His Nuptials Were Impending
Posting will be, at best, intermittent for the next week or so, for which I apologise in advance. I can imagine the terrible, crushing impact this will have on your lives. However, I do have a half-decent excuse, in that, said interruption to normal service is on account of my getting hitched next week. To The Other Half, I mean. A civil partnership, with jewellery and ties and such. There are, therefore, things to be organised. And after 27 bloody years, I think I can consider myself sufficiently wooed.
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So much more stylish than the floating tower block that is the modern superyacht.
She is easy on the eye, unlike pretty much everything designed after about 1955.
Farnsworth:
… and as the HMS Shemara…
Pedant alert: it’s ‘HMS Shemara’ or ‘the Shemara’, never ‘the HMS Shemara’.
“The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days…”
The easiest route to success for an aspiring New York Intellectual is to engage in some iconoclasm directed at the Western Canon. It does not require much intelligence or knowledge or scholarship (just turn the crank of the Marxist bullshit generator) and it will be warmly received by editors. What’s worse, most young intellectuals have been “educated” to believe that this bullshit is true scholarship. Dunning-Kruger Effect with an extra helping of moral decay.
Sh0eOnHead fisking a pedo apologist;”:
https://youtu.be/uEUX3Q1a1GQ
prepare yourself, the pedo has the most annoying voice in the history of ever.
Pedant alert: it’s ‘HMS Shemara’ or ‘the Shemara’, never ‘the HMS Shemara’.
My shame is absolute. Fortunately my wakizashi is at the shop.
She is easy on the eye, unlike pretty much everything designed after about 1955.
I’d say about 1970 personally. The Northwind II was built in the mid 1960s, and I think that’s rather easy on the eye. As is the stylish interior, courtesy of the French design firm Maison Jansen, which manages to be fun and frivolous without being vulgar. (There was an Architectural Digest piece on the restoration of her interior a few years ago). And the last aesthetically pleasing ocean liner, the SS France, was completed in 1962. There are a few other ships made about the same time which look decent. Otherwise, I agree. Modern vessels are undeniably hideous for the most part. The Queen Mary 2 is, in my view, not particularly pretty, but it gets points for being something which does at least attempt to resemble a ship.
[W]ith that history best keep a weather eye out for her down in the Nautilus.
Heh. Will do.
The easiest route to success for an aspiring New York Intellectual is to engage in some iconoclasm directed at the Western Canon. It does not require much intelligence or knowledge or scholarship (just turn the crank of the Marxist bullshit generator) and it will be warmly received by editors.
This is pretty much what’s ruined comic books over the last twenty years or so, and it’s even more ridiculous because it’s comic books. Deconstructing comic books is like putting a Veritech VF-1 Valkyrie in a wind tunnel to see if it’ll fly.
like putting a Veritech VF-1 Valkyrie in a wind tunnel to see if it’ll fly
How about Laurie Penny?
pst314:
Now that the 80×120 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames has been upgraded to 80×120 feet, that might be testable. (Remember, la Pennie AND her ego must both fit in the test chamber.)
Alas, the maximum airspeed in the large test section is only something like 100 MPH, so any test might be a waste of time.
Ack.
Now that the 40×80 foot section has been upgraded…
re yachts,
All you heathens are way off base. Comely as HMS Shemara is, she is not a Nat Herreshoff design.
…like putting a Veritech VF-1 Valkyrie in a wind tunnel to see if it’ll fly.
As the man once said, enough power, anything will fly.
Langley’s old 60X20 tunnel.
Now that the 80×120 foot wind tunnel at NASA Ames has been upgraded…
Time for a gratuitous reference to heavy lift vehicles?
Farnsworth,
That’s my father’s ride. He was a F4 driver in Korea. got shot down by an evil-minded North Korean who put a bullet through his oil cooler. He belly-landed on a friendly beach. Somewhere I’ve got a nice pic of him standing next to the cowling. All four prop blades are bent back 90 degrees, but otherwise the plane looks in pretty good shape.
pst314,
Well…Ames did once have a Caribou. It did fly, but low and slow.
enough power
Not an airplane, but a few years ago I was startled to learn that the fuel pump on the Saturn V first stage engines put out 50,000 horsepower.
The gosh-darned fuel pump.
There’s a video of some group that got one of them running. Not the whole F1 engine, just the “gas generator”, which is the motor for the fuel pump.
Ames did once have a Caribou. It did fly, but low and slow.
Could be worse, could be a C-23 Sherpa, the only plane that gets bird strikes on the trailing edges.
The gosh-darned fuel pump.
Damn. Da-mn.
He was a F4 driver in Korea. got shot down by an evil-minded North Korean…
Good flying, then. Welcome home belatedly, sheepdog and patriot.
Just seen this happy news.. Many congratulations 🙂
Many congratulations 🙂
Thanks.
Mazel Tov.
It’s about hallelujah time.
It’s about hallelujah time.
I’m still at the ‘admiring-the-jewellery’ phase.
I know, I’m adorable.