cruise ships to the breakers
 

so we had 2 x cruise ships go to the breakers yard - monarch x monarch of the seas and sovereign x sovereign of the seas with others to follow

Signs of the economic future?? very sad to see any ship at the breakers though

And 747's rapidly disappearing out of the sky. They were going anyway, but this virus is the kicker.

Steam trains will be the next to go, mark my words.

Not if those nutjob volunteer railway enthusiasts have anything to do with it. (Don't get me wrong, I tip my hat to them.) :thumb:

I see E-S has not come in person to stash his pension in one of Wicca Mona's piggy banks.

(The steam locomotive many, including me, can appreciate as an artifact worth preserving if not overly useful in terms of efficacy. When it comes to love of the cruise ship I have to wonder if block coefficient has something to do with council flats).

Never mind about steam locomotives ES. We, here in OZ, are still running almost 70 odd year old EMD locomotives::applause:

https://youtu.be/pxc92rExtn8

The three GM class locos are from my home system (Commonwealth Railways) whilst the B and S class are ex Victorian Railways. The video was 2013 but all five locos are still running about.

What, no Dining Car?

No longer necessary to appear in the bank with a suitcase full of used notes. And it gave a bad impression with many locals wondering what their island home had sunk to. God help their wit, probably a genetic disorder.

When it comes to love of the cruise ship I have to wonder if block coefficient has something to do with council flats).

Jeez Mr V you can't see a bandwagon without jumping on it.
Never judge a book by its cover.

Notes ??? what are notes ??? :shock:

(Covid is going to see them off before any of these other things. I still have unused notes in my wallet from my last visit to a 'hole in the wall' just before the lockdown. Haven't paid anything in cash since I drew them out. 'Goodbye Paper Money' would make a good song title.)

I'm an injuneer, I don't have any money, notes or otherwise :very_sad::very_sad:

I started a "go fund me" page but all I got was very rude comments advising me where to go and what to do with myself when I got there :cloud:

Phaw!- amateur.... I still have One Pound notes from quite a while back (don't think anybody would be particularly interested in taking them as payment)


'Every penny a prisoner' :o

Yeah but you have an advantage Dave, you're from north of the border, where wallets contain vast treasures for archaeologists and palaeontologists.

:big_tongue:

And and I have a 50p Note (it is not my only wealth), we also did plastic notes. Very, very difficult to tear and very, very resistant to wear. Not difficult at all to burn, though. In either sense.

(E-S, I know. One meets such interesting people on a bandwagon).

Well when I were't lad this wud last us 3 years ... (... and we'd still ave change !!) :p

The exact coin to buy a bar of McEuans Highland Toffee, the bar with the big cow on the label. You needed an extra "Penny" to get a chocolate coated bar.
PS. Not a big cow but a cow with big horns.

Now that confectioners are reducing the size of chocolate bars and such, (so that they don't have to increase the purchase price thereof,) would one of those Highland Toffees now be known as a "Little Big Horn?" I can see the battle at the counter now over the new smaller bar being the same price as last year when it was much bigger.

Thread drift strikes again.......:sweat:

Ten Bob note anyone?
No, not one of those fifty pence notes from Fingal's sod, a real ten SHILLING note.


Back on thread - It is perhaps worth pointing out that when SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS was launched back in 1988 it was hailed as 'The worlds first Mega cruise ship'

Was a passenger, guest, on Majesty of the Seas in 1999 and she was a top notch ship.
Like me she is rapidly running out of steam and heading for the knackers yard.

A good few in danger now.

CMV went into Administration on the 20th July.

Neville

When a Moderator types, " A good few in danger now.", I feel I'm due a telling off for being naughty and not being in "Stormy Weather".
Phew, got away with it this time.

That you were a guest of Her Majesty, E-S, surprises some of us not a jot.

I was young passenger on Monte Anaga in the wayback. She looked like a proper ship.

Make me realise just how long I sailed on cruise ships. That class were the latest thing when I started with Grunstad

Do you perhaps have a guilty conscience?:jester::wave:

I've had a few wiggings on here and the Other Place. As for the guilty conscience syndrome, it's a hangover from my orthodox christian upbringing.

cruise ships at the breakers
 

and then there were three - carnival fantasy beached along side the monarch and the sovereign

It could be we're witnessing (in my case in old age) a major turning point in general. Sort of scary really ... I have every sympathy for those youngsters who may well have to bite the bullet on this one. And given the state of the world, and the people who are currently running it, that's going to be a f****** large calibre bullet. :confused:

The golden goose is cooked.

One can kill the goose by overworking the few or by having too many for the goosefood available. To have some plain old ducks and moorhens in proper trade as well is beneficial. A "diverse portfolio" is a universal defence. Perhaps preventing great excess of benefits but equally preventing the worst of losses (let us all hope C19 does not cause the pundits to choose another route as there doesn't seem to be one).

Supply and demand. "O" Level economics. Or as our American masters say, Economics 101.

Absolutely however I prefer the 'demand' in my portfolio to be real as in food, pharma (despite the risk), energy etc. rather than frivolous, commercial 'hospitality', yachting, gaming, gambling etc. both areas have customer demand. The former cannot experience evaporation, the latter is. A bigger benefit would be if the inessential volume of the state would evaporate too but that seems resistant to phase change. With respect to HM's local Treasury they have invented a very neat new unfunded benefit with which to burden us. Home notworking.

Jeez Shipmates, what the hell has happened our old friend GD1? She has had a new coat of paint and I can't find the gangway. Is it all for the best? I liked her when she was a steam up and downer.

I think she must have been re-engined or perhaps converted to sail? I fear that from a distance she will resemble one of those floating blocks of flats some of us dislike.

That makes three of us on the dock searching for the gangway. I believe that there is a hidden escalator somewhere though.
Sorry that I didn't recognise either of you in your flamboyant new multi coloured drip dry polyester uniforms but I see your medals are still the same, thankfully. Will your tickets still be recognised if we ever find our way aboard?
I am still the one with the shovel and no medals by the way. Bit worried about redundancy if the uppers and downers have been replaced however.

She is most definitely now showing her true port of registry, but the Ensign seems to be a bunch of bunting. The onboard currency is the Dollar.
I found the gangway, started to wander round, got lost and kept bumping into huge advertising hoardings. I think I need to dip into my foreign currency wallet in order to see what is going on.

since my posting re the 2 cruise ships at the breakers in july by end november no less than 7 cruise ships await there fate the astor and the karinka with in days of each other with the - monarch - soverign ( pulmantur ) fantasy imagination and inspiration ( carinval )having been beached in july - august - and currently 3 more waiting to reach their final destination

When I was a youngster we lived next to a smithy that hooved horses and this was in the middle of a fairly big town. And round the corner was a horse's drinking fountain, hewn out of one big piece of granite. Not many used either though. It was the rag collector and the firewood seller... and that was perhaps it. The coal, cokes and cinders man used a handcart, his depot was not far away. I would say that beats having once been on a now outdated passenger ship, or owning a few brown coins though.

Surely not unless you can exchange your memories for those brown coins. The work is a requirement. The happy memories are merely a bonus.