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Title: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2008, 01:28:20 PM
My mom went to Chicago to visit my cousins a couple days before 911. My dad had plans to go to a medical conference on 9/10-9/11 as well, so I was gonna be left in charge of the house. I remember blowing off my mom's "you're the example, take care of your brothers" speech thinking woohoo, time to play StarCraft all night and watch TV all day.

On 9/11 I decided to take a break from school (it was my last year of homeschooling) so I went upstairs to watch some TV. That's how I saw the first plane had hit the tower. I kinda thought it was an accident or something at first but when I saw the second plane I felt sick. Then I remember the newscasters mentioning something about how the Sears building could be a possible target and I almost shit myself: my mom was planning on visiting the Sears building during her trip. I remember calling my dad, almost for no reason, just to see where he was. And later my mom called and said she was stuck on a train in Chicago

 :usacry
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Post by: demi on September 11, 2008, 01:29:44 PM
I was jerking off to this pretty hot porn I had saw
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Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:30:49 PM
I was getting my dick sucked.
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Post by: MrAngryFace on September 11, 2008, 01:33:05 PM
Sleeping, woke up, saw it on the news. Nothing interesting about what I was doing.
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Post by: jiji on September 11, 2008, 01:33:29 PM
Work, class, as normal.  I was shaving and stuff in the morning while I listened to NPR about the stuff that was going down.  I remember when the second plane hit. Bob Edwards got the closest I've ever heard anyone on NPR get to breaking down on the air.
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Post by: Eric P on September 11, 2008, 01:35:01 PM
i was getting coffee shortly after the first plane hit so i was watching live as the second one hit
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Post by: hyp on September 11, 2008, 01:35:42 PM
waking up, on my way out to my glorious job of... game testing

 :-\
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: demi on September 11, 2008, 01:36:03 PM
nobody cares about 911

ever
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2008, 01:36:19 PM
I was in class. My professor came in, told us what happened, and told us to go back home and watch the news because classes were canceled for the rest of the day.
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Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:37:15 PM
I was fucking 2 hot chicks.
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Post by: Kestastrophe on September 11, 2008, 01:37:49 PM
That was my first semester of college and I was at school. They let everyone out early to make us scared.

I didn't know PD was homeschooled, but that explains his virginity.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2008, 01:38:18 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:37:15 PM
I was fucking 2 hot chicks.

No you weren't.
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Post by: lordmaji on September 11, 2008, 01:39:50 PM
I was sleeping on my moms couch. She woke me up "OMG 2 planes hit the twin towers!!" I was like "so? leave me alone so I can sleep". I wasn't all that impressed.

eh
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2008, 01:38:18 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:37:15 PM
I was fucking 2 hot chicks.

No you weren't.

Fuck off, I was fucking 2 chicks and one of them accidentally hit the remote while I was fucking her in the ass and the news came on. We stopped and just watched as the second plane hit the tower. My dick was still in her ass..
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2008, 01:40:30 PM
Quote from: Kestastrophe on September 11, 2008, 01:37:49 PM
That was my first semester of college and I was at school. They let everyone out early to make us scared.

I didn't know PD was homeschooled, but that explains his virginity.

I was homeschooled from 3rd to 9th grade :/
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Post by: Reb on September 11, 2008, 01:44:21 PM
The last 7 years? Answering this unoriginal question.
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Post by: Himu on September 11, 2008, 01:50:41 PM
i was in class.

i later went to mupepe's house because 9/11 meant we didn't have band practice, and played sonic adventure 2. then i jacked off on his bed and walked home.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Jabberwocky on September 11, 2008, 01:54:51 PM
I was too young to know the significance of the event. Watching videos and doing more research on my own a while back, it was really an amazing/morbid thing that happened. I know it's a terrible thing that happened, but it still fascinates me. What bothers me is that a lot of people put it forth as a patriotic tragedy - I see it much more as a humane tragedy, and I think it should be seen as that first and foremost. In other words, it could happen any other place in the world, and it would be just as horrific.
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 11, 2008, 02:00:20 PM
I was starting my junior year of college in a rental house off campus. I was in my bed with my girlfriend sleeping when my mom called and said to turn on the TV because a plane had flown into the twin towers. We ended up watching the coverage on TV in the living room with our housemates for a little while before we all had to go to classes. I still don't get why the University didn't cancel classes.
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Post by: Crushed on September 11, 2008, 02:12:22 PM
I was eating strawberry Pop-Tarts. I wasn't going to school because I was sick from mono. My mom said from the other room that the WTC was on fire, so I ran in and saw the North Tower with a huge hole and smoke pouring out of it. After I heard that a second plane had hit, I went up to my room and watched the news all day long.
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Post by: ShogunOfFear on September 11, 2008, 02:18:27 PM
I was playing a game of age of empires when I heard someone shout my name calling me to come look at the tv.  I still remember just standing there for a second not believing it was real.
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Post by: Crushed on September 11, 2008, 02:39:45 PM
Just remember what the GOVERNMENT was doing on 9/11:
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Post by: duckman2000 on September 11, 2008, 02:59:46 PM
Feeding the dog and having a morning drink before heading to work. My roommate, also properly drunk before work, mentioned that something had just hit one of the towers. So we watched the news, and then another fucking plane goes flying into a tower. Despite being very cynical people, we were both sort of dumbfounded by the whole affair and surprised by how relatively big of an attack it was, but we both agreed that this would not end well for the Middle East. Of course, no one wanted to be downtown Chicago at the moment, so it took a while to get to work.

Sidebar, but I'm curious. Is it commonly know that the Russians issued a warning to the US regarding imminent attacks by Muslim extremists?
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: tiesto on September 11, 2008, 03:27:15 PM
duckman - i always thought you were from Sweden for some reason.

I woke up that morning sick to my stomach, after a long argument last night with my just-recent ex. Thought nothing of it, went to take a shower... then I got back and saw my roommate huddled around my 13" tv just right after the first plane hit. It was pretty surreal since I live pretty close to NYC but was in college in Buffalo at the time.
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Post by: duckman2000 on September 11, 2008, 03:39:43 PM
Quote from: tiesto on September 11, 2008, 03:27:15 PM
duckman - i always thought you were from Sweden for some reason.

I am, but I've lived in the US since 2000.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2008, 04:29:30 PM
Doing work on a computer in class. The teacher found out that it was going on and hooked up a TV. I was pretty much glued to the TV for the rest of the day.
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Post by: bud on September 11, 2008, 04:42:08 PM
i was watching tv and i was thinking about heading to my buddy's house so we could hang out and talk about it. but he wasn't at home, so i just went back home and continued watching tv.

how old were you guys? i was 13. i didn't even fully really realize yet what had happened until the next day
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Post by: ferrarimanf355 on September 11, 2008, 04:46:36 PM
I just remember being in Spanish class in high school when the teacher wheeled in a TV and turned it to CNN after the first plane hit. Classes were quickly cancelled thereafter.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Positive Touch on September 11, 2008, 04:55:53 PM
Quote from: Genghis Cohen on September 11, 2008, 01:59:28 PM
911 is a joke in yo town

a friend of mine actually made up a shirt with this on it and wore it with a big-ass clock around his neck on the first anniversary.  much to his dissapointment, more people found it funny instead of offensive.
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Post by: WrikaWrek on September 11, 2008, 05:47:33 PM
I was at home, i turned on the T.V here, and the news were showing images of the WTC after the first tower had been hit, and i stood there watching, i went to take a piss, i came back, and and suddenly the second plane hits the other tower.


It looked like a movie, it was pretty surreal.
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Post by: cool breeze on September 11, 2008, 06:01:26 PM
In my home room asking what the World Trade Center was.
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Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on September 11, 2008, 06:14:17 PM
I was in school. 6th grade  :bow2
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 11, 2008, 06:16:15 PM
haha a bunch of people died

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Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 06:18:40 PM
Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 11, 2008, 06:16:15 PM
haha a bunch of people died



You unpatriotic piece of shit shut your mouth.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 11, 2008, 06:20:36 PM
i was summing up some of the sentiments expressed in this thread, but thanks for restoring a little bit of my faith in humanity

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Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 06:25:15 PM
Jk I dont give a fuck
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 11, 2008, 06:28:26 PM
It was the first class of the day.  I still attended classes that day but we didn't do anything other than watch the TV.  I thought it was out of the blue, myself.  From USS Cole to 9/11?  The worst part was that we had fucking football practice on 9/11  ::).  The reason was that we were going up against a team that was much better than ourselves so every day is an advantage.  Still got our asses kicked but people were pretty pissed about that.

The interesting thing about it is that we heard planes flying but we couldn't see them.  The AFB nearby us was supposedly visited by Bush that day.  So it could have been him or some senior cabinet members.  

Most of the people I knew were pretty taken aback by it.  Nobody thought anyone would go to that extent.  So the feeling was pretty much one of shock.
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Post by: laesperanzapaz on September 11, 2008, 06:39:08 PM
i didnt know it at the time but that day changed my life

i started getting into the news, and i still remember people becoming in-your-face patriotic, and everyone around me supporting the war, and making fun of the french.  i was living in texas btw
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Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2008, 06:42:41 PM
I was in the living room eating breakfast with my gf and roommate at the time.  We were actually watching CNN and they cut in saying that a plane had hit the WTC North Tower.  At first we all thought it was an accident, but after I got to work my gf and then my mom called in rapid succession telling me that a second plane had hit, and then later I heard that a plane had hit the Pentagon.  It was a bitch getting people to come into work that day.

Lots of other people expressed incredulity at the time it happened, but I for one was not surprised we were attacked, nor at the spectacular fashion it happened in.  I'd always figured our shitty ME foreign policy would bite us in the ass someday.
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Post by: muckhole on September 11, 2008, 06:55:28 PM
My friends and I had been partying the night before. I woke up hungover and in bed with a strange woman to the telephone ringing. My sister had called to tell me about the first plane hitting, she figured I wouldn't see it or hear about it because it was my day off.

My friends all got up and went to the TV, but we stayed in bed listening to the radio until the second plane hit. We must have watched CNN all day and night after that.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 11, 2008, 06:58:53 PM
I was in 6th grade, in my American History class or something similar.  We got a PA announcement that the Trade Centers had been attacked and that we should turn on our televisions.  My teacher did so, and we watched as the second plane crashed.  Being that I lived in northern Jersey at the time, some people actually knew people who worked at the towers.

The rest of the day was changed, schedule wise.  We could either leave school if our parents wished us too, or stay in a study hall or cafeteria.  As soon as I got home, I hugged my mom and sat down to watch CNN.  We must've had CNN on the entire week after.
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Post by: Flannel Boy on September 11, 2008, 07:01:18 PM
I was home and my father called me to the television. We had visited the towers the year before, but I forgot how large they were. So when I saw the hole created by the first plane on television, I assumed that a small plane had accidentally crashed into one of the towers. That is until minutes later when I watched as the second tower was struck.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 11, 2008, 07:03:33 PM
what was so important about 911
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Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 07:04:21 PM
Quote from: Professor Prole on September 11, 2008, 07:03:33 PM
what was so important about 911

it's the emergency number you fool
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 11, 2008, 07:10:44 PM
oh shit, if only i had known that sooner, i'd still have working legs and genitals
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Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 08:57:40 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2008, 01:38:18 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:37:15 PM
I was fucking 2 hot chicks.

No you weren't.

Fuck off, I was fucking 2 chicks and one of them accidentally hit the remote while I was fucking her in the ass and the news came on. We stopped and just watched as the second plane hit the tower. My dick was still in her ass..

:rofl  I'm freaking dying over here. 

My mom wakes me up and was like "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" to which I start thinking "did the russians invade or something?".  So I go down to watch the TV and I was like oh, you scared the crap out of me, they ran planes into a building. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Thinking about it still gets me sentimental.  :'(
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Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 08:59:54 PM
Don't you live in NYC, TT?
Where you from?
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Post by: Rman on September 11, 2008, 09:04:34 PM
I was at a college class.  I thought it was an accident at first.
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Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 08:59:54 PM
Don't you live in NYC, TT?
Where you from?

I live in a suburb about 30 min from the city but as of Oct. 1st of this year I'll be living in Brooklyn.   :-*
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Post by: Eric P on September 11, 2008, 09:23:05 PM
Quote from: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 08:59:54 PM
Don't you live in NYC, TT?
Where you from?

I live in a suburb about 30 min from the city but as of Oct. 1st of this year I'll be living in Brooklyn.   :-*

depending on how my interview goes next friday, i could be living in manhattan a few blocks from MSG
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Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 09:52:00 PM
Quote from: Eric P on September 11, 2008, 09:23:05 PM
Quote from: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 08:59:54 PM
Don't you live in NYC, TT?
Where you from?

I live in a suburb about 30 min from the city but as of Oct. 1st of this year I'll be living in Brooklyn.   :-*

depending on how my interview goes next friday, i could be living in manhattan a few blocks from MSG

Great venue.  Sexy location boo.  :-*
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Rman on September 11, 2008, 09:52:25 PM
Quote from: Eric P on September 11, 2008, 09:23:05 PM
Quote from: Tauntaun on September 11, 2008, 09:21:50 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 08:59:54 PM
Don't you live in NYC, TT?
Where you from?

I live in a suburb about 30 min from the city but as of Oct. 1st of this year I'll be living in Brooklyn.   :-*

depending on how my interview goes next friday, i could be living in manhattan a few blocks from MSG
I'm not too far from there.  work wise.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: drozmight on September 12, 2008, 06:46:16 PM
My brother had an internship across the street from those two buildings at the time so I was listening to my mom freak out for a long time until one of his friends called and said he said he was fine.
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 13, 2008, 02:41:39 PM
I was at home by myself, uh, reading GAF and OA.  there was this huge "PLANES CRASH INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER" thread, and I just saw it, thought, "lol, like I'd believe that.  oatards and their dumb pranks  ::)" and didn't even bother clicking on the thread.  it was like three hours before I turned on the TV.
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Post by: Mandark on September 13, 2008, 03:25:36 PM
I was nowhere near the incident.  I have people who can verify that and frankly I resent the implication.
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 13, 2008, 03:56:40 PM
Quote
I was nowhere near the incident.

how convenient for you
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Post by: Flannel Boy on September 13, 2008, 04:55:53 PM
Neither was bin Laden.
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 13, 2008, 05:07:34 PM
I created the initial 9/11 GAF thread. I'm something of a national hero.
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Post by: brawndolicious on September 14, 2008, 06:18:12 AM
I didn't see either plane hit live because I'm on west coast.  I knew that people would actually freak out about it once I saw what bin laden looked like.  He was like an unathletic, arab OJ simpson.
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Post by: cloudwalking on September 14, 2008, 08:12:55 AM
i was pretty much new in america on 9/11.

i remember the weirdest part being that i faked sick from school that day because i didn't feel like going. goes to show how much i faked sick (almost failed because of poor attendance that year :o). so it was just me and my mom at home.

conversation pretty much went like this:

(me sleeping)
mom: lauren, wake up. something crazy is happening!
me: mmhh... i'm sick, mom, please!
mom: but the pakistanis... they crashed a plane into the world trade center! you have to see this. some sort of terrorist attack against the yanks!
me: what's the world trade center? is this really that exciting?
mom: you don't know what the world trade center is?
me: no.
mom: it's these really tall skyscrapers in new york city... two of them... you really don't know it?
me: no mom i said i don't know what it is! but since i'm awake now anyway go on and turn on the tv.

so she turned on the tv and we sat in my room and watched the news coverage for the entire morning. i think at one point i got up to have breakfast. by the end of the day i was feeling pretty bad for the americans but i guess it didn't affect me like a lot of my american friends. though i guess some of that had to do with never having heard of the world trade center before that day.
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Post by: TVC15 on September 14, 2008, 08:19:55 AM
Quote from: am nintenho on September 14, 2008, 06:18:12 AM
I didn't see either plane hit live because I'm on west coast.  I knew that people would actually freak out about it once I saw what bin laden looked like.  He was like an unathletic, arab OJ simpson.

So he was like OJ except he was completely unlike OJ?  Fuck, by your criteria, I'm gonna be flying planes into shit soon.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Reb on September 14, 2008, 09:23:19 AM
TVC is like a white, gay, sickly, depraved, unathletic OJ.
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Post by: drozmight on September 14, 2008, 09:55:01 AM
Quote from: Kosma on September 14, 2008, 09:43:35 AM
I was playing Total Annihilation when my (ex) GF called me and told me there were planes flying into the WTC.

did you begin frantically panning the TA map like wut
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Tristam on September 14, 2008, 03:00:16 PM
I was in class in high school. The principal announced over the intercom that an airplane had hit one of the WTCs. Later he announced a second plane had hit the other WTC.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 14, 2008, 09:21:55 PM
Quote from: ParticleReality on September 14, 2008, 03:17:17 PM
I was at school playing basketball outside. I was like a white Micheal Jackson that day. Then all the teachers ran outside screaming "GET IN SIDE, THERE'S TERRORISTS ATTACKING THIS AREA". Of course all of the classes for my grade were outside so, that includes the distinguished mentally-challenged fellows. They thought terrorists was actually another word for Mexicans which started this huge yelling and pushing contest.

I lol'ed because of the sheer stupidity of the situation but then as the teachers started yelling back and forth at each other, I realized that it was quite possible that my entire family was dead. I found out that wasn't the case and that my dad took the cable box out of my room because of some bullshit.

Oh and my copy of Simpsons Wrestling was broken.

all black people look the same
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: Bildi on September 14, 2008, 09:31:17 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2008, 01:38:18 PM
Quote from: Powerslave on September 11, 2008, 01:37:15 PM
I was fucking 2 hot chicks.

No you weren't.

Fuck off, I was fucking 2 chicks and one of them accidentally hit the remote while I was fucking her in the ass and the news came on. We stopped and just watched as the second plane hit the tower. My dick was still in her ass..

:rofl

I hope you made the second girl catch the cum in her mouth as it came out of the first girl's ass.  Don't want that stuff on the couch. :wag
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: brawndolicious on September 15, 2008, 01:42:21 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on September 14, 2008, 08:19:55 AM
So he was like OJ except he was completely unlike OJ?
well that my point that even if you're obviously a murderer, people might give you the benefit of the doubt because people love athletes and people love not feeling racist towards black people.  Bin Laden and OJ are complete opposites.
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: xnikki118x on September 15, 2008, 02:36:52 AM
I was in 10th grade English class. One of my classmates had come upstairs from the main office and told us that a plane had just crashed into "a big building in New York". We turned on CNN and ended up seeing the second plane hit not too long after.

We stayed in school, but all practices and things afterward were cancelled.

I came home to find like 50 emails in my box from people I knew online, but hadn't talked to in a long time, all basically saying "oh my god a plane went down in PA, are you all right?"

Insanity, basically.

I have a scrapbook from each year I was in high school. Our FBLA went to NYC every winter, and I have these beautiful skyline pictures from my 9th grade year that have the WTC towers in them. It was so weird to put the books together knowing the skyline will never be the same. :(
Title: Re: What were you doing on 911 :(
Post by: BlackMage on September 15, 2008, 04:53:58 AM
I was in #GA chat.. yeah...