The Boards.ie 9/11 Thread

robz18 · 07-02-2010 05:40PM

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 · 07-02-2010 05:49PM

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 · 07-02-2010 05:58PM

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 · 07-02-2010 06:09PM

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 · 07-02-2010 06:19PM

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 · 07-02-2010 06:37PM

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 · 07-02-2010 07:32PM

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 · 07-02-2010 07:48PM

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

BluesBerry · 07-02-2010 07:49PM

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 · 07-02-2010 07:52PM

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

goose2005 · 07-02-2010 08:30PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:31PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:46PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:46PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:48PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:51PM

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

brummytom · 07-02-2010 10:52PM

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 · 07-02-2010 10:52PM

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 · 07-02-2010 11:05PM

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 · 07-02-2010 11:16PM

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?

Mars Bar · 07-02-2010 11:28PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

Check the date on her cousins last post

Link wont work

That really hits home

Mods delete this if it is inaaprioate

Forgotten she put her cousins username in there...

kumate_champ07 · 07-02-2010 11:37PM

cost of war since then: $958,226,000,000

http://costofwar.com/

doesnt make sense does it

kev9100 · 07-02-2010 11:48PM

I wonder why the original thread was locked? I did'nt see any inappropiate comments.

bonerm · 07-02-2010 11:55PM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

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

Probably cos it sounds like the former USA emergency phone number.

In a similar vein the illuminati have scheduled the start of World War 3 for August 11th 2011.

pickarooney · 07-02-2010 11:55PM

I'm pretty sure there were several other threads, each dozens of pages long.

Pacing Mule · 08-02-2010 12:01AM

Shows how far boards.ie has come. If that was now that thread would have been about 100 times longer.

Shocking day all the same.

thetonynator · 08-02-2010 12:40AM

Reading that thread was one of the weirdest things ever. I was only 8 at the time, but I can remember hearing it on the radio on the way home from school at 3.15, and sitting on front of the telly watching Brian Dobson speechless, as they repeatedly showed the clip over and over. Scary to read it now, as people predicted WW3, an end to air travel, the end of the world as we know. Also scary how life just went on as normal afterwards.

What I wonder most is, if it happened again tomorrow, what would the reaction be? (it being the second such major incident)

Does anyone know what the actual final death toll was? And how many died trying to save others afterwards?

consultech · 08-02-2010 01:53AM

thetonynator wrote: »

Does anyone know what the actual final death toll was? And how many died trying to save others afterwards?

Well there is no definitive "death toll" per se. Thousands of volunteers who rushed to ground zero and now have debilitating respiratory illnesses will also die prematurely. The US government, naturally, does not want to acknowledge that these people exist.

me-skywalker · 08-02-2010 02:07AM

I wonder if these 'emotional' people now have the feelings since subsequent actions by good Aul Uncle Sam!

GLaDOS · 08-02-2010 02:15AM

I would have been 11 at the time, and it honestly didn't really effect me. I didn't know who Osama Bin Laden was or what the Twin towers were. I remmeber hearing about it and thinking oh, that sucks, guess America's gonna bomb the crap outta some country now.

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