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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Was he bald and could beat any opponent in one punch?
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No.

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Count groudon said:
His moustache alone looks like it could punch an elephant into a stain. Holy fuck dude
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His daily diet was:

- Two gallons of milk
- One and a half pounds of crushed almond paste made into a tonic drink
- Fruit juice
- Six chickens
- A half liter of ghee,
- Six pounds of butter
- Three buckets of seasonal fruits,
- Two sheep
- Other ingredients to promote good digestion and recovery.
 
Count groudon said:
Okay I could understand the chickens, but this nigga ate two whole sheep a day? This guy was a fucking legend.
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I suspect he may have slightly exaggerated his consumption. Even sumo wrestlers don't eat that much.
 
Also the butter. That's like a Sam's Club or Costco sized package. A day.

A French performance artist called Monsieur Mangetout once ate an entire airplane. The Guinness World Records sent him a plaque to commemorate it. He ate that too.
 
Here's a fact for you Americans and particularly the segment of you who write shows for Netflix and have recently discovered the fine old English word 'Twat'. We in England are glad you find the word so useful, we believe that our profanity and vaginal colloquialisms are one of our finest exports. Please note, 'Twat' rhymes with 'Cat', if it rhymed with 'Cot' it would be spelled 'Twot'. Please remember this lest you sound like a total bellend.
 
I live in Oklahoma, and people I meet online are shocked that we have internet access. We have electricity, running water, and paved roads too, just like those fancy places back east!
 
DrJonesHat said:
I live in Oklahoma, and people I meet online are shocked that we have internet access. We have electricity, running water, and paved roads too, just like those fancy places back east!
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Im in Arizona and we have all of that and crystal meth!
 
The entire tragedy with the Titanic could’ve easily been avoided if the keys to the locker containing the binoculars were on the ship. The officer working the ship’s crows nest had to be replaced at the last moment, and he accidentally took the keys with him without thinking. It’s been said that if the lookouts in the crows nest had access to the binoculars, they could’ve seen the iceberg much sooner, giving the crew more time to react to it and possibly avoided any damage altogether.
 
Count groudon said:
The entire tragedy with the Titanic could’ve easily been avoided if the keys to the locker containing the binoculars were on the ship. The officer working the ship’s crows nest had to be replaced at the last moment, and he accidentally took the keys with him without thinking. It’s been said that if the lookouts in the crows nest had access to the binoculars, they could’ve seen the iceberg much sooner, giving the crew more time to react to it and possibly avoided any damage altogether.
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Also Smith ordered all engines full reverse and rudder hard over. This was a terrible decision because the reversed engines counteracted the rudder and caused the ship to understeer. He should have gone hard over full ahead which MAY have pushed the ship further over and avoided a fatal collision. The alternative is deliberately ramming the iceberg which would have required the ship to be towed and possibly ended Smiths career unless he was able to convince a committee that he acted in the best interests of all involved.
 
The Great Beyond by R.E.M. Is the bands highest charting single in the UK, peaking at #3. (in the US it made the hot 100 but only peaked at #52).
The song was made for the movie Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, and despite even being co-funded by the BBC, it bombed hard over there.


I say this because its my favorite song
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
Also Smith ordered all engines full reverse and rudder hard over. This was a terrible decision because the reversed engines counteracted the rudder and caused the ship to understeer. He should have gone hard over full ahead which MAY have pushed the ship further over and avoided a fatal collision. The alternative is deliberately ramming the iceberg which would have required the ship to be towed and possibly ended Smiths career unless he was able to convince a committee that he acted in the best interests of all involved.
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This is sort of a popular modern legend. For one thing, the guy in Charge wasn't Captain Smith at the time, it was First Officer William Murdoch, since Smith wasn't on the bridge at the time.
For the other, the Titanic was a massive ship, it would have been mechanically impossible to put the engines in reverse quick enough to have any kind of impact on its maneuverability before it struck the iceberg. Additionally, you don't operate the throttle directly from the bridge, you use an engine order telegraph to tell the machine deck what to do, adding some delay between giving the order and it being actually followed (and as strange as it might sound, that post isn't manned directly at all times).
Shifting into reverse also causes a lot of vibration on the ship's stern, yet witness accounts from that section mention no vibration whatsoever.
Accounts of surviving machine deck crew indicate the order was actually to stop the engines, they were put into reverse after the crash to stop the ship.

Murdoch didn't just turn to port, though, he performed a "porting around" maneuver, which is supported by the nature of the damage we see on the shipwreck today.
When a ship turns, the stern section always slips to the outside of the curve, so turning just to port would have exposed the entire length of the ship to the iceberg and caused damage all along the hull:
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Blue line is the path of the bow, red line is the path of the stern.

"Porting around" means, you turn one side and then quickly turn the other to swing the back of the ship away from collision:
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Had he not done this, the ship would have suffered far more damage (and in case the bow had narrowly avoided collision, the stern would have still slammed into the iceberg at full force).

He could have just headed straight for the iceberg and suffer a frontal collision, however that would have doomed a lot of sailors to a rather gruesome death, since their quarters were in the ship's bow.
In hindsight, we know that the collision was unavoidable, we know the extend of the damage and we know that the ship will sink, so we have the benefit of saying "Well, better sacrifice a few people, than to lose the entire ship" but that is a luxury Murdoch did not have. He didn't know how far away the iceberg was, how much time he had, how much damage he might suffer in a collision and how that would affect the ship, so he tried to avoid the collision altogether.
Given the situation and the information available to him, he made the best choice possible under the circumstances.

When the decision was made to abondon ship, Murdoch was in charge of the starboard lifeboats and apparently, he had half of his safely in the water before the first portside lifeboat even started to descend - thus he is responsible for 75% of survivors in the lifeboats alone.

One of his closer friends that survived reported he last saw Murdoch desperately trying to ready a foldable lifeboat and other reports by survivors mention an officer around that area shoting himself in the head with a revolver once the ship sank. It is speculated that it was Murdoch, even though it was never confirmed that it was actually him.
 
TiggerNits said:
Im in Arizona and we have all of that and crystal meth!
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Tulsa had a HUGE meth problem in the 00's and early 10s, but we've since gotten it under control. The new hotness is prescription drug abuse.

Fun Fact: The Yield sign was invented by a Tulsa police officer in the 50s. You're welcome I guess.
 
Northern Illinois has some of the most fertile soil in the world.
 
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