Getting Stuck & then some :)

A bulldozer is seen next to the Ever Given container ship that became stuck after it ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal - prompting a wave of memes Photograph: Reuters

A disparity of size comes to mind here as a tiny bulldozer goes out to try to unstick the Ever Given, a huge cargo ship wedged in in the Suez Canal, thus holding up 12% of the world's trade 24/7. The Guardian and Austin Powers memes rule in trying to free up this monster to get the canal up and running again.

Online, the slow-moving crisis was quickly turned into a learning experience: memes 101. The overarching theme was futility: of work in the face of a never-ending number of things to do; of $1,400 stimulus checks in response to the coronavirus pandemic; of drinking in the face of “the incessant, crushing weight of existence”.

But it does get better, way better. :)

Quoting Snopes ... 

On March 23, 2021, shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal was grounded to a halt after a large vessel called the “Ever Given” got stuck in the passageway. Shortly after news broke about this blocked shipping route, an image started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed how the Ever Given, a nearly 200-foot wide, 224,000-ton vessel, had “drawn” a penis in its route movements shortly before it entered the Suez Canal:

This is a genuine image showing the Ever Given’s route before it got stuck in the Suez Canal. While it may resemble a rough drawing of a penis, there’s no evidence to indicate that this was “drawn” on purpose.

And here's the video showing how the Ever Given diagram came to be. :)

Austin Powers strikes yet again.