Friday's Unscientific Poll: Basket or boat?

[nanila]

I call this a laundry basket. Keiki and Humuhumu claim they are in a boat.

Poll #17709 Basket or boat?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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They are sitting in a

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basket
4 (12.1%)

boat
29 (87.9%)

That oblong of white plastic contains multitudes. Do not constraint its identity as above.

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Yes
52 (100.0%)

Comments

[niqaeli]

Woe for I cannot see the image and therefore cannot ajudge who is correct, here.

[nanila]

Image has been moved to Flickr. My apologies for misplacing my trust in Google Photos, again.

[azurelunatic]

Cannot see the image either, but from the description, I would term it a hat. As it is likely the same object that Tay and I paraded around wearing upturned on our heads, declaring "I'm wearing my new hat to town!"

[nanila]

What an excellent interpretation. I shall endeavour to demonstrate its usability as a hat to Humuhumu today.

[fred_mouse]

Based on the description, I believed that the object in question is a turtle, according to local usage. Or possibly a turtle shell. Although, seeing the pic, I realised that ours were somewhat more turtle shaped.

[silveradept]

No image for me yet, but I do have some recommendations - Annette Portis's Not A Box and Not A Stick, for insight both ways into thinking processes.

[nanila]

Thank you! I will find those.

[haggis]

If it contained laundry, it would be a laundry basket. Since it contains Keiki and Humuhumu, it is clearly a boat!

[haggis]

Of course, what it is while empty of laundry, Humuhumus and Keikeis is a more difficult question. Or when it contains both laundry AND Humuhumus and Keikeis ...

[azurelunatic]

If it contains laundry and Telstar, it would be a cat bed.

[omnipotent]

Winner winner chicken dinner

[pbristow]

[DOUBLE THUMBS UP]

[nanila]

This is frequently the case.

[nanila]

I think then we enter the realm of Edward Lear!

Far and few, far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live
Their heads are green and their hands are blue and they went to sea in a sieve

[emelbe]

This is what I came here to say.

[cmcmck]

Of course!

Your kids always know best! :o)

[nanila]

Indeed! :)

[omnipotent]

Earlier I couldn't see the image on my iPhone (just more of an FYI, I saw that you changed image servers, but just to keep you informed is all--"earlier" being "yesterday")

Kiddos look pretty happy in their basket-boat. I wouldn't recommend traversing deep waters in it, though :D

Keiki seems thrilled with the clothespins too!

[nanila]

Thanks for letting me know. I really need to learn to stick with Flickr. It's just such a pain transferring everything when I have a photoset that's so easy to create from my phone on Google Photos.

Keiki loves the clothespins. He'll carry them around in his fists for ages.

[wild_irises]

Simply by the theory of trusting people's experience, it's a boat. Humuhumu and Keiki deserve to have their first-hand experience taken at face value, as do we all.

When it does not contain either children or laundry, as it cannot speak for itself, the question is more philosophically complex.

[nanila]

Agreed on both counts. The boat is sailing daily from Port Utility Room to Port Children's Room.

[ankaret]

Basket or boat, they are adorable. I don't think I've ever seen anyone so happy about clothes pegs.

[nanila]

It's true. Yu should see him with a fistful of fallen leaves. Ecstatic!