The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

[Syno]

I'm looking for discussion boards involving genuine people with incurable diseases that have potential to be terminal. Reddit boards will also work. I have no idea where to start to find something like this. Any help is appreciated!

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Why do we use the term "blue water navy"?. What's the alternative?

 

[Borachio]

That's deep sea vessels as opposed to inshore/territorial operations.

Coastal= brown-water navy.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

That's deep sea vessels as opposed to inshore/territorial operations.

Oh I'm aware of the distinction, just the term seems a bit lame since I'd say water is blue regardless of it being at sea or inshore or close to home.

 

[Borachio]

Something to do with the amount of silt found in the water then?

 

[Camikaze]

I've heard the distinction here as between blue and white water, which seems to make more sense. Coastal water is kinda white (waves and the wash), and it gets bluer further out when the continental shelf drops off. Blue and brown doesn't make as much sense to me, as I don't really envisage coastal water as brown. Though I completely understand why a Briton would envisage coastal water as brown (it wouldn't require much envisaging). Been to Maldon or Torquay recently, Borachio?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I've heard the distinction here as between blue and white water, which seems to make more sense. Coastal water is kinda white (waves and the wash), and it gets bluer further out when the continental shelf drops off. Blue and brown doesn't make as much sense to me, as I don't really envisage coastal water as brown. Though I completely understand why a Briton would envisage coastal water as brown (it wouldn't require much envisaging). Been to Maldon or Torquay recently, Borachio?

Yeah the whitewater thing makes sense to me. And see Borachio? It's not just me having a crack at your beaches, food etc. It's ingrained culturally. I love the Brits but I'm mere flesh and blood. I'll add Blackpool to this list of gems as well.

 

[Borachio]

Actually, I live not far from Maldon. But rarely go there, especially not to examine the sea. I assure you I live within 5 minutes walk of a very brown sea.

Clear inland waters are comparatively rare, I believe. Estuaries usually disgorge a fair amount of silt, but a lot depends on rainfall patterns as well.

And for naval matters and jargon, well, Britain did rule the waves for a brief period. Not that that should be described as a good thing, ofc.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Clear inland waters are comparatively rare, I believe. Estuaries usually disgorge a fair amount of silt, but a lot depends on rainfall patterns as well.

Link to video.

 

[Syno]

I heard a Dutch song a week ago that has been stuck in my head but I can't seem to remember any of the lyrics reliably. What I do remember is that the two people singing (a man and a woman) looked rather ridiculous, kept repeating a woman's name, and, well, it was Dutch.

That's about all I remember. The video looked new, so I don't think it's an old song. Any help?

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

:chuckle: Ah! My friend! Thinkst not that thou art safe from stereotyping! Give me a moment and I'll sort out something specially for you.

But, seriously, it does indeed rain in Yorkshire. But less than in Lancashire, which in turn has lower rainfall than Wales, in turn much lower than Cumbria - where it rains mostly all the the damn time. Giving it ... badaboom! ... the Lake District. 100 inches a year, I hear.

But, WHERE I LIVE happens to have the lowest rainfall in the UK ~24 inches. A figure, incidentally, making it marginal for agriculture in a temperate zone, without artificial irrigation.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What is sociology?

Someone I know took a college course in sociology years ago, but left only after a few months. He says it's all just wrong and nonsense, and he to this day uses it as an example of why everything that ends with -ology is bad.

 

[Borachio]

The study of human society. As much rubbish, or not, as anything else.

 

[Syno]

Here

TL;DR - Study of human social behaviour.

There's many different fields of it, though. Take a look at this. Just one of many social concepts listed under sociology.

 

[Borachio]

I thought that was social psychology? Hmmm. Never mind.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Why is everything about it wrong?

 

[Borachio]

I don't think it is necessarily. But it's quite hard to validate any theories or findings. In the same way with the other ologies, of psychology and so forth.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The one he compares it to is scientology.

 

[Borachio]

Right. OK. Then I suggest three months wasn't long enough?

Sociology is often taught as part of an economics degree.

 

[Syno]

The one he compares it to is scientology.

I don't even.

They're not even related.