Titanic II

[stimpy]

Just read that as well as the violent and catastrophic failure of the vessel squishing everyone on board the air in the chamber would be super heated and would have cooked them as they were squished. 

[GordonD]

2 minutes ago, stimpy said:

Just read that as well as the violent and catastrophic failure of the vessel squishing everyone on board the air in the chamber would be super heated and would have cooked them as they were squished. 

Closed-casket funerals then?

[Satoshi]

3 hours ago, welshbairn said:

The sub story would have been over the next day if it had been known it had imploded as soon as it did. The cops in Peshawar story would have been in the news for longer if they'd been held hostage for a week before being blown up. You're not comparing like with like.

And if there two exactly the same incidents the outcome would the same - tragedies in New Zealand far more coverage than those in far closer countries like Morocco or Albania. You agreed with it earlier when you said it was about similar culture - it is, it doesn't have to be, but it is.

You can twist any incident as to why it gets more coverage but the most obvious is usually staring at you in the first - it usually rich white people Vs poor non rich people. The former will get more coverage in almost conceivable case - surely you agree on that?

1 hour ago, TxRover said:

The problem with this analysis is it is deliberately self serving. Media focuses stories on what “sells”, which is generally stories the majority in an area find “interesting” and/or which will bring viewership. We can play games about what’s deliberate and what isn’t, but at the end it’s about cash.

I dont doubt that, most news media are businesses.

Same when it was mainstream films featuring predominantly white cast being made for mostly white people. Or why Barbie was white, not black, for the first few decades.

The only way it will get better is to keep calling it out. And if it makes people uncomfortable - that's good, it's not meant to be a comforting feeling to be confronted with this kind of stuff.

[Guest]

Haven't been following the thread so this has probably already been discussed but in case not; Boris Johnson wrote in the Daily Mail that the death of these submersible men made him burst with British pride. Weirdest and funniest response I've seen (albeit tempered by knowing his strategy of deliberately talking shite for attention).

[Moomintroll]

1 hour ago, Zetterlund said:

Yup, plenty of material in there for the Nope thread.

Quite why anyone would go within 20 miles of the ocean is beyond me.

Was it just me that did the Doo Doo Doo from War of the Worlds as soon as I saw that.

[Derry Alli]

3 hours ago, GordonD said:

The Yanks would have called it the African-American swallower.

I just call her Riley Reid.

[Moomintroll]

1 minute ago, FreedomFarter said:

Haven't been following the thread so this has probably already been discussed but in case not; Boris Johnson wrote in the Daily Mail that the death of these submersible men made him burst with British pride. Weirdest and funniest response I've seen (albeit tempered by knowing his strategy of deliberately talking shite for attention).

I read that entire article with my head in my hands, which is probably the correct response to anything that buffoon writes, but still.

[Moomintroll]

Just now, Derry Alli said:

I just call her Riley Reid.

If you know, you know. I have no idea what you are talking about. 

[badgerthewitness]

1 hour ago, Zetterlund said:

Yup, plenty of material in there for the Nope thread.

Quite why anyone would go within 20 miles of the ocean is beyond me.

Spikes for feet. As if it didn't look menacing enough.

Fucking spikes.

[19QOS19]

[Silvio Tattiescone]

16 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said:

Spikes for feet. As if it didn't look menacing enough.

Fucking spikes.

Runs at 40mph, underwater, sideways.

[GordonD]

2 hours ago, AyrshireTon said:

Going to be some laugh when these things decide to march onto land with their 3.8 metre leg span and take over the planet.

I welcome our Japanese Spider Crab overlords.

[TxRover]

1 hour ago, Satoshi said:

…rich white people Vs poor non rich people…

Not sure that’s what you wanted to say.

[badgerthewitness]

40 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:

Runs at 40mph, underwater, sideways.

 

[stimpy]

1 hour ago, GordonD said:

Closed-casket funerals then?

Burying deep see marine life at this rate

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, stimpy said:

Just read that as well as the violent and catastrophic failure of the vessel squishing everyone on board the air in the chamber would be super heated and would have cooked them as they were squished. 

Reminds me of this.

[Florentine_Pogen]

24 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Reminds me of this.

Ocean Gate must name their next sub 'Daphnia'.

[Paranoid]

FFS! This gets worse the more you delve into it. From the BBC . . .

Mr Rush "followed his own path", Mr Newman [an investor] said.

Mr Newman's recollection of OceanGate was of a team that looked out for each other.

And Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was "up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things"

 

Edited June 25, 2023 by Paranoid

[TxRover]

28 minutes ago, Paranoid said:

FFS! This gets worse the more you delve into it. From the BBC . . .

Mr Rush "followed his own path", Mr Newman [an investor] said.

Mr Newman's recollection of OceanGate was of a team that looked out for each other.

And Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was "up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things"

 

Suicide it is then.

[badgerthewitness]

1 hour ago, Paranoid said:

 

And Mr Rush's wife, Wendy, was "up at the top, looking over his shoulder, making sure that he was doing everything perfectly and not cutting corners or skipping things"

 

"Help! There's been a terrible accident."