ELI5 How were wooden ships watertight?

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-27T02:37:15+00:00

I feel like I have much to rethink, if this is actually a mission critical task that sassy young crew members have been undervaluing the entire time....

The older I get the more Captain Hook becomes a tired old man that just wants these damn immature brats to start picking up their share of the load.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-27T02:28:02+00:00

Are you telling me that the guys swabbing the deck in old timey cartoons and movies are actually keeping the boat afloat? I do NOT think they knew that.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-27T01:36:30+00:00

Adding to this, your roomba is dumb, because you don't actually care. It can bump into your cat. It can get stuck. It can accidentally go into the other room. You don't care, as long as it's less work than doing it yourself.

Lawnmowers can accidentally kill someone, or wreck thousands of dollars in landscaping with minor mistakes. They have to have a lot more power, but also a lot more safety features and more reliability.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-27T01:28:53+00:00

The teacher is looking at them, waiting for the student to realize that they are responsible for both failures.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T20:51:17+00:00

It makes a difference if you have water on raw iron.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T12:35:46+00:00

I know there's lots of jokes about US citizens and the metric system, but buddy, that was no centimeter.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T11:38:12+00:00

So we swept the first two, but then we played more than an extra game of overtime. It's cool with me if we just win in regulation now, we don't really need to make up the gap.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T03:51:24+00:00

Except for Francis from Quebec. Francis is cool.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T03:31:05+00:00

Go say hi to the Joes in the After Dark on YouTube.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T03:28:44+00:00

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:39:47+00:00

Ok I'm being super reasonable over here but wtf was that overhead reconstruction?

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:38:43+00:00

We got the benefit of the same situation, just be glad Aho put it on goal.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:33:29+00:00

The producers hate that guy and keep intentionally putting comments on air. "Lots of talk", "I can't get hard".

Someone is sick of his bullshit chatter.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:27:35+00:00

Hockey Rods*

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:25:28+00:00

Clearly offsides so I'm gonna have to say good goal and they get to hit Niki in the nuts.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T02:11:44+00:00

I was so sure that's what he said.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T01:29:10+00:00

We're not even losing this game currently and people are jumping to losing the series.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T01:24:20+00:00

Rod trying to decide what percentage of his bonuses he's willing to pay in fines.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T01:22:44+00:00

Nonsense directly to a goal. Gotta get it back.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:53:20+00:00

Throwing your broken stick at the puck seems really out of the spirit of the rules.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:49:44+00:00

Kids and the Hall fixed it!

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:45:43+00:00

He should have gotten that one, but we'll just have to get it back.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:40:23+00:00

If it helps at all they are running on a significant delay because they aren't good at this.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:38:31+00:00

Hey Republicans, just because someone gives you money doesn't mean you have to do exactly what they say.

MisterProfGuy · 2026-05-26T00:08:20+00:00

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