Oceangate's Titan. The Bayesian yacht. Why do the deaths of rich people matter more than poor people?

[Pickman's model]

The first two paragraphs are about why the term isn’t medically recognised and why people advise against using it.

No one should use today's substandard journalism

 

[bcuster]

The Titan's former lead engineer says he felt pressured to get the submersible ready

The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic says he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it.

apnews.com

 

[ghost boy]

‘Pressured’

Surely a better choice of word there

 

[DotCommunist]

Feeling the squeeze

 

[JimW]

Sunk cost fallacy.

 

[DotCommunist]

In way over their heads

 

[Saul Goodman]

Sunk cost fallacy.

Costly phallus sunk.

 

[WouldBe]

Costly phallus sunk.

I doubt Viagra would revive that.

 

[ghost boy]

I doubt Viagra would revive that.

Something something dropping a load of viagra in the Atlantic something something raise the Titanic

 

[PTK]

Can a dog actually shit "itself"? Or would that just be it shitting? I suppose if you put it in clothes first. It is more interesting than king sausage fingers, I must admit.

Can you think to yourself?

 

[PTK]

I have been on the Underground, and there is no velvet there, so why was a band called after something that does not exist?
Lou Reed et al were educated people. Why did they not name the band after something that actually existed on the Underground in the 1960s, such as smoking carriages?

 

[Idris2002]

I doubt Viagra would revive that.

They'd have to try Sea-alis instead.

 

[planetgeli]

I have been on the Underground, and there is no velvet there, so why was a band called after something that does not exist?
Lou Reed et al were educated people. Why did they not name the band after something that actually existed on the Underground in the 1960s, such as smoking carriages?

A) They were American (apart from John Cale who is from Ammanford of all places)

B) They are very much named after something in existence. A book.

 

[PTK]

A) They were American (apart from John Cale who is from Ammanford of all places)

B) They are very much named after something. A book.

I am sure that being American is no excuse. There is no velvet on the US equivalent of the Underground.
It is rather elitist to name yourself after a book with which most people are unfamiliar.

 

[planetgeli]

Ok we'd better not even get into Venus in Furs then.

Ah, I've got it. You don't know the book The Velvet Underground because that was the American title. You'll have the English edition, which had a different title.

Bizarre Sex Underground.

Which is also a great name for a band.

 

[PTK]

Ok we'd better not even get into Venus in Furs then.

Ah, I've got it. You don't know the book The Velvet Underground because that was the American title. You'll have the English edition, which had a different title.

Bizarre Sex Underground.

Which is also a great name for a band.

Actually, I did know that the band was named after a book that Lou Reed said he found in a gutter, if memory serves me well. I am just worried that young people will see the title of the band, and expect the Underground to contain velvet. Venus in Furs comes from events in a book by that person after who Masochism is called.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Can you think to yourself?

You don't, and you're less amusing.

 

[WouldBe]

A) They were American (apart from John Cale who is from Ammanford of all places)

B) They are very much named after something in existence. A book.

C) has nothing to do with titanic mini subs.

 

[PTK]

C) has nothing to do with titanic mini subs.

It all started when I responded to a post on another thread, and pressing a link to the post got me here.