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Two things about this sicken me (besides the obvious); even now, ships today still don't have the accomodations needed to save a ship-full of people. Also, the ongoing unnecessary judgment of poor people by people who think they're better than them, or heck even their own kind. All those lives lost needlessly, my gawd! And my great aunt told me she never watched the movie or anything because "why would anyone want to be reminded of it"?
If you ask me, there should be a billboard in every country with a picture of the underwater ship that says "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ARROGANCE AND GREED TAKE PRESENCE!!!"
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Anyone remember The Onion's take on this event..from their "Our Dumb Century" book:
What can I say? Only The Onion...
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I was on the upper deck eating foo foo shrimp and listening to the musicians serenade us. My husband to be in this life was down in the coal room keeping the thing afloat.
We went to a Titanic exhibition (featuring part of the hull and other things) years ago in Phoenix and we got "tickets" when entering and they were tickets about who you were for that trip I was an upper crusted, ha, woman and he was a lower deck guy. We still laugh about it today.
When I went to an exhibit, I was a first-class person who survived.
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It departed Southhampton on its ill-fated voyage exactly 100 years ago today.
I wasn't even born yet. And yet it still manages to make me unbelievably mad to think about it.
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I was a gangster in my previous life (according to my friends who think it's hilarious that I can't sit with my back to the door), so I must have been out committing some crime or another.
I have some kind of weird memory of being locked in a dungeon somewhere and I swear I can't place that at all in the life I've lived. Weird.
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To answer your question: I can only account, for sure, for one of my relatives by marriage - My great grandfather in law was freezing to death in the North Atlantic Ocean, after seeing the titanic sinking with his own eyes.
I'm sorry to hear that.
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No where. Heck, my grandparents werent even born then.
I don't think even my great-grandparents were born yet...
Two things about this sicken me (besides the obvious); even now, ships today still don't have the accomodations needed to save a ship-full of people. Also, the ongoing unnecessary judgment of poor people by people who think they're better than them, or heck even their own kind. All those lives lost needlessly, my gawd! And my great aunt told me she never watched the movie or anything because "why would anyone want to be reminded of it"?
If you ask me, there should be a billboard in every country with a picture of the underwater ship that says "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ARROGANCE AND GREED TAKE PRESENCE!!!"
What can I say? Only The Onion...
When I went to an exhibit, I was a first-class person who survived.
I wasn't even born yet. And yet it still manages to make me unbelievably mad to think about it.
I have some kind of weird memory of being locked in a dungeon somewhere and I swear I can't place that at all in the life I've lived. Weird.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I don't think even my great-grandparents were born yet...
You have anger issues, man. You're getting mad about a ship sinking a century ago? While you're at it, can you fling out some indignation over the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
My Grandpa was born in 1912 and I was the twinkle in his eye.
I do remember when Bob Ballard found the Titanic; I was in elementary school and quickly became obsessed by it (well, at least when He-Man wasn't on TV ).
Yes - and He-Man was supposedly one of the Masters of the Universe - but I don't recall him retiring to the smoking room with cigars and brandy!
Rose: [whispering to Jack] Now they will retreat into a cloud of smoke and congratulate each other on being masters of the universe. (Titanic - 1997).
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Also, the ongoing unnecessary judgment of poor people by people who think they're better than them, or heck even their own kind. All those lives lost needlessly, my gawd! And my great aunt told me she never watched the movie or anything because "why would anyone want to be reminded of it"? 
