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IThis is the story of David and Goliath of our time: one of the world’s largest container ships got stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking a route through which 12% of world trade passes, and sent to rescue it was an excavator very small.
Online, the slow crisis quickly turned into a learning experience: memes 101. The main theme was futility: work versus an endless amount of things to do; of $ 1,400 stimulus checks in response to the coronavirus pandemic; to drink before “the incessant and crushing weight of existence.”
Austin Powers was one of the first references, thanks to a scene in which the British spy tries to make a U-turn in a narrow corridor.
Some were able to relate the crisis to their own traffic and parking-induced stress:
glad i decided to take the panama canal instead of suez today
– skillful (@dlicj) March 24, 2021
Some turned to poetry:
this is just to say
I have
blocked
the suezwhich you
probably needed
for international
tradeforgive me
I’m sideways
and my boat ass
is big– Rhiannon Shaw (@rhiannoneshaw) March 24, 2021
my name is boat
and when i’m tired
(but shipping work
still necessary)then all i want
it’s lyttle snooze
I turn to the side
I lock the Sooz– Katy / krfabian (@krfabian) March 24, 2021
Others resorted to profanity:
By Wednesday afternoon, the ship had been partially refloated, said GAC, a Dubai-based maritime services company, citing information from the canal authority. “Convoys and traffic are expected to resume as soon as the vessel is towed to another position,” it said on its website.
But ship broker Braemar told Agence France-Presse that it could be a while before the ship moves. If the tugs cannot remove it, containers may have to be unloaded to lighten the ship, which Braemar says could “take days, maybe weeks.”
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