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AIBU in being completely fed up with the Titanic (rant warning)

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Minimammoth · 10/04/2012 14:14

Talk about overload. If there is another radio or tv program about it, I will, well ...I will. Lost for a good threat. It was big, it went down, lives were lost. Now can we move on.

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LeBOF · 10/04/2012 15:52

Yes Tunip (love the Onion Grin)- I was going to say that it is the symbolism of it all that makes it such an enduring tragedy. In many ways it represented the last gasp of that class confidence from Victorian times, embodied in the biggest best ever exercise in maritime willy-waving which was Titanic. Not long after it sank, we had WW1 and a massive shift in society's priorities. The interest goes much deeper than commemorating individual deaths, I think.

NowWeKnow · 10/04/2012 15:58

Yanbu. I'm all Titanic'd out.

I even found myself watching a documentary about the iceberg responsible the other day. I suppose it's only fair to get the iceberg's side in all this too, but blimey.. Confused

The Titanic cruise is very odd.

bumbleymummy · 10/04/2012 16:02

Yabu and quite thoughtless. As are a lot of people on this thread. Very distasteful.

HowAboutAHotCupOfShutTheHellUp · 10/04/2012 16:10

I think it's fascinating.

And v sad.

And v eerie.

When they show the wreck on tv I have to look away as for some reason, when I was little, my mum liked to say 'Titanic' to me in a scary voice Hmm. Ever since then I've been really creeped out by it.

A huge number of third class passengers died, something like 500+. I think that's what makes it so very sad for me, that so many poor people didn't make it because they didn't stand a chance. Far more wealthy people made it onto the lifeboats than poor people.

buffyp · 10/04/2012 16:14

I am personally interested in the Titanic and make no apologies for it.I have learnt plenty of things this week that I didnt actually know so imo YABU. I really dont understand why people who have no interest in it feel the need to start threads about it or moan. There are plenty of other things on the telly and the anniversary will be over soon enough.

HowAboutAHotCupOfShutTheHellUp · 10/04/2012 16:15

And another thing that is very very sad is that out of all the children on board, half of them died Shock

squoosh · 10/04/2012 16:15

I understand the reasons people give for being fascinated, class etc. but I genuinely don't get why Titanic above all other tragedies is so obsessed over.

In the same vein that I really don't understand people who study serial killers and buy serial killer magazines....that's magazines about serial killers not magazines that teach you how to serially kill.

shockers · 10/04/2012 16:19

I think katienana was spot on with what she said about it being a snapshot of the class system. I personally find it fascinating in an historical sense, and think that marking the 100th anniversary is a nice thing to do for descendants of those who were on the ship, and anyone else who has an interest.

Agree completely about the cruise though... that's all a bit twisted.

Kennyp · 10/04/2012 16:19

On jeremy vine today .....

Lady in cinema, watching titanic.
Couple next to her, the woman was getting very upset at the end.
Her boyfriend said to her "dont worry, it,s only a story".

Speechless!!
It is not bothering me to be hnest and i am finding it quite interesting. Not watching the itv thing but i like the strictly judge programme.

5inthebed · 10/04/2012 16:21

Grin at the iceberg's point of view. Image of a huge iceberg, siting in a chair, smoking a cigarette, talking into a microphone.

I refuse to go see KW's tits in 3D, was bad enough watching that tat in 2D when I was 18.

DesperatelySeekingBunnies · 10/04/2012 16:22

There's a Titanic Cruise? Shock weird.

I do think the 3D version of the movie coming out is a crass and blatant cashing in strategy, but some of the other stuff on the tv looks ok.

Didn't bother with ITV's drama about it as it looked a bit dull but watched some of a programme on channel 5, some of which was quite interesting, possibly because it was based around real people and what happened to them.

shockers · 10/04/2012 16:22

I found the Jeremy Vine thing quite interesting... with the Great Granddaughter of the chap who was steering.

Didn't hear that bit though!!

Sparklingbrook · 10/04/2012 16:24

I just think one or two programmes nearer the anniversary would have been better rather than the blanket coverage we are getting at the moment.

That isn't being disrespectful is it? Not wanting to hear about the Titanic every five minutes.

It will be blanket coverage of the Jubilee next and we will have to watch the Coronation on a loop for a week.

Then the Olympics......

DesperatelySeekingBunnies · 10/04/2012 16:26

"At the moment it sank, they will all be got up and they'll stand on deck, pretty much in the spot it went down, dressed in Edwardian garb and quaffing champagne.
While the wreck and the bodies are underneath them."

Shock OMG. I actually feel a little bit sick reading that. Lets hope there aren't any icebergs this time eh? Wouldn't them to have to put down the champagne and run for lifeboats Hmm

squoosh · 10/04/2012 16:27

Surely if anything is disrespectful, it's the creation of a Titanic industry. What happened to letting people rest in peace?

diabolo · 10/04/2012 16:34

KennyP I heard that too, I was Shock

Why do you all keep going on about the "poshies" who died? Are we not allowed to mourn a life if it is someone rich who died?

Far, far more 2nd and 3rd (steerage) class passengers died than "poshies". A shocking 84% of 3rd class men died and 54% of 3rd class women, many many more than any other "class" of passenger.

Have some respect for those at least, even if you can't spare it for anyone with money.

HowAboutAHotCupOfShutTheHellUp · 10/04/2012 16:35

I think a lot of the fascination comes from the fact that the Titanic was sold as an 'unsinkable' luxury liner. It attracted huge press attention, and was seen as glamorous, exciting and futuristic; and then it sank on its maiden voyage killing a huge number of people on board.

There were survivors who could give their own account of what actually happened, tales of the band playing songs as the ship went down, the stories of poor people emigrating to make a better life for themselves, the disgraceful fact that there were not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board, etc. etc.

Obviously, there is far more to it than the abovementioned. Essentially, it was one of the worst disasters of the modern age, and I am v interested in learning about it.

The movie was appalling, however.

MNHelenisSTILLPansfavourite · 10/04/2012 16:38

It def. has a romantic/dramatic cache, perhaps supported by the presence of the 'monster' ship itself lying deep deep on the ocean floor undisturbed and undiscovered for decades. Seeing footage of the ship is very eerie and a little morbid. dd (12) is fascinated and I can see why.
I have scuba-dived some wrecks and it is very weird to be at the bow end of a massive ship, which towers above you but hasn't moved for a century or more.

and the filum, as filums go, was pretty good and am quite looking forard to seeing what KW's tits look like in 3D!

TunipTheVegemal · 10/04/2012 16:41

the 'unsinkable' thing is a myth apparently (according to something I read this w/e, probably in the Times) - it wasn't said beforehand and only a few times just afterwards.

Mopswerver · 10/04/2012 16:42

YABU. The marking of the tragic loss of over 1500 lives in such a dramatic way when not one life ought to have been lost? (2 and a half hours to sink and it was a very calm night so if enough lifeboats, all wld've been saved)?
There are so many interesting aspects to the story too e.g survival rates for the various classes and so on.

This is the centenary of this remarkable story and as these things tend to get marked only every 25yrs I'm guessing most of us haven't had to put up with it that many times in our lives.
Personally I'm fascinated.

MNHelenisSTILLPansfavourite · 10/04/2012 16:44

The filum was a drama, not a documentary btw. That's why they had famous actors playing fictional parts, not showing 'reconstructed secenes' based on surviving documents. hth.

southeastastra · 10/04/2012 16:45

i think it's really interesting and my son is obsessed. there are so many fascinating aspects about the story, i would have though it was quite easy to avoid.

thebody · 10/04/2012 16:46

My now departed great aunts was a 10 when the titanic sank,
Y mom says she remembers her crying about it telling her the story years later and that everyone in the village gathered at the li al church to pray and sang the hymn, ' for those in peril on the sea'

If u can take the piss out of such a loss of life and sadness just because it was 100 years ago then you haven't suffered any tragedy or loss of a loved one In Your own lives and are extremely lucky.

squoosh · 10/04/2012 16:47

It can be avoided but it takes concerted effort. Titanic is everywhere right now.

TunipTheVegemal · 10/04/2012 16:47

The people I stood next to in the cinema queue when it first came out were under the impression it was all true and Rose and Jack were real.

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