"Technically language is just a medium to communicate concepts between people. Technically if you understood my meaning then the words conveyed that meaning. Technically, that means, that is what the word means.".
Well I think thatās the essence of what weāre getting at here. Many people call them flumes. Inserting technicalities doesnāt make language legitimate. If these are water slides and water slides only, by the same logic, I would have poo water slides exiting my toilet.
There were some absolute mad rumours about the flume in our local leisure center back in the 90s. One of them was always closed and rumour among the kids was that another kid went down it so fast he broke his neck. Another one was that the spinny bowl bit at the bottom that drops you out into the pool was so violent that you would shit yourself through the g-force so it was always closed for cleaning.
Yes we called them flumes. Growing up in London in the 80s, there were some we went to in Richmond. In order of scariness: Yellow, Blue, Redā¦and the Black Hole, which had a steep drop at the begging.
Iāve always called them flumes as described by my local pool! However I would probably call huge ones at a water park, waterslides and save flume for ones inside pools.
I always assumed a flume was where you sat on something (boat, tyre, mat) and a slide you go down on your bum. Would that make a helter skelter a flume?
No, if the local media in the 1990s are to be believed - theyāre āTargets for thugs hell bent on hammering nail through to shred innocent batherās skinā
This is blowing my mind. Everyone saying flume = open top... But literally SLIDES are open top? Surely it makes more sense than flume = enclosed? Is there actually an 'official' answer to this because all the comments so far seem to be opinions/hearsay/confirmation bias
So what about at a park, if you saw this would you not call the one on the far left or far right a slide? https://www.playgroundcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Stainless-steel-slide-1024x951.jpgĀ
I'm talking specifically about colloquialisms for these ones that you go down unaccompanied by any sort of infrastructure or accessories. I'm not talking about log flumes etc. I don't know a single person that would call this a water slide, or literally anything other than a flume.
Flumes. I'm still mad about losing my goggles after riding the Magnum Centre flumes at Irvine in the late 80's because they made me hold them rather then have them round my neck. Obviously I was going to drop them in the pool at the bottom! They were still flumes when I went down south to Butlins at Skegness and Bognor Regis. The only trauma there was I remember one specific flume they made everyone go face first and that was scary af.
Yes, these are called flumes (whether technically correct using the specific water carrying method or not, itās how the word is understood today).
Other names for the same things are also fine and understandable but imho āslideā into a pool has connotations of an open playground slide with water flowing down it, and āpipeā or ātubeā talk to the water carrying part but not the human carrying function.
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Banes_Addiction@reddit
I'd absolutely call it a flume. Water slide feels American to me.
jabbo13@reddit
When kids go to the park do they go down the flume or the slide?
It's a slide and this is a slide with water therefore a water slide.
Flume is very American to me but different strokes and all that...
Banes_Addiction@reddit
The slide. Flumes are explicitly for water.
jabbo13@reddit
Fair enough like I say different strokes and all of that.
If I put a hose at the top of a slide does this then become a flume or is this just a slide with a hose attached?
Curious if the kids slide in the garden should change it's name weather dependent.
Solitaire_XIV@reddit
No thats still a slide
jabbo13@reddit
If I am at a water park and they turn off the water does the flume then at that point become a slide once dried out?
Solitaire_XIV@reddit
No it's still a flume
jabbo13@reddit
Using that logic then aren't they all just slides that happen to have water running down them?
Solitaire_XIV@reddit
Naw, they're flumes mate
iamabigtree@reddit
Flume feels extremely American to me.
jabbo13@reddit
Yeah been to plenty of water parks and always referred to as water slides or just slides.
My grandad would say flume but he's in his 90s so maybe a generational thing
Banes_Addiction@reddit
Really? I used to go to a water park outside Chicago with a fuckload of slides and I never heard anyone say flume.
TashaDarke@reddit
This thread has opened my eyes to the water based controversy I've previously seen reserved for "what is a rollercoaster?"
orange_assburger@reddit
Im Scottish- these are flumes. I miss the flames at the commie that was my childhood or a day out to time capsule.
Solitaire_XIV@reddit
Can confirm
I_like_Your_Face500@reddit
The River Rapids! I remember it fondly
Immediate-Chapter731@reddit
What was the one that went straight down and would rip your swimsuit?
I_like_Your_Face500@reddit
Was that the Sting Ray, maybe? There's also another but I can't remember š¤
Jimboats@reddit
River Rapids, Vortex, Twister and Stingray.
dratsaab@reddit
The ones at the Time Capsule had dinosaurs that roared and squirted water, if I remember right.
I_like_Your_Face500@reddit
Aww sounds amazing! I never managed to go there as my Dad said it was too far š„²
Background-End2272@reddit
I'd also call them flumes, Grangemouth sports centre has similar and they're advertised as flumes.Ā
Stucumber@reddit
Flume is a fun word to say, when you've a Scottish accent. Flume!Ā
I used to go to the adults only session, Thursday evenings, at the Beach Leisure Centre in Aberdeen.
PinkyDixx@reddit
No, this is a picture...
Comfortable_Shame778@reddit
Slide
ZealousidealTable384@reddit
Definitely a flume!
TeenWoolf100@reddit
A somebody who works in the water industry, I can confirm a flume would have to be open, not enclosed. A flume is used to route water.
sneakyhopskotch@reddit
āWhich leisure centre are we going to?ā
āThe one with the rideable pipesā
āYou mean the one with flumes?ā
āNo, you dolt, theyāre enclosed.ā
fortyfivepointseven@reddit
"Technically that's not what the word means"
"Did you understand what I meant?"
"Yes, but technically..."
"Technically language is just a medium to communicate concepts between people. Technically if you understood my meaning then the words conveyed that meaning. Technically, that means, that is what the word means.".
Tuarangi@reddit
Technically correct, the best kind of correct
USS_Barack_Obama@reddit
"Screw this. Let's just go play Super Mario 64"
JeanLuc_Richard@reddit
I'll bring the pizza
Fancy_Date_2640@reddit
Mario...famous for all the flumes he goes into.
BeatificBanana@reddit
Who calls them "rideable pipes"? They're water slides!Ā
cglotr@reddit
Tell us you're not in the water industry, without telling us.....
BeatificBanana@reddit
I mean, do I need to? Most people aren't lmaoĀ
sneakyhopskotch@reddit
Well I think thatās the essence of what weāre getting at here. Many people call them flumes. Inserting technicalities doesnāt make language legitimate. If these are water slides and water slides only, by the same logic, I would have poo water slides exiting my toilet.
BeatificBanana@reddit
I guess you do, in a way šĀ
philff1973@reddit
What are the enclosed ones called?
74522@reddit
There were some absolute mad rumours about the flume in our local leisure center back in the 90s. One of them was always closed and rumour among the kids was that another kid went down it so fast he broke his neck. Another one was that the spinny bowl bit at the bottom that drops you out into the pool was so violent that you would shit yourself through the g-force so it was always closed for cleaning.
EvaKatz@reddit
Yes we called them flumes. Growing up in London in the 80s, there were some we went to in Richmond. In order of scariness: Yellow, Blue, Redā¦and the Black Hole, which had a steep drop at the begging.
Leading-Ad-7396@reddit
Flume, open topped or enclosed, itās a flume. SE UK.
Ok_Ocelot7985@reddit
Iāve always called them flumes as described by my local pool! However I would probably call huge ones at a water park, waterslides and save flume for ones inside pools.
RepulsiveRain1440@reddit
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highrouleur@reddit
ah memories of fantaseas at dartford as a kid. Yeah we always called them flumes
IntentionTop2290@reddit
I always assumed a flume was where you sat on something (boat, tyre, mat) and a slide you go down on your bum. Would that make a helter skelter a flume?
yearsofpractice@reddit
No, if the local media in the 1990s are to be believed - theyāre āTargets for thugs hell bent on hammering nail through to shred innocent batherās skinā
HeartyBeast@reddit
These are slides. A flume is an artificial channel for transporting stuff
RandomiseUsr0@reddit
[crocodiledundeethatsnotaflume.gif]
TSC-99@reddit
Nah. Log flume is a flume. This is a water slide.
PablodiSplooge@reddit
This is blowing my mind. Everyone saying flume = open top... But literally SLIDES are open top? Surely it makes more sense than flume = enclosed? Is there actually an 'official' answer to this because all the comments so far seem to be opinions/hearsay/confirmation bias
SqueekyBK@reddit
Iād probably call it a chute or slide before saying itās a flume
Neddlings55@reddit
Open/closed, its a flume. If you say flume people know what you mean.
namtabmai@reddit
Water slide to me. I think technically a flume needs to have an open top.
clickyclicky456@reddit
I'd say the opposite! To me a slide is open, a flume is enclosed.
CarpetPedals@reddit
So a log flume would be enclosed?
Original_Bad_3416@reddit
Only at the top
StonedMason85@reddit
Some are.
Original_Bad_3416@reddit
Yeah this the only answer
BeatificBanana@reddit
So what about at a park, if you saw this would you not call the one on the far left or far right a slide? https://www.playgroundcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Stainless-steel-slide-1024x951.jpgĀ
Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit
I dunno how to tell you, actually no wait I do. You're very, very incorrect. Oppositely incorrect actually.
yolo_snail@reddit
Exactly the same, our swimming baths growing up had a flume and it was an enclosed slide.
Memetron69000@reddit
let me just call my good friend Chris Sawyer to confirm
QC420_@reddit
Flume + Chet Faker have a few bangers together
marvellcg@reddit
For me both open and closed ones are water slides, that's the catch all word that covers everything.
Open ones are water flumes or flume slides, closed ones are pipe slides.
OddPerspective9833@reddit
People around here really seen to care about whether a waterside is enclosed or notĀ
It's pretty weird
AnnoKano@reddit
Could be sewer outlets.
SookHe@reddit
The one on the left is actually a flim, the one on the right is a flam
Flim-flam for short
thatswildhey@reddit
Zoom the flume
here-but-not-present@reddit
That is indeed a couple of flumes! Flumes - enclosed, slide - open.
Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit
I don't know where people are getting the idea flumes are enclosed.
Does no one check a dictionary?
here-but-not-present@reddit
I'm talking specifically about colloquialisms for these ones that you go down unaccompanied by any sort of infrastructure or accessories. I'm not talking about log flumes etc. I don't know a single person that would call this a water slide, or literally anything other than a flume.
TroublesomeTaurus@reddit
Colloquially yes, but technically a flume is open top.
fullspeedraymondchow@reddit
Hydroslide
ferretpowder@reddit
Water chute
Intelligent-Two3410@reddit
Itās a flume
linkheroz@reddit
I hear flume, I say log š¤·āāļø it's just a water slide to me
ScottishDerp@reddit
This ride is called Fallopia where in from
Dimac99@reddit
Flumes. I'm still mad about losing my goggles after riding the Magnum Centre flumes at Irvine in the late 80's because they made me hold them rather then have them round my neck. Obviously I was going to drop them in the pool at the bottom! They were still flumes when I went down south to Butlins at Skegness and Bognor Regis. The only trauma there was I remember one specific flume they made everyone go face first and that was scary af.
Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit
Pretty sure flume is open-topped
adamlbrown3@reddit
Vast majority of Britons would call that a flume yeah
TeamOfPups@reddit
I grew up in the north of England where I called them water slides.
I moved to Edinburgh and people I met there people called them flumes.
sneakyhopskotch@reddit
Yes, these are called flumes (whether technically correct using the specific water carrying method or not, itās how the word is understood today).
Other names for the same things are also fine and understandable but imho āslideā into a pool has connotations of an open playground slide with water flowing down it, and āpipeā or ātubeā talk to the water carrying part but not the human carrying function.
DameKumquat@reddit
Flumes. The ones in Brighton had the word on their signage.
summerdog-@reddit
I would call that a flume
Andries89@reddit
One flume but it's two floom sorry I don't make the rules
sneakyhopskotch@reddit
Calm down, Tolkien
Andries89@reddit
Ha I wish š
bZbZbZbZbZ@reddit
Floom choob
cuccir@reddit
I only ever heard flume when proceeded by the word 'log' when growing up in the 90s
AsasinKa0s@reddit
Pretty sure flumes need a ring, are made of crystal and end in other worlds.
Snecklad@reddit
Aye it's a flume
Spider_Puncher_95@reddit
Flume is open top
Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit
I always thought if you directlly slide down it, it's a slide, if you're on a rubber ring or a log, it's a flume.
RainbowPenguin1000@reddit
Technically, yeah, itās a flume but Iād call it a water slide. Flume isnāt a word Iād tend to use.
Just like a know a path is a pavement but Iāll call it a path.
Some words just feel more natural.
Orsenfelt@reddit
Yes. That's two flumes.
olivetree13@reddit
I always thought a flume was open top. Like a log flume.
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