Ship ahoy or How to get to London the difficult way

[Josquius]

Riding the tube I find to be quite a fantastic experience in itself for those not used to metros.

I've never been there but I've heard Greenwich is really nice.
It's high on my list for next time I've a day to kill in London.

It is nice but more for a 2nd/3rd or later trip to London.

Josq has been to London a few times, it's just he doesn't suggest a meet-up with other languishites. :sad:

I'm like the SAS.
I get in.
Pop pop pop.
I get out.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The DLR is a driverless system; so if you are quick you can get the seat at the front and pretend to be the driver   

Your kids might like that Threviel...I know i still do 

[Threviel]

Thanks, and please assume that I'm a country hobo that's never been outside Bumfuck, Sweden.

So the caravanning around France was all a lie? 

You know what they say about assumptions...

[Threviel]

Can you sneak the wife aboard at some point? Do you have your own cabin? 

I'll check if the cockpit is free.

[Threviel]

The DLR is a driverless system; so if you are quick you can get the seat at the front and pretend to be the driver   

Your kids might like that Threviel...I know i still do 

Sounds awesome!

[Barrister]

Threviel I am super jealous.  Sounds like fun.

Somehow I think about 2 years ago I fell into a deep Youtube hole of sailing videos.  There's a whole bunch of channels of people who post videos of their sailing adventures.  I am now a guy who lives 1000s of km away from the ocean who wishes he was a sailor.

[PDH]

Remember the Poop Deck is not what it sounds like.

Never throw up over the on the upwind side.

Only let your closest friend hold you from behind at the bowsprit Titanic style.

[grumbler]

It's good to see that they take safety very seriously.  It'd be even cooler if they flew the Jolly Roger and made everyone talk like a pirate, but what they have is pretty damn cool.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7ox8u7Kas

Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 3

It all looks very sound and high quality except that ridiculous pine they're using for the decks.  Where did they get that shit?

[The Brain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7ox8u7Kas

Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 3

It all looks very sound and high quality except that ridiculous pine they're using for the decks.  Where did they get that shit?

Yi the pine expert.

[grumbler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7ox8u7Kas

Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 3

It all looks very sound and high quality except that ridiculous pine they're using for the decks.  Where did they get that shit?

I'm not sure what your objection is.  What is ridiculous about the pine that they used?  Do you see something there that tells you that the pine is particularly "shitty?"

[Razgovory]

I like the idea of Yi as a pine snob.  I can imagine him going around critiquing people's wood.

[Jacob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7ox8u7Kas

Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 3

It all looks very sound and high quality except that ridiculous pine they're using for the decks.  Where did they get that shit?

Sweden historically has boasted a non-trivial amount of pine forests.

[HVC]

Portugal used pine for its fleet. Athena forest of Leiria was planned in the 13th century for building material (and a dune stop)

[Admiral Yi]

Seems Brainiac is the only one who got the joke.

Which is, I'm talking smack about his distant relative who supplied the pine.