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Reporting Aboard

Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:53:34
by Bilgeman
1) Where's the coffee pot?
2) Is the Captain in his dayroom?
3) Where's my focs'le?
4) When's my watch?

It's been a year since the seizure of the MV Maersk Alabama, and did anyone realize that US Merchant Mariners STILL do not have firearms with which to defend their vessels and their lives?

And the private sector just found out the hard way how much it costs to run an anti-piracy ship:

http://blog.usni.org/2010/01/04/blackwa ... -has-sunk/

Arm the effin' crews and get the lawyers off our backs should we have to actually, you know...like shoot some beggars out in the middle of nowhere.

hostis humani generis...treat them as such. Shoot them down on the decks, and shovel the wounded over the side to the sharks.

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:02:21
by OakRidgeStars
Welcome to VGOF, Bilgeman :welcome: :wave:

1) Where's the coffee pot? - Beats me... got a Corona
2) Is the Captain in his dayroom? - Try the poop deck
3) Where's my focs'le? - Wherever you left it
4) When's my watch? - Right after you find your focs'le

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:12:14
by UDT
:welcome: to VGOF.

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:55:20
by Bilgeman
This is no bullshit:

So Sunday I go to a baby shower for one of my neighbor's son's wife, who is fresh from the Phillipines, (and cute as a button, the way young Filipinas are), and her husband's gift to the baby is one of these:

http://www.fnhusa.com/le/products/firea ... id=FNM0110

None of the women went "Awwwwwww!", but I sure did. (I think Pookie would have preferred a car...dames are funny that way)

I find it disturbing and comforting that there literally is a fetus who owns such a piece.

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:27:46
by gunderwood
Bilgeman wrote:This is no bullshit:

So Sunday I go to a baby shower for one of my neighbor's son's wife, who is fresh from the Phillipines, (and cute as a button, the way young Filipinas are), and her husband's gift to the baby is one of these:

http://www.fnhusa.com/le/products/firea ... id=FNM0110

None of the women went "Awwwwwww!", but I sure did. (I think Pookie would have preferred a car...dames are funny that way)

I find it disturbing and comforting that there literally is a fetus who owns such a piece.
Does he want to adopt?

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:43:04
by Oldtimer
:welcome: to the forum :wave:

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:09:54
by Bilgeman
gunderwood:
Does he want to adopt?
Since I ken that you're one of the "goto 4 ammo guys" hereabouts, I'd say that the odds are in your favor.

Heck...if you come with a reloading press, I'd adopt you!

Re: Reporting Aboard

Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:23:13
by zephyp
:welcome: