He wasn’t in the military when he was aboard the SS Dorchester. He was a civilian merchant mariner. He did later enlist in the Navy Reserve, but was discharged for mental health problems.

Must have been hard to get that monkey off his back.

You don’t have to apologise, I totally understand your anger about newspapers making stuff up and everyone taking as gospel truth, it makes my blood boil too, you’re damn right that someone needs to do something about media bollocks, my 80 year old father in law gets obsessed with bbc news in particular and gets himself in a right state when bad weather is forecast, he doesn’t even go out or anything, he gets rankled by things so easily and it’s because he reads the Mail and watches bbc, none of the things effect him directly but he still gets het up so easily!

They weren’t allowed to draw on the map I suppose?

I think that it’s likely that actual rejection of American middle class ideals requires strong familiarity with them. So many of the folks who followed him and the other beats don’t seem to realize that they rejected what America was offering because it had become a stultifying shadow of a place of promise. You can’t see through the bullshit without being well versed in it and loving much of it.

Just a heads up there is no evidence for any kind of storm coming in the next month. Not saying in regard there will not be, just that there is literally no way we can know that dar ahead. News agencies such as the mirror always overexagurate their claims and literally directly misquote what met office posts and nothing is being done against and that truly makes my blood boil, literally no action whatsoever is taken against this.

Take last week for example, literally every agencie was posting about how their is a big snowstorm coming.

In reality, they took their information based on a model that showed when the pressure system would be strengthening at the continued theoretical pace an entire fortnight ahead that it was at that pace, (in which, by the way, is impossible to forecast that far ahead apart from slight indicators that it may be slightly more likely/likely) but that is obviously not going to happen as there are many models used for depicting completely entirely different things that proper meteorologists are aware of and they actually fixate on actual likely scenarios.

Worst thing is, once nothing happens the meteorologists are blamed for being even though this has absolutely nothing to do with them and entirely on what people click on like sheep.....

I even hear people saying, for example, 'it was forecasted to rain today but it did not yet again! These forecasters are always wrong' - when in reality if they would actually pay a bit more attention they would have known that there was only a 70% probability of rain.

Sorry for my rant haha, I just felt that I had to let it out somewhere 😅

Ironically, while Texas gets the most tornadoes of any state on this list, the state is so massive that it is the lowest per square kilometer. It is over 3 times the area of Kansas and nearly 3 times as big as the UK. So it does it fair share of skewing the average.

Furthermore, a state like Alaska, which is 2.5 times the size of Texes really throws off the average with its 1 tornado per year.

Wiki doesn't provide any extra info on this monkey unfortunately:

... a monkey called Titan, which was trained to point at a spot on the map to supposedly indicate where the Titanic was. The scientists issued an ultimatum: "It's either us or the monkey."

What does being trained to point at a spot on the map mean? couldnt anyone point to a spot on the map? and if its trained to do that, does that imply the trainer knows where Titanic was?

So many unanswered questions...

You can't prove the monkey wouldn't have found it

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You’re right, I thought it was the beast from the east but maybe that because it’s used so much by the news, apparently we’ve got another one coming to the U.K., it’s going to be a very interesting year for weather watchers I fear

Lots of states get very few tornadoes relative to their area so it definitely throws it off. I’ve only had a tornado warning once in the past 29 years.

Ah man this TIL makes it sound like the monkey actually would have done something. Heh. Pretty funny but the sad part is when you realize a lot of TILs do exactly this.

Data normalisation is an interesting trick to come up with such facts

So they wouldn't let him take a monkey but he was allowed to take a bat?

Excellent double entendre :)

ah, so now its rhetorical

Hurricanes and tornadoes are veeeeeeeery different.

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Still stuck in the 1970s eh?

Good.

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This is technically true because of its size. However, the US includes places like Alaska(which is friggin huge) in its size. It wins the “country” per land mass because single US states obviously don’t count as countries. The UK is just of 93,000 sq mi. The state of Kansa is only just over 82,000 sq mi. yet had a recorded 68 tornadoes last year. Plus the intensity of the tornadoes are generally greater as well.

I was thinking bermuda. There is a country called anguilla and barbuda. Barbuda was nearly wiped out by a hurricane/tornado/big storm a few years ago. I haven't done the math but I'm guessing it beats UK.

TIL that the UK is filled with trailer parks