Pub Trivia - AKA things that may be beyond the scope of Moorey’s knowledge

[moorey]

Correct. I loved that's all I got's second album, when all the band mates switched bedflutes.

I think they changed their name from ‘No use for a name’ when Tony Sly died.

 

[moorey]

Can we get a question?

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

What’s this called?

 

[moorey]

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What’s this called?

Will you accept the name of the porno it featured in?

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

Will you accept the name of the porno it featured in?

If it makes me laugh

 

[Haakon]

Turny thingy for pulling up anchors.

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

Turny thingy for pulling up anchors.

Nope. In the ballpark though.

here’s one in use

 

[moorey]

If it makes me laugh

Oh. NVM

 

[Haakon]

Nope. In the ballpark though.

here’s one in use

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Turny thingy for roping yourself to the wharf.

 

[Haakon]

Saw one those break on the ferry as we were pulling into Venice. Big thick rope the thickness of your arm snapped and hit the wharf with an almighty bang. Right next to some bloke whose head would have been taken off if he'd been standing a couple of meters over....

 

[moorey]

Saw one those break on the ferry as we were pulling into Venice. Big thick rope the thickness of your arm snapped and hit the wharf with an almighty bang. Right next to some bloke whose head would have been taken off if he'd been standing a couple of meters over....

I don’t believe it’s at all stretchy….are you sure?

 

[Haakon]

I don’t believe it’s at all stretchy….are you sure?

Anything will stretch with a few thousand tonnes of ship pulling on it...

 

[moorey]

Anything will stretch with a few thousand tonnes of ship pulling on it...

Or snap.

 

[Haakon]

Or snap.

 

[fatboyonabike]

windlass

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

Saw one those break on the ferry as we were pulling into Venice. Big thick rope the thickness of your arm snapped and hit the wharf with an almighty bang. Right next to some bloke whose head would have been taken off if he'd been standing a couple of meters over....

We just had mooring line breakages (aka snap-backs) as the topic in a recent safety meeting at work. 1 in 7 incidents lead to a fatality apparently

 

[fatboyonabike]

Cure…Human League……

um…that’s all I got.

fucking Cliff Richard!

 

[PINT of Stella. mate!]

windlass

I’ll give you it as you’re close. It’s a capstan.
Windlass’s do the same thing but they tend to be horizontal

 

[moorey]

fucking Cliff Richard!

I thought it was Cliff Fucking Richards, for Cliff’s sake?

 

[fatboyonabike]

I'll stay with Nautical terms for $1000
Where would you find a Windlass