Friday, April 20, 2012

Sinking feeling


I love the sense of humanity on display at this children's playground in Northern Ireland; it an inflatable slide in the form of a half sinking ship which tips a nod to the Titanic anniversary this year. Apparently quite a few of the good burgers of Lough Shore aren't happy though, complaints have been received and many say that the amusement is in bad taste. Personally I think bad taste is underrated, irreverence is just as much part of our human make-up as grief, we should accommodate both.

5 comments:

Chairman Bill said...

It happened a hundred years ago, for heaven's sake! Not even my dad was alive then...

Steve Borthwick said...

CB, well quite, personally I'm still mourning the Permian extinction.

Chairman Bill said...

Perhaps we need a commemorative event...

Chairman Bill said...

...and a plaque, plus a set of silvered commemorative gates paid for by public subscrition.

Steve Borthwick said...

CB, at the very least a TV variety show featuring lots of Shakespearian actors bathed in spotlights and talking in very deep serious voices.