To be really sick of all the Titanic stuff?

[mosschops30]

God i feel like ive been watching it for weeks.
New tv series, film in 3D, on every bloody pro you watch, is even on blue peter now
there was some girl on daybreak this morning who was the great great great niece of someone on there snivelling over his diary! I mean really? You might as well get his aunties, brothers, sisters, mothers, dogs right leg on too just for good measure!

There have been lots of huge disasters and i think where there are still surviving direct relatives then we shoukd remember (9/11, 7/7, plane crashes, rail dusasters etc). But is it really necessary to have this much coverage for something that happened 100 years ago and there are no direct sufferers (e.g mother, father, son, daughter)

Yes, and I'm also sick of all the threads about it

I´ve watched a couple of programmes that I´ve enjoyed-but it´s easy enough to avoid, isn´t it?

It'll all fizzle out, it's the hundredth anniversary, hardly gonna let it pass like a fart in the wind.

Just don't watch it.

Well, it was all a big and important news story and shit, yeah?

I'm loving it.

It is 100 years of the end of Man's arrogance! It is huge here in Liverpool. Yes we should remember. Are you going to say we should stop remembrance day because it was a long time ago. Yes there are direct sufferers still but most of them are in the states.

I don't know how people can be so sniffy about it tbh. I don't buy the whole 'it was a long time ago/ not as big as SOME tragedies/ no surviving sufferers' thing.

Does that mean people can only remember/ mourn the most recent/ biggest tragedies?' Do things stop being relevant just because they were a long time ago?

If you don't like it, ignore it. It will be out of the news/ public eye soon enough. I don't see anything wrong with paying respect personally.

I love the new series, very well written. I have titanic constantly as dh is a Titanic nut

I bet it doesn't compare to Belfast though- they've brought Titanic tea, amongst other shite. And I heard an ad on the radio earlier for a carpet place having a "Titanic Sale" this weekend. So you know, people died, but at least some others are getting cheap flooring.

I'm finding it all really interesting. Can't get enough.

I agree with TheCraicDealer. A lot of it is in very bad taste. I think rereleasing the film for the anniversary (in 3D!!!1!!) is one example of that.

YABU. If you're really not interested then don't watch the programmes. It's an important historical event.

Just me then
im not saying we shouldnt remember i just dont want to see the same thing every time i turn on the tv.
Im finding it soooo boring.
There are lots of people who survived the wars and are alive, as are their relatives, its not like they trot out someones neighbours dog who knew a bloke in the war , thats whats more annoying the fecking grief tourists who crawl out the woodwork.

And no i cant avoid it, its bloody everywhere

I can't believe how much those people paid for that cruise !! Why would people do that !! It's weird

But you do tend to hear more about particular events on their anniversary or centenary, don't you mosschops?

There are special Tayto Titanic "crisps" (extruded corn snacks.) They are nasty. That is all.

YWNBU to object to 'all the Titanic stuff' on the basis that some people are using it to cash in, or for 'grief-thievery' - I agree that some of it, including the dreadful cruise, is in epic bad taste.

YA(definitely)BU to object just because 'I'm finding it sooooo boring' - that's just bloody disrespectful IMO and every bit as bad as the grief thief stuff. Try saying that about a more recent tragedy where there was a massive loss of innocent life and see where it gets you.

But its boring from the point of 'this boat hit an iceberg, not everyone got off, the band played til the end, it sank, lots of lives were lost'.

Yes thanks for clearing that up, i do not need the same thing repeated over and over, its like watching sky news ffs.

Its one thing to be respectful, mark the occasion, pay respects (as in rememberance sunday), its another thing to tell the same story over and over, brngng in grief tourists and showing that ship go down again

Yes but look at other tragedies - Hillsborough for example. We ALL know what happened but it is revisited every anniversary, with more 'coverage' on significant anniversaries. That's the way these things work. But if you said, 'hearing about Hillsborough is sooooo boring' you would (rightly) be flayed alive. Even though the Titanic disaster was a long time ago I don't see it as being any different tbh but maybe that's just me.

I love it all!

I also found out something really interesting this week - well I think it is.

My best friend's mum, found in a box of stuff when she was clearing her late mother's house, the family bible of Bruce ismay! It apparently also contains the register of births, deaths and marriages in his family and lists his birth. My friend and her mum have no idea how her grandmother came by the bible, but I suggested they contact a historical society and find out some more.

I find things like that fascinating!

Yes i see your point, i didnt mean it like that though, sorry if ive upset anyone

i'm sick of the threads moaning about it

I love it all!

I also found out something really interesting this week - well I think it is.

My best friend's mum, found in a box of stuff when she was clearing her late mother's house, the family bible of Bruce ismay! It apparently also contains the register of births, deaths and marriages in his family and lists his birth. My friend and her mum have no idea how her grandmother came by the bible, but I suggested they contact a historical society and find out some more.

I find things like that fascinating!

Ooops, sorry for posting twice!