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How Bored of the Titanic Are You?

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  • #302
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I reckon the Titanic has all the "right" elements for a script. Along with tui0hcg's list I'd add that it took ages to actually sink. Plenty of time for character development and all that. It would have been hard to script the thing better.
    I hope you are referring to A Night To Remember.


  • #303
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    My highlight of the Titanic weekend was BBC Radio 2's minute by minute account starting at 12.40 on Sat night finishing at 2.20 on Sun morning. There were old recordings of survivors giving their accounts.
    * warning: only for serious Titanoraks.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fq7lb


  • #304
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    Just saw an interesting TV show on RTE2

    SOS: The Titanic Inquiry.


  • #305
    Probably
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Probably


    http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2012/04/twitter-didnt-know-titanic-was-real

    :confused:


  • #306
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    And if you are still not bored of all this stuff there is another one on tonight on BBC1 NI

    Ryan versus The White Star Line

    Looks interesting


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  • #307
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    I am fairly sure I heard that some restaurant in Cobh was doing a set menu of what the passengers ate. Maybe it has been mentioned on this thread already.

    You could choose to have either the first-class menu or the third-class.

    The spraying with water after you paid was a bit much, tbh.


  • #308
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    If you're bored with Titanic hype/hysteria, wait for 2016, the run-in has already started. :D


  • #309
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    I am fairly sure I heard that some restaurant in Cobh was doing a set menu of what the passengers ate. Maybe it has been mentioned on this thread already.

    You could choose to have either the first-class menu or the third-class.

    The spraying with water after you paid was a bit much, tbh.

    Yes the restaurant is really nice - I will post the link if that's allowed by mods.

    No ice in the G&Ts however:D


  • #310
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    tui0hcg wrote: »
    Yes the restaurant is really nice - I will post the link if that's allowed by mods.

    No ice in the G&Ts however:D

    I knew I heard right. Wonder what the difference in price was? :D

    Apparently the ship made a loss on the first-class passengers because the menus were so extravagant. It was the third-class that they made their money.


  • #311
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    The dinner/evening menu is the 1st class menu where as the lunch one is based on 3rd class. Both look interesting


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  • #312
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    Feck sake . Saw a glimpse of the news this morning about some great great grandson of a titanic victim getting all ''emotional'' about this tragic event and someone he never knew. You wouldn't see the sons of the millions of world war 2 dead hamming it up half as much.


  • #313
    supernova84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭supernova84


    Maybe if the man on lookout that night had went to specsavers, he might have spotted the iceberg sooner. Oh wait they didn't have specsavers in 1912.


  • #314
    bwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭bwatson


    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    My highlight of the Titanic weekend was BBC Radio 2's minute by minute account starting at 12.40 on Sat night finishing at 2.20 on Sun morning. There were old recordings of survivors giving their accounts.
    * warning: only for serious Titanoraks.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fq7lb

    Listened to this as it went out - fantastic piece of BBC radio. So haunting and really quite emotional!


  • #315
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,694 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I reckon the Titanic has all the "right" elements for a script. Along with tui0hcg's list I'd add that it took ages to actually sink.

    Indeed it does...there's the story of the book written by a writer of a steamship named 'The Titan', an unsinkable boat that hit an iceberg on its starboard side in the north Atlantic on an April night. Essentially plagiarised you would think.

    But the book was written in 1898.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan


  • #316
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    psychward wrote: »
    Feck sake . Saw a glimpse of the news this morning about some great great grandson of a titanic victim getting all ''emotional'' about this tragic event and someone he never knew. You wouldn't see the sons of the millions of world war 2 dead hamming it up half as much.
    Just mentioning in passing that you still hear the odd rumble about the assets of those killed in the Nazi extermination camps.


  • #317
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    supernova84 wrote: »
    Maybe if the man on lookout that night had went to specsavers, he might have spotted the iceberg sooner. Oh wait they didn't have specsavers in 1912.
    The didn't have binoculars either.


  • #318
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The didn't have binoculars either.
    Well they did, it's just they weren't issued with them. Then again the quality of the optics back then may well have not been up to the task.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #319
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Well they did, it's just they weren't issued with them. Then again the quality of the optics back then may well have not been up to the task.

    Shoulda gone to....

    I wont say it, too lame for AH :D


  • #320
    foxcoverteddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭foxcoverteddy


    It is brilliant remembering the people 100 years on, so what are we going to do about the Luistania? An exhibition centre in Kinsale?
    Or do we leave this one to the Scots as they built it or perhaps to the germans as they sunk it.


  • #321
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Luistania, reckon the conspiracy nuts will do there best

    Odds are on Churchill sank it because it had a secret space craft as cargo


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  • #322
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    If you turn on the tv there seems to be about 5 titanic programms on at any one time. Surely even for people really interested in it, it's the same shíte over and over again that we all heard a million times?


  • #323
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    dfx- wrote: »
    Indeed it does...there's the story of the book written by a writer of a steamship named 'The Titan', an unsinkable boat that hit an iceberg on its starboard side in the north Atlantic on an April night. Essentially plagiarised you would think.

    But the book was written in 1898.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan



    The similarities to the Titanic are incredible.

    He also wrote a short story which described a future war between the United States and Empire of Japan. In the story Japan does not declare war but instead launches sneak attacks on United States ships en route to the Philippines and Hawaii.
    remind you of anything?

    He wrote this in 1914 - was he some sort of psychic or just lucky????


  • #324
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Takes good tradesmen to appreciate the Titanic .Pre-gadget age .


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