Ship of the day

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

I must admit that I don't get the Disney thing. The Core Disney cartoons with Mickey mouse Etc are awful shite. Give me Jerry mouse, over that minstrel bastard Mickey any day. Some of the longer feature films from back in the day are literally unbroadcastable because they are so horrendously racist (including Dumbo) How are they so huge? because there's a big gap there where they didn't seem to do very much. It's the parks isn't it?

[WOM]

Oh, and we got stuck in It's A Small World for about 15 minutes. That song wears really thin really fast.
Also, crossed a bucket-list item off with: Get Evacuated from A Disney Ride. Ariel's Undersea Adventure crapped out mid-ride and we had to be walked out.

[WOM]

Hmm. I've always viewed it as some kind of arrested childhood thing. The 'Disney nut' people that I know through FB seem like, for want of a more generous term, immature couples. Like...he's a big goofy man-boy, but she's the enabling female equivalent. Some of them have kids, of course, but generally just seem like big dopey kids themselves.

[ursus arctos]

We have never gotten it either, and each of us grew up in this country, used to watch Disney programs, and have visited Disney theme parks. Our son, who grew up in Europe, finds it even more bizarre.

It seems to be grounded in a type of compulsory conspicuous consumption that really troubles me.

[San Bernardhinault]

The Disney Cult thing is very strange to me. We were discussing yesterday someone who'd got stuck in the "It's A Small World After All" ride for 30 minutes, which sounded like something that should be prohibited under the Geneva Conventions yet we know people who would claim to enjoy the experience.

[ursus arctos]

It is interesting to see what specific cults have broad-based support in various countries.

Disney may well be the prime current example in this country, in part because it is so damn lucrative.

[Ginger Yellow]

That reminds me, I forgot to post this one when it visited Greenwich a month or so back.



I only have crappy long distance photos so this wiki one will have to make do.

[caja-dglh]

That said - while Cruise ships alone fill me with dread, the idea of being stranded, at sea, with thousands of Disney people and folk dressed up as Disney characters is as close to a Room 101 experience as I can quickly imagine.

[ursus arctos]

The Disney boat isn't that bad by the execrable standards of contemporary cruise ships, which tend to be humongous and decorated in a manner that makes Vegas casinos seem restrained.

[ursus arctos]

You ain't kidding

[San Bernardhinault]

Here's the BAP Union, dwarfed by an incredibly ugly Disney Cruise Ship behind it, at the San Diego Embarcadero yesterday as we came in on the Coronado Ferry.

It turns out that they only finished building it in 2016 - it's a training vessel of the Peruvian Navy, and Latin America's largest sailing boat. It also had a gloriously massive flag on the back of it, but I didn't get a photo of that.

[Femme Folle]

A few big ones to keep an eye out for

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billspr.../#d9e0be21baa3

[ursus arctos]

Well said.

SB, I think that impression is largely due to the light in the first photo

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Office Christmas party last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art next to Circular Quay and there was a biggie in, Ovation of the Sea.

"And when the ship pulled into circular quay,
I looked at the place where my legs used to be,
And thanked Christ, there was no-one there waiting for me
To grieve, and to mourn and to pity."

[San Bernardhinault]

That looks like the kind of Bateau Mouche (is that the correct singular?) that the CIA would use in a 1990s Bond film when Felix Leiter needs to help him escape from a party at the Musee D'Orsay.

[ursus arctos]

We had our local Bateaux Mouches knock-off Celestial glide by last night, almost certainly it’s a holdiday party on board.

[Sits]

That's very true Paul. VA makes the point in post #91, after my post #90 of the Queen Victoria, another sideways tower block.

[Paul S]

That ship looks quite ugly to me.

[Sits]

Office Christmas party last night at the Museum of Contemporary Art next to Circular Quay and there was a biggie in, Ovation of the Sea.

[Ginger Yellow]

Morgan Stanley are now developing cruise ship terminals?

What the hell is going on over there?

It was mainly (and presumably now entirely is) a housing and hotel development. The "terminal" is basically a pontoon, a Clipper ticket office and some retail kiosks.

[ursus arctos]

And I'd forgotten about that too (while others Revel-ed in their losses).

[caja-dglh]

Morgan Stanley are now developing cruise ship terminals?

What the hell is going on over there?

They forgot about that Atlantic City casino pretty fast.

[ursus arctos]

Morgan Stanley are now developing cruise ship terminals?

What the hell is going on over there?

[Ginger Yellow]

The Enderby Wharf cruise liner terminal is not happening. I'm definitely glad that it's not going ahead as planned, without onshore power, but I'm not sure no terminal at all is better than the status quo. We'll still have them belching out emissions in Deptford, just maybe slightly fewer of them.

[Gangster Octopus]

Pretty boat ... but probably outside my price range.

You could always commission WOM to build you one...