I really don’t think dinosaurs were properly real and I’m not sure that the earth is proper round

[SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed]

It makes my brain hurt so I’m just not going to try.

So when an aircraft flies LHR-LAX-AKL (as happens every day), and then is scheduled to fly back to LHR via HKG how does it do that if the world is flat?

So, we've established the world is flat, and on the other side we have all the lost socks and gunge and whatever (presumably all pushed there by cats) but the thing puzzling me now, is that flat things generally have a middle. So there must be a middle somewhere. A Middle Earth, if you will.

Where is it?

The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was curved and estimated its radius. People have been navigating by sun and stars for centuries. There have been thousands, possibly millions, of people over the years who know from their own experience that the Earth is round. You are calling all of them liars, and for what? Because you don't like what they say?

Did you mean to be so rude?

The world is just one great big Sims game, played on a super computer by massive, vastly superior beings. We've just become sentient.

Ever walked into a room and forgotten why? Someone just cancelled your next action, that's why.

Call yourselves educated? Tut tut!

But if the earth was flat, and gravity does exist, then the cat would just push the stuff over to the other side of the world.

Mate.

With regard to the ancient Greeks, they were mighty clever and all, but there is one major flaw - they were human and so running on the same lines of consciousness as we are now, with the same illusions in perception.

Ooooh i would move to Middle Earth in a heartbeat. rushes off to pack

Plus some of them did not believe in irrational numbers.

Ever wondered where your cat disappears to when they go missing for a couple of days? They go round the other side and push the stuff back again.

Aha! The great MN collective has discovered their secret.

Sshhhh... we'd better not let them know that we know... no wonder the Egyptians worshipped them

Now would Brian, be the one from Hull?

Because I don't believe in the concept of Heaven & Hull.

Middle Earth is where all the Hobbits are. Duh.

Its supposed to be somewhere around Malvern isn't it? Which probably makes Canada Mordor. (Morrrrrrdorrrrrr with nine rs to pronounce it properly.)

I've been to Malvern. It has a Waitrose. I don't think Middle Earth would have a Waitrose.

You’ve been ‘avin mushrooms on your hotdogs ‘aven’t you?! Or been on fatty’s glue again.

Mordor is what Taggart used to say.

A friend of mine was in Taggart. She had to sit on a bar stool and not look at the camera.

Dinosaurs aren't real, Steven Spielberg set the whole thing up as a guerrilla marketing campaign for Jurassic Park. Time travel is real though, which is how Spielberg got all those fake dinosaur bones to be scientifically dated as being millions of years old.

Uh-oh, obvious troll is obvious!

nothing is 'properly real' we are all living in the matrix. When someone touches your pizza after smoking weed you CAN get high.

I lived in Hull for a while. And while I am sure it is not heaven ( there was a club called heaven and hell) there were definitely lots of Brian yoni massage type characters.

Have a mushroom, TheJoyOfSox

Any more votes for Hull? It is rapidly becoming the prime candidate for Middle Earth as far as I can see. Either there or Biggleswade.

Why are we limiting the options to flat or round?

I have reason to think it's a cuboid.

That's how we know the moon landings were fake. They said the Earth looked round from there. Obvious mistake.