The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Meanwhile, this is how my family views 90% of college graduates:

[Josquius]

Yes. I've noticed this amongst fascists here. They have a big thing about wanting to be called stupid.

[Habbaku]

Meanwhile, in the land of reality:

[Zanza]

What's the extra M for?

It's written on the bottom of the chart: medicine is the extra M.

[Razgovory]

Meanwhile, this is how my family views 90% of college graduates:

Sounds like Chris is part of a Union.

[Zanza]

Meanwhile, this is how my family views 90% of college graduates:

Maybe your family should have taken statistics at college. 

[The Brain]

So, do you guys like to stick pennies in you belly button and then sniff them?  No, me neither.

In Sweden (the Swedish equivalent of) pennies were withdrawn 30 years ago.

[Syt]

Maybe your family should have taken statistics at college. 

What college? None of them went to school long enough to get college entry qualifications.

[celedhring]

Yesterday was the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Magellan-Elcano expedition around the world. The Spanish navy held a parade in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, the port of arrival.



Coolest part was the Nao Victoria (foreground), a replica of the sole survivor of that expedition, and the Andalucía (background) a replica of a XVIIth century gallion.



Plenty more pics here: https://www.diariodecadiz.es/noticias-provincia-cadiz/imagenes-parada-homenaje-Elcano-Sanlucar_3_1717958199.html#slide-27

[The Brain]

Very cool.

[Threviel]

Awesome!

[Admiral Yi]

I've read about Spanish ships of that era having large wooden crucifixes on their mizzen masts.  Either they left them out or my sources were incorrect.

[celedhring]

I've read about Spanish ships of that era having large wooden crucifixes on their mizzen masts.  Either they left them out or my sources were incorrect.

Plenty of religious iconography in flagships, royal ships, etc... (although regular ships like the Victoria tended to be very spartan decoration-wise), but can't say I've ever seen a mast shaped like a crucifix in reproductions of Spanish ships from the age of sail.

My favorite replica is La Real, the Spanish flagship in the Battle of Lepanto, housed in the old Barcelona shipyards (where the original was built).

[Threviel]

Now I want to go to Barcelona, very cool museum.

[Syt]

Considering how gaudy that galley looks by modern standards, I now I understand why some paintings of the Naval Battle of Actium look like this.