Not insulting. Just shocked and incredulous that someone could be so disengaged from the world outside their immediate bubble.
That was my parents to some extent. My brother worked in one of the buildings nearby so he saw it from the ground and started running north and eventually made it home (Kips Bay). I am thankful to this day that I heard from him before the phones got overloaded, because I mistakenly believed he worked in one of the towers and would have been out of my mind.
Anyway, my parents were out west on a camping trip and only heard about it when they emerged and saw a paper.
The claim was “no one spoke about it”, not “I stayed at home and didn’t talk to anyone”.
Some of us are more familiar with this person’s posting stlye.
Also, implying that talking about the 9/11 is on par with talking about the Kardashians, is, in itself, insulting.
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I haven’t watched live TV since hmm, I was 12? Better alternatives were invented. I’ve never listened to the radio. I don’t read newspapers, who does? It was not all-consuming for many of us who prefer to live our actual real lives.
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Maybe no one they spoke to did. I heard about it that day, but couldn’t tell you if it was being talked about the next day where I lived. I don’t socialize a lot - was in class most of the time, so discussing
listening to teach talk about the lesson. If you’re not chit-chatting, but talking about work or a project due, it might not come up.
Some it reads as at least borderline insulting to me. On both sides of the argument.
“It might not come up?”
It was all anyone talked about for weeks. If you weren’t camping out in Bumfuck, Wyoming, that is.
While it wasn’t quite exactly true that every conversation for the next few days was about the event, it was true that any discussion that wasn’t about it was prefaced by saying that it wasn’t about it. Like, I think the first thing I said to anyone after hearing about it was something like “I know we’ve all heard the news, and it’s a big deal, but right now, we have a lab to do”.
Maybe I’m the Queen of England posting here under a pseudonym.
Why don’t you report the allegedly insulting posts?
If you didn’t hear about the worst terrorist attack in human history for two fucking days, I wouldn’t exactly consider them “better alternatives”. :rolleyes:
Uh, those of us who like to keep informed about the world around us? :dubious:
Yeah, really. Yeah, it’s not like what happened that day was “actual real life”. :rolleyes:
Jesus fucking Christ, are you for real?
What I don’t get is why someone would come to a site dedicated to fighting ignorance to seem proud of deliberately staying uninformed about things that don’t affect them.
I wasn’t long home in Melbourne Australia from the US and fell asleep watching “The West Wing” and woke to see the news, it took me quite a while to realise it wasn’t a plot line. I jumped online and checked in with my email discussion list and in fact broke the news to a number of American friends who hadn’t turned on TV or radio before checking email. We watched it all unfold together with messages flying. The server at the Manhattan campus of St John’s University stayed up for two days. I didn’t sleep until we lost contact when that failed.
Like Thylacine**, I’d fallen asleep watching the TV, and woke to the sight of the first plane going into the tower. I figured it was a scene out of whatever I’d fallen asleep to and toddled off to bed.
Only in the morning did I fully appreciate the horror that had unfolded.
**We’re in Australia…happened night time our time.
Um, do you know how to use the quote function properly? Because you put a quote of mine without attribution in the same post that you quoted John Mace. If you’re going to quote one of my posts, I’d prefer that you attach my name to it, also.
You don’t have to be directly involved in an incident for it to affect you. Most of the conversation I participated in was not about a direct link to the events, but rather an indirect one. Lots of conversation around who might be responsible, whether we had other events to fear, whether you knew anyone in the towers or on the flights.
Serious question, do you have a job where you just don’t interact with others (or did you at the time)? I noticed in another thread that you have a PhD, so I’m imagining some type of ivory tower or lab situation where you don’t see or talk to other people much.
Perfect screen name/post combo.
I lived inside the Beltway at the time. I remember a distinct lack of contrails in the sky so I was curious when I noticed two planes high in the sky a day or two later. One kept approaching the other until it looked like they were about to collide. Then I realized it was a fighter and tanker performing a refueling maneuver.
Interestingly, the post-9/11 grounding of all air traffic in the US for several days provided an opportunity to study the effects of contrails on climate.
My thoughts exactly.
I’m back living in the DC area and after work today, I counted how many contrails I could count–there were easily more than a dozen. You couldn’t miss them and there were probably more I couldn’t see due to trees or buildings. The DC area has three major airports: Dulles, BWI, and National, so after 911, the lack of contrails was unusual and a little eerie. And, I believe the East Coast was having great weather–cloudless blue skies during that time, so contrails were more conspicuously absent, than say, on days that had clouds, like today.
Ha! :D. Good one!