blind_chameleon

Recently after a graduation ceremony, there was a photo to be taken of  the class. However one of the graduates wanted his child (maybe 5 or six) standing next to him in our group photo. He had also tried to take the child to receive his award, but been thwarted at the stage by the organisers.

While I understand that their children are important to their parents, family photos were available separately.

Some tried to cancel their group photo order...

Why do these people insist to include their children in such photographs thereby spoiling the photo for others? What is the driving force behind this? I am trying to understand the situation so I can be prepared in future.

I heard a baith after Jumma at a mosque and it's tune is like this (the words are almost definitely wrong)

La ilaha zul fil tou ziya ahla

wa la tu ha zil zam vil aliimi

wa hafi tow wa tam wau fil zuloobi

wa innaka haa zil zam vil 'aliimi

Can you help me identify this qaseeda or baith and possibly give me a link to the lyrics?

I get lost a lot, specially in a new environment. I can't find the way back to a place even if I have gone there 5 times on the same road. What is the secret of people who remember the way, after only going there once? How do I stop getting lost? Any help or links or websites about people in the same state would be appreciated

It says that archeologists in Germany have discovered an ivory statue that is 35,000 years old. I am interested to know, how can the age of the statue be identified this way? What I mean is, the ivory may be 35000 years old and the statue made recently. How do the scientists tell (by carbon dating) the difference between the age of the ivory and when the statue was made?

My garrulous three and a half year old repeats words when she means "a lot" or repeated but it also crops up in unexpected places:

"The telephone is ringing-ringing"

"I came walking-walking"

"Mama;s sleeping-sleeping" (this at 4am on monday morning!)

Does this indicate a problem?

Which verses in the bible exhort (or promote) Christians to spread Christianity or promote Conversion to Christianity?

Are there any such verses?

Where do the missionaries get the idea that what they are doing is ethically acceptable?

How do you wan to die, the King asked of Andrado, sentencing him to death.

Andrado considered and replied "of old age."

This was taken from a business description in moneyhouse: Eingetragene Personen: Helgar Poltman, Staatsangehörige, in <someplace>, Inhaberin, mit Einzelunterschrift; Scarbo, Filio, italienischer Staatsangehöriger, in <someplace>, mit Einzelunterschrift

Can someone explain to me what Einzeluntershrift here means,... thx in advance

My nearly three year old often mixes up words or interchanges syllables, when I try to teach her "This old man" she sings the chorus as

"Knick Knack, Knacky Knack, Knicker Knacker Bore"

Of if I tickle her saying Goochie Goochie, she responds Chugie Chugie

Should I correct her or will it pass?

Serious answers only, please.

My brother used to catch those who understand physics and those who just memorize it with this question.

There is a table. On the table is a chair. On the chair is an object (say a stone) which weighs W kg. The stone has a force R acting on it and it in turn applies a force R on the chair. Similarly the table has four forces acting on its legs which are cancelled by the equal and opposite forces acting from the table, lets call them r.

Now according to Newtons Laws (since there is no motion) there should be an equal and opposite force to W. Where is it?

I need a word lie which/where/what/ or why

In many languages you have a word which asks for the position in a list. The only similar concept I can think of in English is HOWMANIETH..... What word can replace howmanieth in this sentence: "Howmanieth were you placed in class" OR "The howmanieth president of USA was Richard Nixon?"

Serious answers only, please

If you feel they shouldn't be tortured, don't bother to answer. Is Lynndie England a heroine or a villain?