Is this a flume? | TheaterFire

"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.".

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Tuarangi@reddit

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

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USS_Barack_Obama@reddit

"Screw this. Let's just go play Super Mario 64"

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JeanLuc_Richard@reddit

I'll bring the pizza

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Fancy_Date_2640@reddit

Mario...famous for all the flumes he goes into.

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BeatificBanana@reddit

Who calls them "rideable pipes"? They're water slides!

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cglotr@reddit

Tell us you're not in the water industry, without telling us.....

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BeatificBanana@reddit

I mean, do I need to? Most people aren't lmao

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sneakyhopskotch@reddit

Well I think that’s the essence of what we’re getting at here. Many people call them flumes. Inserting technicalities doesn’t 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.

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BeatificBanana@reddit

I guess you do, in a way 😂

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philff1973@reddit

What are the enclosed ones called?

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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.

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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, Red…and the Black Hole, which had a steep drop at the begging.

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Leading-Ad-7396@reddit

Flume, open topped or enclosed, it’s a flume. SE UK.

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Ok_Ocelot7985@reddit

I’ve 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.

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RepulsiveRain1440@reddit

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highrouleur@reddit

ah memories of fantaseas at dartford as a kid. Yeah we always called them flumes

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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?

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yearsofpractice@reddit

No, if the local media in the 1990s are to be believed - they’re “Targets for thugs hell bent on hammering nail through to shred innocent bather’s skin”

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HeartyBeast@reddit

These are slides. A flume is an artificial channel for transporting stuff

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RandomiseUsr0@reddit

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TSC-99@reddit

Nah. Log flume is a flume. This is a water slide.

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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

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SqueekyBK@reddit

I’d probably call it a chute or slide before saying it’s a flume

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Neddlings55@reddit

Open/closed, its a flume. If you say flume people know what you mean.

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namtabmai@reddit

Water slide to me. I think technically a flume needs to have an open top.

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clickyclicky456@reddit

I'd say the opposite! To me a slide is open, a flume is enclosed.

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CarpetPedals@reddit

So a log flume would be enclosed?

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

Only at the top

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StonedMason85@reddit

Some are.

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

Yeah this the only answer

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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.jpg

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Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit

I dunno how to tell you, actually no wait I do. You're very, very incorrect. Oppositely incorrect actually.

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yolo_snail@reddit

Exactly the same, our swimming baths growing up had a flume and it was an enclosed slide.

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Memetron69000@reddit

let me just call my good friend Chris Sawyer to confirm

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QC420_@reddit

Flume + Chet Faker have a few bangers together

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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.

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OddPerspective9833@reddit

People around here really seen to care about whether a waterside is enclosed or not

It's pretty weird

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AnnoKano@reddit

Could be sewer outlets.

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SookHe@reddit

The one on the left is actually a flim, the one on the right is a flam

Flim-flam for short

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thatswildhey@reddit

Zoom the flume

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here-but-not-present@reddit

That is indeed a couple of flumes! Flumes - enclosed, slide - open.

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Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit

I don't know where people are getting the idea flumes are enclosed.

Does no one check a dictionary?

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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.

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TroublesomeTaurus@reddit

Colloquially yes, but technically a flume is open top.

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fullspeedraymondchow@reddit

Hydroslide

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ferretpowder@reddit

Water chute

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Intelligent-Two3410@reddit

It’s a flume

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linkheroz@reddit

I hear flume, I say log 🤷‍♀️ it's just a water slide to me

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ScottishDerp@reddit

This ride is called Fallopia where in from

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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.

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Fantastic-Pear6241@reddit

Pretty sure flume is open-topped

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adamlbrown3@reddit

Vast majority of Britons would call that a flume yeah

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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.

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sneakyhopskotch@reddit

Yes, these are called flumes (whether technically correct using the specific water carrying method or not, it’s how the word is understood today).

Other names for the same things are also fine and understandable but imho “slide” into a pool has connotations of an open playground slide with water flowing down it, and “pipe” or “tube” talk to the water carrying part but not the human carrying function.

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Some words just feel more natural.

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