Clive Palmer, crazy-rich (correction: crazy, rich) dinosaur enthusiast and federal member for the Queensland seat of Fairfax, has been failing to lure customers into the steerage section – the part of the ship typically reserved for dirt covered poors skinny enough to have fit on the door if Kate Winslet just moved over a bit – ahead of the coming maiden voyage of his fiscally irresponsible vanity project full-scale Titanic replica, Titanic II.
But he has a plan. And it sounds terrible.
Inspired by the transformative experience of “adventure tourism” but replacing realistic thrills with realistically depressing living conditions, Palmer, according to an interview published today in The Courier Mail, has floated the idea of drumming up business by subjecting third class ticket holders aboard his vessel to the same squalor-like conditions experienced by the immigrant class of the original.
His insistence on historical accuracy would entail depriving his third class ticket holders of sheets and pillow cases, subjecting them to cramped living quarters, shared bathroom facilities and feeding them stews and potatoes, conditions known in other parts of the world, as “prison”.
“First class on the Titanic was truly unbelievable, second class was like our first class and third class – well third class was really third class,” Palmer said. “We might offer to recreate the experience of those hopeful immigrants to America.”
You crazy for this one, Clive.
Via The Courier Mail
