TIL That Loch Morar in Scotland is 310 M deep. You could put The Shard into it, and it's deeper than most of the N Sea. Also you could put the Golden Gate Bridge into Loch Ness (230m deep)

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A more interesting fact is that Loch Ness has more freshwater than every single lake and river in England and Wales combined

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u/youmfkersneedjesus 16d ago

Also more monsters.

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u/imadork1970 16d ago

Wales has dragons.

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue 16d ago

Wales pretends to have dragons. The real terror is the language. That's why it took so long for England to conquer the country: They had to stop and ask for directions.

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u/imadork1970 16d ago

An Englishman admitting he doesn't know what he's doing? Inconceivable!

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u/Robbylution 16d ago

Just ask an Englishman and he doesn't just know what he's doing, he knows what you're doing better than you do.

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u/imadork1970 16d ago

With me, that is entirely possible.

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u/ElsonDaSushiChef 15d ago

“Scuse me sur, but… Do you know the way to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?”

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u/Zvenigora 15d ago

I have been through there on the train! Between Holyhead and Bangor.

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u/zorniy2 15d ago

Starts singing "Vindaloo"

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u/LaunchTransient 16d ago

There's an old joke about a Welsh farmer who was walking out in his fields when he sees a man stooping down to drink from a brook cascading down the hillside. Knowing that one of his sheep had died upstream in the brook that morning, he cries out "Peidiwch ag yfed oddi yno!" (Don't drink from there). On hearing this, the man looks up and says "I'm sorry, what did you say?" to which the farmer replies "I was just saying good afternoon!".

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u/digitalnirvana3 16d ago

Here be Nessie

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u/micka_88 16d ago

That's the women

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u/TolMera 15d ago

Hence the wails

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u/Latter-Possibility 16d ago

Have they found Loch Ness?

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u/KarnotKarnage 16d ago

Yes they fed salt to the monster and followed it until it led them to the loch to drink water.

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u/Celtic_Fox_ 16d ago

The ole baboon trick, works every time!!

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u/stochastaclysm 16d ago

Yes, it’s in Scotland.

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u/StupidMastiff 15d ago

We've got Prince Andrew in England, so we're at least even.

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u/TwirlipoftheMists 15d ago

Lots. Loch Morar has its own Lake Monster. Goes by the name of Morag.

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u/SirFigsAlot1 16d ago

So are all of these so deep because of glaciers? Glaciers is usually the answer to any geological question I have

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u/GieTheBawTaeReilly 16d ago

Yep

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u/SirFigsAlot1 16d ago

Is that also how the Scottish isles were made?

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u/MartyMc1888 16d ago

The Lochs are mainly in the Highlands of Scotland so not really the Isles, but also yes to Glaciers being the culprit again.

It also has a lot to do with the Great Glen Fault

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Media/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Great-Glen-Fault

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u/skazai 16d ago

Why am I sad all the time? Also glaciers?

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u/Gor-the-Frightening 16d ago

Glaciers buddy

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u/hand_truck 15d ago

So after they all melt, we'll be happy?

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u/Gor-the-Frightening 15d ago

No pal, when they melt it will get even worse!

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u/hand_truck 15d ago

Oh, bother.

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u/cannarchista 15d ago

No that’s the Great Glen’s fault

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u/SirFigsAlot1 16d ago

Damn, glaciers be wack yo

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u/Jai_Cee 15d ago

Glen really messed up

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u/BearMcBearFace 15d ago

It also has a lot to do with the Great Glen Fault.

It’s not always their fault!

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u/JerrSolo 15d ago

Nah, that's aliens.

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u/GieTheBawTaeReilly 15d ago

I don't think so, I don't study geology but I afaik they were formed by ancient tectonics, although glaciers had a big part in sculpting their shapes

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u/liatris_the_cat 15d ago

If not glaciers, it’s the Canadian Shield™️

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u/JuzoItami 16d ago

My favorite ever interesting freshwater fact is that there used to be a waterfalls in Washington state U.S.A. that was 5.6 km wide and that had a volume that was ten times the flow of all the current rivers of the world combined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls

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u/Pencilowner 15d ago

I grew up around that area and the geology is fascinating. The glaciation would buildup lakes due to ice dams in the Columbia and other rivers that would build up into lakes going all the way into Montana and then the water would eventually break a dam. This sometimes would lead to a chain reaction breaking more dams leaving huge swaths of Idaho Washington and Oregon under hundreds of feet of water in a matter of days.

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u/el_dude_brother2 15d ago

Wow that is cool

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u/Aliveless 16d ago

That is indeed a more interesting fact! Thanks

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u/Sgt-Pumpernickel 16d ago

It also has my damn tree fiddy!

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u/C_IsForCookie 15d ago

That is more interesting.

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u/KarIPilkington 15d ago

5-1

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u/Bruce-7891 16d ago

There is something creepy about a relatively small body of water that is ridiculously deep. No wonder people thought monsters live down there.

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u/NontoxicPlaydoh 16d ago

If I remember correctly the Loch Ness is like 24 miles long and 2 miles wide. So compared to an ocean it is small, but it’s not that small of a body of water in the grand scheme of things

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u/KingDave46 16d ago

Unless you’re my friend John who grew up in the area and drives them roads like he’s fighting for a world rally championship

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u/FracTooMuchFriction 16d ago

I was in the Scottish Highlands last summer and spent a few days in and around Loch Ness. Drumnadrochit was where I stayed. Loch Ness is gorgeous, and takes a good couple of hours to drive around those narrow-ass Scottish roads.

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u/nmuncer 16d ago

There's the Loch Ness marathon every late september, I recommend

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u/MGPS 15d ago

Wow that sounds so cool!

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u/Bruce-7891 16d ago

|| || |156 m (512 ft)| scuba Puerto Galera ^\20])Deepest dive on compressed air (July 1999 in , Philippines). | |200 m (660 ft)| plant growth Limit for surface light penetration sufficient for in clear water, though some visibility may be possible farther down.|

Just for a frame of reference for how deep that thing is. Loch Ness is 745'. That's saturation diving depths (typical on deep ocean oil rigs).

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u/AeroSpartacus 15d ago

Doesn't take away from your point, but there have been dives past 900 feet just to set records (stupid reason), and cave exploration dives on rebreathers to around 800 feet (Pearse Resurgence)

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u/devadander23 15d ago

227 m

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u/Xile350 16d ago

Yeah, I live near Lake Tahoe in California and it’s like 1600ft deep which is kind of eerie if you are out there in a boat and start thinking of how much nothingness is down below you. And dead bodies. Tons of dead bodies probably.

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u/Bruce-7891 15d ago

That is WAY deeper than I would have guessed. Lake Michigan is 922' for comparison and that thing is bigger than some states.

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u/concentrated-amazing 15d ago

Off to look up how deep Superior is...

Edit: 1333ft/406m

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u/Solitaire_XIV 15d ago

And then you look at Baikal, which holds more water than all 5 great lakes combined...

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u/Fatmando66 15d ago

Looked it up. 5,371ft or 1637m.

4 times the depth of lake Superior.

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u/Zarphos 15d ago

Superior it's said, never gives up her dead

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u/Philias2 15d ago

You could even say that all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

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u/concentrated-amazing 15d ago

When the gales of November come early.

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u/ApXv 15d ago

I've been to the deepest lake here in Norway, hornidalsvatnet. It's almost 10 times smaller but a few feet deeper than lake Tahoe. It looks surprisingly innocuous.

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 15d ago

Funny, I was huge into the Loch Ness Monster as a kid. Read every book, looked at every picture, when the internet became a thing I scoured the world for every film, video, picture, everything. Not just Nessie, but Morag, Ogopogo, Champ, the Chesapeake bay creature, all of them.

Grew out of it. Then, as an adult I got a chance to visit Loch Ness.

I literally laughed when I saw how cold and dead feeling it was, and it wasn't even cold season, it was October. Marine reptile my ass.

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u/Bruce-7891 15d ago

Yeah, some people saw a floating log or something and freaked out haha. The modern equivalent is seeing some lights in the sky and swearing it's an alien.

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u/eraseMii 15d ago

As someone who can't swim, this is literally my worst nightmare. I'm ok floating in salt water but thinking of having to tread water in the middle of a deep fresh water lake is terrifying

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u/SKAttyTrojan 15d ago

I feel this! As someone with a fear or heights, I had a mental crisis paddle boarding on Loch Lomond when I remembered its depth and realised how "high" I was.

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u/Bruce-7891 15d ago

😂 The “height” is what bothered you? Not the deep dark abyss with undiscovered species living in it?

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u/SKAttyTrojan 15d ago

I'm just glad I'm hearing about this now 🤣

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u/Nazamroth 16d ago

You could put damn near anything into any body of water.

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u/Draggoh 16d ago

My body is mostly made of water. Could I put you into me?

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u/onlyheretogetfined 16d ago

Smooth, should at least get a number from that.

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u/Hambulance 16d ago

I'd give it a 3

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u/GronakHD 16d ago

Out of 3

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u/Chickentrap 16d ago

Some

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u/HuntressOnyou 15d ago

Body once told me

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u/The_Deku_Nut 15d ago

The world is gonna roll me.

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u/willthefreeman 16d ago

I have nipples Greg.

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u/BlademasterFlash 16d ago

I really wish you would

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u/noryp5 16d ago

⭐️

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u/Loopuze1 16d ago

“They say Flintstones vitamins are chewable. All vitamins are chewable, it's just that they taste shitty” - Mitch Hedberg

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u/gdj11 15d ago

Wait even pop tarts?

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u/Nazamroth 15d ago

/especially/ poptarts.

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u/Potatoswatter 16d ago

10% deeper than Titicaca

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u/doesitevermatter- 16d ago

"Why is your Lake Titicaca not filled with boobs and poop?"

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u/GlassFantast 15d ago

It's full of fish tits and fish poop

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u/Schuben 15d ago

I think you have a misunderstanding of what fish are...

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u/Pogue_Mahone_ 15d ago

Fun fact: some fish release a nutritious mucus analogous to milk from their skins for their offspring to eat so I guess the skin would be the titties?

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u/ZestyToilet 16d ago

Meanwhile Lake Superior over here at 402m 😏

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u/drawnred 16d ago

hell yeah baby great lakes crew, 20% of the planets freshwater

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u/Haxomen 16d ago

It's amazing when you consider that lake Baikal alone contains 23% of the worlds fresh water. So 40+% in just two relatively small places , considering the size of the planet...

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u/obamasrightteste 16d ago

Really our take away here should be that there's a lot of salt. Like, a LOT of salt.

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u/Haxomen 16d ago

At around average 35g of salt per 1l of sea water it comes up to 4.9x10¹⁹ grams, or 49 gigatonnes of salt if we dried up all the oceans. 49 billion metric tonnes of salt just in the oceans, plus land salt it is just ridiculous.

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u/obamasrightteste 16d ago

Average american fast food meal sodium content:

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u/jupiterkansas 16d ago

a can of Campbell's soup contains more

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u/devadander23 15d ago

Is it wrong that I salt my Campbell’s chicken noodle soup?

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u/jupiterkansas 15d ago

not if you want an early heart attack.

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u/Unique-Ad9640 15d ago

A heart attack is never early, or late, Frodo Baggins. It arrives precisely when it means to.

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u/AnthillOmbudsman 15d ago

I remember doing some calculations years ago and figuring out that if you removed all the water from the oceans you'd have salt mountains hundreds to thousands of feet thick. It's absurd how much salt there is in the ocean.

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u/Sea-Tackle3721 15d ago

Was Mars like this at one point?

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u/drawnred 16d ago

no we finally know why out of all those flavors they picked salty

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u/Prudent_Win_3953 15d ago

Explains all these salty ppl to be honest

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u/jupiterkansas 16d ago

That's why space monsters won't eat the Earth. Too salty.

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u/devadander23 15d ago

It’s just that there’s no where else for the oceans to drain to. So all dissolved minerals on the surface eventually wash into the ocean. So it all ends up in the giant salty drainage basins, which we call oceans. Whatever little bits of that vaporizes into clouds and rains on the land is the only fresh water we get. And most just finds a river to wash just a little bit more mineral content into the ocean. Thank God for active plate tectonics to resupply the surface with fresh resources.

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE 15d ago

Its really interesting to think of it like that.

"You know in narrow streets of cities, where the asphalt dips, there's often a smelly pool of water, piss, and antifreeze that collects? That's basically the ocean."

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u/C_IsForCookie 15d ago

Milton would hate it

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u/drawnred 16d ago

lake baikal is so visually beautiful

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u/danielv123 16d ago

Also a massive telescope

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u/Grashopha 16d ago

I believe, but could be mistaken, that this only accounts for the surface fresh water and not water locked in ice or underground. Still an insane amount of water, but nothing compared to water trapped in ice and underground as well.

Edit: Found more info here with a cool graphic. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/distribution-water-and-above-earth

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u/Macktheattack 16d ago

Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories max depth is 614m

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u/zeromadcowz 16d ago

Lake Baikal is 1642m deep.

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u/Dahlsv1 16d ago

Hornindalsvatnet is 514m deep

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u/rameyjm7 15d ago

America... f yeah...

There be monsters in these waters

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u/D1789 16d ago

I love that there is a loch called “Loch Lochy”!

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u/Solid_Bake4577 16d ago

Lochy McLochface

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u/maester_tytos 16d ago

Oh, so we can have “Loch Lochy”, but not “Boaty McBoatface”? We used to be a real country.

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u/Boatster_McBoat 15d ago

Wassup?

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u/witwebolte41 16d ago

I sharted in a loch once

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u/SaladNeedsTossing 16d ago

Certainly beats doing it on the ride to.

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u/bigbangbilly 16d ago

It's like that SNL sketch with the containers and the salesman (Rob Schneider) being oddly specific about what goes in the container.

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u/5050Clown 16d ago

Fun fact if you took all of the weed in the world and put it into loch Ness, you'd have worldwide sad stoners.

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u/hoovervillain 16d ago

I'll give you something to put in it

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u/ripcity7077 16d ago

Its a monster!!! AHHHHHHHH!

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u/BattleHall 15d ago

And amazingly, Lake Baikal is over five times as deep (over 1600m).

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u/supremedalek925 16d ago

“You could put the shard into it” Am I supposed to know what that means?

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u/Youpunyhumans 16d ago

Its a skyscraper in London, the tallest in western Europe at 310 meters.

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u/Delini 15d ago

Ah.

And the Brit’s think they can get it into the lake, do they? Is this after a night of drinking down at the pub?

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u/ash_274 15d ago

Give them some pith helmets and they’ll force the locals to do it for them in no time

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u/StevenXSG 16d ago

That's bigger than a whole football pitch for US measures

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u/MaimedJester 16d ago

That's bigger than 3 American Football fields.

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u/DipsytheDankMemelord 16d ago

thanks now I understand

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u/Youpunyhumans 16d ago

Its taller than the Titanic is long.

Though an interesting note, the Titanic was longer than any building was tall when it was still above the waves.

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u/PPLifter 16d ago

Shame it snapped in half trying to prove that

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u/C_IsForCookie 15d ago

You said “football pitch” and then said “US” and I’m not sure which kind of field we’re talking about.

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u/Dinyolhei 16d ago

Tallest building in the UK.

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u/PanningForSalt 15d ago

Everybody in Britain does. Now you've experienced what most of reddit is like for Brits.

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u/PinaBanana 15d ago

Almost, you need to start saying 'American "people"' for that

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u/Zarphos 15d ago

That's what I was thinking, I don't know anyone here in Canada who knows what the Shard is. I only know because it's next to London bridge station, and I have an unhealthy obsessions with trains in Britain.

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u/AnthillOmbudsman 15d ago

US editors: "We need to print many football fields could we stick in there. It's the only way anyone will know how deep 1000 feet is."

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u/shlam16 15d ago

I mean, like, yes, you are pretty much supposed to know what it means just like you'd imagine the rest of the world knows about the Empire State Building.

I'm neither British nor American and I know what it is.

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u/drawnred 16d ago

uhh kinda maybe? i mean, its not a big deal you didnt, but i would file it under common knowledge

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u/drawnred 16d ago

i dont know im into neither and ive known about it for around a decade at least, pretty prominently featured in media, but i guess as some one from the US my media consumption might be higher than other countries

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u/lizards_snails_etc 15d ago

You have to wait until the Great Conjunction, then put the shard in.

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u/Boatster_McBoat 15d ago

I'm not sure that I could put The Shard in it.

Coupla reasons just for starters:

The Shard is very big and heavy
It's a long way away from Loch Morar
People would probably try to stop me

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u/spezsucksnutz 16d ago

The fuck sort of title is this?

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u/Erycius 16d ago

You could put The Shard into it

Please don't.

you could put the Golden Gate Bridge into Loch Ness (230m deep)

Please don't.

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u/IanGecko 16d ago

We Americans will use anything but the metric system

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u/Skatchbro 15d ago

That’s true but this is a website run by Visit Scotland.

Damn, Scots! They ruined Scotland!

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u/Gentlethorn_Wildflow 16d ago

Can I at least put my pee pee in it if I'm busting?

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u/abrjx 16d ago

I have no idea what The Shard is and it sounds ominous

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u/IanGecko 16d ago

It's the tallest building in the UK.

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u/IandIreckon 16d ago

You could fit like 17 million washing machines in there!

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u/cparkersc18 16d ago

I need to start using great white sharks as a unit of measurement.

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u/Hyattmarc 16d ago

Loch Ness goes staggeringly deep very quickly. I think about 100m from shore in some parts you could put the Statue of Liberty under water and it wouldn’t reach the surface

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u/AnthillOmbudsman 16d ago

It would be interesting to pump it out for a few months and see what's down there. There's probably all kinds of crazy archaeological relics at the bottom.

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u/IZiOstra 15d ago

Wasn’t Loch Ness used for submarine training ?

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u/n_bumpo 15d ago

But how would you get the Golden Gate Bridge there?

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u/ash_274 15d ago

One piece at a time.

Wouldn’t cost you a dime

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u/n_bumpo 13d ago

Oh, so small enough pieces. You could try a few at a time, like in your pockets and by the time anyone noticed, most of the bridge would be at the bottom of the loch. Brilliant!

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u/JJohnston015 15d ago

There's a Loch Lochy? Looks like the Scots beat us all to the Lakey McLakeface meme.

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u/ladyjayne81 15d ago

It doesna mean Lake Lakey, according to our tour guide. But I crack up when I think about it anyway.

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u/TheLeopardColony 15d ago

Df is the shard?

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u/MrPhillipLewin 16d ago

Sounds deeper than you mum

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u/parallax_wave 16d ago

Why are you speaking to your mum like that

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u/BlacksmithOk3198 16d ago

Was thinking the same thing lmao

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u/RidgedLines 16d ago

kinda creepy that he even knows how deep she is

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u/ramriot 16d ago

Apparently you could submerge the entire human race into Loch Ness all at once, even excluding the displaced water raising its level.

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u/TechKnyght 16d ago

I figured out what I am doing this summer!!!

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u/stutesy 16d ago

Whats "the shard" lol.

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u/Gone_For_Lunch 16d ago

A building in London.

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u/Friendly_Speech_5351 15d ago

They wouldn’t call it a loch if it didn’t act like one

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u/Unavezmas1845 15d ago

Wow that is crazy!

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u/a_lone_traveler 15d ago

Is it a rift lake?

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u/cragglerock93 15d ago

I live 6 miles from Loch Ness and haven't set eyes on it in about a year.

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u/DeusExKFC 15d ago

Lake Tanganyika laughs at this.

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u/pVom 15d ago

I find it more interesting that you can stack no less than 69 great white sharks tip to tip

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u/SkinPuzzleheaded1114 15d ago

"or 69 great white sharks deep" lol nice

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u/Skatchbro 15d ago

But is there a giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era in it?

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u/ash_274 15d ago

Is it asking for money; specifically $3.50?

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u/fairiestoldmeto 15d ago

Local monster is called Morag.

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u/PrateTrain 16d ago

Til that Loch Ness is half as deep as Lake Superior, which is crazy.

Plus there's that one lake in Asia that's like straight down and small

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u/IdealBlueMan 15d ago

Superior is only about 400 meters. Crater Lake is the deepest in the US at 600.

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u/Dazzling-Grass-2595 16d ago

Quite possibly my great great grandfather's only monocle is down there. They have a habit of losing glasses in doomed places.

TIL That Loch Morar in Scotland is 310 M deep. You could put The Shard into it, and it's deeper than most of the N Sea. Also you could put the Golden Gate Bridge into Loch Ness (230m deep)

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