JEEZ!....No wonder the rest of the world hates us!

[Joe Walsh]

I mean really....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40126918/ns/travel-cruise_travel?GT1=43001

OMFG! We are trapped on an ultra luxurious cruise ship with NO POWER!
We are being forced to live without A/C while downing 'comped' drinks till we pass out!
We have nothing to do but lay around on the deck and drink while sunning ourselves!
We can't stuff our fat faces at the buffet until we puke.......we have to eat cold food and snacks!!!
We are so miserable!
When we get back on land (and after we get a full refund AND our free cruise tickets.....for any cruise in the world)
We are going to sue Carnival for the horrible ordeal that we were put through!

[tbone]

I think the body odor alone would make me want out. It does not sound like a pleasant situation, and I doubt every unhappy passenger was an American.

[Bigdogjim]

Well yeah Joe! How does a modern ship like the one in question have an accident like that? Fire in the engine room? Who was sleeping at their job?

[Joe Walsh]

Well yeah Joe! How does a modern ship like the one in question have an accident like that? Fire in the engine room?
Who was sleeping at their job?

True!....And why don't they have some back-up generators?

I just don't know how those poor people survived at all!....:cry:
They must have hung on at all costs and had the Chilean miners in their thoughts.

[CBT]

Drunk people on a ship complaining about the food. Hi, sailors! :wave:

[Mr. Man]

I mean really....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40126918/ns/travel-cruise_travel?GT1=43001

OMFG! We are trapped on an ultra luxurious cruise ship with NO POWER!
We are being forced to live without A/C while downing 'comped' drinks till we pass out!
We have nothing to do but lay around on the deck and drink while sunning ourselves!
We can't stuff our fat faces at the buffet until we puke.......we have to eat cold food and snacks!!!
We are so miserable!
When we get back on land (and after we get a full refund AND our free cruise tickets.....for any cruise in the world)
We are going to sue Carnival for the horrible ordeal that we were put through!
Having been on a cruise to Alaska I can sympathise with all the whining done by the passengers. If not for the breath taking scenery of Alaska I would have thrown myself overboard from the sheer boredom and lack of decent food on our ship. Cold sandwiches would have been a 1000% improvement over the 4 star dog food we were expected to eat:puke:. Next time we'll try the train.

[kernie]

I think the body odor alone would make me want out. It does not sound like a pleasant situation, and I doubt every unhappy passenger was an American.



SAN DIEGO —Six tug boats pulled the stricken cruise ship Carnival Splendor to shore Thursday morning amid cheers from a waiting crowd, bringing the nearly 4,500 passengers – 196 Canadians among them – and crew closer to freedom after three days of limited food, smelly toilets and dark cabins.

Right you are!

Dang Canadian complainers!

:beer:

[Joe Walsh]

Having been on a cruise to Alaska I can sympathise with all the whining done by the passengers. If not for the breath taking scenery of Alaska I would have thrown myself overboard from the sheer boredom and lack of decent food on our ship. Cold sandwiches would have been a 1000% improvement over the 4 star dog food we were expected to eat:puke:. Next time we'll try the train.

I've taken one of those 'cattle car' cruises.....ONCE.

I won't make that mistake again.

BTW: It was a Carnival Cruise!...but we did have power.

[Bigdogjim]

Still something's not right? A ship that big just does not "loose power" after a fire? Someone going to walk the plank!

[vkirkend]

I mean really....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40126918/ns/travel-cruise_travel?GT1=43001

OMFG! We are trapped on an ultra luxurious cruise ship with NO POWER!
We are being forced to live without A/C while downing 'comped' drinks till we pass out!
We have nothing to do but lay around on the deck and drink while sunning ourselves!
We can't stuff our fat faces at the buffet until we puke.......we have to eat cold food and snacks!!!
We are so miserable!
When we get back on land (and after we get a full refund AND our free cruise tickets.....for any cruise in the world)
We are going to sue Carnival for the horrible ordeal that we were put through!

If this was a cruise I had planned for months and scheduled my precious leave to take for me and my family you can bet I would be one unhappy camper. You can't get that week back no matter what. But the refund and free cruise would help my frayed nerves..... Definitely something to let your kids about.

[massacre]

Personally,

I couldn't care less what the "rest of the world"'s opinion of America is.
They can go take a flying leap.

And, to me validating their opinion in any way is a self-defeating attitude that is totally negative and counter-productive.

But if I had paid, and planned for a cruise like that, I'd be pretty pissed too.

[Cheeseheadbob]

Joe, I am with you 110% on this. I do empathize with the people who lost a couple of days of what should have been a very enjoyable and positive experience. My empathy ends with the idea that the passengers were somehow in some sort of danger or that their lives were so unbearable with these conditions that they had to kiss the ground when they returned after an eternity of 4 days...:shake:

Instead of taking a cruise and telling anyone who will listen, how they cruised to far away exotic places, maybe some of these malcontents should take a trip to a part of the world where people would give up an appendage for bottled water, a fully staffed hospital, cold sandwiches and any other creature comfort which was available on that floating cattle car.

At the end of the day, the only real thing these people lost was time, and most were probably taking paid vacation anyway.



I mean really....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40126918/ns/travel-cruise_travel?GT1=43001

OMFG! We are trapped on an ultra luxurious cruise ship with NO POWER!
We are being forced to live without A/C while downing 'comped' drinks till we pass out!
We have nothing to do but lay around on the deck and drink while sunning ourselves!
We can't stuff our fat faces at the buffet until we puke.......we have to eat cold food and snacks!!!
We are so miserable!
When we get back on land (and after we get a full refund AND our free cruise tickets.....for any cruise in the world)
We are going to sue Carnival for the horrible ordeal that we were put through!

[Joe Walsh]

Joe, I am with you 110% on this. I do empathize with the people who lost a couple of days of what should have been a very enjoyable and positive experience. My empathy ends with the idea that the passengers were somehow in some sort of danger or that their lives were so unbearable with these conditions that they had to kiss the ground when they returned after an eternity of 4 days...:shake:

Instead of taking a cruise and telling anyone who will listen, how they cruised to far away exotic places, maybe some of these malcontents should take a trip to a part of the world where people would give up an appendage for bottled water, a fully staffed hospital, cold sandwiches and any other creature comfort which was available on that floating cattle car.

At the end of the day, the only real thing these people lost was time, and most were probably taking paid vacation anyway.

Yep,
Those passengers that they interviewed should have said something like:
"It wasn't that bad...we hung out and caught some rays, played cards, talked to each other and actually got to know other passengers."
or
"I actually lost weight from my BIG fat azz!"

What really pisses me off is how the media makes it out to be a horrible life threatening ordeal.
.....to be stuck.........on a cruise ship?!?!.....WTF?

My only complaint would have been "Couldn't they have iced the warm beer?"

[Bluerauder]

Guess I am gonna have to go against the grain here.

Not sure that I would consider Carnival Cruise Lines "Ultra Luxurious"; but a fire on a ship at sea is not something to snicker at..... for any reason. This could have turned into a real disaster of a magnitude greater than the Titanic or of the Lusitania. Fire on a ship is the greatest threat to safety that there is during peacetime. Fortunately, the crew was able to contol the fire before it spread to passenger areas. However, as reported in the news, the fire knocked out the ships propulsion engines AND their diesel service generators that provide power and back-up power for the ship. ALL of this was gone. A ship with NO propulsion and NO electric power is a disaster waiting to happen.

These passengers were MORE than inconvenienced on what should have been an enjoyable vacation. Free cruises and full refunds ARE THE LEAST that Carnival can do to compensate the passengers. Of course, I suspect that more than 1/2 of them will NEVER set foot on a Carnival ship again.

[Marauderjack]

I've taken one of those 'cattle car' cruises.....ONCE.

I won't make that mistake again.

BTW: It was a Carnival Cruise!...but we did have power.

I'm with you Joe.....lots of rude people and it's like being in a damn Mall 24/7!!:argue::mad2:

NEVER AGAIN!!!:shake:

[secretservice]

I'm sorry. I had to do this. Again, sorry. It had to be done.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4557756/v205816134

[secretservice]

A ship with NO propulsion and NO electric power is a disaster waiting to happen.

You are right on this fact, they are a sitting duck, open to all kinds of threats we couldn't imagine, like piracy, plunder, etc. No joke.

[Joe Walsh]

Of course, I suspect that more than 1/2 of them will NEVER set foot on a Carnival ship again.

Heck, I'll never go on another Carnival ship and I had a 'normal' cruise with no fires or loss of power!


I'm with you Joe.....lots of rude people and it's like being in a damn Mall 24/7!!:argue::mad2:

NEVER AGAIN!!!:shake:

Yep,
Now if you want a really nice enjoyable cruise, we took a WindJammer Cruise.
Only @ 100 passengers and they go to ports and places that are too small and too shallow for the 'cattle car' cruises.
Plus they use sailpower as often as practical, so it is very calm and quiet.
Our entire family took a WindJammer cruise to celebrate our mother's 75th birthday, back in 2004.
Everyone had a great time!

[Joe Walsh]

You are right on this fact, they are a sitting duck, open to all kinds of threats we couldn't imagine, like piracy, plunder, etc. No joke.

LOL...

Those Somalian Pirates have been seen operating off the cost of San Diego recently...

BTW: Love the video...I'm on a F'n BOAT!

[CBT]

You are right on this fact, they are a sitting duck, open to all kinds of threats we couldn't imagine, like piracy, plunder, etc. No joke.

They were almost withing eyesight of the U.S. Navys Third Fleet. No one was going to plunder anything in this case. :gunfire:

[Joe Walsh]

They were almost withing eyesight of the U.S. Navys Third Fleet. No one was going to plunder anything in this case. :gunfire:

Yep,
The USS Reagan was about 300 yards away.

See 2:03 in the video clip.

[secretservice]

They were almost withing eyesight of the U.S. Navys Third Fleet. No one was going to plunder anything in this case. :gunfire:

Oh. My bad. I'm not a trained Seaman. :o

[Hotrauder]

Maybe I am still all wet but it seems to me that usually the folks that head for the reporters and cameras are nearly as defective as the ship was. Charlie is right however fire on a ship is huge. I was part of the Marine Detachment on the USS Essex when a hot shot stick flew into parked aircraft at the rear of the Island. We fought to save the ship, were fortunate enough to accomplish that and spent 6 months at Brooklyn Naval Shipyard. Again thanks to the student Nurses of St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing for making me happy to have survived and getting me into and out of every joint in the Village. :D

That said, although being generations to old to appreciate Rap or obsentities in music I laughed out loud. Thanks secret service.

I suspect that the same people that were a major pain in the azz before the fire were those standing in front of the microphones when hauled into port. The hardest hit were those folks neighbors who had so looked forward to them being away for the entire cruise. Dennis

[justbob]

I would be super pissed. I average one week every 3-4 years for a vacation and lets just say a cruise would/is a major deal for us MAYBE every other vacation. We took a Carnival Cruise and absolutely loved it! Best vacation ever.

[Shaijack]

Sounds like the first tow boat I worked on. They paid me $16.50 per day too.

[ChiTownMaraud3r]

Those pansies that complained should have flung themselves off and tried for shore.

Whiny little b*****s that make a not so fun situation worse really annoy me. They are lucky they didn't have to overcome any physical hardships other than eating spam, and drinking warm beer.

[martyo]

I hate lawyers!!!!

[Joe Walsh]

I hate lawyers!!!!

Nope, those whiners weren't lawyers...just some typical fat, dumb Americans who were denied their all-you-shove-down-your-pie-hole feedings.
If they were lawyers, they would have been on the SilverSeas Cruise....:P

[PonyUP]

Fire aside, once the fire was out, there was no danger, just inconvenience. So when they get off the boat like this was some horrific disaster....

Well there's some Chiliean miners all going WTF??? 3 days on a cruise ship? Really?

[Joe Walsh]

:bump:



Carnival Cruise........................ check!
Engine room fire.......................... check!
Loss of all power......................... check!
Ship adrift........................ ..........check!
4,200 complaining passengers.........check!
Nonstop media coverage.............check!
"Life threatening" ordeal................check!


Hey!.....:hmmm:
This sounds familiar...................... :rolleyes:

[PonyUP]

:bump:



Carnival Cruise........................ check!
Engine room fire.......................... check!
Loss of all power......................... check!
Ship adrift........................ ..........check!
3,000 complaining passengers.........check!
Nonstop media coverage.............check!
"Life threatening" ordeal................check!


Hey!.....:hmmm:
This sounds familiar...................... :rolleyes:

Glad to se this bumped as history repeats itself.

Granted fire is a severe issue, had the boat sunk, I'd understand the outcry

But 4 frickin days where a cruise is adrift at sea leading the news? WTF????

The state of the union was this week
Home fireclosures have dropped by more than have from 367k to under 150k in two years showing signs if rebounding

3 feet of snow fell
And so many more stories

But lets lead with the "tragedy at sea" story

Again they are sleeping on Mattresses, being fed, and at no time once the fire is extinguished is their safety at risk

Sure someone could have a medical issue that the ship is not equipped to deal with, but what did they do when that happened? Air lift

I agree, we whine about waiting 3 hours for a burger on a ship, there's a million kids in Africa that have waited their whole life for a burger


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[Blackened300a]

:bump:



Carnival Cruise........................ check!
Engine room fire.......................... check!
Loss of all power......................... check!
Ship adrift........................ ..........check!
3,000 complaining passengers.........check!
Nonstop media coverage.............check!
"Life threatening" ordeal................check!


Hey!.....:hmmm:
This sounds familiar...................... :rolleyes:

Wow I read through the entire first page and had no idea this thread was from 2010!
We took a behind the scenes tour of a carnival ship last April, there are all kinds of secondary measures like generators and backup engines that can prevent these things from happening, but they all are controlled and monitored by one main hub in the center of the ship. If that goes offline then its a giant pool toy bobbing out in the ocean which is why it drifted 90 miles off course.
The waste on board gets recycled into what they call "grey water", its used for the toilets and cleaning and has a stale nasty odor on its own. Combine that with the horrible diet that you are on while on board makes it even more of a horrid stench. :eek:
We stopped at Grand Turk on our cruise and the entire island is full of people off the cruise ship. Well the public men's room backed up and it was that grey water smell combined with waste X100 that I couldn't get within 20ft of the bathroom. I ended up holding it to the point I was in pain so I wouldn't have to step foot in there. That has to be the same smell these people are dealing with but on board the ship. Sure there are far worse things out there to deal with, but when trapped in that environment, its a living hell for those people.

[Joe Walsh]

I edited my earlier post......as there were 4,200 cattle.....errrr.....passenger s on the ship.

Good Gawd that's a lot of people on a floating cattle car!

[CBT]

I can only imagine the horror of being trapped on a giant ship that has lost power and the *****ers won't flush and having to eat cold sammiches and having to listen to people complain. :rolleyes:

[Mebot]

where do you think sewage goes anyways? it's not called a poop deck for nothing... pee sprinkles off the starboard port!

Sent from my handheld Zack Morris iShoe 4S.

[Joe Walsh]

I can only imagine the horror of being trapped on a giant ship that has lost power and the *****ers won't flush and having to eat cold sammiches and having to listen to people complain. :rolleyes:


where do you think sewage goes anyways? it's not called a poop deck for nothing... pee sprinkles off the starboard port!


LOL....

They should have rigged up toilet seats hanging over the side for everyone to drop a "duece-charge".

[L.Mark]

Went on Carnival Destiny last year for honeymoon. It was her last year also, she's now The Sunshine. Not a problem one. For those that say "I won't take a cruise because of this." is like seeing a car crash on TV and saying you'll never get in a car again. As many cruises take place yearly compared to the amount that go wrong it pretty good odds in favor of having a good one. When you do hear of the ones that go wrong they plaster it everywhere and make it out like Hell on earth. With the exception of the Concordia, which was just GROSS negligence and Hell on earth. Not to down play the current disaster. Having been on one and trying to imagine limited food, heat, no facilities I can see where it would be bad. This one turned out to be non life threatening, but still a very bad trip. Just curious though. Since there was no power, if the fire couldn't be contained and they had to be evacuated I'm assuming there is a different power source for the life boats. Correct?

[L.Mark]

:soap:...Sorry for the rant, but had to vent...

[PonyUP]

Went on Carnival Destiny last year for honeymoon. It was her last year also, she's now The Sunshine. Not a problem one. For those that say "I won't take a cruise because of this." is like seeing a car crash on TV and saying you'll never get in a car again. As many cruises take place yearly compared to the amount that go wrong it pretty good odds in favor of having a good one. When you do hear of the ones that go wrong they plaster it everywhere and make it out like Hell on earth. With the exception of the Concordia, which was just GROSS negligence and Hell on earth. Not to down play the current disaster. Having been on one and trying to imagine limited food, heat, no facilities I can see where it would be bad. This one turned out to be non life threatening, but still a very bad trip. Just curious though. Since there was no power, if the fire couldn't be contained and they had to be evacuated I'm assuming there is a different power source for the life boats. Correct?

Well over the last three years you've had the bacteria problem on three cruise ships and three disabled. While they may be in the minority, it's enough to say that as Carnivsl has been involved on all of these incidents, I'm never traveling Carnival


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[Joe Walsh]

Went on Carnival Destiny last year for honeymoon. It was her last year also, she's now The Sunshine. Not a problem one. For those that say "I won't take a cruise because of this." is like seeing a car crash on TV and saying you'll never get in a car again. As many cruises take place yearly compared to the amount that go wrong it pretty good odds in favor of having a good one. When you do hear of the ones that go wrong they plaster it everywhere and make it out like Hell on earth. With the exception of the Concordia, which was just GROSS negligence and Hell on earth. Not to down play the current disaster. Having been on one and trying to imagine limited food, heat, no facilities I can see where it would be bad. This one turned out to be non life threatening, but still a very bad trip. Just curious though. Since there was no power, if the fire couldn't be contained and they had to be evacuated I'm assuming there is a different power source for the life boats. Correct?


:soap:...Sorry for the rant, but had to vent...

I'm not put off by these accidents....
I'm put off by being crammed on a ship with 4 THOUSAND other people, then said ship periodically stops to disgorge these thousands of tourists onto some port city and promptly swamps every business within 5 miles.
All of those "awesome" onboard activities that are always shown in the commercials are signed up for and booked solid within the first hour of getting on the floating cattle car!
If I want to eat like a pig, get drunk, gamble, and waste my time crammed in with thousands of other chumps....I'll drive 3 miles to Arundel Mills Mall!

[cat in the hat]

The parts of the world that hate us, hate us because average people here have a much higher standard of living than they do. It is 100% jealousy.

[SC Cheesehead]

Fire aside, once the fire was out, there was no danger, just inconvenience. So when they get off the boat like this was some horrific disaster....

Well there's some Chiliean miners all going WTF??? 3 days on a cruise ship? Really?

My sentiments, exactly.

My wife had some news show on this morning and the coverage they were giving this thing almost made me puke, like there ain't worse stuff happening in the world....:shake:

[cruzer]

They were almost withing eyesight of the U.S. Navys Third Fleet. No one was going to plunder anything in this case. :gunfire:

If the Third fleet was so close, why didn't they make some attempt to off-load the passengers or supply emergency power units to the ship ?????? The sea was calm and the weather perfect. I know----liability and they probably didn't consider this a life-threatening situation. I'll tell you what, all of you making snide remarks about the POOR passengers--I'd like to see you after you walked around in poop and smelled it for 4 days, couldn't stay in your rooms because of the heat and stench , had limited water and food and protection from the sun--plus having to put up with some pretty mad people blaming the hard working service crew for something they had nothing to do with . I don't think you would be making those remarks,. Please don't make remarks about an incident unless you were actually there and experienced it--- media and second-hand accounts don't cut it with me. Now, I've vented and feel better have a nice day. An old man who has been there, done that (on a much smaller scale) Maury

[PonyUP]

If the Third fleet was so close, why didn't they make some attempt to off-load the passengers or supply emergency power units to the ship ?????? The sea was calm and the weather perfect. I know----liability and they probably didn't consider this a life-threatening situation. I'll tell you what, all of you making snide remarks about the POOR passengers--I'd like to see you after you walked around in poop and smelled it for 4 days, couldn't stay in your rooms because of the heat and stench , had limited water and food and protection from the sun--plus having to put up with some pretty mad people blaming the hard working service crew for something they had nothing to do with . I don't think you would be making those remarks,. Please don't make remarks about an incident unless you were actually there and experienced it--- media and second-hand accounts don't cut it with me. Now, I've vented and feel better have a nice day. An old man who has been there, done that (on a much smaller scale) Maury

Nobody said they weren't inconvenienced, yes it's a crappy vacation. Does it deserve to be the lead news story for three days like they were taken hostage from the Taliban? Absolutely not

Sensationalism at its highest, like when Princess Diana was killed, was it sad? Yes, was it tragic? Yes, did it deserve a break-in to live coverage for 10 hours? No. God forbid the same thing happen to Snookie, the news may never show a real story again


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[RF Overlord]

God forbid the same thing happen to Snookie, the news may never show a real story again:rofl:

If the Kardashians had been on that ship, every program on every channel on cable and the dish would have been pre-empted.

[MrBluGruv]

The parts of the world that hate us, hate us because average people here have a much higher standard of living than they do. It is 100% jealousy.

I find myself agreeing with this more and more on a daily basis.

Why should I be made to feel guilty about living in a first-world country?

If it's a reasonable expectation that I should be able to have something, especially something I've paid for, why should I not be allowed to be upset if it doesn't happen the way I was promised?

I'm sorry, but I refuse to gauge my right to be upset against "some poor kid in Africa." You look anywhere, any situation where something is designed to the lowest factor in a society always ends up making the vast majority suffer.

[Joe Walsh]

I'm sure people from other countries get tired of non-stop media coverage about Americans being trapped in "Life & Death" situations on a luxury cruise ship......:rolleyes:

[kernie]

The parts of the world that hate us, hate us because average people here have a much higher standard of living than they do. It is 100% jealousy.


I find myself agreeing with this more and more on a daily basis.

Why should I be made to feel guilty about living in a first-world country?

If it's a reasonable expectation that I should be able to have something, especially something I've paid for, why should I not be allowed to be upset if it doesn't happen the way I was promised?

I'm sorry, but I refuse to gauge my right to be upset against "some poor kid in Africa." You look anywhere, any situation where something is designed to the lowest factor in a society always ends up making the vast majority suffer.


Not so sure i agree with you guys, ask a person in the middle of Africa or backwoods china, Indonesia ect. about America, their eyes light up with a big ear to ear grin. Now go ask a German or Italian, most any Euro, different story, no jealousy there.

:beer:

[MrBluGruv]

Not so sure i agree with you guys, ask a person in the middle of Africa or backwoods china, Indonesia ect. about America, their eyes light up with a big ear to ear grin. Now go ask a German or Italian, most any Euro, different story, no jealousy there.

:beer:

While not everyone that hates the U.S. is a third world country, I still stand by my sentiment that I shouldn't have to feel guilty about living in a first world country because someone doesn't have it as nice as I do. I don't brag about my lifestyle, I just live it, why should I feel bad about that?


On a separate but relevant note, I would most certainly hope that other parts of the world don't judge us purely on what is on our broadcast television; or at least, I would hope that if they do, they wouldn't be surprised or upset when we make sweeping stereotypes about them in the same fashion... :beer:

[Mr. Man]

While not everyone that hates the U.S. is a third world country, I still stand by my sentiment that I shouldn't have to feel guilty about living in a first world country because someone doesn't have it as nice as I do. I don't brag about my lifestyle, I just live it, why should I feel bad about that?


On a separate but relevant note,I would most certainly hope that other parts of the world don't judge us purely on what is on our broadcast television; or at least, I would hope that if they do, they wouldn't be surprised or upset when we make sweeping stereotypes about them in the same fashion... :beer::eek:God I hope not.
If other countries watch American TV I would think they would feel sorry for us as we are all morons like on Jersey Shore or all fat stupid toothless swamp people.

Based on current popular American TV we are a third world country.:shake:

[1Marauder]

Having the entire ship list to one side, to the point that excrement flowed all over your room, and the carpets... To the point that they were "squishy and brown" and having to dump into buckets and throw it overboard.... No power.... and Not to that all interior rooms would have zero light....

This is why I go Camping!

[Bruce Wayne]

good thing there weren't any pirates around

[SC Cheesehead]

I'm sure people from other countries get tired of non-stop media coverage about Americans being trapped in "Life & Death" situations on a luxury cruise ship......:rolleyes:

Werd...:rolleyes:

[jerrym3]

If I lose power for two days after a storm, winter or summer, we go nuts.

And, our bathrooms still work.

[Bigdogjim]

We get upset and feel so wronged (Americans in gereral) when something like this happens because we feel it never should have in the first place. We want so bad to "blame" someone for our hardship.The mind set kicks in "hey it's our vacation how dare this happen" what people should do is help each other and look on the bright side.

[SC Cheesehead]

We get upset and feel so wronged (Americans in gereral) when something like this happens because we feel it never should have in the first place. We want so bad to "blame" someone for our hardship.The mind set kicks in "hey it's our vacation how dare this happen" what people should help each other and look on the bright side.


BINGO!

I see this constantly in airports whenever there's a flight delay or cancellation, mostly from people that don't travel a lot.

The "blame" response you cited is spot on. Rather than trying to make the best of a bad situation, people act like total asshats.:shake:

[Bigdogjim]

Rex: You should be around when a tour bus full of senior citizens breaks down:argue: as a driver you got nowhere to hide from 'em, talk about a brow beating:flamer::flamer:

[jerrym3]

Rex: You should be around when a tour bus full of senior citizens breaks down:argue: as a driver you got nowhere to hide from 'em, talk about a brow beating:flamer::flamer:

Hey, don't blame us old folks.

We don't have a lot of time to waste. :):)

[SC Cheesehead]

Rex: You should be around when a tour bus full of senior citizens breaks down:argue: as a driver you got nowhere to hide from 'em, talk about a brow beating:flamer::flamer:

Oh dang, I can only imagine...:(

And it's ALL YOUR FAULT, right? :rolleyes:

[Shaijack]

It was the diet cruise. Wait it was the government that did it. LOL

[Bigdogjim]

The first ship the caught fire in 2010 the Navy brought food to it by helicopter, so why no food drop for the this one? Guess we don't help our own anymore?