Posted on 04/11/2012 9:27:35 PM PDT by Brandonmark
ALMOST 1500 passengers and crew perished when Titanic sank to her watery grave 100 years ago - now the disaster is a children's amusement.
Billed as Australia’s largest inflatable slide, the 10-metre high ride is a rubbery replica of the ill-fated cruise liner that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1912. Children climb the sloped, sinking keel and then slide down the ship’s deck into the "ocean" - complete with iceberg.
The ride was one of the amusements at the Oakbank racing carnival in South Australia over the Easter long weekend. One racegoer thought the ride was creative.
"People have been imaginative in creating a ride. I’m not offended, but can see how people would be," he said. "There were plenty of kids who wanted to ride it and they wouldn’t have made any connection with disaster, so they probably could’ve called it something other than Titanic."
The Showmens Guild of South Australia, which organised the amusements for the Oakbank Racing Club, said the ride was popular and they had not received any complaints.
The Titanic ride isn’t the only bizarre spin-off created in the wake of the disaster.
This 'Gin and Titonic' ice tray available from The Gifted Man allows you "create your own mini-Titanic disaster in the comfort of your own alcohol."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Liberal Culture can only create the very debasement/crassness it is rooted in. This is another atrocious ‘look in the mirror’; save those holding the mirror; see nothing.
I have a morbid sense of humor myself but the way they’ve taken the Titanic disaster and twisted it in this fashion isn’t very classy.
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