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)

keepingupwiththejoneses I'm am seriously jealous, I would love DH to be into Titanic stuff, I love it all and am fascinated by the whole story. But seem to be the only one in my family/close circle of friends!

For example right now on the One Show are showing the menu from the night the boat sank why why why?

Re the crisps, what flavour represents Titanic? Or are they boat shaped?

Iceberg flavour

Salt and vinegar or cheese and onion.

The shape is miscellaneous.

I'm with you on this one OP. yanbu!

IMO minor footnote in history with little current impact aside perhaps with better lifeboat provision.

YANBU. I used to be mildly interested in the Titanic but the coverage is ridiculous and way over the top. And that cruise FFS! is in v poor taste.

snow a fellow scouser are we? Have you seen the thread on 'in the news' slagging off liverpool fc
thecraic no not that bad, we have a massive street performance going on next weekend based on a letter from a little girl to her dad on Titanic, dc and me are going to watch it from my mums 5th floor flat
pelicans no you wouldn't be. He insists on watching every single little thing on it, on every channel even if he has seen it 20 times before. He does have a thing about disasters though, he is fascinated by 9.11, I am sure it is something to do with DFIL birthday being 15th April

It was a bit much last week

YANBU.

Tasteful rememberance of what happened and the people who died? Yes.

Day after day after day of pointless trivia and money making televisual drivel? No thanks.

At least it isn't going to on for 3 months like Christmas does! Every year without fail.

I've loved it! Though I am a bit of a Titanorak :-) Agree some of it's just tasteless though x

I'm with you, OP.

For reasons I've never understood, DH and his family are obsessed with the Titanic story. I'm interested in it as a historical event, and a human tragedy, but don't feel compelled to watch every single programme about it!

I've been fascinated by it all. All the coverage on tv has led me to buy some books on the titanic and the tragic turn of events on the night it sank.

I was only saying to my dad this weekend that history was always so boring at school but reading about the titanic has had me hooked on history.

YABU, its a historical event, as is 9/11, ww1/2, tsunami, china floods, chernobyl etc... all of which need to be constantly reminded, and spoke of, to learn the new generation of historical events, especially when the anniversaries are looming/been. There might not be surviving victims, but their is surviving relatives of the victims, who might want to remember their loved ones.

Also the titanic event, change shipping builds for the better, they learned from it, to try and prevent it happening again, as with any historical event, its needs to be spoken off, even if its 100 years down the line, so the new generation can adpat and learn from it.

YABU. It was so much more than a disaster story, it was a real reflection of the persecution of the underclass of that time and much shame was directed towards the upper classes for their behaviour which was pretty much the start of the battle to address the significant class divides of the time. Lessons can still be learned and reiterated to our children today in terms of the treatment of the haves and have nots...... it was an important event in history as well as an extraordinary tale and it absolutely should be recognised and remembered. Some of the stuff has been spellbinding IMO, the concert in Belfast, and minute by minute on radio 2 and the TV series.

I dont understand why people who lost their lives on Titanic should be more important than people who lost their lives on more mundane ways...

Remembrance and reflection - fine.

TV companies cashing in on a tragedy with wall-to-wall programmes based on ever-more obscure new "angles" - no thanks.

As somebody said on the radio "other maritime disasts ae available'

Titanic was so much more than a shipping disaster, though. Titanic was a feat of engineering, a display of magnificence and luxury, an unsinkable ship. That sank.

The class system is fascinating and horrifying. That people of different classes were treated differently in life was not surprising, we've all grown up hearing the stories of how the trade folks and servants had back entrances to enter buildings by. But to realise that they were treated so differently even in death is quite shocking. I can't comprehend that civilised people could let young children perish because they were of a lower class, taking a space on a lifeboat.

The film dramatised it all, but it really did happen. Men, women and children died bcause 1st class folks would want a prettier ship and the designers didn't think lifeboats would be needed

I doubly if many people take the story of the Titanic as an inditement of the class system!

No, of course not, Seeker. But the fact that reports of the event suggest a first class passenger died because his valet who was mixed race would not be allowed on the lifeboat suggests there is a grain of truth.

I think you'd find that the list of the dead contains many more third class passengers than first too, proportionally to their numbers on the vessel at time of boarding.

YANBU
But you can avoid it, I have not watched one programme, read one article, in fact this thread is the only thing about Titanic I have taken any notice of.
I was taken with all of the hooha around the Cameron film and saw it at the cinema but I feel that it is quite an 'empty' film; it tugs at the heart strings but doesn't genuinely move you IFYSWIM. Though I did of course sob as Leonardo slipped into the icy waters. I have felt not desire to watch it again.
I would expect children and young people who don't know the story to want to learn about it, to understand class divide, effects of industrialisation, capitalism etc etc.
DP does not like TItanic documentaries but any sign of a meteor hurtling towards the Earth or the Sun exploding.....!!!