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yuiyoshida

(41,871 posts)
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 12:42 AM Aug 2017

This country is a rudderless ship lost at sea with no Captain

Appropriate metaphor


3 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Time expired
Where is Jack Sparrow when we need him?
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The Captain has thrown all his officers over board, we need a Mutiny on the bounty
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No, we hit an iceberg and sinking
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The Captain is in his cabin tweeting and checking himself in the mirror
3 (100%)
Thar she blows, the great white whale!
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WTF! No rudder ? Damn Republican ship builders
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We're on a slow boat to Shanghai
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Theres a Captain, with no rudder, and were just sailing in circles
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I have no idea where we are going , probably fall the earth
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Fuck! Taken over by P irates!
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This country is a rudderless ship lost at sea with no Captain (Original Post) yuiyoshida Aug 2017 OP
Jack Sparrow! Pass the rum! murielm99 Aug 2017 #1
Yum yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #2
I just feel like somebody named jack is badly needed right now Tiggeroshii Aug 2017 #4
There's always Captain Morgan to help get you through rough seas!!! InAbLuEsTaTe Aug 2017 #3
My favorite. n/t murielm99 Aug 2017 #5
You need to be 21 to meet him, so I have heard yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #6
I've been reading Jamaal510 Aug 2017 #7
Yeah but Captain Ahab never spend his time saying yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #8
 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
4. I just feel like somebody named jack is badly needed right now
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 01:43 AM
Aug 2017

Jack sparrow, jack skeleton, jack Ryan...

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
7. I've been reading
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 01:56 AM
Aug 2017

The Caine Mutiny for almost the past year, and Toupe Fiasco reminds me so much of Captain Queeg. They're both lunatic know-it-alls who are lousy at their jobs, and not many people who they work with personally like them.

yuiyoshida

(41,871 posts)
8. Yeah but Captain Ahab never spend his time saying
Mon Aug 28, 2017, 02:05 AM
Aug 2017

Mirror mirror on the wall, Who's the fairest of them all.

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