
Amorous 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?"
( , Thu 12 Dec 2013, 13:48)
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"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...."
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 9:06, 10 replies)

... relative to its own frame of reference.
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 9:15, closed)

What about the bit in Watership Down when Art Garfunkel starts warbling?
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:50, closed)

*goes outside to stare manfully into the middle distance*
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 11:07, closed)

... 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...
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:34, closed)

space and stationary and stationery.
( , Fri 13 Dec 2013, 10:48, closed)
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