Yeah but.. Which way do the toilets flush?
So, Brian and I were laying in bed last night, and enjoying a tub of Ben and Jerry's (Half Baked), when Bri made a coment about taste buds being on your tongue. He said that he was taught that differing parts of the tongue taste differant things. I told him that was a myth, and that the taste buds are actually at the back of your throat. Well, I was wrong. I'm stunned. Not that I was wrong (well, ok maybe) but that I was taught wrong in school. I was however right aobut the differing things being tasted on differant parts of the tongue. The tongue map myth was based on a mistranslation of a German paper that was written in 1901 by a Harvard psychologist. Though there are small differences in sensation, which can be measured with highly specific instruments, all taste buds can respond to all types of taste.
So, I guess that we were both taught wrong.
This conversation went on to how we're taught all sorts of things in school that are just plain not corect. Brian then said "Like toilets in the southern hemisphere flushing in the oposite direction" WHAT!? You meen they don't??? He then went on to tell me why they don't and blah blah blah, and I was getting really pissed. I didn't show that I was pissed, I just looked at the baby and smiled while he carried on about something he was obviously wrong about... Because, it would be really childish and inmature to be pissed about the direction of the toilets flushing in the differant hemispheres, right? *eye shift*
Later, when he wasn't looking, I looked this up on Snopes. When he walked out by the computer, I hid that I was searching for this, and tried to hide the fact that I was even more pissed. Because it would be really childish and inmature to be pissed about finding out that you pissed about something that you were wrong about in the first place, right?
Seems that snopes is wrong too.
My dad is the one that told me aobut the backwards flushing toilets in the Southern Hemishphere, and when I went to Australia, I tested this out for myself!
Snopes writes: "The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks. We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday."
Well, fuck you too.
I guess i'm one of those that is enamored by this snippet of misinformation. I'm not giving up on my belief in misinformation either. Maybe I will at a later date, but for now.. I'm hanging onto this one! Brian can have his tastebuds on his tongue if he wants, but damnit.. my shit is flushing clockwise here, and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere!
So, I guess that we were both taught wrong.
This conversation went on to how we're taught all sorts of things in school that are just plain not corect. Brian then said "Like toilets in the southern hemisphere flushing in the oposite direction" WHAT!? You meen they don't??? He then went on to tell me why they don't and blah blah blah, and I was getting really pissed. I didn't show that I was pissed, I just looked at the baby and smiled while he carried on about something he was obviously wrong about... Because, it would be really childish and inmature to be pissed about the direction of the toilets flushing in the differant hemispheres, right? *eye shift*
Later, when he wasn't looking, I looked this up on Snopes. When he walked out by the computer, I hid that I was searching for this, and tried to hide the fact that I was even more pissed. Because it would be really childish and inmature to be pissed about finding out that you pissed about something that you were wrong about in the first place, right?
Seems that snopes is wrong too.
My dad is the one that told me aobut the backwards flushing toilets in the Southern Hemishphere, and when I went to Australia, I tested this out for myself!
Snopes writes: "The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks. We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday."
Well, fuck you too.
I guess i'm one of those that is enamored by this snippet of misinformation. I'm not giving up on my belief in misinformation either. Maybe I will at a later date, but for now.. I'm hanging onto this one! Brian can have his tastebuds on his tongue if he wants, but damnit.. my shit is flushing clockwise here, and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere!