#the front fell off

[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..)

[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."

[harboretum]

putting our d&d characters into a stardew multiplayer save

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

everyone loves tv ❤️!

[todays-problematic-ship]

Today’s Problematic Ship is an unnamed North Korean frigate

On May 21, 2025, the an attempt to launch the latest warship of the Korean People’s Navy, the second Choi Hyon class frigate, ended in failure. With dictator Kim Jong-Un watching, the bow of the ship failed to slide off the supporting frame. State news agency KCNA reported

Due to the inexperienced command and operational carelessness in the course of the launch, the launch slide of the stern has departed first and stranded as the flatcar failed to move in parallel, some sections of the warship's bottom crushed to destroy the balance of the warship and the bow couldn't leave the shipway, leading to a serious accident.

After watching the whole course of the accident, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made stern assessment saying that it was a serious accident and criminal act caused by absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which is out of the bounds of possibility and could not be tolerated.

He warned solemnly that the irresponsible errors of the relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the central ship designing institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard responsible for the accident that brought the dignity and self-respect of our state to a collapse in a moment would have to be dealt with at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee to be convened next month and censured them for the fault.

Three days later, KCNA reported that three officials at the shipyard had been identified as responsible for the failure.

Kim has also ordered that the frigate be salvaged and restored to operational condition.

[captain-price-unofficially]

A British pilot prepares to drop a bomb on German positions

[bocchidaily2024]

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

[the-mang0tree]

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

[ominousgradient]

Talking about nun Snotlout with my buddy and he said that he'd refer to himself as "a woman of god"

This is now my new favorite title for him

Snotlout Gary Jorgenson: Weapon Tester, Published Author, Woman of God

[millennialgrandma]

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

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

dog they should invent grad parties for distant family that aren't lame as HELL. bout to start inventin my own fun by makin up shit for nosy aunts questions. naw I didn't drop out I was kicked out. yeah. sellin coke. what have I been doin? prison time. why ain't I settled? fiance ran off. yeah. another man. heartbreakin shit.

[0246h]

misophonia + sensory issues are torture. i'm so tired of all of this.

[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.