Backfire It's Titanic Week:109th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It's a very emotional time of year. How will you be honouring Titanic week?

[Feraligatr]

I’m not lonely …. We just don’t have many fans

Look at the positives; Doing better than Gold Coast!

 

[Wosh]

Jazny the TRUE Titanic love story. Ida refused to get on a lifeboat and leave her husband of 41 years, choosing to stay on the sinking ship and die with him, even tho she had vast wealth and a full life with children and grandchildren at home.
She didn’t push him off no frigging door either.

 

[T2B_]

I mean even Footy Is The Win is married.

That must be Fake News

 

[Jazny]

No it's dumb. It sends a message to young men that they are just disposable and they should die for a woman they met 5 minutes ago.

Oh no we have a meninist in Bay 13!

Jazny the TRUE Titanic love story. Ida refused to get on a lifeboat and leave her husband of 41 years, choosing to stay on the sinking ship and die with him, even tho she had vast wealth and a full life with children and grandchildren at home.
She didn’t push him off no frigging door either.

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That's what Rose did too! She leapt out of the safety of her lifeboat to run back in and save Jack! They both ended up in the water because Rose stayed behind. Jack then sacrificed himself like a true gentleman for his one true love when they both couldn't fit on the door

 

[Wosh]

Oh no we have a meninist in Bay 13!

That's what Rose did too! She leapt out of the safety of her lifeboat to run back in and save Jack! They both ended up in the water because Rose stayed behind. Jack then sacrificed himself like a true gentleman for his one true love when they both couldn't fit on the door

10 fat people could have fit on that door Jazny.

 

[Orange crush]

10 fat people could have fit on that door Jazny.

Or elmojudd

 

[Jazny]

 

[Footy Is The Win]

10 fat people could have fit on that door Jazny.

Tom Hawkins could have got on the ****en thing


I bet if Jack climbed aboard Rose would go dry.

#Sick
#50shadesofpink

 

[emuboy]

Essendon has some odd links to the Titanic. It won the premiership in 1911 (Titanic launched), in 1912 (Titanic sank) and in 1985 (wreck found). Essendon Association were also VFA premiers in 1911 and 1912.

Doctor Robert Ballard the oceanographer who discovered Titanic's wreckage was born in Essendon's premiership season of 1942. Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian (a ship nearby that did not heed Titanic's rockets nor have their wireless set turned on) died in 1962, the same year Stockton Rush, the captain of the ill-fated Titan submersible was born and when Essendon won the grand final. Essendon were premiers again in 1965, the year lookout Fred Fleet who sighted the fateful iceberg died by his own hand. The last surviving Titanic male passenger, Michel Navratil, died in 2001, the year of Essendon's most recent grand final appearance to date.

Essendon's 1912 Grand Final opponent was South Melbourne, and of the Grand Final combinations that have actually happened, Essendon vs. Swans is the one that has not come up again for the longest time.

 

[V_23]

 

[emuboy]

One of the stranger Titanic stories was that of Douglas Spedden, the little boy photographed playing with a spinning top on the ship's decks. He survived the sinking (sleeping through most of it) but by age 8 in 1915 he would be dead, hit and killed by an automobile in Maine, that state's first ever road fatality.

Ruth Becker, a second-class passenger aged 12 and travelling with her mother and siblings back home to America earned much praise for her bravery and level head during the disaster. After stepping off the Carpathia when it docked in New York Ruth never took to sea again (I wonder why) until May 1990, when as a fit and healthy retiree at age 90 she took a 12 day luxury cruise in the Pacific. But after returning home to Santa Barbara at the conclusion of this cruise, Ruth's health took a sharp decline and she passed away just 6 weeks later.

 

[Jazny]

One of the stranger Titanic stories was that of Douglas Spedden, the little boy photographed playing with a spinning top on the ship's decks. He survived the sinking (sleeping through most of it) but by age 8 in 1915 he would be dead, hit and killed by an automobile in Maine, that state's first ever road fatality.

Ruth Becker, a second-class passenger aged 12 and travelling with her mother and siblings back home to America earned much praise for her bravery and level head during the disaster. After stepping off the Carpathia when it docked in New York Ruth never took to sea again (I wonder why) until May 1990, when as a fit and healthy retiree at age 90 she took a 12 day luxury cruise in the Pacific. But after returning home to Santa Barbara at the conclusion of this cruise, Ruth's health took a sharp decline and she passed away just 6 weeks later.

Interesting stories, the Titanic is filled with them! Why can't other members of this thread be this constructive?

 

[emuboy]

Interesting stories, the Titanic is filled with them! Why can't other members of this thread be this constructive?

Another amazing one emerged last year, Titan submersible captain Stockton Rush's wife (now widow) is the great, great granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Strauss, both of whom died on the Titanic in 1912.

 

[T2B_]

Another interesting Titanic related fact is it will be 112 years before Essendon win a final

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Essendon has some odd links to the Titanic. It won the premiership in 1911 (Titanic launched), in 1912 (Titanic sank) and in 1985 (wreck founnd}

They also have a lot in common with the Titanic submersible

 

[FurTheWin]

Interesting stories, the Titanic is filled with them! Why can't other members of this thread be this constructive?

A lot of history for sure, Jaz, but it feels like we only get one side of the story.
Luckily oceanographers have been able to track down the great grandson of the original iceberg.

 

[emuboy]

Another interesting Titanic related fact is it will be 112 years before Essendon win a final

NEWS HEADLINES FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 2116:

Melbourne, Australia - The Essendon Bombers win their first final in 112 years, beating the New Zealand Rams at the MCG 17.10-112 to 14.16-100 in an Elimination Final and earning a First Semi Final position against the Canberra Kangaroos the following week.

 

[StMojo]

Richmond did on Sunday

 

[Cyclops]

Thos thread is unsinkable!

Like the Pies flag hopes this year.

 

[zackah]

NEWS HEADLINES FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 2116:

Melbourne, Australia - The Essendon Bombers win their first final in 112 years, beating the New Zealand Rams at the MCG 17.10-112 to 14.16-100 in an Elimination Final and earning a First Semi Final position against the Canberra Kangaroos the following week.

Souf Victoria devils wooden spooners again?

 

[Jazny]

Souf Victoria devils wooden spooners again?

We continue our now TWO centuries long tradition of beating the 'same olds'.