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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Petroleum tanks. Selfs Point, Cornelian Bay. October 2012. More questions sourced from all over the World! I always welcome more though! Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever? No. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I do understand the concept of having established a ‘connection’ with someone even if you have not conversed though. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job? Absolutely. What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying? I don’t know, what is it like? I understand that every day spent living is also a day spent dying. Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood? No. For a few reasons. 1) I think that capital punishment is rooted in a fundamentally illogical premise (at least that for murder). The notion of placing murder on a special footing of ‘wrongness’ only to punish with the very same ‘...

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Ezra stands astride the bridge of the oil tanker Hugli Spirit . Registered in the Bahamas, she was built 2005 in the Hyundai shipyard of Mipo Bay in Ulsan, South Korea. She has a rugged charm, at 183 metres long and 33 metres wide with over 46,889 deadweight tonnes. Unfortunately, some rather silly occupational health and safety rules prevented young Ezra from taking her out for a bit of a spin. Yes, it's political correctness gone mad!

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Here are Henry and Jen up on the bridge of a bloody great oil tanker. Perhaps some helpful commenter could tell us the precise name of the ship in question.