Overheard conversation on a plane!

When you're right, you're right!

Last time i checked, aluminium was a metal.

Nobody said steel.

Planes do not exist in nature, implying the "not natural" argument is a dumb reason to be against gay marriage if you're using unnatural things like planes.

Is aluminum not a metal?

last time i checked, humans flying wasn't natural...

and it's natural to be attracted to men when you are gay.

Closer to 1/3 the speed of sound
Aluminum is incorrect spelling, it's aluminium and it is a metal
Jet fuel is a mixture of many different chemicals and varies depending on the type of turbine being used.
The point of content is to show that gay marriage is just as unnatural as the plane they are flying in. You can't say something is unnatural and then be hypocritical.

Brit fag detected

Nope, Australian. Because every country except for america seems to have the spelling down pat.

Everyone pounces on Americans when they "correct" perfectly fine spellings of words so why would you do it too? Aluminum and aluminium are both correct, so acting like either one is wrong is dumb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

Aluminum is not correct anywhere outside of America. Aluminium is the original and correct spelling. Why would you need to take the 'i' out? It's the imperial system all over again, but maybe on a smaller scale.

In case you didn't check the link, "The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum." But that's not the point, the point is we pronounce it aluminum because that's just our accent. We became our own country a while ago and deviated from the rest of the English speaking world and our language started changing along with that, as languages tend to do. I don't know why we took the "i" out but that's how it ended up, doesn't mean we're trying to do anything so you don't need to treat someone like they don't know what they're talking about because they don't spell something with one letter or not.

Your accents allow you to say aluminium perfectly fine, so there was no need to change it on account of them. The isolation didn't do it because every other english speaking country pronounces it Aluminium and some of them had far less contact with the motherland than America did. As you said, you don't know why the letter was taken out, and if this is the case then I will treat you like someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. I didn't intend to make this such a big deal but classic americans blowing things out of proportion.

I'm not blowing stuff out of proportion, you're the one who insinuated that a country of 315,000,000 people doesn't know how to spell when it's one word with a one-letter difference where both variants are correct according to many dictionaries. Again, the link has some info on the matter; the guy who discovered it originally called it alumium, then he changed it to aluminum when he published his paper. He was British, the only reason it was called aluminium is because "an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." I didn't say we couldn't pronounce aluminium, and the point isn't why the "i" was removed the point is that that's how it ended up and there's just two correct spellings now just like plenty of other words. Also, generalization is bad. Whatever's wrong with me, whether I'm OCD or what, is my own issue, but you said something I thought was incorrect and/or rude enough to warrant a mention. No need to insult an entire country, which is what you did in the first place.

Well sorry if you took offence to a simple correction. I would say that two paragraphs over the letter i is blowing it out of proportion though.

It wasn't a correction though because aluminum is already correct, that's what I took offense to. Again, it's not about the word itself, it was the implication that we're all retarded because of the way we spell, acting like we did it just to spite the rest of you or didn't learn it properly. Unless, "Because every country except for america seems to have the spelling down pat," has another implication I'm not aware of.

It was implying that america has to be different to everyone else in some way (eg. The imperial system)

We only have that system because of the British Empire, we didn't make it ourselves. We just haven't gotten rid of it like everyone else, which is a bit harder to do when the country is so populous and set in its ways. We aren't doing it for ***** and giggles, and that doesn't mean it's wrong anyway.

Close enough, the Union Jack is in your flag

You have stars on your flag, so does communist China. Not even close to being the same.

Stars is simply shape, while your flag has a the Union Jack, an entire flag of another country or union or what ever the hell you call it (England/Britain/united kingdom) on it.

I was simply pointing out that England and Australia and not the same.

All things are descended from nature technically. What really is or isn't natural is the question.

This may be the only time i've laughed out loud on this site.

It was clear somebody had to post it

says the guy who deleted his comment

Or he was flying the good ol' Concord. Mach 2 optimial cruising speed, baby.

If a bitch needed to get somewhere fast, this bitch would take them.

Having me a giggle.

True, I would like to point out also homosexuality in a whole is unnatural.

prepare for a lot of disagreements, friend

I know. People uses homosexuality as the new "in thing", but its gonna suck when its no longer edgy or cool to support gays.

It's natural in the sense that it occurs in nature, but not in the sense that it is conducive to the survival of a species.

So me on recorded moment in history where sex between to males or two females spawned and off spring. I mean no matter how much you disagree it does not change the fact that it is unnatural for the continuation of a species.

Ye olde concorde

Concorde did Mach 2.04.
A 747's cruising speed is around 0.85, like many large jets.

Anyways, he's probably not in a Concorde, carry on.

Oh really?

Woops my bad, didnt know Concorde did Mach 2.
What is the actual speed of sound, about 760 mph right? ( I've forgotten.)

The speed of sound depends on the altitude that you are at . The speed of sound at 32,000 feet for example is 672 mph

I'm aware of this.

Yep, 761 mph - though I usually use 340 m/s.

Incidentally, Concorde could probably go faster, I think that's optimum cruising speed - best fuel efficiency for the distance. Likewise a 747 can get to 0.92 without ill effects - but it probably burns a LOT of fuel.

Indeed.

What about mach miller?

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747s fly at Mach .85. You're not the only one pulling facts out of the anal cavity.

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the concorde used to but it is no more in function

Oooh. That **** cray.

Very few people willing to pay $600 ish for a flight across the pond that only takes a couple hours.

That's what i was thinking...

Concorde can do a top speed of mach 2.02

Concorde's cruising speed was exactly mach 2.02. Top speed Mach 2.07

The brits made one. They called it the Concord.

Kinda funny, only problem is, homosexuality is actually pretty natural.

Isn't the whole idea that... ****** . I'm about to go to work. I shouldn't have to think until I get there.

Yep, the Concorde was the only commercial aircraft to break the sound barrier - never mind twice that - but they don't fly anymore.