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Old 04-13-2012, 11:46 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Teela never got nekked during the show either... but alas, you can't have everything when you're 8 years old.
I always wondered about Evilyn...
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Old 04-14-2012, 02:31 PM
 
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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!!!"



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...
The Titanic had more lifeboats than were required by law. They were not meant to save everyone all at once. They were to be used to ferry people to a rescue ship, return, and pick up another load. Greed had nothing to do with it.
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Old 04-14-2012, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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The Titanic had more lifeboats than were required by law. They were not meant to save everyone all at once. They were to be used to ferry people to a rescue ship, return, and pick up another load. Greed had nothing to do with it.
Titanic is a shining example of how crews are supposed to do it, at least if you weren't in steerage, compared to the cruze ship that sunk off of Greece. At least they stayed and filled the lifeboats.

Class and overconfidence that the ship was indeed 'unsinkable' were the weak links with the Titanic. Locking the steerage passangers in the bottom of the ship to drown is the most inexcusable of all, but for its time, not surprising.

Given the 'mishaps' of the recent ones, I'd be real careful about the safety record of the ship if I was considering a curise.
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Old 04-14-2012, 06:36 PM
 
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The Titanic had more lifeboats than were required by law.
Yeah, by four.
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Old 04-14-2012, 10:55 PM
 
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Interesting thread. I would note that it was 100 years ago to the hour that the ship struck an iceberg. Within two hours it sank, and 1,500+ souls were lost. See y'all on the other side.
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Old 04-15-2012, 12:38 AM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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It was interesting watching Titanic with the big tornado warning blob on the screen tonight.
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Old 04-15-2012, 04:37 AM
 
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It departed Southhampton on its ill-fated voyage exactly 100 years ago today.

You are not serious?? You can't be over 100 years old and using a computer to ask this question?? For the sake of amusement...I was probably a glimmer in my Great, Great Grandmother and Grandfathers eye, a hope for greatness in the future perhaps wishing for a boy child but am a girl..this is insane. What isn't insane is that here in CT there was a survivor of the Titanic living quite close to where we live, died perhaps 5 years ago.

Now, how about a question we can ALL relate to??
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Old 04-21-2012, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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Since the question was about where I was when I first heard that the Titanic had sunk, my answer would be that I was at home, reading "Raise the Titanic" by Clive Cussler. That was in the late 70s. That book got me interested in learning more about it.
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Old 04-21-2012, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I think I was probably about in third grade when I heard that the Titanic had sunk. Same place I was when I heard that Lincoln had been assassinated and that Hannibal had crossed the Alps with elephants and that somebody had built pyramids in Egypt.
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Old 04-22-2012, 07:13 AM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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I think I was probably about in third grade when I heard that the Titanic had sunk. Same place I was when I heard that Lincoln had been assassinated and that Hannibal had crossed the Alps with elephants and that somebody had built pyramids in Egypt.
How many times did you have to repeat third grade?
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