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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 year ago

Flightless birds dreaming of bigger things...

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Have you seen how much they shit? It’d be like hourly WW2 bombing campaigns if they could fly.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of this sad video that I love.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Man I haven’t seen that in years

[-] Fraeco@lemm.ee 64 points 1 year ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Also, according to QI, apparently the penguins falling over to watch planes is a myth too.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Penguins slide around on the bellies, I would assume they can get up on their own

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Challenge accepted.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I remember this being a Bloom County joke.

[-] whitepawn@reddthat.com 28 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

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.

Peacocks are also horrible disgusting birds.

[-] SolNine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

HAH!! Like Edinburgh has 2,000 flights a day!

[-] ItsABarmcake@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How could it be an uneven number then?

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

One arrived yesterday or one leaves tomorrow.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

But it is the average number, not the number at exactly that one day.

[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

Also, not every flight path is going to be over the zoo. Probably only a handful of runways are that direction.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Mr Proppers Penguins

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

he's at a bar, saying silly stuff. what is the issue lol

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There is no he. It’s a made up story.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yeah ik lol

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Because there's plenty of dumbfucks that will think you're telling the truth.

Source this thread.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago
[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He must be IT guy there

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