Titanic

[Globalti]

In short, the conclusion I came to was that all it showed was the complete ABSURDITY of the situation!
With disasters like that, is it any wonder the First World War ended up the way it was?

The First World War is generally held up as the event in which the European upper classes were thoroughly discredited and from which they never recovered their self-appointed privileges and right to rule. They employed cavalry tactics dating from the 1800s in a war that saw the first use of effective long-distance mass killing weapons. The country house system collapsed when most of the workers died on the orders of their employers and the few who returned were unwilling to be put in the same ludicrous position again. I rank the Titanic shambles alongside the trenches as an outstanding example of upper-class idiocy in action.

 

[lukesdad]

Very fedup with it. What would be funny is if the cruise ship they are on going to the wreck site hit an iceberg and sunk.

How would this be funny ?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How would this be funny ?

Not funny, just darkly ironic, all those people wanting to get as close enough to the experience as possible.

 

[mangaman]

Not funny, just darkly ironic, all those people wanting to get as close enough to the experience as possible.

Ironic in an Alanis Morisette, non-ironic sort of way.

Certainly not that funny

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ironic in an Alanis Morisette, non-ironic sort of way.

Certainly not that funny

When does irony stop being irony? Can it?

 

[MontyVeda]

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Secondly what really irks me is that (if it's true) the ship sank because the builders skimped on the steel used for the rivets, which broke too easily when a multi-riveted steel structure should actually be immensely strong with a good ability to absorb partial damage. Similar techniques were invented a couple of centuries ago to build steam boilers and are still used successfully today. On top of the shoddy workmanship is the familiar story of the greed and arrogance of the owners who allowed the ship to be built with insufficient lifeboats and only partial bulkheads.

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It's probably bullshit Globalti... the ship could stay afloat with four bulkheads flooded (in theory), the iceberg ripped through six... and as for the lifeboats, they were simply complying to the regulations at the time... which weren't up to scratch for such large vessels. As time passes, Chinese whispers prevail, such as; nobody claimed it was unsinkable before it sank.

now...

...the passengers on that Titanic memorial cruise had dressed themselves like a bunch of muppets and Italian ice cream salesmen. I was disgusted at their lack of taste, disgusted and shocked. Would they dress like that for a funeral or memorial service? ...

10 years ago my best friend died at the age of 35. she knew she was going to die and wanted her funeral to be a celebration of her life rather than a mourning of her death... in light of this, we all wore brightly coloured clothes to the funeral service. If you were an ignorant passer by would you have had similar 'disgusted' thoughts watching a large 'gayly* dressed' group of people pile into the crematorium? Let people mourn or celebrate the lives of 'their' dead the way 'they' wish to.. it's got bugger all to do with you and passing such judgements is frankly rude.

*in the old fashioned sense of the word

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It's probably bullshit Globalti

Actually, it has long been known that some of the metal was quite brittle.

They took samples of the metal and found out that actually it had real impurities in places and wouldn't have stood the test of time anyway. They had obviously made this metal to save time/ save costs, and, of course, in those days, they knew next to nothing about metal fatigue, etc, so it was used without them realising about the quality. When the iceberg struck however......

Basically it was doomed before it even set sail.

People only really learned properly about metallurgy with the Comets 40 years later.

 

[Peteaud]

How people dress is up to them i would think.

I would love it if mourners at my funeral would look like ice cream salesmen.

Yes the news is a bit ott, but the Titanic is one of those events in history that are now a legend.

To think, some think its just a film and not even true is beyond me.

Of course there are many many more tragic events of the past, some with much higher death tolls, the Titanic is just another event.

Let those who want to remember it get on with it in their own way.

 

[ufkacbln]

complete nonsense.. a conspiracy theory with more holes than a tea bag.

Likely to sink then?

 

[Arch]

To think, some think its just a film and not even true is beyond me.

I heard someone talking about the Costa Concordia, who said "It was like a scene from the film Titanic..."

It's bound to capture people's attention. Tragedy, class issues, hubris, it's got the lot.

I was reading a Times facsimile I found in the recycling, and discovered that the captain of the Olympic who went to help, was called Captain Haddock!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I was reading a Times facsimile I found in the recycling, and discovered that the captain of the Olympic who went to help, was called Captain Haddock!

BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BILLIOUS BLUE BARNACLES!!

 

[pepecat]

To put things into perspective

Wow, that is SO cool! Where did you find it?!
And I'm surprised loch ness is that deep.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

A little irony: did anyone else notice that the Costa Concordia has the same funnel colours as White Star Line ships?

 

[Peteaud]

Well did you know that the swimming pools on the Titanic were so well built they still hold water.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

To put things into perspective

My, how on earth did I miss this? That is fantastic, and I see whoever has done it hasn't taken it too seriously!

I'm a bit disconcerted by the Edmund Fitzgerrald, the Lusitania and the Kursk fact though!