The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Denis on October 14, 2011, 11:59:41 AM
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Hahahaha! There are so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to begin.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/2-5-million-chinese-yacht-goes-straight-down-161517593.html
$2.5. million Chinese yacht goes straight down on its maiden voyage
If you're going to spend $2.5 million on a yacht, you'd like it to be able to float. Alas, the SS Jiugang wasn't able to meet that basic requirement.
The Chinese vessel made her maiden voyage in the Yellow River. Although "voyage" probably isn't the right word. "Fiasco" is more appropriate, because the boat instantly sank as it was pushed into the water.
The above video of the vessel's inglorious found its way to tech blog Gizmodo. It's both heartbreaking and hilarious, watching the excited people push the boat into the river only to watch the boat's stern quickly sink into the muddy waters. (Cue Celine Dion, and the sweeping "Titanic" theme, "My Heart Will Go On.")
According to Gizmodo, the accident was caused by "improper handling from the builders who mistakenly estimated the water level causing the water level to exceed the limit." Either way, rescue workers eventually pulled the boat from the water for repairs. No word on how much what it cost to retrieve the beleaguered vessel. Thankfully, there were no injuries.
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Solly fol ze little dumpling boat, Comlade, back to dlawing boald!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGoHQ7c5I2I
And, a few months later, all is well ...
(http://images.defensetech.org/wp-content/uploads//2010/02/Chinese-Sub.jpg)
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I can tell from the camera work that they were really trying NOT to show the sinking...you can only imagine how little the Chinese brass hats want such a fubar to be shown around the world.
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Is it a maiden voyage when it sinks before it has completely left the launch? :)
I'm not sure how Christie singing on a barge going down the Thames fits in.
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But they sang "Yellow River"!!! While looking for the Chinese vessel no doubt:
"The Chinese vessel made her maiden voyage in the Yellow River."
It all seems clearly connected to me, no? :-\
I also note a sense of irony in using "in the Yellow River" rather than "on the Yellow River" in the press text. Vely funny.
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Denis, I sent you a PM
Steve
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Is it a maiden voyage when it sinks before it has completely left the launch? :)
To stay within your picture, you mean that is like the hymen breaking before penetration?
Which seems to happen all the time. Numerous women have confirmed to me.
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But they sang "Yellow River"!!! While looking for the Chinese vessel no doubt:
"The Chinese vessel made her maiden voyage in the Yellow River."
It all seems clearly connected to me, no? :-\
I also note a sense of irony in using "in the Yellow River" rather than "on the Yellow River" in the press text. Vely funny.
Makes sense now, I just watched the video and didn't read the text.
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I suspect there is some kind of cover up going on here. Most likely it was sunk by a German U boat :-\.
Rick
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I would like to draw to everyone's attention here that the German Reich actually supported China in the thirties until our emerging Japanese Allies told us to think better of it!
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I would like to draw to everyone's attention here that the German Reich actually supported China in the thirties until our emerging Japanese Allies told us to think better of it!
WELL, then.....
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Uh...
I got nothin'.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGoHQ7c5I2I
...and I always thought this was just another Mungo Jerry tune.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mungo+jerry+YouTube+summertime&mid=46B598F20B3E03B87B8B46B598F20B3E03B87B8B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE7
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Apparently.....not ALL shit floats :)
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Possibly a better soundtrack to the video...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-JEtS9nlNs
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...and I always thought this was just another Mungo Jerry tune.
Really? I never thought they sounded anything alike, and IIRC they were both charting at the same time.
BTW, the actual recording is Jeff Christie's vocals on a previously recorded backing track by The Tremeloes.
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Chip (drummer) sang it with the Tremeloes, his voice had more of a country feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEs2nFwo-i8&feature=related
It's the song that had me falling in love for the first time with the American way of life. Why, you ask, it's a limey tune after all? It must have been early 1973 and I was making an introductory visit to The American School of Kinshasa, they were showing me around. I was a 7th grader then, but they also showed me 1st-6th grade classes all located in more or less one large compound, with everybody settling in various parts of the huge one room building for little class groups. It was a wonderous sight for someone from the more rigid German school system. So a math teacher sits with a couple of probably third graders cross-legged on the floor, we watch what they are doing, both the kids and the teacher ignore us completely, they are focused on their math. But then the teacher suddenly gets up, "let's make some music!", picks up an acoustic guitar and starts strumming and singing Yellow River (in a very melodious voice too) with the kids. German math teachers didn't do that nor did they sit on the floor. For me, it wasn't so much a culture shock as a cultural awakening.
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None of my teachers did that either. But by the 70s, they might have.
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A lot of those guys had studied in Berkeley, going to a foreign American school as a teacher graduate was the thing to do back then. It was all very flower-powery, laid back and "Jesus loves you!" - but in a good way.