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

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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.

A Canadian Pacific steamship, the Empress of Ireland went into service in 1906. In early morning fog on May 29, 1914, on a journey from Quebec City to Liverpool and off the town of Rimouski, Quebec, the Empress collided with a Norwegian freighter, which did not sink. Smashed on the starboard side, though, the Empress sank in a mere 14 minutes, killing 1,012 people. There were only 465 survivors; out of the 138 children on board, only four survived. Of the deceased, 167 were members of the Salvation Army who were traveling to a conference.

Friend saw it in Monaco. At the end the cinema-goers stood and cheered.

I don't feel at all disrespectful. It is an interesting historical and sad happening in many ways. I hope all the lessons have been learned, but personally I don't want to hear any more. I will not be going to see the filum.

the anniversary is the 15th april. I also lost someone on that date, though not on the titanic.

Still, I don't want to hear about it all the time!

I'm on the fence here. I am personally quite interested in it, but thats because as a child growing up in Northern Ireland, you tend to do quite a lot of primary school projects etc, and I remember going on a school trip to the Ulster Transport Museum aged about 8 and just being amazed at it all. Also, the shipyards are a huge part of Irish industrial history, so the Titanic is just part of that. Also, I am a history geek, and very interested in early 20th century history in general. But until the film came out, I had no idea that anyone outside of Northern Ireland had even heard of Titanic .

But...that Titanic cruise! What the hell is that all about? When I saw those people dressed in Edwardian outfits etc, I just thought it was all a bit disrespectful. And the constant BBC news reports from the on board reporter 'we are now in Southampton', 'we are now in Cherbourg' etc is just too much. So, on that basis, YANBU.

And as for Titanic the movie in 3D. No thanks. (Must admit, I did enjoy it at the time, but I'm much older and wiser now and don't think I could watch it again.)

Tunip, the White Star brochure stated the following:

?As far as it is possible to do so, these two wonderful vessels are designed to be unsinkable.?

(The other ship refered to is the Titanic's sister ship, 'the Olympic').

However, the shipbuilders did not agree with White Star's 'unsinkable' claim.

Thanks Howabout.
Here's the article saying the unsinkability was a myth - it's BBC, not Times. Bloody revisionist historians!

i love the titanic, the film planted the seed in my brain and i have learnt so much about the titanic.

Watched a documentry last night about the sinking of the concordia, which like the titanic had a double skined stern but only a single skined hull. so lesson have not been learned 100 year on.

Thanks, Tunip.

You might find this link interesting, it shows a photo of the original White Star marketing brochure which make the infamous 'unsinkable' claim:

www.printwand.com/blog/how-unsinkable-marketing-campaign-led-titanic-disaster

My great aunt drowned on Titanic, she certainly wasn't a posho. For a long time her family thought she had survived due to a mix-up of names on the list of survivors. They were never officially informed of her death. Imagine how horrible that would be.

I don't think it is disrespectful to agree that actually, things are getting somewhat over the top so far as coverage of the event is concerned. I also think that the cruise is positively titanic in its tastelessness.

I remember learning as a child that a couple of dogs survived the sinking, brought onto lifeboats by their owners. I don't know where to look for evidence if that is true or not, but it always stuck with me and stunned me that a dog could take a place on a lifeboat whilst babies were left to die.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127768/Titanic-memorial-cruise-forced-turn-round-just-hours-leaving-dock.html

Apologies for the DM link

museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/discovery-centre-news/2010-archive/titanic-animals/

treaclesoda here a link for you

Aribura can you do that link properly? I can't make it work at all - or can anyone else? Tis on page 1

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Another theory why Titanic is 'worse/more resonant' than all the other big ship drownings detailed on this thread - they made a massive grossing film of it to keep it in the public imagination

It's like the First World War - we see lots of films/stories/poetry/ mini series like Birdsong- many of us had great grandparents involved - but yet again more people died because of the flu directly after.

So, in short - we connect with stories about people, they resonate with us, they upset us.

Films about flu are rarely made and would be boring.

i wonder if future generations will say the same as the op about 9/11

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OMG

Are people really that thick?

As a side, this is interesting: Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water...He reportedly had been drinking heavily.

Thanks mchappypants!

I live near Dover, so hope they never ever make a Poseidon type film about the Herald of Free Enterprise

I think one of the biggest reasons why Titanic is so memorable is the whole 'maiden voyage' aspect of it, that it was meant to represent the unveiling of a whole new era of transatlantic travel, a world moving onwards and upwards. Even the steerage passengers were housed in relative luxury, compared with what they might have expected on other ships. I think it is this aspect that makes it so memorable, rather than just the number of lives lost.

Well, the cruise has had to turn back due to illness of one passenger. I wonder if they will have to sup their champers elsewhere.

It says on the DM website it's turned back cos it's wavy

Either way it's really funny it's turned back - ghastly idea. Tasteless.

Sorry to Warren

Beyond wearing Edwardian clothing, just how far are they prepared to go to provide that authentic ambiance...?/

I am having to restrain myself from making inappropriate comments about the probability of icebergs.