Now. Picture the scene. I'm out windsurfing. The breeze is ruffling my trousers and sun-bleached hair. I look up, and I see on the horizon a ship. How far away is it?
Twenty-one miles.
No.
I thought it was always twenty-one miles.
No.
I didn't even get flagged for that.
No, no, I didn't know that anybody always thought that it was twenty-one miles.
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