Kind of. Funnily enough I was having a chat with Fable about this yesterday, as she posted one of those "a gorilla died and everyone went mad, but the media didn't cover the 800+ migrant drownings" - I was saying to her that, well....they did. The trouble is the way news is consumed these days. I'm old-school and still read the paper every day (hard copy, where the migrant drownings were covered extensively), but so many people now (and particularly the young'uns) get their news purely from internet sources like Facebook/Twitter - all of which work by algorithms to give you the 'most popular' news first. Therefore what comes across as headlines (even on the BBC) will be stuff like the gorilla or the Kardashians, because that's what people are reading about. That's absolutely the case on sites with trending topics such as Facebook and Twitter. Even worse than that is when people start relying on what their friends are posting about on FB and the like. Then one of them will post a meme about "THIS WASN'T COVERED IN THE MEDIA" and everyone gets up in arms about it because they haven't seen it. Sorry, but that's just the way you're consuming news, not actually an accurate reflection of media portrayal. Fortunately she saw my point, agreed, and didn't just think I was being a condescending twat
It frightened the **** out of me just now! I was scrolling and wondering what I was meant to be looking at and then it just popped up.
Yeah. Hopefully I put the photo low enough down the page so that you could read the warning first. Sorry if I didn't. Tell me so.
Same here. Have absolutely no problem being in aircraft taking off and landing though. In fact, I love all that stuff. Same for you, or are you white knuckled.?
What's your theory as to why we have no problem in aircraft.? Mine is that I trust the technology and physics. At least, that's the best I can come up with.
No idea. I can be stood on top of several feet of concrete, but if it is high and I'm near the edge, I struggle. I went to the top of one of the Twin Towers many years ago. Sat in a window seat (literally in the window) and had to be pulled out.
I was at the top of the Auckland Tower with it's glass floor. My toes began to curl up inside my shoes so hard I got cramp. Nowadays if I even see photos of heights [like the one I showed] my toes start to tingle. I put that down to a pre-historic instinct to grab hold of a branch when we were still in the trees.
Millennia of tribal memory tells us that if you're in a high place on your own two feet or hands or both, it's dangerous and you need to take care, and the adrenaline rush kicks in. If you're in a plane there's absolutely nothing you can do about it so the brain (in most people) engages resigned to fate mode. If you're about to jump out of the plane for any reason, you're insane anyway.
