How to Choose a Cruise
I was poking around the internets, looking for information about the cruise ships we’re expecting in 2017, and I stumbled on Cruise.Com, an online travel agency specializing in cruises.
I found you could look up information about individual vessels so I checked out the Celebrity Summit, which is planning to come to Sydney, and I noticed something interesting in the specs:
Source: Cruise.Com
Cruise.Com allows you to choose your cruises based on “crew nationality.” Mind you, most of the ships list their crew as “international” which is no help at all. Still, there are vessels like Norwegian Sky with “American” crews:
Source: Cruise.Com
And once you get into the “Premium” cruise lines, you can find “British” crew:
Description of Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria
And on “Luxury” cruise lines, there’s even “European” crew:
Source: Cruise.Com
And — bonus — apparently you don’t have to tip Europeans.
Oh Oh Canada
Canada made the Harper’s Index (a monthly compilation of random stats) four times in the magazine’s February issue and that’s…not good.
The numbers that piqued the magazine’s interest:
Portion of the Canadian military that is overweight : 1/2
That is obese : 1/4
Number of Canadian jobs that were abolished when the government launched a more efficient payroll system last year : 700
Of Canadians who then experienced payment delays because of system errors : 80,000
To which I say, sure, maybe our army is a little chubby and works for free but at least it doesn’t take orders from Donald Trump.
BOOYAH!
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