Bizarre leaps of logicAmorous Badger says: "I once humorously suggested that someone had been internet-stalking a Big Brother contestant. They concluded that I was threatening them. What's the oddest misunderstanding you've been involved in?"
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Dec 2013, 13:48)
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Actually, you've got a point"Look," I said to my daughter, "See that bright star moving up there? That's the Space Station".
"How can it be a station if it's moving?"
".....erm...."
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But surely it's not moving... ... relative to its own frame of reference.
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Ghoti Fingers, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 9:15,
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Nothing is moving if you ignore everything else.(
Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:08,
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Bollocks.What about the bit in Watership Down when Art Garfunkel starts warbling?
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:50,
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I've, er, got something in my eye*goes outside to stare manfully into the middle distance*
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 11:07,
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Very true. But...... explaining moving frames of reference and orbital dynamics to a five-year-old is a little tricky. Especially for a mind evolved to scream abuse at the monkeys in the next tree...
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Well, you could do that or you could explain the difference between station - train, bus and space and stationary and stationery.
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d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:48,
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