Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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I was probably destined to become a scientistYou know the story about 'your eyes shut when you sneeze because if they didn't yor eyes would be forced from their sockets'?
It is a lie. Conclusively proven by a disbelieving 6 or 7 year old me with the help some gaffer tape and pepper (and at the price of some sections of eyebrow). The disappointment of finding out that not everything you are told can be taken at face value is still palpable.
Crivvens knows what I'd have done had it proved true.
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 8:17, 3 replies)
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AgreedI retried this recently, and could keep my eyes open.
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social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Sat 26 Jul 2008, 14:56,
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Hmma friend of mine recently acquired contact lenses for the first time. She also suffers badly from hayfever.
Sat outside the pub last week, she feels an almighty sneeze come on, so covers her mouth and nose.
ACHOOO!!
Both lenses disappeared. Not down the back of the eye or anything, she' just sneezed them out. Now if you can do this with eyes closed that'd be a minor miracle, unless they're lodged in her Eustachian tubes or something.
(, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 5:18, closed)
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