Ships_Cat
Well-Known Member
Yet another recent post on seasickness had me wondering. If all the cures for the reasons usually given as causing sickness (eg looking at the horizon, fresh air) worked then seasickness would have been cured decades ago. Hasn't been cured so must be other causes I reckoned.
So after thinking about it for a while I recalled how people play games attaching car names to the sound of their fellow boaties heaving over the side. You know, the likes of PORSSSHHH-A, BEEEUUWW-ICK (which I 'specially like). I then wondered if it was the sound of words we think about or say which make us susceptible to seasickness.
Take pork chops, for example. Some say it is the thought of the grease which sets people heaving over the side. But I reckon it is actually the sound of the word when we say or think it - like PWWW-OORRK. See what I mean?
It is a well known fact that fishermen do not like to talk about SHARRRR-WORRRK's in rough weather and seagoing cooks would never dream of even thinking about a STRRROOGEN-URRRFFF.
I am sure that there are many more examples and wonder if we put a handy list of them together and practised avoiding those words when at sea, whether seasickness would be put into the past?
Real Ships Cat has even come up with his own contribution. He says that he never thinks of RAAAHHT's when on the boat.
John
So after thinking about it for a while I recalled how people play games attaching car names to the sound of their fellow boaties heaving over the side. You know, the likes of PORSSSHHH-A, BEEEUUWW-ICK (which I 'specially like). I then wondered if it was the sound of words we think about or say which make us susceptible to seasickness.
Take pork chops, for example. Some say it is the thought of the grease which sets people heaving over the side. But I reckon it is actually the sound of the word when we say or think it - like PWWW-OORRK. See what I mean?
It is a well known fact that fishermen do not like to talk about SHARRRR-WORRRK's in rough weather and seagoing cooks would never dream of even thinking about a STRRROOGEN-URRRFFF.
I am sure that there are many more examples and wonder if we put a handy list of them together and practised avoiding those words when at sea, whether seasickness would be put into the past?
Real Ships Cat has even come up with his own contribution. He says that he never thinks of RAAAHHT's when on the boat.
John
