Today is the day before..........

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:13PM #1

wanted to get in early and hoping people will have more taste tomorrow than to start creating threads about the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, USA.
Every year around this date people come out of theirs caves and change their Facebook pictures to photos of the Two Towers with gaudy patriotic American flags in the background. People who go on holidays in new York and feel they have an association with the place. Or people who wear this mourning period like the latest style of leather jacket to wear or David Beckham knickers.......
Its like the Bin laden episode of 'the newsroom'- where a guy stands up in the control room wearing an NYFD hat. I could a whole mountain of embarrassing cliches from that episode. Including dare I forget the almost celebration of the killing of a person. He probably deserved to die if he was the guy in charge of those attacks. But the CELEBRATION of his death.
Anyway more people have died in terrorist attacks in northern Ireland than in the whole of the USA. Not to mention other places in the world. Im dont want to get into the 'warmongers having their commupance' thing. Everyone knows that the USA engages in some very questionable foreign policy.
But the whole stand and salutes like trained deals every time the date comes around completely infuriates me. Its pure mindless attention seeking. Its like a form of form of propaganda on the USA's part, in fact it probably is.

So please don't change your Facebook pictures to photos of this event. Its like celebrating a bank holiday now instead of remembering the death of innocent people. which is the real tragedy, not the attack on the sometimes 'rogue' USA but the loss in innocent mostly non political lives.

MaxSteele · 10-09-2012 05:21PM

MUST...NOT...TAKE...THE...PI ...... AAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRGGGGHH

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say_who_now? · 10-09-2012 05:21PM

Jesus, my eyes reading that!

Given the way you wrote your OP, I'm thinking you spend FAR too much time on facebook already, so just for one day how about this instead-

Turn off the computer and stay away from facebook and boards and go outside, get some fresh air, go talk to friends, have sex!

Get some of that pent up angst out of your system, and come back on Wedneday when it's all over.

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:24PM

say_who_now? wrote: »

Jesus, my eyes reading that!

Given the way you wrote your OP, I'm thinking you spend FAR too much time on facebook already, so just for one day how about this instead-

Turn off the computer and stay away from facebook and boards and go outside, get some fresh air, go talk to friends, have sex!

Get some of that pent up angst out of your system, and come back on Wedneday when it's all over.

Eh! Its just something that annoys me. Its either here or in ranting and raving.

AnonoBoy · 10-09-2012 05:24PM

I hated the Lord of the Rings films so didn't even watch as far as the Twin Towers.

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:25PM

Hey Mr invisible where's your troll post gone to.

inmyday · 10-09-2012 05:26PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I hated the Lord of the Rings films so didn't even watch as far as the Twin Towers.

Is that you Jimmy Carr?

carly_86 · 10-09-2012 05:26PM

Well thousands of people did die on that day including a lot of Irish

Cee-Jay-Cee · 10-09-2012 05:26PM

Thinly veiled "I hate America " thread.

Scorpion Sting · 10-09-2012 05:28PM

Obviously it's a hugely significant date now, I remember it like it was yesterday and I'll think about all the innocent lives lost but I will just go about my business tomorrow like every other day.

Fizman · 10-09-2012 05:28PM

cursai wrote: »

wanted to get in early and hoping people will have more taste tomorrow than to start creating threads about the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, USA.
Every year around this date people come out of theirs caves and change their Facebook pictures to photos of the Two Towers with gaudy patriotic American flags in the background. People who go on holidays in new York and feel they have an association with the place. Or people who wear this mourning period like the latest style of leather jacket to wear or David Beckham knickers.......
.

What has The Lord of the Rings got to do with anything?

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:28PM

carly_86 wrote: »

Well thousands of people did die on that day including a lot of Irish

Its not the first attack where Irish people included died. Its just the most commercial and socially acceptable to celebrate.

Lawrence1895 · 10-09-2012 05:29PM

CJC999 wrote: »

Tomorrow is 11/09/2012. What's the big deal?

I'll get some groceries delivered, am a bit concerned now, they won't make it, because of that date :pac:

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:30PM

jebforever wrote: »

Obviously it's a hugely significant date now, I remember it like it was yesterday and I'll think about all the innocent lives lost but I will just go about my business tomorrow like every other day.

I remember it because it was HUGELY televised and embarrassingly so.

carly_86 · 10-09-2012 05:31PM

Sure we mourn the bombings in the north,stardust nightclub, Michael Collins etc why sure the 9 11 be any different

DaveNoCheese · 10-09-2012 05:32PM

...Tuesday?!

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:33PM

jebforever wrote: »

Obviously it's a hugely significant date now, I remember it like it was yesterday and I'll think about all the innocent lives lost but I will just go about my business tomorrow like every other day.

You're gonna create a thread aren't you! Along with one about Kerry football/hurling achievements and how you met the Kerry manager in Mary joes public house.

Scorpion Sting · 10-09-2012 05:38PM

cursai wrote: »

You're gonna create a thread aren't you! Along with one about Kerry football/hurling achievements and how you met the Kerry manager in Mary joes public house.

That would be a no.

CreepingDeath · 10-09-2012 05:42PM

cursai wrote: »

I remember it because it was HUGELY televised and embarrassingly so.

We have remembrance day for World War II too, with loads more documentaries, books and films made about it.

Would you like that cancelled and swept under the rug too?

AnonoBoy · 10-09-2012 05:46PM

inmyday wrote: »

Is that you Jimmy Carr?

Yes.

F*ck you Tax Collecting People.

againstthetide · 10-09-2012 05:49PM

Poor auld building 7 never gets a look in

cursai · 10-09-2012 05:50PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

We have remembrance day for World War II too, with loads more documentaries, books and films made about it.

Would you like that cancelled and swept under the rug too?

Just everything put into porportion. Which is not your analogy

Irish Guitarist · 10-09-2012 05:52PM

People can do what they like on their Facebook page. The only thing that bothers me on Facebook is when someone in my family uploads an old childhood photo of me with a crap haircut and terrible clothes. I can happily ignore statuses and photos that don't mention me.

Lawrence1895 · 10-09-2012 05:54PM

carly_86 wrote: »

Sure we mourn the bombings in the north,stardust nightclub, Michael Collins etc why sure the 9 11 be any different

Don't know, did somebody Irish die in the 9/11 attacks? That might be a reason then

againstthetide · 10-09-2012 05:57PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_Judge

carly_86 · 10-09-2012 06:09PM

Lars1916 wrote: »

carly_86 wrote: »

Sure we mourn the bombings in the north,stardust nightclub, Michael Collins etc why sure the 9 11 be any different

Don't know, did somebody Irish die in the 9/11 attacks? That might be a reason then

There was a documentary on last night about the Irish that died in the twin towers

castletownman · 10-09-2012 06:18PM

Well I was in the north tower of the WTC a month before they fell, and my father was in New York the day of the attacks so yeah I kind of consider 9/11 a big deal.

Eve_Dublin · 10-09-2012 06:31PM

cursai wrote: »

Its not the first attack where Irish people included died. Its just the most commercial and socially acceptable to celebrate.

Could you explain this bit?

My Cypriot brother-in-law went out for breakfast that morning and came back to find the building where he worked had collapsed and everyone he worked with had been killed, including some of his best friends, some of who were Irish. If he had been killed, my sister would've been distraught and I wouldn't have my niece and nephew in my life.

Those attacks have affected a lot of people's lives OP. I'm not a supporter of what America did in it's aftermath but Ireland having such strong ties with America and with so many of us over there (my cousin worked close by as a doorman and sister lived in NY at the time), I'm sure my story is not an isolated case.

Whatever about the "**** yeah" American patriotism that it sparked, it was a tragic day that affected many of us directly and it's repercussions have affected all of us to some degree.

say_who_now? · 10-09-2012 06:55PM

Well OP, this thread has gone a bit Barbara Streisand wouldn't you say? :rolleyes:

Latchy · 10-09-2012 07:05PM

cursai wrote: »

wanted to get in early and hoping people will

have more taste

To get in earlier before anybody else to discuss a subject you don't want anybody else to discuss ?

Its just the most commercial and socially acceptable to celebrate.

Regards 9/11 OP , people will do whatever they wish to do and it's not for you to suggest that they shouldn't remember this or any tragedy because that's part of what Facebook and forums such as Boards are about . As suggested you don't have to log into anywhere the subject is discussed but that's going to be hard seen as it's going to be all over the web anyway .

Lapin · 10-09-2012 07:19PM

againstthetide wrote: »

Poor auld building 7 never gets a look in

The Pentagon is often forgotten too.
And Flight 93.

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