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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2019 13:36:07 GMT
Sounds like the title of a film doesn’t it? They could probably make one based on the events of Saturday. I have to say I have great admiration for the passengers, average age 72, who appeared to be remarkably calm under the terrifying circumstances. It would have been 💩 👖 time for me I’m afraid, and the prospect of being air lifted in any conditions let alone a howling gale... 😱.
Showtunes Cruise on the North Sea this October anyone? 🚢
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2019 13:40:36 GMT
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Post by david on Mar 25, 2019 15:01:06 GMT
Got to admit, I did have Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" playing inside my head while watching this.
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 25, 2019 15:19:48 GMT
It's a shame Jane McDonald wasn't on board! "By eck, its windy!"
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2019 15:37:14 GMT
There always seems to be a piano flying about in these clips. The fact that these vessels even have huge, heavy yet unsecured pianos on their huge, slidey decks seems a bit slack on the safety front but that’s probably just me.
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 25, 2019 18:35:50 GMT
I have to say I have great admiration for the passengers, average age 72, who appeared to be remarkably calm under the terrifying circumstances. Possibly took my late stepfather's view - "Well at my age, you've got to die of SOMETHING!" |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 25, 2019 19:54:19 GMT
Possibly took my late stepfather's view - "Well at my age, you've got to die of SOMETHING!" I take that view about a lot of things: terrorist threats, traffic accidents, etc. but I'm terrified of being in a shipwreck. I blame it on Titanic being released when I was at an impressionable age. |
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Post by theatreian on Mar 25, 2019 22:53:24 GMT
Well looked like fun! Doesn't put me off cruising though! If it's good enough for Jane! |
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Post by Xanderl on Mar 25, 2019 23:07:10 GMT
Possibly took my late stepfather's view - "Well at my age, you've got to die of SOMETHING!" I take that view about a lot of things: terrorist threats, traffic accidents, etc. but I'm terrified of being in a shipwreck. I blame it on Titanic being released when I was at an impressionable age. Yes, of the many disasters when I was growing up the Herald of Free Enterprise was the one that scared me the most. Don't know why, possibly because it would happen so slowly? |
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Post by viserys on Mar 26, 2019 7:31:35 GMT
Yes, of the many disasters when I was growing up the Herald of Free Enterprise was the one that scared me the most. Don't know why, possibly because it would happen so slowly? I remember that one quite well, because I was at an impressionable age and it happend only 1-2 weeks before my first-ever trip to England on a school exchange thing. I remember us standing at the back of the ferry, looking to see "if it would close properly" (as if we could have told!). Accompanied my mother on a few cruises in the last years and never felt at ease in the cabin - not sure if "Titanic" is to blame or just a general feeling of unease. And it kinda boggles me to see all those very old people tottering about on walking frames or even in wheelchairs and that cruises are marketed directly to them, as if a ship, in case of emergency, couldn't become a death trap when you can't walk to safety quickly especially today's massively oversized cruise ships with +6000 passengers.... |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 26, 2019 11:16:09 GMT
Sea stuff creeps me out anyway (and things that are to do with sea/pressure/machinery - Google the Byford Dolphin incident IF YOU DAAAARE *wafty hands*), but I generally considered myself OK with cruise ships.
NOPE.
@theatremonkey.com the Dusseldorf flight made me laugh like a lunatic, apparently the passengers thought the arrival announcement was a joke. "Hahah yeah OK 'Edinburgh', right - oh." Disastrous.
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