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one time my sister and i were walking up the stairs and heard a bunch of banging noises coming from an apartment, and she turned to me and said "aborted neighbor". and i was just like. i'm glad we're the same kind of terminally online and i know exactly what you are referencing because otherwise this would sound insane.
this is what the refrance
umm you should probably delete that post you reblogged :/ op is clearly count olaf
uh op isn’t count olaf their bio clearly says their name is falo tnuoc 🙄 and their about says they have a rare mental condition where they’re afraid to show their ankles and the top third of their face. please be respectful.
Does the rest of the world know about tides in Britain. In fact do British people know about tides in the rest of the world. The average tidal range in the British isles is like 5 metres. The average range in the USA is like 1. The highest is I think the Severn estuary which hits 15 metres?? The Mediterranean is like 30cm. Why is this island doing this to us (rhetorical don’t make me get into wavelengths)??? The tide in Morecombe Bay has a top speed of 10mph or 30mph in the surge channels (it kills people). Do people know about this?? I just assumed the whole world was like this you mean the rest of you don’t get drilled on looking up the tide times before you go to the beach???
Oh interesting! I (Aus) do pay attention to tide times because the shoreline in my hometown is a lot of shallow flat that isn’t swimmable at low tide.
At the surf beaches I grew up near you do keep some awareness of the tide (particularly at what point the turn from high tide is obviously what’s causing the undertow), but it’s not a hazard in itself- it’s the interaction between tide, wind and seasonal factors creating rips that you worry about. Unless you’re a surfer, the lifeguard designated swimming area will have marked out a safe spot.
I just checked, the biggest tidal difference at my favourite beach is 2m.
Huh.
And then there's the Bay of Fundy, 16 meters average tide
My favourite (and nearest) beach - Buck Beck beach near Cleethorpes, has a horizontal tidal range of 1.5 miles.
(I love going out there at low tide because the constantly shifting sands throw up old wrecks from the Humber Estuary, the occasional car, and one time a downed WW2 plane
The vertical tidal range is around 6 meters, but when the tide comes in its fast and you can easily get trapped on one of the many sandbanks. In the spring we get high tides of around 7-8 meters
Which is why there's no buildings or paved roads within a couple of miles of the beach
... omg i thought everywhere was like this
Looked it up and found this map of tidal range…and yeah, wow, Britain is an outlier. (FYI, 30 cm approx equals 1 ft.) There are other countries with big tides in certain locations (France and Spain have both extremes with very small tides on the Mediterranean and big ones on the Bay of Biscay), but not really others where most of the country’s coastline has them.
And the Mediterranean and Caribbean are like big salty lakes tide-wise.
raising my son on a strict media diet of Portal, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Mythbusters in an attempt to resurrect the extinct species Pre-Gamergate Smug Nerd Boy
update: daughter
i don’t ever think I’ve seen someone misunderstand the intent of the phrase ‘preaching to the choir’ that badly
how do I tell people "you do, actually, for pragmatic reasons, need to have tact when discussing serious issues" without being stabbed repeatedly for tone policing
I should get to turn this joke I made for a group chat into a 48 page one-shot.
People I think should be in jail* as a chronic Zillow user:
*This is a hyperbolic turn of phrase, I disagree with the carceral punishment system, especially in the United States. I don’t actually believe in incarcerating people who poorly remodel and flip houses, even if they are contributing to the current housing crisis and destroying architectural and aesthetic value.
I will add to this list when I remember things that piss me off.
