Bazj Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 If you click on the link that Asp put up, the QM2 is now at sea on its way to Ireland!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I prefer the link that Paul put up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I prefer the link that Paul put up Oh you are so quick.... OK, click on the link that PAUL put up and you can see the Ship heading towards Ireland (Cobh- formerly Queenstown - where the Titanic stopped on her maiden voyage to New York!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 so did anyone see it in Liverpool yesterday? It is now docked in Cobh Baz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Try this one... http://www.seascanner.com/schiffsposition.php?schiff=Queen+Mary+2 Might be handy for you Asp if you get lost!! Baz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I've heard of train spotting but now we are into boat, sorry ship spotting. Are anoraks still compulsory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Apparantly a ship is called a ship if it's big enough to carry a boat.While a boat is called a boat if it's small enough to be carried on a ship. You'll upset him again! A "boat" is a submarine..... .....and no, anoraks aren't compulsory for shipspotting or boatspotting, but given that sailors apparently believe that a boat being completely submerged is still floating, I'd advise a lifejacket!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I don't just believe it, I know that a submerged submarine, if it's not touching ground, is floating. Simple physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Physics for the simple, anyway!! It is not "floating", it is "suspended" in the liquid. Amongst my many assets there's an A level in Physics..... I know, I know, they're not supposed to be given to anyone with chesticles instead of testicles, but sorry, Admiral, I slipped through the net! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 From the Cassell Concise English Dictionary: Float - to be supported on the surface of or in a fluid. Chesticle - no entry found. Happy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Happy? I am enjoying myself enormously..... my OED specifies "on the surface" as the main entry, note note of floating underwater .....but if you don't know what chesticles are, you've REALLY been at sea too long..... anyway, the joke's not funny your way: What's long and hard and full of seamen? A boat. See, it's much funnier if you say "a submarine". Normal people actually get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Ill have to take your word for it that that effort actually passes for a joke. Any self respecting Christmas cracker manufacturer would reject that one out of hand Does your OED have an entry for chesticles by the way? I must check Wkipedia, it might be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Chesticles: Large wooden boxes hanging from the gutter in winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Chesticles? In the OED? Don't be silly, it's completely made up - like your suggestion that one can float UNDER the water..... You started the silliness, I'm just joining in to humour you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 That will be a "no" then? Several thousand hits on Google though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/8622/56/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Chesticles: Large wooden boxes hanging from the gutter in winter. Ooooh, like that - now for the really BIG challenge: explain to Asp why that's funny when a large wooden box in naval terms is a crate... The large thing hanging from my Mum's gutter last November was the window cleaner when the wind blew his ladder sideways. I don't know why he hung there, cos it was the ground floor extension and his feet were only half a yard off the floor! We were all laughing too hard to be any use to him either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 I thought a crate in naval terms was an aeroplane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 And do they float too? See the RAF say they fly, but they are fully supported on a current, which is in the dictionary as floating, so I'm sure there's a sailor somewhere will claim they are in fact ships and the RAF is a minor branch of the glorious Navy..... unless of course we factor in the air above them too, so they are suspended - which although not compromising the term "float" in the universal Navy sense, would in fact argue that they are submarines. Incredible how you lot get the buggers up that high, innit?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Didn?t get to see Queen Mary 2 but just spent the day in Liverpool to see the carrier HMS Illustrious and a flying display from its helicopters. Left it a bit too late to get onboard but at least we got a great view from the ferry. Just thinking, the last time I was on that I was probably as old as my grandchildren. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Don't want to worry you, but I've just looked at the QM2 webcam and it's pitch black....has it sunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 It IS night time Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Don't tell me it is Solar powered . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_nana_jackson Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 On her maiden call to Liverpool tomorrow- arrives 11am and leaves (with all the usual Cunard glitz and fireworks) at 11pm. At the Cruise Ship Terminal near the Liver Building. I wonder whether she'll pick up any ghosts such as "haunt" QM1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robot Posted November 6, 2009 Report Share Posted November 6, 2009 On her maiden call to Liverpool tomorrow- arrives 11am and leaves (with all the usual Cunard glitz and fireworks) at 11pm. At the Cruise Ship Terminal near the Liver Building. I wonder whether she'll pick up any ghosts such as "haunt" QM1 There will be a few homeless ghosts from Bewsey Old Hall in a few weeks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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