haha they look so happy to be there

that doesn't look like irc at all

tomorrow I go to the urologist to get my piss checkup/piss physical

just a little unkempt

i think A THING STEEL DID is a good byword for 'how to conduct yourself decently'

yes, exactly.

Farren, I think you might be overreacting, especially since you said  you were spoiling for a fight, but I'm not there and have no clue what's really going on.

I'm not just spoiling for a fight I'm spoiling for a fight with a bad person. I do not think gay people are bad people but I think someone that crosses a certain line that can clearly tell I'm not on that side of the border (and does so purposefully) is disrespecting me and therefor a bad person. I'm just thinking aloud. I guess you would have to know me personally to some greater extent or be me to understand exactly what I mean.

Its hard. I'm not what you people are. I was made someone else by the people I've met and where I've been so I don't think on a grand scale anymore like you guys do. I know that might be hard to understand.
 
Some people do stupid shit, it is my own personal problem with people touching me I don't know more than anything. Thats what I was worried about pretty much, I didn't know how they were gonna act with the way my friend was coaxing them. Some people do stupid shit.

I haven't seen konix in ages, same with others like Rowain or Xangui the hell ever happend to them?

also, I get upset when I'm stalked (true story)... umm I had a point but I don't remeber what it was...

EDIT: any one remember Dr.funk and when he finnaly got ban-hammered? guy was an asshole but at least he was honest about it and didn't hide that he was one.

konix had a sex change and it kinda fucked him up psychologically

he posts on another forum i'm on as konixina

it's really sad stuff. don't watch too many michael bay movies. you don't know where you'll end up.

Xonix does make a pretty hot woman I must admit, though I'm not sure about her facial tattoos :/

ugjhhhhhhhhhhhhh

my boss just quit and he's prolly takin' the other older guy with him and its just me and an old 7ft tall black guy named roscoe. So I'm all by myself out here which I was hoping he'd come back, its not happenin and now all that bullshit I've been dealing with and getting billed for bullshit I wasn't supposed to yet while I'm trying to save money cus I'll be outta work for a couple months is driving me crazy. This ship is so small it doesn't even have a punching bag so I keep pushing myself harder because its the only way I can get outta my head which is the last thing I should be doing. I think I'm getting his position because he's been training me for it since I started but I don't really want it either. Its alot of responsibility and I can do it its just I don't have the patience for assholes like I said and I know that will probably bite me in the ass on down the road if I'm not careful.

Well atleast I'll be the youngest bosun they've ever had on here. I'm still not sure I'm getting it they might just, not give me the title and expect me to do it all like I've been doing. They'll give me employee of the month or something as recognition but I was put in for that before I got sent home. So I'm guessing I was employee of the month and never even saw it or heard about it.

This is a bosun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosun

Its an old naval occupational title and being a bosun is a sign of great skillmanship, accomplishment, and respect. I got people callin me that already but they're pretty much joking with me. I was put in for assistant bosun before but the older guy leaving with my boss whined about not having it because he's older and it would make him look bad. He's had it like four times before but keeps fucking it up. I didn't really care that the guy got it because like I said I would rather just do everything and not be bothered but he's dumb as hell and I don't like listening to him. No one really expects me to listen either cus they all know that he's dense but I don't like arguing with a 65 year old that acts like he's 13 it makes me feel bad.

are you being serious about the sex change thing or are you just yanking my chain?

well you could try to yank konix chain and see.

By the way farren, do you think it would be possible to smuggle weapons aboard a ship like yours? Do they check a lot of stuff to make sure no one is trying to, say, smuggle a bunch of RPG-7's or assault rifles? Do they use x-rays, sniffing dogs, etc all the time or , like, only if they suspect anything?

I'm security on here so as far as the vessel itself is concerned I'm the one that looks through the baggage and keeps an eye out for shit like that. But the way shipping is setup nowadays , you cannot get onboard a vessel unless you've got the right paperwork and approval in the first place. When we go to foreign countries, before we're allowed to actually enter the country and work there they bring that countries custom agents onboard. Some of them are as thorough as dog searches and locker searches (United states and mexico sometimes) but in the non-first world ie: Singapore, vietnamn, trinidad its not really as important.

The captain has a firearm locked up in his room, I think this one has a shotgun. But other than that unless the shipping company has some sort of special permit (very expensive and hard to get, plus kind of risky) to carry firearms onboard its not likely at all. The only time I would really be worried about security though is drydock or if we're serving as a floatel. Thats when its hard to keep track of whos who and how many people are coming onboard. When we went to singapore for drydock I had to do the security and there were 400+ workers coming onboard to do shit.

All of em were pretty much either indian/asian I think and not to sound like I'm stereotyping but that country has a huge muslim community and its ingrained in the culture too so if you were going to be worried about terrorism or someshit thats about as close as I got? Didn't have a problem with any of them though they were all cool as fuck its just hard to get 400 people to sign in and out on my little clipboard. Also singapore and the malaka straits (where we were at) is infamous for piracy and there were attacks on small tugs a couple hundred miles away from us.

Other than piracy attacks though you dont really here about any sort of politically driven attacks on the shipping industry. The piracy is from desperate people trying to support themselves so they aren't very organized and usually get diverted. I think the main reasons why terrorists don't target the shipping industry is because you need more than just an experienced pilot to navigate/control/maintain a ship. And sailors aren't really the best people to fuck with. Because usually after a prolonged amount of time peoples tension rise and really it would be a bad idea for a terrorist to fuck with a bunch of old, grumpy ass, salty, mostly ex-military working men.

So yes you could technically slip a firearm or some dank, pills, whatever on here if you wanted to. I've smelled spice onboard before and I knew a few dudes that had painkiller problems and I think they did what they could when they could but its honestly a bad idea overall. Because if you do get caught up to a certain extent (that immediate termination can't solve) the company is required to call the coast guard.

Who will fly over here on their pimped out little helocopters and lock your ass up. Same for fighting or violence. I've seen folks get to the point of scrapping and my buddy roscoe actually snapped one day and tried to chicken choke me (he had a death in the family and I was joking with him and didn't know about it. I wasn't being mean or anything he was just in a bad place and didn't say anything about it). Plus one time a vietnamese welder actually punched out a mexican for fucking with him when I first got on here. It was pretty funny because all the mexican abs I worked with were telling him he was a disgrace to mexico because he let a vietnamese beat his ass (they were fucking with him). Sometimes little stuff happens like that and it gets worked out and snuffed, but yeah if its too serious it gets taken care of.
 
Edit: On my second ship I stood a gangway watch and it was military sealift command/navy so we could carry weapons onboard. Well the ABs could I was just an ordinary seaman then. I had to take over  the watch for the AB I worked with so he could go out in town for a day but I didn't get to use the gun then because I needed to take a small arms class first. So the mate took the gun and went to sleep and when I asked him what to do if something happens and he left a radio and said, "yell real loud". I was 19 then...
 
 
Edit: ahahahaha one of those little gay guys keeps making some sucking noise through his teeth sometimes when I'm around and I'm trying to figure out if he just does that or if he's doing it when he sees me because I was just in the galley and he did it and the rest of the galley hands were laughing pretty hard. Then I was sitting on the handrail and one of em got stood next to me (really close) and walked off. I think he was testing me to see if I'd move away or not? I think the reason they're acting like that is because I'm the youngest american on here and they think I'm pretty.
 
Yeah I asked the camp boss what it meant and he said it means dudes got a crush on me. It sounds like "TSST, TSST". He was doing it the other day when I was eating and everytime I turned around to see what it was he'd do it again which made me think that.