More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht

Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by the-dude on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:17AM (#30230757)

I dabbled in watersports for a bit ( sailing ).

If it flies, floats or <censored>, rent it.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by hughrr on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:30AM (#30230850)

Yes watercraft have another saying: the best days of owning a boat are the day you get it and the day the insurance pays out after it sinks

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by the-dude on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:35AM (#30230874)

Another Dutch one I know :

Koop een boot, werk je dood.

translates loosely to :

Buy a boat and work on it will be a deathmarch.

Except in Duch, it rhymes.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by CaptainJustin on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:44AM (#30234148)

Could you also translate that "Buy a boat, work yourself dead" ?

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by vidarh on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:44PM (#30234849)

Or "to death", yes. Same sentence structure works fine barring the occasional word order change in most Germanic languages (e.g. Kjøp en båt, arbeid deg til døde/til døds" in Norwegian. I can't find a way of making it rhyme in other Germanic languages, though.

(incidentally work/werk have cognates in German and Scandinavian languages too, but only as nouns (Werk, virke, verk etc.), hence the shift to "arbeid" in the Norwegian version; and "buy"->kjøp or e.g. German kaufen is extra odd, with English having retained a Germanic form while the others inherited a latin loan-word; yes I know this is a total digression...)

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by alamortsubite on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:39AM (#30232377)

Mine is, "sailboats are for people with sufficient financial savvy not to own horses."

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by hughrr on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:09PM (#30234416)

Horses are terrible. My sister is an equine speciality vet so is taking advantage of that fact.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by bayindirh on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:14AM (#30231449)

Two unrelated friends said the same thing after owning yachts for a long time.

> Best yacht is your friend's yacht.

One was racing and had many 1st place finishes too. Both sold out all floating assets.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by rich_sasha on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:26AM (#30231906)

Less novel but also true: you don’t own a boat, a boat owns you.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by hughrr on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:29AM (#30231928)

Also applies to cats!

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by rich_sasha on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:54AM (#30232079)

Cats and boats, I have no desire to own either. Sorry, be enslaved to either.

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by detritus on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:21AM (#30231138)

"A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into".

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Re:More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at... by Tehdasi on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:44AM (#30230929)

Another one: Boat stands for Bust Out Another Thousand.

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