Are there too many "stooshies" around just now ?

[Fat Charlie]

yoyoyoda- I spent a year where in the summer it didn't get down to 40c until about midnight, and it was already up past that at around 8:00 am. Doing it without all that gear on would be a cakewalk, but that wrong way draining thing would just weird me out. No deal.

[Cobb]

yoyoyoda, trololololol.. If I came to your country I would want to join the sea shepherds and let the experts navigate the seas.

[jeff88]

OK guys. I've started my new job and have been really busy. I haven't been on EM very much because of this.

So I come back and I'm like WTH happened, everybody is quibbling! First we've got this idea stealing issue, of which I'm still confused what happened, then people stealing gas money, then debates that were buried rise up again!

WTF, I'm gone for like a week and then it all goes down hill!!!

[Cobb]

When the cat is away the mice will play.

Originally Posted by jeff88

WTF, I'm gone for like a week and then it all goes down hill!!!

[Mista Bone]

Originally Posted by Cobb

Yeah, but your water drains clock wise.

the spin of water draining is dictated by design, not the earth.

Two toilets, same maker from late 60's, same out, the water spins in opposite directions.

If you lived on the equator, would water not spin at all????

[doviatt]

Originally Posted by Mista Bone

the spin of water draining is dictated by design, not the earth.

Two toilets, same maker from late 60's, same out, the water spins in opposite directions.

If you lived on the equator, would water not spin at all????

The direction can be influenced by design but not fully dictated by.... The hemispheres do dictate the direction. A passive drain in a tub has no influence and they are opposite for north and south.
You can spin the water the opposite way in a passive basin drain. It will always stop and turn the way it wants to after it reaches equilibrium.

[Mista Bone]

Understand the size of a body of water that is needed to have the influence, it isn't gonna happen with a normal drain.

[doviatt]

I learned this as an inquisative kid in the tub and the sink. Then science taught me why this happens.
I could be wrong. Did someone change the laws of physics and not tell me?

Coriolis effect


Edit:
I stand corrected.
According to wikipedia this effect can not be proven to be true at the scale we are talking.
Thanks for making me look this up.

[Cobb]

Ive heard both and seen both. I googled it before posting, but said what the HAY.

I was a fan of whale wars and the episode where the captain of the addy gill that was sunk was taken prison on one of the Japanese ships. He said he was held in a bathroom and he would run water in the sink to watch what direction it rotated as it drained to tell when they reached the equator and was getting closer to Japan.

[KrautBurner]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

I've been more an observer of late rather than a poster - hooray maybe quite a few tap - good for you.

Just a quick browsing of various forums seems to reveal a worrying trend - there are quite a few that seem to descend into what the locals near me in Scotland call "a bit of a stooshie" - an argument, a tiff, a disagreement, a blazing row - or also what Rugby players (Rugby - think American "Football" but without the wuss like padding ) would call a "ruck".

Now I'm not known to avoid one myself - at least I am self-aware - but I try to "play the ball and not the man" but I'm wondering if there is something in the water just now causing all these disputes ?

And more productively can we do something to avoid them ?

Or maybe its just me sampling at a bad time.

this is the INTERWEBZ after all

there is no better source of misinformation known to man

and no better place to argue with people you will never meet