Cruising

[Jaded]

[Basil]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

[Woofage]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Indeed. I go on holiday to get away from people, not to be cooped up with several thousand others.

Great photo though 

[Kim]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Back when I was a PSO, a friend of mine worked as a theatre tech on a cruise ship for a summer.  His account of the experience was enough to put me off them for life, even before you consider infectious diseases.

[Robh]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Indeed. I go on holiday to get away from people, not to be cooped up with several thousand others.

Great photo though 

Yes, it is a nice pic. I'm a fan of Michael Wolf's photography and I love anything featuring a grid. Take a look at Wolf's studies from Hong Kong, "Architecture of Density": https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/architecture-of-density-hong-kong

[Canardly]

Cruise...Just no. I have seen enough vomit on channel crossings thanks very much.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I once met a Scottish woman who had worked on a cruise ship, in the souvenir shop I think. She described the whole experience as a touring bonkathon, at least for the crew, and claimed she had lost her virginity with an engineer in the funnel. Not a euphemism, literally inside the ship's funnel.

[Mr Larrington]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Indeed. I go on holiday to get away from people, not to be cooped up with several thousand others.

Great photo though 

Yes, it is a nice pic. I'm a fan of Michael Wolf's photography and I love anything featuring a grid. Take a look at Wolf's studies from Hong Kong, "Architecture of Density": https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/architecture-of-density-hong-kong

Jardine House (formerly the Connaught Centre) in Hong Kong.  Known to us Western half-devil monster faces as “the Cheese Building” and to the locals – allegedly – as “the building of a thousand arseholes”.

[Jurek]

I once met a Scottish woman who had worked on a cruise ship, in the souvenir shop I think. She described the whole experience as a touring bonkathon, at least for the crew, and claimed she had lost her virginity with an engineer in the funnel. Not a euphemism, literally inside the ship's funnel.

I think you may've crossed a line there.

[PaulF]

I once met a Scottish woman who had worked on a cruise ship, in the souvenir shop I think. She described the whole experience as a touring bonkathon, at least for the crew, and claimed she had lost her virginity with an engineer in the funnel. Not a euphemism, literally inside the ship's funnel.

I think you may've crossed a line there.

Indeed, the Cunard line.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Indeed. I go on holiday to get away from people, not to be cooped up with several thousand others.

Great photo though 

Yes, it is a nice pic. I'm a fan of Michael Wolf's photography and I love anything featuring a grid. Take a look at Wolf's studies from Hong Kong, "Architecture of Density": https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/architecture-of-density-hong-kong

I don't recognize the name but those Hong Kong photos are what it reminded me of immediately. Really just the shapes of doors and windows that show you're on a boat; well, that and the people lounging round in dressing gowns!

On a different note, it's earwormed me Blondie's Heart of Glass (though possibly a mondegreen?).

[mrcharly-YHT]

Unlike most of my acquaintances, the idea of being on one of those container prison boats fills me will horror.

Indeed. I go on holiday to get away from people, not to be cooped up with several thousand others.

Great photo though 

Yes, it is a nice pic. I'm a fan of Michael Wolf's photography and I love anything featuring a grid. Take a look at Wolf's studies from Hong Kong, "Architecture of Density": https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/architecture-of-density-hong-kong

I don't recognize the name but those Hong Kong photos are what it reminded me of immediately. Really just the shapes of doors and windows that show you're on a boat; well, that and the people lounging round in dressing gowns!

On a different note, it's earwormed me Blondie's Heart of Glass (though possibly a mondegreen?).

Similar.

Most of the people on that cruise would be horrified at the idea of living in a miniscule 1 bedroom flat in a tower block, but happily shell out a fortune to go on holiday in a floating tower block.

[Kim]

Jardine House (formerly the Connaught Centre) in Hong Kong.  Known to us Western half-devil monster faces as “the Cheese Building” and to the locals – allegedly – as “the building of a thousand arseholes”.

Inspired, no doubt, by the timeless strategy game Connect 4

[Mr Larrington]

According to Wikinaccurate Connect 4 first appeared in February 1974 while the building was opened in 1973.  Perhaps it was t'other way round