Post #2350592
2026-02-25 07:34 UTC
Now. I was afraid of sea sickness. I'd been on fishing trips on the open ocean, and had been very sick. So I wore a patch.
You may not know this, but there are still Royal Navy traditions practiced aboard ships.
One of the important ones: there's always a comedy officer. Someone whose job it is to be funny, to make sailors smile.
You think that's silly, but sometimes these people are on board these ships for a *year*. It is important that they be amused.
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 2026-02-25 07:37
And the other Royal Navy tradition: Captains are inviolate commanders, at all times in all settings. They present "serious". They eat and drink separately from the crew. They have only three or four other officers that they ever get to, comparatively, relax with. So, you have a comedy officer, and you have a captain, and the captain simply looks the other way when the comedy officer is up to their hijinks. He *knows* the hijinks. He *sees* the hijinks. But he pretends not to.