Discuss vomit inducing sentamentality? RMS Titanic in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Merchant Navy seamen were given the same treatment in WW2 their pay stopped the moment their ships were torpedoed by the Hun. Seems dispicable in this day and age....
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Merchant Navy seamen were given the same treatment in WW2 their pay stopped the moment their ships were torpedoed by the Hun. Seems dispicable in this day and age.
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Titanic survivors and crew had a visit from men in bowler hats claiming to represent HMG, keep quiet or be ruined/jailed seemed to be the threat that was made.
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- 17-04-2012, 00:20 #123Mr_TiggerGuest
[QUOTE=Onetap;4344063]Bollocks, it wasn't galvanized. The wreck is disintegrating from corrosion; whether the lack of oxygen prevents 'rusting' I don't know but it will be a mound of corrosion products in another 100 years.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusticle]Rusticle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
We need a Happy St Titanic Day thread to commemorate this every year.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, yes you are partly correct. The exterior was not galvanised. Substantively however the point stands. The steel does contain both Zinc and Manganese, both of which are consumed by microbes such as Halomonas titanicae. 'Rusticle' is sort of a misnomer. The chemical result is similar but the formation process is that of digestion and excretion in this case. At about two miles down oxygen levels drop to around 0.01%, far too low for extensive normal 'rusting'. Oh no here comes Higgs-Boson! We had better change the subject... So yes, a Happy Shit Boat Day to you too!
- 17-04-2012, 00:22 #124
So far this year we've had:
National Marriage Week
Sport Relief
International Women's Day
Valentine's Day
National Salt Awareness Week
Weeks of the bloody Titanic...
Still got these to go...
International Firefighters' Day
British Sandwich Week
Walk to School Week
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Weekend
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee BH
Recycle Now Week
World Population Day
London 2012 Olympic Games
London 2012 Paralympic Games
World Car Free Day
National Parents' Week
BBC Children In Need
World Aids Day
FFS! It's going to be a fucking long year......
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Only on ARRSE could we have a learned discussion on the technicalities of rusty microbe shit!
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- 17-04-2012, 01:08 #126Too late shes got it... Originally Posted by Rabid Chihuahua You are Sheldon and I claim my Real 'Green-Lantern' Lantern.
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- 17-04-2012, 08:00 #127Senior Member
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You missed 'wear your uniform to work day' and Movember. Originally Posted by Rodney2q A DEAD STATESMAN
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So the Titanic is being scoffed by a bug with the surname of "titanicae" is it? How much of a coincidence is that?? Originally Posted by Mr_Tigger Cave ne sit taurus feces.
- 17-04-2012, 08:29 #129Senior Member
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None whatsoever, they named the steel/shite secreting microbe after the rusting hulk it was first discovered upon. Originally Posted by donmac
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Aaaah. Riiiiight. I used to have a car that became infected with vauxhallas cavaliericae. Originally Posted by geezer466 ancienturion likes this.Cave ne sit taurus feces.
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