Too much irony

You're the second contributor today to post that this story is amusing through the irony. Maybe so but I for one am finding it very difficult to see anything amusing about it. The skipper has had a 48hour nightmare and has abandoned his boat. How can that possibly be funny?
 
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You're the second contributor today to post that this story is amusing through the irony. Maybe so but I for one am finding it very difficult to see anything amusing about it. The skipper has had a 48hour nightmare and has abandoned his boat. How can that possibly be funny?

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Because the very people that he claims are killing us ended up saving his life. If you can't see the delicious irony there then you need a magnet.
 
"The British crew of a 'carbon neutral' polar expedition sailing across the North Atlantic have been rescued by an oil tanker"

You can't see what's mildly amusing about that?
 
Okay, put yourself in the skipper and crew's shoes. Would you have found the last few days amusing? If yes then I say you have no compassion.
 
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Okay, put yourself in the skipper and crew's shoes. Would you have found the last few days amusing? If yes then I say you have no compassion.

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Oh get over yourself, stop taking stuff too seriously.

You think I'd laugh if they'd died? No, of course not!

I'm sure they're laughing at the irony - I'm amazed that you can't.
 
If it helps at all, one of the guys who set up the expedition, Richard Spink, said...

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'The team are now safely and ironically aboard the oil tanker Overseas Yellowstone.

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"Oh get over yourself, stop taking stuff too seriously"

That is obnoxious; I see no value in continuing any debate with you.
 
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That is obnoxious; I see no value in continuing any debate with you.

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Jeez, you need a sense of humour bypass. Of course it's ironic, even hilarious that some pompous ecomentalist twats in a sailboat get rescued by an effing great big oil tanker. I wonder if they calculated the carbon footprint of the tanker diverting to rescue them? Of course, if they were true climate change believers, they would have refused all offers of rescue by CO2 emitting transport and waited for the next puff powered boat to come along. I hope they're back home planting trees like crazy to cover the carbon 'cost' of their rescue
 
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Phew - I was worried that I had massively mis-judged the forum's humour there!

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I think the only miscalculation was missing Robih's sense of humour /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

There are some real masters on here that get a kick out of pretending to be miserable.
 
Only just seen this. No you didn't misjudge - at least, I too agree the story/irony was funny, as Deleted User eloquently says above

Robih is mixing up the sailors' plight with the irony of an eco-mission getting rescued by a large chunk of carbon-footprint. They're two completely separate things.

Hilarious!
 
Not to mention that their now abandoned bateau was constructed of plastic resin and spun glass....carbon neutral my arse.

I'm spending a fortune creating my own carbon arse print.
 
I thought it amusing, even funnier was Robins response.
What were they trying to prove? that you can sail round the world without an engine, think thats been done a few million times already /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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