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minus-squareEldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·13 days agoAs my dad who grew up sailing says, “a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.” There’s nothing you can do to them that’s worse than they’re already doing to themselves by owning a boat. Besides, they’re talking about the kind of boat that you’d see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed: It’s no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there’s hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoYes, and they cost a shit ton of money to own. Most of the people who own those boats literally own multiple houses.
As my dad who grew up sailing says, “a boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.”
There’s nothing you can do to them that’s worse than they’re already doing to themselves by owning a boat.
Besides, they’re talking about the kind of boat that you’d see in every harbor all over the world, not some monument to greed:
It’s no 15 foot Boston Whaler, but there’s hundreds of boats that size in every harbor and marina you can think of.
Yes, and they cost a shit ton of money to own. Most of the people who own those boats literally own multiple houses.