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Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
( , Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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I have to stop and think which direction is East or West, I'm not bad with geography or maps but I just can't automatically work out which direction is which.
I always have to stop and think really quickly in my head, "Never Eat Shreddied Wheat". Always...
I think I must have learned it when I was about 5 in Primary school.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:01, 13 replies)
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am always convinced that north is straight in front of me, and no amount of persuasion or compasses can prove otherwise!
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:07, closed)
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forward will get you to the pole at some point. so keep on trucking.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:10, closed)
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Wouldn't that take you on a circle (great or small) around the earth and you would end up where you started?
Don't you need a constant offset angle from the 'straight ahead' to guarantee a spiral which will concentrate at the pole? Of course, if you were to choose the 'incorrect' offset, you would end up at the 'east' or 'west' pole.
And yes, that second paragraph was a ninja-edit, just in case you were wondering.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 20:15, closed)
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but I'm sure I animated this in 3d ages ago and it and it pissed me off no end.
as I couldn't get the object to just go around the other object as I wanted.
( , Tue 20 Jul 2010, 16:24, closed)
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it's so embarrassing trying to catch the Central line, and then having to do a little mental trick to work out which platform I need
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 16:44, closed)
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And I never eat shreddied wheat, it tastes like shit.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 17:17, closed)
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Worthing to the West, Eastbourne to the East, Sea to the South. Everyone else are Northerners.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 18:15, closed)
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I do know my east from west but it's just not automatic - I remember by thinking about where the far east is on the world map. I also have to think for a split second about left and right, although driving lessons helped with that a lot.
( , Mon 19 Jul 2010, 21:04, closed)
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Read the Ambidextrous Universe by Martin Gardner. He makes a big thing of how we all get up/down and north/south right but often mix up left/right and east/west.
Must re-read that myself, now I've thought of it.
( , Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:49, closed)
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