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Bastard Tetris posted:Goddamn I'm an old goon. I was in college, and my roommate was a Palestinian named Osama who came to my college because the IDF blew up the university.  How much poo poo did your roommate get from racist assholes?Anyway, my 9/11 story is much the same as everyone else, pulled out of school by my mom midway through the day. The only thing that really makes it stand out was that the reason she pulled me out was that she was terrified terrorists would try to fly a plane into the school. Then I, a nine year old boy, had the memorable experience of trying to tell my mother to calm down because no one anywhere would give a drat about an elementary school of about 400 students in a Cleveland suburb.
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Oh oh I know what we can do! *clears throat* VOTING FOR HILLARY IS THE SAME AS VOTING REPUBLICAN!
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SHUT UP NO IT ISN'T HAVE YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA FOR A VIABLE CANDIDATE rear end in a top hat?
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I was in middle school on 9/11 and throughout the day we had kids getting called to the office because there relatives had started to be reporting dead or missing.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:21
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I was 11. That day I was convinced Saddam Hussein had attacked us and that it was time to invade Iraq. It's good to know that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the gang had the same idea. As an 11 year old.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:24
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On 9/11 I was busy placing thermite charges at an undisclosed location.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:26
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When 9/11 happened my parents were in high school. They didn't find out what had happened until I mentioned it over a discussion of gross overreach of American foreign policy about 40 years later. Stop talking about your boring 9/11 stories. Talk about RFRAs or net neutrality or something, ffs.
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I was 10 when the first gulf war started. I remember being on the school bus and a girl in my class coming in crying because her dad had to go off to war. That was the first time I knew war was real. Oh and then 9/11 happened some years later and I was fairly shocked.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:On 9/11 I was busy placing thermite charges at an undisclosed location. So you were the guy who blew up the gas station out on I-8 in the desert!
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ErIog posted:You're loving right they aren't, and yet we have this stupid derail every month or two. I don't understand at all how people's personal experience of 9/11 has anything to do with USPol March, and I wish people would take it to the chat thread or make another thread if they want to talk about it. All of us have personal experiences of 9/11 we could talk about, but almost nobody has an experience of it that anyone else would ever care about. People like talking about themselves on the Internet. Someone posting their banal 911 experience is like forum jet fuel. Good thing we're already preparing to evacuate this thread.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:31
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On 9/11 I was this militia guard: E: no wait I was bin laden's horse
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Apr 1, 2015 06:33
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Raskolnikov38 posted:On 9/11 I was this militia guard: I was terror-NORAD. The whole thing.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:36
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The guy who drew that should have slipped in a box saying "cobra commander sold separately" before that article went to the presses.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:39
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I learned about 9/11 from Slashdot.
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ErIog posted:You're loving right they aren't, and yet we have this stupid derail every month or two. I don't understand at all how people's personal experience of 9/11 has anything to do with USPol March, and I wish people would take it to the chat thread or make another thread if they want to talk about it. All of us have personal experiences of 9/11 we could talk about, but almost nobody has an experience of it that anyone else would ever care about. What Im confused about is what this post has to do with US pol march. And also my post. and probibly your response since I doubt you will be able to take the hint. Good Citizen posted:People like talking about themselves on the Internet. Someone posting their banal 911 experience is like forum jet fuel. Good thing we're already preparing to evacuate this thread. This thread is an inside job.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:On 9/11 I was this militia guard: I have a confession I gotta make: after 9/11 I completely bought the idea that this was real.
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USPol March: NIST defunded, it stays March.
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Chantilly Say posted:I have a confession I gotta make: after 9/11 I completely bought the idea that this was real. You were left impressionable by earlier exposure to Wheres Waldo books.
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Apr 1, 2015 06:52
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Raskolnikov38 posted:On 9/11 I was this militia guard: Haha, holy poo poo I never noticed the bit about the horse before. Years later and this image is still the gift that keeps on giving.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Haha, holy poo poo I never noticed the bit about the horse before. Years later and this image is still the gift that keeps on giving. Im not sure why Bin Laden has a Subaru Forester rather than a pickup truck in his volcano lair im starting to think there may be problems with this graphic
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Apr 1, 2015 06:56
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Anyone who bought the idea that terrorists in the loving afghan mountains had 1150 ft deep fortresses had to be loving mentally deficient. 115 floors down into the mountain? We might as well just give up now jfc
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InequalityGodzilla posted:
He got the cops called on him pretty much constantly for a year for reasons like "looking like a terrorist" and turned into a misogynist shut-in that only talked to his cousins and bareknuckle boxed for money in LA fighting rings the next time I saw him after moving out, while being that physics major that hung out in the back of the class and never talked to anyone. Anyways apparently these stories aren't interesting so bring on USPol April: a bunch of people that don't know Amergin's schtick
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Accretionist posted:I was always disappointed we didn't get a grave and foreboding speech over the loudspeaker. We didn't get anything. In fact, my rear end in a top hat History teacher saw the news on his computer and didn't loving tell us. In my class, the news came via a student hall monitor on a bright pink paper. The teacher of the class was one of the very few teachers I ever disliked, and I remember adolescent me was initially amused at the spectacle, since at first, it seemed like she was getting the pink slip in front of the class. "Two airliners have crashed into the World Trade Center, both buildings have collapsed. A third airliner has crashed into the Pentagon." me: "There's 40,000 people in those buildings!" Thanks to a timely documentary on the Discovery Channel (if you can remember before all those channels went to poo poo).
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Zeno-25 posted:In my class, the news came via a student hall monitor on a bright pink paper. The teacher of the class was one of the very few teachers I ever disliked, and I remember adolescent me was initially amused at the spectacle, since at first, it seemed like she was getting the pink slip in front of the class. oh they were still poo poo in 2001, how many hours of crab fishing did you have to absorb to get that factoid?
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Spaceman Future! posted:Im not sure why Bin Laden has a Subaru Forester rather than a pickup truck in his volcano lair im starting to think there may be problems with this graphic Great mileage and traction dont'cha know.
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Crowsbeak posted:How is that evidence? Especailly when they couldn't find any of the drugs they claimned in her system. What rational person in a jourey would convict with that? Seriously the police that interrogated her and the entire prosecutorial team should be fired. That reads to me like a women was confused, not someone who really wanted to kill her unborn. You don't need evidence. Rennie Gibbs was given a life sentence for misscarriage of a fetus that was born in a hospital with the umbilical wrapped around its neck. She was 16, black, and a recovering addict. Clearly the baby died because of her coke snorting ( even though there is no medical evidence linking cocaine to increases miscarriage risk ) and not having the loving umbilical wrapped around her throat. http://www.propublica.org/article/stillborn-child-charge-of-murder-and-disputed-case-law-on-fetal-harm Did I mention she was 16 and black? It's amazing how many of the women jailed for misscarriage on the national advocates for pregnant women website aren't white.
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McAlister posted:You don't need evidence. Rennie Gibbs was given a life sentence for misscarriage of a fetus that was born in a hospital with the umbilical wrapped around its neck. You assume that she wasnt in control of the umbilicus, wrapping it around her baby's throat with squid like dexterity. Black people can do that right its where the extra muscle is
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Spaceman Future! posted:oh they were still poo poo in 2001, how many hours of crab fishing did you have to absorb to get that factoid? Deadliest Catch started in 2005, man. Before then were the days of when the History Channel was good because it was all Nazi WWII stuff instead of ancient aliens. I even remember when TLC was pretty good. edit: 9/11 ruined everything. I can imagine how some folks feel the same way about Reagan, but I'm just not old enough to have experienced that and how the country changed as a result. Some left-leaning old-timers I know have anecdotally said as much. Zeno-25 fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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I love the internet sometimes. 13 hours ago: (Reddit) My husband is blind and uses Uber. We sent an email to KS Representatives as there's a vote today that would make Uber operations illegal in the state. This was Rep. John Bradford's response.  4 hours ago: (Inquistr) John Bradford: Kansas State Lawmaker’s Condescending Response To Constituent Goes Viral quote:John Bradford might want to take a minute before he clicks send next time.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Anyone who bought the idea that terrorists in the loving afghan mountains had 1150 ft deep fortresses had to be loving mentally deficient. 115 floors down into the mountain? We might as well just give up now jfc All I knew at that point was that some guys I'd never heard of from some country I couldn't find on a map had just holy poo poo knocked down the Twin Towers, I think if you told me Bin Laden had psychic powers I would have believed you.
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Zeno-25 posted:Deadliest Catch started in 2005, man. Before then were the days of when the History Channel was good because it was all Nazi WWII stuff instead of ancient aliens. I even remember when TLC was pretty good. Did it really? I could have sworn I watched it in high school but I graduated in 2001, I blame drugs. Airports sucked a whole lot less before 9/11. Security was usually just some contractor rather than some underpaid overinflated may as well be minimum wage worker who has for some reason been given a badge to send their napoleon complexes to new heights. If I had sinister telepathic powers there would be so many mysterious incidents involving TSA agents and Meter maids. I also miss being able to meet family right at the gate.
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McAlister posted:You don't need evidence. Rennie Gibbs was given a life sentence for misscarriage of a fetus that was born in a hospital with the umbilical wrapped around its neck. The latest news on Google tells me the depraved-heart murder charges were dismissed a year ago, with the prosecutors planning to recharge her with manslaughter. Did the life sentence come out of a new trial, or did you not read the article carefully? Though yes it is upsetting that all the big-profile cases on this topic I've heard about involve poor and/or non-white women (but not surprising  ).
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Wow, that guy must have not gotten enough sleep that night or something. That's awful even for a Kansas state legislator. edit: or a vengeful staffer instead?
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Apr 1, 2015 07:38
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Raskolnikov38 posted:On 9/11 I was this militia guard: 
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I thought they all used interns for emails. Someone's getting fired soon.
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FourLeaf posted:I thought they all used interns for emails. Someone's getting fired soon.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Wow, that guy must have not gotten enough sleep that night or something. That's awful even for a Kansas state legislator. Should it be depressing that the actions of a republican representative and a spiteful underpaid employee are indistinguishable enough in tone that we cant tell which is which? Grapplejack posted:Uber is poo poo though, so I support him gently caress all companies that claim the majority of their employee base are actually contractors so they can gently caress them and be free of liability.
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Accretionist posted:I love the internet sometimes. I should be focused on the response, but all I can see is the woman claiming that Big Banking is trying to kill Uber.
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