This is the 7th day of the cruise and I am now confident in my demographic assessment of the passengers on this ship. I was hoping my initial assessment had been too bleak, but it appears it was wildly optimistic. We’ve stumbled upon God’s Waiting Room Cruise. Even though I’m overweight and have diabetes, I’m a spectacular physical specimen compared to the passengers on this cruise. I feel like a million bucks. I’m in the top 10% thinnest people on this boat. Avalon is in the top 2%. If you put your hand too close to someone’s plate of food in the dining room, you could lose it. It’s like a rascal/hoverround/wheelchair/walker convention. It seems that half the boat has seen the commercials for free power chairs and called the 1-800 number.
The ancient mariners not using a powered vehicle could all be in a Comcast Slowski commercial. They ponder whether they should scoop vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry ice cream on their second slice of triple fudge delight dream cake for what seems like an eternity in the buffet line. The percentages in my analysis may not add up to 100% because there are many people who cross over into multiple categories and I’m making up the numbers as I go along. I’ll try my best to give you an understanding of what I’m witnessing.
Age
- Already dead – they just don’t know it. – 5%
- Only alive due to the tremendous advances in medical technology. – 5%
- Smell like they died last week. – 5%
- Have a better than 50% chance of dying on the cruise during the stressful jitter bug competition. – 5%
- So hard of hearing they talk at a volume 5 times louder than necessary. – 5%
- So old they fondly recall the good old days of the FDR administration. – 10%
- Can’t remember what they ate 10 minutes ago. – 15%
- Complains about all the 60 year old youngsters hogging the hot tub. – 10%
- Youngsters like me and Avalon. – 20%
- Newlyweds who think life is going to be great (A few minutes with me would ruin them for life, so I avoid speaking with them.) – 10%
- Hordes of teenagers roaming the ship with unlimited access to soda. – 5%
- Screaming 2 year old brats ruining my dinner. – 5%
Weight
- So fat they are banned from congregating together on one side of the boat for fear of capsizing the ship. – 15%
- So fat their Rascal has a beeper for when they put it in reverse. – 5%
- So fat their Rascal had to be reinforced with steel beams. – 5%
- So fat that when they get into the hot tub a wave is created that sweeps skinny people out to sea. – 10%
- So fat they complain about the limited selection at the All you can Eat 24 hour buffet. – 10%
- Just morbidly obese. – 20%
- Obese women who they think they are hot enough to wear a bikini. – 10%
- Men whose stomachs are so large they appear to be pregnant. – 10%
- Relatively healthy specimens. – 14.9995%
- Hot bodies. – .0005%
Nationality
- Northern Europeans (they jibber jabber in some guttural Germanic type language) who actually worked hard their whole lives and saved enough money to pay for nice vacations in their old age. – 25%
- Southern Europeans from France, Spain, Greece, or anywhere else warm in Europe who never worked hard, never saved for the future and are now rioting because their free shit has been cut off. – 0%
- Mexicans and other South American types. – 5%
- Loud, obnoxious, pushy New Yawkers who talk too loud and butt in the buffet line. – 20%
- Asian people with cameras. – 5%
- Nice, polite, good looking, smart people from the Philadelphia area. – 15%
- Black people celebrating the Obama victory with a cruise because they are counting on the savior to keep paying their food, phone, cable, and energy bills. – 15%
- White people from other places in America. – 15%
The average age on this cruise is approximately 60. This shouldn’t be surprising. The people in this country with the wealth are the older generations. You can only go on cruises if you have time and money. There are very few single young people on this cruise. That’s because they don’t have jobs or money. The Silent Generation is the last well off cruising generation. I noticed many family groups with the grandparents footing the bill for their middle aged children and their children. With savings rates under 4%, declining real wages, Boomers who forgot to save for their old age, and investment returns guaranteed to average below 5%, the future of cruising seems dicey.
The average male weight is 250 pounds. The average female weight is 200 pounds. On an attractiveness scale of 1 to 10, I’d be generous in giving an average of 5 to the people on this cruise. After witnessing this cross section of America and Europe, there is no doubt in my mind that we have a huge obesity problem. It isn’t just an American problem anymore. Europeans have caught up on the obesity scale. I wonder if it has anything to do with 1st breakfast, 2nd breakfast, 1st lunch, 2nd lunch, pre-dinner, dinner, late dinner, or the midnight buffet?
With 10,000 Boomers per day turning 65 for the next 20 years, the epidemic of obesity and its various medical consequences, and Obamacare adding millions to the government insurance rolls, our economic collapse is a given.
Another anecdote from the cruise further convinced me that our current economic dynamic is unsustainable. Even on vacation I wake up early. I headed down to the 24 hour coffee shop at 6:30 am the other morning. I was drinking a cup of coffee and reading my book (Catch-22 – I read it when I was 20 years old and wanted to see whether it impacts me differently 29 years later. Nothing like reading the most cynical novel in history while relaxing on a cruise.) For some unknown reason I must seem approachable to complete strangers. A nice old guy in his sixties noticed my Flyers shirt and said he was from Glen Falls, New York and goes to see the Flyers minor league team in Adirondack all the time. We started chatting and he almost immediately told me that he had retired at the ripe old age of 48. I thought he was going to tell me he had made a killing on Wall Street and was able to cash out at such a young age. But knooow. He retired from the New York State Corrections System with a nice fat pension and health benefits at the age of 48. He was a prison guard for 25 years. That is not an easy job, but when government employees can collect a pension for longer than the number of years they actually worked, we’ve got a problem. Government unions and the gold plated pension and health benefits will bankrupt every state in this country. It’s just math.
The top deck on the ship has a walking/jogging track. I would recommend that Royal Caribbean make some changes on future ships. They should add a rascal lane on every deck. They should have a special buffet line for the rascal brigade. Their pools and hot-tubs should be super-sized to handle their increasingly obese clientele. Their shower stalls can barely fit a moderately obese Boomer. They must be expanded. They can probably reduce the size of their salad bar, based upon its limited usage. It would also be nice if they played some decent music from the Gen-X era. But beyond these few nitpicky points, it has been a relaxing experience and the kids have made loads of new friends.
I’m pretty sure most of the people on this cruise are unaware of our dire fiscal situation. Most of them will expire to the big cruise ship in the sky before the shit hits the fan. I’m sure most of them voted for Obama and their “right” to more free shit. At least 60% of the passengers on this ship of fools are collecting what’s due to them from their government protectors. I’d be tossed out of the hot-tub if I was to ever suggest that maybe we should sacrifice a little today so there is something left for future generations. I think it would be a different dynamic if we ever threw a Burning Platform Cruise (aka Voyage of the Doomed). We could have Cynical30 and JJ providing live musical entertainment. DJ Colma would be spinning Bad Religion and his particular brand of music in the dance club. I’d book Green Day just to piss SSS off. We would have a Lawrence Welk night for SSS, but we’d have to make it early before his 2nd nap. I’m guessing the hot-tub discussions on a Burning Platform Cruise might be more animated, with an increased chance of drowning. We wouldn’t allow kids on the cruise because they would annoy PJ. Stuck would play the main room as our stand-up comedian. I’d like to hear what everyone thinks would happen on a TBP Cruise.
ecliptix543 says:
I’m pretty sure we’d come back with a few less people than when we set off. The sharks would have the “Where’s the Buffet?” shirts by dawn of day two.
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21st November 2012 at 6:38 am
sangell says:
I used to warn my father about wasting my money on ridiculous end of life travel. He wouldn’t listen so it was off to Machu Picchu, the Pyramids ( even after I warned him terrorists target western tourists), Taihiti and any other place he could spend my money on! So its not just the baby boomers
who are selfish, my ‘greatest generation’ father did his best to squander money I could have spent far more wisely on frivolous travel that he was too old to really enjoy!
I’ve often thought life is backwards. You should ‘retire’ in your early twenties and only go to work in your late thirties. Thanks to the Obama Administration that is now possible. Sadly the young do not have the money to blow that the elderly have unless, through some fortuitous circumstance, they get an early inheritance.
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21st November 2012 at 9:14 am
TeresaE says:
Thank you for the amusing blow-by-blow, or, pound-by-pound, as the case may be.
I’ve been looking forward to your observations all week!
My hub has wanted to do the cruise thing for a long time. I really have zero desire to do it. Cruises are sailing petri dishes where your entire existence depends on a bunch of indentured, captured, servants washing their hands and using bleach properly. Really freaks me out.
Anyway, you sound rested, instead of pissed, vacation suits you!
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21st November 2012 at 9:22 am
Maddie's Mom says:
TeresaE,
No cruise for me either.
Gross!!! (I’m a bit of a germaphobe though
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As for a TBP cruise?…..They’d have to hose down the ship after the shit-throwing monkeys got through with it !!!
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21st November 2012 at 9:55 am
sensetti says:
Just in the Burning Platform Cruise ship is on fire, monkey’s jumping ship,
Obama refuses to send the Coast Guard. Obama reportedly said “fuck it let’em swim back”
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21st November 2012 at 10:42 am
AKAnon says:
I limit my “cruising” to river boats. And seedy bars. But glad you had a good time-sounds like fire in the belly.
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21st November 2012 at 10:43 am
ragman says:
We’ve only been on one and I won it at my employer’s Christmas party a couple of years ago. We really enjoyed it! Turn the cellphone off, no internet, no input! TBP cruise sounds like a good idea.
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21st November 2012 at 10:44 am
GovtRunAmuck says:
From your cited demographics, I see the obvious social injustice and racism going on here. We obviously need a government program to assure that the FSA is fairly represented on these cruises.
It could be called the SNAP Cruise program. The FSA needs relief from its dreary existence.
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21st November 2012 at 11:06 am
AWD says:
Damn, that’s some funny shit. I know exactly what you’re talking about. It was close to 90% former government employees on my cruise, no joke. They are living the high life. Nobody else can afford a cruise. Fucking lifeguards make $100,000 per year, and $90,000 a year pension when they retire at 45 or 50. Thank God for the fucking unions. They were, also, by and large, imbeciles that couldn’t get a job anyplace else. They act like the won the lottery, and they just about did.
It’s amazing isn’t it? When you have these ideas about people (government employees, union members, FSA, obese people) and then you go on a cruise and find out that’s EXACTLY how it is in real life? Scary.
I was wondering if the gears would be turning as you floated around and got drunk. It would appear so. I’ll go on a TBP cruise, as long as I get to push fatties overboard, then use them for target practice with my scoped .270. We’d also need a fenced in octagon and MMA equipment to settle disputes and teach newbies a lesson.
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21st November 2012 at 11:16 am
AWD says:
Good thing for unions, 50 y.o. retired government workers, obese people, and lottery winners; they keep the cruise business in business.
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21st November 2012 at 11:19 am
sangell says:
My ‘cruise ship’
Not very fast, no all you can eat buffet but no fat people allowed on board either due to space and weight restrictions.
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21st November 2012 at 11:24 am
AWD says:
Yea, the fat women on the cruise have no shame. I don’t know where they get bikinis and swim suits that big, maybe “tents-R-us”. This 20-something red-head on my cruise weighed over 500 pounds and every GD day she’d be at the pool with her tent on, waddling around, getting more food every 30 minutes. I simply couldn’t believe it.
And when I got back, I was astounded and shocked by how many patients (on Welfare and disability) told me about the cruises they’ve taken. I’m beginning to wonder if you get free cruises on welfare/disability. Oh, wait, welfare/disability are just “supplemental income”, and include free healthcare/meds/housing/phones/gas. They make money by working under the table and selling their medications. I’m glad they are able to travel and expand their horizons.
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21st November 2012 at 11:28 am
AWD says:
Somehow they think it’s attractive to weigh 500 pounds. Boomers have removed all guilt and shame from our society, so why not? Boomers don’t care how fat they get.
728-Pound Susanne Eman Eating Her Way to 1,600 Pounds
An Arizona woman who already weighs a whopping 728 pounds is on a quest to eat her way to 1,600 pounds, although doctors say she could be dead before she reaches her bizarre goal.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, 32-year-old Susanne Eman used to struggle with her weight just like so many other Americans.
“Two years ago I hit (nearly 500 pounds) because I was losing my battle against weight gain,” she said.
But then the damnest thing happened.
“I noticed I actually started attracting more men, and it made me feel good.”
Eman is a growing number of “Super Size Big Beautiful Women” (SSBBW) who feel and think they look better as their weight increases. So they just don’t stop.
In Eman’s case, she is downing some 20,000 calories per day in an effort to reach her 1,600 pound goal, which would make her the fattest person in history. And after that?
“I’d love to find out if it’s humanly possible to reach a ton,” she said.
But it’s unlikely the single mother of two will live that long.
“She’s really playing Russian roulette with her life with this goal,” her physician Dr. Patrick Flite said. “There are well-documented complications that come with morbid obesity. I would never encourage anyone to be doing what Susanne is doing.”
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21st November 2012 at 11:50 am
GoAheadEnvyMe says:
you and your fat ass. yea i called ya fat. look at me. i look so good naked i get sexually harassed by my pants.
watching those piggies pork out at a buffet is enough to make anyone sick. fatties will never engage in physical exercise because they’re terrified of discomfort. in fact, at the first sign of discomfort, what do they look for? comfort food. gross…
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21st November 2012 at 12:02 pm
Wilson says:
This might help:
http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609611543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343328904&sr=8-1&keywords=wheat+belly
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21st November 2012 at 12:36 pm
Muck About says:
Well, I might have known Admin would pee on my fire before I had a chance to cook on it!
Just finished the 3rd (and last) course of chemo, feel like hammered dog shit and was going to make reservations for a New Years cruise on Holland American next week so I could try and gain some weight back.. Now WTF do I do?
Several things I will not do: bring along a laptop; bring along a cell phone; worry about what I eat (if I’ve got my appetite back by then), criticize obese bikini clad broads; worry about what AWD thinks about adipose tissue; worry about getting run down by a rascal while walking laps.
Several things I will do: Bring along some of my own booze; bring along three good books I’ve been wanting to read; see if I can find several island excursions I haven’t already done before (safe bet – the itinerary takes us to two islands we haven’t been too yet), see how much bread pudding I can consume at lunch (Holland American makes the best bread pudding known to man!); use the gym every other day to start a personal re-conditioning program; probably two dozen other things no one on TBP gives a shit about.
@TE and MM: Don’t knock cruising until you’ve tried it. Just wash your own hands often as the germs you bring aboard are more likely to come from another passenger than a crew member. The cleanest kitchen (galley) you will ever see is one run by Holland American.. They give tours. And snacks. Try it. On Holland American first..
MA
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21st November 2012 at 12:38 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Muck: Good luck with your chemo! I hope your oncologist is as good as me, heh, just kidding, it’s a tough slog, best wishes to you. Take the freaking cruise, bring plenty of hand sanitation and just relax and enjoy. You deserve it.
@Admin: That is one of the funniest things you have ever written. Seriously. Perhaps it is because your cruise left from the Blue states. My cruise (Carnival) left out of Galveston and I don’t remember nearly that number of obese people. Since wearing the Eyes of Doom, life in the USSA seems even more topsy turvy and CRAZY than ever.
Better to put the blinders back on, yeah, that’s the ticket.
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21st November 2012 at 12:50 pm
AWD says:
Good for you, Muckster. I was on Holland America, and the rice pudding is amazing. Eat as much as you can, you need and deserve it. I hope you enjoy yourself (I did).
It always fun making fun of other stupid and inferior people, but don’t let it affect your fun.
Holland America’s staff are all from Indonesia. Little Asians. It was hilarious at the buffet, these little people would put out a normal amount of food. Then these people that were three times bigger than the people serving them would say “more”, more, more, more, more until their plates weighed 5 pounds and the little Asians could hardly hold it any longer (because of the weight). It was funny looking at the staff’s expressions.
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21st November 2012 at 12:55 pm
AWD says:
The TBP cruise, focusing on doom, experienced some rough weather…
was attacked by sea monsters
and took wrong turn…
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21st November 2012 at 1:06 pm
backwardsevolution says:
Muck About – hope you are feeling better and back to normal soon. Definitely book that cruise! Laugh as much as you can – humour is so good for the soul, which affects the body.
Be careful of pnemonia. A family member got cancer, went through chemo, got so sick that we had to call ambulance. Five weeks in intensive care, not expected to live. What caused it? Pnemonia. The cancer was gone, but the pneumonia almost took him down. Finally gets sent to a regular ward and who is right next to him? A lady who had gone through chemo and ended up with double pneumonia, which almost ended her too.
Watch only funny movies: Anchorman (Ron Burgundy) is good for a laugh. Anything funny!
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21st November 2012 at 1:54 pm
backwardsevolution says:
Admin – stop, stop! Your articles are too entertaining! How am I supposed to get any work done around here with your funny articles sucking me back to the computer? I blame you for all late dinners.
Sounds like you and your family had a super time. I’m glad.
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21st November 2012 at 1:58 pm
crazyivan says:
I just gotta ask.
How many out there would actually get in a boat wirh AWD?
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21st November 2012 at 1:59 pm
crazyivan says:
And to clarify somewhat, I have to ask, do you see the difference between being on a boat and being in a boat.
Boats that sink usually imply that you are in them and not so much on them.
Same with airplanes
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21st November 2012 at 2:19 pm
AWD says:
Ivan
Blow me
An insecticide infested brain-dead Russian is exactly what we need.
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21st November 2012 at 2:29 pm
sensetti says:
@ Muck, get to feeling better there’s a huge hole in the Platform when your not posting.
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21st November 2012 at 2:34 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
Muck,
Fantastic that you finished the chemo!!!
Now, do it. Go on that cruise and have a wonderful time.
And thanks for the recommendation. If I ever change my mind, then Holland America it is!!!
crazyivan,
I would. But only because I’m not obese or a member of the FSA.
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21st November 2012 at 2:37 pm
crazyivan says:
AWD,
Being a doctor of sorts, I have the utmost respect for you.
But, through expeierence, I have to say that insecticides do not infest ones mind. They work on the central nervous system which is closley related.
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21st November 2012 at 2:58 pm
TeresaE says:
@MA, so, so, so glad to see you around here. I’ve mainly been lurking and so love to see you!
As for cruises, they violate one of my most basic survival instincts – not turning my life over to others that I do not know without a viable alternative plan. Plus, up until recently, my darling daughter’s food choices made it nearly impossible to contemplate.
When I was younger and much more naive, I wanted to go on a cruise so, so, bad. I also thought I wanted to go to Egypt and a tattoo.
None of those things are in my top ten list of things to do anymore.
Amazing how we change.
As for you, go, have a blast, eat too much and send us back lots of great stories about your fun time. I look forward to your take on it all.
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21st November 2012 at 3:20 pm
Administrator says:
In a tribute to my article we were delayed at the dock today from getting back on the ship because a medical helicopter had to land on the dock for a croaking senior citizen. Considering we were in Haiti, I doubt they’ll survive a stay in the Haiti ER.
I think Royal Caribbean should embrace the fact that 50% of their passengers have a 50% chance of kicking the bucket on the cruise.
I think a Hunger Games theme would be fitting. It reflects the battles to the death in the buffet line and whenever one of these artifacts meets their maker, they can fire off a cannon like they do in the movie.
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21st November 2012 at 4:41 pm
Chicago999444 says:
My old high school chum, a boomer in her early 60s, goes on many cruises these days as she and her husband run a very successful business and have always, always lived far below their means and have made ample provisions for kids and grandkids….. so not all of us boomers are a bunch of parasitical, debt-addicted, obese slobs.
She likes the more exotic cruises and does a lot of hiking around on foot at the more exotic ports of call.
I’m glad to see her and her equally hard-working trooper of a husband be well-rewarded for a lifetime of business risk, 12-hour workdays, and deep saving by being able to enjoy themselves on cruises.
For my part, I’m with “Therese”- these floating cities seem like big petri dishes for pathogens to me, too, and I share the concern about being out in the middle of the ocean with my life in the hands of strangers. No thanks.
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21st November 2012 at 4:48 pm
Administrator says:
The captain just came over the loud speaker and announced we will be experiencing 15 to 20 foot waves tomorrow night. The fun is coming to an end.
This ship was out in the Atlantic during Hurricane Sandy and the passengers were confined to their tiny cabins for 4 days.
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21st November 2012 at 5:01 pm
Edie says:
I’ve done a couple of short cruises out of Galveston to the Mexican Riviera. It’s an easy way to take my employees on a “staff appreciation” trip and let the practice pay for it…by including a little training. They love it, but the missus and I, we’d rather get there fast and then take it slow, like the song says.
I’d much rather just fly to Cancun, rent a car, and drive to Tulum. So much more time to see the ruins and the cenotes, and play on the beach.
Same with the islands. I like to fly to Charlotte Amalie, rent a car, hit the supermarket and load up on food, and then take the car ferry to St. John and camp at Cinnamon Bay. It’s a US national park, and the beach cabanas are dirt cheap.
When you run a business that makes no money when you aren’t personally at work, the lost cash flow is the greatest expense of any trip. Time really is money…I have serious overhead to meet whether I’m there or not…so cruising to a destination is more expensive for me…and just hanging out onboard a big ship doesn’t scratch my travel itch.
Besides, cruise ships are floating ecological disaster areas…big carbon wasters and serious polluters. I love the oceans too much to support that racket, really.
I’ve done one cruise on the Rhine-Marne Canal on a luxury barge..now that was very nice. Only eight of us onboard..with a full time crew and a fabulous chef.
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21st November 2012 at 5:49 pm
Edie says:
Admin
Good luck with the weather. At least on a cruise ship, twenty foot waves are no real danger. To me, a little blow like that sounds like fun. Too bad you can’t watch it from the bridge. If you are prone to the mal de mer, just lie down in your berth. That helps.
Eat yogurt. You’ll still throw up, but it tastes the same coming up as it does going down.
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21st November 2012 at 5:57 pm
Eddie says:
Me above…Still can’t type my own name.
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21st November 2012 at 5:59 pm
llpoh says:
Eddie says to himself:
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21st November 2012 at 6:10 pm
AWD says:
20 foot waves? Better break out the dramamine….
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21st November 2012 at 7:01 pm
sensetti says:
Admin don’t look now
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21st November 2012 at 7:01 pm
AWD says:
The cruises love it when the geezers croak. They get to charge thousands extra.
A guy I met on the cruise went to the doctor on the boat with a cough. He did blood tests and a chest xray gave him some cough medicine, and charged him $350 (they don’t take insurance on cruise ships). I gave him some antibiotics for free, which actually cured him. He was so grateful he bought me some fake Cuban Cohibas.
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21st November 2012 at 7:06 pm
llpoh says:
AWD after smoking one of those cigars:
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21st November 2012 at 7:13 pm
AWD says:
Holy shit! with 20 ft. waves, they’ll have no choice but to close the buffet line. Oh, the horror….
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21st November 2012 at 7:14 pm
llpoh says:
What the Admin has to look forward to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPNEPl6FK4&feature=player_detailpage
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21st November 2012 at 7:23 pm
AWD says:
That’s gonna cause a whole lot of shaking, rattle, and bow roll (without sports bras)
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21st November 2012 at 7:29 pm
AWD says:
Lipoh,
I didn’t accept the fake Cohibas. It would be sacrilege to do so.
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21st November 2012 at 7:30 pm
AKAnon says:
“The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of its fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost….”
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21st November 2012 at 7:36 pm
MuckAbout says:
Going to the Caribbean (East or West) between June 1st and November 1st is just plain dumb. A few years from now, it will be a no-go from May 1st to December 1st as things continue to warm and hurry-canes get bigger and uglier.
Cruising Rule #1. Don’t take a Caribbean cruise in the Summer or Fall
Cruising Rule #2. See Rule #1
MA
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21st November 2012 at 8:01 pm
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21st November 2012 at 8:53 pm
Kill Bill says:
I think I fee sick…. baaaaarf!
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21st November 2012 at 8:56 pm
Kill Bill says:
I knew I shouldnt have ate that shrimp cocktail and drank all that rum!
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21st November 2012 at 8:58 pm
Kill Bill says:
Dear God please dont let the bilge pump fail us now, please, oh please.
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21st November 2012 at 9:14 pm
Kill Bill says:
Hey admin, one good thing about your cruise mates.
Fat Floats!
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21st November 2012 at 9:16 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I’ll bet the boat would have to be retired after a TBP cruise IF it even made it back to port!
+10,000 Teresa on the petri dish comment. I’d rather capsize my own little fishing boat in the middle of Flathead Lake, in Montana, in the middle of winter and swim for shore, than go on a cruise! To see exactly what I mean, go to any busy location with lots of human traffic. There should be lots of walking and milling about and some seating and even a close by source of food. Now choose yourself a good seat to observe as many people as possible. Observe your subjects the same way you observed an ant hill when you were 7 or 8. Don’t think, just observe and remember for later analysis.
For those of you attending some sort of get together today, try to monitor or even assist with food prep today then take it upon yourself to tell everyone to wash their hands for dinner. Take note of the reactions and who does and doesn’t wash up.
My wife is working today so I might just head up to the hospital to visit my best friends 80 year old father who is expected to pass any day now. He was incommunicado yesterday so perhaps he is conscious today.
I_S
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21st November 2012 at 1:35 pm
Llpoh says:
IS – I am with you. I would rather gouge my eyes out with a fork than go on a cruise. Fact is, my house/land has everything a cruiseship has, except for the servants. And they can come to me rather than me go to them for far less money if I want .
I would rather sit on my porch with a beer and a nice piece of meat cooking in my Kamado Joe than much anything else I can think of. Simple pleasures are the best. That reminds me, I am almost out of single malt.
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21st November 2012 at 6:40 pm