Women & Children First..First Class!

On that terrible night one hundred years ago, only one third (711) of the 2,224 people onboard survived, 1513 perished.

Class distinction persisted even after death for the passengers of Titanic. Recovery operations divided the remains by class: First-class victims were transported to shore in caskets, 2nd & 3rd Class were sewn into burlap bags, and crew members were taken off on open stretchers.

Four "death ships" from Halifax recovered 328 bodies from the Atlantic but 116 were buried at sea because they were badly disfigured and unidentifiable.

John Jacob Astor, one of America's wealthiest men, was remarkable and may well be unsurpassed in the annals of ocean travel.

Astor asked if he could join his much younger and very pregnant wife in the lifeboat.
But when Second Officer Lightoller refused his request, Astor walked politely away, a gentleman to the last.
(When his body was recovered, there was more than two thousand dollars in his pocket.) 

I wonder if the survival stats of a modern disaster at Sea would mirror this Age of Chivalry event?

A BUNCH OF THINGS

A Screech of Gulls...

a Murder of Crows or a Parliament of Owls. I've always wondered who decided these creative collective nouns of animal species? You have to admit that some of them are remarkably perfect & self explanatory.

Here are a few of my favorites:
Implausibility of Gnus,
Dazzle of Zebras,
Scold of Jays,
Romp of Otters,
Charm of Hummingbirds,
Shiver of Sharks,
Cloud of Bats,
Pitying of Doves,
Array of Hedgehogs,
Unkindness of Ravens,
Exaltation of Skylarks,
Wake of Vultures,
Crash of Rhinos,
Parliament of Owls,
Ostentation of Peacocks,
Knot of Toads,
Flamboyance of Flamingos,
Tower of Giraffe,
Bloat of Hippopotamuses,
Prickle of Porcupines,
Gaze of Raccoons.

It would be fun to design a few collective nouns for various groups of Humans such as
a Plankwalk of Tea-Partiers,
a Spitball of Fox Newscasters,
a Brick of Black Bloc Protesters,
a Pustule of Paparazzi,
a Cocking of Gun Nuts,
a Lynch of Birthers,
a Weekend of Creationists,
an Ejaculation of Santorumites,
a Philandering of Gingrichists,
a Shifting of Obama supporters,
a Bewilderment of Ron Paulists,
a Capitulation of Romney supporters,
a Delusion of Michele Bachmannites,
an Absconding of Wall Streeters,
an Interruption of Telemarketers,
a Grandlarceny of CEOs,
a Spill of Big Oil Execs,
a Ransom of Lobbyists,
a Gist of Reporters,


You get the idea. Do you have some ideas or suggestions to add to the list?   

Clicks Just Keep Getting Harder To Find

LECTOR EMPTOR"Reader Beware" 


The "survey" linked below is yet another example of how low the bar has been moved.

In the cyberwar for eyeballs, Interweb content providers are forced to put-out a constant stream of meaningless filler in order to placate their advertiser's demand for 'clicks'. 
To paraphrase Paul Revere & The Raiders: "Clicks just keep getting harder to find".



Even though it is within the realm of possibility that someday Social Scientists might discover a male human with an internet connection who has not been a consumer of pornography, it's possible, it's not realistic to produce a meaningful survey on modern male sexuality that is based on interviewing "20" testosterone-drenched male university students!?
 
All Men Watch Porn eh?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html

I suspect that Alfred Kinsey must be rolling in his grave. 

IT's A MAN's WORLD AFTERALL

COME ON ALL OF YOU 52%ers!

No, really!? Q: If vertebrates are naturally formed as default females, then why-on-Earth do most people think that that a/the "Creator" would A: be a male and B: make this a "Man's World" ?

Obviously our human world is totally out of whack, so does it not stand to reason that this cruel mess is NOT the way it should, would or could be?



Since forever, males have over-stepped the natural order of things through sheer physical force and more recently, by perpetuating a various supernatural decrees which imply that having a wenis entitles them to run the show and make up all of the rules for females?

This observation presents several painfully obvious conclusions, the most egregious of which are, well,  painfully obvious.