
Rip City
Moderator: Jesus H Christ
Bruce Dickenson wrote:Hear the rime of the ancient toddowen
See his thread as he stops none of three
Mesmerises none of the message board
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.
And the music plays on, as we all pass by
scroll with wheel as the toddowen tells his tale
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
mvscal wrote:France totally kicks ass.
Martyred wrote: Hang in there, Whitey. Smart people are on their way with dictionaries.
War Wagon wrote:being as how I've got "stupid" draped all over, I'm not really sure.
F-Toddowen wrote:Just got in. I'm back for a couple of days.
Nice job, all.
Believe me, I laugh at all of this too. Especially knowing more than likely even a macho man of the world like Luther would be wimpering to go home the instant land was out of sight. Just think what someone like Mvscal would do. :P
The weather was extremely shitty virtually the entire trip. Nothing but gale force winds and heavy seas of 18-24 ft swells from the time we got beyond the Stonington breakwall. Any among you think you can handle that for more than a few hours, let alone a few days of constant pounding? It a tough reintro, but I remember worse. But of course, we worked through it. That boat's as solid as any.
The catch was very meager. We were shooting for whiting and squid and didn't take very much from the canyons out around the 100 fathom line: Block and Atlantis Canyon. After a day and a half of that misery, we then decided to shoot over to Nantucket and try there, but the bag ripped off the net on our first haul this morning and we had no choice but to come back in.
Not a good trip. Far from the 18,000 pounds of whiting we were hoping for and the good market price it would've brought due to the few boats that'll go out there in this kind of weather.
All in all it was tiring but fun. At least we ate well while we're out there. My equllibrium is all fucked tonight, of course. I could barely stand in my shower a few minutes ago with my eyes closed without grabbing hold of the side of the wall.
BSmack wrote:Best. AP take. Ever.
Seriously. I don't disagree with a word of it.
Upon checking out a monkfish earlier:Toddowen wrote:Why, I'll bet these pussies would would shrivel and shiver at the sight of a monkfish.....let alone having to handle one.
Van wrote:It's like rimming an unbathed fat chick from Missouri. It's highly distinctive, miserably unforgettable and completely wrong.
Welcome back. I have icythiaphobia, so your job sounds horrible.Toddowen wrote:Actually, I don't hate the type of work that I did. I just dislike some of the useless jerkoffs that I had to be around for 40-50 hours a week.
Commercial fishing is a pretty tough way to make a living. It's not for everyone. It's dangerous. And there are times when you'll put a lot of effort in for little or no pay. But at least I'm around good friends now. And there are times when it can pay well.
And yeah.....probably something close to 100% of the pipsqueeks that make up the world of Jim Rome message board posters would make their first stop on returning to port at their doctor for a dose of meds for extreme duress and mental exhaustion.
Why, I'll bet these pussies would would shrivel and shiver at the sight of a monkfish.....let alone having to handle one.
Joe in PB wrote: Yeah I'm the dumbass
schmick, speaking about Larry Nassar's pubescent and prepubescent victims wrote: They couldn't even kick that doctors ass
Seems they rather just lay there, get fucked and play victim