The Isolated Blurt Thread XXI: Killswitch Edition

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Damn I was fucked up this whole weekend. I woke up thinking I'm about to watch football. Everybody start telling me it's Monday. I still feel high.
 
thanks, people. this is all obviously very complicated and what not, but i appreciate the kind words.
 
You might think Columbus was a brave man that found the new world.
You might think he was a piece of shit that spread disease and slavery.


Whatever. It is a paid day off to me.


Whatever your politics, sailors know the fellow was one helluva sailor.

Taking a small wooden, sailing vessel 3,000 miles across an ocean into completely unknown (and uncharted) waters and getting home again is no small feat of seamanship.


You'll never fully appreciate the skill, guts (and, yes, luck) required unless you've sailed in unknown, uncharted, reef-infested waters. It is not for the faint of heart.


If you wreck the fucking boat (and without charts or any other aids to navigation, it ain't hard to do), you are never going to get home— EVER.


He did it successfully FOUR TIMES.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Viajes_de_colon_en.svg/550px-Viajes_de_colon_en.svg.png

 
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Just let my lil yorkie in and before she came in I noticed a big old bee walkin around her back. :eek:
 
You might think Columbus was a brave man that found the new world.
You might think he was a piece of shit that spread disease and slavery.

There's no "might think" about that.

He was that. Period.

Paid days off are cool, though.
 
She squeaks when she yells and it makes me laugh.
Somehow that means I don't take her anger seriously..

I don't I suppose.
 
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