Reply to: Titanic

[OwlHoot]

However, I would just like to say God bless and RIP to all who perished in her on this centenary of her sinking.

What's the point? They'd all be long dead of old age by now anyway.

It's not as if it happened last year.

[MonzaMike]

A Night to Remember on BBC2 at 3:00 this afternoon

Most of those stories are from that book I mentioned, A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord, published in 1957.

He scoured newspaper articles from the time, and interviewed dozens of survivors. It's a really excellent book.

..I'm recording it...

[pacharan]

I had every intention of posting at the fateful hour but I don't think I'm going to make it that long.

However, I would just like to say God bless and RIP to all who perished in her on this centenary of her sinking.

[OwlHoot]

I'd laugh if someone opened the scuttle valves, or set off a bomb in the hold, when they got to the spot, so the twats would all have to swim for it.

I just think this orgy of sentimentality is getting a bit nauseous now, like Princess Di's death.

[pacharan]

They are just giving them an authentic experience. The ship will be sailed directly at an iceberg in a few days. There will only be lifeboats for the highest bidders.

apart from the iceberg, I think that's exactly what they're doing. Period costumes, bands playing music of the time etc.

[BrilloPad]

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

They are just giving them an authentic experience. The ship will be sailed directly at an iceberg in a few days. There will only be lifeboats for the highest bidders.

[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

[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]

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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[mudskipper]

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Very funny.

[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.