• Twitter backlash against users who didn't know the Titanic was real
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[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35566458]No man you're dumb for not knowing something that had no impact on you and happened many years before you were even born. Pff dumb people not knowing about shipwrecks.[/QUOTE] I think a lot of this backlash is due in large part due to how widespread the knowledge of the Titanic really is, and I'm only 21. I remember we studied it because of its huge historical significance and EVERYONE knew the Titanic was a real thing. To me, not knowing Titanic is real is analogous to watching Apollo 13 and not knowing it's based on true events.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35566458]No man you're dumb for not knowing something that had no impact on you and happened many years before you were even born. Pff dumb people not knowing about shipwrecks.[/QUOTE] Yeah, who gives a fuck that it's one of the most lethal ship disasters ever.
To be fair, I never really learned about it from school. It was usually only mentioned briefly when the topic was "disasters" or perhaps "human psychology". If it weren't for the movie I probably wouldn't have known much at all about it. Maybe it's different in the USA though. Also, judging an entire generation by only a handful of people on twitter seems a bit ridiculous.
You guys realize that high school history classes don't cover events from WW1 to present-day right?
There are no words for how much it blows my mind that people DIDN'T know this was real. I mean, seriously? Either I'm that old now or the generation that came after me are that uneducated about the last 200 years of history.
Thankfully in Northern Ireland we're constantly reminded that we built a ship that sank, as every every advert break has about 3 adverts for the Titanic.
God damn I wasn't a model student but even I knew the Titanic was a real fucking ship. I blame the lack of attention our government spends on our own countries' education system.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;35566193]I actually don't remember the titanic ever mentioned in school. It's just such a well known cultural symbol that you don't have to. That said I knew about the sinking even before the movie so who knows. Might have an impact.[/QUOTE] I have a feeling most people who are reprimanding the guys who didn't know about the Titanic would be equally clueless if Cameron never made the movie.
Sometimes I feel really smart and then go to BAUT forums and feel really stupid again
[QUOTE=supertribute;35561953][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Idiocracy_movie_poster.jpg[/IMG] IT'S HAPPENING![/QUOTE] This film is great. Saw it on GModTheater :v:
[QUOTE=Galaxy;35567859] Also, judging an entire generation by only a handful of people on twitter seems a bit ridiculous.[/QUOTE] welcome to facepunch
This is turning into another "Everybody younger than me is mentally retarded thread ~My Generation Master Race~" threads. Stop making stupid assumptions about the entire generation.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;35564315]Speaking as a huge Titanic buff this pained me greatly.[/QUOTE] Agreed. I read way too many books on it when I was a kid.
Makes sense the kids at my school care more about their social life and how popular they are in society. I can ask them who killed the Jews during world war 2 they'll say "the Chinese" or something unrelated people are just ignorant
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;35561685]CoD:WaW was for real??![/QUOTE] Holy shit reanimated nazi corpses existed?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35567420]Yeah, who gives a fuck that it's one of the most lethal ship disasters ever.[/QUOTE] I don't. Why should I know about lethal events really? Doesn't make me a better or worse person. Except in the eyes of history nerds.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35570080]I don't. Why should I know about lethal events really? Doesn't make me a better or worse person. Except in the eyes of history nerds.[/QUOTE] Because fuck knowledge
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35570080]I don't. Why should I know about lethal events really? Doesn't make me a better or worse person. Except in the eyes of history nerds.[/QUOTE] It's history that's worth knowing though. I'm very far from being a history nerd but there are countless important and interesting events in human history that we can learn from and promote interesting discussions from. The story of the Titanic may not be directly applicable to your own life, but it's fascinating from an engineering standpoint as well as a small study in human nature.
How could they even what no no NO [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/titanicgif14.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35570155] The story of the Titanic may not be directly applicable to your own life, but it's fascinating from an engineering standpoint as well as a small study in human nature.[/QUOTE] True, but is that a good enough reason to go berserk over people who aren't aware of the event? After all most people are not engineers.
[QUOTE=Upgrade123;35564284]In like a hundred years they'll make a move about 9/11 and people will be all, "Holy shit it really happened?"[/QUOTE] They already made a 9/11 movie :p But yea i can see people saying that
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;35561866]morons =/= ignorants you can't fix the first, you can fix the other[/QUOTE] There's also the fact that it generalizes an entire generation.
what how do you even I'm gonna go lay down
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35567310][I]"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."[/I] [I] -Abraham Lincoln[/I] A lot of people could stand to learn from that.[/QUOTE] I bet most people there on Twitter would think Mark Twain said that. That is... if they knew Mark Twain was a real person.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35570214]True, but is that a good enough reason to go berserk over people who aren't aware of the event? After all most people are not engineers.[/QUOTE] I'm not an engineer either, but I still find it interesting. Basically, this would be more excusable if it weren't for the existence of the movie itself. How anyone can see the film and [B]not[/B] realize it was based on true events is so far beyond baffling that I haven't figured out how to justify it.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35570214]True, but is that a good enough reason to go berserk over people who aren't aware of the event? After all most people are not engineers.[/QUOTE] Umm, since when was knowing that the Titanic was real require you to be an engineer? I learned about it in grade school and I'm pretty sure nobody in the class was an engineer.
It makes me wonder if people if our future generations are going to be like this about September 11th, or even Pearl Harbor. I can see it now: "I didn't know Pearl Harbor really happened! I just thought it was a movie!"
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;35570154]Because fuck knowledge[/QUOTE] A boat considered unsinkable ran into an iceberg. Such useful knowledge.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;35571042]Umm, since when was knowing that the Titanic was real require you to be an engineer? I learned about it in grade school and I'm pretty sure nobody in the class was an engineer.[/QUOTE] I agree with this. Do you have to be a general to know WW2 happened? Or an oppressed social minority to accept that Martin Luther King lived? I don't think so! Do you have to be a calendar to accept that it's sunday?
[QUOTE=Number-41;35571110]A boat considered unsinkable ran into an iceberg. Such useful knowledge.[/QUOTE] It's a study in human arrogance, engineering marvels and failures, and the class separation of the time. It's a helluva lot more than "just a ship."
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