If the sun rose in the west tomrrow how would you take it?

I’ve gone mad

Considering that I have no sense of direction what soever and don’t have a clue what direction I’m sitting in right now… I probably wouldn’t care or think much of it, I’d just assume that it must be east.

if I woke up and the sun was in the west, I’d think I slept all day. If I saw it rise in the west and no one else did, I’d go crazy. I’d be hanging out with @Pandora .

Well, it would mean that the Earth’s normal rotation had come to a stop, and then started rotating the other way. I would take it the same as nearly every other creature on earth (perhaps excluding some microorganisms) – dead.

I would be calling people, trying to see if anyone else noticed. Talking about how it is impossible, because that would mean the earth had stopped spinning, or changed direction, and we would have floated out of our beds, or something?

I would be surprised and I would be very curious to find out what was going on. Was east still east and west west? What about photographs of the sunrise and sunset and literary references to the sun setting in the west. Why did no one else think it was unusual. I would be desperate to know.

I doubt I’d notice….and my sense of direction Sucks…..Also I don’t watch where or when the current sun comes from.

I’d start drinking.

I’m with @mrlaconic, no sense of direction, I probably wouldn’t notice.

Troll physics!

I’m with you @cockswain. I’ll get the first round.

I would put down the bong and call it a day.

I would assume someone has kidnapped me, and taken me to Australia.

Depends on how much I had to drink the night before. If I were sober then I would join @Pandora

I have a crap sense of direction :/ If I had a good sense of direction, though, I’d probably go completely nuts.

I’d take it very personally.

Wouldn’t matter, I don’t even know where West is. True Story.

I’d blame Al Gore.

I don’t understand how all y’all people – that wouldn’t know the difference – manage to navigate!

Ahhh, I was forgetting all the roads in America are straight & gridded… Oh how y’all would struggle in England! I’d like to see that. Americans trying to navigate thousand-year-old road layouts, where each lane is only wide enough for a single car, gasping at the incredible size of our pints (and price of our petrol), forgetting what country they’re in for the lack of flags, forgetting how many shillings to the guinea, &c…

It’s really odd to see how many people lack a basic sense of direction. C’mon people, it’s not that hard to learn.

I suppose, if you live somewhere navigation has been made idiot-proof with signage and grand planning, you’d never need to learn it…

@The_Idler with everyone driving on the wrong side of the road, I would not be surprised to see the sun rise in the west…

mate, it makes perfect sense, just remember: “Left is right”

Also, if you do need to, driving on the left makes it easier to hit oncomers with your sword.

that, or “blast ‘em with ya six-gun”, if you’re in America.

@The_Idler Although I agree a lot of Americans don’t know east from west, it isn’t true all our roads are gridded, although it is very nice when they are. Towns that are hilly and mountains typically have roads that are curvy and windy. In Raleigh, NC, when we first moved there, a friend said, “if you get lost just stay on the road and you will wind up back in the same place. Lots of roads there made a circle. Which was odd, I am not defending it. Lol.

Oh yeah I know, I was just kidding… It is true though, that there is much more comprehensive signage and logical planning in America though.

In the UK, the combination of 1,000-year-old road layouts and pinhead town planners plopping roundabouts, one-way systems and traffic lights all over them with seemingly no comprehensive cohesive system planned makes every town completely different and quirky and annoying their own little ways. If you turn up in a town or city you’ve never driven in before, 100% guarantee you will fuck up several times, and, if not quite getting lost, be extremely puzzled about how to actually get to where you want…

You should try it sometime… =]

If the sun rose in the west tomrrow how would you take it?
Lying down. I’m sleeping in tomorrow.

If the sun rose in the west tomrrow how would you take it?
Same as always. Such an event will not change my sexual orientation.

If the sun rose in the west tomrrow how would you take it?
I’d flip.

The sun probably won’t be visible through the rainclouds here until about the end of May, so I wouldn’t notice.

@filmfann you always make me laugh.

The sun rising in the West would re-align me. I grew up in CO in the heart of the Rockies to my west and the plains to the east. When I went over them into UT it totally screwed me up. The mountains were now to the east and the plains to the west.

So if the sun came up in the west I would be fine, back to normal, it’ll be coming up from the plains again.

As Albert Brooks dead-pannedly says in “Broadcast News… Keep it to yourself.

@The_Idler Been there, done that.

That’s the standard we adopted a few years ago here in the EU. The new Eastern European members weren’t doing a good job at it, so it was put into safer hands. It means that the UK is now responsible for the daily sunrise in the whole EU. There is a new control centre in Greenwich for it and the storage facility is on a remote island off the West coast of Scotland.

@markferg unfortunately the controls for distributing rainfall are broken, and have got stuck over the north-west.