You seem to be under the mistaken notion that this thread is entirely about this board. It isn’t. I’m talking about water cooler/FB/twitter chatter. Here I can avoid the stuff I don’t care to hear or read.
If it makes you feel any better I was in college and I missed 9/11 when it happened and I didn’t find about about it until the next day.
I forgot it was 9/11, despite having written the date on two daycare check-in forms, until I arrived at this thread. I have had no other human contact in over 3 hours.
ETA: Never mind. I see what you’re saying. Apologies.
I don’t know why that would make me “feel better.”
Well, arguing about whether or not I find boring people telling boring stories boring is also boring. So I’m out. I figure if you love those stories, you’d just go about your business listening to them and reading them rather than actually argue with somebody about whether or not they are bored by something.
I just needed to vent in an anonymous forum, and this is the only one I belong to where I don’t post under my name.
I still remember where I was when Michael Thomas scored Arsenal’s second in the last minute to win the league in 1989.
In a grassy knoll.
Where were you
When they built a ladder to Heaven?
Did it make you feel like cryin’
Or did you think it was kind of gay?
Oh, I believe
In the ladder to Heaven
Whoa whoa…
Nine-eleven.
Epic thread fail…
Right on. My FB feed is full of people from other places doing exactly this, and ordering me not to forget. It’s offensive all around.
Based on that contribution, you are a high scool girl on live journal five years ago.
I remember where I was when I found out about Challenger blowing up. And about Princess Di dying. And about the Tiananmen protests (but not the massacre).
Oh, & September 11.
But yeah, it’s not relevant.
I’m not even sure where I am right now.
I was in Belgrade at the time and very busy with family problems, so I didn’t actually find out about the attack until September 12. I went into a restaurant. Many men were celebrating and toasting. I thought they must have won a soccer match or something but when I asked what had happened, they said “The Turks just stabbed the Americans in the back.”
This is about bonding through shared experience. If you tried to establish what everyone was doing on any other day, they wouldn’t remember. Even Christmas 2001 falls into a blur of other Christmasses for me.
We all remember that day clearly, and with emotion. That’s a rare thing, and not every generation has one.
See, here’s the thing. In order to get this, you would have to be interested in getting to know other people. . . you would have to be someone to whom alternate perspectives and experiences are interesting. For a narcissist like yourself, yes, the answer is probably to put your hands over your ears from Sept. 10-13 each year.
I remember the day Archduke Ferdinand was shot, like it was yesterday…
I was sitting on my couch. I thought it was kind of gay, since Cartman is surely the kind of guy to just rob the damn store to get the candy.
I’m moving this from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
Gfactor
Pit Moderator
Unless I’ve missed a bunch of threads, there appears to be one 9/11 memorial thread currently active on the SDMB right now, and it seems to me that if you know that you are likely to become irritated, bored, and/or annoyed by people reminiscing about 9/11, that it would be pretty easy for you to simply not open the thread.
As opposed to this thread, which I thought was going to be a collection of “where were you when?” stories - which I completely unapologetically like to read.