Boost: Metafilter discusses The Stuck Ship

[jesse_the_k]

I continue to have conflicted feelings re Metafilter, and sometimes it's exactly the right place. Ongoing at https://www.metafilter.com/190865/Its-stuck#8082839

Is a long thread on the Ever Given container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. Since I've locked myself away from Twitter, I get to see wonders like this "Just to say" WCW riff:

I have blocked
the canal
that was in
Egypt
and which
you were probably
using
for the global economy
Forgive me
It went sideways
so fast
and out of control

...and 11 other parodies at last count.

To an ASCII sketch demonstrating how two Chinook helicopters could remove a container from the stranded boat

To informed comments from folks who work with containers every day. (And yes, there is a futures market in shipping fees!)

Comments

[bibliofile]

LOL

[sonia]

Thanks for the link to good entertainment! I was particularly taken with the Barrett's Privateers parody, and the link to a long twitter thread riffing on why there's only one earth mover on site, and how it's not a bulldozer, it's obviously something else (but they don't agree on the obvious something else it is).

[jesse_the_k]

I failed to capture the Jewish sub-tweet which pointed out that the ocean split to permit the captive boat to escape Egypt land. But it was there, somewhere, and you probably saw it.

[sovay]

wonders like this "Just to say" WCW riff

That is good.

[hurry_sundown]

An English professor of mine had a riff on this that started "I have drunk the last two beers ..."

Also, how does this happen? I mean, I know intellectually how the ship got stuck, but it's 2021. Can't we just, I don't know, mag-lev it out or something?

[jesse_the_k]

Mag-lev has not yet been suggested! -- two MeFites with on-board experience steering container ships, describe how it happened in exquisite detail