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Post by 😎 on Sept 11, 2021 7:47:23 GMT
Seems weird that it was 20 years ago, it feels simultaneously like some abstract event in distant time but also super recent. I guess the end of the War on Terror has stirred up a lot of it.
Anyway, I was running an Internet cafe at the time (which basically meant I got paid for sitting in Yahoo chat all day with fuck all customers), and followed it in what was probably the first live-streamed news event. My usual Yahoo chat room had a redneck in it who spent several hours screaming about how the entire Middle East was going to be turned into glass and that he’d personally murder all Muslims he came across. Which was horrifying but also not an uncommon reaction. Very weird day that still doesn’t quite feel real.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Sept 11, 2021 7:50:39 GMT
It was my Dad's 50th birthday. Thanks a bunch, al quaida!
That reminds me, must ring Dad.
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Post by elstoof on Sept 11, 2021 7:54:54 GMT
20 years later the date format still confuses me, I thought it was 2 days ago. I was doing a days freelance work at a lighting cable company, I still remember Chris Moyles interrupting the song to announce a plane had flown into the first tower and saying it wasn’t one of his jokes, it’s really happened. Spent the rest of the day with all of us huddled around a computer screen trying to get the BBC website to load while everyone frantically called the New York office to find out if everyone was safe
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 7:55:46 GMT
It's going to distract from the forum shutdown commemorations for years to come.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 7:58:48 GMT
I was on a military camp in Germany in the time and too young to understand the implications. Since its happened a lot of my friends joined up and a few sadly passed from the wars it lead to.
Luckily any family members that went to war came back.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 11, 2021 8:01:32 GMT
I was at art college and was in London for a field trip (visit galleries, museums etc).
I remember being in the hotel room when we switched the TV. I'd dozed off for a nap and in my half awake state it took a moment for me to really register the seriousness, one of my mates pointed out the impact.
As it wasn't clear if there would be any global attacks elsewhere in the world our tutors decided we shouldn't leave the hotel that evening, so we had to stay in the hotel bar. As a defence mechanism there were some poor taste jokes made, and I think we tried to choose the most inappropriate songs on the jukebox (burning down the house?). Not very funny in hindsight, but we were a bunch of worried, drunk 18 year olds.
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Post by jimnastics on Sept 11, 2021 8:02:01 GMT
I was working for Lloyds TSB Registrars as it was back then, my first job out of college, just a crappy agency job doing admin in the IT department. Such a low-grade job that they didn't let me have internet access or external email on my computer! So when the news started breaking the only info I was getting was from a friend in the department, the first thing I saw was when he emailed me a photo of the first plane hitting. I couldn't work out the scale, and thought it was a small light plane. Obviously as things developed the scope of it became pretty clear. We actually had a guy in the department who's Mum was in NY on holiday and was planning to visit the WTC on her trip, thankfully she didn't that day, but he couldn't make contact with her for hours so didn't know if she was ok. By the time the towers came down I was back home from work and watched with my Mum in total silence, I vividly remember that moment in our living room.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 8:17:55 GMT
I always remember this day distinctively as it was when I first developed Kidney stones and was in agony at work.
Doc came out when I got home and drugged me up, and I recall being led in bed watching the news morphine'd up, wondering if what I was watching was real.
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Post by LockeTribal on Sept 11, 2021 8:18:45 GMT
I heard about it on the bus home from secondary school, wild rumours about planes falling from the sky and aliens attacking the Pentagon.
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Post by stuz359 on Sept 11, 2021 8:46:18 GMT
I remember it interrupted Neighbours that day.
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Post by technoish on Sept 11, 2021 8:50:37 GMT
Twas my 18th birthday, and I remember seeing it on the TV at the local McDonald's where I went for my dinner break from my supermarket shift.
One the one hand, it was a truly massive existential threat which changed air travel forever. But I do feel it's bigged up more than the thousands and thousands of people who died as collateral in the follow up.
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Post by trafford on Sept 11, 2021 9:07:43 GMT
I was kinda working in the civil aviation industry, airline ticket sales. We watched it happen then went back to our desks as the phones were mad busy.
Half the calls were people panicking as they had a flight booked at some point in the future and rest was new enquiries from folk wanting to travel but had no idea what had happened. I must have related the news 30 times that day.
When I got home, my heavily pregnant partner had been asleep most of the day, and had missed the news. Guess what love?
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Post by kingbambino on Sept 11, 2021 9:07:58 GMT
I was 19 and in bar watching the news in Menorca. The barman recognised me as he went to my school and said world War 3 has started.
My parents are currently in Menorca. Odd
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Post by hedben on Sept 11, 2021 9:11:17 GMT
I don't actually remember many details about where I was that day - I just remember watching TV coverage for hours and hours. I saw the second tower collapse live, but not the first.
I also remember a guy I vaguely knew at the time being super-pumped that they'd picked the World *Trade* Centre as a target. Like it was a big fuck-you to capitalism specifically. That sentiment, that it was an anticapitalist act, hasn't really stood the test of time.
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Post by jono62 on Sept 11, 2021 9:15:20 GMT
I was working for Ladbrokes (spit) at the time. Watching it happen in real time and some nobbers were moaning they couldn't get their 50p vets on.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 11, 2021 9:20:02 GMT
I remember it interrupted Neighbours that day. Yeah this. I was filling out housing forms for uni whilst watching Neighbours and the news cuts in saying the world trade centre is on fire...then the second plane hit live on TV and the world went to shit 😔 |
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 11, 2021 9:21:19 GMT
I was on a beach in Positano Italy, tv on at the back of the bar and trying to make sense of what happened via the odd English word I could catch as it was Italian dubbed US footage. Remember the bar staff watching and laughing their heads off, which still pisses me off to this day.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 11, 2021 9:21:55 GMT
Twas my 18th birthday, and I remember seeing it on the TV at the local McDonald's where I went for my dinner break from my supermarket shift. One the one hand, it was a truly massive existential threat which changed air travel forever. But I do feel it's bigged up more than the thousands and thousands of people who died as collateral in the follow up. Happy birfday |
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 11, 2021 9:47:09 GMT
I was watching Diagnosis Murder and playing Football Manager.
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Post by gamecat on Sept 11, 2021 9:55:22 GMT
Remember watching it unfold online at work initially at my first proper job, then after an hour or so everyone was told to go home as we couldn't do any work anyway, very surreal day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 10:06:42 GMT
I remember it interrupted Neighbours that day. Yeah this. I was filling out housing forms for uni whilst watching Neighbours and the news cuts in saying the world trade centre is on fire...then the second plane hit live on TV and the world went to shit 😔 Weirdly thats my memory as well. That day was my half day at college and I looked forward to going home and watching neighbours with my only meal of the day (in the middle of an eating disorder that would go on to lay claim to most of my twenties, which is why I put so much attachment on that one meal routine). Pretty sure I turned the TV on just before the second plane hit. I recall I spent the rest of the day painting, with the news on in the background, still in disbelief. |
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Sept 11, 2021 10:13:21 GMT
I know this was a big important event and all, but Jesus fucking Christ am I tired of reading the same fucking shit in all media every year.
Am I really the only one who doesn't give a shit where people were when they first heard about this?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 11, 2021 10:15:13 GMT
I was at home with my sister and we were just transfixed at the TV saying this couldn't be real after watching films like Independence Day, it just seemed like something from a movie. Then the second plane hit live on TV and it just became super real. I remember my mom coming back from town saying she saw it on a TV from the outside of a Dixons and there was a large crowd of people watching it in disbelief. Then obviously all the "nuke the middle east" sentiments started not soon after. Strange time.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 11, 2021 10:16:02 GMT
I know this was a big important event and all, but Jesus fucking Christ am I tired of reading the same fucking shit in all media every year. Am I really the only one who doesn't give a shit where people were when they first heard about this? You don't have to be in this thread you know. You're not being forced. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 10:16:07 GMT
It's probably quite normal to share memories of experiencing a traumatic event tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 10:22:56 GMT
I was at home with my sister and we were just transfixed at the TV saying this couldn't be real after watching films like Independence Day, it just seemed like something from a movie. Then the second plane hit live on TV and it just became super real. I remember my mom coming back from town saying she saw it on a TV from the outside of a Dixons and there was a large crowd of people watching it in disbelief. Then obviously all the "nuke the middle east" sentiments started not soon after. Strange time. Tonka doesn't give a shit Jambo, ffs. |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 11, 2021 10:25:12 GMT
Let’s hold out for the 30th anniversary guys, let Tonka cleanse his palette a little more
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Post by Techno Hippy on Sept 11, 2021 10:28:35 GMT
I watched it unfold live in the pub - on the same day there was a large tyre fire inline towards London which started speculation of an attack on the city.
Pro tip: Don't play It's Raining Men on the jukebox near Americans who are marking the day for remembrance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 10:29:38 GMT
I know this was a big important event and all, but Jesus fucking Christ am I tired of reading the same fucking shit in all media every year. Am I really the only one who doesn't give a shit where people were when they first heard about this? How about you don't enter a thread talking about it then? |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 11, 2021 10:30:44 GMT
Because he's a bit of a character
I misread your post so that doesn't really make sense but you get the idea
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