The Taylor-made CVPL Chat Thread!

Mellor

Suckit wrote: »

Nope, like Pluto, it was never a planet, but was classed as one.

Pluto used to be a planet. They didn't discover that they made an error.
They changed the definition of planet, so it was not a planet from that point on.

We (as kids) were told it was a koala bear.
Then, as the teacher(s) became more informed, we were told that was wrong. It is just a Koala.

If you were told it was a koala bear, your teachers were simply wrong.
I'm just pointing out that its not a "no longer" thing. They were never bears. As a kid I heard both used, and probably assumed it was a bear until I learned they had a pouch.


The confusion comes from Drop Bears. Which look like large koalas, but aren't bears either, despite the name.

Pluto is no longer referred to as a bear.

Pluto was a dog.

ganmo

Mellor wrote: »

Pluto used to be a planet. They didn't discover that they made an error.
They changed the definition of planet, so it was not a planet from that point on.

I think it was more that they found lots of things that behaved like Pluto did so it was either call all them planets or get rid of Pluto

Pawwed Rig

Poor Pluto.
I had a primary school teacher once who told us that Pluto was probably named after Mickey Mouse's dog. You forget that knowledge wasn't immediately at your finger tips in the past.

Today we should all be much more knowledgeable than the past

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies

Flat Earth society, has members all around the globe.
I seriously believe that they only exist to wind people up, no educated person can still believe that it is still flat!

As for Pluto, the US was quite upset when it got demoted as it was the only "planet" found by an American, they tried several times to get it reinstated as a planet - but it does not meet the criteria to be a planet.

cdeb

I think it probably exists for money.

I don't know if members are necessarily uneducated. There was a Guardian article last year about how a lot of members of the Flat Earth society get sucked in through YouTube, and the algorithms which then start recommending videos based on what you've already been watching, and so you really do start going down a rabbit hole and only getting only one side of the story, which then keeps reinforcing your own views. Most people will realise it's nonsense of course, but a small portion of 7,000,000,000 people (or even 350,000,000 Americans) is still a lot of people. If they are uneducated, they're also being targetted.

The Guardian wrote:

Interviews with 30 attendees [at the world’s largest gatherings of Flat Earthers at the movement’s annual conference] revealed a pattern in the stories people told about how they came to be convinced that the Earth was not a large round rock spinning through space but a large flat disc doing much the same thing.

Of the 30, all but one said they had not considered the Earth to be flat two years ago but changed their minds after watching videos promoting conspiracy theories on YouTube. “The only person who didn’t say this was there with his daughter and his son-in-law and they had seen it on YouTube and told him about it,”

Makes you wonder what other stuff - transgenderism is an obvious example - is blown out of all rational proportion by people watching too much social media. And if social media does have that sort of impact on people, then that's genuinely quite scary.

Anyways, maybe a bit heavy for this thread!

Yeah, of course, money as well
I forgot to add that.

New Home

So, what you're really saying, DB, is that Earth is really shaped like a coin, hence the expression "Money makes the world go round"? And that like a spinning coin it's rotating so fast it looks like a sphere or a globe? I s'pose that's a theory as valid as the next.

New Home

New Home wrote: »

So, what you're really saying, DB, is that Earth is really shaped like a coin, hence the expression "Money makes the world go round"? And that like a spinning coin it's rotating so fast itv ooks like a sphere or a globe? I s'pose that's a theory as valid as the next.

Heads or tails

New Home

Time will tell.

New Home

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a3w0057_460swp.webp

That's Mr Burns when he got lost in the woods after his treatment and lost his memory and Bart found him.

Jordan 199

New Home wrote: »

That's Mr Burns when he got lost in the woods after his treatment and lost his memory and Bart found him.

I bring you love!

Capt'n Midnight

s1ippy wrote: »

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=do+cows+have+best+friends

Victor

https://www.plantbasednews.org/culture/the-science-of-cow-friendship-cows-have-best-friends "cows do indeed have 'best friends'"

Yay! \o/

RobertFoster

I can imagine a heartwarming story of twin calves who befriend an outcast runt piglet. The trio go on an epic journey, overcome adversity, and eventually save the farm. The Adventures of Bacon & Double Cheese, in McDonalds cinemas now.

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I have a pet peeve of images posted in YLYL that are essentially a bunch of text.

This one takes the biscuit though. A photo of a print out of a bunch of text. Somebody is taking the piss and I like it.

What's your opinion when they don't embed the picture in their post, so you have to actively click on it, just to see a picture of text, which then turns out to be a joke you first heard about 20 years ago?

New Home

The link is there precisely because some people can't the the embedded images. In some instances people don't embed the pics either because they're too big, NSFW or they're using their phone where it's a pain.

Electric Nitwit

New Home wrote: »

The link is there precisely because some people can't the the embedded images. In some instances people don't embed the pics either because they're too big, NSFW or they're using their phone where it's a pain.

Ah yeah, it was only tongue in cheek as I remember reading PJ's comment before. Although a tiny, tiny piece of my soul dies when I click a link like that knowing I'll be disappointed and being right. It's like falling for clickbait!

But it really wasn't a serious complaint, it just made me think of the previous comments when I saw it

New Home

Pretend they're scratch-cards.

New Home

Mellor

Morta is the roman God of Death. (Mortal, Post mortem, mortuary).


Not sure about Pluto, or than Mickey Mouse's dog.

Mellor

Mellor wrote: »

Morta is the roman God of Death. (Mortal, Post mortem, mortuary).


Not sure about Pluto, or than Mickey Mouse's dog.

Pluto is Greek

"Hades, Greek Aïdes (“the Unseen”), also called Pluto or Pluton (“the Wealthy One” or “the Giver of Wealth”), in ancient Greek religion, god of the underworld."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hades-Greek-mythology

New Home

The "other" rule n. 1 is don't let the truth get in the way of a joke.

quickbeam

The lamp-post in the garden?

New Home

With the lightbulb it's been acting like a magnifying glass for the sun, burning a circle in the grass.

New Home

New Home wrote: »

With the lightbulb it's been acting like a magnifying glass for the sun, burning a circle in the grass.

I don't think it's a burn line, it looks like someone painted the line with chalk (football pitch type).

New Home

You might very well be right, but I'm not convinced, DB: it seems to match the sunbeam coming through the lightbulb.

Edit: Yep. https://www.kontraband.com/post/b654cb51b6f

New Home

New Home wrote: »

You might very well be right, but I'm not convinced, DB: it seems to match the sunbeam coming through the lightbulb.

Edit: Yep. https://www.kontraband.com/post/b654cb51b6f

Yeah, looks like it only does it for a short period of time, the width is due to each day the angle being slightly lower as we approach Autumn.

New Home

And probably not as bad on cloudy days.

Yester

When the shadow reaches the line it's time for a drink.

LilacNails

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