Shock horror- water disappears in river Fowey!

[DownWest]

True story: Bloke in bar in Algarve. Says to barista " The water goes up and down the beach, why?" "Its the tides" says barista.
Punter " Well, it didn't do that in Marbella"

 

[Jan Harber]

Many years ago a couple came up the sea wall steps by the quay at Paglesham. It was LW. They asked ‘where has all the water gone?’

 

[Close hauled]

nobody ever went broke underestimatingthtthe intelligence of the (American) public


H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)

 

[newtothis]

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the (American) public


H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)

<Pedant mode>Actual Baltimore Sun quote: "No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
Scott Adams' shorter version was: "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." </Pedant mode>

 

[ProDave]

True story: Bloke in bar in Algarve. Says to barista " The water goes up and down the beach, why?" "Its the tides" says barista.
Punter " Well, it didn't do that in Marbella"

American tourist on the Gold coast of Australia asked the tour guide "What ocean is this"?
"Pacific" replies the guide.
"It can't be, the Pacific is in America"

 

[wonkywinch]

>tangent alert< passengers on a flight into Heathrow as we approached from the east west and passed over Windsor Castle "I wonder why they built it right under the flight path".

Edited for compass reversal error

 

[AntarcticPilot]

That would be a huge exclusion zone. For some reason all NtoMs are all done in capitals, it must be a navy thing. It should be an 'm' for metre.

It's probably because they have to be disseminated by things like Navtex. That uses an encoding descended from 5-bit Baudot code, so it doesn't manage lowercase letters - or at least, it can, but it requires a special control code to be used, so it is avoided.

 

[Juan Twothree]

>tangent alert< passengers on a flight into Heathrow as we approached from the east and passed over Windsor Castle "I wonder why they built it right under the flight path".

If I was on an approach into Heathrow from the east, I'd be slightly alarmed to be passing over Windsor Castle, as it would mean we'd missed the airport.

 

[newtothis]

If I was on an approach into Heathrow from the east, I'd be slightly alarmed to be passing over Windsor Castle, as it would mean we'd missed the airport.

Meh, I once had a go around after the flare point due to another aircraft crossing the runway. A good pilot will give passengers a scenic tour of nearby attractions.

 

[wonkywinch]

Meh, I once had a go around after the flare point due to another aircraft crossing the runway. A good pilot will give passengers a scenic tour of nearby attractions.

I was also trying to find the 27R EFATO followed by immediate fuel jettison "would the lady like the fuel or the airplane" story.

 

[oldharry]

Swanage Lifeboat Cox reported many years agothey had gone to assist a small mobo withe engine trouble off Anvil point (where the tide can run 3kts on a spring. They found nothing wrong with the casualty except the foul tide was slowing them right down. The Cox explained about tide going out. The skipper asked how many times a year does that happen? I suspect education attempts stopped at that point....!

 

[jlavery]

I was also trying to find the 27R EFATO followed by immediate fuel jettison "would the lady like the fuel or the airplane" story.

Fred Drift alert.

My dad had an EFATO on the starboard engine on his TriStar. Jettisoned fuel, landed in rainstorm with strong crosswind (from right of course). Pleased with himself, asked his route checking captain in the jump seat if he'd passed. "No, you didn't complete a full sector ".

 

[ylop]

I wonder whether the journalist writing that doesn't know what s/he's taking about, or is trying to precipitate some more 'incidents' to report in the coming months. They've written 'Similar high tides are expected between September 30 and October 2'. Most readers would, having just been warned about the dangers of high tides, take from that that there weren't any high tides except on those dates.

I think if you read the full article (not easy because it’s full of distractions) then it’s quite clear it was exceptionally high spring tides, and highlights how weather can impact too. I think the author does understand although perhaps the average reader doesn’t understand that not all high tides are the same height.

 

[Hydrozoan]

Rhyl beach: Lifeboat rescues people cut off by tide

 

[LittleSister]

I think if you read the full article (not easy because it’s full of distractions) then it’s quite clear it was exceptionally high spring tides, and highlights how weather can impact too. I think the author does understand although perhaps the average reader doesn’t understand that not all high tides are the same height.

That's my point. It's quite clear to me, but wouldn't be to the average punter that the publication is aimed at. The journalist had one job - to make the story interesting and relevant to the average punter - and, by dint of the absence of a couple of crucial words in that particular sentence, failed at it.