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.

Dodecahedron? Have you any evidence for that? Stop spreading baseless rumours.

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If the planet is cuboid, where are the corners? And are we on the outside or the inside?

2 degrees?

i think you need to send them back

glad i didnt waste money

say hi to brian

I've talked to all me mates tonight and the general consensus is that the earth could quite likely be flat like a jacob's cracker, or a folded piece of paper, always with stuff happening on BOTH sides.
That's why you get jet-lag from plane travel, if you go around the crease too fast it's enough to make anyone feel tired and queasy.
If you go to Australia you will also feel this way, regardless of how far you have travelled.

A thought provoking read, but yes the dinobods lost me at feathers.

A poster upthreah hissed ;

'mumsnet should not allow inebriated people to post'

She is clearly unaware of the number one rule concering MN - post pissed.

All the self-righteous or just so so so painfully dull threads that take up, sadly, 90% of the sacred space here should be banned though.

' 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?'

Tis' the most inappropriate place to use the dear old MN put-down.... [rolling with laughter]

Oh dear, untwist and all that....

[still rolling..]

'Why are we limiting the options to flat or round?

I have reason to think it's a cuboid.'

I put forward tesseract.

[Curtsies.]

I think it's pear shaped

Just like me

In the book ‘’Sailing Alone Around the World” Joshua Slocum describes meeting the then President of South Africa (Paul Kruger) who was a ‘flat earther’. When Slocum challenged him by asking how he thought the journey was possible, Kruger replied that obviously he was sailing round the edge!

The philosopher de Selby believed that the earth was sausage-shaped.

I put forward tesseract. I'm trying to work out where all the countries would go.

I know the OP is Welsh but I keep reading this in the voice of Orla from 'Derry Girls'

Has anyone said that the earth is an oblate spheroid yet? I remember hearing that when I was tiny- I just loved the words.

No, no, Olddear, the OP sounds exactly like Rhod Gilbert.

The Tesseract Project - place your own neighbours.

😂

The world isn't round or a sphere. It's an obloid sphereoid. It's flatter at the poles.

Baby, you're a bit late to the party which has moved on to much more rewarding shapes....

The outer bit would need to be the equator, would the inner bit be the poles?

I'm with you, op.

Now imagine an infinite universe that is still expanding.

Mind blown.

If you read the read the descriptions in museums it almost always turns out that the thing you are looking at is not actually a true, complete version of itself. It’s mostly made of wax and plaster in 1932

Look at diplodocus. He used to stand like with his head up and tail down. Now he’s head down tail up. That’s in my liftetime he’s totally changed his (wax and plaster) stance

And I’m sure Welsh education is top notch these days but I was taught in the 80s that Captin Cook discovered America. I have the exercise book to prove it

Good morning. I’m still not convinced otherwise. Apart from gravity maybe.

I am so glad nobody, well apart from some odd solicitor's office, uses faxes. Now those did my head in...

Solicitors have fax machines so that other solicitors can serve documents on them (to save a call asking if they accept service by email!).