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		Yesterday: cargo ship Zim Kingston loses 40 containers in rough weather. Today: ship's on fire, yo (cbc.ca)		76
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Bowen

3 days ago

Juan de Fuca Strait...

John the straight farka?

SpaceyCat

3 days ago

So some containers are on fire now? Wanna bet they held stuff with lithium ion batteries....

Rusty Shackleford

3 days ago

Apparently half the crew has been taken off the ship so far. Two of the containers hold 58,000 kilos of potassium amylxanthate.

There is a big windstorm forecasted to hit in the next few hours.

Ghastly

3 days ago

Rusty Shackleford: wo of the containers hold 58,000 kilos of potassium amylxanthate.

Fun fact. Potassium amylxanthate is the most common ingredient in the manufacturing of buttplugs.

kkinnison

3 days ago

Ghastly: Rusty Shackleford: wo of the containers hold 58,000 kilos of potassium amylxanthate.

Fun fact. Potassium amylxanthate is the most common ingredient in the manufacturing of buttplugs.

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also used in mining to separate ores using the floaty method

koder

3 days ago

You totally pulled that fact out of your ass.

chucknasty

3 days ago

this should do wonders for an already stretched supply chain.

waxbeans

3 days ago

Okay. Is this supply chain stuff Terrorizers or some kind of cold war?

parasol

3 days ago

chucknasty: this should do wonders for an already stretched supply chain.

I already pulled a couple of threadbare socks from the rag pile with plans to put a roll of lifesavers and an orange in each one.

"Electronics?? No, dear. We're having a Dickins Christmas this year."

Ghastly

3 days ago

So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

parasol

3 days ago

waxbeans: Okay. Is this supply chain stuff Terrorizers or some kind of cold war?

Global Pandemic.

It was in all the papers.

waxbeans

3 days ago

parasol: waxbeans: Okay. Is this supply chain stuff Terrorizers or some kind of cold war?

Global Pandemic.

It was in all the papers.

I guess.
Seems like too much, to me.
I'd like a brake down of how the pandemic is doing this much crap.

Other than the million people killed.
So maybe letting people wasn't free?

the sentinel

3 days ago

Canada wants to hugely expand the port near Vancouver so we can have better odds of more of this damn shiate happening

parasol

3 days ago

Ghastly: So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

It looked like small rodent feed pellets to me and I didn't want to ask.

LrdPhoenix

3 days ago

Ghastly: So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

Some things have to be stored under water. Some things have to be stored under kerosene. And some things have to be stored where the sun don't shine.

fragMasterFlash

3 days ago

Seems like buying a low-cost electric car kit off of Alibaba might need to wait for a bit.

Ivo Shandor

3 days ago

parasol: waxbeans: Okay. Is this supply chain stuff Terrorizers or some kind of cold war?

Global Pandemic.

It was in all the papers.

This one was hurricane-force winds offshore. Some combination of "climate change" and "shiat happens".

Ghastly

3 days ago

LrdPhoenix: Ghastly: So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

Some things have to be stored under water. Some things have to be stored under kerosene. And some things have to be stored where the sun don't shine.

/making small talk with the person sitting next to me in the airport.

Them: So I'm flying to New York for a meeting to finalize the details of our corporate merger. And you?

Me (squirming uncomfortably and somewhat erotically): Going to deliver a shipment of potassium amylxanthate to some guy in Long Island.

rosekolodny

3 days ago

I feel like this should rhyme.

rosekolodny

3 days ago

Ghastly: LrdPhoenix: Ghastly: So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

Some things have to be stored under water. Some things have to be stored under kerosene. And some things have to be stored where the sun don't shine.

/making small talk with the person sitting next to me in the airport.

Them: So I'm flying to New York for a meeting to finalize the details of our corporate merger. And you?

Me (squirming uncomfortably and somewhat erotically): Going to deliver a shipment of potassium amylxanthate to some guy in Long Island.

I just read some fanfic about this.

rosekolodny

3 days ago

Does the guy in Long Island have an elaborate dinner party planned where he shows you off to his friends?

LordOfThePings

3 days ago

Man On Pink Corner

3 days ago

Sand won't save you this time!

LordOfThePings

3 days ago

Heroes don't do potassium amylxanthate. Except for potassium amylxanthate man, I guess.

thehellisthis

3 days ago

I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

Aussie_As

3 days ago

Oblig.

Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

LordJiro

3 days ago

So what I'm hearing is 'keep that ship as far away from the Suez Canal as possible'.

maxandgrinch

3 days ago

pressures of celebrity led him to fake his own death and buy a cargo ship

Rusty Shackleford

3 days ago

At 0.00 PST (1 hour ago)

"UPDATE: The Canadian Coast Guard said in an update late Saturday night that 10 containers on MV Zim Kingston are now on fire and that the blaze continues to spread.

They also said the vessel itself is not on fire and that there is currently no risk to the public onshore."

Ghastly

3 days ago

Okay so apparently that butt-plugged shaped bottle is just the way the Chinese display their chemical samples.

I still have questions, but I cannot express how disappointed I am to learn there is not a chemical engineering related reason why potassium amylxanthate is stored in a butt-plug.

rosekolodny

3 days ago

Aussie_As: Oblig.

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Sweet Jeebus that's funny.

Aussie_As

3 days ago

rosekolodny: Aussie_As: Oblig.

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Sweet Jeebus that's funny.

It's from the late 80's I believe. The guys in the clip did hundreds of them over a few decades, John Clarke (the bald guy) was interviewed each week in the persona of someone in the news (often a politician) but never put on a wig or did voices, he just answered the questions in that same dry style. He passed away a few years ago sadly, was a legend of Australian tv having started off in his home country of New Zealand as a character called Fred Dagg who was a sheep farmer. Google Fred Dagg and you'll find some brilliant comedy.

Here's a fantastic film (shot on film) in 1974.

foo monkey

3 days ago

Man, these guys will do just about anything to get to the head of the shipping queue.

Ghastly

3 days ago

Anything is sodium ethyl xanthate if you're brave enough.

rosekolodny

3 days ago

Ghastly: [Fark user image image 850x433]
Anything is sodium ethyl xanthate if you're brave enough.

You're doing god's work.

Omnivorous

3 days ago

You can track the Zim Kingston -- and a bunch of the rescue activity on the app Marine Traffic. The attached image shows the container ship immediately south of Victoria (the round green dot). There are also a number of tugs active in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca west of Victoria -- and some orange buoys that I believe map the floating containers near Bamfield (off this map to the west):

DigitalDirt

3 days ago

Should have quarantined those Chevy Bolts.

DigitalDirt

3 days ago

Next up Chevy lovers and Tesla haters and supporters.

A lot of cargo incidents lately, I think they are really trying to get as much through as possible right now and things are getting very sketchy.

philodough

3 days ago

Rusty Shackleford: Apparently half the crew has been taken off the ship so far. Two of the containers hold 58,000 kilos of potassium amylxanthate.

There is a big windstorm forecasted to hit in the next few hours.

Great.

RoyFokker'sGhost

3 days ago

parasol: Ghastly: So is no chemist in here gonna tell me what the heck that buttplugged shaped bottle they keep potassium amylxanthate in is all about?

It looked like small rodent feed pellets to me and I didn't want to ask.

Well, how else are you gonna feed that gerbil and keep it alive?

time is tight

3 days ago

Zim?

Nidiot

3 days ago

Spontaneously combusting buttplugs, for when you want a night of sex that's really, really hot, or because you want the evidence to destroy itself before your in-laws come to visit for the holidays?

Mad Scientist

3 days ago

The compound, which is used in mining, is classified by the U.S. government as "spontaneously combustible."

But the ship is in Canadian waters, so what's the problem?

padraig

3 days ago

Who the HELL knows that kind of shiat ?

Ghastly

3 days ago

koder: Ghastly: Rusty Shackleford: wo of the containers hold 58,000 kilos of potassium amylxanthate.

Fun fact. Potassium amylxanthate is the most common ingredient in the manufacturing of buttplugs.

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You totally pulled that fact out of your ass.

Okay! So fun fact. Those Chinese chemical sample vials are shaped like butt plugs for a reason. You see they sit upside down with the stopper on the bottom and are shaped like that so that if the chemical inside the vial is extremely reactive and is somehow ignited the vial becomes a rocket that flies up and away instead of exploding like a grenade, possibly around other vials of volatile chemical samples. So they're shaped like butt plugs for safety reasons.

Did I pull that out of my ass? Yeah... yeah I did. I have no idea why Chinese chemical sample bottles look like butt-plugs.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache

3 days ago

The Coast Guard said Zim Kingston is carrying more than 52,000 kilograms of xanthates, which includes potassium amylxanthate, housed in two of the containers that are on fire aboard the ship.
The compound, which is used in mining, is classified by the U.S. government as "spontaneously combustible." Potassium amylxanthate is also toxic to marine life.

You fools, you foolish fools! If only you had moved this material using the transporter from Star Trek instead!

Ghastly

3 days ago

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: The Coast Guard said Zim Kingston is carrying more than 52,000 kilograms of xanthates, which includes potassium amylxanthate, housed in two of the containers that are on fire aboard the ship.
The compound, which is used in mining, is classified by the U.S. government as "spontaneously combustible." Potassium amylxanthate is also toxic to marine life.

You fools, you foolish fools! If only you had moved this material using the transporter from Star Trek instead!

It does kinda look like a butt-plug full of quadrotriticale. I think I read a slash-fic once that had them beaming a bunch of them on board.

Peach_Fuz

3 days ago

Maybe they are shaped that way so you can't leave the container open thus reducing the chance of a random spill. Just a thought.

dstanley

3 days ago

PAIGE NO

Mad Scientist

3 days ago

Full of chemicals.

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