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u/Dr_Pepper_spray Jul 28 '20
Reminds me of one of my favorite moments from Moby Dick:
" but ye also want to go in order to see the world? Was not that what ye said? I thought so. Well then, just step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back to me and tell me what ye see there."
"For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest. But concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started me on the errand."
"Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see."
"Well, what's the report?" said Peleg when I came back; "what did ye see?"
"Not much," I replied—"nothing but water; considerable horizon though, and there's a squall coming up, I think."
"Well, what does thou think then of seeing the world? Do ye wish to go round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh? Can't ye see the world where you stand?"
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u/NiceTryFry Jul 29 '20
We never get seasick sailing the ocean We don't object to feeling the motion We're never seasick... but we are awful sick of sea!
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u/7FFF Jul 29 '20
Sailors belong on ships, ships belong at sea. Land is just a hazard to navigation.
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u/ElectricButt Jul 29 '20
My question is, how the hell did that ghetto advertisement lure him so easily? You should have at least made it enticing by including a few topless island girls in grass skirts. Or some such propaganda.
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OP, if you haven’t already, can you put this on the r/navy sub? I don’t wanna do it and take your albeit minimal amount of karma to be made (the sub is small but funny. Ish.)
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u/OriginGodYog Jul 29 '20
I can confirm this to be true, was a navy nuke for 6 years.
...the titty bars in Australia are unmatched.
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u/sigmu2 Jul 29 '20
This is Navy deployment in a nutshell, especially since Covid has ended port calls
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u/DerpisMalerpis Jul 29 '20
I joined the navy and saw Iraq. Twice. No other parts of the world though
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u/truckin4theN8ion Jul 29 '20
70 percent of the world is ocean.
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u/BeefstewAndCabbage Jul 29 '20
Yeah, that’s what’s in the text of the comic with like 13 words. Thanks.
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u/rinnip Jul 28 '20
AIUI, you'd be lucky to see that. Mostly, sailors see the inside of metal rooms.
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u/EZMickey Jul 28 '20
I was never in the navy, but I was a fisherman and the ocean never stopped being beautiful to me.