A lot of times post that include lots of links of questionable origin will automatically spam them for approval. It is frustrating but at the same time keeps the place free from the real spam.. you would be shocked at how many spam robot accounts have been set up over the years! Come in here selling everything from car parts to encyclopedia's!
I am starting to think Rastus has either died, or is extremely butt hurt, or has broken another computer. Hope he is okay and at sea, but even still he usually pops in. Says he hasn't even logged in for quite awhile which is unusual for Rastus as he goes back a long while.
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I just spotted this while looking for the lost "Let's have some humor thread".
Shawnee's right in that I work as a Marine Engineer Officer, or at least used to lol ! I was "picked-up" around 10-years ago & completed a Cadet-ship with a multi-national Canadian company known as Teekay Shipping...Apparently we deliver around 10% of the world's energy needs in the forms of Oil ( crude & refined petroleum ) & LNG. They also have off-shoots in other shipping industries, where here in Oz, they bought out the BHP shipping fleet around 2000, & basically, like a typical globalist company, sold-off all the vessels once their use-by date approached...( BHP had multiple vessels that essentially delivered iron-ore, & other "metal" goods around the globe, namely to China, Japan, & sometimes the US-of-A ).
This means I finished my Cadetship & didn't have a ship to sail on LOL ! And I couldn't get a release on my contract for over 12-months, as they owed me 2-years sea-service but couldn't deliver a ship for me to work on !
It was when I started working for the "Go Marine Group" that I first started posting here, but the contracts with the company became fewer & fewer as time went by...
Once the Gorgon & Wheatstone projects were completed, the small AHT vessels that I worked on, all went back to Singapore, where it's cheaper to have them sit idle, with a lower paid foreign crew. ( These AHT vessels are basically large tug-boats, with massive horse-power ( around 18,000 bhp ) that can serve as supply, towing, & anchor-handling vessels for oil-rigs, & even as scout ships for seismic survey vessels etc etc.
Then I get picked-up by a Belgium Dredging Company known as JDN (Jan De Nul ) where sadly, the work seemed to flow irregularly over the past 3-4 years, until now, where it's just a trickle.
Since all my accumulated wealth ( lol ) is now nearly spent in living costs whilst awaiting the next contract, I'll likely be getting back into the motor trade to keep-on living.
The bottom line is that my Gov't has failed to manage successfully our shipping industry, meaning there's no more work for me, & it's out-sourced to the lowest bidder.
With all the nuclear sewage flowing into the Pacific from Japan at 500,000 liters-per-day since the disaster started back in 2011, it's probably a lot safer in the long-term to work back on land.
Yes the wages were great, but you worked hard for it too, at 12-hours a day +, everyday, for up to & beyond 42-days straight. We were also taxed very heavily at around 56-cents-tax in every dollar earned...That's right, I only received 44-cents for every dollar I earned. That's why the salary was so high I guess, to off-set the tax paid.
Anyhow, back to our regular broadcasting !
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I just spotted this while looking for the lost "Let's have some humor thread".
Shawnee's right in that I work as a Marine Engineer Officer, or at least used to lol ! I was "picked-up" around 10-years ago & completed a Cadet-ship with a multi-national Canadian company known as Teekay Shipping...Apparently we deliver around 10% of the world's energy needs in the forms of Oil ( crude & refined petroleum ) & LNG. They also have off-shoots in other shipping industries, where here in Oz, they bought out the BHP shipping fleet around 2000, & basically, like a typical globalist company, sold-off all the vessels once their use-by date approached...( BHP had multiple vessels that essentially delivered iron-ore, & other "metal" goods around the globe, namely to China, Japan, & sometimes the US-of-A ).
This means I finished my Cadetship & didn't have a ship to sail on LOL ! And I couldn't get a release on my contract for over 12-months, as they owed me 2-years sea-service but couldn't deliver a ship for me to work on !
It was when I started working for the "Go Marine Group" that I first started posting here, but the contracts with the company became fewer & fewer as time went by...
Once the Gorgon & Wheatstone projects were completed, the small AHT vessels that I worked on, all went back to Singapore, where it's cheaper to have them sit idle, with a lower paid foreign crew. ( These AHT vessels are basically large tug-boats, with massive horse-power ( around 18,000 bhp ) that can serve as supply, towing, & anchor-handling vessels for oil-rigs, & even as scout ships for seismic survey vessels etc etc.
Then I get picked-up by a Belgium Dredging Company known as JDN (Jan De Nul ) where sadly, the work seemed to flow irregularly over the past 3-4 years, until now, where it's just a trickle.
Since all my accumulated wealth ( lol ) is now nearly spent in living costs whilst awaiting the next contract, I'll likely be getting back into the motor trade to keep-on living.
The bottom line is that my Gov't has failed to manage successfully our shipping industry, meaning there's no more work for me, & it's out-sourced to the lowest bidder.
With all the nuclear sewage flowing into the Pacific from Japan at 500,000 liters-per-day since the disaster started back in 2011, it's probably a lot safer in the long-term to work back on land.
Yes the wages were great, but you worked hard for it too, at 12-hours a day +, everyday, for up to & beyond 42-days straight. We were also taxed very heavily at around 56-cents-tax in every dollar earned...That's right, I only received 44-cents for every dollar I earned. That's why the salary was so high I guess, to off-set the tax paid.
Anyhow, back to our regular broadcasting !
see even Rastus notices the missing 'humor' thread......
Sure enough, you guys were right! It was in the deleted topics folder and I have no idea how it got there.
Could you have perhaps mistakenly deleted the topic, Clarity101? I guess I could have just as well except I really didn't frequent the humor thread and the last post in that thread was July 8th, and I know I haven't been in that thread since then for sure.
You are a MOD in the DH section, so it could have been done by error. I have never seen an entire flag get whacked like that, perhaps individual post but never a whole thread once approved. It had to have been an accident, as there are very few deleted threads as any questionable threads are just moved to the V8 Cafe.
