"Whenever we go over bumps or train tracks, there's a huge mass clicking sound from all the cameras around everybody's neck. I haven't brought any sort of camera and feel a perverse pride about this."
Here by using the phrase "perverse pride," he sarcastically comments on the stereotypical nature that tourists should be bringing cameras to document their travels. However, he gets a kick out of not bringing his camera, showing his differing views and the joy he gets out of doing the opposite of what one is supposed to do on a cruise.
"In heavy seas, hypochondriacs are kept busy taking their gastric pulse every couple of second and wondering whether what they're feeling is maybe the onset of seasickness."
The use of the words "wondering, whether, maybe, onset" give the author a mimicking tone to this statement and a dry humor to its obvious target. The phrase of "gastric pulse" isn't even a clear or accurate phrase and doubles as the metaphor for "vomiting."
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