"I tripped and fell into the lifeboat."

Vendigrothian

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/ ... 6250514193

Arthgon · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:10 pm **Post subject:**

I highly dislike bloody cowards. They should have send him back to the sinking ship and let him go down with the ship like all the other rats.

Philes · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:44 pm **Post subject:**

Situations like that are rough, and sitting at your computer saying "I'd have done differently!" is pretty much bullshit.

I'm not saying he isn't an inept failure and that there aren't consequences he deserves, but at least his contingency plan worked; the captain is very much alive.

On a side note, I'd appreciate, just once, for some honesty. "I freaked out and just had to get out of there." It would be refreshing!

wobbler · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:02 pm **Post subject:**

Arthgon wrote:

I highly dislike bloody cowards. They should have send him back to the sinking ship and let him go down with the ship like all the other rats.

Rats are the first to leave a sinking ship.

Transparent Painting · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:20 pm **Post subject:**

I always thought life boats were the first to abandon ship.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:30 pm **Post subject:**

Philes wrote:

Situations like that are rough, and sitting at your computer saying "I'd have done differently!" is pretty much bullshit.

I'm not saying he isn't an inept failure and that there aren't consequences he deserves, but at least his contingency plan worked; the captain is very much alive.

On a side note, I'd appreciate, just once, for some honesty. "I freaked out and just had to get out of there." It would be refreshing!

Waiting 75 minutes to evacuate the ship was a bad idea. Saying "I'd have done differently!" may be bullshit until you take into consideration that anyone piloting a ship worth 450 million was trained to do it.

Zanza · **Joined:** Apr 20, 2009 **Posts:** 2812

Calling the people who died on that ship rats is bullshit.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:28 am **Post subject:**

/fail

Vendigrothian · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:40 am **Post subject:**

Philes wrote:

Situations like that are rough, and sitting at your computer saying "I'd have done differently!" is pretty much bullshit.

Agreed. People are at liberty to say whatever they want on the Internet in spite of the reality. Drog is a fine example.

Although tradition dictates that the captain is the last to leave his ship, it's not a written law as far as I know. Besides, an honourable gesture like that doesn't have much of an appeal to the modern world.

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:48 am **Post subject:**

Vendigrothian wrote:

Agreed. People are at liberty to say whatever they want on the Internet in spite of the reality. Drog is a fine example.

The recent flow of Drog-hate calls to mind the image of a man slowly cannibalizing his own brain.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:38 am **Post subject:**

That makes me think of one of the final scenes of Hannibal, wherein Ray Liotta is lobotomized and eats his own brain.

Edit: typo

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1096

That reminds me of Goodfellas, because it starred Ray Liotta.

Third ankle · **Joined:** Jun 27, 2011 **Posts:** 40 **Location:** Poland

...which takes us back to the beginning as both Ray Liotta'a character in "Goodfellas" and Costa Concordia's captain are Italians whose actions lead to death of some people.

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1096

Turd Ankle wrote:

Italians

That makes me think of the characters "Mario" and "Luigi" from the 1985 Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros".

Jungle Japes · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:48 pm **Post subject:**

Smuel wrote:

Luigi

That makes me think of the leftover lasagna in the fridge. Time for lunch.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:06 am **Post subject:**

I had ham for lunch...and eggs for brunch. Neither were green.

magikot · **Joined:** Aug 29, 2003 **Posts:** 1670

But the salad I had for dinner was.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:29 am **Post subject:**

Which is the opposite color of the beer I had at dinner, which was red; Harpoon Leviathan Quad. However, combining red and green together will net you brown.

ytzk · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:12 am **Post subject:**

It's all brown in the end.

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1096

The opposite colour to red is cyan.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:57 pm **Post subject:**

Sure, if you run on a fancy new HSV color wheel as opposed to Goethe's traditional color wheel, like I used.

berryna · **Joined:** Feb 10, 2012 **Posts:** 1

Rats are the first to leave a sinking ship.

ytzk · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:06 am **Post subject:**

I reckon these semi-sentient spambots are actually fully-sentient third-world wage-slaves doing the job of spambots.

I almost feel sorry for them, but then I don't.

Third ankle · **Joined:** Jun 27, 2011 **Posts:** 40 **Location:** Poland

Not necessarily.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:01 pm **Post subject:**

"I tripped and fell into the lifeboat."

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