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I got to watch the news last night. They were talking about... the cruise ship! "Oh, the food was so bad and disgusting!" the kids say. Do tell. "A sandwich with just jelly and butter. A sandwich with just cheese!" That's disgusting? I brought that sort of thing to school with me for lunch as a kid! "Oh, the bathroom smelled!"
Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.
Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?
I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?
Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.
Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?
I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?
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Date: 2010-11-12 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 06:51 pm (UTC)Where are people's priorities anymore? =P
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Date: 2010-11-12 10:43 pm (UTC)That means they're Not Our Kind Of People. (I don't know anyone who has ever gone on a cruise.) And they probably don't eat our kind of food, either, from the whining above.
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Date: 2010-11-12 11:11 pm (UTC)My siblings go on cruises fairly often, and I'm sure all three of them would also behave in a well-bred manner, quietly making the best of things and trying not to put more of a burden on the crew, who've got troubles enough already. They didn't all marry so well, however; I think my sister-in-law and one brother-in-law would probably lose their veneer of social grace and turn into fussing, demanding whiner-babies the first time the toilets didn't flush.
"Let them eat hardtack", sez me. (It's okay to pick out the weevils.)
LOL
Date: 2010-11-13 12:30 am (UTC)Re: LOL
Date: 2010-11-17 03:58 am (UTC)The recipe would be better with a bit of butter and sugar, and some cinnamon to go on top. Probably engender a better class of weevils, too. Oh well; Tradition.
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Date: 2010-11-18 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 01:48 am (UTC)But the media, omg, needs to shut up already.
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:43 am (UTC)Or, rather, she went to Belgium on a boat, back when cargo boats still took passengers.
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Date: 2010-11-12 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 10:50 pm (UTC)Chelmsford couple says cruise was far from splendid (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/chelmsford_coup.html?rss_id=Top+Stories)
Roy family roughs it on crippled cruise ship" (http://www.standard.net/topics/health/2010/11/11/roy-family-roughs-it-crippled-cruise-ship)
Apparently the rum was not gone, though.
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Date: 2010-11-12 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 11:31 pm (UTC)It sounds to me like there was plenty to eat, and a pretty good variety, even if the quality of meals did decline from Luxury Cruise to Scout Camp.
LOL, I'm sure the passengers would have found their food much more appetizing if they'd spent their day out scouting before they came to eat it. Half-warmed beanie-wienies on a stale hamburger bun? NOM!!!!
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Date: 2010-11-12 11:41 pm (UTC)Camping is actually tricky for me, but I can do it. It just takes thought in advance about what is easy to bring and prepare.
It's obviously a disappointing thing to have happen during your trip, although it may make for a good story afterward. But it doesn't rate up there with epic disasters of history.
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Date: 2010-11-12 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 01:45 am (UTC)No doubt!
And sure, it's sucky for them that this happened, but it's not actually newsworthy, especially now that they've been towed to safety.
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:47 am (UTC)But I don't appreciate it stinking up my news.
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Date: 2010-11-12 09:39 pm (UTC)Bread and cheese is an ancient peasant staple and I eat it often in my lunch.
Date: 2010-11-12 10:40 pm (UTC)Maybe this country needs a real, for-true Depression to snap people out of general whininess.
*I favor cheddar: sharp by preference but I'll buy medium if it's on sale, which it generally is.
Re: Bread and cheese is an ancient peasant staple and I eat it often in my lunch.
Date: 2010-11-13 01:46 am (UTC)Sometimes you start to understand why people get nostalgic over the decade where everybody was poor!
"Thank you, Pooh, I'm having it"
Date: 2010-11-17 04:23 am (UTC)My parents were born in the Depression, and I heard a whole lot about it in my youth. My view on the matter is, that people get nostalgic for the decades of their youth, for the feeling of having been young. Maybe there's so much nostalgia around that particular era because the children of the Depression turned into the soldiers of WWII, and by the time it was over, the world of their childhood was already fading away, nearly gone.
Re: "Thank you, Pooh, I'm having it"
Date: 2010-11-17 12:17 pm (UTC)We're not allowed to talk about that, I think. It spreads alarm and despondency.
Also recall that the last Depression ended in a World War, which would definitely not be good to repeat.
The conditions which led to the last Depression also *started* in a World War, which probably had something to do with it. I mean, it's a very tight schedule - world war, gilded era (which wasn't that awesome), depression, and let's fight about the unsolved problems from the LAST world war!
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 11:48 am (UTC)