Queen Mary

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 07/20/2020 at 01:59 • Filed to: None

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As a child the prop on the Queen Mary freaked me out a little - I don’t know why.

Decades later I am flooded with the same levels of discomfort I remember from seeing  that prop on the QM when I look at this image. Nope nope nope nope...

Derpwagon > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 02:38

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia#:~:text=Thalassophobia%20(Greek%3A%20%CE%B8%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1%2C%20thalassa,fear%20of%20distance%20from%20land.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 03:16

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Everyone needs a prop...as the entire world is a stage...managed by a very disorganised theatre troupe...presenting a play no-one understands...directed by a duck.

Urambo Tauro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 07:15

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Big wheel keep on turnin...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 07:19

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I’m confused...those aren’t the same prop? Top one is four-bladed, bottom one is 5-bladed with shallower blade pitch? Also the top one sticks out further from the hull than the bottom one...?

I guess I misunderstood your text as you mention the QM and no other ships, but those can’t both be shots of the QM? Is the bottom one a different ship?

That second pic is amazing by the way...really puts into perspective how big ships are. We humans make some pretty amazing things!

kanadanmajava1 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/20/2020 at 08:12

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Queen Mary should have four propeller with four blades eac h. I guess the five bladed belongs to some other ship. S omething very old is my guess.

I might have mild water related phobia. I’m always very concerned about things that could drop to the unknown deep waters. I’m not so worried if the water is shallow/clear and I can see the the bottom. But onboard a boat I have to check carefully that I don’t have anything that could fell out of my pockets.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Derpwagon 07/20/2020 at 08:31

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Thanks, now I can put a word on my excuse for never swimming in anything larger than a school-sized pool.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 08:32

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Thanks, I hate it, but I’m also intrigued. Why must this be the one unsettling thing I can’t avert my eyes from!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/20/2020 at 09:15

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Different ships, but the same uncomfortable reaction decades apart. I stumbled across that second image and immediately felt as queasy as I did when I saw the QM prop as a child.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > kanadanmajava1 07/20/2020 at 12:31

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I’ve really not been out in open water much...it doesn’t scare me in that sense.....but I DO get seasick.... :/

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 13:34

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Ah, gotcha! It’s funny how even pictures can elicit the same response even if we KNOW we’re not in the same situation...

kanadanmajava1 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/20/2020 at 16:08

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The seasickness does n’t bother me if I’m onboard some large ship but I can’t spend much time  indoors on a sailboat.

ranwhenparked > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/20/2020 at 22:29

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Maybe its the fear that someone could start it up and kill you? Although, that would be pretty hard on the Queen Mary, given that all the boilers and half the engines were recycled into Toyotas and Datsuns 50+ years ago. 

atfsgeoff > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 07/27/2020 at 01:59

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Yeah those props are huge. I’m reminded of the prop they have on display at the USS North Carolina , I want to say it’s about 12 or 13 feet in diameter. Solid bronze.