1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic Titanic submersible goes missing

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Red top reader, Jun 19, 2023.

  1. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,623
    Likes Received:
    75,829
    On a 1 to 10 of conspiracy theories, that's a -6.
     
    #121
  2. Ron Burguvdy

    Ron Burguvdy Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 9, 2011
    Messages:
    14,468
    Likes Received:
    19,595
    Trump'd up nonsense...

    Probably ;)
     
    #122
    TwoWrights likes this.
  3. Kalman

    Kalman Guest

    You’re right but I do think media outlets focus on certain events to detract from scandals and controversies by a government if they’re sympathetic to that government. I don’t think this is one of them though.
     
    #123
  4. Heimdallr

    Heimdallr Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2019
    Messages:
    1,662
    Likes Received:
    2,122
    Certainly in the past, politicians, royal family, connected ppl etc would pass on words to editors to keep things out the news or off the front page.

    Most articles now are driven by clicks, aren't they?... The more theyre read, the more theyre written about - the Titanic, pending real time deaths, submarine, billionaires... All ingredients for heavily read articles. An example of why we are all contributing to this thread and as someone else wrote, there's nothing on the Greek boat deaths. The Titanic has clearly captured the imagination of a lot of very wealthy, middle aged men.
     
    #124
  5. Heimdallr

    Heimdallr Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 8, 2019
    Messages:
    1,662
    Likes Received:
    2,122
    A good friend of mine, Rob Johnson, works for Llanberis mountain rescue. Back in the mid 2000s, they had a call out and someone had fallen and damaged their back, so they had to call out a helicopter available, that was one from Anglesey. They got the woman on the chopper and asked if they could get the easy option of a lift back to base off the mountain ... Pilot turns round and said no problem lads, just buy me a beer, and they saw it was prince william behind the controls.
     
    #125
  6. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,623
    Likes Received:
    75,829
    There's no doubt that sometimes stories are put out to draw attention from other stories, but I think this one just had lots of ingredients that got people interested - Titanic, Billionaire, a submarine that goes over 2 miles under the ocean steered with an X Box controller etc.
     
    #126

  7. TIGERSCAVE

    TIGERSCAVE Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 6, 2015
    Messages:
    17,295
    Likes Received:
    15,168
    .... and made with washers from B and Q..
     
    #127
  8. TIGERSCAVE

    TIGERSCAVE Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 6, 2015
    Messages:
    17,295
    Likes Received:
    15,168
    #128
  9. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2022
    Messages:
    13,508
    Likes Received:
    14,823
    But if Trump was still President and the same thing had been said people would immediately accept it as FACT.
     
    #129
    Shag and Howdentiger2 like this.
  10. eimaj

    eimaj Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 9, 2022
    Messages:
    1,277
    Likes Received:
    1,643
    Because commodity hardware is cheap to replace, don't you know. Someone should tell Boeing.
     
    #130
  11. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 30, 2013
    Messages:
    10,491
    Likes Received:
    14,658
    Some people. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
    #131
  12. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2022
    Messages:
    13,508
    Likes Received:
    14,823
     
    #132
  13. TwoWrights

    TwoWrights Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 30, 2013
    Messages:
    10,491
    Likes Received:
    14,658
    Watched the film that was the main song to recently, and 'they' call the youth of today. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
    #133
  14. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2022
    Messages:
    13,508
    Likes Received:
    14,823
    Cringe making, patronising stuff. As were a lot of films about “the youths”. Most seemed to feature Robert
    Morley in them.Remember seeing at the pictures in 1962.
     
    #134
    TwoWrights likes this.
  15. LeftSaidFred

    LeftSaidFred Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 12, 2014
    Messages:
    3,632
    Likes Received:
    3,333
    It's really really sad, but this angle is particularly hard.
     
    #135
  16. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 10, 2013
    Messages:
    2,416
    Likes Received:
    2,048
  17. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 10, 2013
    Messages:
    2,416
    Likes Received:
    2,048
    With the knowledge that the mothership and the towed submersible left from a Canadian port, is the Canadian Government not partially responsible due to its provision of departure facilities for a non-regulated submersible albeit heading into international waters.
     
    #137
  18. eimaj

    eimaj Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 9, 2022
    Messages:
    1,277
    Likes Received:
    1,643
    I've read a few legal documents in my time, some US based, and this looks like it was written by Ehab with his crayons.
     
    #138
  19. Carmine Galante.

    Carmine Galante. Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 28, 2011
    Messages:
    12,773
    Likes Received:
    6,254
    Wokenflaken.
     
    #139
    Chazz Rheinhold likes this.
  20. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    38,402
    Likes Received:
    19,740

Share This Page