'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by jmkd on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:28AM (#26358675)

BBC article at the time of posting was indeed 'Floating ship'

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by judge2020 on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:40AM (#26358843)

For reference: https://twitter.com/KeirGiles/status/1367742771017224196

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by dvtrn on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:57PM (#26359766)

I might even go so far as to say that that is their desirable default state.

As long as the front doesn’t fall off.

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by lostlogin on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:02PM (#26359840)

If anyone doesn’t get the reference, this is required viewing. It’s gold. https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by mrec on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:56PM (#26360504)

Marvellous; I'd never seen this.

The format and humour remind me very strongly of the Bird & Fortune (aka The Long Johns) skits here in the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bird+%26+fortun...

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by dvtrn on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:56PM (#26361308)

You should watch more of these two, Clark and Dawe on YouTube. Behind the humor is biting commentary but a lot of education, I learned a lot through their humorous and pretend political interviews as an American about the Australian government and even the European debt crisis.

John Clark (the one who kept insisting the front fell off) passed away a few years ago.

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by btilly on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:22PM (#26360043)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirki_(tanker) for the real life ship that inspired that piece of comedy.

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by Cullinet on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:58PM (#26360567)

under the related articles is the 1990 spill of the tanker "Mega Borg". After reading the first time about "the front fell off", I am given to think that the earlier comedic opportunity has gone sadly missed. [Ed. but I don't know if Scorpio Tankers Inc took the ticker STNG for related reasons...]

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by mindcrime on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:52PM (#26361942)

I can honestly say I laughed until I cried the first time I saw that. Possibly the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in my life.

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Re:'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker by dennis_jeeves on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:09PM (#26362150)

> their desirable default state.

Who would have guessed...

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