Here’s a story on how some researchers are saying it was cheap rivets that caused the ultimate failure of the Titanic. That’s not a new theory, but what I found interesting was this:
Harland & Wolff rejected the researchers’ findings.
“There was nothing wrong with the materials,” company spokesman Joris Minne said.
The company from Northern Ireland that made the Titanic is apparently still around to defend its construction. Sorry, dudes, but I think something was wrong there.
And when people decided to make the world’s largest ship, who decided to contract that out to the Irish? With a bunch of sub-human, drunken potato-eaters putting it together, it’s a miracle it made it far enough from England to strike an iceberg.
I can’t believe you’re buying into this truther nonsense. Soon you’ll start telling us about how Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith secretly switched out the rivets and how ice can’t cut steel.
I found this riveting.
HERE’s what really happened. :o)
[He stole that from me! I wrote that idea in the comments on Hot Air (after someone linked to him), and a couple days later that appeared. I was going to do it! -Ed.]
But the part about the “sub-human, drunken potato-eaters putting it together,” here’s the deal. My Irish relatives are coming to Boise with their potato guns to plaster your car, Frank. I’m gonna need you to stand near it when they’re firing, okay? That’d be great. Thanks.
We’ve been over all this. The reason the Titanic sank was to allow Kate Winslet to escape a loveless marriage to Billy Zane without having to be stuck with penniless Leo DiCaprio. She swiped the diamond representing the treasure of a passion-filled life (not too mention a deep checking account)leaving behind a symbol of her now-sullied maidenhood. Not a bad trade. But if not for the iceberg she’d have been down in steerage, sampling her future life all the way to NYC. And she’d have started drilling out those rivets herself with that big-ass diamond.
Everyone knows this. Sheesh
If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!
Rivets or not, if the boat fills with water, down she goes. So maybe they should have designed her watertight compartments to have actual walls going all the actual way up to the actual ceiling, so they would actually be watertight.
Just sayin’.
The fact that this company still exists is a striking testament to the free market system.
“No expense has been spared” -Jimmy James
“Not one. The hull alone is held together by over 200 miles of duct tape” -Joe Garelli
“I thought we were going with steel for the hull” -Jimmy James
“No, steel’s not waterproof” -Joe Garelli
NewsRadio Episode Sinking Ship
“Harland & Wolff rejected the researchers’ findings.”
I second that, although I’m not sure why……
Wollf
The jooooooossssss had something to do with it, I’m sure!!
In a mean abode on the Shankill Road
Lived a man named William Bloat
And he had a wife, the bane of his life
Who always got his goat
And one day at dawn, with her nightdress on
He slit her bloody throat
Now, he was glad he had done what he had
As she lay there stiff and still
‘Til suddenly awe of the angry law
Filled his soul with an awful chill
And to finish the fun so well begun
He decided himself to kill
Then he took the sheet from his wifes cold feet
And he twisted it into a rope
And he hanged himself from the pantry shelf
‘Twas an easy end, let’s hope
With his dying breath and he facing death
He solemnly cursed the Pope
But the strangest turn of the whole concern
Is only just beginning
He went to hell, but his wife got well
And she’s still alive and sinning
For the razor blade was English-made
But the rope was Belfast linen
The Ballad of William Bloat
A man is speeding down a narrow mountain road near Derry, when a woman comes hurtling round the corner in smaller car. He swerves to avoid her, but as she passes she leans out the window and screams ‘PIG!’
Astonished, the man turns and yells back, ‘BITCH!’ as he reaches the bend… just before crashing into a pig.
The rivets were made and installed by …..IRISH JOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!
Looking good for those who have bonus points for an IRA bomb instead of an Islamofascist bomb in the FrankJ deadpool.
The Titanic was built by sober black protestants. The drunken, potato-eating sub-human, etc., types were put on board to die like rats. Like RATS, I tells ya.
My favorite bits of Belfact graffiti:
“Northern Irelans: A problem for every solution.”
“Buy now, while shops last.”
Yar!
Why did William Bloat have his wife’s nightdress on? Seems kinda creepy to me.
Why would they reject the findings? Is there a 122 year old lawyer out there still hoping to file a wrongfull death class action suit against the firm? Maybe he can represent the William Bloat estate against the English razor company while he’s waiting.
loser I’m part Irish. We like beer, sue us. I think ill join Jimmy in potato gunning ur car.
#21 needs to sign their name so I know who to call. Hey, it’s April 15th, the worst day of the year and I need to shoot sumpin. I ate my potatoes already and downed some grog (brewskies to you prolly). My stubborn Scot ancestor’s wacky offspring married crazy inbred Welshmen and had seven toes and finners. I hate Frank. He’s Flemmish.
“sub-human, drunken potato-eaters”
I like that one, Frank.
i was #21…
but seriously, wats wrong with liking beer a lot? its awesome. and fyi, im a 13 year old sayin this.