I'm going to start telling chicks at pubs this is what I do at my city's local zoo but I'm not going to exaggerate the flight numbers like this bloke cause I don't want to sound like a workaholic and then later disappoint her.
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I'm going to try this one too in my tiny village in the middle of nowhere. I'm straight up just going to claim we have a zoo.
Flightless birds dreaming of bigger things...
Everyone knows what the penguins did. We can not allow them to fly ever again. We will not repeat the sins of the past. This is not only there punishment but our salvation.
Have you seen how much they shit? It’d be like hourly WW2 bombing campaigns if they could fly.
Zoo confirmed that no such position exists. I'm fun at parties.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/penguins-fall-over-airplanes/
Also, according to QI, apparently the penguins falling over to watch planes is a myth too.
Penguins slide around on the bellies, I would assume they can get up on their own
It is also basic logic that those numbers don't add up. 24/2000 = 43 seconds. Assuming 12 hours of daylight it is down to about 20 seconds. There is not a lot you can do in 20 seconds. And certainly not pick up 32 penguins every 20 seconds for 12 hours straight.
Challenge accepted.
I remember this being a Bloom County joke.
Last time I was at a zoo was Milwaukee. The penguin house was the most foul smelling thing I’d ever inhaled, outside of human gangrene.
I feel bad for that kid. Whatever he’s being paid, it’s not enough.
Forever ago I had The Sims 2 or 3 or some shit and there were mods you could download.
One person made a pet penguin. And it would just shit everywhere and the Sims would be mad because everything was always dirty.
That convinced me that penguins are probably not the best pets.
Is it worse than pig farms? You can smell them miles away depending on the wind direction, and being inside the building with stalls of piglets still haunts me lol.
HAH!! Like Edinburgh has 2,000 flights a day!
About Edinburgh Airport Flights to Edinburgh come into Edinburgh Airport, which is the busiest airport in Scotland and the 6th busiest in the UK, with 11.13 million passengers passing through in 2015 (that’s an average of 30,495 air passengers a day). The airport hosts over 313 flights a day, with 32 airlines serving 173 routes to 122 destinations. No matter where you are in the world, flying to Edinburgh has never been so easy.
Is 2000 over 313?
Well technically, they have to take off and land, which makes it 626
Yes but also technically an airplane is different flight number when it comes to the airport and when it leaves. These are 2 distinct flights.
So by saying that the airport hosts 313 flights it most probably accounts both directions. Unless they mean it hosts 313 outgoing flights
How could it be an uneven number then?
One arrived yesterday or one leaves tomorrow.
A plane starts the day at the airport, does an even number of flights back and forth, and then one last flight and ends it at another airport. Repeat the next day but in reverse.
But it is the average number, not the number at exactly that one day.
The way I described it, there would be an odd number of flights every day, so the average will also be odd.
Imagine there was only one flight. Day 1 it leaves Edinburgh and lands at Heathrow. Day 2 it leaves Heathrow and lands back in Edinburgh. Then repeat again. There is exactly one flight every day, so the average is odd.
Every plane lands and starts, that are 2 fights. Any daily etc. irregularities cancel out over a year. What could still happen is something like a plane landing on 31.12. but not taking off before it is 01.01. Considering that... alright, it does not need to be an even number. And those are exact numbers, not averages.
Mr Proppers Penguins
Why do people need to make this shit up? There’s no money in it. And no one cares who created it, so there’s no 15 minute of fame.
Because there's plenty of dumbfucks that will think you're telling the truth.
Source this thread.
he's at a bar, saying silly stuff. what is the issue lol
There is no he. It’s a made up story.
yeah ik lol
He must be IT guy there