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Discuss vomit inducing sentamentality? RMS Titanic in The Intelligence Cell on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by PBUH You forgot to mention that if anyone doesn't wear a poppy or fails to observe the two minutes Armistice silence they will be scolded with mild harumphing or disapproving looks. In ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by PBUH View Post
    You forgot to mention that if anyone doesn't wear a poppy or fails to observe the two minutes Armistice silence they will be scolded with mild harumphing or disapproving looks. In all liklihood people will defend the "offender" and comment that they died to give him the choice.


    In contrast anyone that catches the attention of a Scouser by failing to respect, by their measure, the 96 in the slightest way is setting themselves up for personal abuse, death threats and demands that they "educate" themselves . An inevitable reaction if the offender is any way a public figure (Alan Davies, Brian Clough, Boris Johnson etc etc)

    May 29 is usually after the season ends but do Liverpool have a minute's silence for the Heysel dead at the last game of every season? Of course not.

    There is a particular dignity about the way that we commemorate our war dead that Scousers can never hope to emulate.
    Go to anfield and look at the difference in the two memorials. The 39 killed by the actions of Liverpool fans get a plaque. Then look what they put up to remember their "Blue on Blue".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinner251 View Post
    Go to anfield and look at the difference in the two memorials. The 39 killed by the actions of Liverpool fans get a plaque. Then look what they put up to remember their "Blue on Blue".
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    Says it all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunnoficarus View Post
    How come they never show 'Raise the Titanic' on telly anymore?
    Don't know but Lew Grade, who financed the film, said: "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

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    I appreciate this is not the NAAFI, but what would happen should Mr Gilmour's son swing off the LFC memorial and later claim he didn't realise what it was? Let us not forget the traditional drunk urinating on memorials, a short life but a painful one I should think.
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    I prefer the phrase "emotional incontinence" to "grief whoring".

    What in the name of Christ was with the people in fancy dress going on that cruise? This was a disaster claiming the lives of 1,500 people.

    What next? Train trips in grey pyjamas to Aushwitz? Getting a train to Aberfan dresses as a miner?

    Fucking weirdos.
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    "Play up! Play up! And play the game!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by chocolate_frog View Post
    It might have been caught in a Northerly current and taken back up to the Arctic... to wait, to plot, to do it all again. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha.
    I've always said it. "Never trust an iceberg". Sly bastards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BedIn View Post
    I prefer the phrase "emotional incontinence" to "grief whoring".
    Genius

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    Quote Originally Posted by donmac View Post
    I've always said it. "Never trust an iceberg". Sly bastards.
    Notice how they go round in gangs? Or 'packs' in their quasi aquatic patois, and the little ones are known as 'growlers'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BONNACON View Post
    Any news of the ice berg?
    Seeing as you mention it:

    Whatever happened to the iceberg that sank the Titanic?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BedIn View Post
    I prefer the phrase "emotional incontinence" to "grief whoring".

    Getting a train to Aberfan dresses as a miner?

    Fucking weirdos.
    I think school uniform costumes might be more historically accurate
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