Liars or Trolls? Wrong or deliberately wrong...

[Broch]

One of the worst is:
'Moss grows on the Northern side of a tree'

 

[Chris]

One of the worst is:
'Moss grows on the Northern side of a tree'

My understanding of this is that it is more likely to grow there in abundance, so the mossiest side of a tree in this hemisphere is usually the northern side of it?

 

[Broch]

The key word there is 'usually'. I can show you two trees, 20m apart, with moss on opposite sides. A rule that can be 50% wrong, and that could end up with potential loss of life, should be ignored IMO.
(but, just trolling )

 

[Chris]

The key word there is 'usually'. I can show you two trees, 20m apart, with moss on opposite sides. A rule that can be 50% wrong, and that could end up with potential loss of life, should be ignored IMO.
(but, just trolling )

Ahh, yes I suppose that could lead to some unfortunate navigational mishaps.

The guaranteed way of identifying the northern side of a tree, of course, is to look for the side with the flat cap and whippets.

 

[Tengu]

Where does the Scottish tree come into it?

(Honestly, if you are at the stage of looking at moss, you are probably not hot at navigating to begin with)

 

[Chris]

Where does the Scottish tree come into it?

You can identify those by the man in the kilt throwing it at you.

 

[HillBill]

Of course it is - that’s what science does. We learn and as a result of learning we go back and review our explanations. Classical thinkers (may have) thought the Earth was flat despite the fact that their observations could have suggested otherwise. They weren’t fools or subversives. They worked within their learning and used a local terminology to describe their world.

If you click on the link in #2 you will find a number of viable hypotheses and conjectures.

I read your heading as some sort of condemnation of the individual who posted the illustration and it confused me. If your only concern is the use of the term centuries instead of megaanna then the heading seems a bit extreme. That’s all.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.

The heading just asks if people are wrong, or being deliberately wrong for the sake of engagement/clicks etc. Or if they are indeed lying or trolling. I also asked in the OP for folk to put forth examples of this so we can have a laugh.

My apologies if that wasn't clear.

 

[HillBill]

The Classical Thinkers knew the earth was round and had measured it.

The people who built the pyramids knew the circumference and spherical nature of the earth and the earths precession. The math are built into the pyramid itself.

 

[HillBill]

Sorry @HillBill you thread is being pulled in all sorts of directions and I’m not helping!

I hope it is. Lets everyone have a say

 

[HillBill]

Everyone knows it is disc shaped, sitting on the back of elephants, standing on a giant turtle that swims through space! It's extensively documented in ancient texts so must be so. Not liars, trolls, or wrong ...

I thought it was just turtles, all the way down....

 

[HillBill]

This was the answer I was expecting.

Ok, if using a tampon is effective in your view why isn't it taught?

Yorkie by Mark Hill, on Flickr

 

[HillBill]

One of the worst is:
'Moss grows on the Northern side of a tree'

Our house is south facing, a couple of degrees off, but close enough, and we have moss growing on the pavement, that never sees shade. And also have moss growing on the north face of the shed/garage, which never sees direct sunlight. Ok, there is more on the north faces but still some on the south facing

 

[HillBill]

Ahh, yes I suppose that could lead to some unfortunate navigational mishaps.

The guaranteed way of identifying the northern side of a tree, of course, is to look for the side with the flat cap and whippets.

I can do the flat caps, but its springers rather than whippets lol

 

[demographic]

At the start of this thread I was baffled, we're well into it and I'm still baffled.
However, as those motivational pictures and sayings have more or less been mentioned I feel duty bound to point people in the direction of Demotivational posters.
My daughter used to get me the demotivational/despair calenders years ago. Sort of an antidote to trite posters hanging up in middle management offices everywhere.
Anyway, knock yersell out.
Demotivational.

 

[Keith_Beef]

These have been going around for a long, long time.

One very similar to this (but portrait format and different typography) was on the wall of the upper hall of my junior school, where I was from 1976 to 1979.

 

[demographic]

The guaranteed way of identifying the northern side of a tree, of course, is to look for the side with the flat cap and whippets.

Round here its different, the southern sides of the tree has gloves and umbrellas.

 

[Kadushu]

Going back to the OP (I think?) in the last few months Instagram has become awash with videos, often about rescuing animals, which tell a completely fictional story by stitching together unrelated videos. For example it'll show an emaciated kitten being rescued which then grows into a lynx and lives with its rescuer in adulthood. But the observant will notice it starts out as a domestic tabby kitten being rescued by a tattooed woman and ends up being a lynx living with a completely different woman, with other iterations along the way. I've seen other topics like restoring an old engine that starts as a straight 4 and ends up as a V8. Superficially it can be quite convincing, especially since the video clips are real, it's just that as a whole it's a work of fiction. Throw in some increasingly accessible AI tools and it'll be ever harder to work out what's real.

 

[demographic]

Going back to the OP (I think?) in the last few months Instagram has become awash with videos, often about rescuing animals, which tell a completely fictional story by stitching together unrelated videos. For example it'll show an emaciated kitten being rescued which then grows into a lynx and lives with its rescuer in adulthood. But the observant will notice it starts out as a domestic tabby kitten being rescued by a tattooed woman and ends up being a lynx living with a completely different woman, with other iterations along the way. I've seen other topics like restoring an old engine that starts as a straight 4 and ends up as a V8. Superficially it can be quite convincing, especially since the video clips are real, it's just that as a whole it's a work of fiction. Throw in some increasingly accessible AI tools and it'll be ever harder to work out what's real.

Yeah, lots of those on Youtube. Looks like Stevie Wonder stitched the vids together and a Mills& Boon writer created a heartwarming story to get people clicking on them.

 

[Pattree]

…….. but are they trolls or liars? This isn’t something that I come across but it sounds more like some weird sort of art form - a sort of extended version of those cat photographs.

 

[gra_farmer]

YouTube click bait is always misleading, anyway here is a funny



And for those scientists...



And a little bit of honesty that made me smile