This is my “favorite” part from the article
But it’s OK for everyone else to spend their lives doing what they don’t love so they can give you money to do what you love?
That doesn’t appear to be the right Tanner and Nikki.
I know a grown man in his fifties who thought he could sail a houseboat from Florida to Texas with no real experience just by following the coast line. There was a fiasco for the ages.
I have no problem with a Uber driver and a telemarketer giving up everything and buying a boat to sail around in. I think it ended about like I would have expected it to. I certainly am not going to contribute to a go fund me page so they can do it again. Got my own adventures to fund now that I’m getting closer to retirement. After working all these years.
m = thousand & is the standard way of abbreviating in the financial world.
Fighting ignorance & all that.
The SDMB is a financial institution?
Historically, maybe, but not any longer, except maybe for some specialized purposes (accountants, I don’t know?). MM is still widely used for millions, but most people in the financial world would write K for thousands.
The OP’s title made me think of the other famous idiot couple that was rescued last year from an ill-advised sailing career. I Googled for an update, but couldn’t find anything recent - although I see they have started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money so they could “pursue the media” who made them look like idiots (methods of pursuit not specified). In 2.5 months, they’ve raised $15.
Only here would the thread take such a mundane turn over silly abbreviations. Anyway, forget about saving the dog toys, you need to save the surfboards.
I almost wonder if the whole thing was a setup to justify a GoFundMe. I.e., they’re way overstating how much money they put into the boat, and hoping for a big sympathy payoff. I guess nearly drowning is a long way to go to sell a con job, though.
There’s two major things I have learned from the Straight Dope:
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There are an alarming amount of weirdos out there who wash their bath towels after just one or two uses.
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There is no way to overestimate the general resentment among the general population of people who live their lives differently than you. Which isn’t shocking, but the level of resentment and superiority directed toward people increases in the inverse to the impact that such people have on our lives. In other words, Aunt Jane and her many cats get eye rolls and jokes behind her back; a unnamed college student whom we have never met, never will meet, never remember the name of, and will never be thought of again is subject to unlimited disdain.
Well in this case, it is because they’re the poster children for that ‘Perhaps the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others’ demotivational poster.
If you knew them, you’d maybe snark at them about it, then they’d know how you felt and while you may occasionally joke about their experience, oh, for the rest of their natural lives, you likely would’t just let them have it in a prolonged blast about how stupid they are.
I was assuming that the “another” in the thread title referred to that very thing.
This is a rhetorical device that is at least 2,000 years old. It goes by several different names, but one of the most common is “historical present.”
It sounds like you’re saying having a negative opinion about something someone has done is resentment. I can’t speak for the general population, but personally, I think what this couple did was idiotic and begging for money is just the idiotic cherry on the idiotic sundae. I don’t resent them - I have no reason to resent them. They’re entitled to make their own choices and even beg from strangers. And I’m entitled to my opinion.
I have nothing but respect for people who commit to live their lives outside the norm. I think in general these people are a net positive to society. However, there is this thing called being responsible and capable.
These people had limited sailing experience, no insurance, and apparently no cash to their names. How were they going to eat? How were they going to pay docking fees for their boat?
The ocean is filled with fish.
I wonder if they had any fishing equipment.
Given their lack of funds, they probably had some strange idea about being able to work a day or two here and there to pay for dockage and meals.
Dog toys float. They saved themselves. 
As far as the no insurance thing goes, I’m pretty sure that insurance is not available for off shore sailing. Even though they never made it all the way off shore, as they say, they would have been denied insurance had they bothered to ask.
I suspect this is exactly what they had in mind.
I have heard of young people who hang out around marinas and get jobs as crew on boats and yachts belonging to rich people. But I think it’s assumed you know how to sail and can otherwise be useful onboard.