My navigation skills are perfect. Walk ten minutes in the opposite direction to the one I want, then turn round and walk ten minutes longer in the direction I just came from, and I'm exactly where I was supposed to be.

I never had to do it that way when I lived the other side of the equator though. No.

Sounds as if your internal compass needs to be reset.

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Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

BBC - The unpleasant reason men navigate better than women

Hmm... Prof Hugo Spiers draws very strange conclusions of the "studie":)
He told the BBC: "We don't think the effects we see are innate.
"So countries where there is high equality between men and women, the difference between men and women is very small on our spatial navigation test".
And at the same time using a computer game that indicate that Denmark, Finland and Norway have the world's best navigational skills - possibly down to their "Viking blood":)
Why is not Sweden included that had Vikings but Finland that didn't have any Finn Vikings?
And the person with the most very low skill in navigating that I have met is my GF who is a Finn coming from a country with very high equality between men and women.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/2018/08/navigation-skills---sea-hero-quest/
It's ridiculous. Navigation skills are not gender or genetic related.
It's a skill you learn by experience.

It's a skill you learn by experience.

If that is so, why was my youngest, when he was 11, a better map reader than his mother.

It's a skill you learn by experience.

If that is so, why was my youngest, when he was 11, a better map reader than his mother.

Well there are always exeptions to the rule.
Like my GF from Finland:)

My other half is an exception too. He's quite possibly one of the worst people, other than my mother, that has ever sat beside me whilst I'm driving, allegedly navigating for me. But on foot in London... as long as I just follow him, I never get lost or go the wrong way. But I'm actually pretty good with maps, once I've got myself orienteered. My daughter on the other hand, looks on them as objects with a deliberate penchant for placing her; and where she is; and where she wants to be... in a perpetually upside down position, and gets kind of ... riled as a result. Turning one upside down for her doesn't appease her in the slightest :)

@rob

Sounds as if your internal compass needs to be reset.

I've wondered that. It's quite possible as a child wandering about in the lovely back of beyond in a place where horizons were off at a distance, not towering slabs of concrete measurable in not-enough-inches from a pertinent ear, I imprinted on the position of the sun being somewhere entirely different, relatively speaking, from where I am now. That's if it's shown up at all that day.

I'm not sure how to fix that. A lot of thinking will eventually get me where I need to be though, but it's not good for me. I can ... sense that... I really really can.

@rob

Sounds as if your internal compass needs to be reset.

I've wondered that. It's quite possible as a child wandering about in the lovely back of beyond in a place where horizons were off at a distance, not towering slabs of concrete measurable in not-enough-inches from a pertinent ear, I imprinted on the position of the sun being somewhere entirely different, relatively speaking, from where I am now. That's if it's shown up at all that day.

Maybe you're just evolving in advance ready for the next reversal of the geo-magnetic poles - then you'll be leading the way.

@annie, at noon is your shadow to the north or south of you? Hence your problem with direction.

My first job was making Trip-Tik's at AAA, and we were trained to mark the maps for people upside down. (the maps, not the people) The reason was we sat on one side of a desk, and the AAA member on the other, and we highlighted the directions on the maps from the member's perspective.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

@annie, at noon is your shadow to the north or south of you?

I just typed south.

It glided out without a single thought necessary because it's north.

Hence your problem with direction.

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*fetid...

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Thanks.

Perhaps I should instead be focussing on moss and fungal/algae type signs? It'll look a bit odd, circling trees but probably no more than about-turning does, although... it would be a shame to undermine my future leadership prospects.

;)

we were trained to mark the maps for people upside down. (the maps, not the people)

That got less interesting with the clarification, but only marginally so :)

a member of my family has - I think, the norovirus :( poor thing is feeling very very poorly :( it's apparently doing the rounds at the moment :/

To balance out my previous on map reading skills, I now present Guardian - Women equal to men science fact book. - Inferior by Angela Saini[/u]

Winter in Canberra is a pretty miserable time of the year. Except for this weekend and the Lego BrickExpo.

As a not-for-profit event all proceeds will assist our major charity PaTCH to purchase much needed medical equipment for Paediatrics at theCanberra Hospital.

If you've ever wanted to tick a trip to Legoland off your bucket list, see the Trojan horse, or tour the Death Star, then look no further than the annual Brick Expo in Canberra.
The charity event unites countless weird, wild and wonderful creations under one roof.

The Krog family's painstakingly crafted Legoland replica took out the Exhibitor's Choice award.
It took over six months to build but could be considered decades in the making.
"It's essentially a recreation of the theme park in Billund in Denmark, which is having its 50th birthday this year," Jacob Krog said.

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Grant
Darwin NT

"It's essentially a recreation of the theme park in Billund in Denmark, which is having its 50th birthday this year," Jacob Krog said.

I visited Legoland in Billund, Denmark 49 years ago:)
The same year when the first man landed on the moon.

@WK I'll have to read that - so I can get even more opinionated ;) Thanks for the link. Interesting...

@Lego stuff
Does the visitor experience include having to pick your way through a floor strewn with the bricks...? Preferably bare foot? Because it's not lego until you've done that at least once in your adult life ;)

@Lego stuff
Does the visitor experience include having to pick your way through a floor strewn with the bricks...? Preferably bare foot? Because it's not lego until you've done that at least once in your adult life ;)

My GF had problem with her feet and bought some shoes for therapeutical reasons that had an inner sole that looked like the top of lego bricks.
Like this but on the inner sole
Well she didn't use them a lot...

@Lego stuff
Does the visitor experience include having to pick your way through a floor strewn with the bricks...? Preferably bare foot? Because it's not lego until you've done that at least once in your adult life ;)

My GF had problem with her feet and bought some shoes for therapeutical reasons that had an inner sole that looked like the top of lego bricks.
Like this but on the inner sole
Well she didn't use them a lot...

Awwww :)) I hope she's doing better than she was awhile back.

Those shoes would unnerve me a little if I was wearing them, I think. I find it distracting enough walking with shoes a lot less bright on my feet. It's the way they kind of appear in view when you glance down at the ground that takes me by surprise.

If you step on a Lego in those shoes will they connect? And if you step on enough Legos can you make platform shoes?

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I'm in Walmart looking at the jello shelf and found this. I was not thinking it was this easy to make Jell-O shots.

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This is scary. I've used this stuff in the past:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/health/monsanto-johnson-trial-verdict/index.html

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

This is scary. I've used this stuff in the past:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/health/monsanto-johnson-trial-verdict/index.html

That stuff has been a scourge pretty much everywhere it's been promoted for use in Africa. It's also been the ruin of many farmers in India. So much so it's being used to commit suicide with there :( That's without even looking at cancer risks.