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In third grade I opened a banana that was full of spiders. That has not happened again since 9/11. Some things improved
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clothes were baggier. i had a friend with big jinco jeans that were like tents wrapped around his leg. 9/11 changed all that.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:55
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:my social studies teacher on 911 was like "the world as we know it has changed forever!" and u know something he was right I actually said this while we watched the towers fall in a conference room at work. Only I said "poo poo, this is going to change everything"
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Aug 28, 2015 20:56
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Mr. Pumroy posted:clothes were baggier. i had a friend with big jinco jeans that were like tents wrapped around his leg. 9/11 changed all that. We all had JNCOs, but even in like 1999 in butt gently caress Indiana they were out of style. That was around the time that Indiana started buying nondescript clothing at the Gap full time.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:57
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burritos were just as delicious
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Aug 28, 2015 20:57
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Star Trek series weren't about weird terrorist plots and terrorist cells either.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:58
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white men walked without fear of harassment from any appendage of the national security establishment then the TSA hired legions of 5'1" latinas who slaver at the prospect of making a white guy stand for five minutes because he forgot to empty his water bottle
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Aug 28, 2015 20:58
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you can't really talk about the pre-9/11 world without mentioning mega man 3.
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Aug 28, 2015 20:58
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Mad Monk posted:I actually said this while we watched the towers fall in a conference room at work. Only I said "poo poo, this is going to change everything" yeah mr gardner was p cool but not cool enough to say 'poo poo' in front of us cause it wouldve ruffled some feathers in administration
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Aug 28, 2015 20:59
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Mr. Pumroy posted:you can't really talk about the pre-9/11 world without mentioning mega man 3. i feel mega man x was also quite good
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Aug 28, 2015 20:59
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pretty gay op
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Aug 28, 2015 21:00
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I was just starting 9th grade when 9/11 happened. Before that, I had zero understanding of politics outside of Canada, especially what went on in the Middle East. Up until grade 7 all I knew about politics ended provincially; I knew from my parents and my friends' parents that Mike Harris was a bad man and the Toronto amalgamation ("MEGACITY") was a bad idea. I had read some stuff in my Dad's Adbusters magazines about the Gulf War but it was still very confusing to me, and I had one Jewish friend who would never shut the gently caress up about Israel or his anti-semitic persecution complex. I went to a particularly liberal school for grades 7/8, and I definitely remember being encouraged to think critically but it was also mostly local politics - in retrospect, global politics were probably too hot-button for thirteen year-olds due to the diversity of our class - and the aforementioned Jewish kid with a persecution complex. I flew on exactly one plane to Europe with my Dad - I think I was 11 - and remember it being a totally awesome experience with zero 'scary security moments' beyond maybe one guy with an MP5 at a Dutch airport. I remember shouting "we're all gonna die!" when the plane took off and my Dad told me to shut up, and then like an hour later the pilots gave me a tour of the cockpit. Life was pretty relaxed. On 9/11 I was in homeroom when our teacher told us something very controversial had happened Stateside, and asked if we knew anything about it already. Some teacher's pet stuck up her hand and said something about a "sewage problem" she had likely watched on CBC the night before. The teacher shook her head, and explained it in vague detail. In a few minutes we were watching the footage on a TV cart that our librarian wheeled in. I remember he was crying. The principal made an announcement that we would all have the rest of the day off. My buddies and I met out front of the school and probably made some dumb racist jokes, or wildly speculated in jest about what was next - "like we're in some kind of danger in Toronto, haha no way man I'm 15 OK see you guys tomorrow" then we took the subway home. My Mom was glued to the TV for the rest of the day. I guess the weirdest thing about it was how it turned a lot of us onto politics - it turned us into conservative reactionaries. I was a teenage libertarian, at an arts' school, and that didn't really change until halfway through college. A few of us developed interests in firearms, a smaller few became armchair generals obsessed with the military-industrial complex. Some of us said some pretty racist, very regrettable poo poo. Jewish buddy went from star saxophone player in the school's touring band to enrolling in the US Marines right out of 12th grade - he got shot in the chest in Fallujah and now teaches cops how to cope with PTSD (lol). My best friend in the whole world is still a bit hawkish with some dumb conservative opinions; more recently he and I have gotten into shouting matches about Israel/Palestine, the Collateral Murder video, the G20 conference, etc. but we still see eye-to-eye on things occasionally. The way I see it, it kind of stupefied my immediate generation, some for longer than others. But otherwise we still had a relatively normal high school experience - drinking in parks, shooting Roman Candles at one another, ordering beer from dial-a-bottle and having a buddy's hot girlfriend answer the door so we wouldn't get ID'd, smoking weed in a ravine and renting movies from Blockbuster and eating pizza until 4AM.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:02
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Wafflz posted:Quake 3 was better than any of the bullshit kids play today and flying didn't suck rear end.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:03
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Mister Speaker posted:I was just starting 9th grade when 9/11 happened. Before that, I had zero understanding of politics outside of Canada, especially what went on in the Middle East. Up until grade 7 all I knew about politics ended provincially; I knew from my parents and my friends' parents that Mike Harris was a bad man and the Toronto amalgamation ("MEGACITY") was a bad idea. I had read some stuff in my Dad's Adbusters magazines about the Gulf War but it was still very confusing to me, and I had one Jewish friend who would never shut the gently caress up about Israel or his anti-semitic persecution complex. I went to a particularly liberal school for grades 7/8, and I definitely remember being encouraged to think critically but it was also mostly local politics - in retrospect, global politics were probably too hot-button for thirteen year-olds due to the diversity of our class - and the aforementioned Jewish kid with a persecution complex. I flew on exactly one plane to Europe with my Dad - I think I was 11 - and remember it being a totally awesome experience with zero 'scary security moments' beyond maybe one guy with an MP5 at a Dutch airport. I remember shouting "we're all gonna die!" when the plane took off and my Dad told me to shut up, and then like an hour later the pilots gave me a tour of the cockpit. Life was pretty relaxed. gay
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Aug 28, 2015 21:04
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Quake 3 wasnt even that good which is why it killed the series
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Aug 28, 2015 21:05
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my teacher came in and was like "bigger than pearl" and i freaked out, internally of course. as always my actual appearance was a picture of stoic grace
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Aug 28, 2015 21:06
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in the pre-9/11 world, you could just walk right up to the cockpit and nobody would mind. you could do things like that, back then. it was a crazy time and, in many ways, a better time. i wouldn't take back the moment of screaming terror when over 3,000 americans died in a terrorist act, though. these are the experiences that allow you to grow. unless you died in the attacks. then you didn't grow.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:07
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The music was a lot better.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:07
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waking up on 9/12 was like waking up into a bizzaro world, populated mostly by american flags where regular humans were slaves
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Aug 28, 2015 21:08
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people thought bush was gonna do some gay domestic policy poo poo instead of starting a loving war
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Aug 28, 2015 21:08
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Hobohemian posted:The music was a lot better. very true, porn pony person. the proclaimers performing i would walk 500 miles? truly a high watershed moment in music.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:09
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Gobblecoque posted:people thought bush was gonna do some gay domestic policy poo poo instead of starting a loving war nah he was gonna start a war anyway
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Aug 28, 2015 21:11
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Eminem already existed nobody even used the internet for anything good because that poo poo was for nerds. I woke up on 9/11 and my alcoholic roommate (already drunk) told me that a plane accidentaly crashed into New York, and I went back to sleep and i still don't know why anybody cares
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Aug 28, 2015 21:12
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Mr. Pumroy posted:very true, porn pony person. the proclaimers performing i would walk 500 miles? truly a high watershed moment in music. I wasn't talking about white people music, which has and always will suck.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:13
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Zzulu posted:Quake 3 wasnt even that good which is why it killed the series Wow it's like a commercial jetliner crashed into your opinion on games and hosed it all up.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:13
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people were really concerned about whether bill clinton got a blowjob
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Aug 28, 2015 21:14
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were a lot more mcribs afaik
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Aug 28, 2015 21:14
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Mister Speaker posted:On 9/11 I was in homeroom when our teacher told us something very controversial had happened Stateside, and asked if we knew anything about it already. Some teacher's pet stuck up her hand and said something about a "sewage problem" she had likely watched on CBC the night before. The teacher shook her head, and explained it in vague detail. In a few minutes we were watching the footage on a TV cart that our librarian wheeled in. I remember he was crying. The principal made an announcement that we would all have the rest of the day off. My buddies and I met out front of the school and probably made some dumb racist jokes, or wildly speculated in jest about what was next - "like we're in some kind of danger in Toronto, haha no way man I'm 15 OK see you guys tomorrow" then we took the subway home. My Mom was glued to the TV for the rest of the day. I thought of this too, but I reckon it was just timed right around the time I was growing up enough to start being interested in the world. There's always going to be some kind of war or atrocity that's current to the news though. Outside of airports I guess I don't notice too much.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:15
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Terror was not yet conquered.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:15
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Americans made a movie about Rambo helping the noble Taliban against the russians who were fighting an evil war against the proud taliban desert warriors Americans also actually helped the taliban in real life against the russians This is funny in retrospect
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Aug 28, 2015 21:16
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justin and britney were happy together and i think most people were expecting them to get married at one point  god dammit OBL
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Aug 28, 2015 21:17
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Parallax Scroll posted:nah he was gonna start a war anyway nope
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Aug 28, 2015 21:18
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the only arab bad guy most people knew about was saddam
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Aug 28, 2015 21:18
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Parallax Scroll posted:the only arab bad guy most people knew about was iron sheik
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Aug 28, 2015 21:19
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It took me like two weeks to get Bruce Campbell's autobiography "If Chins Could Kill" because all the planes were grounded loving goddamn muslim pieces of poo poo
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Aug 28, 2015 21:20
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if you wanted to watch a tv show but couldnt watch it live you had to setup your VCR to record it and it hosed up approximetly 100% of the time dark days indeed
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Aug 28, 2015 21:21
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Aug 28, 2015 21:21
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Hobohemian posted:The music was a lot better. ladies and gentlemen, this is mambo number five
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Aug 28, 2015 21:23
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My little brothers birthday is on 9/11, sitting glued to the tv I got a text message from him: "Bro, this is too much, you shouldn't have."
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School shootings were a rare tragedy, rather than an annual event.
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