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In the cricket game he is playing hurley (Irish field hockey) instead of cricket.
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Given the continual supply of biscuits and hams and such that he keeps in his jackets, does he perchance show up later with some hands in jars or anything? I'll keep my eyes sharp when I reach this book. There is a hand in a jar at some point, but I don't think it is on of these hands. quote:Maybe I brought this up before, but I never figured out what happened about that duel over a comment about Diana between Jack and Stephen. There was significant practice and preparation, and certainly something else came up, but it never seemed to actually get resolved in the text. Maybe I've been laughing so hard lately that I've forgotten. As far as anyone can tell they both just silently let it go and never spoke of it again.
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Sherbet does not make an appearance in the gastronomic companion.
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In Post-Captain O'Brien was still trying to figure out the right balance of swashbuckling and english countryside drama. From there on out he nails it.
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Class Warcraft posted:Bonden spoilers That is how virtually every death in the books is handled. In battle, one doesn't have time to mourn.
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Obviously she learned that if she complains then she gets a hole drilled in her skull so she stopped complaining.
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Yeah he either doesn't like the frilled shirts or has no use for them at sea.
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Oct 7, 2018 04:10
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It's fat and flour, literally impossible to undercook.
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Nov 4, 2018 01:50
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Phy posted:potential cases of importunate pricks. I can’t believe I just got this.
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Nov 21, 2018 04:38
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Drunk as a lord by noon and nary a shoe to his name.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I don't know if bottle sizes were really standardized then or not, or how they compare to today's standard 750ml bottle. But yeah, people definitely drank plenty. A seaman's daily rum ration was half a pint (8oz) of 57% ABV rum, served out twice daily diluted 4:1 with water, so 4oz of rum in 16oz of water with some lime juice twice a day. That's actually pretty close to equivalent to a bottle of 11% ABV wine, twice a day. Not unlike the shelter-in-place routine.
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What o, the bear! The bear scene rules, haters to be flogged around the fleet.
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It is cur-tailed.
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Jun 1, 2021 01:59
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Arglebargle III posted:I've had people give up on this series because it was too male. Adding in Georgian society on screen would definitely help. The series opens in a concert hall! It opens in the music-room at the Governor's House at Port Mahon you philistine.
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Actually that’s the Cacafuego.
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builds character posted:Jack is miss piggy.
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Dec 27, 2021 04:30
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Anime is poison.
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Arglebargle III posted:It's fine. The narrator and main characters are sympathetic to homosexual characters even if society isn't. Really, as a Tory who runs a tight ship you'd think Jack would have harsher views but he's always willing to like so I suppose it fits his character. At one point Jack says something like he thinks it is bad for discipline but he doesn't like to see an otherwise good sailor punished for it.
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Jul 23, 2022 05:40
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They could gender-flip Doctor Maturin. And make Mrs. Aubrey black.
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That wasn’t very nice.
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When the wind pulls on the sails, that force is acting way up high near the centroid of the sails, so it is both pulling the ship forward and causing it to tilt to the side. A bigger ship can withstand that sideways overturning force better and can thus handle more forward-acting force and go faster because drag from the hull increases a lot less with size. In modern sailboat racing bringing along passengers whose only job is to stand on the windward rail to help counteract that tilt and let them use more sail is a very real thing. In small one-handed dingy racing you will see the sailors hanging as far as they can off the side of the boat for the same reason. The more upright the boat is the faster you will go. If she was sitting in the middle of the boat then the wind would probably cause it to capsize: 
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It's fun you should take some dinghy sailing lessons.
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They work like a wing, just instead of lift pulling up it is pulling horizontal perpendicular to the surface of the sail. Under the right conditions (sailing into the wind) a component of that can be pulling in a useful direction.
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Ravenfood posted:I thought they help keep the the ship from veering to windward while tacking. So they are just there to knock the ship over sideways, just not big enough to do it. That is my (limited) understanding. They help with turning in the brief time while you are very close to head-on with the wind during tacking and the square sails are of little use.
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That's how he rolls.
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Off hats!
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Jeez, spoiler alert there.
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It's all just dudes sailing around on ships.
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I think the book actually mentions the Polychrest lurching backwards alarmingly while coming about.
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That's a good dog.
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I vaguely remember reading a Milch interview where he said they considered period swearing in the writing for Deadwood but it sounded too goofy to the modern ear, like everyone was Yosemite Sam.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/lost-letters-of-18th-century-french-sailors-have-been-read-for-the-first-time/ Great Britain still not hesitating to read other fellow's mail a few hundred years in the future.
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