Wednesday, 6 August 2008
I'll never let go, John
"it wasn’t the Captain that sank the Titanic – a ship they claimed was unsinkable - it was the iceberg"
- John Prescott on Gordon Brown.
It still sank.
You do feel sorry for him, don't you? Well, 45% of you if you live in Scotland, according to YouGov. (I meant Brown.) Still, at least he was only compared to the sinking, and not the film, which many people find to be a bigger disaster. Also, the Captain of the Titanic went on to be King of Rohan, which I'm pretty sure is a promotion.
The problem was obvious very early on in the film, which as documentaries go I think is second only to Braveheart. They built the thing in Belfast. Now, if Titanic had been Clyde-built it would have split the iceberg in two and kept on going.
Oh, and did you know Sarah Brightman released a version of that song? In Italian?
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Now ASwaS I have to take exception to you discrediting the workmanship of Belfast tradesmen. The design was inovative and did delay the sinking long enough for everyone (possibly bar a few in the enginerooms) to have been evacuated if only there had of been enough life boats. So therefore it was a step up on designs to that point
You know, when I wrote this I had a worry that someone would take it too seriously. Read it again - I'm not denigrating Belfast workmanship at all, I'm simply complimenting Clyde workmanship beyond all reasonable bound of reality.
It was an iceberg. If the thing had been made today using space age engineering the thing would still have gone down.
Wasn't Titanic designed by a non-Irishman anyway?
Oops I forgot a wink in the above ;)
Ah, that's all right then.
:P
I just love raising my Nationality by birth with those who think my current Nationalhood by adoption is an policy issue. ;)
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