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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 12996148 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153735 on: September 27, 2020, 01:43:58 am »

It always seemed like it'd be better to do it at the other end, though.

Let's not forget that sail ships generaly moved slower than the wind and in the same direction. So if it was in the back, everyone would have to smell it.
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« Reply #153736 on: September 27, 2020, 02:18:42 am »

I've got one of those cross section books by Stephen Biesty. It shows something similar, the mass toilets were on the front of the ship while officers might have a personal toilet in their cabin towards the rear of the ship, probably using a bucket to empty easily if it didn't drop straight into the water.
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« Reply #153737 on: September 27, 2020, 06:23:31 am »

Let's not forget that sail ships generaly moved slower than the wind and in the same direction.
That part's definitely not true! As I understand it, most early sailcraft were generally made to sail primarily at broad reach.
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« Reply #153738 on: September 27, 2020, 07:27:51 am »

You could put the toilets on your sailing titanic at the sides of the ship if you like.

At least the third rate ones. The officers, or at least the captain had a crewmember to trow away its private chamber pot every morning or maybe had its personal hole to the sea to do its bussines. You could do this for the first class passengers.

How you desing that without making it a flood point is your thing.

Also while there are some large wooden ships, there is a limit to their size from wikipedia:
"Because of her extreme length and wood construction, Wyoming tended to flex in heavy seas, which would cause the long planks to twist and buckle, thereby allowing sea water to intrude into the hold."

Mind you this is the largest sea going vessel made of wood I could find. Perhaps you sould detail is some magical treehuger wood or make it a rad Dwarf ironclad of sorts, or maybe a human vessel made with dwarf help. Just if you want to have that detail just in case.

Oh being a dwarf vessel or having its tech migth help with the poop issue by introducing plumbing.
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« Reply #153739 on: September 27, 2020, 07:31:20 am »

Why go all the way to the beakhead?  Why not just whizz from the royal mast crosstrees?
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« Reply #153740 on: September 27, 2020, 07:40:43 am »

That probably happened, specially in civilian ships or if no officer was in sigth?

But unless you can pee your shit, then you need a way to dispose of it, and if you can, then that is the lesser of your problems!

Not counting in a titanic casino there probably will be woman too, and if they also have shitting penises.... you migth as well just jump out the damn ship and drawn to find peace in death
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« Reply #153741 on: September 27, 2020, 08:10:37 am »

You could put the toilets on your sailing titanic at the sides of the ship if you like.

At least the third rate ones. The officers, or at least the captain had a crewmember to trow away its private chamber pot every morning or maybe had its personal hole to the sea to do its bussines. You could do this for the first class passengers.

How you desing that without making it a flood point is your thing.

Also while there are some large wooden ships, there is a limit to their size from wikipedia:
"Because of her extreme length and wood construction, Wyoming tended to flex in heavy seas, which would cause the long planks to twist and buckle, thereby allowing sea water to intrude into the hold."

Mind you this is the largest sea going vessel made of wood I could find. Perhaps you sould detail is some magical treehuger wood or make it a rad Dwarf ironclad of sorts, or maybe a human vessel made with dwarf help. Just if you want to have that detail just in case.

Oh being a dwarf vessel or having its tech migth help with the poop issue by introducing plumbing.

This made me realise something: Titanic was not a sail ship. It was a steam ship. And a luxury liner at that.
Passangers and crew would have toilets, probably emptied in a similar manner to today's trains.

The original post does not specify the propulsion of the ship being designed, nor it's material. The only thing hinting at it are the images.
Remember, if the ship is propelled by something faster than wind, the toilets should NOT be in front, as the smell would waft over the ship.
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« Reply #153742 on: September 27, 2020, 08:21:46 am »

This made me realise something: Titanic was not a sail ship. It was a steam ship. And a luxury liner at that.
He specifically said a "medieval Titanic".

Incidentally, does anyone else find that "medieval Titanic" basically sounds like the White Ship?
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« Reply #153743 on: September 27, 2020, 11:58:16 am »

Why is it that they don't call the deck you shit on the poop deck, it seems like something that would cause confusion.
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« Reply #153744 on: September 27, 2020, 12:05:04 pm »

Why is it that they don't call the deck you shit on the poop deck, it seems like something that would cause confusion.

False cognate.
It ultimately comes from Latin "puppis", which means the stern of a ship.
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« Reply #153745 on: September 27, 2020, 12:11:10 pm »

Lies. There's no puppies there!
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« Reply #153746 on: September 27, 2020, 12:46:51 pm »

AHHH, but, is the word 'poop' derived from the term poop deck?
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« Reply #153747 on: September 27, 2020, 12:53:25 pm »

No one know for sure.  It may come from a Middle English word meaning "to blow a horn, to toot, to break wind".
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« Reply #153748 on: September 27, 2020, 02:35:17 pm »

Oddly, while in Dutch 'poep'  means 'poop' (pronounced exactly the same), and 'poepen' means 'poop(verb)', in Flemish, 'poepen' means 'have sex', I shit you not.
I found out the hard way, when I told the girl behind the bar in a Belgian pub I was visiting that I needed to poop and asked if I could use the ladies' room because the men's room only had standing urinoirs.
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« Reply #153749 on: September 27, 2020, 03:36:50 pm »

'poepen' means 'have sex', I shit you not.

Interesting choice of vernacular  :P
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