Aftenposten, which aspires (usually without much success) to be Norway's least bad newspaper, provides us with this tantalizing headline of profound global importance:
The world's largest cruise ship can't take the world's largest nationality.
It turns out that furniture on the Queen Mary II is breaking under the weight of overweight passengers, and since "most of our passengers are American," Aftenposten eyed an opportunity to go America-bashing. I suppose the world would be a better place if these fat Americans could just stay away from the cruise ships and leave the poor furniture alone.
Of course, that would put the Queen Mary out of business, lots of people out of work, etc., but hey, these Americans should learn to stop destroying things.
I read today that the furniture in question was manufactured in France. If this is true, one has to wonder if the chairs and stools were designed to fail upon impact with an American buttox?
Posted by: Franko | December 07, 2004 at 12:59 PM
Or maybe the French make poorly constructed furniture. Do what I do and buy it from North Carolina
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