Sailing, maybe, but rowing doesn’t have to be upper middle class. I’m solidly lower middle class, if that, and I get by. With the club, it’s about the same as a gym membership subscription at the end of the day.

Ha, I wish! They’ve fired people already for merely obscuring the camera for a few seconds. There is a hilarious clip of someone reaching up with a pair of scissors and getting the wire, but I like having a steady job with insurance too much. Maybe when I get tired of this shit and get hired somewhere else.

I feel ya, mate. I’ve got the same thing in my company vehicle. It absolutely irritates the shit out of me that anyone above my level of the hierarchy can look at me any time they want.

I’m actually pleasantly surprised by how much movies get right with rowing and sailing in movies.

The one that does make me roll my eyes is the scenes where characters are chilling in the galley or bed and then suddenly run up because they hear/see a problem through a porthole. I always get pretty grumpy with the idea of folks being actively under sail and simply ‘tying’ the wheel or tiller and going under the deck. Only the incredibly expensive sailboats can truly get away with that. A small, affordable to a middle class type, yacht will have that with a motor, but sails are not so forgiving. If the wind changes you could have a pretty bad day, and even a perfectly ‘straight’ tiller will likely have you turning circles ere long. That’s not even considering how poor of a decision that would be unless you were a military ship in the middle of the ocean and others would get out of your way. Just because collisions are super de duper unlikely doesn’t mean they’re impossible.

God, yes! Once I learned about that I can never focus on the movie when they’re playing that clip. Sort of like the wilhelm scream, but in a ‘big sigh’ moment rather than a humorous one.

I’m clean! Don’t you put that bad juju on me, ricky bobby!

I’m just done with epic. At some point they’ll try selling user information and I’m not interested in giving them anything more than they have.

I hate you. I hate you so much right now. I’m going to be trying this for the next week.

I feel you. The only reason I stopped is because they finally did something that didn’t allow my steam account to log into the game. I’ve been clean for a few months now.

Wanna help me get through sen’s fortress? I’m bashing my head against that wall. No matter how many times I beat the games, that place gives me nightmares as the blades knock me to my death.

.> It maaaaay be because I have stick drift and my toon will randomly stop running forwards and walk, but it maaaay be because I just hate lizards with shields.

I love that there are people like you who have the kerbal science down. I still try to get into orbit by strapping more solid fuel rockets on and smashing that space bar. I recently became quite skilled at getting up to 12 people into orbit and back down again because, goddamnit, it pays the bills for all the failed missions to the other side of the planet to take thermometer readings.

Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.