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Days you will never forget...

  • 02-08-2007 11:31PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭


    Just watched some docu-drama about September 11th and realised that it is one of the few days in my life that I can recall vividly. I was in work, I heard the news and for the rest of the day a couple of workmates and myself watched the events unfold. I also seem to remember watching 'Newsround' when the shuttle blew up many years ago. A few more private days aswell but overall its a blur. So whats the most memorable day of your life?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    I remember the shuttle blowing up too.
    Can't remember what year it was but must have been around the same time when steffi graff won wimbledon and in the berling wall came down. Don't know why it ffected me so much but it's one of those things I remember


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    God I remember that day well. Was a really sunny day, had just comeout of school and one of my friends ran into the yard and told everyone what happened. We legged it down to his house and couldnt believe the pictures we were seeing on Sky News, just watching these planes fly into buildings like a movie, but it was so real. Ill never forget it..

    I remember the London bombings aswell, was at work and had just gone for teabreak - turned on the radio and it was dominating every station. Reminded me instantly of 9/11 but for some reason didnt seem as big of a deal, I have no idea why I feel like that though..

    On the flipside though, there are the good days as well. Most memorable day of my life was the day Man Utd won the champions league final in 1999. I was only 12 at the time but I was always mad into football. I was bawling my eyes out eating a plate of chips when United scored. I jumped up, chips and bits of broken plate went everywhere and I was roaring my head off like a tool. I was still running around the place when I heard the commentators roar again, and my Liverpool fan of a brother shouting "Poxy f*ckers!!", I ran back into the living room... 2-1. What else need I say? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,495 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Yep, September 11th 2001 was the same day i registered for college.

    I remember a mate of mine texting me while it was happening. And i was nowhere near a radio or TV, and i thought he was taking the piss.

    The thing i'll never forget about the day is walking by Star Records in Tesco Arcade in Sligo (a store which has since shut down). I remember people crowding underneath a small TV in the store - no one even looking at what was on the shelves. Felt so odd!

    Besides that.. i remember mostly funny incidents when out with mates.

    I'd imagine the birth of my first child or wedding day will be unforgettable but have not come to witness either, as of yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,494 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    I remember Sep11 well. I had just started 4th class.. (Going into 4th year now ironically!)...I remember going getting ice cream on the way home then arriving home to be greeted with the TV on and the event being played over and over......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I was in an internet cafe in London when the events of September 11th unfolded and everyone stood up to crowd around the telly, mad stuff.
    A happier note would be my wedding day, family and friends around, brilliant day.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    the day I rode yore ma !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭Mexicola


    Moosejam wrote:
    the day I rode yore ma !
    ...Jasus. Just typical. Some gimp has to bring the conversation down... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    it was gonna happen, you did post in AH


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    ill never forget new years eve 1999, i went to the pub with my brother and 10 mins later there was a power cut that lasted for hours, we all thought that the millenium bug was real and kicking in, missed the lighting up ceremony and couldnt get ant more drink in the pub, was spitting feathers. then at midnight on 01/01/2000 the deafening noise of fireworks was just amazing, i will never forget that day


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  • Posts: 5,135 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    September 11th I was in Hogs'r'us, the Harley Davidson shop in Cork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭Irish Wolf


    The-Rigger wrote:

    ...Jasus. Just typical. Some gimp has to bring the conversation down... :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    down?

    The ironing is delicious.

    The begrudgers have arrived. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭Irish Wolf


    The-Rigger wrote:
    down?

    The ironing is delicious.

    The begrudgers have arrived. :D

    Those damn carnies made me do it.. They're still blackmailing me over the day I busted their newspaper scam.. a day I'll never forget if they get their way..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    It's a ring toss game :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I won't forget today.

    One of my dearest friends rang to say her father has slipped into a coma and the family have been told to say their good bye's.

    She's in Israel, her father has fought a short battle with cancer and I want to be there with/for her.

    I've been dreading this phone call. The next will be far, far worse :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭ctc_celtic


    i'll always remember 9/11. me and the sister had went shopping to belfast, i was in a small sports shop, they had one of the local stations on and at the end of the 1pm news, they said 'news just in, a light aircraft had crashed into the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING'. remember thinking that the pilot must be stupid to crash into one of the tallest building on earth.
    then about an hour later, went into a big clothes shop and they had loads of the big screens that usually show MTV, showing CNN, we just seen everybody watching them, looked up and seen the picture of the the two WTC buildings already collapsed and just a big smoking hole left.

    for some reason we just said, lets get home and went straight home, we weren't finished shopping but it just felt like we should head home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,244 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    Winning a competition to go the World Cup and then getting practically getting front row seats for the quater final between Argentina and Germany which followed a penality shootout. The suspense was unreal.

    Woop 100 posts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    The day I discovered life outside of my bedroom....


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Neil Armstrong's "One step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." never forget it.[SIZE=-1] [/SIZE]


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Caliden wrote:
    The day I discovered life outside of my bedroom....
    staying in masturbating all day every day cant go on forever, sadly* :(

    hmm.. days.. days.. eh.. i guess sept 24th... hm..






    *joke - also might not be true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    Mexicola wrote:
    Just watched some docu-drama about September 11th and realised that it is one of the few days in my life that I can recall vividly. I was in work, I heard the news and for the rest of the day a couple of workmates and myself watched the events unfold. I also seem to remember watching 'Newsround' when the shuttle blew up many years ago. A few more private days aswell but overall its a blur. So whats the most memorable day of your life?

    I was waking up in a hostel in Washington DC and the noise from fighter jets over the city ringing in my ears. Will never forget that day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    26/06/63, the first day of Kennedy's visit.

    I'll also never forget 29/06/86. Flew from Majorca to Dublin via Shannon, flew from Dublin to Paris via Cork, watched the world cup final in my Paris hotel bedroom, traipsed up and down the Champs Élysées, and ended up up the Eifel Tower. Boy was I wrecked.

    Oh yeah, 11/09/01.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    911. Was in new york. Queens. Crazy day. Remember the panic and confusion. And the lets get the fcuk outta here vibe.

    Other than that my first ride. Again panic and confusion and lets get the fcuk otuta here vibe. She was a sweaty hairy mess.

    Before anyone else. Your Ma!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I remember the London bombings, I was in a chatroom with a lot of English kids and I had BBC one on for some reason and all of a sudden Bargain hunt or whatever was interrupted for this story on the bombings and one guy actually said "do you think it's........ terrorists?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    My fave memory as a kid was my dad waking me up to watch Argentina-England in 86 and seeing Maradona score those 2 goals.
    Houghton's goal against England in 88 & Bonner's penalty save in 90!

    Sept. 11 and the Omagh bombings are 2 days I'll never forget.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Here's the Sept 11th Boards AH Thread.

    And a news report from the early hours

    http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0911/breaking36.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I remember the Omagh bombings quite well. I was about 14 and I was at this weird praise Jesus camp in the UK and they announced it at this praise service thing and then everyone said that's terrible and then continued being all happy clappy and praising jesus. I just looked around and thought, how can you be all happy after hearing that. That's when I lost my faith! I remember I was in RE class in 6th year when 9-11 happened and my RE teacher (the smug b**tard) was loving telling us! my leaving cert results was a pretty memorable day too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Setptember 11th, I remember I was at a vending machine when I guy I knew came up and said "The twin towers are gone, they collapsed!" Of course I didn't believe him until I got back to my house and saw the destruction on tv.

    December 8th 2004, I was roaming around on a guitar tab website when next thing I saw breaking news headline "Dimebag Darrell shot dead!". I couldn't believe it when I read it and was gutted, my older brother was even more gutted when I told him later.

    April 15 1912, the day the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage. I remember turning on the ol' morse code radio for some good ol' fashioned morse code music when next thing the show was interrupted by a breaking news morse code. I believe I was drinking sour turnip juice, which was the style at the time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭gyppo


    Sept. 11th was a blistering hot day in Venice. Returned to our resort, Desenzano, Lake garda by train, and walked to a little shop just outside the station to get a bottle of water.
    Everyone in the shop glued to a little portable TV behind the counter watching the twin towers burning...surreal.


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