Fuck! CSF sucks so hardcore that it's not even funny -- I mean. *counts on fingers*
I know I've done this calculation before, but in Lt, which happens in '00, Bush has been in for ten years. So he came in as a middie in '90, and gets his commission after the minimum six years. That makes sense.
However, if we take the ten year difference, that means Bush was twenty-four when he entered the Navy, which makes no goddamn sense. Particularly -- though I guess this is seriously nitpicky -- if we take it that he got his commission while he was on the Superb becaue the third Superb was wrecked in 1783 and the fourth didn't launch until 1798.
Randomly. Bush dies in 1814, right? Ten years older than Hornblower at that point, which means that he died at the age of FORTY-EIGHT. How many forty-eight year olds in the year 1814, iron constitutions or not, who have lived their entire adult lives on ships with shit nutrition and minimal health care and now have peg fucking legs have the vitality to lead a night-time raid on an enemy magazine?
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Re: The ever popular FC, of course
Date: 2006-02-16 05:10 am (UTC)I know I've done this calculation before, but in Lt, which happens in '00, Bush has been in for ten years. So he came in as a middie in '90, and gets his commission after the minimum six years. That makes sense.
However, if we take the ten year difference, that means Bush was twenty-four when he entered the Navy, which makes no goddamn sense. Particularly -- though I guess this is seriously nitpicky -- if we take it that he got his commission while he was on the Superb becaue the third Superb was wrecked in 1783 and the fourth didn't launch until 1798.
Randomly. Bush dies in 1814, right? Ten years older than Hornblower at that point, which means that he died at the age of FORTY-EIGHT. How many forty-eight year olds in the year 1814, iron constitutions or not, who have lived their entire adult lives on ships with shit nutrition and minimal health care and now have peg fucking legs have the vitality to lead a night-time raid on an enemy magazine?