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Titanic Anniversary A Wake Up Call For Those Who 'Didn't Know' The Ship Was Real (PICTURES)

Posted: 11/04/2012 10:09 Updated: 11/04/2012 10:09

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The Titanic really sank - Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were not passengers

With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the Ms Balmoral cruise, and the release of Titanic 3D, the movie, it's easy to get a little confused.

But we all know the Titanic actually happened, right? Or not.

As the anniversary dawns, we managed to find some tweeters who were not aware that Titanic the movie was based on a true life story - and have now vowed to stay away from boats, forever.

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With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the Ms Balmoral cruise, and the release of Titanic 3D, the movie, it's easy to get a little confused. But we all know the Titanic actually happe...
With the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the Ms Balmoral cruise, and the release of Titanic 3D, the movie, it's easy to get a little confused. But we all know the Titanic actually happe...
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mev186
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10:00 PM on 04/15/2012
I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
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green752
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08:34 PM on 04/15/2012
I weep for the future...
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stphnwork
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02:59 PM on 04/12/2012
duhhh,
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GearoidOD
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12:41 PM on 04/12/2012
One question for those who are so scathing about the historical knowledge of young kids today ? How may of you know that the Titanic sinking wasn't even remotely near the biggest Liner sinking in history ?
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LizDavidson
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10:58 PM on 05/15/2012
I know there was one in WW2 as the Nazi's tried to cover up the extermination of the Jews. Is that the one your on about? The death toll from that was something like 3x the number that died on Titanic!
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GearoidOD
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11:37 AM on 04/12/2012
The Anglican Bishop of Cork and Ross - which includes the port of Cobh from which the Titanic departed, asked if he were the only person ' jarred' by the popular culture approach to the tragedy. And he also said there was a fine line between tragedy tourism and commemorating a tragedy.I suggest most people know about the Titanic because of the movie/tragedy tourist connection than because of any subsequent improvements brought about. Those interested in improvements for seafarers would be far better reading up on the long and arduous campaign to have Plimsoll Lines made mandatory. Ironically people on cargo vessels are safer than passengers on today's cruise liners, so one can only question just how many lessons have been learned.
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sinbad usn
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03:01 PM on 04/12/2012
as a merchant seaman I appreciate you comments. t.y.
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GearoidOD
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03:38 PM on 04/12/2012
Why thank you - I must give the credit to Channel 4, I think, who brought that knowledge to my attention with thier recent programme on why Cruise Liners are still sinking. Good sailing !
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Ron Moger
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10:25 AM on 04/12/2012
Going to google and entering the word "titanic" is quicker than tweeting your ignorance to the world. Next week: shock online as Powerpuff Girls found to be "animated characters". These people will one day have the vote, be afraid...
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eastwoodmaniac
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09:44 AM on 04/12/2012
It's interesting that despite the internet and our ability to record information to a degree only dreamt of even 100 years ago people are still having trouble distingushing fact from fiction.

And so this is how history descend into myth...
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poster boy
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06:33 AM on 04/12/2012
Just wait for the shock in a few years when the Millenium Falcon turns 200.

My sweetie and I recently marathoned through the series Spartacus and early into the series, did a quick check to discover how true was the portrayal of the known history of the man, checking out more detail after we'd finished the series. What surprised me is that of the many people I know who watched the series - each of whom would go running to Google to verify a meaningless fact brought up in the casualest of conversation - none had also checked out the facts of the story.

Note: this post is based on a true story.
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The Bob Files
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05:44 AM on 04/12/2012
Did u know u can do other stuff on the web besides tweets??? OMG! Try typing TITANIC in Google or Wikipedia and get 411 on the ship 4rlz!
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Purple seastar
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03:22 AM on 04/12/2012
I think a fair few of these twitters are asking if the love story in the movie is real, rather than whether or not there was a boat called the Titanic that sank!
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GearoidOD
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11:44 AM on 04/12/2012
Well done for thinking of that !
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GearoidOD
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01:06 PM on 04/11/2012
Is it really that significant in 2012 that 1500 people drowned in 1912 ? Answer, not it isnt, but Hollywood makes money out of it and a whole lot of others have figured out they can make money cashing in on the 100th anniversay ' celebrations'. So my advice to young people, is enjoy the movie, the rest is crap.
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west lothian questioner
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01:12 PM on 04/11/2012
So.. will you think the same way in 2016 when a film entitled, "Beaumont Hamel," comes out?
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GearoidOD
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01:17 PM on 04/11/2012
By 1916, I will be heartily sick of all these commemorations.
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London Diplomat
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01:34 PM on 04/11/2012
It is important to remember that the sinking sparked a huge reaction internationally, paving the way for huge amount of safety regulation (i.e. SOLAS) and hence improvements in safety at sea. To go to sea today, whether that be ferry, trawler, cruise ship, your life is significantly safer thanks to that tragedy. The rest is unequivocally not crap. The movie however, is.
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GearoidOD
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01:41 PM on 04/11/2012
Oh really ? Tell me why so many cruius liners are still sinking ?
And any safety improvements arising from this and other shipping disasters are a quite separate issue from the mawkish ' celebration' of this event.
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colinmeister
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11:57 AM on 04/11/2012
This goes a long way to show that people who tweet are twits. Mostly stupid teenagers, I suspect.
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GearoidOD
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01:11 PM on 04/11/2012
No, I suspect it shows that these young people are too busy living life to be worried about one single ship wreck one hundred years ago - they are absolutely right.
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sinbad usn
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03:12 PM on 04/12/2012
Good motto for twitter : And a good idea for a holiday---Tweet a twit week! :0)
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scouse55
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11:53 AM on 04/11/2012
If that is true, so much for the current state of UK education.
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NoMercy
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10:23 AM on 04/11/2012
These tweets must be jokes. Tweeters can use google like anyone else and find out as much about the real story of Titanic as they like.

If they are NOT jokes, then this generation is really made of mental mush, and I have lost all hope for our civilization.
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Altern8
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11:54 AM on 04/11/2012
Agreed, at least some are jokes I feel.
But it shouldn't come as news that there are people out there so ineducated that they can't tell where reality ends and fiction begins.
(And also that they think they have something to say when exactly the opposite is true. Ah well, the less some people know the louder they shout.)
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GearoidOD
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01:45 PM on 04/11/2012
If people need to know somethiung baout life and death in 1912, tell them that the average life expectancy of a man in 1912 and a woman 54. tell the, about the ghastly conditions in the tenements of the major cities, of child mortality. Tell them of the jingoism that was bilding uo a head of steam and that was to lead to the morally outrageous First World war. But judging them by thier knowledge of a ship wreck - no dont do that. Real history is about the lives lived on an everydat basis, not the exceptional events.
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GearoidOD
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01:14 PM on 04/11/2012
Why on earth should young people be fixated about this rather tacky and artificial commemoration of a ship wreck 100 years ago ? I look at my kids and thier friends and I am envious of and refreshed by thier energy and enthusiasm for life. Going by your photo I am a good deal older than you - my advice is stop being so ' middle aged' !
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NoMercy
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01:49 PM on 04/11/2012
Nobody suggested they should be "fixated" about it. But knowing how to satisfy basic intellectual curiosity, as well as knowing how to read, are essential life skills.

Many of those tweets expressed interest in the actual subject (not just the movie), while at the same time demonstrating apparent incompetence in knowing where to find information about it. This is why I believed most of them to be jokes - nobody could be that obtuse.

If any of my kids had written in their teens "Is it wrong that I just found out that the earth is round lol?" I'd have to say "If you are over 8 years old, then YES, IT'S WRONG". You have to have noticed a general degeneration in basic literacy - cultural literacy as well - among teenagers and 20 somethings.

Without their curiosity and competence in satisfying it, we are doomed. We cannot just be consumers.

I'm also not envious in the slightest of youth. I'm 45 btw. I'm happy to be middle aged. I'm sure I had a much better time than any of the teens or 20s I know today; less worries, more freedom. Sometimes I wish I were 10 or 20 years older even.
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