“It was like being on the Titanic”, people rescued from the Norwegian cruise liner which got into difficulties on Saturday. Which raises the obvious suspicion that there was a degree of prompting from Her Majesty’s Press to get the cliché.
And if it really was like being on the Titanic, it was in a wimpy, C21 way with the ship not sinking and close enough to the shore for people to be helicoptered off despite the appalling weather.
You don’t get maritime disasters like the ones in the Good Old Days any more.
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