While "The Woke" Cause "Mayhem", a boat causes actual problems.

[Jimmy Higgins]

And we'll just file this under, small things (well, not so small in this case), can cause big problems... you know, real ones. Not things that cause right-wingers to lie away in bed, late at night pondering what word tomorrow they may no longer be able to use in a particular context. But real things... like oil prices rising and markets dropping because of a boat, supply and demand sort of stuff.

A boat that could fit four football (US or European) pitches. A boat of sufficient size that say if it kind of accidentally got skewed in a canal, it could run aground and be stuck for weeks causing a backup of thousands of trade ships because we lack magic to get the ship ungrounded and unloading those large crates can't be done as easily as suggested on The Paw Patrol.

Currently a ship "The Beached Whale" is stuck in the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal, a monumental achievement of the ancient Egyptian Empire, allows trade to go from Asia to Europe without having to take the long way around Africa. Roughly some percent of all global trade goes through the Suez Canal and when it gets blocked, things really suck. And right now, things are really sucking as one part of it is impassable because of a boat (large), but still just a fucking boat. Not a terrorist, not some person complaining about words, or China... a boat. A boat is making stocks drop and oil increase all across the globe. Reminding us, that sometimes small innocuous (even if larger than average) can actually impact our lives, in real ways that extend beyond pettiness.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Trausti]

Meme away!

 

[blastula]

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[lpetrich]

Suez Canal opens - HISTORY

The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony attended by French Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez. An international team of engineers drew up a construction plan, and in 1856 the Suez Canal Company was formed and granted the right to operate the canal for 99 years after completion of the work.

Construction began in April 1859, and at first digging was done by hand with picks and shovels wielded by forced laborers. Later, European workers with dredgers and steam shovels arrived. Labor disputes and a cholera epidemic slowed construction, and the Suez Canal was not completed until 1869–four years behind schedule. On November 17, 1869, the Suez Canal was opened to navigation. Ferdinand de Lesseps would later attempt, unsuccessfully, to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.

It's a sea-level canal, though it goes through the Great and Small Bitter Lakes.

 

[ZiprHead]

Seen elsewhere: The ship stuck in the Suez Canal is blocking so much important and useful stuff that they have decided to rename it "McConnell".

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The boat has been dislodged. The ship will now be able to make its way to the port... as will the hundred plus others stuck behind it... to overwhelm the ports next.

Just another day where real stuff actually happens that actually impacts the lives of people.

 

[ZiprHead]

Meh. Somebody said something stupid somewhere. That's got to be more important.

 

[TV and credit cards]

That was entertaining.

Looks like a hedge fund ran aground. Lets see if they can dig themselves out.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]

No more Suez Canal jokes.

That ship has sailed.