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Dillbag posted:Videos of people missing their cruise ship departures. Sorry about the lovely Break.com link, couldn't find that one on Youtube. So do these people get a refund then?
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Mymla posted:A lot of the things in this thread are pretty mind boggling, but you can kinda see that they're trying to show off or whatever. He wasn't shocked that his pants are on fire, he was shocked that he couldn't smother the big-rear end flames with his T-shirt hem. (You can clearly see that's the point he starts doing the "my pants are on fire" jig. TheHistoryChannel posted:It amazes me that these fire people never have a soaking wet towel nearby. The firepants guy probably had a soaked towel nearby, just not water-soaked.
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Pneub posted:You can catch the butane in your mouth and use it to blow a fireball too. Be right back, going to try that. e: at hostpital, lost tang!
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Purgatory Glory posted:Lol, this is required watching for flakey people that think the ship would NEVER leave without them. If you book your expedition through the cruise line, they'll wait for the tour to get back to a certain point (The formula we used was one minute per passenger, so we'd wait half an hour for a 30 person tour bus), with the upper limit being at the Captain's discretion. Generally if we got close to the point where we'd have to start another engine to make the next port in time, that's when we sailed. If you miss the boat with an excursion booked through the cruise line, they'll fly you to the next port... They are more expensive than booking independently, though. And yes, that poo poo is just as funny in person. I'd be on the bridge and get a 911 call from a panicked passenger or crewmember going "Hey, we left someone on the pier! They're running! You have to turn back!" thespaceinvader posted:Is the third one the exact same pier as the first one? There are ports where this happens more often than others. When I worked on cruise ships, there was the one tour operator on Cozumel that would always be late, to the point where we just started telling them to dock their tour boats on the offshore side of the ship and we'd take the passengers on right off the tour boat. Tides aren't an issue in most cruise ship ports. Cruise boats don't draw all that much (Around 8-9 meters or so for a 3500 pax boat) and tides in the Caribbean or Mediterranean aren't very big anyway. They need to stick to a schedule day in, day out anyway, so ports are planned so you don't need to deviate from that because of tides. (Cruise boats come in in the morning and leave in the evening or afternoon, pretty much at the same time every week. Tides vary according to the phase of the moon.) muscles like this? posted:So do these people get a refund then? Unless they were on an expedition booked through the cruise line that hosed up, nope. They're also on the hook for expenses getting back to the ship or back home. (And I think they'd then be charged for shipping their poo poo home, but I'm not familiar with that end of the business) They missed the boat, it's their fault. Edit: It's a pretty big deal if a passenger who boarded at a US port is left at a US port (Even if they're an American citizen) so the ship might wait longer in those cases; I've never been on one of those runs so I wouldn't know. FrozenVent has a new favorite as of 17:24 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that if the boat stops for them or waits, they'll have to spend thousands of dollars worth of fuel to catch up to schedule. If that's true, then gently caress the pier runners. They can just fly to the next port.
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Jan 25, 2014 17:30
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Pneub posted:You can catch the butane in your mouth and use it to blow a fireball too. You're a cold bastard Pneub. You literally just killed somebody somewhere. How do you feel about that?
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Jan 25, 2014 17:37
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Celery Face posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that if the boat stops for them or waits, they'll have to spend thousands of dollars worth of fuel to catch up to schedule. If that's true, then gently caress the pier runners. They can just fly to the next port. Depends on schedule, but yeah. Fuel consumption increases as a cube of the speed increase, roughly, and a cruise ship underway burns something like 60 tons of fuel a day doing 14 knots. If you want to go up to the ship's max speed, around 21 knots, you could be looking at upwards of 150 tons a day. (I think, I'm not an engineer and I'm going off memory)
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Jan 25, 2014 17:47
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Don't people learn "Stop, Drop, and Roll" if you find yourself on fire anymore?
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Jan 25, 2014 18:07
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Don't people learn "Stop, Drop, and Roll" if you find yourself on fire anymore? Oh people are told stop, drop, and roll but that doesn't mean they learned it.
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Jan 25, 2014 18:53
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Oh people are told stop, drop, and roll but that doesn't mean they learned it. We were taught the one single way you do learn it, i.e. we put on a wool overcoat (wool so it doesn't burn right through) which was then set alight. vvv As kids I think we were just told "don't be on fire" or something to that effect. And it worked! 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 19:13 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:We were taught the one single way you do learn it, i.e. we put on a wool overcoat (wool so it doesn't burn right through) which was then set alight. Holy poo poo your kindergarten sounds intense
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Jan 25, 2014 19:02
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When I was a kid, or well, teenager, for some reason I thought the coolest thing would be to fill up a Mountain Dew bottle with the gas from a lighter, and then light it because it'd made like a ROCKET ENGINE OF AWESOME  Well... it turned out to not be a good idea. The first bad decision was "Hey, let's play with fire!". The second was "Hey, let's use a plastic bottle!", the third was "Let's do it while sitting in a chair in my room instead of being outside!", and the fourth was "Hey, let's hold the bottle cause it's not like it will take off!" Now, I like to think I am a smart person, but there are times in life where you do exceptionally retarded poo poo. Building what amounts to a bomb and then lighting it in your hand is one of those times. It did catch fire, and it did have a sweet rocket flame, and it did burn the ever loving poo poo out of my hand and it did napalm the gently caress out of my palm and leg. I'm incredibly lucky it didn't just detonate and take out my eyes or eardrums. I can forgive kids doing stupid poo poo because no matter how smart you THINK you are at any given age, you are a bottle and a lighter away from being a self inflicted burn victim. HOWEVER, pouring lighter fluid on yourself and being surprised it doesn't actually stop burning is pretty god damned stupid by any reach.
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Jan 25, 2014 19:13
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I had a dumb friend in Boy Scouts who would douse his jeans with bug spray and light up his crotch. That's it. No schadenfreude, no tales of pain and horror. He was dumb for other reasons because he never hurt himself doing that.
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Jan 25, 2014 20:28
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Dillbag posted:Videos of people missing their cruise ship departures. Sorry about the lovely Break.com link, couldn't find that one on Youtube. I watched the first 3 and felt bad. I understand punctuality is a thing, but I was like - what are they? 5 minutes late? 10? Then I watched the 4th one. "it's 2:30! you were supposed to be back at 1:30!" Welp. So much for feeling bad. If you're a FULL HOUR later than the time the cruise told you to be back by - I guess you get what you deserve.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:10
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HaB posted:I watched the first 3 and felt bad. I understand punctuality is a thing, but I was like - what are they? 5 minutes late? 10? It's possible that there was a confusion between Ship Time and Island Time. The ship stays on the same clocks throughout the cruise, so if you cross timezones and try using local clocks you could end up late.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:20
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Ignite Memories posted:You're a cold bastard Pneub. You literally just killed somebody somewhere. How do you feel about that? poo poo, I've pulled it off before without burning my mouth. Only a coward wouldn't try it.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:32
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Celery Face posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that if the boat stops for them or waits, they'll have to spend thousands of dollars worth of fuel to catch up to schedule. If that's true, then gently caress the pier runners. They can just fly to the next port. I don't understand the one where the woman says all her money is on the ship. What was she doing off the ship without her money? That plus not making the pier in time is double-stupid. HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Don't people learn "Stop, Drop, and Roll" if you find yourself on fire anymore? To be fair, after the first two steps they've also learned the extra step of "Open up shop".
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Jan 25, 2014 21:44
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sticklefifer posted:To be fair, after the first two steps they've also learned the extra step of "Open up shop". You have to "Shut em down" first...
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Jan 25, 2014 21:56
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sticklefifer posted:I don't understand the one where the woman says all her money is on the ship. What was she doing off the ship without her money? That plus not making the pier in time is double-stupid. On the one cruise I took, we were told to only take the money we thought we would need for shopping/food/excursions off the boat(in cash). If they were to miss the boat but it still had another stop before returning home, I believe they could fly to their next destination and meet the boat. edit: Not a free flight, of course PhantomBowie has a new favorite as of 22:09 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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Pneub posted:You can catch the butane in your mouth and use it to blow a fireball too. Actually, this is pretty much how many advanced fire eating moves work. During the first two-thirds of the burn, you're really burning the vapor of the fuel as it boils off - if you starve it of oxygen (by, say, putting it your mouth), or put it out and then stick the wick in your mouth (fuel's still boiling off), you can fill up your mouth with that vapor and do stuff with it. I've seen people keep a little "puddle" of flame alive in their mouth - not like burning fuel on the tongue, just vapor - for a few seconds; long enough to light the other eating torch, for instance. Or blow it out about a foot, lighting the other torch.... Most of things amount to "do something cool and (re)light the other torch". Obligatory Do Not Try This At Home: I would *not* be worried about burning your mouth. I *would* be worried about chemical pneumonia. The TL;DR is if you breath in, you're in for death or a rough time - see, petrochemicals do a number of things that make them your lung's nemesis: The surface tension is really low, so they'll spread out easily over a large surface, it only takes that thin layer to block the transfer of oxygen, your body doesn't metabolize it, and there's basically no way to "wash" it out. So you drown with lungs full of air. Or, you survive, and your lung capacity is drastically reduced for *months* as it gradually works it way out. I know this from learning to fire breath, and it's why I don't. The guy who taught me, however? Engineering out how to swallow a fire sword. He's taught himself to swallow swords, then worked out a fire sword design he can swallow, and last I knew was practicing it sans fuel - *with* an EMT on standby during all practice sessions.
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Jan 25, 2014 23:17
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sticklefifer posted:I don't understand the one where the woman says all her money is on the ship. What was she doing off the ship without her money? That plus not making the pier in time is double-stupid. It's hard for someone at port to pickpocket you or steal all of your money if you keep most of it in the safe in your stateroom. No excuses for not making it to the boat in time, though. That's just dumb as hell.
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Jan 25, 2014 23:23
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Cruise ships don't gently caress around. I was once working on one (not crew, just there for a week to do a job) and there was a norovirus outbreak. I got it. They quarantined me for 48 hours and told me that if I was seen outside my cabin they would be kicking my sick rear end off the ship at the next port and that it would be up to me to get home. I think it was Skagway, Alaska and I live in South Florida. I had nobody to talk to, no internet, and I had an interior cabin so I didn't even have a porthole to look out. I could order room service but they would literally leave the tray on the floor, knock on the door, and then run away. The only live TV station I had was CNN and it was the day that guy shot the security guard in the Holocaust Memorial Museum so I pretty much just watched them rehash the couple known facts about the incident over and over for two days straight.
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:Cruise ships don't gently caress around. I was once working on one (not crew, just there for a week to do a job) and there was a norovirus outbreak. I got it. They quarantined me for 48 hours and told me that if I was seen outside my cabin they would be kicking my sick rear end off the ship at the next port and that it would be up to me to get home. I think it was Skagway, Alaska and I live in South Florida. We had a bridge officer catch that poo poo. He was out for four days, I think, and we had to sanitize the ever loving poo poo out of the bridge. They do not trust the cleaning crews to clean the consoles and panel, so I spent about five hours wiping down switches and buttons with bleach. Also if your roommate caught it, you'd also be quarantined. So two people in a tiny rear end inside cabin, for at least 48 hours. Likely one of them has the runs. gently caress. That. poo poo. HellCopter posted:It's possible that there was a confusion between Ship Time and Island Time. The ship stays on the same clocks throughout the cruise, so if you cross timezones and try using local clocks you could end up late. They remind you of that numerous times, though, up to and including a giant sign on the pier when you leave the ship. It's also on the signs inside the ship, the little daily newsletter, the captain's morning speech... Seriously if you miss a cruise ship, baring an accident or some unforeseen circumstances out of your control, you're a dumbass. They give the missing passenger's passports to the agent in the port before they sail, and I think the agent will float the passengers some credit (possibly via the cruise line) if they don't have their wallets. Really, once the captain decided we were sailing, that stuff became someone else's problem so I wouldn't know. Cruise ship shadenfreude story: Some guy went to visit his dad in his cabin around 9 PM, dad didn't answer the door. Dude loving panics, grab the nearest stateroom attendant and demand that the guy open the door to his father's cabin, because his father obviously had a heart attack. Stateroom attendant doesn't have the keycard for that room (They only had access to their assigned block of rooms) and would have gotten fired if he had opened the door anyway, so he calls the emergency line. Between the language difference and the guest screaming behind him, I can't understand poo poo except a cabin number and "heart attack", so we just go ahead and declare a medical emergency. Two doctors, three nurses, four security guards, the chief officer and the security officer come running flat out with a stretcher and a gigantic bag of medical equipment, open the door and... Nothing. They're still wondering what the gently caress's going on when the dude's father shows up; he'd been in the casino the whole time. Dude got a sound talking to. FrozenVent has a new favorite as of 00:24 on Jan 26, 2014 |
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:Cruise ships don't gently caress around. I was once working on one (not crew, just there for a week to do a job) and there was a norovirus outbreak. I got it. They quarantined me for 48 hours and told me that if I was seen outside my cabin they would be kicking my sick rear end off the ship at the next port and that it would be up to me to get home. I think it was Skagway, Alaska and I live in South Florida. A good time to get into creative writing. Was this that awful outbreak a year or so ago that was on the news (in the UK at least)? I remember a huge legal shitstorm (haaaaa) over a cruise liner just flooded with people infected with norovirus and people demanding refunds/compensation.
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FrozenVent posted:Also if your roommate caught it, you'd also be quarantined. So two people in a tiny rear end inside cabin, for at least 48 hours. Likely one of them has the runs. gently caress. That. poo poo. That's a strange passtime you've got there.
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Sad lions posted:A good time to get into creative writing. Probably not, norovirus is not uncommon aboard cruise ships. (It's not uncommon amongst tourists, really) We'd usually have one or two person quarantined at any given time, they just go overboard with response to make sure it doesn't spread, because once it breaks out... Welp.
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FrozenVent posted:
With boarding in one US Port and debarking at another, the vessel would have to be US Flagged due to cabotage laws governing intra-US transport of goods and persons. Also a reason Alaska/PNW cruises departing Seattle will have Vancouver or Victoria BC as port of debarkation - it allows them to run foreign flagged vessels with a crew on poverty wages.
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Vicodiva posted:With boarding in one US Port and debarking at another, the vessel would have to be US Flagged due to cabotage laws governing intra-US transport of goods and persons. Also a reason Alaska/PNW cruises departing Seattle will have Vancouver or Victoria BC as port of debarkation - it allows them to run foreign flagged vessels with a crew on poverty wages. You don't even need to hit a foreign port, as long as the passengers disembark in the same port they boarded in (IE, you can sail from New Orleans, gently caress around for two nights and sail back into NOLA with a foreign flag boat). What I meant is if you board someone in, say, Miami, and leave them behind in Key West. They hit BC ports because there's not a whole lot of poo poo between Seattle and Alaska otherwise.
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I really don't know what I'd do in this situation. I guess I'd just say gently caress it and wait for spring to come and melt all this shitload of snow.
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Jan 26, 2014 01:19
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Scoop out as much as possible and use a leafblower to blow away the rest? I guess it would depend on how wet/dry the snow was for a leafblower to work well.
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Jan 26, 2014 01:37
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Yeah, wouldn't it waiting for the snow to melt be the worst possible idea? Scoop it out and blow away the rest while it's still frozen powder and not melted into the vehicle's electrics and upholstry.
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Jan 26, 2014 01:41
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Correct me if I'm wrong (I grew up in a warm climate so I expect I am), but snow is pretty dry as long as it's still frozen, right? So as long as you made sure the temperature was going to stay low for a few more hours, you could indeed just scoop most of it out, and brush the remainder off the seats and all that before it had a chance to melt and soak into everything? Of course, you'd have to rug up like you were going to roll around in the snow for a while, because running a heater or something to keep you warm would defeat the purpose. edit: I'm not a weatherman, I just play one on the internet edit2: ^^^^^^ welp
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Zanael posted:I really don't know what I'd do in this situation. I guess I'd just say gently caress it and wait for spring to come and melt all this shitload of snow. Uhh thats dumb as hell. All your electrical would get hosed. The thawing/freezing cycle would probably crack all sorts of poo poo in your car. And now your car smells like lovely armpit because it's all musky smelling. Getting it out ASAP and hopefully while it is still freezing is the best idea, and using a leaf blower for the rest.
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Jan 26, 2014 01:46
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I found a good video of someone missing their cruise. You won't see it at first, but when you do, it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X2qkWHqNd8
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Jan 26, 2014 01:58
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Have you guys seen social media raving about the comments page from the sugar-free gummi bears that give you the shits? L.A. Beast did, and delivered this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjgaa5j_LE
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Weatherman posted:Correct me if I'm wrong (I grew up in a warm climate so I expect I am), but snow is pretty dry as long as it's still frozen, right? So as long as you made sure the temperature was going to stay low for a few more hours, you could indeed just scoop most of it out, and brush the remainder off the seats and all that before it had a chance to melt and soak into everything? Now it was a while ago so take this with a pinch of salt but I'm pretty certain I heard something from a science teacher of mine (or maybe on QI, who knows) about ice always having a thin sheen of water regardless of how cold it is (this might just be in natural conditions vs in your freezerbox). Either way, a snow filled car is going to be wet as poo poo by the end. The only thing you can change is just how wet that is. I think your best bet is shovel out what you can then melt whatever's left. You're pretty much bound to have damage at that point.
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BigHustle posted:Have you guys seen social media raving about the comments page from the sugar-free gummi bears that give you the shits? We should start taking bets as to the date of this dude's inevitable death.
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Weatherman posted:Correct me if I'm wrong (I grew up in a warm climate so I expect I am), but snow is pretty dry as long as it's still frozen, right? No, snow can be very wet and heavy or dry and powdery, so there's a measurement called "snow water equivalent" that has to do with how much actual water is in a given volume of snow. Basically, snow density. Edit: like these computer animated snows from Frozen, only the bottom left is a dry snow. 
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