I was a US Civilian Mariner (aka merchant marine) for 16 years or so and a licensed officer for the last 4 years. I recently changed professions due to a welcome addition to my family that I can't bear to leave for months at a time! I'm not here to tell you the Ever Given situation isn't meaningful, I think it is. What I can do is tell you what it's like to live and work in the industry, share my training and experience with large ocean going vessels. Basically I'd like to help dispel nonsense so we can all get to the truth and look good doing it!
I just got off work and I'm starting my weekend, so I'll be back to answer any questions after a good sleep.
Am I still a shipfag if I actually lived it and know what I'm talking about or is that just for armchair followers?
I'd say that being a shipfag is the #1 prerequisite to being a sailor. It just means that your shipfagging is top-shelf quality :)
Are holding patterns like Evegreen's "peen and nuts" pattern unusual?
It's not gay of you're underway.
It's only queer if you're on the pier!
Your credentials check out. You are legit.
Thanks handshake guy!
Just about spit me tea out!!!! Kek!!!! I haven't heard those phrases since my Navy days. I consider myself a shipfag/Navalfag and I got out the Navy in '04. Just uttering the hose two phrases makes you a shipfag, Mariner.
How many times have you seen a large container ship get stuck in th Ditch like that? I did more than a few Suez crossings in my Navy days and didn't once ever hear of that happening.
Same.
Columbus had a cabin boy, He loved him like a brother. Every night by candle light They buggered one another The Cabin boy was a nasty little nipper Stuck broken glass up his arse And circumcised da’ Skipper!
Wow is this required reading in the 1619 project now?
Close. Here's the actual song from Loudon Wainwright III Good Ship Venus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLotX3HE-4c
Hahaha, been awhile since I heard that.
"Pass me another Boy Seaman, this ones burst"
"Sorry Sir, there is only one left and all the crew have used him"
"Well, empty him out and bring him to me!"
(An old joke that was old long before Icarus flew into the perimeter track)
The {fag} suffix is generally only applied to professionals, or experts in their respective fields of faggotry. Carry on sir.
From a British word for cigarette to an insult to an honorary title, what a journey.
A faggot is defined as a bundle of sticks. The British slang for cigarette follows. As does the pejorative for gay guy - a bundle of sticks haha.
The first time I encountered the word faggot associated with sticks was when reading "The Island of Dr. Moreau" in grade school. I got the book off my grandfathers bookshelf when he died in 1972.
Its also British meat loaf, made by Brain's of Towchester. Brain's Faggots 12 pack.
This is correct.
It’s been normal to me for so long I hadn’t considered that others might see it as an insult or a term of mediocrity.
If you have the suffix “-fag,” people, then you are of the highest echelons in the relevant area of expertise.
just Hijacking this thread to say ...THIS IS THE WAY....#ALLFAGSMATTER we need true fags to help discern...carry on..
MAGA4EVA
I'm here. I'm with you guys, but sometimes it gets a bit ridiculous. Usually when I question it I get called a shill. IMHO, we'll all so better with good information. Questioning this is good.
And I might know something useful for once!
All the more so! With the notable exceptions of newfag and datefag, the designator "-fag" is used as a complimentary or honorific marker of extreme devotion. Shipfag, planefag, wordfag, etc., just mean you're super focused on those things.
I see... I could never tell if it was an expert or expert hobbiest. Kinda both!
Yeaaaaaah... I'm going to stick with "geek"...
Geekfag.