Hatrack River Forum: Confession: I'm a hemispherist

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Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :

I use "north" to mean "up" or "higher"
I think of summer as hot, winter as cold
I'm secretly resentful that the Coriolis effect doesn't go clockwise up here.

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

quote:
Originally posted by scifibum:

I use "north" to mean "up" or "higher"
I think of summer as hot, winter as cold.

So do I.

In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that thought of winter as hot, summer as cold....

Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :

http://xkcd.com/503/

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mucus:
http://xkcd.com/503/

But, the original terms are from a English perspective. So they do make sense.

(I'm not commenting on the Japan/NZ issue.)

Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :

quote:
Originally posted by imogen:

quote:
Originally posted by scifibum:

I use "north" to mean "up" or "higher"
I think of summer as hot, winter as cold.
So do I.

In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that thought of winter as hot, summer as cold....

Hmm. That joke didn't work very well, did it? Or did it? Am I such a hemispherist that I even forgot that "winter" up north is something else down south?

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

Perhaps it would have worked better if it had gone something like: "I think of July as summer and December as Winter."

Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :

Seriously, I'm such a hemispherist. I need help.

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

Test for northocentrism.

Without checking (no google allowed), place each of the following countries north of the equator, on the equator, or south of the equator.

Mexico
Costa Rica
Venezuela
India
Kenya
Ethiopia
Japan
Philippines
Thailand
Indonesia
Mayasia
Columbia
Panama
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Sudan
Egypt
Nigeria
Congo
Indonesia
Brazil
Peru
China

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

I thought it was called Borealocentracism?

Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :

quote:
I thought it was called Borealocentracism?

That's what an anglophobe might think.

Posted by Team 2012 (Member # 12025) on :

Polarisization

Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :

I got closer to a lot of those than I though I would. When I missed it was thinking something was on when it was just north or south or just north or south when it was on.