Topic: Cruise ship sinking - Italian coast guard transcript

[jollyjacktar]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

Would love a shirt myself.  There are plenty I see on eBay.  I'll be getting one.

[milnews.ca]

Anybody know what the obscenity was that the Official used?

I heard on an NPR report that they were selling T-Shirts in Italy with the quotation on them, but I haven't seen any reprts that actually say (or hint at) what he said. Apparently they are a popular item.

According to this recording ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNtayIRcK0
.... the term used by the Coast Guard officer was "cazzo", a term used for the.... shall we say.... "manroot"?  In context, it's like calling someone a dick, but  stronger - closer to the level of calling someone a s**thead.

The term can also used in Italian as an almost-literal translation of d**khead - "testa di cazzo", or in "che cazzo voi?" which roughly translates into "what the f**k do you want?"

I can't really tell if the Coast Guard officer is calling Captain Chicken a cazzo, or is exclaiming "cazzo" the same way someone would say, "get back on the ship (pause) holy f**k".  I leave it to better translators than myself to pick this fly poop out of the ground pepper

[PMedMoe]

Interesting read here:  Mark Steyn: No more ‘women and children first'

[PMedMoe]

 

[Brihard]

Interesting read here:  Mark Steyn: No more ‘women and children first'

I'll see that, and raise some Heinlein.

"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep on trying."

- 'Lazarus Long', in 'Time Enough for Love'.

[RDJP]

Same cruise line....

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/carnival-ship-sails-past-dying-fishermen-reports

[ArmyVern]

Same cruise line....

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/19/carnival-ship-sails-past-dying-fishermen-reports

Uggghhh. My stomach churned reading that. I will NEVER travel Carnival; never.

[jollyjacktar]

I do not believe for one moment that the bridge crew were unaware of the fishing boat.  Bollocks!!!  Someone on the crew of that vessel would have seen them or been told about it from a passenger.  Totally Unsat.  They must have gone to the same school as that Italian loser.  The Captain should have his ticket reviewed and maybe pulled.  I'm sickened at the professionalism displayed by that crew.