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I had some boomers (and sons of boomers) get mad at me because I didn't immediately recognize that it was Pearl Harbor day a few years back. is it 12/9?
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I had some boomers (and sons of boomers) get mad at me because I didn't immediately recognize that it was Pearl Harbor day a few years back. is it 12/9? December seventh, 1941: a date which will live...in infamy c'mon son
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Sep 8, 2016 01:29
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12/9 looks better, though. I'll keep using that.
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Sep 8, 2016 01:31
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i wonder what each generation considers their big watershed "where were you when you heard about *" moment for both my parents it was when jfk was shot, for my grandparents it was pearl harbor, for me 9/11 obv
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Sep 8, 2016 01:35
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I was asleep for 9/11 because I lived in Alaska at the time and it happened at like 5:30am.
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Sep 8, 2016 01:38
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Sagebrush posted:i wonder what each generation considers their big watershed "where were you when you heard about *" moment it was actually may 16th 2010 the day that metal died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBRsr7AAVbo 
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Sep 8, 2016 01:39
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I was asleep for 9/11 because I lived in Alaska at the time and it happened at like 5:30am. i woke up to people in my house screaming (brother was in NYC that day), turned on the tv to see what was happening and saw the second plane hit the tower
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Sep 8, 2016 01:39
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Sagebrush posted:it's super convenient that 9/11 is just named after the date so that no one can ever forget when it was hitler's birthday is 4/20
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Sep 8, 2016 01:42
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well let's see. 1940s: probably a lot of ww2 stuff but i'm gonna say pearl harbor 1950s: sputnik maybe? 1960s: jfk, apollo 11 1970s: ?? watergate? i can't think of anything in this decade that they'd take the kids out of school for 1980s: berlin wall coming down 1990s: ?? see 1970s. e: oj simpson verdict maybe, lol 2000s: 9/11 2010s: iphone huge released, much wailing and gnashing of teeth Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Sep 8, 2016 01:43
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berlin wall poo poo took like forever and the biggest event happened around a midnight, so it's all too annoying to pin a date on
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Sep 8, 2016 01:45
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ol qwerty bastard posted:surely walmart sells toy airplanes unfortunately it's already been taken down, and wal-mart passed the blame to coke. which is just so america
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Sep 8, 2016 01:47
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Sagebrush posted:1990s: ?? see 1970s. e: oj simpson verdict maybe, lol rodney king riots
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Sep 8, 2016 01:49
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Sagebrush posted:well let's see. 1980s was the challenger blowing up 1990s was the oj chase tho the verdict i guess wouldve been second
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Sep 8, 2016 01:50
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Sagebrush posted:well let's see. i guess this is primarily a US/things people in the US would hear about thing but 1970s aus: - The Dismissal (Prime Minister deposed by governor general, replaced by the leader of the opposition, still kinda a topic in politics today) - Balibo Five, maybe 1980s NZ: - Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior (protest vessel sank by french DGSE, caused total change in NZ international relations and defence policy) 1990s aus/nz: - Port Arthur Massacre (aus) - Aramoana Massacre (nz) 2000s aus: - MV Tampa affair - Children Overboard scandal - Cronulla Riots - Steve Irwin worldwide stuff: 1950s you had things like the death of Stalin, the construction of the berlin wall 1960s you have the gulf of tonkin incident, gary powers being shot down, the cuban missile crisis 1970s was the jonestown massacre, the beginning of the 1970s fuel crisis 1980s: tianenmen square 1990s you have things like the Oklahoma City Bombing, Waco Siege, etc no-one would've been taken out of school for those ones but people would remember them for sure epipen fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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Sep 8, 2016 02:03
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Sagebrush posted:it's super convenient that 9/11 is just named after the date so that no one can ever forget when it was i only remember jfk day because of the stephen king book 11/22/63
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Sep 8, 2016 02:05
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Sagebrush posted:well let's see. berlin wall came down in 1991 i thought?? also 80s would totes be challenger, bunch of school kids watched it live
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Sep 8, 2016 02:08
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would people have heard about the Apollo 1 fire in school?
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Sep 8, 2016 02:09
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don't forget chernobyl
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Sep 8, 2016 02:11
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epipen posted:would people have heard about the Apollo 1 fire in school? yeah but in a decade with jfk, rfk, mlk, and every other apollo project thing it probably wouldnt have registered as high
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Sep 8, 2016 02:11
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from toe to tip, that's a BART
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Sep 8, 2016 02:12
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epipen posted:would people have heard about the Apollo 1 fire in school? I was taught about that in grade school
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Sep 8, 2016 02:12
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atomicthumbs posted:from toe to tip, that's a BART
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Sep 8, 2016 02:14
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2010: livestreaming mavi marmara (gaza flotilla) and deepwater horizon
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Sep 8, 2016 02:15
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epipen posted:1980s NZ: still blows my mind that the french sent some loving frogmen to the other side of the world to put a limpet mine on the greenpeace boat
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Sep 8, 2016 02:15
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sinking greenpeace is a noble cause
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Sep 8, 2016 02:16
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Sagebrush posted:it's super convenient that 9/11 is just named after the date so that no one can ever forget when it was the ninth of November, the end of history.
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Sep 8, 2016 02:16
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atomicthumbs posted:the french sent some loving frogmen ayyy
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Sep 8, 2016 02:17
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Also ballet is actually bad and needs to go away
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Sep 8, 2016 02:18
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maniacdevnull posted:berlin wall came down in 1991 i thought?? also 80s would totes be challenger, bunch of school kids watched it live they first let people back through it in early november 1989, there were major chunks taken out for new crossings starting in december 1989, major desconstruction of it and the the much longer wall between the rest of east and west germany took place starting in 1990 and continuing to 1993, with most of the deconstruction being done for the berlin part by 1991. the germanies reunited in early october 1990, when there was still a shitload of the berlin wall and inner german border still standing and generally being in the way
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Sep 8, 2016 02:21
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maybe 1991 was the fall of the ussr?
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Sep 8, 2016 02:22
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Jonny 290 posted:Also ballet is actually bad and needs to go away it's an awful thing to say (cuz of all the kids still doing it and the grown women who liked feeling like princesses back in the day) but it originally started out as advertisement for prostitution but everything has a dirty little origin story
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Sep 8, 2016 02:22
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1975 had the fall of Saigon
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Sep 8, 2016 02:27
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Shaggar posted:sinking greenpeace is a noble cause my dad was a cook on the RW in the early 80s. he was mad about it
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maniacdevnull posted:maybe 1991 was the fall of the ussr? yeah that happened formally on the day after christmas, 1991 but in practice most of the countries were already operating independent in 1989 and 1990 all a mess, all a mess
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Sep 8, 2016 02:29
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atomicthumbs posted:from toe to tip, that's a BART lol
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Sep 8, 2016 02:31
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the 80s now poast some pics motherfuckers
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Sep 8, 2016 02:32
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I like the idea that this wouldn't have been offensive if they'd just left the towers out.
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Sep 8, 2016 02:32
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NoneMoreNegative posted:the ninth of November, the end of history. some European guy will always make this joke around 9/11 and again in November and it's equally stupid every year you do everything backwards over there, in the second best continent in the world we get it
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Sep 8, 2016 02:33
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Salt Fish posted:I like the idea that this wouldn't have been offensive if they'd just left the towers out. what are you talking about, soda box flag displays have been around for decades and decades also giant walls where the sprite boxes are used to spell ou ta Local Team against a coke background
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