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my 2 year old just came and asked me if she could borrow the pepper shaker, she wants to see if she can learn to sneeze with her eyes open, to prove to the 4 year old that if she does her eyes won't pop out of her head.............:eek:


oh, and can you sneeze with your eyes open? (not you personally, but you know can a person?)

I can't remember if it's impossible or just really hard.

my 2 year old just came and asked me if she could borrow the pepper shaker, she wants to see if she can learn to sneeze with her eyes open, to prove to the 4 year old that if she does her eyes won't pop out of her head.............:eek:


oh, and can you sneeze with your eyes open? (not you personally, but you know can a person?)

I can't remember if it's impossible or just really hard.
its impossible

*tries to will herself to sneeze, all in the name of science*



*fails*


:(

its impossible
do you have a source for that?

and if so.... should I let her try anyway? I mean all of her other science experiments I already know the outcome of, I suppose this one would be no different (except this time I really don't know)

do you have a source for that?

and if so.... should I let her try anyway? I mean all of her other science experiments I already know the outcome of, I suppose this one would be no different (except this time I really don't know)
I wouldn't, there was that episode of ER where someone did it and their eyeball came out :eek:

do you have a source for that?

and if so.... should I let her try anyway? I mean all of her other science experiments I already know the outcome of, I suppose this one would be no different (except this time I really don't know)

No, it is physically impossible to do. Your brain overrides that part you think controls the eyelids.

That is also why you cannot kill yourself by merely holding your breath- your medulla overrides your control.

Freaky.

I wouldn't, there was that episode of ER where someone did it and their eyeball came out :eek:
Risking making an ass out of myself: Really? :eek:
You better tell me the truth, I was all resolved to try it next time I have to sneeze.

oh, and can you sneeze with your eyes open? (not you personally, but you know can a person?)

I can't remember if it's impossible or just really hard.
It's impossible. I've tried very hard, but the reflex is just too strong.

I don't think the eyes pop out. My glasses have gone flying a couple of times, though.

Sorted. (http://www.ratlab.co.uk/sneezeeyes.htm) It is possible to sneeze without closing your eyes, but only if you're born that way, and you cannot sneeze out your eyes.

ROFLMAO
Sounds like the same crap we did as kids. My mother always thought it was quite the miracle we all made it to (grown-up) hood.

Edit:Damn library censor.

Risking making an ass out of myself: Really? :eek:
You better tell me the truth, I was all resolved to try it next time I have to sneeze.

Well it did happen on ER after they froze some guys eye to do something to it. I stress it happened on ER so I don't know whether it'd happen in real life, I've tried to do it loads of times and never succeeded.

The question is, what if you held someone's eyes open A Clockwork Orange style and then made them sneeze? :D

well she'll get pepper everywhere. itll get in her eyes and make her cry. she'll snuffle up lots of it before she sneezes. it will irritate the inside of her nose and make her cry.

no i dont think its dangerous.

Odd question I know... but...

For the guys,

Anyone ever sneeze while taking a whizz?


Messy.....

well she'll get pepper everywhere. itll get in her eyes and make her cry. she'll snuffle up lots of it before she sneezes. it will irritate the inside of her nose and make her cry.

no i dont think its dangerous.

Oh, good! You had me worried that you were going to spoil all of the fun for a moment there.

my 2 year old just came and asked me if she could borrow the pepper shaker, she wants to see if she can learn to sneeze with her eyes open, to prove to the 4 year old that if she does her eyes won't pop out of her head.............:eek:


oh, and can you sneeze with your eyes open? (not you personally, but you know can a person?)

I can't remember if it's impossible or just really hard.

Since it seems you can sneeze with your eyes open the question now becomes, does pepper really make you sneeze?

Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Wish I could find the image, but here's the dialogue.
Calvin: Hey Dad, I have a question.
Dad: Sure Calvin. What do you want to know?
Calvin: If you plugged up your nose and mouth right before you sneezed, would the sneeze go out your eyes, or would your head explode?
Dad: I was kind of hoping you had a math problem or something.
Calvin: ... Either way I'm scared to try it.

For the guys,

Anyone ever sneeze while taking a whizz?


Messy.....
Yes, it is.

Since it seems you can sneeze with your eyes open the question now becomes, does pepper really make you sneeze?
actually it does, I found out when my 4 year old got mad because I was at work and shoved a rasin up her nose, the baby sitter put some pepper under her nose and made her sneeze it out, so I didn't have to come home from work. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_304.html

Aside from a curiousity I doubt there's much to worry about.

Odd question I know... but...

For the guys,

Anyone ever sneeze while taking a whizz?


Messy.....



Yes it is messy, but proper muscle control can let you stop peeing long enough to sneeze. As an added bonus the same muscles let you delay orgasm, for hours if you want.

Tell the kid this: :eek: is what happens when you try that.

okay, so she just sneezed with one eye partially opened, we found out that powdered sugar seems to have a "make you sneeze" affect without the burning of pepper or cinnamin (which we also tried)

anyway, both of her eyes seem to still be in place, so they are trying to duplicate the experiment this time on video, if we accomplish that I will post it.

Since it seems you can sneeze with your eyes open the question now becomes, does pepper really make you sneeze?
indeed.

okay, so she just sneezed with one eye partially opened, we found out that powdered sugar seems to have a "make you sneeze" affect without the burning of pepper or cinnamin (which we also tried)

anyway, both of her eyes seem to still be in place, so they are trying to duplicate the experiment this time on video, if we accomplish that I will post it.

Using your kids as guinea pigs for your sick evil sneezing scheme? =P Lol

Yes it is messy, but proper muscle control can let you stop peeing long enough to sneeze. As an added bonus the same muscles let you delay orgasm, for hours if you want.

No shit... Hmmmm.....

Interesting....

45 minutes of continual sex is my current record. I'm sure I've gone longer than that, but I didn't time it. it's the same muscle group that makes your erection "jump" when you contract it. The stronger the jump the stronger the muscles and the more control you can exercise. Stopping a urine stream half way through isn't even remotely difficult.

One of these days, I really am going to have to meet your kids. I think they're awesome.

One day when I have some, can they have play-dates? hehe

45 minutes of continual sex is my current record. I'm sure I've gone longer than that, but I didn't time it. it's the same muscle group that makes your erection "jump" when you contract it. The stronger the jump the stronger the muscles and the more control you can exercise. Stopping a urine stream half way through isn't even remotely difficult.

Out of intrest, how do you go about making those muscles stronger?

Same way you do any other, use 'em. Oh and an orgasm after you've held it off for a while. Oh my..

Out of intrest, how do you go about making those muscles stronger?
practice stopping your pee mid stream then when you figure out what muscles those are, you can practice throughout the day. (at least that's how girls do it, guys may be slightly different)

Twitching those muscles during the day has a fair chance of giving you an erection. Just to warn ya.

and the question arises: how many guys have started trying this out now at home (or work)?

Twitching those muscles during the day has a fair chance of giving you an erection. Just to warn ya.
yeah, they have something to do with orgasm in girls too, (not sure what) but when I first started to do it, I used to get tinglys LOL

(oh, and in case you were wondering, they tell women to do it early in pregnancy so that when the baby sits on your bladder later you have better pee control, and also something about it being an easier delivery or something)

I love how a thread about a kid sneezing turns into a sex manual..

wierd thread from sneezing out your eyes to having a orgasm:p

and the question arises: how many guys have started trying this out now at home (or work)?

I'd always presumed this was something most guys knew how to do. I mean it's fairly obvious. Working with the timing you can get some fairly impressive results, but it can be frustrating if you end up delaying more than you want to.

its true i have alot of time at work so i try to learn to do diffrent things:D

yeah, they have something to do with orgasm in girls too, (not sure what) but when I first started to do it, I used to get tinglys LOL

With girls, it strengthens the muscles that contract during orgasm, making the orgasm itself more sustained and powerful (at least, that's what I've read).

With guys, it gives them more control over when to orgasm.

Contract that muscle at just the right time and you can get some damned impressive distance shots too.

Contract that muscle at just the right time and you can get some damned impressive distance shots too.
i probably didn't need that image... oj well, good thing i didn't actually see it as it's 6am

With girls, it strengthens the muscles that contract during orgasm, making the orgasm itself more sustained and powerful (at least, that's what I've read).
really?

I thought sex got better after the first kid, maybe it's because I did that all through my pregnancy........LOL learn something new everyday.

really?

I thought sex got better after the first kid, maybe it's because I did that all through my pregnancy........LOL learn something new everyday.
i see... a way to convince women to have more sex... nice :D

really?
Yep, that's what they say.

Oh, and on a less adult note, here's hoping for a video of your daughter sneezing. :) :p

i see... a way to convince women to have more sex... nice :D
you have to convince them? how sad :(

Have the kid hold her eyelids open. That way she can be a smartass to the other kid, because she never specified HOW she would keep her eyes open.

you have to convince them? how sad :(
well... it's that or pay for it, which i can't afford. alcohol helps with convincing people, generally speaking

Have the kid hold her eyelids open. That way she can be a smartass to the other kid, because she never specified HOW she would keep her eyes open.
true.

alas, she has turned her attention elsewhere, as two year olds often do. She has decided that her sister was wrong about her eyes popping out, and is now taking apart an old telepone so that she can put it back together in working order in hopes that she can convince my husband to let her try it with his computer (which I don't see happening any time soon)

At 2 she wants to disassemble a computer? Honestly they're not that complicated, a kid that small could easily take one to pieces. Though it may or may not work due to static discharge if she doesn't know how to avoid it.

At 2 she wants to disassemble a computer? Honestly they're not that complicated, a kid that small could easily take one to pieces. Though it may or may not work due to static discharge if she doesn't know how to avoid it.
Honey, *I* could disassemble a computer. I think the problem is more in the reassembling. :p

At 2 she wants to disassemble a computer? Honestly they're not that complicated, a kid that small could easily take one to pieces. Though it may or may not work due to static discharge if she doesn't know how to avoid it.
she is more worried about putting it back together in working order, and the only computer I have for her to practice on doesn't have a hard drive, so she could mess with it, but without me switching my hard drive over to it, we wouldn't know if it worked or not. I don't see me trusting my two year old with my hard drive though.

Honey, *I* could disassemble a computer. I think the problem is more in the reassembling. :p
while they are not that hard to assemble, i still wouldn't suggest letting an unexperienced person do it unsupervised

There's only one place the things will fit generally. It's not difficult, actually it's fairly idiot proof.

If they pop out the trick is to get two spoons and a Rugby mouth guard to get them back in.
I saw it at a club rugby game.

There's only one place the things will fit generally. It's not difficult, actually it's fairly idiot proof. Oooh, let's not go there, please. I'm easily hurt. *sniff* :p

There's only one place the things will fit generally. It's not difficult, actually it's fairly idiot proof.
yeah, but I have seen the kid put together puzzles before, I could see her popping capacitors off my mother board to make things fit where they don't go, hence the practice with a phone that I can throw away. (although it wouldn't really harm my hard drive if she tore up the mother board...hmm......)

*ponders on education over personal possessions*

To be fair she'd probably learn very little in the process. On the other hand she may start a lifetime love of tinkering. So, toss up.