#the front fell off

[novapsa]

Reposting this classic

[tilbageidanmark]

First Photo of OceanGate Titan Sub Wreckage Released! Yeah!

So what happened in this case? - "The Front fell off"

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(All the other memes I’ve made..)

[melorawrsss]

I can't believe I haven't told this story to the void yet. One time my front of my truck actually fell off. It was at the moment the traumatizing realization came that my trucks carriage was only held up by 16 screws. 4 on each wheel. And if those 4 aren't tightened enough, the axel can actually just, fall off. I once found this charming video of "the front fell off" and I realized I can totally quote this often because my front actually fell off. Well it was terrifying in the moment, the call to my parents saying "my wheel just fell off!" is now comical to look back on.

(The cause of it was because it was in an accident a week prior and my stepdad did the repairs and didn't fully tighten a few screws on the right front tire connecting to the axel.)

[whumpster-fire]

#oh fuck that's funny#also my maritime SpIn brain keeps trying to make sense of this when it dont make sense#like obviously a wave hitting a ship doesnt make the front of the ship fall off and thats the comedy of it obviously#but like it would be rare if a rogue wave hit a ship for a rogue wave wont make the front fall off#(im just being really autistic ignore me)#a rogue wave will either cause like force damage to it like breaking windows and bending walls and might flood the ship#or it will just sink the ship. presumably. i dont think we actually have evidence of that because of the nature of rogue waves#theyre almost entirely unpredictable#and if they sank a ship it would just sink in seconds basically#unless youre the RMS Queen Mary and then youll tilt 52 fucking degrees and get 3 degrees away from capsizing (and also probably affecting#world war 2 in a somewhat signifcant way) before righting yourself#but yeah no a rogue wave wont make the front fall off#that happens to ship sometimes like the carl d or the daniel j but that's normally due to what material the ship is made of#again. im just being autistic here. the joke is that a wave does not make the front fall off. i just want to talk about ships all the time

Unfortunately the joke was that in this case a wave did in fact make the front fall off. 'The Front Fell Off' is a timeless classic because the way politicians and corporate executives try to minimize disasters and absolve themselves of responsibility hasn't changed 33 years later, but it was satirizing a specific real incident where an oil tanker off the coast of Western Australia had the bow section break off in rough seas resulting in a massive oil spill and a fire. The air date for the sketch is July 26th, 1991. The front fell off the ship on July 21st but this naturally took more than 5 days to deal with so this was very much an ongoing shitshow that was presumably all over the news at the time, being made fun of on what seems to be the Australian equivalent of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

'Senator Collins' was also a real figure and the Minister For Shipping at the time, though in the skit he's played by comedian John Clarke.

I don't know the exact social and political climate of early 1990s Australia but the joke behind "A wave hit it" followed up with "At sea? Chance in a million!" seems to be "The conditions the ship encountered were completely foreseeable, this was not a freak act of God, this happened because an unseaworthy piece of shit was sailing around carrying thousands and thousands of tons of crude oil. We're going to put it in simplistic, childish terms to make it clearer how ridiculous it is that this happened, and how ridiculous the clueless politicians who are supposed to be regulating this industry when they don't know jackshit about it sound when they go in front of the press and try to cover for corporate and government negligence."

The "Towed outside the environment" bit also seems to be a reference to the ship being towed farther from shore in hopes that the oil slick would disperse more before reaching the coast and reduce the damage to sensitive coastal ecosystems.

For further context, here's the same two comedians 19 years later satirizing BP's response to the Deepwater Horizons disaster.

Just in case you've never seen the The Front Fell Off video, some of the funniest two minutes on the internet.

[kalscattergood]

"I want you to know that it's been at least 12 years since it was my fault that front fell off."

[todays-problematic-ship]

Today's Problematic Ships are Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239

Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 are Russian-flagged oil tankers. Early on December 15, 2024, they were caught in a storm while transiting the Kerch strait between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

When a wave hit Volgoneft-212, the front fell off and 4000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into sea. The tanker subsequently sank. It was apparently not built so that the front wouldn't fall, off the "centre [having been] cut out and the stern and bow [...] welded together, forming a huge seam in the middle". At least one crew member is reported to have died.

Volgoneft-239 ran aground in the same area; it is unclear how much if any oil was spilled from it. All members of its crew are reported safe.

The incidents with the Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 highlight the risks posed by the Russian shadow fleet, ships used by Russia to evade international sanctions on its oil and gas exports following its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. International observers ave accused Russia of using the shadow fleet to carry as much oil as possible no matter the consequences, these tankers not being as safe as others due to old age, poor maintenance, lack of insurance and classification, and unclear ownership.

[bocchidaily]

Day 48's Bocchi is locked out in the rain... Poor thing...

[secriden]

I woke up this morning still thinking about Fadel waking up in Style's bed.

I wonder what was running through Fadel's head as he turned to look at Style, eyes still squinting against the too-bright morning light, the unfamiliar comfort of the shape of Style's name on his lips for the very first time. I wonder if he was too sleepy to process how strange it was that he didn't really mind being pinned down by the weight of Style's thigh thrown over his hips; that the sensation was grounding and reassuring rather than being confining or suffocating. I wonder if the thought crossed his mind that he wouldn't mind waking up like this again, wouldn't mind letting someone into his space, wouldn't mind giving someone the bared vulnerability of lying naked and unprotected with all the implications of unwavering trust that has -- not if it was with him.

I wonder if Fadel registered the way his heartbeat is steady and calm despite the strange surroundings and unfamiliar bed, because something in him has already labelled the person lying next to him as safe.

I wonder if Fadel even understood that this, right here, in all its quiet and unacknowledged stillness, was the moment he fell in love?

[th3e-m4ng0]

med student megatron....

[frankycowurker]

ouppy on the wall

sorry try to ignore the spamtons if you can. i cropped out most of them but some survived

[millennialgrandma]

THERE ARE SO MANY SCREENSHOT-WORTHY MOMENTS HERE, BUT IM JUST GOING TO LEAVE YOU WITH THE VIDEO AND THIS COMMENT

[novapsa]

Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

[seeyouspacecowboy98]

Like to think that a lot of Arthur and John’s scars aren’t from gunfights or brawls, but stupid shit they did when they were younger.

[paverics]

nobody talks about how embarrassing it is to fall over as an adult 😭 i’m grown. i’ve been walking all of my life. it shouldn’t be this hard

[keeps-ache]

well, you can see it!

[ofindigoskies]

alt brodia bros waiting pose, description, and personal skills......