• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Everyone is all “actually it would be impossible” like this bitch did math before telling the guy to go fuck himself.

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        2 months ago

        Only if they both had the knowledge and frame of mind to engi her flotation devices from the life vest rose was wearing. Otherwise the door would have sunk enough for them to freeze to death before rescue came. Provides they knew rescue was coming after a certain time.

        Considering one was a socialite, and the other a freelance artist, and both had just almost been killed multiple times… no, I don’t think they would have had the foresight to come up with the exact scenario that would have saved them both.

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              2 months ago

              I don’t recall the full episode but a few things stood out.

              • it would be cold as hel, so properly strapping a lifevest around some flotsam seems iffy
              • isn’t saltwater more buoyant or is that old fishwife’s tale? Also idk if that test body of water is salty.
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                2 months ago

                Yep, saltwater has more buoyancy, and the higher the salinity, the more buoyant the water.

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              Yep, saltwater has more buoyancy, and the higher the salinity, the more buoyant the water.

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              Only if they had the knowledge and abilities (and time to come up with a plan) of two people whose job it is to come up with exactly this kind of thing.

              Sure, it was possible. That doesn’t make it probable.

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                  2 months ago

                  I take it you didn’t actually watch the mythbusters episode, then. If they both just climbed on the door they would have both died. They would have had to jury-rig a contraption using the life-preserver Rose was wearing to survive… barely.

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    2 months ago

    I also wasted an entire ship’s manhours and fuel to look for something I had in my pocket all along.

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    If you watch Titanic in reverse it’s about a sad lady floating on a door who idly fishes a cute boy out of the ocean and brings him onto a big fancy steamship that has conveniently sprouted up over by an iceberg, where they have steamy no-strings vacation sex until they split up because they each find new boyfriends on the ship they’d rather go to Europe with.

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    I saw that movie with my dad, who spent years reading about the Titanic because he took an interest in it for some reason.

    I’m not sure which one of us hated that movie more.

    I’m glad that people are looking back on it these days and realizing it was just not a good movie.

    If you want to see a good Titanic movie, check out A Night to Remember, made in the UK in 1958. Sure, it won’t have the dazzling special effects. It also doesn’t have a stupid as fuck plot.

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      I don’t understand how either of you would be upset watching the movie. The rich girl slept with a homeless guy, and then she let him drown.

      It’s movie magic

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      If you want to see a good Titanic movie, check out A Night to Remember, made in the UK in 1958. Sure, it won’t have the dazzling special effects. It also doesn’t have a stupid as fuck plot.

      Did it have a dude bouncing off a propeller while emitting the Wilhelm Scream? I didn’t think so.

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        True, but I was not a nerd on the topic. I just thought it was stupid to shoehorn a boring forbidden love subplot into a movie about the most famous fucking ship sinking of all time as if that alone wasn’t dramatic enough.

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    If Jack had survived, they would never have worked anyways. You can’t just pick up a homeless guy and make him your husband in high society, and she never would have survived being poor with him. They would have just ended up fat and old together, living in a shitty tenement building, eating boiled cabbages and yelling at each other while their 20 kids run around the ones bedroom apartment

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      I’ve never watched the movie but people have definitely gotten inheritance while marrying into a “lower class” before