AlsoI knew that I'd left out something:
It turns out that I do not like to sail. I never have, but remember: at the time I was an avid surfer. Surfing is to sailing as watching explosions is to watching erosion.
I still think that what all the guys out on their boats plying their local waters today are doing is just what I was doing when I was eight and used to sit in a cardboard box for hours imagining that I was traveling in outer space: they are fantasizing about some great adventure when what is actually going on is tedious, really mind numbing, and anyone who thinks about it for two seconds should see that. When you are on a boat you are stuck, there's nothing marvelous going on, nothing is going to happen.
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Sun 27 Nov 2011, 0:08,
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It turns out that I do not like to sail. I never have, but remember: at the time I was an avid surfer. Surfing is to sailing as watching explosions is to watching erosion.
I still think that what all the guys out on their boats plying their local waters today are doing is just what I was doing when I was eight and used to sit in a cardboard box for hours imagining that I was traveling in outer space: they are fantasizing about some great adventure when what is actually going on is tedious, really mind numbing, and anyone who thinks about it for two seconds should see that. When you are on a boat you are stuck, there's nothing marvelous going on, nothing is going to happen.
Heh, some good informations thereI used to love my cardboard box spaceships, though, and you could say much the same thing about computer games, or a whole slew of other entertainment (including stories and holidays) - they don't actually cause anything marvellous to happen. It's very difficult to get anything marvellous to happen in life, so that seems an unfairly high standard to request from a boat. Come to think of it, boats are on Ian Dury's list of reasons to be cheerful:
Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
18-wheeler Scammels, dominecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox
Which is a completely ambiguous song, but I think emphasises that a boat ... a boat is just this thing, you know?
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Sun 27 Nov 2011, 1:19,
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Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
18-wheeler Scammels, dominecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox
Which is a completely ambiguous song, but I think emphasises that a boat ... a boat is just this thing, you know?
Cheerful stuff.Nannygoats ftw.
I think that surfing and motorcycles can make a lot of things look pale by comparison. My brother actually raced bikes for a few years and he's like a sober junkie now: nothing is fun relative to that. The upside is he has always wanted kids and now he's really prepared having put the best things in life behind him.
I suppose that the moral is to avoid peak moments???
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Sun 27 Nov 2011, 3:06,
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I think that surfing and motorcycles can make a lot of things look pale by comparison. My brother actually raced bikes for a few years and he's like a sober junkie now: nothing is fun relative to that. The upside is he has always wanted kids and now he's really prepared having put the best things in life behind him.
I suppose that the moral is to avoid peak moments???