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likely_lass

is it so fun to sneez?

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giggsy664

tech2 wrote: »

Yes Ive heard about that useless fact somewhere before. But its been said that bless you was a saying against the devil after you sneeze

I thought it was to do with when you sneeze, the devil can get into you through your nose, so bless you is a safeguard

Biggins

giggsy664 wrote: »

I thought it was to do with when you sneeze, the devil can get into you through your nose, so bless you is a safeguard

LOL thats a mad one! :pac:

What happens in that case if you have diarrhoea and the exit is always open?

KnifeWRENCH

dlofnep wrote: »

I just hate it when you have a sneeze but it goes away

Sneezes can be such a dick-tease.

Ugh, that really annoys me too. I'm standing there waiting for it and then.....nothing.

btw is it true that you can't sneeze with your eyes open? I could Google/Wikipedia it myself, but it's easier if I just let someone here tell me. :pac:

Biggins

square_igloo wrote: »

Ugh, that really annoys me too. I'm standing there waiting for it and then.....nothing.

btw is it true that you can't sneeze with your eyes open? I could Google/Wikipedia it myself, but it's easier if I just let someone here tell me. :pac:

Some experts guess that we’ve evolved closing eyes to reduce sneeze spray landing in our eyes. However, our eyes are exposed constantly to bacteria and viruses and have good defenses without eye closing.

Closing eyes (or keeping them open) is part of the sneeze reflex. It’s a reflex—meaning we have no conscious control of sneezes. Instead, the primitive part of the brain (called the medulla oblongata and located at the top of the spine) calls the shots. The reflex triggers major muscles of face, throat, and chest to fire out gunk going at 100 mph (150 kph) as fast as a pitcher’s fastball.

Most people tighten the eye muscles, causing them to shut, as they tighten the other muscles involved in a sneeze. But not all do. Some sneeze with their eyes open. Either way, it’s part of the inborn sneeze reflex.

In 1888, Thomas Edison hit upon the idea of movies from looking at sequential pictures of someone sneezing because they would pop out.
While it is rare, there are some people who do not close their eyes when they sneeze.

No one knows exactly why most of us close our eyes. My guess is that we do it to protect our eyeball while our head is jerking because of the sneeze. I heard that when you sneeze, alot of pressure is building up behind our eyes. In that case our eyes would pop out, so our body closes the eyelids to prevent that from happening. There is a reflex that normally forces people to close their eyes when they sneeze. This reflex comes from the medulla oblongata in the brain stem. The reflex may help to keep micro-organisms out of your eyes when you sneeze but may simply be part of the contraction of muscles involved in sneezing. Someone gave a response to a similar question on a site that it might keep dust out of the eyes. Its just a reflex your body does when you sneeze. Our eyes are very sensitive to noise, light and projecting objects. The brain automatically sends message to the nervous system to protect eyes. They would fall out or might!

Yikes!!!

truecrippler

Yes your eyes will fall out* :O

* may not be true *

Darkbloom

A friend of mine told me you can stop a sneeze coming on if you feel it by looking at a bright light. Never tried it myself though.

truecrippler

Darkbloom wrote: »

A friend of mine told me you can stop a sneeze coming on if you feel it by looking at a bright light. Never tried it myself though.

I thought that makes you sneeze.

Darkbloom

truecrippler wrote: »

I thought that makes you sneeze.

Ugh, I'll have to ask.

Steve

truecrippler wrote: »

I thought that makes you sneeze.

Yep, I always look at a light in order not to lose a sneeze!

White_Feather

Biggins wrote: »

The expression "Bless you" or "god bless(ed) you" etc... apparently comes from the fact that when you sneeze, your heart either misses a beat or flucuates much slower to a stop for micro-seconds.
Apparently then because your heart then continues on again, you were considered "blessed" because you were further granted life to continue onwards by what ever is your icon of faith!

Its amazing the useless junk you learn in other places.

and its also said that at the time of the black death, people used to say god bless you etc when you sneezed because they would hope that you werent contracting the disease!!!

m@cc@

Slightly off-topic but did you know, that there is no conclusive theory about why we yawn.

Biggins

m@cc@ wrote: »

Slightly off-topic but did you know, that there is no conclusive theory about why we yawn.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/yawn.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/yawning.html

http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/straight-talking/item/yawn_yawning_contagious_boredom_amazing

galwayrush

while we're slightly off topic, what about belly button fluff.?
I know why it gets it's colour, but what attracts it to the belly button?

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

while we're slightly off topic, what about belly button fluff.?
I know why it gets it's colour, but what attracts it to the belly button?

Its hiding there 'cos it don't want to get sucked in by a yawn or blown away by a sneeze!

gino85

sneezing while having a piss hurts badly

Biggins

gino85 wrote: »

sneezing while having a piss hurts badly

Done that, I banged my head against the public toilet wall. Honestly.

Talk about me being a dippy twat or what!

gerky

galwayrush wrote: »

while we're slightly off topic, what about belly button fluff.?
I know why it gets it's colour, but what attracts it to the belly button?

The hair on the stomach generally grows in the direction of the belly button so when we move about bits of fluff of the clothes we have on slowly make their way in to the belly button, generally the hairier the belly the fluffier the button.

Also the belly button tends to be a haven for bacteria.

Biggins

gerky wrote: »

The hair on the stomach generally grows in the direction of the belly button so when we move about bits of fluff of the clothes we have on slowly make their way in to the belly button, generally the hairier the belly the fluffier the button.

Also the belly button tends to be a haven for bacteria.

That explain the nose too to a certain extent?

raah!

I would say sneezing feels so good as it is evolutionarily advantageous for some reason... gets rid of bacteria, or what have you. And since sneezing without that rush of euphoria would be very unpleasant, evolution gave this nice feeling so people wouldn't stop their sneezes.

Unless that's not possible, as some post back there may have suggested, but I've stopped many a sneeze, when my nose is too snotty that is, and i don't want sneeze-snot on my hands, I learned to avoid those sort of things , so I did.

m@cc@

Biggins wrote: »

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/yawn.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/yawning.html

http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/straight-talking/item/yawn_yawning_contagious_boredom_amazing

Were you agreeing or just taking a browse and the posting links? All of them concur.

gerky

Biggins wrote: »

That explain the nose too to a certain extent?

Have to say the first thing I thought when I read this was WTF a fluffy nose?:D

Nasal hair acts as a filter to help trap and stop dangerous germs and particles of other kinds getting in your respiratory system.

The nose in absolutely jam packed full of germs and picking is a common way people get several kinds of illness, and also pass several kinds of illness on to others.

Biggins

m@cc@ wrote: »

Were you agreeing or just taking a browse and the posting links? All of them concur.

Just showing that there is some sort of mutual same direction thinking and backing it up with links.
(I do reserve the right to be wrong and continue to be the plonker that I am!)

Biggins

gerky wrote: »

Have to say the first thing I thought when I read this was WTF a fluffy nose?:D

Nasal hair acts as a filter to help trap and stop dangerous germs and particles of other kinds getting in your respiratory system.

The nose in absolutely jam packed full of germs and picking is a common way people get several kinds of illness, and also pass several kinds of illness on to others.

Thanks, I'm not going to sleep tonight am I? :eek:

gerky

Biggins wrote: »

Thanks, I'm not going to sleep tonight am I? :eek:

Don't get me started on fingernails:D

galwayrush

gerky wrote: »

Don't get me started on fingernails:D

That reminds me, one of my toe nails has gone all mutant.

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

That reminds me, one of my toe nails has gone all mutant.

Ewe yuch, thanks!

You mean like Niomi Campbell's feet? Double yuck!

galwayrush

Biggins wrote: »

Ewe yuch, thanks!

Aw Feck, you were my last hope.:(

galwayrush

Biggins wrote: »

You mean like Niomi Campbell's feet? Double yuck!

No.just basic mutant,:D

Biggins

galwayrush wrote: »

Aw Feck, you were my last hope.:(

I'm sorry paddawan...

gerky

galwayrush wrote: »

That reminds me, one of my toe nails has gone all mutant.

Possibly a fungal nail infection also transmittable go to your gp or a chemist and get a treatment for it or it could spread to the other nails, but make sure ya find out if its a fungal infection first.