Originally published at: Passenger kicked off world cruise for WhatsApp complaints - Boing Boing
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Apart from anything else that sounds like a nightmare: an American HOA at sea.
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is not paying for people’s living expenses.
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After COVID-19 pandemic on Diamond Princess - Wikipedia, you would have to be insane to go on a cruise.
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Especially a 3.5 year long cruise. An outbreak of some illness is almost a certainty.
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One that requires residents – at least the non-founding peons – to sign an NDA.
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fucking kidding me?
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Futurama set the Near Death Star too far into the future it might seem
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We have to announce the cancellation of our cruise because JENNY has a big mouth. We were weeks away from realizing your dreams, but JENNY said not nice things and it’s over folks… blame JENNY… we were so close…
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Tall Poppy Syndrome; tall poppies get cut down.
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A friend of mine has figured out how to get comped cruises by spending enough time in the casino. He got a little pissed at me for calling a cruise ships “floating petri dishes” because he was counting on me going along with him sometimes.
He caught covid (again) when he went on his first one, but it hasn’t dissuaded him.
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And all of this on top of the huge environmental impact that these giant cruise ships have.
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What the hell are “founding residents”?
I picture a group of hooded figures chanting, “For the greater good!”
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No. No. You don’t get the worst part.
STUCK LIVING OUT OF A SUITCASE IN BELFAST.
I was born and raised in Belfast. They should give that individual their money back RIGHT NOW, just for that. No matter WHAT they said.
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This behaviour has significantly impacted the morale and well-being of other passengers.
Did someone FORCE those sensitive souls on to that WhatsApp group? They could have left it.
And since when did passenger morale become something cruise ship late-stage capitalists gave one shit about? Oh, I know, when their floating norovirus hotel ended up leaving passengers in Belfast for 4 months because it was plainly not fit to deliver the service it had contracted to give them - I bet that’s when it was.
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It seems like the CEO has a history with trying to pull this off and leaving would-be passengers stranded. Prior to founding Villa Vie he was the managing director of the now defunct Life at Sea Cruises, which went bankrupt after failing to purchase a ship.
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I, for one, would not embark on any cruise without knowing for sure that the company was solvent and the ship was as advertised.
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Oh, I’m sure they have great policies on masks and other pandemic inspired methods to help prevent the spread of airborn illnesses, right? Right?!?
Ah. You know while I don’t think of 68 as being particularly old, I can’t help but wonder if this was intended to be a sort of “final destination” cruise.
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It’s possible. Sadly, the US doesn’t take care of our elderly the way we should. Medicare doesn’t pay for a nursing home, for example. So if you are expecting that you may need that kind of help in your last years, and you aren’t wealthy enough to afford the best nursing home or the best in home nursing care (and most of us aren’t), and you don’t have family able to care for you, your only option is likely to be to qualify for Medicaid, because Medicaid will pay for a nursing home. But to qualify for Medicaid, you need to be poor. So many people, sadly, are forced to spend themselves into poverty in the couple of years before they are planning on going into a nursing home so they can qualify for Medicaid. And yes, some people do this by going on an around the world cruise. It’s a tragedy.
ETA: This is such a common thing that there are actually articles about it on financial planning websites.
https://www.thestreet.com/retirement-daily/social-security-medicare/will-spending-on-travel-affect-your-medicaid-benefits#:~:text=Response%3A,during%20the%20prior%20five%20years.
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Squeaky Wheel Syndrome; squeaky wheels get thrown overboard.
They are the ones in the front carriage.
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That’s some dystopian shit right there.
I guess we are all heading that way if we don’t kick against the neoliberal pricks and their fascist allies successfully.
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