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I mean I was really concerned about that as well, having been on the ferries which go from Turku to Stockholm. As I said though, they're kinda tiny in comparison. They're not like ferries between France and the UK or Ireland and the UK, but like more cruise ships.

Icon of the Seas is like double the length of the cruise ships I've been on (Vikin Line Isabella ~160m, Viking Line Grace ~218, Icon of the Seas 360m) but the point I made once was that just a medium storm in the archipelago of Baltic Sea, that boat was going kinda hard side to side. As in the water in the pool splashed out like a third or something and you could not walk straight in the hallways. It was bloody fun though, one of my first proper times of getting drunk.

We didn't really realise it at the time with my buddy, but the ~50 year old guy buying us 14-15y olds drinks in a sauna was probably a bit of a nonce.

Anyway, my point was that if those ships go that bendy in the Baltic Sea, wtf would this do in the Atlantic? However, some engineer pointed out that 1) it's gonna be cruising in the Caribbean and 2) the stabilisation tech that's built in a ship so much larger per tonnage is gonna make it way more stable. Plus it's way newer so the tech is better as well.

Because if the pool splashed around as much as the medium size jacuzzi we were in with the nonce, then I'd be scared to go to some of those top pools.

I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that the guy convinced me.

I'm from the city which builds these.

We built the previous largest record ships as well. I drove people to an event when Oasis of the Seas launched, iirc.

This somehow seems much taller from this perspective. Bet it's the lense a bit, but also, it's the fact that the ships are so big that driving next to them gives you no sense of their scale. Or height, at least.

Although I know that in comparison to the ferries we actually use, these are humongous.

And even the ferries feel absolutely huge when you're standing on the top deck and looking down at the sea.

I don't have like much thalassophobia or the fear of heights, but leaning over a railing on a cruise ship in the middle of the night to gaze at the abyss really does chill a person a little. I just wonder how that would feel at the top of one of those highers decks. Especially in a storm.

Yeah, you don't seem mad at all, spamming "k" like a tweener.

Must be really maddening to have someone teach you how to use your native language, huh?

Must feel completely arbitrary. That's what the word means right? Whatever I want it to? Oh no, right, no, that's not how words work.

What's the definition of "arbitrary" and why do you think timekeeping systems are arbitrary? Didn't that "book" you "read" teach you anything?

Or was that perhaps a pathetic lie?

That's a very intelligent looking post history. People checking your profile will surely be impressed.

(Now's the part where you claim you don't care about that, while clearly overtly caring about a thing online to the extent you have to keep spamming "k" to a thread while you can't even address the subject. Quite pitiful, really.)

I know you have memory issues, but like a week ago when you were lying about "having read a book about timekeeping", I told you what a horrible liar you are.

You haven't gotten any better.

You're just seething that you were wrong. That's why you have to keep spamming. Because you're seething that I am right and you are wrong and timekeeping systems are most definitely not arbitrary.

Such intelligence and bravery, standing behind your words!

It would take a very egotistical coward to childishly replying without replying.

Seeing this spam on your profile sure gives the impression of very intelligent and mature person.

I honestly didn't have to check and see if this was a copy/paste of your previous comment.

Get it? Because you said "I honestly had to check..." Yes, we all know you have a terrible memory, from you writing a reply by writing one of my lines, then one of yours, then one of mine.

All while refusing to touch on what "arbitrary" means and why time-keeping systems aren't arbitrary. They're pretty much the exact opposite. Hell "like clock-work" and other such expressions have pretty much the exact opposite meaning to "arbitrary." :D

Can't address anything we talked about? Shocking.

I've seen this "tactic" hundreds of times.

How long are you gonna spam replies without actually replying anything? The longest back and forth like this I've had is literally months.

Only thing is, it's gonna make you look even sillier.

Defaulting to the oneliner because you're in a paradox. You can't stop replying, because you "want the last word", but you've already "lost", seeing how you very clearly argued — for days — that timekeeping systems are arbitrary. Then went onto explain how "all systems are actually arbitrary", just plain ignoring the meaning of the word, because you hate admitting when you're wrong.

Which is exceedingly ironic, seeing how this thread has several comments from you boasting how you love to admit when you make mistakes. ;>

I love it when people like you can't accept that they're such sore losers that they'll just default to spamming a single letter/word/oneliner so as to "get the last word", while not being able to address anything said in the thread, because everything so clearly shows how wrong they are.

So you literally can't help yourself, despite every comment just showing everyone how right I am and how pathetic you are.

You crawl back into a thread a week later to say "k bye" without being able to address anything you've said, to tell me you're bored?

Lol.

You should've left it well alone. Now you just seem extra mad for being called out on a mistake(s) you're now ignoring

It's no longer fun pretending you didn't misuse a word you clearly misused?

Wow, I'm shocked.

NGL you're right, this is pretty crazy

I read that and then imagined it was a lecture by some sort of an insect, likely an ant-type, wearing a monocle and a top hat.

Imagine having that smart-arse teenager be that annoying for like, a few decades.

Or just... the emotionality that comes with hormones. Although one would imagine since elves do end up being more wise and whatnot, that they sort of start gathering more wisdom even though it's slower to start with. As in, they'd be horny like a teenager for a decade or two, but they'd learn to somewhat manage it after the first five years.

Sarumon, nice typo.

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