Yes.I was within earshot of the World Trade Centre on September 11th. With people who had sons and daughters that worked across the street from the World Trade Centre and who had no idea about their kids being alive or dead for better than three hours. So I don't find the plane jokes funny. But I don't complain either.
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HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman,
Wed 15 Apr 2009, 21:29,
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This is a very good pointIf you don't like the content, there's a hide button.
Jokes about the holocaust, a-bombs, etc... they are all fair game but when it's something a little closer to home it's crossing the line?
(Jokes about the holocaust, a-bombs, etc... they are all fair game but when it's something a little closer to home it's crossing the line?
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Wed 15 Apr 2009, 21:30,
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I was in the air at the time, on a US-owned jet.The Captain was stupid (or naive) enough to tell us what was going on.
I have laughed at jokes here about the 2001 attacks, even though the whole thing scares the piss out of me. What else can you do?
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Wed 15 Apr 2009, 22:14,
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I have laughed at jokes here about the 2001 attacks, even though the whole thing scares the piss out of me. What else can you do?
^this^The Sept 11th stuff hits hard on Americans because we'd never had anything like that happen here, really. No IRA bombings, no Holocaust, nothing. But this isn't an American interwebz board, and I respect that*.
FWIW, On Sept 11 I drove home, or started on the way home - about 500 miles. Bellied up for the night at a hotel in Winchester, Virginia...there were half a dozen people around the bar, all of use doing the same thing - driving home. It was pretty surreal. Got up the next morning, dropped south through Virginia on the old roads, staying off the motorways. Nothing had changed...time stands still in those rural places.
*actually the fact that it's not an American interwebz board is what I like about it :)
(FWIW, On Sept 11 I drove home, or started on the way home - about 500 miles. Bellied up for the night at a hotel in Winchester, Virginia...there were half a dozen people around the bar, all of use doing the same thing - driving home. It was pretty surreal. Got up the next morning, dropped south through Virginia on the old roads, staying off the motorways. Nothing had changed...time stands still in those rural places.
*actually the fact that it's not an American interwebz board is what I like about it :)
HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman,
Wed 15 Apr 2009, 22:49,
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Me and Fleur went up to KSC a few days after.People weren't suspect at all. They were really friendly, but a bit subdued. It's the first time I ever saw Blitz Spirit in the States.
And then there were the KSC guards. First time I ever had an AR15, an MP5 and a Beretta even vaguely pointed at me all at the same time.
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Wed 15 Apr 2009, 23:04,
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And then there were the KSC guards. First time I ever had an AR15, an MP5 and a Beretta even vaguely pointed at me all at the same time.