Where were you when... thread (Megamerge)

Abrasax · 02-07-2010 09:18AM

Living in a tiny village in the north of Holland, on an amphetamine bender, playing computer games and, in our speed-addled stupor, we managed to further upset the bearer of the bad news, an Englishman with royalist leanings, by completely taking the piss.

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:22AM

Watching bbc news and then it came on.

Pacing Mule · 02-07-2010 09:23AM

Wow what a memory jog :eek:

I was in a tent / on a campsite in Oxford. Woke up that morning to literally see people walking around in disbelief and crying. Was a very very strange situation to be in. It may not have been a 9/11 level of catastrophe in hindsight but at the time I think it had a similar effect of shock / distress on the UK public.

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:26AM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Wow what a memory jog :eek:

I was in a tent / on a campsite in Oxford. Woke up that morning to literally see people walking around in disbelief and crying. Was a very very strange situation to be in. It may not have been a 9/11 level of catastrophe in hindsight but at the time I think it had a similar effect of shock / distress on the UK public.

Why would they be crying they aren't related to her and don't know her (i know its bad when people die and all but why did people make such a fuss especially in ireland whenever she was in a foreign country to them)

who the fug · 02-07-2010 09:29AM

yogy wrote: »

Googling..."Dead Princess Diana Jokes"

..

Did you have a time machine?

Pacing Mule · 02-07-2010 09:30AM

owenc wrote: »

Why would they be crying they aren't related to her and don't know her (i know its bad when people die and all but why did people make such a fuss especially in ireland whenever she was in a foreign country to them)

I really don't know but genuinely 30%-40% of the people that morning were shedding tears. It was early morning and everyone was heading for bath / shower rooms and as each new person arrived it turned into a kind of vigil around a radio one guy had with him.

I didn't understand the tears myself - felt sad that she had died / that anyone had died and was a bit uncomfortable in the crowd tbh.

stovelid · 02-07-2010 09:31AM

In the land of Innocence, Caring And Feeling, but since that fateful night dragged me brutally from that idyll, well, I don't think I've ever really managed to find my way back to that place again.

Goodbye People's Princess xxxxxx

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:34AM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

I really don't know but genuinely 30%-40% of the people that morning were shedding tears. It was early morning and everyone was heading for bath / shower rooms and as each new person arrived it turned into a kind of vigil around a radio one guy had with him.

I didn't understand the tears myself - felt sad that she had died / that anyone had died and was a bit uncomfortable in the crowd tbh.

Someone probably started crying and then that made everyone else cry, i was at a funeral and everyone was fine then this woman started crying and by the end the whole church was crying and i didn't even feel like crying it was so silly and i didn't even know the bloody person.

02-07-2010 09:36AM

in my kitchen new there was something up cause the radio was only playin sad songs

ROCKMAN · 02-07-2010 09:38AM

Was living in 5th floor flat , which I could pick up an late night English chat show on my little radio , I remember because the minute the news broke the show was flooding with calls saying what a saint she was etc etc ,funny thing was only two weeks before the same chat show had a call in and 99 percent of the callers where calling her a disgrace and wanting her out of their country because of her affair with Dodi but fair play to the shows host he pull the callers on it .

Lando Griffin · 02-07-2010 09:39AM

At a house party until 8am, wondering where the hell the night just went, then off to early house till 10.30am then off to pub where we heard the news, 2.30pm back to house where house party was to see was there going to be another house party in the house that night. 3.30pm back to pub to see could we possiblally drink some more cos walking around outside during the day wasn't a great idea after all. 8.30 woke up in pub, went to bathroom washed face and hair had a few drinks while planning things like when were we going to the house where the house party was.

Sanjuro · 02-07-2010 09:42AM

Peppapig wrote: »

I remember I was about 6 sitting on the washing machine door, and was watching cartoon network and flashing white writing appears on the screen of every channel.

"Please go to Sky News! An incident has occured" something like that...

I was only 6!

I doubt that since it happened in the middle of the night, and it wouldn't flash something up suggesting you switch off their channel. Sounds very spurious.

Anyway, I was in bed, asleep and my mam came in and woke me up telling me the 'news.' I said 'okay' and went back to sleep.

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:44AM

Sanjuro wrote: »

I doubt that since it happened in the middle of the night, and it wouldn't flash something up suggesting you switch off their channel. Sounds very spurious.

Anyway, I was in bed, asleep and my mam came in and woke me up telling me the 'news.' I said 'okay' and went back to sleep.

Yes that does happen when i was in flordia we were watching a movie and it turned the tv off and back on and then went to this warning thing saying a tornado was a couple of miles off the coast.

AudreyHepburn · 02-07-2010 09:44AM

In bed asleep.

I was 11 at the time and I remember the next day sitting in my Granny's dining room eating lunch and the news was on. I remember asking my Granny was Diana ok because I was in school all day so I hadn't realised she was dead. My Granny said "She died love".

Even at 11 I knew how special she was and how tragic it was.

GavRedKing · 02-07-2010 09:46AM

I was in Salou on a family holiday, didnt really care TBH, i was about 12 at the time and on holidays.

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:46AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

At a house party until 8am, wondering where the hell the night just went, then off to early house till 10.30am then off to pub where we heard the news, 2.30pm back to house where house party was to see was there going to be another house party in the house that night. 3.30pm back to pub to see could we possiblally drink some more cos walking around outside during the day wasn't a great idea after all. 8.30 woke up in pub, went to bathroom washed face and hair had a few drinks while planning things like when were we going to the house where the house party was.

Your nuts.

owenc · 02-07-2010 09:48AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

In bed asleep.

I was 11 at the time and I remember the next day sitting in my Granny's dining room eating lunch and the news was on. I remember asking my Granny was Diana ok because I was in school all day so I hadn't realised she was dead. My Granny said "She died love".

Even at 11 I knew how special she was and how tragic it was.

I think she died straight away, you must have a supersonic brain if you asked if she was ok when you didn't know she had crashed.

AudreyHepburn · 02-07-2010 09:50AM

Peppapig, hope you don't mind me using your idea! I remember this somewhat more clearly than Diana's death.

I was in school when the planes hit. I was 15 and in Third Year at the time.

I remember coming home and the towers had fallen at that stage. Honest to god when I walked in the door I thought my parents were watching a film but then Mum told me no two planes had hit the WTC in New York and another the Pentagon.

I'll never forget the first time I saw the clip of the planes hitting, it gave me shivers. Still does. I also remember finding it hard to sleep that night and getting shivers when planes went over head.

General Zod · 02-07-2010 09:50AM

arrived home after a night out and watched it break live. sat up for two hours then went to bed, and didn't watch TV or open a paper for a few days as it would be full of maudling crap.

AudreyHepburn · 02-07-2010 09:51AM

I think she died straight away, you must have a supersonic brain if you asked if she was ok when you didn't know she had crashed.

No I knew there had been a crash, I just didn't know she'd died.

And she didn't die at the scene, she died later in hospital.

General Zod · 02-07-2010 09:52AM

what happened on the 9th of November?

prinz · 02-07-2010 09:52AM

In bed asleep. Found out the next morning having breakfast from the radio.

easyeason3 · 02-07-2010 09:52AM

In the hairdressers.
When I was finished I went into a pub to get some lunch & Sky news were showing coverage of the crashes.

You could hear a pin drop in a packed pub.

billymitchell · 02-07-2010 09:54AM

Berlin Zoo

Lando Griffin · 02-07-2010 09:54AM

I had just started a job in a shop that sold televisions.

prinz · 02-07-2010 09:55AM

In school, actually after school. The teachers decided not to tell anyone, but eventually the news started getting out. After that I got off early.

Abrasax · 02-07-2010 09:55AM

Sitting in Sarphati Park in Amsterdam when my friend got the call about the first plane.
We made it to a coffeeshop on Van Wou Straat in time for the first collapse.
There was just me and four Muslims in the shop at the time. Two were in delirious celebration, whilst the other two were both shocked and disgusted.
Surreal.

AudreyHepburn · 02-07-2010 09:57AM

General Zod wrote: »

what happened on the 9th of November?

Are you serious?

tc2010 · 02-07-2010 09:57AM

Maths class in school

thebigbiffo · 02-07-2010 09:58AM

on the way back from a nightclub with a shed load of mates back to my gf's house. we were off our chops on yokes and it seemed a really big deal. we got more thrashed, stayed up all night watchin the news, got up the next day, got more thrashed...in fact, we were trashed that entire week till the funeral...nothing to do with the fact she was dead, just we were 17 and it was the start of our 'gap year' turned into a gap 3 years but anyway...

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