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Can they board at such speeds? Also, the ship has more fuel.
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Can they board at such speeds? Also, the ship has more fuel.
The speedboats aren't going to be chasing them all the way to Suez. Fuel doesn't really matter much.
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They manage it somehow.
Not enough detail.
You shoot enough guns, they may be frightened into stopping. You throw a rope over the rail, you may be able to climb up. It's dangerous, but it has happened enough times that they must have worked out something that works. If ships could just ignore them and keep going, they would. Ships have pretty thin hulls, an RPG can put a hole in it.Yeah, if I am riding what is essentially a giant bomb and some guys with machine guns and RPGs show up I would be tempted to stop. From what I have read, the vast majority of crews are ransomed by the ship's owners and get away alive and I would bet that every captain knows that.
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There we go. I wonder if anyone has called the pirate's bluff though.
Not every commercial ship is an oil tanker.
That won't sink the ship though. But it might frighten the crew enough to give up.
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Just wondering what exactly "fangirling" means. And if its supposed to be a good or bad thing. I know what a fangirl is. But what is fangirling.
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Doing stuff a fangirl does I assume. So as an avowed Aimee fan, if I get very excited to see you posting here again, I am fanboying.
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Does this mean you were excited to see me posting here. I've been around. Just quiet. I've been working on some stuff.
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I do agree with some of what you are saying. You are correct in stating that your results will be the result of the amount of effort you put into it.
But as for that quote, mental capability does have its limitations. I can't just will myself to be as smart as Einstein or Hawking. I can't come up with the Theory of Everything no matter how hard I try.
I do believe some people are mentally stronger than others. It's why we have people at the bottom collecting welfare unable to work. Or collecting disability because they are too fat to work. Although by your idea, maybe if we forced them to improve themselves, they would. Which would require eliminated disability, unemployment, and welfare. But there are some people who still would be unable to improve themselves. And they end up homeless.
Homeless people are proof some people are unable to improve themselves mentally even if they are forced to by their circumstances.
Not everyone is born with the same mental capabilities. We aren't even born with the same size brain. And some people's brains never mature due to abuse at home, malnutrition, or other things.
And finally, I just want to state that it is a physical problem because bullies are physically stronger than me. No matter how hard I try, I cannot kick their ass. But I was lucky to not be bullied too much outside of elementary school. Although I was bullied by the preppie kids mentally in junior high school because I was poor compared to them.
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While this would be usually a good point to bring up, intelligence is also not relevant to mental strength. Some of the strongest people in the mind are dumb as a bat, and vice versa.
I thought you had something good going on in the first sentence until you brought up the second and third sentence. A lot of people are on welfare due to poor circumstances and bad luck. There are the bottom feeders, but they are like that due to upbringing, not because they're somehow mentally weak.
Forced assistance from an early age would be incredibly beneficial to most folks. There will be, of course, the ones that stand out as rotten apples but you will always have those on every tree.
Unfortunately for us, welfare is not really a good way to get back on your feet. There are some programs here in Canada that have re-education courses and work seeking consultants but even those are rather poor at helping people. You can improve yourself mentally all you want, it doesn't change the situation you're in. You losing your job or falling into a bad rut is not caused by your mental capability.
See above.
There are outside factors that disallow you to mature properly or in a correct manner. That is not your fault and it shouldn't be happening anyways but alas the world is not perfect. As a victim of malnutrition and abuse, I am perfectly aware of the mental ramifications.
I suppose your problem is that you feel you need to be better than them for the problem to go away. If your body type doesn't allow you to become strong enough to physically fight back, simply not caring about what they say or agreeing with them will most of the time get them to "stfu" so to speak.
Before I began working out, I halved my bullying problem by agreeing with every insult they threw at me. For example, this one particular bully would always be quick to tell me that I am a "fat, useless Belgian that will go nowhere in Canada", though he said it in a more vulgar manner. My response was to simply say, "Yeah, I agree."
It angered them enough to stop doing it. The first couple months they'd get mildly pissed and punch me in the face, but you get used to that. Then they snap and simply never speak to you again, not even to insult you. A few fists to the face seem worth it if the person in question will forever leave you alone, but I guess that's my opinion.
It's risky, but anything in pre-adulthood is
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How do you pronounce "trope" (as in TV Tropes). Is it pronounced the way it looks.
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It is, yeah.
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When asking a girl out, should one take the 'casual' approach ("Why don't you come with me for some drinks on Saturday night?") or the more 'serious' approach ("I feel we've grown quite close and I would like to further our relationship...")? I'm thinking the former.
Which leads me to a further question - could a girl genuinely believe they are being asked out purely on a friendship basis if the casual approach is taken?
Which leads me to a further question - could a girl genuinely believe they are being asked out purely on a friendship basis if the casual approach is taken?
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