Irrational peopleFreddie Woo tells us "I'm having to drive 500 miles to pick up my son from the ex's house because she won't let him take the train in case he gets off at the wrong station. He's 19 years old and has A-Levels and everything." - Tell us about illogical and irrational people who get on your nerves.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:24)
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Ooh, just remembered another one!I used to know someone who would swear blind, to the point of incandescent fury and storming off if he was doubted, that the tides were not in fact due to the gravitational pull of the moon or anything like that, but they were caused by the water in the sea slopping from side to side because the earth is spinning.
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skullfunkerry In case of implosion do not look into implosion, Tue 15 Oct 2013, 13:30,
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coriolis force does affect winds but....the magnitudes are somewhat different...
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Tue 15 Oct 2013, 22:02,
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This was actually Galileo's explanation for the tides.You can read it in "The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems".
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