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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depends if I'm passenger or crew. Working a ship sounds like a way bigger pain in the ass than my job.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're the guest of honor who tries to interpret an ancient treasure map that you inherited from a distant relative.

[–] Hotdogman 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ekZepp 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] McJonalds 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Actually, it's pretty alright! Being below deck during rough weather sucks and the morning after shore leave ain't great either. But it wasn't a bad gig.

[–] FederatedSaint 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How am I supposed to traverse Antarctica (a continental land mass) in a big wooden ship? Does the ship have wheels and sleds? Because Antarctica is a desert. A cold one, yes, but still a very-much-hostile-to-sea-faring-wessels desert.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Someone will have to get out and pull

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You ever seen the movie Fitzcarraldo?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just wait a decade or two.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I'm questioning the logistics of dragging ships along across the antarctic mountains, but as long as I am one of those riding the ships instead of dragging, I'm game.

[–] Nurse_Robot 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does this feel relatable

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Because it's a mission with purpose. Real purpose, not the "hit that deadline" purpose.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It's an urge deep within us all.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we gotta be trans to go on the trip?

I mean if that's the price... 😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I think so. And then I guess they make you reverse it on the return trip. Maritime rules are weird.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Transatlantic, yes, but not transantartic. I do not like cold.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My roommate went to Omega Mart a few days ago and all she got me was this pack of chewing gum and maybe covid. Hopefully not the covid, but she's got it right now. :/

Edit: got the covid too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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[–] PP_BOY_ 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't even have to be wooden. Just give me an excuse to wear a big wool turtleneck sweater and a captain that looks this picture of Earnest Hemmingway and I'll do whatever

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I also wear a big scarf while I gaze contemplatively off the port side?

[–] PP_BOY_ 10 points 1 year ago

It would be weird if you didn't

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Would probably still be warmer than some of the offices I've worked in.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Very nice. Difficult choice between that and an Airship

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I know the success rate of those things and I'm not a huge fan of long pork

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit I just want the office job so I can quit being killed for nearly minimum wage. Plus I hate the cold.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just want food service workers to be treated like actual people. I love cooking food but between corporate and customers I'm at a limit 😮‍💨

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if, knowing what I know now about how Shakleton's trip went, I would sign up for an expedition on the Endurance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you sign up for an expedition and things go wrong, you better hope it’s with Shackleton.

[–] Blumpkinhead 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I remember right, he hammered nails through his boots to make primitive ice cleats, hiked out of there with a small group to safety, then immediately returned with help to rescue his men. Dude was a badass.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The sea is a cruel mistress me hearties 🏴‍☠️

[–] Pj55555 9 points 1 year ago

Many good jobs from the past are no more such a shame.

[–] mechoman444 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As long as we have access to modern medicine I'm game!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here’s an orange

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago

On a scale from 1-100, how many teeth does the surgeon's bone-saw have?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll pass on trans antarctic trips. I'm not a fan of the cold, and it's very cold down there. Now trans Atlantic.... YES!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah no one ever got cold on a trans-atlantic ship, no sir, not even in April 1912.

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[–] Wogi 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was a kid my mother got me a book on the expedition of the Terror.

I will not be going on a trans arctic or antarctic voyage in a wooden ship.

Edit: NVM I'll go. Risk is worth it. Call me up when you're ready to embark

[–] Discoslugs 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just make sure to choose the right type of boat.

Cuz shackelton did not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make sure to choose the right type of men, too.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't go on a trans antarctic trip; I wouldn't want the cold air blowing up my skirt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I read this as leaving one's job because the boss asked them to go on a ship for the office tembuilding exercise or something. I'd have to sleep on it myself, I think.

[–] ohlaph 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a descendant of Roald Amundsen, so yeah, let's do this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Eh, give me a one way ticket to Mars and we can talk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Me, even after watching the terror: (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

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