I learned today that hiccups are an evolutionary hangover to our amphibian past. Apparently, Amphibians, such as frogs, gulp air and water in a motor reflex. This predates the development of our lungs into the form they now take. Hiccups can be inhibited by elevating your CO2 intake. Perhaps the "old wives tale" of breathing into a bag to cure hiccups has some basis in fact then. The longest bout of hiccups was 68 years! and you think 10 minutes is bad!
Do people talk louder these days? Sitting in the staff restaurant at lunchtime, I noticed that I could hear conversations that were going on way across the room. I don't think my hearing has improved so it must be that people are talking much louder these days. Perhaps it's because I'm so used to working from home and being in a peaceful environment that I tend to notice these things more. Or perhaps we are just so much more used to socialising in these environments and being in over crowded spaces that we have learned to "zone out" those around us. It's a skill I need to relearn I think along with my memory retention skills (Save that for another day)
Our conversation was based on a much more mundane level. Haven't wagon wheels got smaller? The old classic :)
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