{"id":23895,"date":"2014-11-23T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23895"},"modified":"2014-11-20T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T03:31:08","slug":"qotd-seasickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/qotd-seasickness\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Seasickness"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick \u2014 on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.<\/p>\n

If most men were like a fellow I saw on the Yarmouth boat one day, I could account for the seeming enigma easily enough. It was just off Southend Pier, I recollect, and he was leaning out through one of the port-holes in a very dangerous position. I went up to him to try and save him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi! come further in,\u201d I said, shaking him by the shoulder. \u201cYou\u2019ll be overboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my! I wish I was,\u201d was the only answer I could get; and there I had to leave him.<\/p>\n

Three weeks afterwards, I met him in the coffee-room of a Bath hotel, talking about his voyages, and explaining, with enthusiasm, how he loved the sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood sailor!\u201d he replied in answer to a mild young man\u2019s envious query; \u201cwell, I did feel a little queer once<\/em>, I confess. It was off Cape Horn. The vessel was wrecked the next morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWeren\u2019t you a little shaky by Southend Pier one day, and wanted to be thrown overboard?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSouthend Pier!\u201d he replied, with a puzzled expression.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes; going down to Yarmouth, last Friday three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, ah \u2014 yes,\u201d he answered, brightening up; \u201cI remember now. I did have a headache that afternoon. It was the pickles, you know. They were the most disgraceful pickles I ever tasted in a respectable boat. Did you have any?\u201d<\/p>\n

For myself, I have discovered an excellent preventive against sea-sickness, in balancing myself. You stand in the centre of the deck, and, as the ship heaves and pitches, you move your body about, so as to keep it always straight. When the front of the ship rises, you lean forward, till the deck almost touches your nose; and when its back end gets up, you lean backwards. This is all very well for an hour or two; but you can\u2019t balance yourself for a week.<\/p>\n

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)<\/em><\/a>, 1889.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick \u2014 on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[948,202],"class_list":["post-23895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-jkjerome","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}