The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company. The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman might try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. Reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed that the ship glowed with a ghostly light. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship functions as a portent of doom. It was commonly believed that the Flying Dutchman was a seventeenth-century cargo vessel known as a fluyt.
Origins
The first print reference to the ship appears in Travels in various part of Europe, Asia and Africa during a series of thirty years and upward (1790) by John MacDonald:
The weather was so stormy that the sailors said they saw the Flying Dutchman. The common story is that this Dutchman came to the Cape in distress of weather and wanted to get into harbour but could not get a pilot to conduct her and was lost and that ever since in very bad weather her vision appears.
The next literary reference appears in Chapter VI of A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) (also known as A Voyage to New South Wales), attributed to George Barrington (1755–1804):
I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions and doom, but had never given much credit to the report; it seems that some years since a Dutch man-of-war was lost off the Cape of Good Hope, and every soul on board perished; her consort weathered the gale, and arrived soon after at the Cape. Having refitted, and returning to Europe, they were assailed by a violent tempest nearly in the same latitude. In the night watch some of the people saw, or imagined they saw, a vessel standing for them under a press of sail, as though she would run them down: one in particular affirmed it was the ship that had foundered in the former gale, and that it must certainly be her, or the apparition of her; but on its clearing up, the object, a dark thick cloud, disappeared. Nothing could do away the idea of this phenomenon on the minds of the sailors; and, on their relating the circumstances when they arrived in port, the story spread like wild-fire, and the supposed phantom was called the Flying Dutchman. From the Dutch the English seamen got the infatuation, and there are very few Indiamen, but what has some one on board, who pretends to have seen the apparition.
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This weekend my sister went to a sleepover and my mom’s car is out of commission so she asked me to go pick her up. On the way back I stop into a gas station and there’s a guy with a shopping cart and a sign sitting on the side of the road panhandling. This is incredibly out of the ordinary where I live because we’re in the middle of absolutely nowhere with a population of like 100, so I stopped for a second to give him a couple bucks and ask where he was from.
He was super super nice, he said some variation of “God loves you” probably 5 or 6 times during our maybe 2 minute conversation, and he said he used to live in the city about 200km away from here but he recently lost his housing and has been living on the street ever since. He got tired of being harassed by cops in the city so walked to the closest town to try his luck over there, but they got called on him so he moved on again, and so on over the course of a couple months until he ended up here.
I had to bring my sister home, so I ended up leaving but not before other people showed up to talk to him. Seeing anyone who’s seemingly homeless is so rare out here that a couple of the people had driven probably 20 minutes just because they heard he was there and wanted to chat/buy him something/give him baked goods. He seemed in good company when I left.
On the drive to my mom’s, about 5 minutes later, I see 5 police vans rocket past me with their sirens on. I was almost home by then and I didn’t want my sister with me during this, so I sped up and dropped my sister off and immediately started going back to where the man was. The nearest police station is over an hour away, so they had already been called while I was talking to him. By the time I got there the guy was gone and the pigs had left but there was a crowd in the parking lot of the gas station talking about it, how excessive the cops were and how pissed they were that the cops came out for him. Word goes around at the snap of a finger, but not one person out of the 15 or so who I talked to could say why they came out and arrested him. Even in our community Facebook groups everyone was saying that he hadn’t done anything all day, and that so many people spoke to him throughout the day that there was effectively no way he could have done something and word not get around.
I’m so fucking pissed, when I was 14 I got stopped and had my bag searched by a cop in the exact same fucking spot who’s only reasoning for doing so was “we were bored and looking for something to do” so a goddamn pack of feral hogs coming from outside of our community to harass a man who had done nothing and whom not one person had a problem with really set me off. Calling them filthy fucking swine would be both too generous to the cops and an insult to actual pigs who, unlike the cops, are capable of intelligent thought and can feel emotions other than fear.
Twitter is wild. Thread about should parents let their kids do sleepovers. Comments that are like “the kids could get raped they could get molested they could murder eachother”. Is this level of paranoia even true crime brain at this point? Like people straight up think if their kids walk more than 5 feet away they’re going to be in a warzone.
Man I feel for kids growing up today. If it’s not ducking school shooters or getting sent to a library turned child gulag, your parents won’t even let you do a sleep over, which was the most fun thing to do as a kid next to lan parties, because they got rising crime brain paranoia and spy on the neighbors with a ring camera.
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Same. After school we used to go for long walks around our neighborhood and just do shit like smash beer bottles or stick sword fight. The only time I see kids now is when they’re on the bus or briefly riding by on a scooter.
That’s probably good that you see kids less as you age.
Why do you say that? Intergenerational contact is good.
coming home from a sleepover and telling my mom that my friend had his leg blown off by an ied set up by another friend and overall the experience sucked because his mom forgot to get us snakcs
Prob need a cw on that
CW: Children
For the words describing CSA.
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guess who’s shooting up the workplace come christmas
Wow, spoiler alert.
the only way to deal with these people is to out-crazy them. I do “yes and”, like it’s improv.
“yeah, you make a good point Phil. honestly, that gets me thinking, we really gotta protect the sovereignty of our state. you know, this country was founded on important states rights principles, and now we have all this interstate craziness. people from south carolina just coming freely over the border into north carolina. we need to close the border. shoot them on sight. no question about it. I don’t pay my north carolina taxes so that some south carolina freeloader can wear down my roads, clog up my beaches, litter, commit crimes…”
Someone important to me expressed some very right wing sentiment on the Venezuelan immigrants saying that theyre only here to get free shit and do not plan on working, only beg.
I had a co-worker that was surprised that “abuela” meant “grandmother” in Spanish…
He was in his mid-30s.
Currently lmao:ing @ how much of a god damn grifter circus my field of work is (software development and consulting). “Times are tough”, they say, “we’ve gotta review our business strategies to better reflect our core competencies and leverage more potential paradigm shifts to synergize better with the customer values” or what the fuck ever. A certified OKR Workshop Coach shows up and pulls up a two-hour powerpoint presentation about glorified to-do lists and probably makes five thousand euros doing it. Management are ecstatic at this incredible development. “Remember to also use AI in your daily work, everyone!”
Jesus christ. Imagine if jobs that, you know, actually helped people and improved the world by any measurable metric were considered “good jobs”?
Aspiring to do less for more money is indicative of a broken culture and an education that isn’t liberating. It’s a sad state of affairs
“Aspiring to do less for more money”
The alienation from labor that Marx spoke of in The German Ideology is at work, it seems…
That Marx guy… he was really on to something.
What was his name again? Carl… Marcks?
Meanwhile, Super Mario can work multiple jobs in addition to being a plumber!
joe biden’s 2024 campaign slogan
A customer accidentally correctly gendered me, then apologized for it, then called me pretty.
I don’t know how to feel.
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The first 2 cancel each other out but being called pretty is good so I’d say overall that’s a win.
I miss my cat
just hitting me that she won’t just randomly stroll up to me and meow at me anymore
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I was talking to my friend / cute crush last night and the topic of China came up. She is generally lefty, but she doesn’t like China (fine) but it got so fuckjng awkward when she brought up Xinjiang and how there are a million being forcibly sterilized and interred and essentially slaves. I said I didn’t really believe that because I haven’t seen vwey good evidence, but as the words left my mouth I instantly regretted it, because she looked at me like im a holocaust denier or something. Just oh god this shit sucks so hard I hope she doesn’t think I’m some crazy person. Will not be talking with her about China again it’s honestly pointless.
ask her why the uighers were exempt from the one child policy if they wanted to exterminate the uighers
ask her why the uigher population has been steadily increasing for like decades
is china doing a genocide and just like very bad at it? or perhaps… they’re not doing a genocide
UN REPORT UN REPORT UNREPORT THE UN REPORT READ THE UN REPORT!
What’s in the UN report
Talking China with left leaning westerners as only left me with regret. Regret when I do refute their points, regret when I don’t refute their point. Americans will other China until the war finally happens.
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Someone is like rlly going out of their way to make friends with me
I’m happy
I hung out with people three days in a row
…and god did punish the sinners (me eating spicy cheetos) most severely (tummy ache)
Deleted for opsec but in short fuck landlords and fuck airbnb
My anti vax, anti mask adoptive mother threw out my fucking masks
Shes given me covid twice because she has symptoms and hides them from me
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I hate knowing anything about politics. I hate that I can tell when someone is a reactionary but I know I can’t say anything about it because no one else can see it and I’ll be the one that looks unhinged for calling people out. I just end up having to wait until they go mask off and hurt people before anyone else will get it.
I swear being aware of politics and history turns you into a modern Cassandra, able to predict the future but, despite them coming true time and time again, no one ever believes your predictions
Imma be real, I feel like I only got into politics because I was depressed and didn’t fit in and now that I know politics it has made me depressed and unable to fit in.
trolling them into going mask off is a art