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Titanic Shmitanic
RichardH
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Enough about the Titanic already... Hundreds of ships sink and have sunk.. big ones, tragically... even ships that looked just like the Titanic, like the Lusitania, that made just as big a headline in its day. The Titanic's sister ship Olympia sailed on for twenty years before being retired. The same damn ship.. getting old and creaky.
The media here all aflutter over the Titanic... there are people gathering for "somber"ceremonies in Halifax marking the 100 anniversary... people with no connection to that particular foundering gathering in tears?!?!... Television specials, forensic descriptions of how it broke up.. etc. In 1994 almost a thousand people died in the sinking of the Estonia, no one even knows about it...... thousands of people die every year in ferry sinkings all around the world.... anonymous. Oy.
sorry.. just need to rant.
The media here all aflutter over the Titanic... there are people gathering for "somber"ceremonies in Halifax marking the 100 anniversary... people with no connection to that particular foundering gathering in tears?!?!... Television specials, forensic descriptions of how it broke up.. etc. In 1994 almost a thousand people died in the sinking of the Estonia, no one even knows about it...... thousands of people die every year in ferry sinkings all around the world.... anonymous. Oy.
sorry.. just need to rant.
Comments
I see what you're saying though.
James cameron is good at manipulation.
I even shed a tear. Very samsaric.
It's all interesting.. Ships are interesting... in 1860 the 700ft steamer "Great Eastern" was build by a flamboyant character named Brunel.. 50 years before Titanic. I build models of battleships... working slowly on both the Bismark and the King George the 5th..
My point is not that the Titanic story isn't an interesting and poignant part of marine history... Only that it has become a MegaMeme.. with a life..including an emotional life.. of it's own, detached from all historical perspective. On the national news here today it lead all day.
Lol..vinlyn is a fan!
"They'll be one less person on this boat if YOU DONT SHUT THAT 'OLE IN YOUR FACE!! "
Thaitanic
Hahahaha....I nearly choked on my chicken nugget!
Dude, in the tightie whities!
I cook 90% of the time. I even bake my own bread.
Back to Titanic!
It will be over as soon as the teen screams die into another trend...
...ah, hunger games? Feather extensions? Crackled Polish...
I have no teens why do I know this?! I'm going to take a vow of silence and hide in my cave for the next year...
I'm still angry they cancelled "Buffy the vampire slayer."
He was a rivetter at the Belfast ship yards; never put the last rivet in, did he!
I swear that's true (as least the story of him claiming to have been responsible).
Every year again they ideolise this ship and it's casualty's while everywere in the world, ships are sinking and people are dying.
shame u know
hahahahahahahahaa
the taitanic even more
hahahaahahaha
....and then I just cried again. Dangit. What can I say? Kate Winslet is amazing in that film.
U cried thinking Leonardo would leave you forever...
Like a whole generation of girls...
Gotcha!
good chance it was classic N Irish drink talk. Where you from anyway Tosh?
(Shh, he doesn't like that nickname!) @everyone.
He calls me sunny because I hop fences to lay out in private pools on private property and finding any reason to do so...oh, and I lick door knobs for the hell of it...wait, that had nothing to do with it. Omit..
You were thinking of this one http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Lame_Prince_and_his_Travelling_Cloak
But thank you. I love fairy tales...I'm going to read this one tonite
I didn't know these fairy tales existed...I recommended the other one too...if you are too lazy you can find the play on YouTube.
If you have other fairy tales, please let me know.
Don't listen to Tom, I am only a small percentage (like 10% insane) ... but it's mostly harmless to others.
Eccentric is probably a nicer way of saying it. Thank you, Tom. Be careful vinlyn, I'll suck you into my madness...through the looking glass, where my world is nonsense.