Simply, that the MAGNETIC POLE isn't through the Earth...i.e. the North and South Pole...

the Earth doesn't spin upon a magnetic axis...and we know it doesn't spin...

...the suggestion here is that the 'magnetic pole' is underneath it...holding the Earth up...

...and my example was at a tangent...the pole was at a tangent...and close to the perimeter of the base of the plate...

...naturally i figured that it was wrong...the rest of them were spinning their plates happily and when they fell off...putting them back on again...but TODDY just told me to stand there...at the end of the line, simply balancing the plate which had stopped spinning...because that was 'okay' too for the demonstration...

Anyway, after remembering the above...I began to think...if there is no real NORTH AND SOUTH POLE...you might as well have an EAST AND WEST POLE - mightn't you? I mean the NORTH and SOUTH POLE demarcate the coldest places on Earth...so what about the hottest two points sideways?...along the equatorial line...