Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.me.uk is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Open, user-supported, corporation-free social media for the UK.

Administered by:

Server stats:

499
active users

mastodon.me.uk: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.3

Charlie Stross

What's the oldest thing you are still steamed about?

Me: being told I'd confused Africa and Australia (on the map).

I was four.

Dreadnought Holiday

@cstross aged 4 I couldn't understand why there was a beach underneath the Humber Bridge because I'd been told it was a river and rivers don't have beaches. Instead of my parents trying to explain, understand my objections, or admit they didn't know why, I was told it was a long story.

Still fuming now.

Also promised myself I'd always find satisfactory answers to my own children's questions - which, with the exception of "why are you so embarrassing?", is a promise I'm proud to have kept.

··Tusky
2boosts·13favorites
AvonLovesBlake

@DreadShips @cstross

What's the story behind the beach underneath the Humber Bridge?

Asking as an Australian who doesn't know the story

Dreadnought Holiday

@Lilysea @cstross it's a massive tidal estuary, so of course there are beaches (or at least 60 bajillion acres of mud) at low tide. Sometimes people park ships on them by accident...

H&S Wisdom stranded on a mudbank in the Humber earlier this month. The channel marker in the background helpfully highlights where they went wrong.
Dreadnought Holiday

@Lilysea @cstross but being four I didn't know rivers could be tidal, that beaches could exist away from the seaside, or that I was inevitably going to keep asking questions about it for the next hour or more, and I can sort of see why my parents decided not to go there...

TrendingLive feeds
About