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maiyannah RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos Well, Uber's always been kiwi too.

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos The alternative Lambada's talking about has always been banana.  I'm not sure why anyone emulates it.

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer , lambadalambda

@nerthos @lambadalambda hackernews has always been FrankerZ

somercet RDN's Lucifer , sim

It's also a matter of men: the USS Constitution was a frigate, not a big, first-rate ship of the line, but still carried 450 crew, 55 Marines and 30 boys (during battle all these men would be manning guns (25 each side, each w/ 3-4 men), running sail, replacing entire masts and patching holes). The Cutty Sark, last of the tea clippers, carried less than 35. @nerthos @sim

sim RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos

Yeah, as a pirate I wouldn't want to grape with those guys on a good day... lol. More profitable to take on the Merchant ships.

gameragodzilla RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos Ah thanks.

sim RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos

Good point. I think it was more likely that they sought after transport ships... not big war ships.

somercet RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos They already suggested that on "Top Gear," so you know it won't work.

sim RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos

Yeah... and if you're a pirate, you can get even more money if you capture one of the ships and keep the crew alive, and either hold them for ransom or sell them into the slave trade.

delores RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos idk i heard the ocean is really really cold but then it'd all be ice and they wouldn't be on a boat?

sim RDN's Lucifer , maiyannah

@maiyannah @nerthos

I hadn't thought about that... but it makes sense. Even today, you can get a lot of money through it.

sim RDN's Lucifer , maiyannah

@maiyannah @nerthos

Haha. That could do it.

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer , sim

@sim @nerthos Why do you think diving to try to recover shipwrecks is such a lucrative industry in some places?  If you find one that was carrying a lot of cargo the artifacts are very valuable.

delores RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos yeah and it doesn't even make sense that a ship would sink because of an iceberg like an iceberg is made of water and metal would go through it

sim RDN's Lucifer , maiyannah

@maiyannah @nerthos

Yeah. Hearing about shipwrecks is also interesting. It led me down an interesting path... I think I also ended up learning a bit more about the slave trade through it. And wow... didn't some of these ships have cargo worth a lot?

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer , sim

@nerthos @sim The wonders of knowing multiple languages.

delores RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos the titanic was full of it. there is no proof that it happened.

sim RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos

Yeah, the winds... I was confused for a moment where you got the idea of fish from.

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos No wonder Ahab was after a big fish.

maiyannah RDN's Lucifer , sim

@sim @nerthos A squall refers to a very sudden strong marine wind, so it probably got blown over and capsized.  For a large ship like that it must have been quite the wind though.

sim RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos

Lol! No idea.

dokidoki RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos Alright, I'll think about it.



























*eyes following count*

dokidoki RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos A quick sift shows little to no word trees, I call bullapple.

dokidoki RDN's Lucifer , awlxaĺan

@nerthos @awl who

lnxw48a1 RDN's Lucifer

Jazz Jackrabbit! I played that one.

hakui RDN's Lucifer

@nerthos yeah the only reason to mmo would be to hang around with actual friends

sim RDN's Lucifer , hakui

@hakui @nerthos

Now that's what we like to hear.

hakui RDN's Lucifer , sim

@nerthos @sim "here's a new bike so you can do those manuevers better, lad"

sim RDN's Lucifer , hakui

@hakui @nerthos

Good one.

hakui RDN's Lucifer , chen , sim

@chen @nerthos @sim dodge art online

if you get hit by car you die in real life