The random thought thread

[gwaddle]

ha...
You want to feel weird, wait until you see a 30-40 cm flying fish fly close by the boat.
It's a weird rub-your-eyes-twice kind of sensation... WTF!
It really gives the senses a reality jolt. Flying fish wings make a chatter sound in fight.

I spent about a year and a half on a tuna boat. We always had flying fish around. Weird stuff indeed. We had one old guy on the boat who would catch them and put them on the grill and eat the whole thing. He was kind of weird too.

[copier addict]

If I was a fish, I would surely be a better swimmer.

[atwageman]

I knew a guy who was in charge of bait on the boat. Been doing it for years. So good at it, we called him a Masterbaiter.

[NeoMatrix]

I spent about a year and a half on a tuna boat. We always had flying fish around. Weird stuff indeed. We had one old guy on the boat who would catch them and put them on the grill and eat the whole thing. He was kind of weird too.

During my teenage youth years I spent a two week period on a prawn/shrimp trawler.
That experience was a true eye opener. The 4 man crew would stay out on the water for a week at a time.
30 mins sleep and 30 mins work day and night every 24 hours for two weeks.
Getting over sea sickness each day, getting caugth one night in huge storming seas with a damage propeller shaft.
I made 7 dollars and 50 cents for two weeks work. It could have been 7 hundred dollars if we didn't break down.
The accompaning sister ship cleaned up around our broken down ship and made a mint of money in one night.

Sh!t happens as the say....

[KapeKopyTek]

Why does your body feel the need to take a really deep breath every now and again....?

[slimslob]

Why does your body feel the need to take a really deep breath every now and again....?

Very good question. I've got no answer, but a very good question.

[gwaddle]

During my teenage youth years I spent a two week period on a prawn/shrimp trawler.
That experience was a true eye opener. The 4 man crew would stay out on the water for a week at a time.
30 mins sleep and 30 mins work day and night every 24 hours for two weeks.
Getting over sea sickness each day, getting caugth one night in huge storming seas with a damage propeller shaft.
I made 7 dollars and 50 cents for two weeks work. It could have been 7 hundred dollars if we didn't break down.
The accompaning sister ship cleaned up around our broken down ship and made a mint of money in one night.

Sh!t happens as the say....

Of the three trips I went out on, our short trip was 70 days and the longest was 112. I determined that storms at sea are not my favorite thing.

[Coptech]

I used to think I had tourettes syndrome...turns out, I'm just kind of an asshole sometimes.

[KapeKopyTek]

Why does your body feel the need to take a really deep breath every now and again....?

Why, after you post a post, do you look at it and say, "oh I could have made THAT more interesting...... somehow.........."

[Iowatech]

Of the three trips I went out on, our short trip was 70 days and the longest was 112. I determined that storms at sea are not my favorite thing.

I live exactly as close to the ocean as I want to.