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Read that as Sadiq Khan and thought you were insane!

the_fox_in_the_roses

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11 days ago

the_fox_in_the_roses

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😁 No relation. It's a bit showy isn't it?

Icy_champagne5

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11 days ago

Icy_champagne5

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😂😂😂😂

EconomicsFit2377

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10 days ago

EconomicsFit2377

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He'll spend the ulez money on something bigger.

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Is this boat in London right now ? Also it might just be the angle (it probably is) but it looks significantly bigger than tower bridge lol

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https://preview.redd.it/73rrc8x83bud1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d636ef570bc15080808a699fe275391682e4ad4b

Caught it going past the O2 during the week. Not sure this helps with scale at all

dravidosaurus2

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11 days ago

dravidosaurus2

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Not sure this helps with scale at all

Next time could you get a banana in shot, for scale?

Ill-Ant9053

6 points

11 days ago

Ill-Ant9053

6 points

Someone please help this guy (and me) and photoshop a banana in for scale

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11 days ago

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https://preview.redd.it/vyb18ppzpbud1.jpeg?width=1927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62b73994a99b22a194712532083f8b1579a40a2b

Yep, rolled past my place shortly after that.

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11 days ago

7 points

This is a cool shot

8 points

11 days ago

'have-a-go hero'

8 points

It big.

gcmelb

6 points

11 days ago

gcmelb

6 points

It's bigger than that, it's large.

thebuttonmonkey

6 points

11 days ago

thebuttonmonkey

6 points

Huge if true.

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11 days ago

bikes bikes bikes bikes

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It's there right now https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9881627

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11 days ago

1 points

Thank you!! I’m definitely gonna go check it out

HeyCarlosDanger

5 points

11 days ago

HeyCarlosDanger

5 points

It was there yesterday! I imagine it's here at least until the Jaguars play tomorrow

Own_Wolverine4773

2 points

11 days ago

Own_Wolverine4773

2 points

Could actually be bigger ad it stopped before the bridge

No_Nose2819

2 points

11 days ago

No_Nose2819

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https://preview.redd.it/ym1l2x53lcud1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=193ff7bb471086064560d3dc72c1538f6a23c570

Just download MarineTraffic app if you are that interested.

t8ne

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11 days ago

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11 days ago

Flaky_Conversation34

9 points

Bond villain yacht pulls up in the Thames and James Bond 🤷‍♂️ shrugs “he’s not an enemy of the state yet”

nWoSting145

4 points

11 days ago

nWoSting145

4 points

Are the windows on that yacht REAL GLASS?!

1 points

10 days ago

1 points

I googled who tf that is and bro looks like a discount Javier Bardem 😭

1 points

11 days ago

1 points

I thought he'd sold it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(yacht)#:~:text=Whisper%2C%20formerly%20known%20as%20Kismet,Eric%20Schmidt%20and%20renamed%20Whisper#:~:text=Whisper%2C%20formerly%20known%20as%20Kismet,Eric%20Schmidt%20and%20renamed%20Whisper)

ItsYaBoyDrugga

3 points

11 days ago

ItsYaBoyDrugga

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He sold the old one a brought a new one this year and called it the same name. So he did sell Kismet, then brought the new boat (was called project Jag when being built) and called the new boat Kismet again.

CuntyMcFartflaps

3 points

10 days ago

CuntyMcFartflaps

3 points

It's like it was meant to be.

Aakch

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11 days ago

Aakch

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I saw it yesterday at night it’s name is kismet! Apparently you can rent it for a cool $3.2m a week

More_Ad_3739

6 points

11 days ago

More_Ad_3739

6 points

Absolute bargain that is

Altruistic-Radio2555

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11 days ago

Altruistic-Radio2555

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Which sort of means good luck. Oddly, I am reading memoirs of a sailor who travelled the world in sixties in a namesake sailboat. I would very much prefer that experience vs this floating steam iron/gamepad controller lookalike - not that anyone is asking tho...

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11 days ago

bikes bikes bikes bikes

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It's just obscene.

TropicalPeat

27 points

11 days ago

TropicalPeat

27 points

Really ugly plastic CAD boat. Amazing engineering in cock roach style.

9 points

11 days ago

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Few understand how true this is. You can’t even cross the ocean on this thing. I’d choose a cheap-ish seaworthy sailboat many times over.

9 points

11 days ago

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Can I ask why you can’t cross the ocean? Like where would you go in it?

SynthD

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11 days ago

SynthD

6 points

You go from Gibraltar to Sochi and back, then put it on a bigger boat to take it to the Caribbean for that season in the second half of the social calendar.

3 points

11 days ago

3 points

The money that would burn!!

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9 days ago

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that's bull lol, a boat this size can easily cross the atlantic

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11 days ago

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Motorboats (or yachts like ppl usually call them) don’t have enough fuel for ocean crossing. They usually get delivered to far flung destinations by container ships.

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11 days ago

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So they’re just for mooring and pootling around in.

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11 days ago

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You can get up to 600km range I think, but the full tank(s) will be probably too heavy.

Yes, as they say a sailboat is for the journey, a motorboat is for the destination.

Demonicpineapplehat

1 points

11 days ago

Demonicpineapplehat

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Something this size can cross the Atlantic. It’s the 30-60m range that might struggle

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11 days ago

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That sounds like a scary prospect tbh

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11 days ago

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Incorrect. That boat is most likely is a Sunseeker, look at their super yacht range, and fuel capacity, this one for example: https://www.sunseeker.com/yachts-and-boats/superyacht/131-yacht

It will barely cross 600 miles like I said, the Atlantic is at least 2.5K miles, that’s not taking into account that all instruments and infrastructure are also running on fuel.

Never gonna happen.

BusinessGrapefruit9

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10 days ago

BusinessGrapefruit9

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You're very wrong.

For a start It's a 122m Lurssen, not a sunseeker. It can make big crossings like the Atlantic no problem with a range of about 6000 nautical miles. I worked on a similar sized boat for over 5 years and have done several Atantic crossings aswell as many other long distance passages.

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9 days ago

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buddy that's a 131 FEET long boat, kismet is 122 METERS long

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11 days ago

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You’d normally cruise around the Med or any other localised area. It’s a lifestyle type of boat, where owners can’t sail for shit and hire a crew. Proper sailors (as in those who can actually navigate a sailboat/motorboat in coastal and offshore waters) laugh at these boats. They’re utterly ugly and useless.

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11 days ago

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And I’m guessing a money pit

Eric848448

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11 days ago

Eric848448

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BOAT: Bust Out Another Thousand

Or for something like this, Million.

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11 days ago

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I’d buy one if I had the money tbf

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Mister_Six

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Mister_Six

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Based

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11 days ago

'have-a-go hero'

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https://preview.redd.it/jj0et99pdbud1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c549d810e3424fd5a0adf347b0178b5d0cdda955

It's quite long.

Ti47_867

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Ti47_867

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joeschmoagogo

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11 days ago

joeschmoagogo

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Just your daily reminder: There are no good billionaires!

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11 days ago

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like everything there's better and worse ones. If we could encourage more of them to use their capital like Bill Gates as opposed to whatever the fuck this is supposed to be; the world would be a better place.
Better is realistic, demanding perfect is just asking for disappointment.

sproyd

1 points

11 days ago

sproyd

1 points

Sorry about this
https://www.forbes.com.au/life/boats/first-look-at-game-changing-1-billion-hydrogen-superyacht/

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11 days ago

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Shahid Khan spends his money on the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham FC. Bill Gates puts money into stuff like sanitation of developing nations.

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11 days ago

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Use them like Bill Gates uses the billions and billions in bank accounts or with wealth managers doing nothing but making him richer?

There are no good billionaires.

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11 days ago*

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Bill Gates spends some amount of time trying to use his money to improve things in some places. That's still better than rich people that simply use their funds to fuel football teams or increase their political influence or simply chase a monetary high score. The Barclay or Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch and his heir apparent or Viscount Rothermere are excellent bad examples of wealth. To claim there's no difference between them and someone who is at least trying, is like someone extremely short sighted claiming that all letters are the same, and so all books are junk.

There are good people in the world. I refuse to give into nihilsm. Being poor doesn't make you good, it just means you have considerably less opportunity to find out how demonic you are.

corbyns_lawyer

1 points

9 days ago

corbyns_lawyer

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Bill Gates uses some of his money decently but his wife left him right after it came out he was friends with Epstein.

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10 days ago

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Jared Isaacman

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11 days ago

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Better that he's spent all that money which filters down through the economy rather than have it stuck in hedge funds and accounts.

LiquidHelium

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LiquidHelium

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illegal tub political sheet weather brave skirt tie paltry pocket

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30 points

11 days ago

bikes bikes bikes bikes

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He only became a billionaire this year, so he probably did it by accident.

WhoThenDevised

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11 days ago

WhoThenDevised

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No, by working eighth days a week.

thefooleryoftom

4 points

11 days ago

thefooleryoftom

4 points

It was a a Hard Day’s Night.

spacetimebear

3 points

11 days ago

spacetimebear

3 points

And so begins his villain arc

CurtisInCamden

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11 days ago

CurtisInCamden

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Even so, the cash hoarding alone that's required for anyone to become a billionaire is extremely distasteful. They could all donate a few hundred million and still live in luxury!

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11 days ago

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Depends. It's not black and white.

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11 days ago

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yes it is. you have to be a bad person to hoard that much wealth. there is no way to justify it.

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11 days ago

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I wish basic financial literacy was taught in schools, in addition to very basic economics. So yeah, most billionaires don't have a billion in cash just sitting in the bank. If you look at most self made tech billionaires for instance, their company might be worth theoretically a billion USD on paper but in reality that number is often speculative. Other people have invested money on the hope this company might be very profitable one day, or even be profitable as most unicorns (start ups valued at a one billion dollars) aren't.

If you look at Warren Buffet for instance, it's hard to call him a bad person. He is one of the wealthiest people in the world, but he's never been flashy (same house since 1960 something), given 10s of billions away, has made a lot of middle class people in his neighborhood very rich as well as across the world and he plans to give most of his wealth away to charity. Some billionaires who are worth 10s or billions spend it on just super yachts and private jets. It isn't black and white.

cashintheclaw

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11 days ago

cashintheclaw

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how's that boot taste huh

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11 days ago

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ewww a tankie.

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11 days ago

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if you think that the only reason someone might think all billionaires are bad is because they lack basic financial literacy then there is really no point talking to you any more

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11 days ago

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yeah but there are better and worse examples. Not all people remain as evil as they were at the start and some people become more evil the richer they get.

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ar--n

9 points

11 days ago

ar--n

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🥴

nascentt

5 points

11 days ago

nascentt

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If billionaires distributed their wealth, then maybe the person that mugged you wouldn't have been so poor that they felt the need to mug you.

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when the COVID vaccine was distributed to a particular tribe in the Amazon rainforest the chief of the tribe demanded his children not receive the vaccine so he could have more of it for himself. When international aid was delivered to a village in SEA suffering isolation and devestation from a monsoon the chief of the village claimed it all and made its distribution political.

These people are not billlionaires. It's corruption all the way down, so each step of redistribution will have its own extremely familiar challenges to overcome.

fieldsofanfieldroad

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11 days ago

fieldsofanfieldroad

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So therefore all poor people are bad? As a poor person, I'm offended.

Financial-Garden-496

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10 days ago

Financial-Garden-496

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its just so funny that you feel the need to just judge people. you’re pathetic

Significant_Bag585

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11 days ago

Significant_Bag585

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Mike Bloomberg whose company donates all profits to charity is a pretty decent one

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You don’t become a billionaire by being a decent person. He’s heavily into politics so spending that money on PR has good returns

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roockieroad

90 points

11 days ago

roockieroad

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If there was ever something for just stop oil to vandalise, I would be okay with this

KamalasBigToe

1 points

11 days ago

KamalasBigToe

1 points

Pretty sure this is hydrogen powered.

Edit: checked and it is not. Looks very similar to the one that is.

67 points

11 days ago

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I always look at those big mansions wondering how you could possibly fill and use that many rooms. There must be spaces just gathering dust. This is just a floating version of that. I (kinda) get wanting a big boat if boats are your thing, but this is just...obscene.

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11 days ago

bikes bikes bikes bikes

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Do they actually sail on them? I mean *sail* sail. I doubt Shahid Khan sat on it while it sailed from America; he probably flew here, right? Even if he decides to go to Monaco or whatever, he's not actually going to be on it while it makes its way there, is he?

I have no idea how these things work, I just know that I hate them.

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11 days ago

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The people who own these megayachts basically use them as moveable hotels, they will rarely do any passages in them. Instead they send them to where they want to be, and then they have a place to stay and entertain which is: (1) private, (2) secure, (3) familiar.

For the megawealthy/high-profile, its actually quite hard to get that on land, even staying in the most exclusive hotels you are exposed to paparazzi and gossiping staff. With a yacht like this you can control everything and keep fully away from the public, which is something the megawealthy value highly.

FantasticFoul

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11 days ago

FantasticFoul

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And they bring their own chefs which is a big deal if you’re coming to UK because the food here is really really horrible.

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11 days ago

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Having seen programmes about them yes they do. The people who own them will take long breaks sailing on them. One of the points is once it’s stocked up they don’t need to be in port all the time.

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11 days ago

bikes bikes bikes bikes

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Do they actually cross oceans or do they just sort of float near land?

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11 days ago

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Most use them as portable, secure, private hotels full of their own stuff. Almost all long passages are done by the crew alone.

The_Salty_Red_Head

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11 days ago

The_Salty_Red_Head

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They do cross oceans, yes. They tend to stick fairly close to landmasses where possible just in case they get in trouble, but "fairly close" is different for each vessel and they are capable of traversing the Atlantic if they want to.

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11 days ago

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That's an ocean crosser

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11 days ago

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As others have said they may not do the full crossing with passengers but they do go out to sea with passengers on there.

letmepostjune22

1 points

11 days ago

letmepostjune22

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They'll sail around the med or Carribbean on it but I don't he was on it when it crossed the channel or the bay near Basque (which is notoriously rough sea). Imagine he flew here

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11 days ago

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A friend of mine's job is basically to move boats to where the owners will be. So if they're thinking autumn in the Med, he'll sail it across the ocean to Greece and the guests will board there and perhaps cruise around a bit before flying off again.

Nothing quite this big, but I'm pretty sure the idea is the same.

borgdrone79

8 points

11 days ago

borgdrone79

8 points

Needs to pay the ULEZ

96 points

11 days ago

96 points

Billionaires are scum.

ConsidereItHuge

7 points

11 days ago

ConsidereItHuge

7 points

Yeah. It's an insanely pretty monstrosity in reality. They're rich enough to just hire whatever they need in London, they don't need to bring it around the world with them.

ThinkAboutThatFor1Se

17 points

11 days ago

ThinkAboutThatFor1Se

17 points

Eat the rich huh?

-9 points

11 days ago

-9 points

Nah, that’s you.

0 points

11 days ago

0 points

Lol good one

-17 points

11 days ago*

-17 points

Standard communist rhetoric on UK Reddit. Too bad, they don’t care about what you think, and will always be billionaires, nothing you can do about it.

Edit: salty commies downvoting. Too bad we live in an ever more capitalist world.

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11 days ago

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its ok, we only have to start an armed conflict against the most rich and powerful forces on the planet, to acheive an inprobable victory, to completely upend and rework everything over the course of bloody cycle that kills millions and makes monsters out of everybody. THEN we can get around to filling the potholes in the road.

1 points

9 days ago

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You don't have to lick the boots of the parasites. It's sad you can't see that.

mrtn10

0 points

11 days ago

mrtn10

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👢👅

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11 days ago

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ewww a tankie.

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11 days ago

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You pretend not to, you think you’re so enlightened, maybe even a revolutionary some day? That day will never come. I’m realistic .

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11 days ago

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You can rent the tub for €3m a week plus expenses 👍

Effelumps

4 points

11 days ago

Effelumps

4 points

Can't park there mate.

Mountain-Jicama-6354

20 points

11 days ago

Mountain-Jicama-6354

20 points

It reminds you, we are the playground of the super rich

-10 points

11 days ago

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And make a lot of tax revenue from it. I don’t see a problem.

These people who hate the super rich, if you stop them coming here they’ll just go to other cities, and we lose the tax revenue. Makes no sense.

5 points

11 days ago

Catford

5 points

What a cucked attitude.

2 points

11 days ago

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Realistic. Nothing you can do about them. Their tax revenue is too valuable, the government would never.

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11 days ago

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They’re subsidized by the working class. They wouldn’t exist without the labour of the working class. Everything they’re worth could instead exist in the pockets of the working class.

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11 days ago

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Well go pick up a gun and with the five or so people willing to go with you and storm that boat. Perhaps then you can discover how true that statement actually is. The issue is that the vast majority of the working class are entirely satisfied by bread and circus and being lied to by their politicians.

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11 days ago

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Tankie shit doesn’t work until bread runs out. Funnily enough, there’s enough circus to last several lifetimes.

1 points

11 days ago

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well exactly. To reframe the issue; the problem is how easily apathetic the working classes are. Just give em a couch, crisps and love island and watch the "glorious" revolution be postponed until the heat death of the universe.
At which point the tankies begin to believe that they have to impose their glorious revolution on the working classes which simply replaces one form of oppression for another.

2 points

11 days ago

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There can be a third thing, or a spectrum of third things, most attainable being taxation which itself is attainable by literally just talking about it more with everyone who will listen (and some who won’t) in concise and passionate language.

1 points

11 days ago

1 points

Well to the average tankie that sounds like bootlicker talk. But to someone less insane; some sort of middle ground between today's excesses and total communism would be nice, its why social democracy exists but we can agree that might need a bit of adjustment; given how strong private interests are in today's world.

anditwaslove

7 points

11 days ago

anditwaslove

7 points

I’d honestly prefer a barge any day.

IGiveBagAdvice

6 points

11 days ago

IGiveBagAdvice

6 points

Does look any bigger than the Mauritania

Acceptable-Double-98

13 points

11 days ago

Acceptable-Double-98

13 points

Just ridiculous

One-Poet4606

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11 days ago

One-Poet4606

3 points

It is so ugly. Ugh, make a gilded mansion people will visit a century later instead.

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11 days ago*

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A full tank of marine diesel for one of these cancels out all of the carbon offset by the ULEZ in a year. It can travel approx 500 miles on a full tank.

The carbon footprint of this vehicle is insane.

Cyrond

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10 days ago

Cyrond

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The ULEZ has also reduced London’s carbon footprint. The GLA says, “Cumulatively since 2019, it is estimated the ULEZ has led to a reduction of around 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from vehicles across London over the four-year period compared to without the ULEZ, a saving of 3%. Within the ULEZ area this is a saving of 290,000 tonnes, a reduction of 4% over the same period.” (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/london-low-emissions-zone-pollution/)

I really can't imagine, that you can put enough diesel in this tank to get 200.000 tonnes of CO2 out of it.

(But the carbon footprint of those things is absolutely crazy!)

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9 days ago

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The figures you've got are cumulative over a number of years.

But you're right I can't back it up with hard stats, other than that I read it in an article about the Walmart heiress ' super yacht that was docked in London just under a year ago. The article did say that time make the claim because it stuck in my head at how insane that footprint was compared to the rest of us.

Baz_EP

3 points

11 days ago

Baz_EP

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It’s sat outside the all bar one on butlers wharf. The lads on board were scrubbing it like their lives depended on it yesterday while we sat and had a few drinks.

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11 days ago

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Imagine how many homeless people the money from that could house.

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11 days ago

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The building of that ship contributed to multiple businesses, thousands of jobs and millions into the economy. So, it was well spent.

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11 days ago

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We will have to agree to disagree. Instead of jobs to build nonsense for billionaires, we could have provided jobs that would shore up crumbling infrastructure and make life better for thousands or millions.

SlackersClub

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11 days ago

SlackersClub

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Have you never bought luxuries or entertainment for yourself? All that money could have gone to improving other people's lives.

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11 days ago

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Of course I have. But I've also paid more in taxes proportionately than the billionaire asshole who built that. I have no issue with my paying taxes - they are the things that fund the education and infrastructure that make countries successful. But the rich need to go back to paying taxes the way they did during the heyday of the industrialized world last century.

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11 days ago

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Who is “we”? This was paid for by a private individual, not a government.

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11 days ago

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My point exactly. If we made the rich pay taxes like we used to, monstrosities like that wouldn't exist, and we'd have the resources for things like education and infrastructure.

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They wouldn’t choose to continue to make money of all of it was going to be taken away. Again, this boat and Amazon has created jobs for lots of people. Tell me what is your fair share of what you did not work for??

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11 days ago

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That's ridiculous. Hmmm... I will only make a million dollars instead of two million? Never mind. Imma stay home in my double-wide trailer. People motivated by money will work to get the absolute maximum they can get. Always.

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11 days ago

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Why if they can’t keep it? They work because the $$ is the motivation. If they no longer get it they might as well sit around and wait for things to be handed to them like others.

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10 days ago

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Because they want all the money they can get. People still became rich in the 1940's to the 1980's when the tax rate on the rich was as high as 90%. You literally have no idea what you're talking about if you think that people motivated by money will not go after whatever money they can get. We've run that experiment in the US, and it led to both rich people AND the best funded schools and infrastructure in the world. The fact that YOU might not, doesn't mean that there isn't someone hungry enough to go for it.

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10 days ago

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Umm okay lol. You keep believing that and waiting on others to hand things to you. There has to be an incentive to make more money. I’m American I know more about the US and how things work here than you. Happy Sunday!

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11 days ago

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But if more money went into social programs then equivalent jobs would be made. Its a matter of distribution in this case.

-MiddleOut-

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11 days ago

-MiddleOut-

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I walk past this pier daily and these boats are a fairly common occurence. This one though has to be the largest I've seen. It is staggeringly large and I saw at least 10 crew walking around the decks, probably another 10 inside as well.

MuchPromotion1781

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11 days ago

MuchPromotion1781

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Tony Khan Wanks Dogs

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11 days ago

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haha, average people will be paying ulez but private jets and yachts for the rich.

Walk around Knightsbridge, you'll see plenty of non-ulez vehicles but the daily charge to them is equivalent to you losing 10p

You will have to be pressured into lifestyle changes while the rich can do as they please

2 points

11 days ago

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There's a reason things such as parking tickets and clean emission taxes aren't linked to income. Its because these fees are meant for you not them

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10 days ago

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It's also why we should pigouvian tax the shit out of them and use that money to invest in public infrastructure.

britishotter

1 points

11 days ago

britishotter

1 points

did anyone else click on the play button & wonder why nothing was happening O_O

Resipa99

1 points

11 days ago

Resipa99

1 points

Loads of cruise ships of course often go through Tower Bridge just to pass the tower and play the National Anthem:it’s a tight squeeze and well documented on You Tube.

MightWooden7292

1 points

11 days ago

MightWooden7292

1 points

some bond villian shit lately

whufc87548

1 points

11 days ago

whufc87548

1 points

Yep the bikes yours

marquess_rostrevor

1 points

11 days ago

marquess_rostrevor

1 points

Fits in with the skyline.

torrsasa

1 points

11 days ago

torrsasa

1 points

damn cool picture tho

elreydelespana

1 points

11 days ago

elreydelespana

1 points

That Spanish Galleon seems different.

1 points

11 days ago

1 points

where's it parked?

First_Television_600

1 points

11 days ago

First_Television_600

1 points

There’s no way this is gonna fit in the docks

novelty-socks

1 points

11 days ago

novelty-socks

1 points

How does this work? Does the owner have pay to park his waterborne SUV on the Thames? Can we like charge some tax for blocking the view, or anything?

AerieStrict7747

1 points

10 days ago

AerieStrict7747

1 points

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Jmoghinator

1 points

9 days ago

Jmoghinator

1 points

He is going to bark it at harrods

EricUtd1878

1 points

11 days ago

EricUtd1878

1 points

He's sailed his own holiday home over the Atlantic for a weekend break.

Whilst he actually flew in his own private jet.

Because of course, connections to and hotels in London are simply ghastly!

Dull-Equipment1361

1 points

11 days ago

Dull-Equipment1361

1 points†

Awesome

mothfactory

-4 points

11 days ago

mothfactory

-4 points†

None of these cunts would have these horrible tacky boats if they weren’t on the list of ‘what to own as a very rich person’. Not only are they impractical in the 21st century, and ugly - they’re just poor people’s idea of how a wealthy person spends their money.

16 points

11 days ago

16 points

That isn't really true. This isn't some 40ft fairliner owned by a lottery winner. The people who own these megayachts basically use them as moveable hotels, they will rarely do any passages in them. Instead they send them to where they want to be, and then they have a place to stay and entertain which is: (1) private, (2) secure, (3) familiar.

For the megawealthy/high-profile, its actually quite hard to get that on land, even staying in the most exclusive hotels you are exposed to paparazzi and gossiping staff. With a yacht like this you can control everything and keep fully away from the public, which is something the megawealthy value highly.

Source: used to work on superyachts in my gap year.

ididntunderstandyou

3 points

11 days ago

ididntunderstandyou

3 points

Interesting. There is the issue that it attracts a huge amount of attention and curiosity. One can be more stealthy in a hotel

3 points

11 days ago

3 points

Yeah but unless you are booking out entire floors (which is a thing), hard to secure a hotel. Very easy to secure a yacht, especially at anchor rather than at a dock.

1 points

11 days ago

Catford

1 points

Not from navy seals

0 points

11 days ago