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  • flan [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    why are people who are into the titanic so fuckin weird

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Not surprising from people who romanticize a perfectly preventable disaster as some sort of unforeseen tragedy

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      3 months ago

      "Only I know the secret to perfectly cutting corners in business."

    • NewLeaf
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      3 months ago

      I have been into the Titanic my whole life. I was going to have a point here, but I just realized most of you would meet me and be like "wtf?"

      • Egon [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        What about the Titanic is it that intrigues you so?

        • NewLeaf
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          3 months ago

          There are just so many stories. Accounts from passengers, and the people who built it. The craftsmanship and attention to detail, the way it changed the world at the time...

          There's just so many interesting angles. I also like the "old timey-ness" of it

        • pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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          3 months ago

          Another lifelong Tiranic dork here. It’s a combination of the dramatic/poignant stories and the Edwardian technology/decor. I also realized following it for so many decades taught me a lot about scientific inquiry and historiography.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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      3 months ago

      It was one of the first big disasters that made international headlines and that spawned a bunch of media inspired by it. The Titanic movie we all know was like the 6th one made, on top of books, comics, you name it. As such it takes up a lot of space in Anglo cultural memory.