What pisses me off is the amount of money people are making off this horrible tragedy. Books, dances, plays, etc… sick, sick shit, all to suck the almighty dollar from the dumb fucks who think the real Jack What’s-His-Hole is buried at Fairview cemetery. Where’s the fucking inflatable Titanic for the kiddies already? —Can’t Believe the Insensitivities of Our Age

This article appears in Apr 5-11, 2012.

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  1. “HALIFAX – We’re not just a city – We’re a giant temporary morque”
    Worst tourist slogan ever.

    Just wait ’til 2017, OP. Now that’s going to be a blast.

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  3. Dawson sounds close to what’s-his-ahole… sure.
    I thought that the cemetery was the springgarden one though… not fairview.
    and nothing draws the old folks like the appeal of visiting mass graves!
    come for the death… stay for the eternal company.

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  4. Anybody catch the doc on Discovery on Sunday about the body recovery and attempts at identification. It was shot in Halifax (and Sambro & Chester & Peggy’s Cove). Plenty of “Who’s dat, den?” Halifamous types in the re-enactments. Mr. Lahey played the engineer on the vable ship MacKay-Bennett (he was NO Montgomery Scott) The C.S.S. Acadia played the MacKay-Bennett which is going to be extra fun for the interpreters on board when turistas ask “Where were the Titanic bodies kept?”
    For some reason, the civilian crew were depicted wearing U.S. Navy uniforms. Neptune’s costume department must have had a brace of them in storage.
    It was all very interesting, but as mawkishly Canadian as it comes.

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  6. Nah it’s the Stabbyville cemetery, zed. Got some relatives buried up in there and I always saw the sign when we went to visit.

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  8. damn bastard harbour hopper script liers……
    what else did they fib about?
    I suppose theodore tugboat didn’t really drag the titanic back to our basin single-handedly either?

    WHAT!
    all my life’s views are skewed….

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  9. I’d rather lose my left nut than give James Cameron any more of money. Motherfucker got more than enough of it when I saw Avatar.

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  11. what’s with the beef on James Cameron?
    he’s pretty bad ass…
    a real guy’s director.

    Right behind Nolan in my books…..

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  12. I just wish he’d use his “talents” for something other than his own personal Son et Lumiere femdom fantasies.

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  16. and the abyss, terminators, true lies…
    let’s just hope he doesn’t ‘matrix’ avatar and bugger the next 2 up.

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  19. I think it’s cute that you think this sort of profiteering insensitivity to tragedy is just a product of our age.

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  20. They had the Bouncy Titanic slide at the Kermesse the year after Swiss Air which made me wonder how long the Statute of Elimination of Good Taste is so they can get going on a Bouncy Plane Crash.

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  23. John, you got it wrong. Send Khadr to Celine where he will have to listen to her sing “That song” for the rest of his natural life.

    But I agree there are people making mucho dollars of the disaster but people do it on all disasters and tragedies.

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  24. DO YOU HAVE A BRAIN?

    The cretinous “Can’t Believe” or whatever he’s called is unable to grasp the significance of the Titanic “celebrations.” The reason he is unable to do this reduces to “the amount of money” which is expended upon it. He is a buffoon, a simpleton, and a blackguard.

    The Titanic “celebrations” are, in effect, a reminder of the ancient Greek warning of “hubris,” the “pride that commeth before a fall.” Read your Aescyhelus, your Sophocles, your Euripides. But, of course, to “Can’t Believe,” these are forever closed books. You buffoon, you simpleton, you blackguard. Be gone!

    A pleasure as always.

    Cheerio!

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  25. Geez-Louse Tim. Talk about enhanced interrogation techniques. He’d cop to the Murder of Rasputin, Kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, the Reichstag Fire, Jimmy Hoffa, the Tylenol Tampering and the fact that the sun is going to burn out in about 50million years.
    Harsh, Brother. Very, very harsh >; )

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  26. the dna was done a long time ago to identify the remains of those buried there. john hume is one of them. as is the other chap buried there, is the same group that played the music while it was going down. shit, don’t you fucking people ever read up on something, before you write.
    who the fuck do you think is buried there, elvis?

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  27. It’s not a celebration, it’s a “commemoration”, so it’s totally cool to extort money from tourisists that are fully expecting to be gouged. At least we didn’t build a 160 million dollar “Titanic Attraction” like they did in Ireland. How much ya think they’re gonna lose on that dumbass idea?

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  28. Omar Khadr wins like Charlie Sheen, y’all.

    But, really, thankfully the Titanic only sunk once so this jibberish won’t be around again until 2112 when I’m all deaf and enlightened.

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  29. The sex scene between Jack and Rose was the very first thing I masterbated to in my life. Hell, I still get a boner every time I watch that scene. And Jamie Cameron is fucking hot.

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  30. Kudos to Monsieur, he’s right on the money on this one. Titanic was supposed be unsinkable but a little less a week into her maiden voyage, she ended up on the ocean floor. So much for man’s dominion over nature.
    Over the years following that disaster, there were several searches and theories as to where the liner finally rested. That enduring mystery created a legend and that legend became an industry. The discovery of the wreck in 1985 only heightened interest and then came the blockbuster film in 1997. Now that the centennial anniversary is upon us, it’s only natural that there would be a lot of activity surrounding the event on both sides of the Atlantic.
    So, no, I don’t begrudge the commemoration, it may be the most famous shipwreck in history and it happened in our backyard.

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  31. ..in the same vein..wtf is up with the 95th anniv. of Vimy Ridge..95th?..am I missing something here..100th I get….95th..not so much

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  33. 95 hmmm… I believe that’s the Polident anniversary…

    hell, I was so obsessed I wrote and recited (in front of my whole school, no less) a 3 min speech in grade 4 about the titanic and I’m not even that excited.
    3 minutes is a lot of time to kill when all eyes are on you.

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  35. Orgasmatron omg LOLZZZZZ. That made my day.

    Heck, zed, even my stint on street cents in grade 9 didn’t require 3 minutes of speaking….

    Yes. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen: I was on Street Cents.

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  43. >: ) …and strictly speaking Zedster, it was Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast that built the Olympics for White Star, the operator of them.
    …HAY, don’t tell me “Oh Fuck Off, Cliff Clavin!”
    This is what I’m hardwired to do. It ain’t as if I got a choice. >: (

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  44. Don’t understand all the hate towards Titanic commemoration and James Cameron. I haven’t seen very much of the commemoration that involves NS down here, which surprises me.

    There is a Titanic Association and museum in tiny little Indian Orchard, not half an hour from my house.
    http://southbury.patch.com/articles/titani…

    James Cameron is a member and invited the president and wife of the organization a cameo in the film. During filming, Cameron stopped and announced “these two people are the reason why we are all here” and the cast and crew applauded them.

    I think it is also notable that the sketches drawn by Jack were all done by James Cameron, and it is his hands you see in the film.

    Finally, I saw an interview recently with that guy Ballard who found the wreck. He said he was really looking for two downed US nuke subs, but said he was looking for the Titanic to keep Russians from knowing his true mission. He found the Titanic in between the two subs.

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  46. U.S.S. Thresher in ’63, off Cape Cod and U.S.S. Scorpion in ’68, near the Azores.
    There’ve been some silly conspiracy books published recently which suggest that the Soviets actually sank Scorpion because they believed that the Americans sank their Golf Class missile sub in the North Pacific earlier that year.

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  49. Although I think the ad slogan “Ships Sink Here” is going a little overboard.

    (Ivan, I just knew you’d know the names of the subs!)

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  51. Well Duhhhhhh! >; )

    I want to apologize for the Polar Bear link. I didn’t watch it all the way through before posting. The song is funny, but that footage is just achingly sad.

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  52. Saw several cakes with “Titanic” depicted on them (Even said Titanic in blue icing in case you were unsure what ship it was supposed to be) at the Superstore. Not sure if someone working in the bakery there is a) ironic, b) funny, c) being told what to do by someone who has bad taste.

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  53. i’m guessing c)… blue icing doesn’t taste any different then white. a titanic ice sculpture would make more sense

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  54. I think it is a good thing to celebrate the memory of the 100 years. Celebrations are not free so if someone is doing something and making a little money that is fine.

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  59. Thank you, my Dear. I should be copywriting this stuff before it turns up on “These 22 Minutes Seem Like An Hour”. Of course, being C.B.C, what are they going to pay me in? Unsold copies of “Streeters”?
    Ba-ZING! Ooooh, I’m in a bilious mood today >: )

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