Just for grins…on our refrigerator.
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Hi Doug as I do not care much about woke etc or P.C. I reckon that A.I. is a woman!

I have only come across one woman who knew where she was at any one time otherwise all were either lost, or terminally dependent. Mind you the the one I am referring to also believed in the power of crystals and pyramid shape placed over a razor to keep it sharp. An excellent dancer, but impossible to live with.

By the way I have a personal delight in ending a sentence with a preposition! As Churchill once said to a critic. "Up with which I will not put"

Sorry to our foreign friends but it is English like what I wrote. (quote Ernie W)

Roy

The answer was in the question...

Sorry, my wife was on the P/C, so I was 45 minutes. before I could answer the question.

AI loosing his bearings🙄
Or his marbles?

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Hi Doug Just ranting in the wrong spot.
Rick

Hi Rick, good to hear from you👍How ya doing?

What prompted your odd post?

Cheers, Doug😎

I may be wrong and old but I remember when I could disagree with you and not get insulted or called an offensive
name.
We need to stand up to BULLIES call them out so every one can see them.
Rick

"A trireme (/ˈtraɪriːm/ TRY-reem; from Latin trirēmis 'with three banks of oars'; cf. Ancient Greek: τριήρης, romanized: triḗrēs[2],  'three-rower')"

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Titanic must still be the theme as I really am getting that sinking feeling.🐙

Trireme, Greek for three rowers or oars😊

Hi Doug it was an English sort of remark, saying he must be English as a complement, due to the clarity of his written word.

It seems the questions are the real catches as far as idiomatic English is concerned and not always easy to translate from what Alessandro comments.

As there is a connection with A.I. I have found 'stories' written by an A.I. source where there is over description of feelings and surroundings but very little substance to the narrative. OTT is my response and I stop reading.

I think this use of A.I. may be easy to see but the 'fake news' stories are a definite worry.
There are so many stories of the latest Trump cock-up or gaff that I have stopped even reading them. The fact they exist is concerning as the future may be full of this kind of rhetoric about anyone targetted especially for future elections and governments.

We have already seen in the UK that a carefully directed assault on a selected group can influence a referendom. Witness the Brexit voting but more to the point the foolishness of the then Prime Minister Cameron in not setting out parameters at say 60 : 40 for any change, previous voting on the subject had been 70 :30. Some of those in power are proud of their lack of understanding of maths.

I think it is sad in the USA that elections have often less than a 2% difference between the the two parties, it is so divisive. Like in the school play ground "if you are not with us you must be against us".

A.I. has some unexpected consequences which are coming to the fore. The future could well be a dodgy place to be!

Roy

Hi Roy.
Re "Mike! You are not English and living abroad?!!!!!"
A few of us English have also managed that feat.
Despite Brexit chaos😠
Cheerio, Tschüss, Ciao - Arrivederci, Adieu - Au revoir, Adiós, Viszontlátásra, DaH jImej😎
(Last is a greeting from Lieutenant Worf😁)

Tri - reme?
How's your Latin?😉

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I understand you Mike, but at least you understand English.
I have to rely on the translator (maybe because I'm also a bit lazy) and the translations are sometimes bizarre.
The last question I got wrong in the "Question of the Day" I didn't understand at all, due to some poorly translated key terms. I gave up and tried randomly, making a mistake.
This time I was more tenacious and in the end I understood the meaning. Consider that he translated "to be nested" as "nidificare" which in Italian means to make little ones, or to make bird's nests.
In short, before I got to understand the question well I imagined that on some boats birds nested or could keep the fish they caught alive.
This also happens to me with some questions on the forum.

Hello Mike your English is fine, and after all you are a Commodore in the Swiss Navy now!😊😊😊😊
Roy

Hello Roy!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!

I'm a real man of the Swiss mountains!
and I speak the cool Swiss German!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!
Best hobbyist greetings,
Michel-C.

Mike! You are not English and living abroad?!!!!!

regards
Roy

Watch again, I've had enough and my English is bad too . . .
I'd rather tinker than get annoyed . .

Michel-C.

I never tire of “Captains Courageous” or John Houston’s “Moby Dick.”
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Ah! Captains Courageous, one of my favourite films. It is almost a documentary on the Grand Banks fishing boats. Get over the first part but it is the lead up to the way the story goes. The plot is good too.

The dories are stacked and launched on the fishing grounds where they line-fish for cod. Since those days of over-fishing the fish left represent just 2% of what there were. The fishing boat is Were Here in the film and there are dastardly deeds and competition but the filming is terrific.

If you have not seen it then do it now! Not the later Disney re-make, that is rubbish.
Roy

There's nothing like a good old fashioned flat bottomed Banks Dory!

Paging Mr. Tracey, Mr. Spencer Tracey
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I am not allowed to miss this question. In the video, the dories are on deck in the first few seconds. BLUENOSE has a white stripe at waterline.

Like I said ...
"Read the question and the answers carefully" Gents & Gals😉
Oh! I see you all are👍
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Anybody remember Duplex craft? Harvey Middleton if I remember, he got involved with a larger company but things did not go so well.
They made the 575 and the 590 plastic sailing yachts. But they also made a trimaran, I have one and it sails very fast but the weak point is the cross members linking the outer hulls to the central hull.
I have repaired the trimaran 3 times now, they must flex and the glue joint gives way.

See photos of Trimaran and my 575 (length in mms). All plastic models and solvent used for 'glueing'. They pre-date 3D printing and I keep them out of the sun due to UV light affecting the ABS plastic.
Roy

3 out of 3 so far. The extra clue helped😊

Hi Boatshed,
Tip: Read the question and the answers carefully, two or more times until the penny drops.
Such as: which word or words appear both in the question AND ONE of the answers💡
This often precludes an intimate knowledge of the core subject matter😉
Today was pretty obvious by elimination anyway.
Happy guessing, cheers, Doug😎

Another lucky guess.
Once again knowing nothing about sailing ships/boats it was a guess.

Once again an anti landlubber question. . . . 🤕

Like an 'O' Level question.

Read and read the question, then the optional answers and see which one is the best fit!!

Oh dear! I got confused and pleed diminished ability to understand a question with long answers! It is probably old age but the other option to old age is not one I would make either.

confused
Roy

Easy peasy today (ketches having been discussed at length several months ago😉)
Only 22 days to go now😊🤞

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O well got this one wrong today. Hopefully will do better tomorrow. Learning some new things😊

Light is definitely not right!! 🤔

My father used to say, “sharp for sand.”
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Wrong today, bad guess. If Danforth anchor was listed I would have got it right!

It did seem any answer was correct once again ,so i used that fickle finger of fate to guess. And bingo i was write.
Philuk👍

I got it right today too, can't be a fluke 😁

This was a hard question for me. Took me quite a while to eliminate some of the multiple choice answers. Got it right today 😊👍

I agree... I went for the French one!! 😊

What sounds and looks French 🤔...
and what doesn't??😉
A and C were clear, and I was pretty sure that D was either Dutch or Danish.
A bientot mes Amis,Doug😎

i agree, does not make sense! Just makes for confusion, Just can't fathom it!

Fathom meaning to encircle or get round something, my dad used the word but no one else as far as I know. "I just can't fathom it".
The start of an aproximate distance of finger tips across a man's body seems about right.

I did a search and no where does it discuss any other version of the fathom, going into many decimal points for the exact measurement. I tend to remember trivia information, but will not bother with this!

Roy

If they want to compensate surely it should be shorter as in B? No, AI is wrong.

Having taught Navigation and some Hydrography I’m really enjoying these types of questions. The Admiralty had defined the fathom as 1000th of a Nautical Mile as there is no agreed International definition of a fathom, still isn’t as it never became an SI Unit.

Only quibble with the question is that a Nautical mile equates to 1,852m so the fathom is 1.852m not 1.854m

Should be 6ft.

As agreed when AI goes wrong… we’ll regenerate a new question for the day shortly.

Stephen

This reason sounds a bit 'Iffy' to me!! Did mariners use Lead Lines at all in deep water?? And B or D are the same answer!!

Get real AI!!

I guessed right but still wrong😂😂😂

I was sure it was 6 feet exactly, seems a bit of a stupid measurement 6,1 but the ai God must be obeyed.
Philuk👍

After a quick bit of research, nowheee does it say a Fathom is 6ft 1 inch. The only refrences I can find show 6ft dead. .