[raydan]

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not actually anti-gun, I just have problems with people who think that a gun will solve all their problems... and those that use it as a penis-enlargement remedy.

[Jabberwalker]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Seeing as he was commenting on Americans, your sarcasm is misplaced.

I couldn't quite read the tiny font, properly.

Mea culpa.

Besides, I was just in Ottawa with my son for a week. I got my very first senior's discount at the Aviation Museum ( and free entry to the War Museum for both of us! Woo-hoo!) so I'm using my "advanced years" as a handy excuse for stupidity.


BTW, did you ever tour or sail on an O boat? I was on Ojibway for the first time a few weeks back.

Holy sufferin'! I'd go bananas after one watch! I'm six foot four and I felt like the giant Alice in the Rabbit's house.

Nooooo thanks, man!

My uncle, mydads older brother, was a submariner for most of his 25 years in. He was a quartermaster when he retired. He served on Rainbow and Ojibwa both. My dad thought about it. He was an FC and NESOP. Said it stank too much. He served his time on the Saskatchewan and Terra Nova. I only toured a few American ones and Rainbow as a kid. I only served on the Yukon.

I sailed in those engine spaces on Protecteur ... where they fought that fire for days a couple of years ago. I'm sure glad that I didn't have to fight that.

Anyway, the racks on Ojibway are no longer than about 68 inches. You would have to sleep all of the time in the fetal position. That sould hurt after a while. The smell ... well, if everybody stinks, you get used to it, they say. I always smelled of diesel, anyway as that green polyester work dress held oil beautifully in it's fabric, especially the trousers. I was in just a few years after the cotton dungerees were retired and nobody was happy about it. I'm REALLY glad that I never had to fight a fire wearing oil soaked polyester.