Most defining event during our lifetimes

skywalker · 21-01-2009 09:42AM #1

Was listening to the radio yesterday & they were talking about Obama's election. The reporter casually mentioned that this was THE defining historic event of our lifetime. Id disagree.

It did get me thinking though & I came up with my own little list, with one clearly standing out above the others. I asked a couple people for their opinions & the first person actually gave me back the exact same top 3 id come up with. Other folks threw a few different ones into the mix. So Im curious to see what the concensus is.

So I put it to you boardsies, in 100 years time, when people look back on the last 25 or so years. What one event will stick out in that period?

Danbo! · 21-01-2009 09:46AM

USA '94
The death of Joe Dolan
September 11th
Terry at the Spire
Jordan and Peter Andre's Wedding

gino85 · 21-01-2009 09:46AM

end of comunisim
twin towers attack
and the boyzone reunion

HashSlinging · 21-01-2009 09:53AM

Berlin wall
Twin Towers
Obama

4zn76tysfajdxp · 21-01-2009 09:55AM

September 11th.

Edit: And the whole financial crisis thing, supposedly the whole world is collapsing around us. Shít.

walshb · 21-01-2009 10:26AM

The single biggest event and tragedy or news worthy event in my time has been 9/11.

Photi · 21-01-2009 10:30AM

Berlin Wall.
Belfast Agreement
Euro
September 11
Banking Crash
Obama

OldGoat · 21-01-2009 10:37AM

skywalker wrote: »

So I put it to you boardsies, in 100 years time, when people look back on the last 25 or so years. What one event will stick out in that period?

Agest! Some of us go back further then that.:)
First man on the moon.

Mint Sauce · 21-01-2009 10:39AM

9/11
good friday agreement
african american voted president (still think its one of them)
berlin wall

skywalker · 21-01-2009 10:42AM

OldGoat wrote: »

Agest! Some of us go back further then that.:)
First man on the moon.

Hehe, yeah id considered that one alright. Reckon that one becomes the default if you were around for it.

Nodin · 21-01-2009 10:44AM

walshb wrote: »

The single biggest event and tragedy or news worthy event in my time has been 9/11.

And not the Tsunami that killed somewhere between 190 - 290,000 thousand people.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 21-01-2009 10:48AM

Nodin wrote: »

And not the Tsunami that killed somewhere between 190 - 290,000 thousand people.

No, that was a natural disaster. 9/11 is much more important becuase of the murderous intent behind it and the impact it has had on many millions of lives since. By that I mean in America, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. It literally did change the world, the tsunami didn't.

OldGoat · 21-01-2009 10:51AM

Nodin wrote: »

And not the Tsunami that killed somewhere between 190 - 290,000 thousand people.

It's all down to the amount of TV coverage it gets. Now if the Asians hadda used waterproof digicams and photophones this would have made a much more impressive disaster.

OldGoat · 21-01-2009 10:53AM

Sloan Nervous Elf wrote: »

No, that was a natural disaster. 9/11 is much more important becuase of the murderous intent behind it and the impact it has had on many millions of lives since. By that I mean in America, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. It literally did change the world, the tsunami didn't.

:eek:

An Fear Aniar · 21-01-2009 10:54AM

Nodin wrote: »

And not the Tsunami that killed somewhere between 190 - 290,000 thousand people.

Very few of them were English speakers though.

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4zn76tysfajdxp · 21-01-2009 10:55AM

OldGoat wrote: »

:eek:

Well I don't think so. I don't think it made as big an impact on the world as pretty much everything alse posted.*

Look, before everyone gets all angry and starts a-flamin', it's probably just best to ignore me. I don't know anything.

Edit: *Except for the post directly below me.

wyndham · 21-01-2009 10:56AM

25 June 1990, 1700h, Genoa, Stadio Luigi Ferraris.

PENALTIES Goal 0-1 Gheorghe Hagi (ROM)
Goal 1-1 Kevin Sheedy (IRE)
Goal 1-2 Danut Lupu (ROM)
Goal 2-2 Ray Houghton (IRE)
Goal 2-3 Iosif Rotariu (ROM)
Goal 3-3 Andy Townsend (IRE)
Goal 3-4 Ioan Lupescu (ROM)
Goal 4-4 Tony Cascarino (IRE)
Miss 4-4 Daniel Timofte (ROM)
Goal 5-4 David O'Leary (IRE)

Nodin · 21-01-2009 10:57AM

Sloan Nervous Elf wrote: »

No, that was a natural disaster. 9/11 is much more important becuase of the murderous intent behind it and the impact it has had on many millions of lives since. By that I mean in America, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. It literally did change the world, the tsunami didn't.

Thats a valid point. However if you look at the phrasing of the original statement, that doesn't appear to be what he was getting at. "Tragedy".

minidazzler · 21-01-2009 10:59AM

September 11th.
Start of WWIII
Berlin Wall.

(Yes the start of WWIII is going on at the moment. It will last a long time.)

javaboy · 21-01-2009 11:00AM

wyndham wrote: »

Saved 4-4 Daniel Timofte (ROM)

FYP

Nodin · 21-01-2009 11:03AM

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

Very few of them were English speakers though.

Very true. Or that wealthy. Rumour has it they feel pain and mourn much as we do, but this could be a left wing rumour.....

OldGoat · 21-01-2009 11:08AM

Sloan Nervous Elf wrote: »

it's probably just best to ignore me. I don't know anything.

[Tries to ignore Sloan Nervous Elf but the Batman costume tends to catch the eye]
I must not stalk.
I must not stalk.
I must no........

An Fear Aniar · 21-01-2009 11:09AM

A big event I'm hoping won't happen, but could, is the bursting of the derivatives bubble.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/a-163516-trillion-derivatives-timebomb-958699.html

Most markets have something behind them. Central banks require reserves – something that backs up the transaction. But derivatives don't have anything – because they are not real money, but paper money. It is also impossible to establish their worth – the $516 trillion number is actually only a notional one. In the mid-Nineties, Nick Leeson lost Barings £1.3bn trading in derivatives, and the bank went bust. In 1998 hedge fund LTCM's $5bn loss nearly brought down the entire system. In fragile times like this, another LTCM could have catastrophic results.

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4zn76tysfajdxp · 21-01-2009 11:12AM

OldGoat wrote: »

[Tries to ignore Frada but the Batman costume tends to catch the eye]

It's not a costume, it's a uniform.

Quazzie · 21-01-2009 11:18AM

9/11 was a bigger event on the world stage than the tsunami because simply put it changed everything. While the tsunami was a terrible event that lots of people will remember, 9/11 changed the world we live in. The financial implications were massive, and tbh it affected Irish life a lot more than the tsunami because of all the American influences in our lives.

My top three are:
9/11 - A global change for most.
Arsene Wenger - transformed english football forever
Italia 90 - signalled the turnaround of most things in Ireland

giddybootz · 21-01-2009 11:24AM

skywalker wrote: »

THE defining historic event of our lifetime.

9/11 for sure. the tsunami was a much more tragic loss of life but i agree with Frada, 9/11 was a more defining historic event because of the intent behind it and the chain of reaction it set off.

i do think that Obama becoming president is a monumental event but i also think that if 9/11 never happened and if the resulting war/s had never happened then President Obama may never have happened.

asdasd · 21-01-2009 11:25AM

Berlin Wall.
Belfast Agreement
Euro
September 11
Banking Crash
Obama

I would agree with that list except for Obama. I am a sorta-fan of America who defends the country from the Guardian liberals, and Channel 4 lovers, who detest it.

Except, as it turns out, they don't.

They love it but it rejected them. Now they can love the US once again. Jon Snow was having a wet dream for the last two days. The guardian needs so much more space to eulogise Obama ( the Messiah!) the world will run our of paper tomorrow.

This new pathological "love" of a declining world power because they have rectified internal mistakes with regards to discrimination ( something which should be irrelevant to the rest of the world) is as nonsensical as the pathological hate of the country.

We have no idea what Obama will do. I think he will be an America first protectionist, since his sympathies are not with global capital, can't be.

But that is not a world historical moment. Neither I suppose was the good friday agreement, however there is no doubt that the Berlin Wall, September 11, and the present crash are world historical.

Of them all the collapse of Communism the is biggest, not least because it affected the others.

The Obama presidency. Not that important.

Biggins · 21-01-2009 11:26AM

Martin Luther King
Man on the moon
Berlin wall
Mandela
Twin Towers
Afganistan/Iraq frak up
Obama

asdasd · 21-01-2009 11:33AM

Martin Luther King
Man on the moon

25 years from today starts in 1984. The man on the moon is not a world defining event because nothing else happened, and King is a local poltical even in America.

mike65 · 21-01-2009 11:34AM

"our lifetime" is a bit flexible as it depends on your age and how long you have till you die.

The biggest event so far in mine - collapse of Soviet communism but the biggest yet to come is end of oil

m83 · 21-01-2009 11:36AM

My birth.

Most defining event during our lifetimes

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