The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: I honestly don't know

[StillStunned]

Moving on to a new topic: recently I've been reading some George Gently detective novels. There are 46 of them in total, and I have a collection of the first 4 on my e-reader. They were written (and are set) in the mid-1950s, and wow! does it show. The casual xenophobia, but mostly the constant descriptions of smoking.

But at the same time there are sensual undertones. References to sex, quite graphic descriptions of female beauty, prostitution. I can't say whether it's representative, but for me it feels a decade or so ahead of its time, before that kind of thing became acceptable in mainstream fiction.

 

[Bramblethorn]

And if you get shipwrecked, you've always got your little buddy to play with.

Suddenly visualising Tom Hanks having graphic sex with a volleyball.

 

[onehitwanda]

Suddenly visualising Tom Hanks having graphic sex with a volleyball.

"Wilsooooooooooooooon!"

 

[Bazzle]

I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again 'cross the sea
I am sailing stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

 

[Bamagan]

Suddenly visualising Tom Hanks having graphic sex with a volleyball.

"I painted you a face with my blood, and now I'm gonna paint your face with my... eurgh!"

Sorry! But not sorry enough.

 

[Bamagan]

Good luck on re-titling the thread this time, @StillStunned .

 

[onehitwanda]

Good luck on re-titling the thread this time, @StillStunned .

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I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if a billion voices all cried out "Bukkake" in horror, and were suddenly silenced.

 

[Bamagan]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if a billion voices all cried out "Bukkake" in horror, and were suddenly silenced gurgling wetly.

FIFY

 

[onehitwanda]

FIFY

You disgust me. And not in a good way

 

[Bamagan]

You disgust me. And not in a good way

Nauseating people is my love language.

 

[Statius]

"I painted you a face with my blood, and now I'm gonna paint your face with my... eurgh!"

Sorry! But not sorry enough.

 

[Erozetta]

Good luck on re-titling the thread this time, @StillStunned .

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He could just put boating and sailing in quotation marks. "boating" and "sailing".

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm surprised there are so many sailors here. AH struck me as more of a motorboating crowd.

 

[Erozetta]

I'm surprised there are so many sailors here. AH struck me as more of a motorboating crowd.

Really? It seemed a little sea men heavy to me.

 

[Trionyx]

I'm surprised there are so many sailors here. AH struck me as more of a motorboating crowd.

All sailors eventually become motorboaters.

Sailboat, then in order,
Motorboat
Motor home
Retirement home
Nursing home
And funeral home.

 

[AlexBailey]

I was recently staying at a resort in Hawaii where large catamarans were taking tourists out for short sunset cruises. They were rigged to pick up and drop off passengers on a sandy beach. Each night after drop off they would sail off, sometimes to an anchorage, sometimes out of sight up the coast.



There are people who do that for their job. What’s that thing about “If you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life”?

It sure is easy to dream about something that seems so ideal from the outside, but I know first hand that working with tourists on a daily basis can eat at your soul - and the sea is not always friendly. Still, sailing nightly sunset cruises… could be some good fodder for erotic stories.

 

[Britva415]

I'm always intensely distrustful of large areas of window on blue water boats

Yeah, but most of those boats are only nominally "blue water" boats.

I bet the ones on a Kraken are just about the best you can get outside of military vessels - which themselves have large areas of window and are not necessarily designed or expected to re-route for weather.

 

[stickygirl]

Yeah, but most of those boats are only nominally "blue water" boats.

I bet the ones on a Kraken are just about the best you can get outside of military vessels - which themselves have large areas of window and are not necessarily designed or expected to re-route for weather.

The krakens are a great design starting with the keel being part of the hull, not bolted on. Designed by a sailor not an accountant

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

So, when you raise anchor and head out, are you 'unleashing the ...'?

 

[onehitwanda]

I will be cremated, and my ashes will be scattered at sea. From the sea I came; to the sea I will return.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

Moving on to a new topic: recently I've been reading some George Gently detective novels. There are 46 of them in total, and I have a collection of the first 4 on my e-reader. They were written (and are set) in the mid-1950s, and wow! does it show. The casual xenophobia, but mostly the constant descriptions of smoking.

But at the same time there are sensual undertones. References to sex, quite graphic descriptions of female beauty, prostitution. I can't say whether it's representative, but for me it feels a decade or so ahead of its time, before that kind of thing became acceptable in mainstream fiction.

This is why I love the Hammered, noir detective fiction challenge here on Lit. My main character, Samantha Spade gets to drink whiskey, smoke Luckys, refer to women as broads and dames, all while smacking the baddies around and fucking the femme fatale five ways to Sunday.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

And Athena is mine.

Athena, all I ever want to do is please her
My life has been so settled and she's the reason
Just one word from her and my troubles are long gone
But I think I'll get along

 

[Areala-chan]

Why has it fallen to me...?

Anyway, take a good, hard look at the muthafukkin' boat.

 

[Statius]

I will be cremated, and my ashes will be scattered at sea. From the sea I came; to the sea I will return.

For myself, in the woods bury my ashes at the roots of a red maple.

 

[Statius]

On the other hand.....
Boats and ho's!