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(MSNBC) Interesting Cruise ship rams glacier in Antarctic; captain immediately orders free drinks for everyone on board. Now that's leadership   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 73
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DandamanFL [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 09:01:21 PM  
The free drinks is a standard on cruise ships when there is engine trouble. There is usually one or two ships a year that get towed in and you hear about the bar being thrown open.

 
CruiserTwelve [TotalFark] 2007-12-29 11:00:22 PM  
And every drink was on the rocks.

 
overlord 2007-12-30 12:35:26 AM  
captain immediately orders free drinks for everyone on board. Now that's leadership

At least he didn't give them the cold shoulder.

 
randomstranger 2007-12-30 12:36:40 AM  
I'm guessing he only did it because he was already down at the bar.

 
TOSViolation 2007-12-30 12:36:46 AM  
CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

Win.

 
ksobby 2007-12-30 12:37:37 AM  
Come on, Admins. Enough with the damn repeats. This was posted 96 years ago.

 
COOTYSRATSEMEN 2007-12-30 12:38:01 AM  
DandamanFL: "The free drinks is a standard on cruise ships when there is engine trouble."

Interesting. Is that some sort of maritime tradition, or something? Seems like a unique (and welcome) idea...

 
g3o 2007-12-30 12:38:01 AM  
CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)


/golf clap

 
Fantasysage 2007-12-30 12:38:16 AM  
Passengers seen disembarking with knives and tequila screaming "LUGE, LUGE!" never seen again

 
COOTYSRATSEMEN 2007-12-30 12:38:38 AM  
ksobby = Win.

 
rfenster 2007-12-30 12:39:46 AM  
So that's where Captain Hazelwood wound up

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2007-12-30 12:39:54 AM  
COOTYSRATSEMEN: Is that some sort of maritime tradition, or something? Seems like a unique (and welcome) idea

It's just a good idea. I'd be freaking the fark out of my ship were going down.

 
moon-watcher 2007-12-30 12:40:39 AM  
But...But....Global warming!!!

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2007-12-30 12:40:44 AM  
Of course, since this ship wasn't necessarily going down, I have no real answer for you.

 
gweilo8888 2007-12-30 12:41:37 AM  
CruiserTwelve: "And every drink was on the rocks."

Game over. You win!

 
markthefarker 2007-12-30 12:41:51 AM  
Wow - this made Fark. Our former governor is on this ship, so this was on our news here in Indianapolis tonight.

 
tzankoff [TotalFark] 2007-12-30 12:42:56 AM  
overlord: At least he didn't give them the cold shoulder.

I, for one, do not find any amusement in our pun-absuing overlord.

 
huntercr 2007-12-30 12:44:10 AM  
g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)



...and your nipples got hard?

 
Jeff_from_MD 2007-12-30 12:44:11 AM  
only 300 passengers? If this was a full sized cruise ship, that collision would definitely have had enough force to tear up more than just a lifeboat and railing.

 
geektard 2007-12-30 12:45:29 AM  
img172.imageshack.us
Approves...

 
spyderqueen 2007-12-30 12:47:37 AM  
huntercr
g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)



...and your nipples got hard?


Wouldn't that be (+)(+)?

 
overlord 2007-12-30 12:48:49 AM  
tzankoff: I, for one, do not find any amusement in our pun-absuing overlord.

Your lack of amusement is punishment enough.

 
dwalder 2007-12-30 12:49:11 AM  
Problem glacier?
JUSTwww.vortice-br.comIT!

 
COOTYSRATSEMEN 2007-12-30 12:50:09 AM  
puffy999: Good point.

Wonder if they have a chart for situations like this.

"Engine's out: Open bar."

"Rudder's jammed: Free food."

"Breached hull: Have a joint!"

 
Erik_Emune 2007-12-30 12:52:33 AM  
A ship carrying the proud name Fram can't be stopped by a little ice.

For those interested, the first ship to be named Fram was that of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian polar explorer with balls of solid chrome-vanadium steel. He designed the ship to survive being caught in the arctic ice, filled it up with 6 years worth of supplies and sailed North, where the Fram was caught up by the ice as planned and carried by the icepack's progression for well over a year, while the crew fought boredom more than the elements.

As if that wasn't impressive enough, Fram also acted as the expedition ship for a certain Roald Amundsen whose exploits took place quite a bit further South.

Free drinks - sounds about right.

 
maglite 2007-12-30 01:04:27 AM  
www.rogueamoeba.com

floating point error = free drinks

 
Wulph 2007-12-30 01:05:03 AM  
TFA: On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later.

It must've performed an illegal operation?

 
Zimbomba 2007-12-30 01:07:43 AM  
"MS Fram"

Isn't that the sister ship of the MS Frap?

 
artic_fun 2007-12-30 01:07:52 AM  
i157.photobucket.com
i157.photobucket.com

 
RazzleDazzle 2007-12-30 01:09:40 AM  
I went on my first cruise not too long ago. It was to the Bahamas and there was not a single glacier I was concerned with, in fact we coincidentally had a lot of sun to worry about... something about skin cancer and sun burn. I was just glad there were no glaciers around for us to crash into.

 
Jean-Puc_Licard 2007-12-30 01:11:54 AM  
They do that on planes too, on long haul flights when the video breaks down.

 
Aulus [TotalFark] 2007-12-30 01:14:15 AM  

From TFA: The captain and crew checked the ship and calmed nervous passengers, and after that "there were free drinks on the house," he said.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?


/just sayin'
//and you will never, ever, catch me going on any farking cruise


 
sage37 2007-12-30 01:17:36 AM  
It's better to offer them something desirable and relatively cheap, than having to deal with a line of angry tourists each demanding a different form of compensations...

 
Metaluna Mutant 2007-12-30 01:18:43 AM  
alicia-logic.com

"Waiter! More Champagne and Plenty Of Ice"

 
Nos_Felix 2007-12-30 01:19:15 AM  
"On Nov. 24 another cruise vessel, the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later."

I didn't know Gates had a cruise ship...

 
Rakishi 2007-12-30 01:21:27 AM  
Aulus: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

It's even worse to have a couple hundred panicked passengers rush the life boats and I'm assuming people were only given a couple drinks each.

 
Zimbomba 2007-12-30 01:22:05 AM  
Aulus:TFA: "The captain and crew checked the ship and calmed nervous passengers, and after that "there were free drinks on the house," he said."


"Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?


More places in the lifeboats for the crew, so everybody's happy.

 
blazemongr 2007-12-30 01:28:45 AM  
CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

 
Scifientologist 2007-12-30 01:31:25 AM  
What? No Kate Winslet pics yet?

You dirty Farkers really ARE slipping tonight.

 
bmihura 2007-12-30 01:45:33 AM  
Imagine the pressure of being on the repair crew when something like that happens.

And I think MY job is high stress-- but this repair crew has a whole ship of lives at stake, and immediately.

 
Derek313 2007-12-30 01:47:00 AM  
I submitted this under a better....fark it!

 
Sythikus 2007-12-30 01:53:51 AM  
MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank hours later

BWAHAHAHAHA! Was that iceberg S.S. Firefox by any chance?

 
Jument 2007-12-30 01:58:12 AM  
Aulus: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

It's like outrunning a bear. You can't outrun a bear but if you can outrun the people you are with, you win. In this case, fighting your way into a life boat is a lot easier if half of the other passengers are pissed drunk (or passed out in the bar).

 
toonz 2007-12-30 01:59:58 AM  
I'll never let go, Jack.
(she lets go)

 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark] 2007-12-30 02:31:02 AM  
Aulus: From TFA: The captain and crew checked the ship and calmed nervous passengers, and after that "there were free drinks on the house," he said.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but if it had turned out to be more serious, like the cruise liner that, earlier this month, hit an iceberg and farking sank, neccesitating all to hustle into life boats, it's really not in the best interest of all for the passengers to be drunk off their asses, right?

landlubber
/just sayin'
//and you will never, ever, catch me going on any farking cruise

 
Mart Laar's beard shaver 2007-12-30 03:01:04 AM  
Awesome headline, Subby.

And indeed, CruiserTwelve wins the thread. Here's your banana.

 
dmax 2007-12-30 03:13:41 AM  
CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

Came here to post that.

Now, you must die.

 
MattyBlast [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-12-30 03:21:05 AM  
blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.


FAIL.

 
bsuhorndog 2007-12-30 03:38:41 AM  
MattyBlast: blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.

FAIL.


FACEPALM

 
g3o 2007-12-30 03:49:22 AM  
huntercr: g3o: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

(o)(o) ---> (-)(-)



...and your nipples got hard?


homepage.mac.com


blazemongr: CruiserTwelve: And every drink was on the rocks.

That wasn't even funny. The ship hit an iceberg, not rocks.


You realize that the phrase, "n the rocks" means with ice, don'cha know?

 
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