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If you failed to get to a life boat on the Titanic?

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  • #122
    Hint of Sarcasm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Hint of Sarcasm


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    You wouldn't be able to splash around more than a couple of minutes in that freezing water, as others have pointed out.
    That's all the time I'd need to get to the life boat! And I were on my raft I wouldn't get wet.

    You people just don't get it.


  • #123
    Hint of Sarcasm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Hint of Sarcasm


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    Karen’s body was found years later locked in a room adjacent to the bridge
    What?


  • #124
    Aurelian
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭Aurelian


    BBC history podcast last Sunday was Everything You Need To Know About The Titanic. Useful listen!


  • #125
    Rawr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,740 ✭✭✭Rawr


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    If Michael O'Leary was in charge of that operation, nobody on board would have taken a chance on getting anywhere near their desired destination!

    Sail on Titanic! By Ryanlines!

    2 sailings weekly from:

    Liverpool - Holyhead

    to

    New York - Newfoundland


  • #126
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Be right back wrote: »
    A door with room for one will do me just fine!!

    Or a wooden table.


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  • #127
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    If Michael O'Leary was in charge of that operation, nobody on board would have taken a chance on getting anywhere near their desired destination!

    he'd have charged extra for getting on the lifeboats


  • #128
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,609 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    I wonder what the A Team would have done. Probably go down to the engine room, invent the helicopter 30 years early before flying it off the deck


  • #129
    Physeter
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Physeter


    Get to the bridge and put the Titanic into a tail spin to prevent flooding.

    "Do a 360 Leo!" *Darude - Sandstorm plays in the background*


  • #130
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Your interpretation of feminism isn't, necessarily, the correct one.
    Feminism, as I understand it, is about gaining equal rights and opportunities for women.

    I struggle with the word feminist and would prefer the word egalitarian too but the rise of feminism must be viewed in the context of the appalling lack of rights and opportunities available to women at the time.

    I don't think you get to decide what feminism means.

    Men from lower class backgrounds in 1912 were equally denied rights


  • #131
    Hint of Sarcasm
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Titanic, real time sinking. Video is a bit eerie to watch. You have about 2 and a bit hours to get yourself ready.

    In this one you get to hear the band, and the marconi wireless operators.

    I love the different version of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" at the end. This was apparently the actual version they played!



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  • #132
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,720 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    ineedeuro wrote: »
    Based on my current standing in the levels of class I wouldn’t have a hope of getting on a boat

    So to the bar and get loaded with whiskey and enjoy my last few minutes alive

    There was a Titanic tv ad by Guinness a few years back. Got cancelled.

    Too soon I guess.


  • #133
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Hint of Sarcasm wrote: »
    What?

    Karen is a name used to describe people who demand lots and have a 'customer' complex.


  • #134
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    I wonder what the A Team would have done. Probably go down to the engine room, invent the helicopter 30 years early before flying it off the deck

    Using the stack as a flamethrower


  • #135
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    klaz wrote: »
    Hardly. Feminists see women as being more valuable than men.
    spurious wrote: »
    Untrue, but I knew someone would be along to blame women.
    Does either of you have some facts to back up your claims? I had a quick google there but found nothing to support either way.


  • #136
    HerrKapitan
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭HerrKapitan


    I'd go look for a door. It's like a liferaft but with more privacy.


  • #137
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The most important thing is to not lose body heat (stay out of the water for as long as possible).

    Gather deck chairs and tie together.
    Wait until the ship sinks, it won't drag you down.
    Leave at the very last second lying on the deck chairs.


  • #138
    Hint of Sarcasm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Hint of Sarcasm


    biko wrote: »
    The most important thing is to not lose body heat (stay out of the water for as long as possible).
    Really! I never knew.


  • #139
    Hint of Sarcasm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Hint of Sarcasm


    HerrKapitan wrote: »
    I'd go look for a door. It's like a liferaft but with more privacy.
    The floating door idea... as if no one thought of that before!


  • #140
    ineedeuro
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 989 ✭✭✭ineedeuro


    Hint of Sarcasm wrote: »
    In this one you get to hear the band, and the marconi wireless operators.

    I love the different version of "Nearer, my God, to Thee" at the end. This was apparently the actual version they played!


    A lot of whiskey in two hours, plus no smoking ban so I could puff away inside. Not like I had to worry about lung cancer


  • #141
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,734 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Yez are all thinking too straight.

    Break into first class cabin, rob it blind, wash rinse repeat. I may be about to die but feck it I’ll die rich

    If I get a chance I’ll write a will with a photo of me in all my finery giving it to my parents back home in Ireland so at least they’ll be able to claim insurance on all my goodies that I won in poker and then the rest of the knucklehead clan will be looked after for their lives.


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  • #142
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'd select a handsome man in third class, flash my boobs and steam up the windows of a car. When the ship is sinking he'll ensure I survive.

    No need to worry about a lifeboat.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #143
    DodoDojo
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭DodoDojo


    As a man I would have had a quick shave, squeezed into the most feminine dress I could find, thrown on enough makeup to make RuPaul blush and head to where the musicians were playing and had a little dance.

    Once I found out there was an issue and the boat was sinking though, I would probably be mortified they would find my body like that, so the first thing I would do is change back to my regular clothes and then maybe find some bottles to send messages in before I died.


  • #144
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    ineedeuro wrote: »
    A lot of whiskey in two hours, plus no smoking ban so I could puff away inside. Not like I had to worry about lung cancer

    Imagine you survived after drinking all that whiskey with a mother****er of a hangover and no memory of the boat sinking.


  • #145
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    None of those who went into the water and were not subsequently picked up by a lifeboat or a ship survived. Not one. Immersion meant death and WW 1 and 2 forced the Admiralties and Marine authorities world over to pay attention to casualty rates among sailors and passengers and to make improvements to survival equipment such as fitting lights and whistles to life preservers,equipping ships with sufficient boats, putting survival rations into boats, improving training for crew,forcing companies to standardise on kit and training and making maritime safety law. Look up the Carley Float. It was a primitive lifeboat but it saved thousands.


  • #146
    DodoDojo
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭DodoDojo


    The drunk baker went to the water and survived:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joughin


  • #147
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I would make a raft from all the deckchairs being rearranged.


  • #148
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    When I was a wee lad I used to play the ball. Feck the ball, play the man and the ball will be there afterwards.
    Tool up and take a lifeboat from idiots that lacked the wherewithal to protect themselves.

    Failing that I made a serviceable boat from 1x2, duct tape and plastic sheeting one time.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #149
    ineedeuro
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 989 ✭✭✭ineedeuro


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Imagine you survived after drinking all that whiskey with a mother****er of a hangover and no memory of the boat sinking.

    The amount of whiskey in the blood might help to save you when in the water? You never know....problem is would you be able to get access to the hair of the dog next day...rescue boat bar open?


  • #150
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,197 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Feisar wrote: »
    When I was a wee lad I used to play the ball. Feck the ball, play the man and the ball will be there afterwards.
    Tool up and take a lifeboat from idiots that lacked the wherewithal to protect themselves.

    Failing that I made a serviceable boat from 1x2, duct tape and plastic sheeting one time.

    Duct tape was 1942. You gonna drown buddy!!

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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  • #151
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    If MacGyver went back in time, you might have got one raft made, chairs , buoyancy aids , might be some barrels in the kitchen stores, float it off if you picked the perfect place to launch it.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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