The Boards.ie 9/11 Thread

Thargor

I dont suppose anyone can find the thread from 2001 where people were discussing the attacks as they happened? Ive looked a good bit but no joy, dont know if it was in After Hours or Politics or what the forum structure was even like back then. Just curious, how big is the boards.ie database does anyone know, must be getting pretty big by now.

Gordon

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30985

Danbo!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30985

EDIT: Bollox

That_Guy

There's been better disasters..............

Sorry.

brummytom

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

Danbo!

brummytom wrote: »

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

Filters; Show all threads, from beginning, ascending. Starts at 1999. Jump forward to about 100 pages

EDIT: Actually, it just so happens that you can jump to page 1, 2, 3, 11, 51, 101...etc.. Jumping to page 101 brings you to oct 2001, so fairly close.

That_Guy

brummytom wrote: »

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

They're probably single......

Gordon

brummytom wrote: »

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

Search for osama, in Afterhours, posts older than one year, show as threads, sort ascending.

Thargor

brummytom wrote: »

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

Yeah WTF, I was just going to ask that, thanks a million anyway, its just fascinating stuff, better than a documentary.

brummytom

It's really weird reading that thread now

recylingbin

brummytom wrote: »

How the fcuk did you two find it that quickly?! :eek:

They searched for 11/9

Borneo Fnctn

Reading the original thread is kind of eerie.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Just got the shivvers reading that thread.

That_Guy

brummytom wrote: »

It's really weird reading that thread now

I know it's very strange alright. I remember coming home from school that day and switching on the TV and I remember just standing there thinking that it looked like something from a film.

We had an American receptionist in school and she was just so emotional and it was horrible seeing her like that cos she was such a lovely person.

gonnaplayrugby

weird how it works aye? over 200,000 people die in haiti and it only got a few pages, 3,000 people die in another foreign country but people weap as if it was their brother or sister who died.

Danbo!

Tenley Some Hairpin wrote: »

Just got the shivvers reading that thread.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2001/0911/world/

Have a look at the news from that day. Its strange seeing it unfold from about 1pm onwards, quite chilling actually

That_Guy

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

weird how it works aye? over 200,000 people die in haiti and it only got a few pages, 3,000 people die in another foreign country but people weap as if it was their brother or sister who died.

That's a bit harsh. I can understand why there were more posts for the 9/11 attacks. As a nation we're closer associated with the States than we would be in Haiti.

I'm sure a lot of people had relations or friends over there at the time and just wanted to make sure they were ok.

It's not a case of which disaster is more popular like you seem to be suggesting which is a bit sick tbh.

Prof.Badass

Gordon wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30985

hahahahaha

I can't believe people actually used to use omg!! in a sincere, non-sarcastic fashion .

Look at how ridiculous they all look now .

brummytom

That_Guy wrote: »

I know it's very strange alright. I remember coming home from school that day and switching on the TV and I remember just standing there thinking that it looked like something from a film.

We had an American receptionist in school and she was just so emotional and it was horrible seeing her like that cos she was such a lovely person.

We came home from school and just sat in front of the TV, for hours and hours, watching the looping news footage of it. I honestly don't think any of us spoke more than a sentence that evening. I remember my mom and dad just sitting there staring.

We found out during swimming. Had to stop in the shallow end and say a Hail Mary (the helper-teacher had heard about a 'plane accident' on the radio). Incredibly weird day.

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

weird how it works aye? over 200,000 people die in haiti and it only got a few pages, 3,000 people die in another foreign country but people weap as if it was their brother or sister who died.

No, it's not weird at all. 9/11 was an attack. An unprecedented, unexpected and unimaginable attack. Haiti was a natural disaster. Many Irish/English people have close friends/family living in America; it's always to be expected people feel it's more real when it's 'one of their own'.

Closed ac

I was only about 9/10 when that happened but I can only imagine how surreal it must have been watching all those series of events unfold on the news.. that thread, although eerie, made for a very interesting read.

gonnaplayrugby

look at the madrid bombings. was there people weeping then? that was an unprecedented, unexpected and unimaginable attack as you put it.

brummytom

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

look at the madrid bombings. was there people weeping then? that was an unprecedented, unexpected and unimaginable attack as you put it.

Note the second point I made - we're culturally & traditionally close to USA. Not so much to Spain. Also, far more people died in 9/11. Madrid killed 191; 9/11 killed nearly 3,000.

I really don't see the comparison

That_Guy

brummytom wrote: »

We came home from school and just sat in front of the TV, for hours and hours, watching the looping news footage of it. I honestly don't think any of us spoke more than a sentence that evening. I remember my mom and dad just sitting there staring.

It was very silent in my house now that I think about it. It's the only thing that we could talk about. It was so strange for us though because we had been in New York that April and had even passed by the twin towers and then a couple of months later to see that happening was just crazy. Also a little sad.

Mars Bar

I remember I was just finished school for the day, I was in 5th class. I was in a clothes shop and there was a television in there and I just couldn't believe it. We were all just standing around watching it, nobody saying a word. Seems like yesterday.

The woman who owned the shop is currently on her death bed, cancer is beating her. She has two very young children.

Sad times.

gonnaplayrugby

brummytom wrote: »

Note the second point I made - we're culturally & traditionally close to USA. Not so much to Spain. Also, far more people died in 9/11. Madrid killed 191; 9/11 killed nearly 3,000.

I really don't see the comparison

what are you talking about? plenty of irish people have family living in spain shouldn't they be weaping because 'one of their own' might have been killed.

brummytom

That_Guy wrote: »

It was very silent in my house now that I think about it. It's the only thing that we could talk about. It was so strange for us though because we had been in New York that April and had even passed by the twin towers and then a couple of months later to see that happening was just crazy. Also a little sad.

I remember mom was going to book a shopping trip in New York for her and nan (it was my nan's 70th that December). She had until 11th September to confirm the booking... yeah, she didn't

That_Guy

brummytom wrote: »

I remember mom was going to book a shopping trip in New York for her and nan (it was my nan's 70th that December). She had until 11th September to confirm the booking... yeah, she didn't

Wow. That's scary.

brummytom

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

what are you talking about? plenty of irish people have family living in spain shouldn't they be weaping because 'one of their own' might have been killed.

Oh sweet Jesus, why am I even dignifying this?
More people died. The like of 9/11 had never been seen before (nor since). Unfortunately, train bombings are quite common. Four airline planes were hijacked in broad daylight in one of the busiest cities in the world and used as missiles, killed nearly three thousand people. How on earth is that comparible trains being blown up and killing less than 200?

Both were horrible, horrible acts of terrorism; but still incredibly different

arybvtcw0eolkf

Apart from the shock of the days events my last memory that day was my children being absolutely terrified and asking me if this was the start of World War III.

I'd just returned from Lebanon so I guess they could relate this to me being somehow able to answer their questions and quell their fears.

pickarooney

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

what are you talking about? plenty of irish people have family living in spain shouldn't they be weaping because 'one of their own' might have been killed.

To put it bluntly, 9/11 was far more spectacular.

hitlersson666

why was the orginal thread closed???

robz18

I think I might have just spent over an hour reading various Wikipedia articles linked to this disaster, lots of interesting stuff I was too young to care about back them.

brummytom

robz18 wrote: »

I think I might have just spent over an hour reading various Wikipedia articles linked to this disaster, lots of interesting stuff I was too young to care about back them.

I know it's weird; but I've just been watching videos on youtube of news coverage from the day. It's very, very strange to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tl__04Xoi0

I think from about 3:13, this is where it just got too real

strobe

It's strange reading back through that thread. Some very prophetic posting from a lot of boardsies.

"Expect a lose of civil rights in the states and a few other countrys as a kneejerk reaction." - Draco

"The CIA and NSA failed in their jobs today. I think the whole intelligence community did. This took a lot of planning and resources. No dount a witch hunt will occur to see what.....

America will become a very right wing country after this." -Yellum

"....war against Afganastan, Iran, Iraq and the like. Will this turn into a scapegoat incident for inciting military action? Also in Bush's last statement the point of concern was in killing who was responsible rather than consoling those hurt. Will he lead the most powerful nation in the world into invading some country for revenge? Might he start a war over this issue??" - Nesf



Also lots of reminders of how completely over bored everyone went. Plenty of mentions of the inevitable nuclear war to come. World war III breaking out ect. I remember the next day about half of all the tabloids went with slightly different variations of the headline "The End Of The World!!!!!!"

kenon

Yeah I'm just having a quick skim through that thread now and its quite a strange feeling reading the events unfolding one post at a time.

Overheal

strobe wrote: »

Also lots of reminders of how completely over bored everyone went. Plenty of mentions of the inevitable nuclear war to come. World war III breaking out ect. I remember the next day about half of all the tabloids went with slightly different variations of the headline "The End Of The World!!!!!!"

Well who could blame them. the attack was a major exception to the rules. We're not talking about car bombings and bus bombings with suicide vests but taking over passenger jets and launching a coordinated attack in an area many hundreds of square miles.

...it was like a Real World blue screen of death; we all knew something was very wrong and we didnt know how to react next.

Dartz

Always reminds me of a quote I read on a forum a while back, a topic dating to September 10th, 2001...

Basically, the discussion was about fitness, and climbing the stairs to the office instead of taking the lift. One user made the following post... paraphrased a little because the website has long gone.

I work on the 95th floor of the WTC, I don't think even Superman could climb that many stairs thank you very much,

There were no further posts by this user.

d'Oracle

Dartz wrote: »

Always reminds me of a quote I read on a forum a while back, a topic dating to September 10th, 2001...

Basically, the discussion was about fitness, and climbing the stairs to the office instead of taking the lift. One user made the following post... paraphrased a little because the website has long gone.



There were no further posts by this user.

:eek:

dylano_k

9th of November?? thats my brothers birthday:D

BluesBerry

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

weird how it works aye? over 200,000 people die in haiti and it only got a few pages, 3,000 people die in another foreign country but people weap as if it was their brother or sister who died.

Haiti was a natural disaster which was bad and unpreventable but 9/11 was deliberate planned and could have been prevented thats what makes it harder to understand ordinary people just going about their daily business and cut down like that deliberately so some terrorists in the middle east could make their point

MIN2511

That's the day i came to Ireland for the first time, interesting experience. Can never forget it

goose2005

BluesBerry wrote: »

Haiti was a natural disaster which was bad and unpreventable but 9/11 was deliberate planned and could have been prevented thats what makes it harder to understand ordinary people just going about their daily business and cut down like that deliberately so some terrorists in the middle east could make their point

Have we even had a single thread about the Somali civil war? (9/11 times at least 100) Did anyone even hear of it until the piracy began?

Tchaikovsky

gonnaplayrugby wrote: »

weird how it works aye? over 200,000 people die in haiti and it only got a few pages, 3,000 people die in another foreign country but people weap as if it was their brother or sister who died.

Well it was an attack by fellow human beings rather than a natural disaster, but I understand what you're saying.

Mike 1972

Why the hell do people refer to it as 9/11 though ?

I mean if one were to refer to World War two as 3/9 nobody would know what the hell they were on about ?

BluesBerry

goose2005 wrote: »

Have we even had a single thread about the Somali civil war? (9/11 times at least 100) Did anyone even hear of it until the piracy began?

Sadly and ashamedly no I didn't hear of it until then we live in a very media driven world

Personally I think 9/11 shocked people so much was because we all thought (well at least I did) that America was invincible and to witness the events what happened that day was truly terrifying and made a lot of people realize that if it happened in America it can happen to any country

also the way things happened 2 planes crashing into towers one heading for the pentagon car bombs going of planes being shot down people jumping from buildings people never seen this kind of thing before and will always remember it and it wont be forgotten for a long long time

consultech

Personally, my compassion and sadness for what happened doesn't come from the "we might know someone" impulse. It's just out of being genuinely upset that people died, period, regardless of circumstance.

Mars Bar

Wonder did Nemesis get any word from their cousin...

brummytom

Mike 1972 wrote: »

I mean if one were to refer to World War two as 3/9 nobody would know what the hell they were on about ?

My birthday?

consultech

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Why the hell do people refer to it as 9/11 though ?

I mean if one were to refer to World War two as 3/9 nobody would know what the hell they were on about ?

Wow. Just wow.

BluesBerry

mars bar wrote: »

Wonder did Nemesis get any word from their cousin...

Check the date on her cousins last post

Link wont work

That really hits home


Mods delete this if it is inaaprioate

Pride Fighter

Originally posted by Nostradamus

Garden of the world, the New City and the way of the man-made mountains,
Shall be seized on, and plunged into ferment by morbid wings of steel
The war of terror will last seven and twenty,
And all the kingdoms of Christianity shall quake.

The sky will burn at 45 degrees [read: latitude],
Fire approaches the Great New City [read: New York],
By fire he will destroy their city,
An inhuman, cruel, heart - cold. Mercy to none.

The trumpet shakes with great discord,
An agreement broken.
Lifting the face to heaven,
The bloody mouth will swim in blood.

Overcome, the Great Nation is uncertain.
Shortly after the sun a battle has engaged,
Then will come the great tumult,
There will be a great onslaught - there will be terror.

Just found it interesting the bit that says the war of terror lasted seven and twenty. US troops are pulling out of Iraq (2003-2010) which is seven years. War in Afghanistan started in 2001, could the US be there till 2021?