pimpdave wrote:It's a sad day.
If you weren't there, you can't understand. If you weren't there, you might think joke threads and conspiracy theory jokes are funny. They're not. If you've never watched a person die, engulfed in flames, if you've never watched someone jump out of a window, arms flailing, only to land with a dull thud on the pavement, a thin pink cloud instantly puffing up from the body while the rest of the corpse splatters out like a pizza that falls top end onto the floor.
If you haven't seen a woman stumbling around like a zombie, covered in concrete dust, grasping her left arm at the elbow, where her forearm used to be, the blood mixing with the gray dust, trying to put a tourniquet on her.
If you haven't ever been in a warzone, you couldn't possibly comprehend. No matter how many pithy or seemingly witty lampooning jokes you can make, it doesn't change, for a second, the way you would all respond had you actually been there.
Those of you making comments or jokes only prove to me and others that you weren't there, and most likely don't know what it's like to watch people get brutally slaughtered. I'd be curious to know if you'd be so cool and collected and able to make jokes at other people's expense if you were trapped in one of those towers, the flames making everything unbearably hot, the air thin, the sky clogged with thick black clouds of smoke, making it impossible to find an escape, if there even was one to be had.
Jeeze, calm down Hammy McOverIntense.
It's like you think terrorism didn't even exist before 2001. Anyone over 20 in England has seen dozens of bombings and attacks, from the Irish to the Libyans to various Muslim extremists, bombing everything from planes to buses to shopping centres to army barracks. Oh, and Manchester. And London gay bars.
Don't get all twatty about the one major incident in your entire history ok? No-ones saying it wasn't horrible, all terrorist attacks are horrible, but you seem to think the whole world changed after 9-11.
it didn't, you just caught up.