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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on April 09, 2012, 08:40:29 PM
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http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/ (http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/)
The memorial cruise left England's south coast on Sunday to follow the Titanic's exact route - via Cherbourg, in north-west France and Cobh - to the spot where the liner went down.
A service is to be held on board at 02:20 GMT next Sunday - 15 April - to mark the moment of the sinking.
Not sure what you guys think about this but to me this seems a bit ridiculous.
Seems those on board talk about their ancestors , whilst all dressed up with a glass of bubbly in hand to go and have a prayer over a watery grave . Is it necessary to 'celebrate' this ?
Are they just in it for the hype ?
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Money.......... rubschin:
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As long as thy don't order ice in the bubbly I can't see a problem...
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And I hope no-one orders upside down cake...
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Money.......... rubschin:
For who - the cruise company of course but for the passengers forking out a fortune ? Morbid curiosity ? - to say I stopped at a specific spot in the ocean ( different to all the rest of the ocean noooo: ) in the middle of the night noooo:
Imagine when they find out their Captain is Mr Schettino whistle:
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Some passenger bint being interviewed by the BBC ....
" It's a once in a lifetime experience " noooo: noooo: noooo:
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My Great Uncle survived the original sinking. angel1
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My Great Uncle survived the original sinking. angel1
eeek: eeek:
Did it sink more than once?
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lol: lol: lol:
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My Great Uncle survived the original sinking. angel1
eeek: eeek:
Did it sink more than once?
drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: :thumbsup:
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I see that some of the sponsorship for the titanic events could have been thought out a little better. rubschin:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127374/Titanic-survivors-offspring-furious-book-party-tragedy-sponsored-Iceberg-Vodka.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127374/Titanic-survivors-offspring-furious-book-party-tragedy-sponsored-Iceberg-Vodka.html)
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I see that some of the sponsorship for the titanic events could have been thought out a little better. rubschin:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127374/Titanic-survivors-offspring-furious-book-party-tragedy-sponsored-Iceberg-Vodka.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127374/Titanic-survivors-offspring-furious-book-party-tragedy-sponsored-Iceberg-Vodka.html)
Iceberg vodka.......... noooo:
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My Great Uncle survived the original sinking. angel1
eeek: eeek:
Did it sink more than once?
Keep your eyes on the news! eveilgrin:
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Just to raise the tone like :thumbsup:
The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy (1912)
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
I
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
II
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
III
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls -- grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
IV
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
V
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?". . .
VI
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
VII
Prepared a sinister mate
For her -- so gaily great --
A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.
VIII
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
IX
Alien they seemed to be:
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history.
X
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one August event,
XI
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
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http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/ (http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/)
The memorial cruise left England's south coast on Sunday to follow the Titanic's exact route - via Cherbourg, in north-west France and Cobh - to the spot where the liner went down.
A service is to be held on board at 02:20 GMT next Sunday - 15 April - to mark the moment of the sinking.
Not sure what you guys think about this but to me this seems a bit ridiculous.
Seems those on board talk about their ancestors , whilst all dressed up with a glass of bubbly in hand to go and have a prayer over a watery grave . Is it necessary to 'celebrate' this ?
Are they just in it for the hype ?
I find it all a bit morbid and creepy.
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I wonder if they will all run about screaming at 2.20 a.m. like rubschin:
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http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/ (http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/)
The memorial cruise left England's south coast on Sunday to follow the Titanic's exact route - via Cherbourg, in north-west France and Cobh - to the spot where the liner went down.
A service is to be held on board at 02:20 GMT next Sunday - 15 April - to mark the moment of the sinking.
Not sure what you guys think about this but to me this seems a bit ridiculous.
Seems those on board talk about their ancestors , whilst all dressed up with a glass of bubbly in hand to go and have a prayer over a watery grave . Is it necessary to 'celebrate' this ?
Are they just in it for the hype ?
I find it all a bit morbid and creepy.
Wait until they get there and the wreaths start going over the side. ::)
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Oh and the 15th is Woodstock's Birthday....... Which fact may have some meaning. whistle:
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Perhaps they could chuck a few chavs overboard for authenticity rubschin:
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I bet they are sailing round and round in circles in the Bay of Biscay - nobody on board any the wiserer.... noooo:
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Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okgLvnAh8Gg#)
cloud9:
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I wonder if they will all run about screaming at 2.20 a.m. like rubschin:
That'll be when they start playing Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On cussing:
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This was on the World Service last night. Can't find it on iPlayer but when it is on the wireless I'd recommend listening to it.
Compelling listening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595)
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I heard that too :thumbsup:
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Hard to believe with our modern communications that all those messages were done by Morse Code.
The utter confusion that it demonstrated helps to show why so many perished.
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9pm Discovery+1...Titanic Conspiracies... eveilgrin:
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Nice to see Yosser Hughes finally got a job... whistle:
Yosser Hughes - Gizza Job - Boys from the Blackstuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2inSqo3Q3c#ws)
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How absolutely bloody ironic.
Doesn't appear to be a very fortunate journey ..again noooo:
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So this 'collective ' remembrance is complete now then ...
Jane Allen from Devon in south-west England, whose great-uncle perished on the Titanic, said the moment vividly reminded her of the horror of the disaster.
"All you could hear was the swell splashing against the side of the ship. You could see the white breakers stretching out to sea," she told the BBC. "You are in the middle of nowhere. And then you look down over the side of the ship and you realize that every man and every woman who didn't make it into a lifeboat had to make that decision, of when to jump or stay on the ship as the lights went out."
And she had to travel out there to get this moment of enlightenment Banghead Banghead Banghead
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Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okgLvnAh8Gg#)
cloud9:
This was on the World Service last night. Can't find it on iPlayer but when it is on the wireless I'd recommend listening to it.
Compelling listening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595)
I will certainly listen with great interest. I have mentioned on here before that I have a photograph album of the Boxall family. Joseph Groves Boxhall was the 4th officer on the Titanic, he survived and amongst other things he did with the rest of his life was to be an advisor on A night to remember. Interesting family.
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Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okgLvnAh8Gg#)
cloud9:
This was on the World Service last night. Can't find it on iPlayer but when it is on the wireless I'd recommend listening to it.
Compelling listening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595)
I will certainly listen with great interest. I have mentioned on here before that I have a photograph album of the Boxall family. Joseph Groves Boxhall was the 4th officer on the Titanic, he survived and amongst other things he did with the rest of his life was to be an advisor on A night to remember. Interesting family.
You should also read Charles Lightoller's amazing book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-Other-Charles-Herbert-Lightoller/dp/1849027331/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334644826&sr=1-1) about his life after the Titanic. Thumbs:
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4287796/Titanic-to-sail-in-2016-thanks-to-Aussie-billionaire-Clive-Palmer.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4287796/Titanic-to-sail-in-2016-thanks-to-Aussie-billionaire-Clive-Palmer.html)
rubschin:
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Just a long as he steers clear of Italian captains! They have a certain reputation . . .
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Made in China... noooo: