WHAT WOULD U HAVE DONE ON THE TITANIC?

by Mary 44 Replies latest jw friends

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  D8TA

  I would take George Carlin's advice:

  "I locate my nearest emergency exit and then I plan my route, you have to plan your route. It's not always a straight line is it?....I look around for; women and children, midgets and dwarves, cripples, war widows, paralyzed veterans, people with broken legs, anybody who looks like they can't move too well. The emotionally disturbed come in very handy at a time like this. You may have to go out of your way to find these people, but you get out of the plane a lot god damn quicker believe me!"

  "I say; let's see I go around the fat (expletive), step on the widow's head, push those children out of the way, knock down the paralyzed midget....and get out of the plane where I can help others."
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  Simon

  There was a large floating thing nearly I think ... wasn't it an Iceberg?

  I wonder if anyone tried to make it to that ... maybe it was the wrong shape.
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  LittleToe

  LOL @ Simon - that's the way my mind was thinking
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  WildHorses

  What's the answer, Mary? Personally, I would have made them fill all the rafts to their full capacity. That alone would have saved many more lives. Also, the tables in the dining areas could have been used as flotaion devices.
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  expatbrit

  In the couple of hours it took for the ship to sink, I would have drunk 197 Vodka Martinis, thus making my body completely immune from freezing. Then I would have swum the rest of the way to New York.

  Expatbrit
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  WildHorses

  I would have drunk 197 Vodka Martinis, thus making my body completely immune from freezing. Then I would have swum the rest of the way to New York.

  Poor expat, you would actually freeze rather quickly. That is a myth. Alcohol actually thins the blood, causing it to freeze faster. Besides that, if you were drunk, you'd most likely drown.
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  MegaDude

  I would have found it an opportune time to begin new Bible studies and get my hours up before I met Jehovah God.
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  expatbrit

  Lilacs:

  Damn! I guess my only hope would have been to replace my blood entirely with Vodka!

  In any case, when I drowned I probably wouldn't have noticed.

  Expatbrit (starting to feel like a cocktail)
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  Mary

  Well believe or not, Expabrit is the closest..........

  First of all, there were enough life boats to save around 1100 passangers, had they all been filled to capacity. Lets say they could have put ALL the children in the lifeboats and as many women as they could, that would leave around 1100 still on board.

  Charles Joughin was the Chief Baker on the Titanic (in the movie, he was hanging off the end of the ship with Jack and Rose). His exit from the ship was very similar to what you see in the movie; he literally walked off the ship when it sank and swam away without even getting his hair wet. He had drank at least a quart of whiskey before the ship sank (thinking he was going to die) and was bombed out of his mind for the next few hours. Unbeknown at the time, the amount of alcohol in his system acted as an antifreeze and he survived 2 1/2 hours in the water, before being hauled up on one of the overturned lifeboats. (ever put a bottle of whiskey or scotch or rum in the freezer? It'll get cold but it'll never freeze).

  The Titanic was carrying 850 bottles of spirits including scotch, whiskey, rum, etc (this does not include wine or ale, both of which freezes). It's hard to say whether these bottles were 40 oz or 60 oz each, but lets say they were 40 oz each. That means there was 34,000 oz. of hard liquor available. If there were 1100 passengers still on board, there was enough for almost 31 oz. for each person. While this may sound strange at first, if all of these people had of drank till they were drunk like the baker, there's no reason why they all could not have survived 2 1/2 hours in the freezing water, just like Charles Joughin did, until help arrived.

  Lilacs said: Alcohol actually thins the blood, causing it to freeze faster

  If you drink ALOT of the right stuff, this simply isn't true. If it were, the baker would have froze in 5 minutes flat. He didn't. While everyone else froze in 30 minutes or less, he survived 2 1/2 hours simply because the alcohol acted as an antifreeze.

  Edited by - Mary on 27 December 2002 15:45:25
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  expatbrit

  Sometimes the universe is a truly remarkable place.

  Expatbrit