I had to look twice at this photo of a ship docked today in Liverpool, I thought it looked more like a new building, they shoot up so quickly these days.
(https://i.postimg.cc/9XYbNLhv/cruise-ship.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
They're very much posh hotels afloat these days. Not too big to sink..
Ideal for housing refugees. :upvote:
:grin: :grin: That's very unkind! :nooo:
Quote from: zoony on March 14, 2022, 05:07:08 PM
:grin: :grin: That's very unkind! :nooo:
Why? :cry:
Just the conjunction of my 'not too big to sink' and your 'Ideal for housing refugees'..
Ohhhhh OK, :wink: I wasn't thinking of it that way. But now you come to mention it........
Using ships as temporary accommodation, why not?
There used to be a ship docked in the Tay near Dundee that housed boys who were homeless or had been in trouble. Being sent to the 'Mars' was often used as a threat when I was growing up.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/820379/history-of-dundee-naval-training-ship-hms-mars-brought-to-life-in-new-exhibition/
Looks like an interesting ship! Just checked the map and it's gone now :(
Maybe the captain is a lurker on here, read this thread, said no way and scudded off. :embarrassed:
Quote from: Raven on March 14, 2022, 05:01:57 PM
Ideal for housing refugees. :upvote:
Sounds good to me, send them out in the middle of the ocean until their claims are settled, then sail them back home.
Quote from: Jacqueline on March 15, 2022, 11:59:34 AM
Sounds good to me, send them out in the middle of the ocean until their claims are settled, then sail them back home.
Just imagine refurb costs after a shed load of dinghy boys have been on it a few weeks.
I read that most Ukrainians want to stay close to their homeland and UK seems a bit far, unless they have family here of course. I would have taken in a woman and her child + dog or cat :grin: :grin: too old now......
Just to clarify I was referring to the fake refugee dingy boys, not the genuine Ukranian refugees.