The census appears to be asking where you were raised rather than where you born. As a genealogist I'd never think of it that way. And as an adoptee I can't even say for sure where my birth mother was living at the time of my birth.

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213750#Comment_122213750

The wording really should be updated now that home births are very far from the norm. I'd imagine every census has incorrect information based on that question.

Geuze

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058354171/stupid-question-thread

There are 19 maternity units in Ireland.

If where you are born refers to the location of the maternity unit, therefore nobody is ever born in Leitrim, Roscommon or Westmeath, for example.

Clearly, that is not the case.

Wanderer2010

When an undertaker dies is it his own family members who will embalm and present the corpse for viewing and funeral?

ottolwinner

how does the person who drives the snowplough get to work?

ottolwinner

do you ever try to find answers without the internet?

I try and do so for some question each day. Someone might mention something random and I’ll do everything to recall the answer

Atlantic Dawn

Does a commercial plane have a set of keys like a car? Who keeps hold of them? Do you get a free keyring from the manufacturer when you have shelled out €100million for one?

Asdfgh2020

Are people with massive / shovels of hands and therefore very large fingers able to pick their honker/ 👃…?

ottolwinner

I’d imagine they have made it fit over the years

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214653#Comment_122214653

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214455#Comment_122214455

I saw some show about truckers in America. One of them was a snowplough driver and he used to take his truck home at night. He said the neighbours loved living in the same area as him because their street was always ploughed first thing in the morning.

Kingslayer

How exactly does a pub licence get issued. I always heard there is only supposed to be a certain number of them and when one pub closes somebody else can take that licence and open a new pub. But if you look back to years ago there were far less pubs in towns and villages, so they must have just been creating licences out of thin air to keep up with the amount of new places opening?

Asdfgh2020

is it possible to do a ‘No 2’ only without any ‘No. 1’ before after or during..?

MrCostington

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214523#Comment_122214523

I recall many years ago a TV show about guys who reposed planes for banks, mostly private jets, and IIRC they never had to use keys, just hopped in, checked the fuel and fly away. One thing they did always look for was a book with the service history and other papers, guess like the log book of a car.

MrCostington

Thanks everyone for the answers, it seems your place of birth is your home and not the hospital. @Leg End Reject 's links seem to confirm that.

ottolwinner

can an post workers collect their post if they see it at the sorting offices or does it have to go out to the address?

dulpit

Re. Where you're born - sounds like when you buy a brand new car. It doesn't (apparently) get the county identifier of the garage it's bought from, but gets it from the address of first owner.

I was just in tesco and was wondering - you know those blue tokens that you put into one of 3 bins to decide who gets the fundraising money? Do they actually pay attention to how many go into each, or do all charities get the same amount?

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214739#Comment_122214739

AFAIK supermarkets have to buy one of those licenses to sell booze and there's a lot more supermarkets these days.

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214749#Comment_122214749

I'd love a scientific answer for this, while I haven't kept records of my toilet adventures I don't think I have ever managed this.

I'm guessing the bearing down involved would stimulate urination?

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122215007#Comment_122215007

Wouldn't that mean very time we sit on a chair we'd need to urinate?

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122215044#Comment_122215044

I'm not sure how you sit down 😂, when I said bearing down I meant the act of encouraging a bowel movement.

I don't mean red-faced straining due to a lack of fibre, but just giving a little helpful propulsion to move things along.

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214992#Comment_122214992

Yes I never thought of that, restaurants, hotels as well would need one.

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122215056#Comment_122215056

Good point. I've never heard the term bearing down before I assumed it meant sitting down. You learn something every day😀

castletownman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214927#Comment_122214927

Yes they can. Can't remember the last time I had post conventionally delivered.

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214739#Comment_122214739

What towns and villages have you been visiting???

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214992#Comment_122214992

There are different liquor licences for different establishments.

On licences, Off licences, special restaurant licences etc

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122215519#Comment_122215519

They stiil have to buy an existing license.

http://comptonsolicitors.ie/how-to-get-an-off-licence-for-your-shop-or-supermarket

Stanford

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212193#Comment_122212193

Correct! It is not a public place but rather it is a place to which the public may have access to with the consent of the licensee

Asdfgh2020

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122215007#Comment_122215007

other mammals such as dogs and cats and cow/bulls appear to be able to do it but not the ‘homo-sapiens’….I would think it’s next to impossible….?

Hermy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214916#Comment_122214916

The place you were born is the place where your mother was when you exited her womb and it's that location that is recorded on your birth cert.

Despite the wording the census question isn't asking where you were born but rather where your mother was living at the time of your birth.

Kingslayer

If the pope was suffering from dementia would he be removed from power and replaced or does he serve for life no matter what?

suvigirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122216439#Comment_122216439

Pope Benedict XVI resigned

Geuze

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214739#Comment_122214739

There have been the same number of licences for the last 100 years.

New ALDI or Lidl with off-licence = a pub closed somewhere and sold the licence.