YouTubePosted on 04/11/2023 1:48:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
After recently completing sea trials in the North Sea, the billionaire's new sailing yacht Koru was delivered by Oceanco [The Netherlands] late last week...The $485 million vessel left for its maiden voyage [to Gibraltar] last Thursday.
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YouTubeLiberals: “I can’t believe that billionaire spent so much money on a boat! Do you know how many people that money could have fed?”
Yes, everyone who got a paycheck building it...
no shots of it under sail power... bummer...
And everyone else that is supported by those builders’ purchases. And so on, and so forth . . .
$485 million isn’t about money. It’s about other things no one on FR has the knowledge or capacity to comprehend unless they possess the same degree of wealth as Bezos has, which makes such sum a pittance. Absent same, you are all in the same position as prehistoric man attempting to comprehend the workings of a jet engine. Futility. Not going to happen. On this matter we are, all of us, babbling brooks. I am sure the IRS has an entire suite of offices in its DC headquarters devoted entirely to this one man alone.
The headline is misleading. The boat is not 417 feet tall.
Looks big enough to carry his ego.
He’ll show it off to friends a couple of times and that’ll be it.
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This kanji "起" means "get up", "stand up", "start", "begin", "happen", "occur"Reading koru (96) is also kuro:(o-koru)
96 can be read as "ku-ro" meaning "black", as in 96猫 ("kuroneko"; "black cat"). 96猫 is a popular Japanese singer who covers songs on Niconico, and provides the singing voice of Tsukimi Eiko in Ya Boy Kongming!.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_wordplay#Numeric_substitution
Misleading?
Yes, possibly.
However, most people reading the article are interested in sail boats, so they instinctively understand the footage is a reference to length, not height.
Don’t forget the guys that made money on having to remove and replace a section of the historic bridge that was just a tad too short for the ship to pass under!
He’d trade it all to look like Brad Pitt instead of Gollum.
Lol, his kind of money makes him look like Brad Pitt to a certain type of woman.
I predict this vessel will sink, in a storm. With all hands.
Another yacht in another time for another plutocrat: Marjorie Merriweather Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Cloud
As well, Bezos will have to employ a highly experienced crew, I doubt Jeff is going to handle the planks and rails.
Says the person who travels by bike...
Actually that office is out west
When discussing feet in ships and boats one is referring to length.
Reminds of the joke about a guy working out in a gym with his trainer. The fellow had seen this gorgeous female body builder in the gym. He asks his trainer what machine would impress her if he worked out on it. The trainer replied, “the cash machine”!
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