Author Topic: The Suez Canal blocked. (Read 5362 times)

El Diablo Blanco · « **Reply #25 on:** March 27, 2021, 02:37:58 PM »

Human error? These ships and plans today practically drive and fly themselves. People are just there as a symbol.

Dave D · « **Reply #26 on:** March 27, 2021, 05:23:56 PM »

Quote from: Phantom Spunker on March 27, 2021, 05:07:40 PM

Nah, I've been down the Suez and all along the Gulf of Aden, etc. I've witnessed crews of oil tankers and other high-value ships make some pretty big fuck ups, including things like plotting routes straight into rocks. The Russian captain slapped the guy's face so hard right in front of me for that one.

Isn’t this being blamed on strong winds that forced vessel off course and into the shallow end of the canal?

IroNat · « **Reply #27 on:** March 27, 2021, 06:58:12 PM »

This same ship got into an accident a year or two ago in Germany and hit a ferry.

The cause was said to be "high winds".

Matt · « **Reply #28 on:** March 27, 2021, 07:25:01 PM »

Quote from: IroNat on March 27, 2021, 04:11:38 AM

This is the kind of thing that killed Elvis.

I suspect he was shitting rocks from an opiate addiction. Or...whatever other drug causes severe constipation. Presumably a downer.

SOMEPARTS · « **Reply #29 on:** March 27, 2021, 07:42:42 PM »

Didn't we dig the canal then give it back after a certain period? Now it's still our job to maintain it? USA makes horrible deals.

Dave D · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2021, 07:46:03 PM »

Quote from: SOMEPARTS on March 27, 2021, 07:42:42 PM

Didn't we dig the canal then give it back after a certain period? Now it's still our job to maintain it? USA makes horrible deals.

No it was Van Halen that dug the canal and negotiated the terms of the deal.

Teutonic Knight · « **Reply #31 on:** March 27, 2021, 08:04:28 PM »

Quote from: Phantom Spunker on March 27, 2021, 05:07:40 PM

Nah, I've been down the Suez and all along the Gulf of Aden, etc. I've witnessed crews of oil tankers and other high-value ships make some pretty big fuck ups, including things like plotting routes straight into rocks. The Russian captain slapped the guy's face so hard right in front of me for that one.

I was traveling from Aqaba to Port Said (visiting Petra) & I was not too impress by the Suez canal.

Arabs pilots fucked up

Fortress · « **Reply #32 on:** March 27, 2021, 10:27:02 PM »

What a scene. LOL

Just torpedo, bomb and detonate the hunk of shit and be done with it.

sync pulse · « **Reply #33 on:** March 28, 2021, 06:45:51 AM »

Quote from: Matt on March 27, 2021, 07:25:01 PM

I suspect he was shitting rocks from an opiate addiction. Or...whatever other drug causes severe constipation. Presumably a downer.

sync pulse · « **Reply #34 on:** March 28, 2021, 07:21:42 AM »

Quote from: Fortress on March 27, 2021, 10:27:02 PM

What a scene. LOL

Just torpedo, bomb and detonate the hunk of shit and be done with it.

Blowing it to smithereens would make clearing the channel much more problematic...

sync pulse · « **Reply #35 on:** March 28, 2021, 09:51:29 AM »

The Main McGuffin in this movie is blocking the Suez Canal...

Matt · « **Reply #36 on:** March 28, 2021, 02:57:26 PM »

Quote from: Fortress on March 27, 2021, 10:27:02 PM

What a scene. LOL

Just torpedo, bomb and detonate the hunk of shit and be done with it.

Hahahaha, no shit.

How much harm/economic loss to normal people is being caused each passing day that massive piece of shit blocks a waterway so prolific for trade as the Suez Canal?

Just load it with TNT [ideally with the affirmative action captain still inside] with a cleanup crew on standby and be done with it.

Or is that not possible because this ship contains something extremely valuable, like gold bullion bars, uncut diamonds, or millions of face diapers?

Fortress · « **Reply #37 on:** March 28, 2021, 03:00:08 PM »

Quote from: sync pulse on March 28, 2021, 07:21:42 AM

Blowing it to smithereens would make clearing the channel much more problematic...

Yeah, I know.

But it’d be cool as fuck.

Fortress · « **Reply #38 on:** March 28, 2021, 03:02:48 PM »

Quote from: Matt on March 28, 2021, 02:57:26 PM

... is that not possible because this ship contains something extremely valuable ... millions of face diapers?

LOL

SOMEPARTS · « **Reply #39 on:** March 28, 2021, 04:41:25 PM »

SOMEPARTS · « **Reply #40 on:** March 28, 2021, 04:43:24 PM »

Quote from: Matt on March 28, 2021, 02:57:26 PM

Or is that not possible because this ship contains something extremely valuable, like gold bullion bars, uncut diamonds, or millions of face diapers?

Pallets of paper dollars headed to Iran.

sync pulse · « **Reply #41 on:** March 28, 2021, 05:46:55 PM »

Quote from: SOMEPARTS on March 27, 2021, 07:42:42 PM

Didn't we dig the canal then give it back after a certain period? Now it's still our job to maintain it? USA makes horrible deals.

Sigh...France dug the Suez Canal.

Megalodon · « **Reply #42 on:** March 28, 2021, 05:48:37 PM »

Not the first time something like this has happened.

The captain:

Dave D · « **Reply #43 on:** March 28, 2021, 07:14:31 PM »

Quote from: sync pulse on March 28, 2021, 05:46:55 PM

Sigh...France dug the Suez Canal.

No France gave us pizza and the Liberty Bell. After the US dug the Suez Canal the Seuz Indians built the Statue of Liberty as a “modern lighthouse” so immigrants coming into the Hawaiian Islands would know the same freedom the Suez felt by having the canal to open up trade with the Far East.

You’ve made a common mistake brother.

Moontrane · « **Reply #44 on:** March 28, 2021, 07:58:11 PM »

Quote from: Matt on March 27, 2021, 07:25:01 PM

I suspect he was shitting rocks from an opiate addiction. Or...whatever other drug causes severe constipation. Presumably a downer.

Speaking of constipation:

Hypertrophy · « **Reply #45 on:** March 28, 2021, 10:53:29 PM »

Now it's unblocked. I can sleep easy tonight. I wonder what "crisis' will be on the table tomorrow? Hopefully it's not toilet paper shortages again.

SOMEPARTS · « **Reply #46 on:** March 28, 2021, 11:34:29 PM »

Quote from: sync pulse on March 28, 2021, 05:46:55 PM

Sigh...France dug the Suez Canal.

Ha, I really thought this was the Panama Canal. Not paying much attention to the story or thread title I guess. Big boat. Stuck...duh..

Taffin · « **Reply #47 on:** March 29, 2021, 09:30:23 AM »

Quote from: Dave D on March 28, 2021, 07:14:31 PM

No France gave us pizza and the Liberty Bell. After the US dug the Suez Canal the Seuz Indians built the Statue of Liberty as a “modern lighthouse” so immigrants coming into the Hawaiian Islands would know the same freedom the Suez felt by having the canal to open up trade with the Far East.

You’ve made a common mistake brother.

Suez Indians - brilliant

Reminds me of something someone once said

"What about the massacres in Sri Lanka, honey? Doesn't that affect us, too? I mean don't you know anything about Sri Lanka? About how the Sikhs are killing like tons of Israelis there? Doesn't that affect us?"

GymnJuice · « **Reply #48 on:** March 30, 2021, 07:20:06 PM »

Quote from: Taffin on March 29, 2021, 09:30:23 AM

Suez Indians - brilliant

Reminds me of something someone once said

"What about the massacres in Sri Lanka, honey? Doesn't that affect us, too? I mean don't you know anything about Sri Lanka? About how the Sikhs are killing like tons of Israelis there? Doesn't that affect us?"

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

youandme · « **Reply #49 on:** March 30, 2021, 08:56:23 PM »

Quote from: Dave D on March 28, 2021, 07:14:31 PM

No France gave us pizza and the Liberty Bell. After the US dug the Suez Canal the Seuz Indians built the Statue of Liberty as a “modern lighthouse” so immigrants coming into the Hawaiian Islands would know the same freedom the Suez felt by having the canal to open up trade with the Far East.

You’ve made a common mistake brother.

Lmfao

Definitely in a school book these days. Seems pretty woke and has all the inclusion summed up.