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Posted: Sep 10 2011 08:59 pm

When 9/11 happened, I was like:

But now I'm like:

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

:/ I don't know what to think about 9/11

When it happened we were all devastated, up until then America always seemed untouchable, and peaceful to an extent.

But after it happened everyone was scared that something worse could happen, and that we need to take drastic measures to help prevent it; See the patriot act.

aaaaand now we kinda regret some of the things and now we're seeing that even with tightening up airport security and increased safety measures we're still not as untouchable as we want to be.

Actually, this could just be my view on things... I dunno

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

AUGH, fuck you first video! That scared the shit out of me!

More seriously, I was much too young to remember anything about 9/11. What I've heard about it since then, though... first successful attack on U.S. continental soil, so I can see why it'd be particularly traumatizing for most people. It's sad to think that it happened because some guy in the Middle East didn't like us.

Posted: Sep 11 2011 03:44 am

I remember passing through my living room to get some ice cream or something after breakfast and my mom was watching the news. The reporters were just doing their job, kinda just going through the motions. At the time they thought it was just an accident but when the second plane hit the reporters freaked out and thats all I can remember. It's strange how it never really registered with me how serious the whole thing was. I was just 11 but I sort of always felt bad for not really feeling anything. In the years since I've gotten more sensitive to it but no where near as much as everyone else I know.

Posted: Sep 12 2011 09:09 pm

I find it ironic that before 9/11, you could make all the jokes you wanted about middle eastern terrorists. But now that we've actually been attacked by them, those same jokes are considered politically incorrect. Kind of funny how once a joke is proven to be true, you can't joke about it anymore.

Posted: Sep 20 2011 10:57 pm

9/11 was sort of odd for me. It was actually pretty uneventful because I was living in Minnesota and had no sources of information at the time. I was fricking broke and didn't have tv, internet or a cell phone. I didn't even know we had been attacked until I went to work at about noon. For some reason my boss gave me a paid day off because of the attacks so I just went back to my apartment and didn't get any more information the rest of that day. My knowledge of the attacks on the first day was basically "We've been attacked by someone... take the day off." so I didn't really have an entire day filled with an eminent fear of more attacks like many people probably did. I didn't even see video of the towers collapsing until 2 or 3 years after when I finally got tv.

Also, I didn't know anyone in New York so I was detached in that way too. I was honestly much more concerned with the 35W bridge collapse because I knew a lot of people who drove on it.

That 2nd video really got me excited though.

Posted: Sep 21 2011 01:52 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I find it ironic that before 9/11, you could make all the jokes you wanted about middle eastern terrorists. But now that we've actually been attacked by them, those same jokes are considered politically incorrect. Kind of funny how once a joke is proven to be true, you can't joke about it anymore.

Clearly, you haven't been watching the right comedians. Laughing

While making a joke about 9/11 itself is (still) pretty much taboo, there have been plenty of middle eastern terrorist jokes since then.

I think the reason they did taper off a bit right after is less because it was proven true, and more because of the comedians' fear of perpetuating a stereotype.