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How Bored of the Titanic Are You?

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  • #32
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It was a great example of Ulster work ethic at that time. It should rightly be celebrated.

    it did sink


  • #33
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Belfast should just go ahead and officially change the name of the city to "Titanic"


  • #34
    KeithAFC
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    LilyCricket wrote: »
    it did sink
    These things happen though Lily. Still was amazing in its day. Belfast can be proud that it built the most famous ship in history. Well that and HMS Duke of Wellington.


  • #35
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    These things happen though Lily. Still was amazing in its day. Belfast can be proud that it built the most famous ship in history. Well that and HMS Duke of Wellington.

    This is true, fair play to them.


  • #36
    Jammy Donut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Jammy Donut


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I'm from a merchant navy family, I've been told before the officers on the bridge made the wrong call. Instead of calling for the 'port around maneuver' the officers on watch should have rammed the berg head on. That way the ship would have took damage and been immobilised and took on water but wouldn't have sunk.


    How true is this?


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  • #37
    alphabeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    its true , head on it would have survived.


  • #38
    Nyan Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭Nyan Cat


    Jammy Donut wrote: »
    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I'm from a merchant navy family, I've been told before the officers on the bridge made the wrong call. Instead of calling for the 'port around maneuver' the officers on watch should have rammed the berg head on. That way the ship would have took damage and been immobilised and took on water but wouldn't have sunk.


    How true is this?
    Makes sense because the front of the ship would be more structurally sound for taking collisions. But who knows if they knew that or in a panic assumed they couldnt take a head on collision.

    Anyway I understand why people are so interested in titanic. I am too.
    But the amount of merchandising is sickening. Museums are one thing. Drinks and things being sold with titanic written on it is sick. I imagine the descendants of people killed are not exactly happy with it. No matter if it was 100 years ago. Would they do this with the Armagh bombings/99-11/London underground disaster? (selling drinks!) I think not because thered be outcry.
    It just feels wrong that people are making money one of the tragic disasters in history and those people's deaths.

    So I am sick of hearing about it in a way


  • #39
    jumpguy
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    I'm glad Belfast is finally getting some good publicity after years of slow improvement of things up there in the last few years, but the whole blow-up of the Titanic disaster borders on desperate... All the same, if it improves the city's image, it improves people's lives in the city and drums up serious business, then hey, is it so terrible for some good to come from such a disaster?


  • #40
    M cebee
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    never seen it

    what's it about?


  • #41
    KeithAFC
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    jumpguy wrote: »
    I'm glad Belfast is finally getting some good publicity after years of slow improvement of things up there in the last few years, but the whole blow-up of the Titanic disaster borders on desperate... All the same, if it improves the city's image, it improves people's lives in the city and drums up serious business, then hey, is it so terrible for some good to come from such a disaster?
    It is Stormont pushing the agenda. I think it should be celebrated but celebrated in taste at how amazing the ship was. Stormont seem determined to make Belfast prosper, while forgetting about the working class people all over Northern Ireland. The wealth is only being spread about in one place.

    Shame on them to be honest.


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  • #42
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    It is Stormont pushing the agenda. I think it should be celebrated but celebrated in taste at how amazing the ship was. Stormont seem determined to make Belfast prosper, while forgetting about the working class people all over Northern Ireland. The wealth is only being spread about in one place.

    Shame on them to be honest.


    What would you suggest they do so Keith? Instead?


  • #43
    KeithAFC
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    LilyCricket wrote: »
    What would you suggest they do so Keith? Instead?
    Create jobs in more locations in the province. Londonderry/Derry needs more jobs. I am sceptical about the UK culture 2013 in terms of jobs and how that could be just covering up the cracks.


  • #44
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Create jobs in more locations in the province. Londonderry/Derry needs more jobs. I am sceptical about the UK culture 2013 in terms of jobs and how that could be just covering up the cracks.

    That doesn't sound very glam though does it, won't get their mush in the papers, or slaps on the back... Lads in charge like a bit of attention... so they do. They want their name attached to summat thats gonna give them a bit of attention


  • #45
    KeithAFC
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    LilyCricket wrote: »
    That doesn't sound very glam though does it, won't get their mush in the papers, or slaps on the back... Lads in charge like a bit of attention... so they do. They want their name attached to summat thats gonna give them a bit of attention
    Perfect little relationship going on at the moment on that hill. Pats on the back all round for them seems to be what is going on. I don't understand why seem determined to just focus on Belfast.


  • #46
    Chuck Stone
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    Load of bollocks. Sick to death of it and Celine Dion screaming that fucking song.


  • #47
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Perfect little relationship going on at the moment on that hill. Pats on the back all round for them seems to be what is going on. I don't understand why seem determined to just focus on Belfast.



    Probably because Titanic has World Wide interest & will garner alot of interest for Northern Ireland in general. Something else to focus on other than the troubles, which is positive, I think


  • #48
    KeithAFC
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    LilyCricket wrote: »
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    Probably because Titanic has World Wide interest & will garner alot of interest for Northern Ireland in general. Something else to focus on other than the troubles, which is positive, I think
    This is true. But West Belfast is suffering in terms of unemployment, East Belfast too isn't too well off. Just how will this titanic event improve the lives of the working class?


  • #49
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    This is true. But West Belfast is suffering in terms of unemployment, East Belfast too isn't too well off. Just how will this titanic event improve the lives of the working class?

    How will it impact on them negatively?


  • #50
    xflyer
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    No problem, the ship sank. It's quite interesting.


  • #51
    jumpguy
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    This is true. But West Belfast is suffering in terms of unemployment, East Belfast too isn't too well off. Just how will this titanic event improve the lives of the working class?
    Thousands of tourists coming into the city and spending lots ofmoney in local businesses generating revenue and room for employment. If it goes well and all them tourists go home harping on about how Belfast was excellent and they would recommend it to their friends and so on it'll do well for tourism in Belfast. More tourists, more money, more business, more employment, better lives for everyone. You can't really say it's not a positive thing from an economic point of view anyway.


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  • #52
    KeithAFC
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    jumpguy wrote: »
    Tonnes of tourists coming into the city and spending money in local businesses. If it goes well and all them tourists go home harping on about how Belfast was excellent and they would recommend it to their friends and so on it'll do well for tourism in Belfast. More tourists, more money, more business, more employment, better lives for everyone. You can't really say it's not a positive thing from an economic point of view anyway.
    Very short term thinking though? I mean, surely the Titanic high at the moment will end sooner or later?


  • #53
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Very short term thinking though? I mean, surely the Titanic high at the moment will end sooner or later?

    It happened a 100 years ago

    We still interested :D


  • #54
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Very short term thinking though? I mean, surely the Titanic high at the moment will end sooner or later?
    As I said, if it goes well it'll do considerable good in improving Belfast's reputation abroad as a tourist destination. There are short-term and long-term benefits.


  • #55
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Saw a bouncy castle/slide combo in the shape of a sinking ship earlier today , great way to teach kids about the disaster lol


  • #56
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    The Lusitania was probably a more interesting and dramatic story, 1200 people died, it was much more luxurious ship and it brought America into the war.


  • #57
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Owryan wrote: »
    Saw a bouncy castle/slide combo in the shape of a sinking ship earlier today , great way to teach kids about the disaster lol
    Oh God...it is all so cringe... :o


  • #58
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    There's only one scene of that movie that I'm interested in seeing in 3D.


  • #59
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    This would've worked far better in the movie I feel:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXE_FiyAgQw


  • #60
    H2UMrsRobinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    Not so bored, I still find it a fascinating story, the four part mini-series on TV at the moment is quite good.

    I'm rather more bored of the Go-Compare man. He needs to go away very soon.


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  • #61
    Chuck Stone
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    44leto wrote: »
    The Lusitania was probably a more interesting and dramatic story, 1200 people died, it was much more luxurious ship and it brought America into the war.

    A sinking-of-the-Lusitania themed fun-park might be an idea for Wesht Cork.


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