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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:
the only American who didn't let bin Laden win that day....
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May 5, 2024 21:09
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I was fresh out of school and in my office in Bethesda when someone wandered by and said a plane crashed into the WTC. I figured they meant a little single prop plane had a bad accident or w/e. Then news started to trickle in and someone wheeled out a TV on a cart into the middle of the big common area so we all could watch. We saw the 2nd plane hit live and about 2 minutes later, corporate called and told us all to GTFO. Traffic was nuts though with people driving on sidewalks and being general assoles so a couple of my coworkers and I just walked across the street to a restaurant/bar where we could at least drink and watch everything unfold on CNN in silence. If we were all going to die, at least we’d be drunk. At one point I was outside smoking a cigarette and a pair of fighter jets flew by overhead low and fast. Was definitely a weird day
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May 5, 2024 22:55
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Frank Frank posted:I was fresh out of school and in my office in Bethesda when someone wandered by and said a plane crashed into the WTC. I figured they meant a little single prop plane had a bad accident or w/e. Remember when a few years later an MLB player crashed a plane into a building in NYC.
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May 5, 2024 23:20
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lobster shirt posted:cspam has never been more normal Yep. It's like if Chernobyl exploded but then it got better. Trust The Plan
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May 5, 2024 23:27
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Remember when a few years later an MLB player crashed a plane into a building in NYC. theres some guy out there on youtube recreating every famous sports crash in microsoft flight simulator
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May 5, 2024 23:28
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:lot of good games came out in 2001... soldier of fortune 2 had procedural multiplayer maps in 2002 and was so freakin ftw
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May 5, 2024 23:30
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it was like the 2nd day of sophomore year high scool for me, we got evacuated outside of the school after the first plane hit and about an hour after the second one we were evacuated home in school buses escorted by police. i just remember my mom and aunt freaking out and just playing bomberman 64 with my brother the rest of the night.
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May 6, 2024 00:06
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I remember sitting in class and thinking, "man, I would give anything to get out of school today." Then all of the teachers started going into the hallways to talk about what was going down? And guess what? They didn't even let us out of school! Those towers fell for nothing smh
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May 6, 2024 00:07
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i was like 4 when 9/11 happened so im honestly pretty sure the twin towers never actually existed outside of movies.
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May 6, 2024 00:11
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fairly certain we've talked about this before but i was in grade 10 and just went home for the afternoon to play FF9 while everyone else was in histrionics about terrorists flying planes into the loving golden boy
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May 6, 2024 00:14
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Frank Frank posted:I was fresh out of school and in my office in Bethesda todd...
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May 6, 2024 00:15
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ItohRespectArmy posted:i was like 4 when 9/11 happened so im honestly pretty sure the twin towers never actually existed outside of movies. i went to the top of one
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May 6, 2024 00:15
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STING 64 posted:it was like the 2nd day of sophomore year high scool for me, we got evacuated outside of the school after the first plane hit and about an hour after the second one we were evacuated home in school buses escorted by police. i just remember my mom and aunt freaking out and just playing bomberman 64 with my brother the rest of the night. lol bomberman huh
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May 6, 2024 00:16
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Frank Frank posted:I was fresh out of school and in my office in Bethesda when someone wandered by and said a plane crashed into the WTC. I figured they meant a little single prop plane had a bad accident or w/e. Then news started to trickle in and someone wheeled out a TV on a cart into the middle of the big common area so we all could watch. We saw the 2nd plane hit live and about 2 minutes later, corporate called and told us all to GTFO. yeah one thing i def remember hearing and being bothered by were the fighter jets zooming around, living right across from manhattan people were very on edge
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May 6, 2024 00:17
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 its still real to me drat it
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May 6, 2024 00:17
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Seeing them collapse on TV was the first time I had ever heard of them
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May 6, 2024 00:17
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:todd... You see those twin towers over there?
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May 6, 2024 00:23
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STING 64 posted:i went to the top of one that was a different building
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May 6, 2024 00:28
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Yaoi Gagarin posted:Seeing them collapse on TV was the first time I had ever heard of them they kind of became an underground phenomenon
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May 6, 2024 00:31
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I was in a coffee shop, running away from home when I heard the news. Our hero, the world trade center, gone, vanished into thin air! My dad must have been its biggest fan. I knew how sad he'd be. Heck, we all were that day. "Zanar," I says to myself, "What are you thinking?" I went running straight back home. We sat up talking 'bout 9/11 all night.
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May 6, 2024 00:33
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:todd... i used to be a building like you
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May 6, 2024 00:40
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I didn't know what the Twin Towers were and lived on the West Coast, mostly I was mad about 9/11 because all my usual after-school cartoons got cancelled.
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May 6, 2024 02:09
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I do reuse paper towels but I didn't get the idea from american dad
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May 6, 2024 02:15
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I'm in Australia but I had a regular catch-up with an old buddy from the pub where we'd go to the pub we used to work at on Tuesday nights to chat to folks and have a few drinks Which is to say I was like 3 tequilas deep when the news came on the TV and we all thought WW3 was starting We had more drinks after that
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May 6, 2024 02:22
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I didn't know what the Twin Towers were and lived on the West Coast, mostly I was mad about 9/11 because all my usual after-school cartoons got cancelled. I watched the news all day and then ended up watching Scooby Doo around 11 PM because Cartoon Network was the only station that hadn't switched to news for the day
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May 6, 2024 02:23
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ItohRespectArmy posted:i was like 4 when 9/11 happened so im honestly pretty sure the twin towers never actually existed outside of movies. this is a mood but more so is when olds talk about getting to the airport like 20 minutes before your flight bc security is just basically a metal detector, being able to walk family and friends right up to the gate, being invited into the cockpit to watch the pilots...like wot the gently caress...fantasyland...
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May 6, 2024 02:41
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I recall some time after 9/11 I saw on a website the bio of a porn star which does the usual love the outdoors, best friend is my dog thing and then the sentence ends with "I am also a 9/11 survivor" and somehow that contrasting juxtaposition has stuck in my head but I don't remember who the star was
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May 6, 2024 02:46
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I recall some time after 9/11 I saw on a website the bio of a porn star which does the usual love the outdoors, best friend is my dog thing and then the sentence ends with "I am also a 9/11 survivor" and somehow that contrasting juxtaposition has stuck in my head but I don't remember who the star was Alicia Head
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May 6, 2024 02:48
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There was a really old post made on here years ago by someone who worked for the Mail on Sunday when 9/11 happened, and they basically said "yeah the Daily Mail people were running around like headless chickens while we were just like, eh, it's Tuesday, not our problem" or something to that effect If anyone can find that post then I'd be grateful because the poster went on to describe working for MoS in detail and it was a lot juicier than I'm making it sound
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May 6, 2024 02:49
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insane anime posted:Alicia Head Lmao touche
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May 6, 2024 02:49
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symbolic posted:this is a mood but more so is when olds talk about getting to the airport like 20 minutes before your flight bc security is just basically a metal detector, being able to walk family and friends right up to the gate, being invited into the cockpit to watch the pilots...like wot the gently caress...fantasyland... it was so badass. we need to go back.
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May 6, 2024 02:54
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symbolic posted:this is a mood but more so is when olds talk about getting to the airport like 20 minutes before your flight bc security is just basically a metal detector, being able to walk family and friends right up to the gate, being invited into the cockpit to watch the pilots...like wot the gently caress...fantasyland... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-ZJrAcCqw
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May 6, 2024 02:57
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There was a time you'd be a dweeby guy sitting in a plane and all the stewardesses would just do an unrehearsed dance routine then the hottest one pulls you into the mile high club and whisper "too high, can't come down" in your ear and tear off your face to reveal you were hot and blonde as well. We used to be a country
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May 6, 2024 03:02
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ive been a certified drake hater for years. one of thousand examples https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4043445
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May 6, 2024 03:39
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insane anime posted:ive been a certified drake hater for years. one of thousand examples https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4043445 Lol again
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May 6, 2024 03:47
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I was like 6 when 9/11 happened and my family had just moved to Egypt for my dad's job and we didn't have the TV hooked up to anything except a VCD player so I have no idea how I learnt that it happened. Probably while I was looking up Bionicle poo poo or something.
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May 6, 2024 03:52
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insane anime posted:ive been a certified drake hater for years. one of thousand examples https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4043445 lol
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May 6, 2024 04:18
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insane anime posted:ive been a certified drake hater for years. one of thousand examples https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4043445 lmao
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May 6, 2024 04:27
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symbolic posted:this is a mood but more so is when olds talk about getting to the airport like 20 minutes before your flight bc security is just basically a metal detector, being able to walk family and friends right up to the gate, being invited into the cockpit to watch the pilots...like wot the gently caress...fantasyland... when i was flying to vegas from jersey in the 90s the flight attendant let me and 2 other rando kids go to the cockpit to just hang out for a few minutes and watch them fly, then we got plastic wing pins
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May 6, 2024 04:28
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My English teacher was called out of the room to be given the news, and when he came back he was clearly shaken and then launched into a speech about how the world was about to become a darker and more challenging place, and 'the onus is on you to push back against that with positivity' I mostly remember him pausing his speech to go dramatically look out the window, it was very Sorkin. He never actually told us what had happened.
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