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To: Long Jon No Silver
Look out bowline.

We need a politically correct list of allowed knots for sailors.

30 posted on 06/22/2020 9:30:39 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

“We need a politically correct list of allowed knots for sailors.”

It’s a violation of Navy Regs for a sailor to tie a hangman’s noose.


64 posted on 06/22/2020 11:20:23 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: AndyJackson

Anything noosy is out. So you can forget a scaffold,uni or simple slip. A running bowline might pass muster in these PC times but who knows. Double dragon might upset the chinese. Alpine butterfly is too mountainering, and as you know only white people climb mountains /s


68 posted on 06/23/2020 12:03:46 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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