The Boards.ie 9/11 Thread

Thargor · 2010-02-07 15:15:11

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…

#62 08-02-2010 02:44AM

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brummytom wrote: »

We found out during swimming. Had to stop in the shallow end and say a Hail Mary

That's hilarious.

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#63 08-02-2010 02:46AM

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brummytom wrote: »

No, it's not weird at all. 9/11 was an attack. An unprecedented, unexpected and unimaginable attack.

lol.
Unprecedented, in what regard?
Unexpected? Untrue, lots of people were expecting it. In fact, there was actually intelligence(albeit scattered) and threats beforehand.
Unimaginable? I can imagine worse.

3000 people were killed. Its terrible, and all... but (theres always a but)
More than 5 times that number get murdered every year in the country where I live.
More than 100 times that number (thats right 300,000+) have died on USA roads since 9/11
etc statistics WRT death toll etc etc blah

Its a tragedy, all of it. But don't go nuts, you were probably about 6 years old when that all went down. Lots of worse stuff has happened since.
The USA is one country, its not the world.

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#64 08-02-2010 05:20AM

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mars bar wrote: »

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

Yes they were safe.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=31003

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#65 08-02-2010 05:54AM

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What I find funny is young all of you were when it happened.

I feel old.

It must of been a strange thing to see when you were about 10 years old. I wonder would I have understood and cared what was going on? When it happened I was in sixth year and our RE teacher told us (smarmy git enjoyed telling it too!). They wheeled a tv in and we all watched in complete silence.

Crazy stuff.

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#66 08-02-2010 06:09AM

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watna wrote: »

What I find funny is young all of you were when it happened.

I feel old.

It must of been a strange thing to see when you were about 10 years old. I wonder would I have understood and cared what was going on? When it happened I was in sixth year and our RE teacher told us (smarmy git enjoyed telling it too!). They wheeled a tv in and we all watched in complete silence.

Crazy stuff.

Yeah it's weird. I was 17 at the time, very much younger mentally speaking. I was lying on my sofa dying (so I thought) from a long term illness that landed me in hospital for 6 weeks soon after. I remember being very sheltered and un-invested emotionally in it because of what I was going through personally (as inconsiderate as that sounds now). I wouldn't have had the wherewithall to immediately associate it with a "terrorist attack" either, the way most people did. I was in my own little world at the time, and the gravity of what had happened only really hit me in the new year of 2002, after I'd kicked my illness.

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#67 08-02-2010 11:23AM

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to be honest 9/11 had that impact because of the media. For the first time (that i know of) we had live tv coverage of planes crashing,fire engines roaring up a street,people falling/jumping from an iconic building.
It was a visualy stunning/horrifying scene. min by min updates,speculation,rumours. I was in work when it started and by the time i got home we had heard about the twin towers,the pentagon and rumours of the chrysler buliding being hit,the white house destroyed and more besides.

my sister lived in new york at the time and that also held its own terror for me as i just did not get how big that city is. a day or two later a plane crashed in queens (where she lived) and the whole world seemed to pause again as we waited to see if it was another attack.

reading about it in the paper or seeing edited news at 6 or 9 o clock (as we would have done in the past) will never have the same impact as 24 hour sky news linking to cbs/fox and showing it all in realtime.anyone who saw the news just sat and watched the plane hit over and over. saw the towers come done repeatedly in pure horror.

like driving past a crash on the road,you dont want to look but you can't stop yourself. no matter what happens in the future this was a moment in history which will affect many people for a long time to come.

the world did not end.....but it changed in ways which we still don't fully understand.

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#68 08-02-2010 11:49AM

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Interesting factoid: on 9/11 and for the days afterwards, that's when most news stations started using that ticker thing at the bottom of the screen. Now they're ubiquitous.

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#69 08-02-2010 12:23PM

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el judìo wrote: »

lol.
Unprecedented, in what regard?
Unexpected? Untrue, lots of people were expecting it. In fact, there was actually intelligence(albeit scattered) and threats beforehand.
Unimaginable? I can imagine worse.

I think it really boils down to "no-one messes with USA". It's the first real attack on US soil by a foreign enemy since Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in WW2.
USA likes to think they can invade other countries and bomb the crap out of others with impunity but when someone strikes back/first they go apesh*t.

It's like a jock getting sucker punched by an emo in front of the entire team.
Once he gets up again he'll not only kick that emos ass, but also every emo in school gets a whuppin'.
And everyone says it's the emos fault for fighting first. Well they never saw the jock beating emos up in the toilets or behind the bike shed for years before the sucker punch..

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#70 08-02-2010 01:54PM

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What I find funny is young all of you were when it happened.

I feel old.

It must of been a strange thing to see when you were about 10 years old.

Agreed.

I put a sidearm and an Army uniform into the boot of my car and went to work. Probably a different reaction to most 10-year-olds.

NTM

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#71 08-02-2010 01:59PM

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Manic Moran wrote: »

Agreed.

I put a sidearm and an Army uniform into the boot of my car and went to work. Probably a different reaction to most 10-year-olds.

NTM

You had a gun when you were 10 ?! And you say America doesn't need more gun control.... :pac:

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#72 08-02-2010 03:38PM

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After first hearing the news, I remember being in my NY apartment, well north of the WTC, but still...pacing around in circles with this feeling like I should be doing SOMETHING, but wasn't sure *what* exactly. I couldn't decide if I should stay in or go outside. Eventually I decided to fill my bathtub with water, in case it was cut off and charge my cell phone.

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#73 08-02-2010 04:34PM

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I remember I came home from school and called down to my friend's house. His mam told me to go home and tell my mam to put on the news. We sat there for hours.

My birthday was the Friday which was the National Day of Mourning. I was turning 10. Not really grasping the gravitas of the situation I was happier with the day off school more than anything else

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#74 08-02-2010 04:57PM

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strobe wrote: »

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

Agreed some very impressive readings of the situation from the guys back then. Pity many of those names arent around it seems anymore. Nesf nailed it though. Go 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!!!!!!"

Yea there was a lot of that around alright. I was on a job as it happened. the TV was on and it was th first plasma big screen yoke Id seen in the flesh. They had CNN on and I arrived before the second plane hit and watched it happen. Mad. then the reports of the pentagon and then capitol hill and other (wrong) speculation. While I didnt think ww3 I did think pearl harbour time and somebody was going to get smacked down. I was seeing an air hostess at the time and interestingly she was doing the transatlantic runs. I rang her and she told me that they had been delayed for hours before it happened for no real reason. She became a bit of a tin foil hatter after that actually.

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#75 08-02-2010 05:16PM

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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.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055797291

Longer than the 9/11 thread by a page.

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#76 08-02-2010 05:37PM

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I joined Boards two months before 9/11. I can remember posting in the threads in the politics section just before America invaded Afghanistan.

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#77 08-02-2010 05:39PM

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I know I really shouldn't have to ask this, but what was the point of 9/11 again? Did the terrorists have some sort of specific request or demand? You'd think after a disaster that huge I'd at least know the motivation behind it

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#78 08-02-2010 05:54PM

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Simply that "We can hit you and we can do it from within and using your technology and we can hit your citizens. You're not invulnerable". Big point to make to the only real superpower on the planet.

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#79 08-02-2010 06:23PM

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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.

Irish people have alot of friends/relatives in the States, as Mary McAleese famously said (I think it was her anyway), we're more Boston than Berlin. Haiti was a natural disaster, that was an intentional terrorist act. Haiti has a similiar public response to something like say, Hurricane Catriona. If not a more significant response.

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#80 08-02-2010 09:43PM

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I know its been said already but whoa... reading back over that 9/11 was eerie and chilling. I think its safe to say that pretty much everyone remembers where the were when they heard that the WTC had been hit by airliners. I can remember it perfectly and i was only 9 or 10.
And to everyone who says 'we care about the US more than Haiti', they were two totally different events. A plane was hijacked and flown into a building live on tv ffs, of course it will get a different reaction.

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#81 08-02-2010 09:55PM

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I'm sure there was no shortage of threads at the time - anyone got links to any more?

Would be interesting to see the different reactions from different parts of boards, i.e. AH Vs Politics.

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#82 08-02-2010 10:03PM

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MCMLXXV wrote: »

I'm sure there was no shortage of threads at the time - anyone got links to any more?

Would be interesting to see the different reactions from different parts of boards, i.e. AH Vs Politics.

Boards was much quieter back then I doubt youd find much repetition.

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#83 08-02-2010 10:20PM

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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.

everyone is equal but some are more eqaual than others.
How many times do we hear of a major disater where at the end the Newsreader says it is believed one of them may be<insert any Country that thinks it is more important than others>

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#84 08-02-2010 10:33PM

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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?

you mean, like, 91,100?

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#85 08-02-2010 10:36PM

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Gordon wrote: »

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

This really illustrates the Value of Boards as a resource to me as a lover of 'History as it happened'
It is a genuine online resource to view any major event and peoples reactions to it.
Not the reporters,not the news channels.not the newspapers.just 'ordinary' peoples reactions to historic events,which in the end often turn out to be far superior records to those who work in media as their job.

I hope Boards can Always hold onto posts like this.
I think most of us have had our gripes with boards,but it IS precious.!!!!!!

NO brown envelopes were passed to Me to say this!:)
I genuinely mean it!

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#86 09-02-2010 02:28PM

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that was weird reading that to be honest...i think a link to that thread should be stickied or something, its kind of a piece of history?...for boards anyways!

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#87 09-02-2010 02:50PM

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brummytom wrote: »

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.

Were you a child at the time, because that in itself is incredibly weird to me.

brummytom wrote: »

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

I shouldn't be amused but after the second impact one of the women says "I wonder if there's something wrong with air traffic control ?"

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#88 09-02-2010 04:12PM

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Overheal wrote: »

Boards was much quieter back then I doubt youd find much repetition.

The thread that was up as the attacks were happening only ran to 7 pages, whereas now I'm sure an event of that magnitude would probably have a thread running to a hundred pages.

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#89 09-02-2010 04:54PM

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I'll lighten things up with our old favourite, tribute.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYujWCCHRk

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#90 20-02-2010 10:23PM

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TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

I'll lighten things up with our old favourite, tribute.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYujWCCHRk

What idiot posted that youtube Video?
also hardly a topic to lighten up with Benny Hill music

Conspiracy theorys about 9/11 are one thing and many have turned out to have more than a semblence of truth.
with tributes like that who needs criticism?

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#91 01-03-2010 10:07PM

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102 minutes that changed America has started on History channel

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