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am I into 'rope and rigging'?🤨 uh yeah I guess you could say so

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Paul-Albert Besnard (French, 1849–1934)

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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Shay is the new boyfriend of a divorced deadbeat dad, and as such is forced to try and figure out what to do with a 12 year old each time the kid is there for a weekend.

Based on a post I cannot find anymore ;0;

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rigging & power lines r like siblings i think.

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Seeking Council  ♕

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Curious Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing upright and looking through porthole into the kitchen of arctic expedition ship M/S Stockholm in Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway by Andy Rouse               

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-Francis…-

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mutuals can open my protective plating and play with my wires and say its to check for viruses but we both know its just to put your hands in my organs

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Pretty sure someone must have already done this, but I'm posting it just in case.

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the dying explorers: in hindsight, maybe it wasn't hysteria

i know it's because they didn't have the kind of modern medical knowledge we do back then but reading about polar exploration history is hysterical in hindsight because so many of these guys heard accounts from their fellow explorers describing the absolutely hellish obstacles they faced from both the extreme environment and their own mental and physical deterioration and were like "skill issue" and then went there to prove it and encountered the exact same problems

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Day eight of doing these studies, today I did Frenchie!

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t3t we lost one of the polycule

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Someone has some things to unpack. Long time no Lesbian Fitzier

Based on this

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Revisiting an older piece with some new learning and a better dog. I really loved basically dismantling all most some of my old habits with a sledgehammer.