Spam, pop tarts and canned crabmeat.....yum.

[marmar]

SAN DIEGO – Two tugboats slowly pulled a disabled cruise ship with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew toward San Diego on Wednesday.

The 952-foot Carnival Splendor crept into cell phone range and the onboard phone system started working on a limited basis, allowing passengers mostly cut off from communication since an engine fire Monday to finally reach their loved ones.

Officials said the ship could arrive in San Diego as early as mid-day Thursday.

.....(snip).....

"So really, all we're doing is just kind of hanging out on a boat waiting for the next mealtime," Zambrano said.

Mealtime requires a two-hour wait for cold food. Passengers have been subsisting on Spam, Pop Tarts and canned crabmeat flown in by Navy helicopters. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101110/ap_on_bi_ge/us_cruise_ship_fire

[Newsjock]

1. Good practice for life without Social Security

:)

[sarcasmo]

3. Exactly, surprised they didn't offer dog food too.

[Codeine]

2. .

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. For anyone who flies into a rage whenever "profits" are mentioned

THIS is what profits are for...to buy insurance and to self-insure against losses like this. This fire will cost the cruise line dearly, but life will go on because they have cash on their balance sheet to weather the enormous cost.

[kestrel91316]

8. Er, no, buying insurance is a business expense, not profit.

Likewide funding any slef-insurance, which I doubt they do. Big ship, big company, big insurance policy. Used to be Lloyd's of London wrote that sort, not sure who does now.

[Dreamer Tatum]

11. Um...ok...and what do you need to absorb those expenses...uhhhh, yeah: profit

And cash on the balance sheet is often a requirement for insurance underwriters.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. "Profit"

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. OK, take the insurance expense out of operating expense

What would you call the result? Duh.


It's semantics, anyway: free cash flow and cash on the balance sheet are age-old requirements for many kinds of business insurance, mainly to deal with moral hazard issues.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. "It's semantics" = "Please let my wrong usage of language pass"

Besides, one has to wonder about the inclination to turn a completely unrelated thread into a pro-capitalist screed.

More, it's a straw man: only a handful of hard-line Marxists want to abolish profit. What leftists and liberals want is for it to be taxed fairly, i.e. progressively.

Your little jab at the "dirty commies" was completely out of place and wrong. That's what the internet parlance FAIL was invented for.

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. And that's why non-profit organizations can never have any kind of insurance, ever!

Nor reserve funds!

:crazy: :dunce:

[Dreamer Tatum]

20. How uninformed. Not-for-profits just can't CALL it profit.

Sheesh.

[Turbineguy]

5. Spam.

The caviar of mystery meats!

[thereismore]

7. I eat SPAM. Who's with me?

:headbang:

[Tom_Foolery]

9. I love Spam!!!!

[GoCubsGo]

10. Me, too.

I just wish it didn't love me more than I love it, because it stays on my hips forever.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

19. Spam Misubi...food fit for the gods!!!

[DainBramaged]

35. Spam was THE meat during my college years!

I would have killed things to eat if it wasn't for spam.

[Dappleganger]

15. meat jello!

[thereismore]

6. One should pack some MRE's when going on a cruise these days. nt

[superduperfarleft]

12. I wonder if they at least provided a vegan option.

:hide:

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. Yes: jump over the side, and don't eat any fish as you drown. nt

[superduperfarleft]

22. Who am I kidding, I would've already been cannibalizing the larger passengers by then. n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

25. Brings up a question, though

I mean, not all vegans can be vegan 100% of the time. I wonder how far off the reservation they stray when they have to stray.

I once saw an avowed vegetarian downing not just a hamburger, but a cheeseburger with bacon. The rationale was, hey, I have no vegetarian options right now, and I need to eat. Might as well go whole hog...

[superduperfarleft]

28. I'm a vegan who is reasonable about the survival aspect.

I think it's wholly unethical to unnecessarily kill animals for our food (and my definition of unnecessary is VERY broad, hence the reason I'm vegan), but like the people eating each other after a plane crash, I'm hesitant to judge anyone in a situation like that. Survival instinct is very strong. I doubt most vegans would disagree.

[flvegan]

38. Some Pop Tarts are vegan, vegboy.

Now over the side to drown with you. Drown, dammit, DROWN!

I love DU.

[Solly Mack]

14. Poor little spam critter

[ProgressiveProfessor]

21. At least they are not under as much pressure as Naugas

The only source for Naugahyde

[Solly Mack]

24. and the Polyoleum is still clinging.

[WolverineDG]

26. Beats going hungry

relax, people. they'll be in Ensenada or San Diego today or tomorrow. they're not going to die from eating spam & pop tarts for a few days. :eyes:

dg

[marmar]

32. Who said they are?

[Renew Deal]

34. YOU DID!!!!!!11

:yoiks:






:rofl:

[malaise]

27. LOL

They won't forget this cruise form hell for now

[superduperfarleft]

29. I heard someone once say that cruise ships are like a vacation at a minimum-security prison.

With small children everywhere in addition to the relatively harmless inmates.

The fact that they even HAD spam aboard is plenty scary enough.

[jmowreader]

30. The cruise ship didn't have the spam aboard

The sailors of the Reagan (new motto: "We're from the government and we're here to help") were more than happy to send all the spam, hardtack and SOS they could come up with to the beleaguered civilians aboard the disabled cruise ship.

[Turbineguy]

36. SOS?

"A combination of tasty meats and gravy appetizingly spread on a shingle."

[Renew Deal]

33. Spam is very versitile.

:9

[catnhatnh]

37. But a Boston Paper Said today....

That the us navy flew in 70,000 lbs including "crab meat, croissants, and Spam. Because in a military lift to feed people the load is MREs because that is the lightest load that sustains life. So WHO authorized helicopters with crab meat and croissants???Mind you that worse case thet were one day short on food-so whom authorized flying crab meat and croissants???