Thread: 17 days lost, no food, what do you think

Originally Posted by rangieman

Have you pre ordered a copy yet mate

Nah Chris , I find it a bit rough on my delicate parts when using it for toilet paper.
I'll probably read it later though, as at one of my specialists that's all that is in the waiting room. Every appointment I have gone too and I'm up to the exiting goss about the Kadashians she calls me in and I never get to finish reading the article
Cheers,
Mario

I can't recall seeing anything about her being lost in the news.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I can't recall seeing anything about her being lost in the news.

That's 'cos she was lost in the bush, not in the news!

Originally Posted by CraigE

Disorientation is something not easy to explain to those that have never suffered it and dose not have to be in a remote area. Has been known to happen to people in new towns and even shopping centres.

Even more so if one is not in one's usual hemisphere. I find I get disoriented in the northern hemisphere. The sun is not in the northern part of the sky where I expect it to be, but in the southern sky. I had to consciously work out direction when I was in the USA and Europe.

Having said that, being a woman, it wouldn't have made any difference to her.

My wife doesn't understand what I say about the sun, either. (Nor the way the sun and moon set from left to right in the northern hemisphere rather than the right to left we see.)

I'm pleased to hear that I am not the only one with that problem. Because the sun was in the wrong part of the sky, I never really got my bearings properly in London.

I also find that once I get an idea in my head that north is in a particular direction, even if I am wrong, it is very hard to shift that idea. As a small child, I assumed that everyone's front door faced north or south. The first time I visited my uncle's dairy farm near Murwillumbah, it was after dark when we arrived. I assumed we were entering the house through a north or south facing front door. It didn't face that way and all the times I visited as a primary school aged child, I never got my bearing properly when wandering around the farm.

However, at least I never got lost for 17 days, either in the bush or in the news.

I don't get that logic.

The cardinal points are still the same.

The sun still rises in the east.

If you use a clock for a compass you will still go in the right direction.

Have you been to the northern hemisphere? If not, then you might have difficulty understanding.

Or you are really a woman.

Yep, quite a few times, but I still have difficulty understanding why you feel geographically misplaced.

errrr, I just had a look.....nope , I'm not