herehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/us-mexico-carnival-idUSBRE91B1J120130212 Kind of makes you wonder.. all sales and no substance on these "spectacular" cruises. Lets see? they have no way to abandon ship safely or to remove passengers "water water everywhere and not a drop to flush" birthplace of Legionnaires Disease.. lets hope the onboard movies did not include "A Night to Remember" or "Titanic" shitting in plastic bags and placing them in the halls? Its all about the sizzle folks.. the hell with accountability....
just throw the shit overboard! Sheeesh!! And while ya at....just throw up over the rail. Fuckin' people!
if you all continue to ignore this thread... you will suffer the consequences.. you have been warned :granny:
Someone who is well known to all of us on this board has a very close loved one trapped on that ship.
The parents of one of our producers are on that ship and tonight I found out that one of my cousins and his wife is also on it.
I can't imagine what it is like.. Hope they are all off soon... I am feeling claustrophobic just thinking about it...
I am laughing my ass off at the poetic justice of this. "Look at me, I got lots of money and I am going to go on a cruise". Yeah, live in a world of stinking shit, assholes 3000+ passengers and 1000+ crew members to wipe their asses Fuck all that, its for sure not a vacation. Give me a lake and my sailboat and a good book to read. That is living on the water.
Been there done that, I just don't choose to go to the doldrums on vacation. Being a prisoner on someone else's boat for a week and being treated like cattle has never appealed to me as a vacation idea. Save you money and go to a nice beach somewhere where you still have the freedom to do what you want to when you want to.
Yeah, some people save up money so they can try to have some fun for a week, fuck those guys, and lulz at them for having their vacations ruined.
In case y'all didn't know, Storm's wife was on this boat. He stayed home to mind the kids while she took a vacation. He went to Memphis to meet her so she didn't have to do the rest of the trip home alone. One of his FB friends suggested he and the missus kick up a shit storm in front of the reporters and get on TV. He pointed out that a woman who's been unable to wash for 5 days probably doesn't want to be on TV.
This is one reason why I'll never live in a city. The veil of your civilization is paper thin. Toilet paper thin.
And yet, your outhouse or perhaps septic tank lifestyle is more likely to have these sort of backing up issues. I flush my shit, and gravity whisks it away to the sewage treatment plant, miles from my house.
When the shitter is full I just move the outhouse. Duh. I was speaking more to the inevitable disasters and periodic collapse. Hurricane Sandy comes to mind. Or perhaps a larger meteor strike over the eastern seaboard, or prolonged power outage in a strip mall suburb of Dallas. Besides, isn't Boston built on marshland or somesuch?
I seem to recall some years back an ice storm that pretty much wiped out your neck of the woods for several weeks. Depends where you are. It can be marshland, land fill, or glacial drumlins. My neighborhood was formed by glaciers, but much of the downtown area (like 2/3 of it) is built on what was once part of the bay.
Exactly, we had no power for five Weeks. We were fine. Let's imagine that scenario in a major metropolitan area, shall we?
Here the weather is mild enough it wouldn't be that bad. Lahars still scare me. There is a reason they don't let you find out about those things until after you are up here.
And that is directly related to a lack of foresight, preparation, arrogance, and self reliance. How many years go by between these storms? 5 years? A decade? Even on the tightest of budgets that is more than enough time to build up supplies and the such.
We all deal with the choices we make. Bad choice to try and have some fun. If you are at a hotel and they lose power, have a fire, etc. ,you can just go down the road to another hotel. I don't feel any trip where you are basically trapped for the duration is a good thing at all. I am pretty much into the whole freedom thing, and that goes double when on vacation. I am not having a good time, I am out of there.
