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# We're never going to live that down, are we?
Actually, right after the attacks, Leonard Pitts Jr. (writer for Miami Herald) wrote an article telling us to be more like you brave Brits were when Germany bombed the heck out of you.
(ladycat, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:05, archived)
# Apart from...
... it lasted six months, day and night bombing of all major population centres, killing 200,000 people.

/yeah - that's EXACTLY the same...
(I helped save b3ta! Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:07, archived)
# That was his point.
That we were being ninnies.
(ladycat, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:08, archived)
# the major difference
though is that at that time we were in a state of war whereas that came from the blue if you pardon the expression.
(I helped save b3ta! Sattamassagana, the LEGO-man needs to change his username's relevancy, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:09, archived)
# /very tired.
humble apple-ogies.

I must go to bed... /snores.
(I helped save b3ta! Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:09, archived)
# "live that down"
makes it sound like you're ashamed/embaressed of it.

edit: unless you mean people's reaction towards it, rather than the event itself, then i could understand the live it down comment
(I helped save b3ta! StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:08, archived)
# No,
I just meant that it's practically become a meme of its own.
(ladycat, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:09, archived)
# it's just like many other events in history
the nasty ones tend to get picked up on on here
(I helped save b3ta! StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list, Wed 28 Apr 2004, 2:11, archived)