[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[georgeromerosanalcavity]

are we getting the wendys four for four francis? i would like that very much.

[nerdforfeanorians]

We launched one of our schooner's attendant rowboats today. It's timbers obviously need a bit of time to swell to the water because after three minutes in the water it looked like this:

And after an hour and a half it looked like this:

The good news is that at least she seems to have settled at that level and not really taken on more water.

[boatporn]

“In a world in which we are used to traveling at truly high speed, why is it so exciting to go 8 knots in a 35-foot schooner? Maybe it’s because it’s nearly double her average speed. Maybe it’s because if you sit to leeward you’re really close to that stream of bubbles hissing down the side and can sense the power transferred from wind force to forward motion by a complex array of wooden construction, spars, cordage, and sails- Motion that raises a beautifully curved quarterwave right at your shoulder and sends it out across the water to make known a vessel’s passing.”

— WoodenBoat No. 58, p 82

[aconissa]

happy april 22nd ✌️

[exeggcute]

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

[nerdforfeanorians]

So, I've been on the schooner Mary Day in Maine for the past three weeks. I've been overheating some of the local fishermen talking in some of the bars around town recently. Apparently the clam beds in the area were absolutely decimated by the rough winter this year, they're calling it an absolute "clamity"

[scramratz]

My least favorite new politically correct term is "unhoused." Like you can just tell it was created to make liberals feel less icky when talking about homeless people.

I was homeless. I was homeless as a child and as an adult. That shit sucks believe it or not.

The uncertainty. The ever-present grimy feeling from lack of access to running water. Having nothing to your name. The shame you feel is asking your fellow man for the bare minimum. Just so much shame, man.

"Unhoused" is so clinical. A technical term. Sure, its not incorrect, but it doesn't properly convey the emotional and psychological impact homelessness has on you.

You say "house", I think of a structure.

You say "home", I think of stability.

[shipsandtea]

How can cruise ships be fun? I mean yeah there’s all the free food and water slides and drinks but you can’t even explore the gun deck. What is a water slide compared to a twelve pounder you can use to take down the enemy

[thememedaddy]

[nerdforfeanorians]

My wife's grandmother was telling is recently about how she and her husband bought their first house in 1969 for $4000 (about $35,000, adjusted for inflation)

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

“may i trouble you for the salt sir”

-horatio nelson (real and true!!!)

[nerdforfeanorians]

How I ask my wife to pass the salt (whenever I remember to)

[explodingfridge]

if you’re gonna make lobscouse, you might as well make proper hardtack to put in it. (The recipe recommends folding and beating with a mallet or rolling pin. It also notes that in this modern day and age, if you have a nice stout bag you can also just run it over in your car a couple times.)

[explodingfridge]

it is important that you all know he is currently smashing the hardtack to bits with his marlinspike

[nerdforfeanorians]

Only the two odd looking ones were sacrificed for the scouse, the rest are good for eating (with some amount of patience and gnawing)

[antisocialxconstruct]

man having your life even a little bit together will really make you realize how chronically sleep-deprived and poorly fed and under-enriched everyone is and then when they turn to you to implicitly agree that that's just the natural state of existing you feel like the asshole for being like "actually I think you might benefit from eating breakfast regularly and picking up a new hobby"

[falling-through-a-trapdoor]

Me, as a ship captain: “huh, that lighthouse looks pretty neat! Let me get a closer look…”

The nefarious shoal water:

[byjove]

To me, there are several different species of car/truck guy.

Materialistic truck/car guy who has a $50k+ new vehicle he does not need for work, he can barely afford and he purchased as a status symbol and expects everyone to be soooo impressed by his smalldickmobile? Sucks. Horrible guy. Makes it his entire identity. Financially irresponsible, usually an asshole driver and parker because nothing matters but his vehicle, usually extremely vapid and unpleasant.

Shitbox car/truck guy who really loves his 15+ year old piece of shit vehicle and is keeping it on the road through thoughts and prayers and is attempting to soup up his 2002 Chevy? Down to earth, resilient, usually capable of helping you with your car problems because he has had every car problem imaginable, humble, often much more interesting than materialism car guy.

It’s the same for vintage vehicles too, the guy who bought a fully restored muscle car just to show it off sucks ass but the guy who has spent 5 years slowly rebuilding a ‘68 Chevrolet Chevelle he found rusted out on Facebook marketplace is a car guy I can respect.

[ltwilliammowett]

Naval customs

A few little things that I have found and would like to add.

A less common custom today is the hoisting of a garland of evergreens between the masts of a ship or on the yard on the day of the marriage of a member of the ship's crew, symbolising continued fertility.

The marines lived on a ship between the officers and the men. As the marines were the ship's soldiers, the gun racks were located near them. The marines‘ mess is traditionally referred to as the marines’ barracks.

According to traditional law, the starboard side of the quarterdeck belongs to the captain, although it can be used by any officer as long as the captain is not on deck. Presumably the starboard side was chosen by the captain because it was furthest away from the noise and commotion of loading the ship on the port side.

A custom followed by navies when naming their ships is that a name is only repeated in a later ship if the predecessor ship has been honourably withdrawn from service - through sale to another owner, scrapping or loss through enemy action. The name of a ship that was destroyed by fire or lost through collision or grounding is not repeated. It would perhaps make more sense to judge each case individually, but the custom seems to be rather inflexible.

The Port or Madeira wine decanters are not capped, always passed to the left and then capped before the Loyal Toast is drunk. This practice suggests that the wine is only served for this purpose. When the port is served again, the decanters remain uncapped until they are removed. The origin of the custom of always serving the port to the left is uncertain. It may have something to do with the evil left hand, as the left hand was considered unclean in various countries.

All wardroom drinking is social, solitary drinking is considered taboo. It is customary to provide drinks for other officers, particularly one’s friends, and then to toast the others with “cheers” contracted from the Englishman’s “cheerio”. In the Royal Navy it is a custom that foreign languages are not spoken in the mess unless foreign guests are present.