Suez blocked by stuck ship!
Discussion
Roofless Toothless said:
Lord Marylebone said:
As someone who was born in, and spent 19 years growing up in, one of the most famous and historic port towns in the UK, I can confirm that absolutely no one, including myself, knows anything about boaty type stuff other than the people who actually worked on boats.
Furthermore I have never heard of the expression 'wooden walls' before, and I am not particularly aware of much Navy history despite actually paying attention in GCSE history.
I usually agree with the vast majority of your posts Simpo, but on this occasion, I think you may be grossly overestimating the seafaring information that is possessed by the average UK citizen.
I remember, a while back, a discussion on some thread or other about the number of expressions in the English language that have nautical origins. Things like ‘taken aback’ and ‘on your beam ends’. There were scores of them. Furthermore I have never heard of the expression 'wooden walls' before, and I am not particularly aware of much Navy history despite actually paying attention in GCSE history.
I usually agree with the vast majority of your posts Simpo, but on this occasion, I think you may be grossly overestimating the seafaring information that is possessed by the average UK citizen.
I think the sea and ships is more deeply engrained in our culture than you would give credit.
I would, possibly wrongly, consider myself fairly educated, but I personally had absolutely no idea that the following phrases had nautical origins:
Taken aback
At a loose end
Chock a block
Cut and run
Hard and fast
In the doldrums
Pipe down
Three sheets to the wind
etc
So yes, many of our phrases may be from the sea, but that doesn't mean us ordinary citizens know the first thing about sailing, boats, or anything watery.
essayer said:
Unstuck, apparently
Heard that one before, seem apt.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g
DAVEVO9 said:
"Watch this", allegedly said before ditching it.nonsequitur said:
The Spruce Goose said:
thegreenhell said:
Someone earlier in this thread was complaining they had a container held up by this...
Compo face incoming…. insert Big bird from Hull waiting for her Rabbit 18 incher with full squirt action.
Very bunny.hidetheelephants said:
The number of ships transiting the canal has remained quite constant for decades; the size of the ships has grown steadily from an average of perhaps 10000 tonnes in the 1960s to the monsters we see today.
The ever given is pretty huge, not sure if it’s been posted but on this site you can place it anywhere and check out the scale.https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/?fbclid=IwA...
Check it out next to Britain’s finest
According to the BBC (who are benter than a banana) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56625...
Investigation has started and results known by 'next week', if that was this country they could have built a new Suez canal beside the old one quicker than they do an Investigation.
Investigation has started and results known by 'next week', if that was this country they could have built a new Suez canal beside the old one quicker than they do an Investigation.
anonymous said:
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Unloading 20 000 containers onto a train would make a train longer than the canal itself.20 000 x 40 ft = 800 000 ft = 150 miles.
I’ve seen trains well over a mile long but the have several locomotives , (6-8?), so that 150 mile train would need potentially 1000 ?, hardly feasible.
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