But would you give her YOUR nut?
A rhetorical question, of course.
Inquiring minds want to know: How fugly is she?
if I were single and could get some action onboard, my standards would be fairly low. But she doesn’t do that so its a non-issue.
She should post a pic, even if it’s ten years old. Hell, it doesn’t even need to be her…just some generic average looking girl in work clothes would do for the imagination.
[QUOTE=z-drive;174517]But would you give her YOUR nut? [/QUOTE]
OH GOD!..you need to excuse me!
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[QUOTE=LI_Domer;174502]Cajaya is giving us a veneer of caliber.[/QUOTE]
Probably just crawled out of a [I]maine[/I] engine.
Don’t lie! You’re a damn sailor, I’m sure you’ve done worse.
[QUOTE=coldduck;174524]Don’t lie! You’re a damn sailor, I’m sure you’ve done worse.[/QUOTE]
I’ve come to learn that some guys have high standards. They all seem high when you have none.
A great example, is one time while I was drinkin with my better half, I let it slip out I would tap Queen Latifah. She countered that with she would do Kat Williams. Touche!
[QUOTE=cajaya;174508]You wanna piss off a workboat engineer?
If you know how to use a tap and die set, this is how you do it:
As he and the wiper are sitting in the control room talking about guns and hunting, and the eight point buck they shot last Tuesday, go to the engine room and collect all the nuts and bolts with messed up threads that you have discovered in the last month. Collect them all together, put them in a bucket along with a tap and die set, go to the control room and sit there (make sure to be somewhere in their visual proximity) sit down, and start repairing the threads. Make sure that you don’t have all nuts and bolts of the same size and that they vary quite a bit. This is to ensure that the engineer sees you switching out appropriately fitting taps and dies with ease, and not much difficulty. Be sure and use the thread gauge that comes with the kit too, or to hold a bolt and tap up to the light, so you can see the threads lining up appropriately, the important part is to make sure the engineer sees you doing this. This will really infuriate him. And it will be very entertaining.
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If you really want to add fuel to the fire, when you are done make sure to tell him which size tap and dies are missing or that would be useful to have in the future. Even better yet: as you are doing this write down the exact pitch, diameters etc on a piece of paper and set it on the log book desk…he will be so MAD, it will be hilarious.[/QUOTE]
If I took to heart all the ignorant boobs I’ve worked with in the past, I would have chosen a new career a long time ago.
I’m intelligent enough to understand that it isn’t fair to judge an entire industry based upon my own personal experience. Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. No matter how hard I try to do a good job and be professional, there is always someone better. Just because I exceed at some point doesn’t give me the right to be terribly critical. Worry about yourself and only yourself.
You conveniently ignore the rest of my post and only comment on the caliper/caliber part. Interesting…
[QUOTE=Ctony;174528]If I took to heart all the ignorant boobs I’ve worked with in the past, I would have chosen a new career a long time ago.[/QUOTE] nope that was pretty much the standard. very few people knew how to use tap and die sets. nothing wrong with that since we cant all know everything, i just found the reactions amusing. not everyone would get so angry about it, only the ones that had giant egos on them. maybe 40%.
the GoM solution for damaged thread is to force it, with nothing but pure brute strength and raw workboat man power…grrr!
[I]Nah, we dont got not time for none of dat der fancy thread repair nonsense, we gottda get this shit here done! My show is commin on!
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Meanwhile 3 hours later…
[I]I almost got it! grrr! here gimme dat dem der air wratchet!
Few! see, der, got er done! We didnt no waste no time at all did we? Ooops…oh well da damn
head of the bolt broke right off there didn’t it? No problem! We’ll just call someone to come out here in fix it, I’m gonna take me a brake and go roll a couple o cigarettes…
Did I tell you I been a mechanic since I was 6 years old? I shit you not, at 6 years old I was already an ASE certified master technician. If you add it all up, I’m sure I could be me a chief engineer unlimited right now, that whole license thing is really just a technicality anyway, and chief knows that, that’s why I’m in charge around here…[/I]
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[I]Did I tell you I’m getting my DDE 4000 next week? Yup, bypassing the who training thing, yup dem der in the office already know about all my experience in all…you know being a ASE certified master technician since I am 6 years old. Yup and they already got a boat lined up for me…im gonna go over there an be the relief chief, they got C280’s over there! I never really worked on em or anything but I know how to change dem filters pretty good, I can change the filter pretty good on the 3516’s to! Well now come to think of it, I have never actually worked on any of these engines out here besides changin’ the filters…hmmm but that dont matter, I already did all that as a toddler!!! The chief on here and I are real good buddies, so he put the word in for me to get the relief spot on there…[/I]
I admire your tenacity, even if it shows you as being such a deranged fool…
Lord knows I have some stories about my experience in the gulf, which wasn’t terribly positive. My nature won’t allow me to generalize like you do, in the repulsive manner that is such your style. Incompetency happens everywhere.
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[QUOTE=Kingrobby;174535]You conveniently ignore the rest of my post and only comment on the caliper/caliber part. Interesting…[/QUOTE]
This is how she operates. She is like a lawyer, twists particular phrases around to her benefit.
Isn’t that 98% of any female anywhere that is losing an argument?
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[I]Did I tell you I’m getting my DDE 4000 next week? Yup, bypassing the who training thing, yup dem der in the office already know about all my experience in all…you know being a ASE certified master technician since I am 6 years old. Yup and they already got a boat lined up for me…im gonna go over there an be the relief chief, they got C280’s over there! I never really worked on em or anything but I know how to change dem filters pretty good, I can change the filters pretty good on the 3516’s too! Well now come to think of it, I have never actually worked on any of these engines out here besides changin’ filters…hmmm but that dont matter, I already did all that stuff as a toddler!!! The chief on here and I are real good buddies, so he put the word in for me to get the relief spot on there…[/I]
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She should post a pic, even if it’s ten years old. Hell, it doesn’t even need to be her…just some generic average looking girl in work clothes would do for the imagination.[/QUOTE]
I guess I can see myself bearing a resemblance to her…accept fat
He didn’t even ask what you were up to later and let you know that if you do him a favor maybe he could put in a good word so you can transfer to the other boat too. It was a good read though.
I have just realized…I have never kissed a Chief engineer before.
Life goals, am I right!
[QUOTE=Ctony;174545]I admire your tenacity, even if it shows you as being such a deranged fool…[/QUOTE]
sadly, I am beginning to see a woman with a very deep seated persecution complex which lies above a more deep seated low self esteem. The fact she admits to being heavy is very telling that she does not feel good about herself but steadfastly holds to the belief that all her professional problems are not of her own creation vis her endless cries that it is the old boy culture that disenfranchises her in the industry. I wonder if Cajaya has ever heard the saying “thou lady doth protest too much”?
I will certainly say for the benefit of any woman in an industrial profession that they are placing themselves in a bad if not unwinnable situation there because as women, men are innately going to see them as sexual creatures regardless of the work they perform and it is almost too much to ask by women that all men completely shelve any and all of those feelings in an industrial workplace. Further it forces a woman who is not completely butch to artificially suppress their femininity while they are working. I certainly hear the stories of military women being sexually assaulted by their superiors. It truly would require a woman to turn herself into a man to survive which is not natural so I always wonder why feminine women want to enter such a world dominated by roughcut men? I don’t have a great deal of experience with women crew on vessels I’ve worked on but I can see how it would be a very hard career for an attractive woman to be surrounded by men who are all lusting for her. If she becomes butch for the duration, then they resent having her in their presence. Personally, I don’t like having any women on ships or workboats and believe the team works better without them aboard all for the reasons I stated above. At the very least they are a distraction.
The only place where I have seen it work is on small cruise vessels where the female crew was a large percentage (often majority) of the total but those vessels are not industrial in nature so every one involved in their operation is more refined in their temperaments. However I have not worked much on those vessels so imagine there are issues with the differences between the sexes aboard as well.