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.

Well said.

At the end of the day, it's about respect. Not about the 1997 cinematic monstrosity. But about thinking of others, in memoriam, to condole. It's easy enough to avoid it all - I'm very interested in the Titanic and have managed to avoid everything, completely by accident. But I want to commemorate the 100 years, because 1517 souls were lost that night, because of vanity, money, a catalogue of errors and what ifs.

In the same way, I go to the local cenotaph every year. Donate to the DEC. Remember those killed in the Holocaust. Though people are right in as much as you cannot compare intentional murder of millions of people to an accident that claims 'a few thousand', people do commermorate them because we recognise that our fellow human beings have suffered horrifically and we want to pay respects to them.

I totally understand how media saturation about anything can make people feel GGGRRRRR. But it's very easy to avoid if you really want to :)

I am a radio 4 addict. It's bloody on there now. There's no escape. Am off to put my head in a bucket .

It's impossible to escape

That's 2 program's today on R4. Ear plugs for me.

Does your radio not have other stations or an off switch?

Yes it does noble. You are quite right, I am going on a bit. < shuffles off into garden>

I think it it right that there is a lot about it at the mnoment, after all it was 100 years ago that more than 1,500 people died. So really it isn't surprising.

If you don't like it you can easily switch off. For me it is very haunting and sad to see and hear about what happened.

I have just been informed by dd (12) that she will be seeing 3D Titanic with her friends - and I do not appear in this configuration!

And yet...and yet...
Thousands of people die in conflicts around the world everyday and we almost universally shrug it off
I'd like to think this Titanic nonsense is fuelled by a schmaltzy movie otherwise I'd be wondering if turning our back to other daily atrocities make us either a) uncaring or b) racist

I think racism has a lot to do with it.

don't think it's either - just a sense of lack of ability to intervene, and having an agenda of 'busynesses' in our own lives, coupled with little sense of attachment to others who live in other cultures on the other side of the world. that isn't being racist.

Yes PerryCombover you are right. People die all the time in huge, massive tragedies but because their outfits weren't as good and it didn't have a crappy film made about it, who cares. In 1987 over 4000 people drowned when a ferry sank in the Phillipines. How many people know about this?

Sadly Titanic has become too big a money spinner to now let it die, it?s a brand in much the same way as Coca Cola or Disney. I do agree that the centenary should be marked but not to this creepy extent. I find it ghoulish and distasteful.

I agree squoosh, a money spinner. There was a brief mention of the tsunami in Indonesia and in Japan, when the time came. It is enough to remember.

what about the 96 people who died on the same day of the year at the hillsborough disaster in 1989

What must their poor relatives think when the titanic victims get all the coverage on the day their loved ones died in a headline tragedy too