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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So it's the tenth anniversary of the American attacks
Where were you when you first heard about it?

I was sitting on a wall in Kirkstall, Leeds, waiting for a bus and feeling shite because I'd just had a filling.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:05, 163 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
I was in work.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:24, Reply)
I was in Asda Cribbs Causeway and it was on all the tellies and we thought it was a trailer for a film
until we walked back ten minutes later and it was still on.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:37, Reply)
i was in a lecture at the college of law
someone came in, whispered to the lecturer. he cleared his throat and said, erm, anyone american or with family in new york may wish to step outside.

we had to wait til the lecture finished 2 hours later to find out what had happened, then spent the next 3 days glued to sky news. there are no words.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:38, Reply)
3 days of sky one....
You must love old episodes of The Simpsons.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:44, Reply)
ssssh
ninja
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:44, Reply)
there are no words? you just wrote loads.
Your story beats my Asda story!
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:45, Reply)
how are you?
Huvnae seen you on here in ages.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:45, Reply)
hola
urrrgh thesis HELL. you?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:44, Reply)
been better.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:13, Reply)
I'd just come out of school
All my mum could say was that some crazy people had flown planes into the twin towers and that one of them had "fallen over" (it didn't , they caved in).
I only took it all in emotionally and started crying after I'd seen the pictures on TV.
I never cried over it afterwards but I must have been emotionally affected, because for about 2 months afterwards I drew two or three picture of the towers per day, sometimes even after they'd been hit .
Also, I'd like to know if the point when people realized it was a terrorist assault and not an accident was as the 2nd plane hit?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:39, Reply)
Hahahaha.
Fuck off will you.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:44, Reply)
Has to be a troll, no one irl is that much a gimp are they?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:46, Reply)
He has just ninja'd 'mom' to 'mum'

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:47, Reply)

Whoever it is get's an A for perserverence. Shame the character is such an oily tick though.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:52, Reply)
I don't really understand attempting to wind people up on here.
You're not going to get much of a reaction, I target the Loose Women and Fulham Facebook pages.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:48, Reply)

Teamtalk for me, just too easy. What was the final score? new boy any good?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:52, Reply)
1-1, he came off at half time.
Cos he was miles off the pace. I get so bored watching us I put a tenner on us to win 3-1 during half time to make it interesting. May as well have eaten a tenner.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)

Can't be slower than Mertsacker. S L O W
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:00, Reply)
I think he touched the ball twice.
Not that I give a toss, I really struggle to care.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:04, Reply)
you drawing towers over and over is a sign of homosexuality, you love willies.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:53, Reply)
Don't give me that Freudian bullshit.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:56, Reply)
Nothing to do with Freud, why are you always talking about boys? gaylord...

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:58, Reply)
quender.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
Don't ask, don't tell mate.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:03, Reply)
I thought it was the end of the world.
I totally shit myself. I was in work but they were letting us make phonecalls. I rang my ex in work, made no introduction and just launched into "Look, if the end of the world is announced, and I dunno how they do that - like a 4 minute warning? - anyway, if that happens, just leg it towards our house, and I'll do the same, and we might just have time to die together with the hamster!"

Poor mad cunt had been working in a hot kitchen listening to CDs and had no idea what had been happening in New York. Much confusion ensued.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:56, Reply)
The building I was working in took things far too seriously.
The insisted that all cars that were in the carpark under the office were removed. And then they got really eggy because someone had left a push-bike down there and they wanted to know who could do such a thing at a time of such danger.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:00, Reply)
haha, bicycle bombs?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:03, Reply)
What made it all the more amusing was the the building 'security' guards were all about 70 years old
And I'd guess half of them had some sort of disability that meant they were hardly swift on their feet.

For the next week or two, they'd shout at people if you had your work pass in your pocket, rather than on a lanyard around your neck.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:07, Reply)
I love peoples' overreactions.
"They've just flown planes into two of the world's most prominent financial buildings, this leased out office in Bristol is definitely next".
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:03, Reply)
Exactly!
They sent everyone home early so they could 'assess the situation' in more detail.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:08, Reply)
Must have been scary working in a BT Tower, the City, Canary Wharf or Westminster/Whitehall though.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:11, Reply)
It would be shit working in a BT Tower.
Not sure about scary.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:25, Reply)
You're not wrong. Because every year you'd be scared that Noel Edmonds might bring back his
'Christmas from the BT Tower' special thing he used to do.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:26, Reply)
On a Noel Edmonds note, best story ever?
tinyurl.com/yzloa2s
'The ravers should have more respect for Mr Blobby. He was a hero to a lot of kids and the thought of them taking drugs and having all-night raves in his house is completely disrespectful.'
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:32, Reply)
No, I think Roota is right
It really did feel like the end of a world - possibly not THE world, but the end of something.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:12, Reply)
It was the end of Murder She Wrote on ITV as they opted instead for blanket news coverage.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:14, Reply)
Hopefully you've caught up on that episode since.
It was probably the seedy looking guy with the stuck-on mustache.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:16, Reply)
alright benders?
I was working in a kitchen during a break from my catalogue modelling. I saw an American guy, must have been in his forties, weeping. The news was showing the Pentagon burning. I think my reaction was 'holy fuck'.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:59, Reply)
I was at work at the Ambulance Service
had a phonecall from a friend in Seattle who'd just got up and turned the TV on - it was about 6:15am there.

I went on the BBC website and confirmed it then went to the shift breakroom where there was a fairly crap telly, pretty much spent the rest of the day watching BBC with about 20 other people.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:15, Reply)
Putting shopping away in my house in Skipton
I was thinking "These dudes have got some nuts, fair play to our suicidal maniac associates."
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:26, Reply)
I was at a waste-of-time computer collage when someone got a call from a friend in NY to say a plane has gone into the first tower and how it's smoking up.
We were on the smoking roof, and we all rushed to the news websites but _all_ of them had crashed, BBC, CNN, NBC, [UK Dailys]... until someone got a refresh and we saw a photo and were all like 'woh'.

Then on the tube home, I became a structual enginer. I spent the whole time thinking "If I was to blow up a place, I'd pick here, take out these two pillers and the whole building would go down" and stuff like that.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:27, Reply)
Also, check out these two poems on a facebook group I'm in, that they wrote about 9/11.
A poem I made about September 11th: I remember the day clearly. The day the plane crashed into the world trade center. The day children cried cuz their parents slipped away right in front of their weary eyes. The day the whole nation cried. Oh why are people so mean. I know what I seen on the tv screen. People dying, the world on fire. Fire in the hole the cops and firemen cried as innocent people died. Terrorists at the nightmarists. Why is the world such a God awful place. ~Hannah


One fateful day
People came together to fight
Fight for the ones they loved
From those on the planes
To those on the ground
They all saved lives
You showed us how to love
How to care again
People had been filled with hate
They all came together
Not caring who each other was
All they knew
Is they were saving lives
I look up to the sky
And remember all those that were lost
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:30, Reply)
Never has there been a better motto for a nation like the USA than
E pluribus unum.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:37, Reply)
My favorite latin phrase is "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", it's so true.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:42, Reply)
lol techiejokes

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:45, Reply)
More of a publishing joke ,)

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:46, Reply)
Mine is "Imanis metula es"

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:56, Reply)
bogus felat a.viii

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:58, Reply)
Fucks sake
It's XI these days
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:02, Reply)
quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:05, Reply)
quisquis

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:08, Reply)
*SMOOCHES*

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:25, Reply)
Shit poetry is shit.
My summation has nothing to do with how I may, or may not feel about the ninth of November.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 23:41, Reply)
evening kids
I was in a crappy temp job. There were rumours of all sorts of things but mostly it was about some World Trade Fayre and 'Those anarchist guys' (I think they meant like those Reclaim The Streets people). We saw the TV a bit after, it was too much like a film to take really seriously at first
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:05, Reply)
Evening Captain.
What have you done today?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:08, Reply)
spent the weekend at my parents house
it was a surprise for my mum's birthday, then we surprised her more by taking her out for a meal where loads of her and her twin sister's family were. Pretty nice. Tired now.

How about you? I briefly checked in earlier and you were nursing a hangover
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:10, Reply)
Yeah, it's been a monumental hangover. I considered being sick at one point.
I've had a steak and a choc-ice now, so I'm feeling a whole lot better thanks.

The healing powers of a choc-ice are often overlooked.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:13, Reply)
what type?
I really want a white magnum now
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:15, Reply)
Just some cheap supermarket-own brand choc-ice.
I was in the supermarket a while back and picked up a box of six. That was the first one I've had.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:17, Reply)
Sainsburys have 4 packs of their own brand magnum on 2 for £3
I love them for curing a hangover.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:26, Reply)
Evening Lighty.
Enjoy the footy this afternoon?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:28, Reply)
I did yes
We weren't great but we were better than Norwich. Plus the striker we loaned to Birmingham got a hat-trick, which bodes well for when we yank him back once Odemwingie and Tchoyi and Mulumbu head of to the African Cup of Nations.

Also I think this is hilarious: b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1349046

and now I'm just nipping downstairs for some Sainsburys own brand magnums.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:34, Reply)
I was at work
Just at the start of my path to computer geekery playing around with SQL. Would've been not longer after I'd impregnated the missus with child number three,so she'd had a filling at least.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:19, Reply)
I was at work.
Someone had come in to set up the video conferencing thingy, and had the telly on. The office gradually came to a standstill as everyone got word and silently filed into the conference room to see the events unfold.

My ex wife was on a residential course at the time so I tried ringing her to see if she'd heard about it. I couldn't get through. About four months later I realised that it was because she was shagging someone else behind my back and had her phone turned off.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:43, Reply)
Sad time DG.
Tell ya what though. Thanks for all of your pub suggestions. I stayed over the road from the Black Bull, so I did most of the pubs along that little strip.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:45, Reply)
Hope you enjoyed them.
It is a nice little area.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:46, Reply)
It didn't seem like a bad area. I'll try and book the same hotel the next time I go.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:47, Reply)
Try Whistle Binkies the next time for some live music.
It's only about a ten minute walk away from the Grassmarket.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:00, Reply)
I've been to Whistle Binkies!
I think my friend's band has played there a couple of times - Mad Nurse (just in case of coincidences)
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:04, Reply)
I'll do a bit more research next time and get some directions for various places.
I did enjoy the Black Bull though!
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:05, Reply)
That big hill at the bottom of the Grassmarket next to Biddy Milligan's?
Head up there, turn left at the top, go straight ahead to the Royal Mile, bear right and walk about a quarter of a mile. Pass the top of Cockburn St and cross the road, Binkies is on the right just down a hill. There's a detached hotel just before it, a big, opulent looking building.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:30, Reply)
I'm hoping that next time I'll get chance for more of a solo-explore type-thing.
For a work time, it was far, far too worky for my liking.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:31, Reply)
100
Anyone else just watched Rhod Gilbert and Greg Davies drive through Nepal? v good.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:59, Reply)
Yes.
Mad fuckers.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:00, Reply)
no
evening bobby - packed yet?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:04, Reply)

nearly, fucking sick of it, I have so much shit.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:09, Reply)
how long until you actually move?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:10, Reply)

starting tomorrow, will be done by Wednesday. Although I did find some cool shit I thought I had lost.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:14, Reply)
what kind of cool shit?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:14, Reply)

Leathermate,
Resident evil 2 ps1
Nunchucks
box of sim cards with naked ex girlfriend pics on
Several dead spiders
Bling cufflinks
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:18, Reply)
the spiders and the sim cards
should make for good wanking material
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:21, Reply)
Mindpiss!
(Although I chose to ignore the sim cards)
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:22, Reply)
they are of naked dead spiders

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:22, Reply)
I'll bet you'll be having a wank later.
... Just as soon as you've dusted those dead spiders.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:21, Reply)
ha!
beat you!
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:22, Reply)
Saucy.
*Doesn't want a Captain beating*
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:23, Reply)
for you I would
modify my weapon to a dog-of-nine-tails
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:24, Reply)
Woof-Woof!
Very good Captain.

Is Higgs looking forward to his next date?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:25, Reply)
i think he had fun
so he's seeing him Wednesday (if I can sneak out of work on time), then I come back with two pigs :) They are both massive so I expect it's going to be noisy for a couple of days at least
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:27, Reply)
So you'll have 3 then?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:28, Reply)
no, silly
I take higgs in, I leave with higgs and homer (probably changing his name)
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:28, Reply)
I told you to call him Jeff in the thread yesterday.
You never replied :(
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:29, Reply)
sorry
i must have left about then. I actually don't remember posting that. oops
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:31, Reply)
Well that's solved then.
Higgs will have a new friend called Jeff.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:32, Reply)
how about
I'll think about it
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:33, Reply)
How about you AGREE to call him Jeff.
And if needs be, you change it FROM Jeff.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:40, Reply)
perhaps he can be Jeff for one day

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:40, Reply)
unfortunately I have not got a compatible phone anymore!

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:26, Reply)
you need a compatible phone for spiders?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:27, Reply)
You need a spider phone.
*Conference call lolz*
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:27, Reply)
It was a semi-thawed bot-dog.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:19, Reply)
This'll cheer you right up Bob.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TlBaeUjO1g
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:11, Reply)

I cannot say how happy that has made me, Cheers Jeff. God he was good.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:17, Reply)
Not at good as this though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCsfGkrqDQk
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:20, Reply)
AWESOME! RERAISE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbASd5CU3H8
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:24, Reply)
re-reraise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaMbI1ZWnA&feature=fvsr
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:27, Reply)
all in!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvyxpdX7WRw
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:33, Reply)
Bed time.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:39, Reply)
This made me laugh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OISGykO6Z7U

Rhod Gilbert is a funny man.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:06, Reply)

I prefer Davies but he is good. Davies live was brilliant!
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:11, Reply)
recorded it, watching it now.
just having a 2 minute piss'n'post break.
crazy shit.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:23, Reply)
He-lo ev'rybo-dy!
It's Herr Doktor Qixote. What's going down in Groove Town dudes?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:20, Reply)
I'm still in hangover recovery mode CQ.

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:21, Reply)
Poor Jeffy.
Hope you feel better soon.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:33, Reply)
you sound all happy
good weekend?

I'm off to sleep, soon, I reckon. I want this week to be a good week
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:22, Reply)
Not bad, had a good weekend.
Explored Greenwich, saw an average film, 2 good bands and one bad one. I also bought some communist badges.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:36, Reply)
by buying them
weren't you partaking in the capitalist agenda?
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:38, Reply)
I am a bad Communist.
In other news I am not a 17th Centenary gentleman with delusions of chivalry.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:42, Reply)
lolwhut?

(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:43, Reply)
oh, wait, Quixote, I get it
the word centenary confused me
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:44, Reply)
Spell check hates me.
Sleep well and teach good tomorrow.

We're all counting on you.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:45, Reply)
you are surprisingly uncultured for a teature
I cry for the children.
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:44, Reply)
ah, I have to get up early tomorrow
so I'm off. Nighty night all and wish me luck for tomorrow :) (if you don't know why it doesn't matter)
(, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 22:42, Reply)
One of my New York pals lives in Manhattan
obviously all communications went down when the 'turrists' did their thing and I didn't hear from him for a few days.

It was fucking hilarious: finally an email appeared bascially saying 'will you all just fucking shut up and leave me alone? I'm not dead, my family aren't dead, stop being so fucking gay'

Ironically last year he proposed to his wife live on TV at the finishing line of the NY marathon - something a million times gayer than 'worrying that your mate may have died in a massive terrorist attack', I'd say.
(, Mon 12 Sep 2011, 8:12, Reply)

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