I'm old enough to remember being threatened with benching for the rest of the season if I spiked the ball in the end zone.Ibanez wrote:I could swear we have a thread on this.
I was in my dorm room, it was my freshman yr. My suitemate came in and said we were under attack. I turned on the TV just as my phone rang and it was my dad asking if I had heard the news. We talked on the phone as the 2nd plane hit on live TV. I remember it for the same reasons as most but also because it was one of the few times I’ve ever heard my dad drop the F-bomb. He goes, “wow. Who ever did this is fucked.”
Like all of you, I was glued to the TV. I watched the towers fall and the hysteria all that day. The next day, me and a group of guy from my hall went to the Army and USMC recruiting stations to enlist.
To your 2nd Question- I think the 1st Responders get honored enough. I’m not sure about the level of care, but knowing our insurance industry, I’m positive they all got fucked.
As an aside- what are the rates of lung cancer in NYC following 9/11
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it doesn't do any good to try and have a rational discussion with you. I gave up on that a looooong time ago.houndawg wrote:AZGrizFan wrote:
You have this special way of making everything in the world seem fucked beyond belief.
Congrats.
Well, that's because I think that things have been pretty much all downhill since 9/11, planet-wide, and that things are getting worse. I notice you didn't argue with what I said, which is unusual in and of itself.
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You sound like a curmudgeonly old white supremacist pining for the old days when colored folk knew their place and women were barefoot and pregnant.houndawg wrote:AZGrizFan wrote:
You have this special way of making everything in the world seem fucked beyond belief.
Congrats.
Well, that's because I think that things have been pretty much all downhill since 9/11, planet-wide, and that things are getting worse. I notice you didn't argue with what I said, which is unusual in and of itself.
Stop listening to the whack-a-doodles who are looking for reasons to be angry and take a look around. There are ups and downs but the world is getting smaller and better.
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Lets turn the frown upside down!UNI88 wrote:You sound like a curmudgeonly old white supremacist pining for the old days when colored folk knew their place and women were barefoot and pregnant.houndawg wrote:
Well, that's because I think that things have been pretty much all downhill since 9/11, planet-wide, and that things are getting worse. I notice you didn't argue with what I said, which is unusual in and of itself.
Stop listening to the whack-a-doodles who are looking for reasons to be angry and take a look around. There are ups and downs but the world is getting smaller and better.
The best way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - Noam Chomsky