Flat bottomed oof that’s going to be unpleasant
Posts by Ken Johns ⚓️
Sorry to be a bummer, just an old sailor jumping in with nautical disasters
The thing about it is there’s land right there and over there and more there and over 1,200 people died. It happened right by Rikers Island not out at sea.
“The panic was horrific among the passengers as they faced death by drowning or being burned alive on the ship.”
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When I was in the us coast guard in the late eighties we took some people to the General Slocum disaster site to put wreaths in the water. It happened in 1904 but knowing about how awful it was and how it basically destroyed an entire community is something I still think about every so often
John Fetterman stars in Oaf Cop coming this fall on CBS
Tattoo on forearm depicting Jeff Lynne of ELO, black ink
I met an Australian in San Diego with a Jeff Lynne tattoo. He said I was like one of three people that knew who it was
I need this, love the mummies
Bellevue where my condo with less than 900 square feet sold for $452,000 three years ago
I went to coast guard boot camp in Cape May NJ and spent one hour on the water in eight weeks. What we did could be done on a small lake. I am not defending Noem, who I despise and think has been a stain on the coast guard but the new tracen doesn’t need to be on the water.
Wait until they see a convoy of Strykers driving down 405 through Bellevue
Allen wrench on piece of white paper surrounded by memorabilia from my coast guard service including unit patches and ribbon bar.
I liberated an allen wrench from the coast guard in 1990 and finally found a use for it in 2012. I even commemorated the event.
He also knew the same people as I did but I just do not remember him from that time.
Marc Maron, he was a senior when I was a freshman. I must have met him since he hung out at some of the same places I did besides school. He worked at a bagel shop I frequented but I don’t remember him.
I’m watching the Super Bowl on Telemundo in New Mexico and people have been speaking Spanish here since the sixteenth century.
With my late wife on the field 2013. Im standing behind a beautiful woman with my arms around her waist on the Seahawks field
Coolest forklift ever. Green forklift with Seahawks and Sounders logos
Go Hawks!
I read a book about the history of Prussia and I kept having to stop and think which goddamn Frederick is this?
This takes me back to ‘88 and the time I caught two guys smoking weed…on our coast guard cutter in…the paint locker.
It was a good training opportunity for the deckhands from San Diego and the Philippines to learn how to shovel snow.
I was working on a ship in Baltimore at the time. Pretty snowy I gotta say.
I hate that the coast guard has the noem stink on it but I was doing this when I was a coastie in the eighties
When I lived in Bellevue we had a couple of brutal ice storms. The whole area around Seattle was paralyzed for days. Fuel trucks couldn’t get to our neighborhood gas stations so they rationed gas and had lines like the 70s. Power lines down everywhere, some homes weren’t restored for 2 weeks.
When I was a civilian contract mariner for the MSC through my union we went to classes by where the fire department has their school. Liberty Station is great.
I’m from New Mexico and lived in Bellevue for twenty years and Taco Time was the worst. The salsa tastes like ketchup
Skeedaddle
As soon as I sent this question I realized I can’t really remember any chief engineers names because I always called them chief
Jake and Rocky
The Charlton was one of the few LMSRs I never worked on but I’m wondering if I knew your father-in-law
They’re such big bois they gave us Kawasaki mules in 2010. I drove my wife down into the cargo holds and when I told her we’re below the waterline she said let’s go back up
I’ve worked on a bunch of these ships including in Baltimore. We lost three mooring lines and a gangway in the Mississippi awhile back but fortunately we didn’t come off the dock. Also the USNS Gilliland sprung a leak in its keel in Baltimore in 2016, first time using shoring that wasn’t training