Titanic

[OwlHoot]

But you'd have thought that schools and colleges up and down the country would be getting their pupils involved in special projects to commemorate the event.

What and encourage yet more sentimentality about something that happened long before the kids' grandparents were even born and pales into insignificance compared with countless more recent disasters both natural and man made.

Don't you think there are more relevant things for schools to be "getting their pupils involved with" ?(such as practically anything).

[pacharan]

What and encourage yet more sentimentality about something that happened long before the kids' grandparents were even born and pales into insignificance compared with countless more recent disasters both natural and man made.

Don't you think there are more relevant things for schools to be "getting their pupils involved with" ?(such as practically anything).

There is so much to learn from that one event about how we used to live and how that one event changed so much about maritime travel.

I'm not saying it should be on the curriculum but it should get more than a passing mention in schools on the centenary of the tragedy.

[mudskipper]

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Very funny.

[mudskipper]

Yes I do.

There is so much to learn from that one event about how we used to live and how that one event changed so much about maritime travel.

Agree - I think learning history is much more fun if you can relate to it. So you take an event (like Titanic) and use it to explore the history of the time.

[pacharan]

Agree - I think learning history is much more fun if you can relate to it. So you take an event (like Titanic) and use it to explore the history of the time.

Just what it says about the class system of the day speaks volumes.

[Bunk]

WHS

I reckon Cameron's film would have been better if he'd resisted the temptation to include all the modern stuff and the old lady, although I seem to be in a minority of one in that opinion.

I agree. I'm not a fan of that kind of sentimental stuff. I had the same problem with Saving Private Ryan - most of the film, all the stuff during the war was great, but the bit at the end in the present day seemed to be designed purely to make people a bit weepy.

[mudskipper]

I agree. I'm not a fan of that kind of sentimental stuff. I had the same problem with Saving Private Ryan - most of the film, all the stuff during the war was great, but the bit at the end in the present day seemed to be designed purely to make people a bit weepy.

What, you mean the war really happened?

[pacharan]

I agree. I'm not a fan of that kind of sentimental stuff. I had the same problem with Saving Private Ryan - most of the film, all the stuff during the war was great, but the bit at the end in the present day seemed to be designed purely to make people a bit weepy.

For the record, I did like the Cameron Titanic despite the sentimentality but ANTR was much better. It was moving in parts without the schmaltz.

[NickFitz]

But you'd have thought that schools and colleges up and down the country would be getting their pupils involved in special projects to commemorate the event.

Most, maybe all, of those twitterers displaying their ignorance won't be from this particular country...

[pacharan]

Looks like this voyage is jinxed too; first they get battered by 30 foot seas and have to take shelter and now they have to turn back as a passenger has had a heart attack: link