Non caver impressions...
- Thread starter Brains
- Start date
Lankyman
Active member
Some folks just don't have any imagination or if it's not bells and whistles on their phone then it's just boring? I can remember as a youngster pestering my parents to take us to every show cave in the north after reading about them. Even stuff like Great Masson and Rutland Cavern were amazing. Going round Ingleborough Cave carrying a hurricane lamp was fantastic and I became a 'real' caver as soon as I could.
Space Doubt Caver
Active member
I think it's dependant on who is teaching it, when i was in school our history teacher was the most boring person for teaching you fell asleep, but the geography teacher was was so enthusiastic and energetic and made everything exciting you learned everything.
like nature documentaries you get ones which are very mindful, slow and relaxing to watch, but then you had Steve Irwin, and his method was so engaging and easier for some people to understand.
E.G. a normal physics teacher explains really complex things and it's hard to understand, then you have Professor Brian Cox, and he has a way of explaining the most complex things in a way that nearly everyone can understand.
All it takes is passion and understanding to make it engaging, personally I think the post is funny and engaging made me laugh 100% you never going to please everyone, it's impossible to please everyone.
Pitlamp
Well-known member
That dates you; the cave was electrified in 1967.
Lankyman
Active member
I was thinking about this just recently after a walk that took us down past the cave. My family emigrated to Canada but returned in summer, 1967. I recall walking up Clapdale in summery weather and being given hurricane lamps for the tour (I can't remember if there were any lights installed - was it later in that year?). The guide could see that I was dead keen and he let me and my elder brother 'off the leash' to do a little oxbow off the main path (by the 'Ladies Cushion?). I had thought this happened later than 1967 but memory is a fickle thing? All I can say is that it lit a fuse. I think I may have bought the 1967 cave guidebook at the cave but again I can't be sure if I didn't order it later from Dalesman (with a postal order!).That dates you; the cave was electrified in 1967.
Attachments
Cantclimbtom
Well-known member
A good example of reverse marketing.
I was on the tube ("London subway system" for any international readers) before Christmas and in several stations there was an advert for a play (think it was "The play that goes wrong?) and the big text that dominated the poster was a review from trip advisor, complete with persons name (likely genuine) "I slept through both halves" and in much smaller writing underneath it said: Comfortable seats!
So negative reviews can be used to promote something, if they have a sense of humour... sounds like Mammoth Cave National Parks do
I was on the tube ("London subway system" for any international readers) before Christmas and in several stations there was an advert for a play (think it was "The play that goes wrong?) and the big text that dominated the poster was a review from trip advisor, complete with persons name (likely genuine) "I slept through both halves" and in much smaller writing underneath it said: Comfortable seats!
So negative reviews can be used to promote something, if they have a sense of humour... sounds like Mammoth Cave National Parks do
