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Today is Titanic Day, aka the Day the Big Boat Went Blub-Blub  On this day some number of years ago a big boat called Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of North America, and sank, which is ironic because the captain, who also sank, was only two days away from retirement. Did you or anyone you know perish or survive this, the second-greatest berg-related calamity ever to befall mankind? Share your thoughts and/or prayers in the thread! Can you believe a dude read about the ship and said "i reckon this ship is practically unsinkable", and then the first chance it gets the ship immediately sinks anyway??? Truly there is no limit to the hubris of mortal men. Here is a picture of the ship as she might have looked like (before the disaster)  RIP may she sleep with the fishes 
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Apr 15, 2021 20:54
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Why didn't they just go around
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Apr 15, 2021 21:12
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I like the part in the movie where you get to see the girls tiddies!!!!! 
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Apr 15, 2021 21:14
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What was the ultimate berg related accident? You post Titanic was second.
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Apr 15, 2021 21:16
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Nooner posted:I like the part in the movie where you get to see the girls tiddies!!!!! That why they called the ship the TITanic!
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Apr 15, 2021 21:23
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I got this shirt lol
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Apr 15, 2021 21:24
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Billy zane did nothing wrong
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Apr 15, 2021 21:26
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Too soon OP, too soon
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Apr 15, 2021 21:27
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Spinz posted:What was the ultimate berg related accident? You post Titanic was second. The greatest berg-related calamity ever to befall mankind was the 1994 movie "Rapa-Nui" 
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Apr 15, 2021 21:29
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buying a crisp head of iceberg lettuce and obliterating it with a 2x4 in my backyard, to honour the victims, today. god bless
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Apr 15, 2021 21:41
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Apparently I have an ancestor who was almost on that ship, like bought a ticket but then decided not to go
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Apr 15, 2021 21:51
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Ventral EggSac posted:Apparently I have an ancestor who was almost on that ship, like bought a ticket but then decided not to go My wife says the same thing. I find it highly suspect.
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Apr 15, 2021 21:56
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Who What Now posted:My wife says the same thing. I find it highly suspect. Maybe that poster is your wife. Did you consider that???
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Apr 15, 2021 22:39
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I had such an obsessive interest in the Titanic as a kid my parents had me tested for autism
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Apr 16, 2021 01:12
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HD DAD posted:I had such an obsessive interest in the Titanic as a kid my parents had me tested for autism And the result was?
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Apr 16, 2021 01:14
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HD DAD posted:I had such an obsessive interest in the Titanic as a kid my parents had me tested for autism That's wild Looking back do you have any idea wtf
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Apr 16, 2021 01:17
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No idea, but it was literally all I would talk about for like, a year and a half. I still get the urge to play Titanic: Adventure Out of Time though
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Apr 16, 2021 01:23
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Just build 2 boats idiot
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Apr 16, 2021 01:45
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beer gas canister posted:Just build 2 boats idiot Titanic and Totonuc
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Apr 16, 2021 04:29
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Good, I’m glad it sunk. Stupid rear end boat.
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Apr 16, 2021 04:30
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That seems unlikely OP. The Titanic is an unsinkable ship. Icebergs don't melt steel ships!
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Apr 16, 2021 05:24
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Thoughts and prayers
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Apr 16, 2021 06:59
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If only they had a few good T-word boats around to get that iceberg out of the way!
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Apr 16, 2021 07:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY
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Apr 16, 2021 07:04
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R.L. Stine posted:buying a crisp head of iceberg lettuce and obliterating it with a 2x4 in my backyard, to honour the victims, today. god bless 
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Apr 16, 2021 09:08
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beer gas canister posted:Just build 2 boats idiot They did.. the titanic had an identical sister ship, the Lusitania
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Apr 16, 2021 09:09
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I've been hate playing Titanic for Wii with my significant other and it's baffling how a point and click adventure game made years after the genre was perfected could completely ignore all previous innovations so willfully and spitefully.
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Apr 16, 2021 10:13
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Vim Fuego posted:They did.. the titanic had an identical sister ship, the Lusitania Wow! I sure hope nothing bad happens to it!
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Apr 16, 2021 12:43
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Ventral EggSac posted:Apparently I have an ancestor who was almost on that ship, like bought a ticket but then decided not to go Who What Now posted:My wife says the same thing. I find it highly suspect. https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1382506293663997954?s=19
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Apr 16, 2021 12:47
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The icebergs are melting, imo we should bomb them while we still can
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Apr 16, 2021 12:47
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Wish I still had my giant Titanic book that was chock full of knowledge about the ship, testimony from survivors, and a massive buttload of pictures of before the sinking and the discovery on the ocean floor. Pretty sure it was from Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck. It owned.
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Apr 16, 2021 13:07
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You Are A Elf posted:Wish I still had my giant Titanic book that was chock full of knowledge about the ship, testimony from survivors, and a massive buttload of pictures of before the sinking and the discovery on the ocean floor. Pretty sure it was from Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck. One of these ones?   I had both of these as a kid and there was a period where I pored over them virtually non-stop. I was born in 1986 so the discovery/exploration of the wreck was very fresh at the time I was learning to read. There was also a NatGeo documentary that we had on video. I'm not sure if I was quite as obsessed as HD DAD but it must have been close. When my Mum moved out of the family home we went through a box of old stuff from my pre- and primary school, and at age 4 I had taken the opportunity of a class project to 'write a book' (big plastic spiral-bound A4 sheets) to produce a book about the Titanic, complete with kid hand-drawn illustrations of it being built, launching, sailing, colliding with things, sinking, the rescue, the discovery and the exploration. I don't think I could do that now! And there were facts in there that 4-year old me had that I don't even remember knowing! Such a nerd at such a young age!
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Apr 16, 2021 13:20
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Did you know? The search for the Titanic was actually a side-mission and neat cover story for what Ballard was actually paid to do by the navy: finding out what happened to two of their sunken nuclear attack submarines.
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Apr 16, 2021 13:50
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Wow, newspapers had some bite to them back then. e: lmao https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1382501127111933954 super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 14:03
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HD DAD posted:I had such an obsessive interest in the Titanic as a kid my parents had me tested for autism Same except sonic the hedgehog
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Apr 16, 2021 14:09
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super sweet best pal posted:Wow, newspapers had some bite to them back then. Fucken wrecked
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Apr 16, 2021 14:20
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Didn't really think the forums themselves were going to get so into the holiday
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Apr 16, 2021 18:29
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In school we had to do a whole term learning about the Titanic because our teacher saw the movie and loved it. I was about 6 or 7 at the time and was aware that all the adults loved the movie and called him out on this and got a detention out of it, he made me write "I will respect the Titanic" something like 50 times. He also was a massive Christian and he taught us that the Titanic sank because people said the ship was so great that even God couldn't sink it, and so God sank it to make a point.
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Apr 16, 2021 18:33
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The forums go down on Titanic Day Coincidence??????? 
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Apr 16, 2021 18:49
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thanks op never heard of this
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Apr 16, 2021 20:17
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Associate Christ