I fully expect to be put on ignore for this
but am I the only one thinking America needs to get over it already?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:28, 47 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Well I didn't see a mention of the tube bombings on 7th July this year
So I reckon we're better at getting over shit than they are.
EDIT: I don't include Liverpool in this. We don't let fuck all go.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:30, Reply)

What is it about the Scouser
which means they never let things drop?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:37, Reply)

Well, the Hillsborough thing is different.
Families all over the world fight miscarriages of justice for years, and that's quite normal.
As for everything else, what can I say, we're the Nashville of the North. We love a good drama and we are championship mourners.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:42, Reply)

Hillsborough I forgive,
but really, Scousers never forget.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:45, Reply)

I know, I just said that.
Mind you don't get put on our List.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:51, Reply)

What like The Sun
or is it The Mirror?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)

The Sun

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:57, Reply)

What's the difference between Hillsborough and a cow?
Most scousers don't know how to milk a cow.

*runs*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:11, Reply)

Also
What is the difference between a cow and a tragedy. Scousers can't milk a cow.

(I knew I knew a scouser/ sense-of-hard-done-by joke but I couldn't bloody think of it.)
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:41, Reply)

They seem to have gotten over the whole oil slick thing, that hasn't been mentioned in weeks.
I guess 'cus that doesn't cost anyone who's important enough any money.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I remember the dead chicken.
Wif da angles now.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 18:02, Reply)

No, fuck off
I'm certainly not over the death of Lorne Greene. RIP Adama
( Theoban What of it, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:32, Reply)

Eh. It was a pretty iconic and effective terrorist attack
In some ways America has been very isolated from such things, while there had been a few big terrorist attacks in the states before 9/11 they tended to come from within the states. 9/11 was an attack from an external source. Over here we'd had a history (what with the IRA ect) of attacks from an external source in our own country. So there's the "novelty" of it to start.

Secondly it's rather usefull for a section of US society as it is a very definate atrocity that can be used to justify whatever the US wishes to do to a group of people very vaugely and tenuously connected to the attacks themselves. It's a very effective justification for the US when it comes to perpetuating wars in the middle east.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:48, Reply)

They're like a five year old who grazed their knee while pulling up every single plant in the garden.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Oooo, that reminds me, must go and cut the grass

(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 14:56, Reply)

Oh boy, I totally cut the shit out of that grass.
That is grass that knows it's been cut.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:31, Reply)

LOL I WISH MY GRASS WOZ EMO CUZ DEN IT WUD CUT ITSELF LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:41, Reply)

Let's hurry up with that DNA test ;o)

( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)

Grass?
No, man, it's totally looking like a lawn now...
Boy, I wish I wasn't dyspraxic, then I'd totally challenge you to a game of croquet.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:52, Reply)

It would have to be travel croquet on our lawn, it's not very big
but if I ever throw a big party at my parents house I will be sure to get the croquet out.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:09, Reply)

the croquet my cock
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)

Lets be honest here Davros
the moment your wife is around my cock is well and truly out in the open whether I like it or not.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:16, Reply)

It would be useful on a lawn on a sunny day.
Instant sundial.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:26, Reply)

ew naked fat al

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)

Considerably more appealing than naked TGB
although I've never seen the grand canyon, so maybe it would at least be informative.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:09, Reply)

naked tgb would be disgusting
...wait
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I promise not only to shave my legs n lady garden for the occasion,
but to wax my 'tache n toes too!
*rubs thighs in dribbly excitement*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:28, Reply)

In a way, yes.
American foreign policy over the last few decades has hardly helped matters. Trouble is, most Americans are massively uninformed about world events or even what their own country is doing overseas... not exactly a criticism of Americans mind, more a criticism of media and news programmes that oversimplify or sometimes just plain ignore events from the rest of the world. While the actions of America as a country may well have lead in some part to the attacks Americans themselves as a whole felt justifiably shocked and stunned - in part because they where unaware of the various different factors and politcal manouvering that their own country was engaged in that played a part in what happened. I honestly wouldn't go so far as to say that America deliberately provoked the attacks, or the thousands of innocent people who died 9 years ago in some way deserved it - but American foreign policy before and after the event has a lot to answer for. Of course the people who drew up those policies and implemented them weren't the ones who suffered... but then again they rarely are.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:00, Reply)

I hardly think Al Queda woke up one morning and threw a dart board a map to find where to attack.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:05, Reply)

The people didn't deserve what happened, but the country did.
I can't believe they voted Bush in a second time, or even at all after what his father did.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:06, Reply)

As an Ulsterman I am fully aware of the importance of never ever getting over anything ever.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:13, Reply)

I hope your fully aware of the importance of dressing up in silly clothes and marching too.

(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 15:29, Reply)

And of the importance
of wearing a cleaning woman's tabbard and marching about with a toy drum.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Sep 2010, 16:00, Reply)

No, I'm on the side that's aware of rioting whenever people walk around dressed in the same clothes.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:27, Reply)

That is interesting.
You identify with being an ulsterman, though you are a catholic (nationalist). It shows how the media we get spins the real picture. Good on you, the picture is more complicated than we are lead to believe.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:57, Reply)

The terminology related to place names and identity in Ireland is best summed up as follows.
If an individual X speaks to another individual Y, then X will be wrong, and offend Y.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 18:56, Reply)

Remember
1690 1798 1847 1916 never to forget
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:25, Reply)

400 years? Pah', pathetic, we've been doing it since the time of the phearohs.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 18:20, Reply)

bowler hat at the ready?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:27, Reply)

I don't know nothing about nothing
and I have no opinion on the subject, or indeed any subject.

In case it upsets anyone.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:15, Reply)

You don't know nothing therefore you know something....
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:31, Reply)

Praise the lord, I'am cured.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 17:52, Reply)

yes
so fuck you
( Lisette von Falcon, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 19:02, Reply)

Did you have a nice holiday?

(Bazongaloid, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 19:35, Reply)

no, my father had a heart attack and I spent most of the week in hospital with him
on another note, I once again broke my new years resolution
thought you might like that

that was pretty much the only enjoyment of my week
( Lisette von Falcon, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 20:07, Reply)

Shit, I'm really sorry to hear that.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 22:10, Reply)

The Americans need to chill out. Maybe have a snack


Edit: well, now this looks pretty tasteless next to K Swizzle's week...
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 11 Sep 2010, 21:39, Reply)