Where were you when... thread (Megamerge)

Richie860504 · 02-07-2010 10:19AM

I was working in a warehouse and a bloke came out of the offices to tell people. When he told me for some reason, I thought he was talking about liberty hall and that the americans had attacked us, was goin around for an hour wondering how everyone was staying so calm while I was nearly losing it.

Then I got home looked at the tv and said to my da. "That doesn't look like dublin" My Da looked at me in total shame and said "it's new york, ya feckin gob$hite, thank christ I have 2 daughters to do me proud"

AudreyHepburn · 02-07-2010 10:20AM

danniemcq wrote: »

9/11/01 is November 9th for all us non yanks

You should have said September 11th attacks on America or been more precise in your original question. After all if there is a European terrorist attack on 9th November threads like this will get awfully confusing

Don't be smart, you know what I meant. Nowadays most people, when you say 9/11 will know what you meant.

Brendog · 02-07-2010 10:20AM

I was just in from school....It was so shocking to see, i was devestated because most of the cartoons were cancelled for the news

biko · 02-07-2010 10:21AM

Not sure, when was it?

edit, googled it. Think I may have been travelling then.

Lux23 · 02-07-2010 10:25AM

Asleep. But I got up the next day and my Dad told me Dana had died and I just burst out laughing thinking it was great. Anyway went in to turn on the telly to find out it was Diana that had died. My Dad always gets names wrong.

Motley Crue · 02-07-2010 10:25AM

OK, so this is getting a little thin, but we have to admit that having only happened just over a year ago it is actually something that resonated around the World. I personally wasn't a fan but perhaps there was something you did that day that makes you remember it.

I was in Edinburgh, working at the Edinburgh Film Festival, my Dad had called the night before to tell me to change the channel because Michael Jackson had just had a heart attack. Obviously, with the knowledge he was due to play in London, that seemed rather interesting

The next day the news was confirmed when I woke up. I spent most of the day watching television before work. When I went into work a few days later there were a few people who still hadn't heard it had happened - which baffled me because they told EVERYONE at any given opportunity - then again, it was the Edinburgh Film Festival and most of us were students.....

I worked at a radio station in Edinburgh at the time and a few weeks later we did a special tribute for him....a few songs here and there and invited people from the station to talk about how his music affected them.

Kiera · 02-07-2010 10:26AM

Enough already!

PandyAndy · 02-07-2010 10:26AM

I think I was 12, in first year anyway, and only saw it on RTE2 when I got back from school. I only knew about the WTC because a few years before that I read an article in the Reader's Digest about Timothy McVeigh's attempt on it and then that June/July 2001 he was executed. Thought it was all a bit mad then a few months later the WTC gets destroyed.

Edit: Just Wiki'd it, he tried to blow up some building in Oklahoma. Twas the worst act of terrorism before the WTC, hence the confusion there. My bad.

easyeason3 · 02-07-2010 10:28AM

Ah ffs.

Filling the syringe for the doc.

Mr. Presentable · 02-07-2010 10:28AM

stovelid wrote: »

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

Really? No..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJqbO0zHss

02-07-2010 10:30AM

I know what we need a new thread about where were you the day AH died because it was full of crap threads about being somewhere when someone died!

LadyMayBelle · 02-07-2010 10:31AM

In college.. the ex got a text and we thought it was a joke, then checked the news in the computer labs, and the main news sites were either down/overbusy, so headed to the college bar (they had big tellys see!). Had the mammy ringing me giving me updates as she was watching sky news..madness

LadyMayBelle · 02-07-2010 10:32AM

Researching my trip to London as had tickets to see him. Royally pissed off.

Mr. Presentable · 02-07-2010 10:32AM

danniemcq wrote: »

9/11/01 is November 9th for all us non yanks

You should have said September 11th attacks on America or been more precise in your original question. After all if there is a European terrorist attack on 9th November threads like this will get awfully confusing

Yup. The English were so lucky theirs was on July 7th so it's clear on both sides of the Atrlantic.........

Brendog · 02-07-2010 10:33AM

Watching a Thriller called "Smooth Criminal" with this girl Billie Jean, who is Bad and won't stop till she gets enough.

digme · 02-07-2010 10:33AM

Motley Crue wrote: »

OK, so this is getting a little thin, but we have to admit that having only happened just over a year ago it is actually something that resonated around the World. I personally wasn't a fan but perhaps there was something you did that day that makes you remember it.

I was in Edinburgh, working at the Edinburgh Film Festival, my Dad had called the night before to tell me to change the channel because Michael Jackson had just had a heart attack. Obviously, with the knowledge he was due to play in London, that seemed rather interesting

The next day the news was confirmed when I woke up. I spent most of the day watching television before work. When I went into work a few days later there were a few people who still hadn't heard it had happened - which baffled me because they told EVERYONE at any given opportunity - then again, it was the Edinburgh Film Festival and most of us were students.....

I worked at a radio station in Edinburgh at the time and a few weeks later we did a special tribute for him....a few songs here and there and invited people from the station to talk about how his music affected them.

he was a child fiddler.

Dravokivich · 02-07-2010 10:35AM

Motley Crue wrote: »

Anyway by the time I got back the 2nd plane had already hit (that probably happened during Lunchtime, but if memory serves me correct, lunchtime was 12.45 to 1.45 so maybe someone can clarify that?)

It was later in the afternoon when that happened. Was in school myself, last class of the day from 2:30 - 3:15 when it happened.

Didn't know about it at the time... found out when I got to my (At the time) girlfriend's house and saw it all over the tv...

...fúcking buzzkill man...

Her little brother wasn't home that afternoon

monkeyfudge · 02-07-2010 10:35AM

More importantly, where were you when Rod Hull died?

jonsnow · 02-07-2010 10:35AM

you know I honestly have no idea

jackiebaron · 02-07-2010 10:35AM

Greyfox wrote: »

Was in the Jervis shopping centre walking towrds Lifestyle sports and noticed a lot of people in Dixons which made me check it out. The place was packed and silent, I could see the headline "America under attack" and after about a minute I seen a replay of the first tower going down and just went numb with shock...can't put into into words just how surreal and shocked I was seeing the 2nd tower go down live, their was gasps and some crying...stayed in the shop for a couple of hours, their was certainly nobody buying anything. By an absolute mile the most shocking event in world history, I remember it like it was 6 months ago, spent the next week glued to the tv at home!

"The most shocking event in world history" ?? Are you for real? What kind of glib statement is that? Two ugly buildings and 3000 people are killed and that far outweighs:

The Holocaust
The Nazi Invasion of Poland
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Rwanda Genocide
The Armenian Genocide
The Vietnam and Cambodian Genocide
Chernobyl
Bhophal
The Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge
The Asian Tsunami of 2004
The Rape of Nanking
.
.
.
Just add your disaster, tragedy or other debacle here.

The most shocking event in world history!!! Give me a friggin' break.

karma_ · 02-07-2010 10:37AM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

More importantly, where were you when Rod Hull died?

I was on a roof fixing a TV aerial.

Kiera · 02-07-2010 10:37AM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

More importantly, where were you when Rod Hull died?

That reminds me: What ever happened to Ruud Gullit?

RoadKillTs · 02-07-2010 10:37AM

Who gives a fu*k?

Ronan Raver77 · 02-07-2010 10:38AM

I was just pulling up to the m50 and i think Today fm had the audio feed from Sky news on air..think it was around 1/2pm.

Mr. Presentable · 02-07-2010 10:39AM

Having a fap on the Diana racetrack memorial

Stark · 02-07-2010 10:39AM

In bed with a 12 year old.

Elenxor · 02-07-2010 10:39AM

I was in the Canteen at work, you could hear a pin drop as it unfolded on T.V,
one of my friends said "imagine all those kids waiting to be picked up after work and wondering where their Mams and Dads are"..we were in floods of tears after that.

Dravokivich · 02-07-2010 10:39AM

So... when are we gonna be asked about where we were when Veronica Guerin and Martin Cahill died?

GavRedKing · 02-07-2010 10:42AM

Playing poker with the mates having a few drinks.

General Zod · 02-07-2010 10:42AM

jackiebaron wrote: »

"The most shocking event in world history" ?? Are you for real? What kind of glib statement is that? Two ugly buildings and 3000 people are killed and that far outweighs:

The Holocaust
The Nazi Invasion of Poland
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Rwanda Genocide
The Armenian Genocide
The Vietnam and Cambodian Genocide
Chernobyl
Bhophal
The Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge
The Asian Tsunami of 2004
The Rape of Nanking
.
.
.
Just add your disaster, tragedy or other debacle here.

The most shocking event in world history!!! Give me a friggin' break.

In fairness, while I agree not in world history, it was fecking shocking to see it played out live on TV, and for the communications generation it may be well a defining moment.

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