Nope. Next year I believe they will.
Its not just ships. Where I worked some years back all the senior staff in one department had nautical nicknames. The director was a particularly humourless man nicknamed Admiral. A new computer was being installed. It took up a whole floor and required a huge air conditioning plant with water cooling from a 10,000 gallon tank on the roof. During the installation someone turned on the water before checking that all the pipe connections were secure. A 2 inch pipe fitting with about a four storey head of water above it blew off and the whole tank full of water came out in a jet that crossed a big room without hitting the floor then flowed down the stairs to the admirals floor. Someone went to his room and said "Prepare to abandon ship, Admiral." He just had time to say "I don't see the significance of that remark," before the water arrived in his room.Quite normal on new ships for the odd pipe connection to fail when fresh out of the shipyard. Mind you not quite normal for thrust bearings to slide around their beds as another
Scouser, are we sir? I hear they'll take anything except a joke.
A joke is something that other people find funny. How many scousers, do you think, would find your 'joke' funny?
Absolutely not; never even been there. To denigrate the whole city lowers you to the same level as the "Sun".
Did you hear about the Scouser who left all his possessions to complete strangers? Mind you, they were the original owners.
"Las Vegas and Glasgow have a lot in common. they’re the only two places in the world where you can pay for sex with chips." - Frankie Boyle