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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:38 pm

I'll never forget that morning, getting a chicken biscuit from the campus Chick-fil-A and buying the new They Might Be Giants album Mink Car at Borders.
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Postby tricksforchips » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:40 pm

Wait what happened?
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:40 pm

tricksforchips wrote:Wait what happened?

My mom had some new living-room furniture delivered.
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Postby theta » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:40 pm

oh i forgot
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Postby separator » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:41 pm

nice i can finally fuck 9/11
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Postby snuggle » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:45 pm

Obama did it
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:48 pm

separator wrote:nice i can finally fuck 9/11

Whoa, at least allow it to buy some cigarettes first
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Postby Buddy Glass » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:51 pm

What became of her? She lived, as she liked to say, off the kindness of gentlemen. I assume she’s dead.
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Postby theta » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:52 pm

remember the rubble?
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Postby Marza » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:53 pm

yeah, definitely
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Postby shark week » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:54 pm

i was late to school that morning because i was on the phone with my dad trying to recover a word doc that i lost after an unexpected computer restart
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Postby Marza » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:55 pm

to think

they did all of that terrible stuff when 9/11 had only just been born.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:56 pm

I happened to have that day off work, which was nice, as it gave me time to do course work and listen to Mink Car, the then-new album by They Might Be Giants.
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Postby theta » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:57 pm

my mom took us out of school for three days but it was really boring because she kept watching the news and crying
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Postby theta » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:59 pm

my parents woke me up early to panic in my face about it. on new year's day 2001 they had woken me up to scream and cry about my uncle killing himself so 9/11 was definitely anticlimactic after that
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Postby mcwop23 » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:00 pm

i was in beaty towers at UF

figured we were next
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Postby jefe górgory » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:02 pm

Eyeball Kid wrote:
separator wrote:nice i can finally fuck 9/11

Whoa, at least allow it to buy some cigarettes first

9/11 is gonna have to wait until it’s 21 to buy cigarettes :(
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Postby easy » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:03 pm

theta wrote:my parents woke me up early to panic in my face about it.


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Postby snuggle » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:04 pm

Buddy Glass wrote:


Had to check to see if he just posted that; wouldn’t be shocked if he did
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:05 pm

I was in college and as it happened I only had two classes that day, both of which were in the morning, and the second of which was after the towers fell. (I was in my first class as it happened.) The professor of my second class allowed anyone to leave if they felt they needed to. No one did.

The university canceled all classes scheduled after 12 pm that day, which, as I said, had no effect on me.
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Postby quinine » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:07 pm

enough time has passed to declare this was truly a classic act of terrorism
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Postby warmjets » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:10 pm

I had to work my shift at Subway after this shit went down. Total bullshit.
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Postby joe » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:11 pm

how many years did groundhog day last?
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Postby France 98 » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:16 pm

Eighteen years of it?
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Postby Chyet » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:17 pm

can you imagine the media shitshow we're getting in 2 years
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:17 pm

joe wrote:how many years did groundhog day last?

Can you really put a number on a classic comedy?
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:18 pm

my dad sent me to my moms apartment on the other side of the apartment complex. i think i "faked" sick (had some mixture of latent anxiety/depression that was making me nauseous) and ended up going back home for the day. i went to the computer and played diablo 2 while the tv was on, tunes to mtv like i normally did. i was really confused as to why mtv had cut to a national news event. my dad was also sick and called out of work. he went out to chick fil a or something to get us breakfast and i told him that the twin towers had fallen and he thought i was fucking with him.

i remember being really annoyed i couldnt watch toonami or invader zim that day, in general, i seem to remember every tv i saw was tuned to cable news for the next several months. my vision of this is limited but it really felt like the start of modern deathwish cable news formats as i know it.

i remember feeling an intense sense of dread when i realized how much racism would be provoked by the attacks (i think texas might have been the first place any notable violence happened, i seem to remember a muslim gas station employee being murdered about a week later) that's sadly even more accurate 18 years later.

this event also i think pretty much ruined country radio. it was like a year before tim mcgraw's "red ragtop" was banned from the charts for having a non-judgmental depiction of a couple getting aborted (its a beautiful song imo). the dixie chicks shit. this fucking thing



that may be arguable to some but i'd take a million "i like beer and chicks with short shorts and big butts" songs to the tune of kenny chesneys "she thinks my tractors sexy" or tim mcgraw's "something like that" over what was to come.
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Postby Stuntman » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:21 pm

I remember being in 3rd period English and there was an announcement over the PA right after the bell rang and literally nobody cared. That is my 9/11 memory.
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Postby Avalanche Lily » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:21 pm

Chyet wrote:can you imagine the media shitshow we're getting in 2 years


In two years it will officially be considered vintage by collectors.
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:22 pm

i don't remember how my teachers reacted but my partner was in kindergarten at the time and she said they would do huddle talks about how there are some very evil people in the world but we shouldnt worry because america is great etc. i seem to remember my sister saying something similar.

in terms of like, personal effect on my psyche, the first major event i remember that really rattled my psyche/perceptions of the united states as a Good Country was the 2000 election. it didn't help that it didn't seem like anybody in my elementary school reacted to it whatsoever. that 9-10 month stretch just feels completely apocalyptic in my head even moreso than any particular day i guess.
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