The Carnival Cruise ship incident...

[enyawd72]

I was thinking how funny it is that passengers disembarking in Alabama were "traumatized" and some were sobbing...all because they were on a boat with no electricity or plumbing, and limited food and water for six days.

200 years ago they traveled for months like that... it was called everyday sailing. We have become a society of wussies.

[johnnystorm]

Agreed....I said nearly the exact thing to my wife a couple nights ago, after watching a news story on this. Took old-time sailors months to cross the ocean, at the mercy of weather, wind, sickness, and starvation. Not to mention pirates, mutiny, beatings, & whippings. No entertainment, no swimming pools, no room service, and beds made out of ropes.

Nobody was starving, there was just no hot prime rib buffet. They had doctors & medicine. They had room to move & exercise, no rats or scurvy, and everybody gets their money back + another free cruise.

It was the Carnival princess, not the Mayflower.

[Mikey]

They're starting early building their lawsuit

People aren't wussies compared to 200 years ago, they're smarter and way more savy

[enyawd72]

They're starting early building their lawsuit

People aren't wussies compared to 200 years ago, they're smarter and way more savy

Nah, they're wussies! People go to the drive thru today...in the good old days you went out and killed your dinner. Stabbed it, beat it, whatever. Then you came home and gutted it and cooked it and your hot cave-wife made a furry bikini out of the leftovers.

[Werewolf]

I was thinking how funny it is that passengers disembarking in Alabama were "traumatized" and some were sobbing...all because they were on a boat with no electricity or plumbing, and limited food and water for six days.

So, you would have found this enjoyable?

Ok, the cruise ship toilets are all running over.

There's feces literally all over the floors and even wall

There's puddle of urine EVERWHERE

Sounds rather traumatizing to me. Nothing I'd wish to endure. Sound like a fun week to you?

200 years ago they traveled for months like that... it was called everyday sailing. We have become a society of wussies.

It was a nightmarish, physically and mentally scaring ordeal in which the crew was often kidnapped and many people did not survive the trip. Even the crew members which had not been abducted knew they were in for months of pure hell if they survived at all. It was not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination. If I paid for what was advertised as relaxing vacation and ended up spending a week being surrounded by human waste with no electricty and no plumbing, there is a good chance I would be traumatized by it.

[Mikey]

I'm surprised nobody is making a big deal about the fact that Carnival could have saved everybody multiple days of agony if they would have just unloaded everybody in Mexico and then loaded them on a new ship

Carnival said Mexico is too dangerous of a place to let people off and do the change

They're treating Mexico like North Korea

[Earth 2 Chris]

Yeah, I don't think anyone here would be posting this had they actually been ON the boat. Yes, we are pampered, spoiled, etc, but if we can gripe over Superman not having underwear, I think these folks deserve a chance to gripe about their vacation being riddled with urine and feces.

Chris

[Werewolf]

I'm surprised nobody is making a big deal about the fact that Carnival could have saved everybody multiple days of agony if they would have just unloaded everybody in Mexico and then loaded them on a new ship

They were too cheap would be my guess.

[Mikey]

During Hurricane Sandy I lost electricity for almost a week and water for a few days

Yes, I had to s__t in Walmart bags and p__s in coffee cans

I didn't post those details afterwards ...

Does that mean i'm not a wussie ?

[Werewolf]

Does that mean i'm not a wussie ?

You're one of the tough ones Mikey. But, yeah, a little too much info there.

[Earth 2 Chris]

You are manly for sure Mikey. But Tom (MIB41) can take you. He is a mountain of a man. Makes Toby Keith look like Crispin Glover.

Chris

[Mikey]

I'm kinda mountainy

[Zemo]

I was thinking how funny it is that passengers disembarking in Alabama were "traumatized" and some were sobbing...all because they were on a boat with no electricity or plumbing, and limited food and water for six days.

200 years ago they traveled for months like that... it was called everyday sailing. We have become a society of wussies.

Yea, I don't get it. Traumatized give me a break. imho people are silly to go on these thing to begin with, your at sea most of the time, you have limited time at your destination, stuff like this happens a lot. Carnival can't control an engine room fire. Just fly to your destination and go to an inclusive resort.

[Figuremod73]

I think they could have saved alot of aggrevation by transferring everyone to another ship. I'm sure everyone will be reinbursed BUT measures should have already been in place for an event like that happening.

Technology has made us pampered. A few hundred years ago people were much tougher but unpleasant.

[Werewolf]

A few hundred years ago people were much tougher but unpleasant.

A few hundred years ago the life was short and miserable. You were lucky to make it to 30. Sanitation was poor, birth rate mortality was very high and sickness and disease was rampant. The human mind and body can only take so much punishment. People on average weren't neccessarily tougher. They just died a lot more and at much younder ages.