It seems someone at Royal Caribbean made a dreadful mistake. They booked too many Boomers on one side of the boat. Tragedy ensued.

Posted on 17th November 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues
It seems someone at Royal Caribbean made a dreadful mistake. They booked too many Boomers on one side of the boat. Tragedy ensued.

The law of unintended consequences is what happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system. The political system is simple. It operates with limited information (rational ignorance), short time horizons, low feedback, and poor and misaligned incentives. Society in contrast is a complex, evolving, high-feedback, incentive-driven system. When a simple system tries to regulate a complex system you often get unintended consequences.
— Andrew Gelman
Zarathustra says:
Admin, you are a boomer. Get over it. So solly.
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17th November 2012 at 6:56 am
sangell says:
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17th November 2012 at 9:18 am
sangell says:
Carnival’s newest cruise ship.
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17th November 2012 at 9:20 am
Kill Bill says:
Quick!
Run to the other side and right the ship admin!!
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17th November 2012 at 9:31 am
Davos says:
Captain Bernanke, Captain Greenspan, Captain Rubin, Captain Summers & Captain Schettino.
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17th November 2012 at 10:07 am
SAH says:
This happened to my family at Disneyland on “It’s a Small World”. The 4 of us were on one side of the little boat, and 4 typically obese people got loaded onto the otherside, and we (barely) floated lopsided and nearly sinking for the whole ride. We were some of the last visitors to ride in the original boats from 1966, the same month we were there, Disneyland shut down for almost a year to redo the waterways and put in larger boats to accommodate the new supersized American passengers. It’s truly unbelievable how fat people have gotten in this country.
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17th November 2012 at 11:05 am
Nonanonymous says:
Say what you want to about boomers, they’ve been sucking up the wealth and resources of this country and the world since 1945, leaving little in their wake. Thank god the nightmare will be over within the next 15 – 20 years. It’s disgusting to see their beady little eyes scheming how they might consume whatever the can lay their hands on. My guess is we run out of available resources before this generation is done. It will be interesting to see their reaction when there is literally nothing left, having contributed little and consumed all.
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17th November 2012 at 11:15 am
AWD says:
Hilarious. You can’t get away from fat, lazy baby boomers no matter where you go. They’re everywhere. Cruises are floating buffets, with free ice cream. What’s a boomer not to love about cruises? Don’t forget to pick up some Cuban cigars.
Admin got shoved out of line for the buffets by this chick:
Study finds baby boomers fat and chronically ill
Obesity among baby boomers is more than double the rate of their parents at the same age, a study has concluded.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-27/study-finds-baby-boomers-fat-and-chronically-ill/4283794
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17th November 2012 at 11:29 am
AWD says:
They have no shame, laying at the pool after gorging themselves day and night. Free food!
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17th November 2012 at 11:31 am
SAH says:
According to CDC for adults age 20+:
Today the average American male is 5’9″ 195lbs, average American female is 5’4″ 165lbs.
In 1960 the average American male was 5’8.5″ 165lbs, average American female was 5’3.5″ 140lbs.
Hubby and I are a time capsule of the “old normal” but get told quite often by fatasses how “skinny” we are, and encouraged at family gatherings of our fatass extended families to “eat more” because we are “skinny”. Hubby is 5’9″ 155lbs, I am 5’4″ 125lbs. I would guess we aren’t skinny at all, but exactly what was considered “average” for our age cohort in the 1950s. I don’t think there is anything extraordinary about our sizes, and I happen to much prefer the “old normal” TYVM. It is so sad that America has accepted a new boat-sinking-normal, and has skewed its self perception so much.
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17th November 2012 at 11:45 am
AWD says:
SAH
Obesity is the new normal, sorry. 75% of Americans are overweight or obese. So, you are, in fact, abnormal. You might want to look into conforming. Diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, massive inflammation, constant illness, debilitating pain, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and amputations and dialysis are so much fun, you don’t want to miss it.
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17th November 2012 at 11:49 am
AWD says:
What cracks me up more than anything is the morbidly obese people that are in denial, that wear under-armor clothes, Nikes, and believe they are somehow “in shape” and athletic, by virtue of wearing athletic clothes, despite the fact they’re fat piles of shit.
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17th November 2012 at 11:52 am
Thunderbird says:
The boomers are turning into the whales of the 21st century. That is a good thing because it shows that evolution is working. The whales are leaving the ocean and adapting land life.
And the boomers also contributed to the following:
Abundant fiat money and credit cards to buy anything for instant gratification instead of suffering without until one is old.
All the new types junk food and super big gulps.
Vacations and cruse ships with plenty of food and bingo.
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17th November 2012 at 11:59 am
AWD says:
“I’m not a fat POS, I’m athletic. I have the clothes to prove it”
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17th November 2012 at 12:05 pm
sangell says:
I’d submit that cruise ships self select a less active, more food oriented crowd but of some interest to me was this story that diabetes rates trebled in Oklahoma over the last 16 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/oklahomas-rate-diabetes-triples-16-time-span-200800293.html
Imagine if the incidence of pancreatic or colon cancer trebled in a state over 16 years. The CDC and NIH would be going nuts to find out why. Yes, people are getting fatter but we aren’t all getting fatter equally. I just wonder if this explosion on diabetes is not related to the influx of Central American Indian and mestizo bean and tortilla eaters coming to the US and abruptly switching to a diet far too rich for their genetic makeup.
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17th November 2012 at 12:06 pm
sangell says:
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17th November 2012 at 12:12 pm
Eddie says:
(BURP!)
Time for second breakfast.
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17th November 2012 at 12:19 pm
ron says:
I hope you all feel better after giving fat folk a hard time.
A navy commander told me about having one marine puke over the side of the ship and soon many(thousasnds) were doing the same.Her got on the com and asked for half of them to go to the other side because they were making the ship list hard to one side.You know those navy guys were laughing hard giving those marines a hard time.
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17th November 2012 at 12:45 pm
Bullock says:
Fuck the boomers and I be one. They embarrass me to no end and I do let the younger generations in conversations know I am not a fat lazy fucking boomer.
I am 6′ 3″ and 195 lbs. and I don’t comb my hair, I fit right in with the young kids.
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17th November 2012 at 2:42 pm
Colma Rising says:
They should take the name “Baron Harkonnen” out of Herbert’s Dune and replace it with “The Boomer Harkonnen”.
The parallels are uncanny.
Totally: “The BOOMER Vladmir Harkonnen”
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17th November 2012 at 3:08 pm
Kill Bill says:
Say what you want to about boomers, they’ve been sucking up the wealth and resources of this country and the world since 1945, leaving little in their wake -Anon
Yeah, we need to take from the boomers and give it to younger people!
Right?
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17th November 2012 at 3:10 pm
Kill Bill says:
I am 6′ 3″ and 195 lbs. and I don’t comb my hair, I fit right in with the young kids. -Bullock
I went and bought a iPad and go to vcoffee shops with all the other lonely X/M’s and act like I am messaging someone. I also fit right in.
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17th November 2012 at 3:12 pm
Kill Bill says:
X/M offspring at ‘play’

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17th November 2012 at 3:16 pm
Kill Bill says:
How to get a X/M brat to exercise

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17th November 2012 at 3:18 pm
Kill Bill says:
Dont worry these millennials will save us. That is after they digest the crap food they inhaled and the high fructose syrup the pizza is now soaking in

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17th November 2012 at 3:21 pm
Kill Bill says:
So true. So sad.
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17th November 2012 at 3:27 pm
a cruel accountant says:
Boomers are also chronically old and there is no cure.
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17th November 2012 at 3:31 pm
Kill Bill says:
Gee, lemme think. I was born in 1960. I am to old to have kids. So who is creating all these obese kids? Hmm. It can only be the younger generation. Yes?

Hypocrites Heal Thyself!!
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17th November 2012 at 3:31 pm
Kill Bill says:
Try again. If not you can see the map of obese kids by state HERE
http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/ImageLibrary/WebImages/Health/ChildObesity2007.gif
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17th November 2012 at 3:32 pm
Kill Bill says:
Cruel, I have a daughter thats 25. She tells me I am old. I tell her, “Thats okay because we are aging at the same rate of time”
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17th November 2012 at 3:35 pm
Colma Rising says:
Bill! That’s funny…. I was acting like a boomer: I put on a fat suit and logged in on my computer, streamed some talk radio and stayed home!
Holy shit. I started thinking Obama was a socialist, that we are a Capitalist nation and that people wanted to drag me from my home and take my property!
Good thing I got out of the house and am posting from my smart phone. Some funny phantasms might have stuck in my imagination otherwise.
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17th November 2012 at 3:45 pm
Colma Rising says:
“We need to take from the boomers and give it to young people, right?”
-Boomer Harkonnen Bill
No need. That clock you mentione is ticking away and will do that for us….
At least outstanding personal debt being flushed will help.
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17th November 2012 at 3:49 pm
Colma Rising says:
Bullock said:
“Fuck the boomers and I be one. They embarrass me to no end and I do let the younger generations in conversations know I am not a fat lazy fucking boomer….”
“….I am 6′ 3″ and 195 lbs. and I don’t comb my hair, I fit right in with the young kids.”
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17th November 2012 at 4:03 pm
ASIG says:
I have a neighbor that’s thin, he says people ask him all the time what country did he come from.
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17th November 2012 at 6:41 pm
Novista says:
KB 3:31 pm
The last of the BBers (using govt -1964 end) would have been spawning first-wave Millennials.
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17th November 2012 at 6:44 pm
Novista says:
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17th November 2012 at 6:45 pm
sensetti says:
Laura Harring, born 1964

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17th November 2012 at 9:16 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
SAH,
The non-obese are gradually becoming the “freaks”.
Better get used to it.
Bizarre, huh?
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17th November 2012 at 9:48 pm
efarmer says:
I’m down at the Formula 1 race in Austin, Tx. One thing I have discovered, and is rather obvious, is that these international fans are much thinner than NASCAR fans.
Just an observation. EF
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17th November 2012 at 8:07 am