Bored waiting for a poker tournament to start:

Pickling up on Twilight's Thesis

Ok misterb2001 lets give it a go..........If you believe we live on a ball then an aircraft would need to navigate around the ball right?

Correct, otherwise you wouldn't get to a destination

So next time you fly and are sat in your seat awaiting take off, lower the little table in front of you and place a pocket spirit level on it.

Odd. That you have a spirit level on a plane but, you know, whatever

It will show level.

Dependent upon accuracy of spirit level, whether or not the table hinge allows the table to be flat and if the table is flat.

Now when the plane has reached cruising altitude place the spirit level back on the table....it will show level for the entire journey until the plane begins it's descent to land.

And?

If the earth was a ball and the plane remained level for say a 2,000 mile journey the maths say the plane would end up 500 miles into outer space as the earth fell away beneath it.....

The plane remains level relative to the earth. This may come as a shock, but the earth is quite big - 40 km circumference - and the plane is relatively little - 100m long at a guess for the biggest planes? Ive no idea but the budget planes I fly on will be 50m tops. The smaller the plane, the bigger the angle so I m trying to help you here Twiglet - so you would need a suitably calibrated scientific instrument to measure this angle as its very small. A small pocket spirit level is good for maybes shelves. Someone else's shelves preferably. I could have a go at estimating the angle if you like but frankly cant be arsed. Fuck it, I'll have a go. If the radius is approx 6300, the angle is approx 0.001 degrees. Thats fecking tiny

( you know this curvature you all believe in )

to be fair the curvature that most sentient beings believe in

the maths are 8 inches times the miles squared so for 2,000 miles this would be 8 x 2,000 =32 million inches which is over 500 miles.

WTAF

If the earth was a ball the only place the plane could be level would be parked on your fake north pole

utter quality

at all other times it would be nose up or nose down negotiating the curvature.

No, the plane is little and the earth is relatively really big. Its not really a scientific term, but google the word relatively.

You can not have it both ways ???

Dont need to. Planes take off, cruise and then land. At no point does its relative levelness add any credence to flat earth woo woo. Its all explainable with, to be honest, O level science.

But as Ive said before, reckon Twilight is a master of the wind up.

Well I finally got past the 150 posts I set out to get I thank each and everyone of you for your superb input

Really ....? I prefer..... , you got too wound up yourself for a wind up.

The usual comeback from someone who looks silly:

"You all bit lol haha"

ellish thread. top marks

Exactly, when you pull a spoof, you don't bite at replies, because you know it's a spoof. Too many bites by the spoofer.
Damage control.

Legend

Fucking hell... Just flew to Krakow and forgot my bastard pocket spirit level!

But gravity is just a theory!

Oh wait; no, it's evolution I was thinking of.

Pro-tip: don't trust cheap spirit levels. For accurate results, make sure you get one whose surface is very slightly concave in the length direction.

This is the greatest thread in bunker history bar non.

This must have took some finding…what was your user name back in the day…?[

Well I may have a woman's name now, but it sure wasn't Kirsty!!!

Not just a woman’s name.
The clues are out there to harvest…eventually.

Well ‘Edith’….it’s getting like the not so good old days.
Might as well give us your previous user name, save the guessing.

Please tell me you're not Ethel from Bedlington.

Me fatha was fuming when I rang him at five in the morning and asked him to come and pick me up. Took him over an hour while I was freezing me knackers off in that poxy phone box.

Hope your husband had a shit night shift and demanded a shag when he got home. The thought of him "stirring the porridge" was my only consolation.

Last time I ever went to that fucking Tuxedo Princess...!

Nah….kenny….rumour has it he’s the trans Ethel from Bishop Auckland
He/she was allegedly a big fan of Hinge and Bracket and had them tattooed on his/ her thunder box.
You’ll know the face …had a shop in Trimdon selling back copies of Fiesta Readers Wives from the early 70’s before going bankrupt a week after opening.
The beards a giveaway.

Ah, that makes sense Snowy.

At least (s)he managed a week in Trimdon though. It's 6 days and 23 hours more than I ever did.

Our lass torments me by telling me she's gonna bury me there. What she doesn't know is I've secretly changed my funeral plan to a basic cremation, and me will instructs her to throw my ashes to the four winds from the banks of Crimdon beach.

It'll be the best blow job she's ever performed...

got to admit i had a go at crossdressing in the vic this season. i had to borrow her in the kitchens gloves as i had lost mine getting the dog in the car earlier up the headland earlier. did not know which bogs to use with them on.

question. why are they called blow jobs anyway.

Best ask Quasimodo about that one Accy...

Mind you, …pink gloves with gold stripes, inlaid stones and the gold rope holding them in must have been a give away.

Simple…because by the time you talked, cajoled, begged, pleaded, promised, praised …..you’re totally goosed and short of breath.

Never been to Bedlington, did once work however in Ashington, stone the crows...if people think Hartlepool is rough.

I'm interested 'Ethel'....why did you bring this Thread back up out of 1000's of Threads on The Bunker??
Just seems a bit weird.
You appear from nowhere and you bring this Thread up. Why??

I think I know why.

Ethel????

Miss if we're spinning which direction is it in ?
Miss how does can the wind blow in all directions if we're spinning ?

Yep i was called weird

Same teacher told me 25 years ago seaton would be under water becausenod rising sea levels who weird now

I was at college in the early 70’s and a lecturer who looked like Neil off the young ones told us the world would be uninhabitable within ten years or some bullshit like that……….and one lad asked why he was here if believed it. He never answered.

My kid are getting climate change rammed down there throats new federation similar BS

Everyone is being indoctrinated…….I cannot believe we are going to have banter monitored and ‘unacceptable’ banter a criminal offence, this is beyond belief.
Have to think before you speak is the sign of a sick society.

"Title of thread"

Going to pools, Only JoeKing for the sensitive.

you know you have been brainwashed if you think back a few years when you used certain words without a second thought but are frightened to say them or write them anymore. nobody told you that they were banned but you never use them in public. only a small thing but it shows how easy it is to make people comply on bigger issues.

For clarity. Ethel Cardew is a character in’Bottom’ a comedy I never understood however…..

Ethel’s IP address locates her as Newton Aycliffe whereas Mutley is in Hartlepool. No cross reference of posting IP’s either.

Newton Aycliffe…unhealthily close to Darlo

And BTW Bottom was/is brilliant and the episode with Ethel Cardew in is one of the best episodes.

I loved it too, so surreal…but hated some of the banal popular comedy stuff.
Tastes differ.