A world where 911 never happened

RikkFlair

We would've been spared World Trade Center starring Nicolas Cage.

PopePalpatine

Tail Docker wrote: »

I preferred their 908, it was a purer concept and waay faster.

The 911's a Porsche, the 908's a Peugeot Le Mans Prototype. The former's a road car, the other's an endurance racing car.

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RayCon

Green Day might still be making decent albums.

Sunglasses Ron

donegal__road wrote: »

If 9/11 had never happened then Larry Silverstein would never had won his billions.....


Owner of WTC, Larry Silverstein had insured the WTC against terrorist strikes months before 9/11, then sues for double the amount because there were 2 terrorist strikes. (and wins)

That photo seems to imply that there was/ is something sinister or unusual about the owner of the two most famous buildings in America insuring them against a terrorist strike.

Sorry but the concept of an aleady billionaire businessman engineering this plot to multiply his billions is a bit too James Bond megavillain for reality. I wouldn't be surprised if he actually made a long term loss in terms of the loss of rental income over the last 13 years.

Agent Smith

What would Wyclef Jean sing about then?

Markcheese

The world looked like it was heading into a recession around 9 11. Our goverment wouldn't have been able to go nuts on spending and cuts.. And maybe we wouldn't be where we are today...

Tarzana

RayCon wrote: »

Green Day might still be making decent albums.

When did they ever make decent albums?

TheGoldenAges

We wouldn't have the fúcking TSA. The terrorists won that day due to what the public are subjected to in airports. And it's funny as what they subject you to is against the US constitution.

Sunglasses Ron

TheGoldenAges wrote: »

The terrorists won that day due to what the public are subjected to in airports.

The terrorists winning would be to have achieved their aims- no more Israel, an end to the US backed Saudi monarchy, no US military involvement in Muslim lands and a fundamentalist, expansionist Islamic state stretching from Morocco to India.

A pain in the hole at check in is a fairly small measure of victory.

Plazaman

Ireland would not be in the depths of austerity bailing out the bankholders and Enda Kenny would have been seen for the fraud he is.

This has actually nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11 attacks but someone would eventually post something similar so I thought I'd get it out of the way and now we can have a shítfree run of the thread from here on in.

Sunglasses Ron

Plazaman wrote: »

Ireland would not be in the depths of austerity bailing out the bankholders and Enda Kenny would have been seen for the fraud he is.

This has actually nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11 attacks but someone would eventually post something similar so I thought I'd get it out of the way and now we can have a shítfree run of the thread from here on in.

Didn't we go into a minor recession for a quarter or two post 9/11 anyway?

I suppose one uniquely Irish slant on it is that Michael O'Leary correctly gambled that people would largely not be frightened away from air travel forever and bought a fair few discount planes from European national carriers who were already in financial trouble pre 9/11, and seized his chance to corner their markets.

branie

Passengers on the Holyhead to Dublin ferry (which was I was on that day) would have been doing their thing instead of being glued to the TV screens

simonslife

hfallada wrote: »

We probably would have had a similar attack a few years later. Any security expert will tell you that the airline industry was very vulnerable to a terrorist attack. There was very like security precautions. Now it's very hard to hijack a plane.

Although 911 was a huge loss of life. I can't believe it's massive effect considering it was a one off group of attacks. Where as when the ira were bombing London on a regular bases. People got on with life and didn't let terrorists win

911 had roughly the same number of fatalities as all of the deaths since the troubles began in 1969 (just to put it into context)

topper75

branie wrote: »

Passengers on the Holyhead to Dublin ferry (which was I was on that day) would have been doing their thing instead of being glued to the TV screens

Good. Because their 'thing' usually consists of pretending the money they hand over the bar for Heineken isn't real, trying to screech louder than the seabirds, and generally trying to dismantle the ship fittings whilst it is afloat.

Knob Longman

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Why do you hate freedom so much?

I love freedom, I'm sure the Iraqi's and Afghan's loved freedom too..:rolleyes:

Tail Docker

No liquids through security...then you hit duty free!! Where they sell, perfume, vodka, after-shave et al. Which are all highly flammable...and lighters are not screened. I await the Sambuca Bomber with interest. OK, not interest, but it always struck me as slightly daft to screen out liquids as a risk, and then allow people to buy pretty much unlimited,,flammable Liquids.

I got on a plane today and the security burd went ape as the three of us had bunged our toothpaste/deodorant/make-up into the one clear bag as opposed to three clear bags..fcuk off, get a life and move on ffs. How hard is screening out a hardened terrorist from tired tourists??

fr336

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I suppose one uniquely Irish slant on it is that Michael O'Leary correctly gambled that people would largely not be frightened away from air travel forever and bought a fair few discount planes from European national carriers who were already in financial trouble pre 9/11, and seized his chance to corner their markets.

Not to mention a huge discount on loads and loads of new aircraft from Boeing in the US!

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.adsb.co.uk/date_and_time/calendar_reform_1752/

In September 1752, Great Britain switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. In order to achieve the change, 11 days were 'omitted' from the calendar - i.e. the day after 2 September 1752 was 14 September 1752.
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Lady Day was one of the days when rents were traditionally due. In fact, this practice must have continued will beyond the 18th century as I've seen paintings of large meals for farm workers on Lady Day. Taxes were also due on Lady Day. With the 'loss' of 11 days in September 1752 and the stories of riots on the street, people weren't impressed with having to pay their taxes in March 1753 like nothing had happened (in fact, as 25 March 1753 was a Sunday the taxes were due on Monday 26 March 1753 ) - so the taxman skipped the 11 days and decreed that taxes were due on 6 April 1753. And, to this day, the UK tax year starts on 6 April.

I've also heard there were riots because some employers gave their employees two weeks holidays on the missing days