yet another ignorant american suing a game developer

sigh, it depresses me how american parent attempt to trade thier kids death for money

The 21-year-old Hudson man was addicted to EverQuest, says his mother, Elizabeth Woolley of Osceola. He sacrificed everything so he could play for hours, ignoring his family, quitting his job and losing himself in a 3-D virtual world where more than 400,000 people worldwide adventure in a never-ending fantasy.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/State/mar02/31536.asp

i swear i\'d move to canada tomorrow if it wasnt for the silly accent

[Bobs_Hardware]

come down here to Australia mm, ill put you up for free

*plans to leave mm rot in the gutter*



but on topic.. the parents would probably be better off blaming this guys complete stupidity

nah, i couldnt come to oz

the toilets flush backwards, i would get confused

plus, i\'d be tempted to send clyde after soulgrind

lol...what a idiot

Originally posted by mm
nah, i couldnt come to oz

the toilets flush backwards, i would get confused

plus, i\'d be tempted to send clyde after soulgrind

I spent an hour in lecture listening to this guy explaining that toilets DON\'T flush "backwards."  The Centrifugal force has no play on forces with small volume.  Make your toilet about 10 million times bigger, and yeah, it would flush "backwards."

[Bobs_Hardware]

then how come if i fill up a sink with water, it runs in the opposite direction to guys all the way up there??

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
then how come if i fill up a sink with water, it runs in the opposite direction to guys all the way up there??

It\'s the design of the sink, nothing to do with different hemispheres.  When I use my sink, it doesn\'t swirl at all. Toilets are designed to shooot water in at an angle, so as to clean the bowl while you flush.

[Bobs_Hardware]

thats bull****

i mean, you plug the hole, you fill it up, then you let it drain

it runs the opposite direction to you guys (clockwise i think)

your telling me EVERY toilet, sink or ANY other aparatus such as.. a cup with a hole in it, are designed so that they flow clockwise??  B-S

umm Bob.. trog... do you guys relize how incredibly silly this argument you 2 are ahving is?

[Bobs_Hardware]

no dammit!  he is WRONG!

its not just some myth, it all DOES flow backwards, no matter the size

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
thats bull****

i mean, you plug the hole, you fill it up, then you let it drain

it runs the opposite direction to you guys (clockwise i think)

your telling me EVERY toilet, sink or ANY other aparatus such as.. a cup with a hole in it, are designed so that they flow clockwise??  B-S

I never said everything flows clockwise.  

In the northern hemisphere:

stuff flows clockwise OR counter-clockwise

In the Southern Hemisphere:

stuff flows clockwise OR counter-clockwise

[Bobs_Hardware]

you go find me one untainted sink that flows clockwise over there in the US and then get back to me..

you are dead wrong on this one trog    the design of the sink only comes into play if it was, say.. speciifically designed to flow in a particular direction, if they are made just for regular sink activities (if anyone has ever listened to Henry Rollin\'s stand up, insert masturbation joke here) then they all flow in one direction up there, and the other direction down here..

Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
you go find me one untainted sink that flows clockwise over there in the US and then get back to me..

you are dead wrong on this one trog    the design of the sink only comes into play if it was, say.. speciifically designed to flow in a particular direction, if they are made just for regular sink activities (if anyone has ever listened to Henry Rollin\'s stand up, insert masturbation joke here) then they all flow in one direction up there, and the other direction down here..

No dude, I\'m right.  Problem is the "Myth of the Coriolus" is son ingrained in everyone that it\'s hard to let go.  Chew on this while I go get some numbers. . .   (Make sure to click the link)

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PudKlamp: Basically, although the coriolis effect is noticeable in such large scale patterns as the way that winds in hurricanes/cyclones rotate (clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Northern), it is never going to be noticeable in a small experiment with a kitchen sink.
PudKlamp: http://www.jgeorge.com/coriolis.html
PudKlamp: am I?
BushMeister70: Mmm..
BushMeister70: It turns out that even a toilet a mile wide might still be too tiny to exhibit Coriolan tendencies -- the water simply isn\'t hovering over enough latitudes to feel The Force. It takes a mass of air many miles in diameter to demonstrate the infamous toilet twirl, and even then, Coriolis is often foiled by friction with the ground and barometric high jinks.
So while all of this spinning and shoving can help explain prevailing winds and other large-scale phenomena, the twirl in your toilet is determined by jets of water filling the bowl, the shape of the drain, or, for those who cannot let this myth go -- and I\'ve encountered many of them -- the Coriolis Fairy.

PudKlamp: Your first respondent was right: the Coriolis effect governs it, and it is a myth. The Coriolis effect can govern the swirling of fluid flows, and where it does, the swirling is opposite in opposite hemispheres. However, it is only appreciable on a very large scale. Hurricanes obey it: tornadoes, which are much smallers, do not, and neither do kitchen sinks, which are much smaller still.

[Bobs_Hardware]

well, ill be damned  

i still dont fully believe it tho    while it makes sense that the coriolos effect (i forgot what it was called before) wouldnt work on smaller volumes, i dont see why the actual sink experiment, of filling it up, so that there is no water jet propulsion, and then letting it drain will invariably work to my sink being clockwise, northern hemisphere being counter-clockwise..

too funny

i got you guys to argue about which direction the waters flows when you flush a toilet