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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:16:20 AM

Title: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:16:20 AM
9th year anniversary.

I was in 10th grade world history when it happened. We sat there in awe.

Band (after school) was cancelled. Mupepe and I were in the school military marching band.

So I went to his house because I didn't want to go home alone. I played his dreamcast. Played Sonic Adventure 2 and Soul Reaver. He called Ruben because I didn't know where to go in Soul Reaver and I just didn't have the mind for video games that day. His brother had some friends over as well, or was that the day we skipped out on playing in the main street parade? I don't remember. Walked home, took me about an hour to get home. 

Quite an adventure and long ass day.

The fear, the shit I took for granted, I remember the exact words my history teacher told me too.

And yet I can't rememeber what the fuck I had for breakfast yesterday morning.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2010, 02:22:26 AM
NEVAR FORGET

Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Akala on September 11, 2010, 02:26:01 AM
[youtube=560,345]AW8puRqE4Sc[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]fvj6zdWLUuk[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]f4RNb3tt0LM[/youtube]
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2010, 02:26:27 AM
I prefer 7/11
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:28:20 AM
what was 9/11 like for people in nyc
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Tieno on September 11, 2010, 02:33:47 AM
It happened 9 years ago, get over it.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:39:26 AM
Who cares?  I was in DC.  The forgotten 9/11 :(

the business you are the most interesting man I've ever seen on the internet.

You went to school in germany, you were in the military, you lived in dc, and now in oklahoma (willingly even!!!)

I must know more about you.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Tieno on September 11, 2010, 02:39:53 AM
who's the business?
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:40:22 AM
I don't know.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: demi on September 11, 2010, 02:43:35 AM
http://www.ilikegifs.com/imgs/sp/jerkingoff.gif
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:51:11 AM
http://www.ilikegifs.com/imgs/sp/jerkingoff.gif

(http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/46/daff_fap.gif)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: T-Short on September 11, 2010, 04:05:29 AM
ITT The Business reveals his chatting habits. Also, it's not the 9 year memorial, it's 37.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: BlueTsunami on September 11, 2010, 04:13:44 AM
9 Year Anniversary of the clandestine CIA operation that used advanced wireless technology to electronically hijack a pair of 767s and remotely fly them into the World Trade Center (http://www.theonion.com/articles/construction-complete-on-911-truther-memorial,18034/)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Oblivion on September 11, 2010, 04:27:36 AM
The greatest tragedy of our time, but I can sleep easy knowing we caught that bastard Saddam and brought him to justice.

:usacry
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: CrystalGemini on September 11, 2010, 05:59:05 AM
What's even scarier than 9/11 is the fact that there are people alive today that you can have a conversation with who were not born when it happened. 

How is that scary?  ???
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on September 11, 2010, 07:02:50 AM
http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive (http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive)

Here you go boys.

Watching the CBS coverage of the day is just fucking ridiculous, especially during the first hour or so.  It's almost like Bryant Gumble was going out of his way to be ignorant.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Solo on September 11, 2010, 07:09:46 AM
I was in frosh week in my freshman year of university. I remember walking into the student union building, seeing a bunch of people huddled around a TV, walking over to see what was going on, and standing there for 6 hours watching.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on September 11, 2010, 07:20:06 AM
I remember pulling into work, listening to ESPN radio, and they were reporting that there was a small fire in the north tower caused by a small plane flying into it.  Didn't think much of it at the time.  I then went to the autopsy room to get prepped when I got a call about the second plane hitting and that's kind of when things got extremely frustrating for me. I desperately wanted to watch or listen to what was going on but we had a full day of bodies to go through......it was just irritating.  By the time I got home building 7 had just collapsed so basically I ended up missing the day's events as they happened.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 11, 2010, 07:41:09 AM
played out
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Third on September 11, 2010, 07:53:04 AM
More people died during the tsunami in asia years ago. Why won't peolpe make threads about that. But oooh it's America. So it's more important.  ::)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: rodi on September 11, 2010, 08:46:35 AM
lol @ the Jimmy Dean sausage complaint.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Barry Egan on September 11, 2010, 09:02:04 AM
More people died during the tsunami in asia years ago. Why won't peolpe make threads about that. But oooh it's America. So it's more important.  ::)

that's deep yo
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 11, 2010, 09:16:54 AM
In the morning think I was reading GAF (or maybe Opa-Ages). There was a "TERRORISTS CRASH A PLANE INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER" thread near the top, but I glanced at it, thought "that didn't happen, must be a metaphor or inside joke or something", and didn't bother clicking on the thread or looking at anything else related to the event for another three hours or so.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Positive Touch on September 11, 2010, 09:42:12 AM
i checked yahoo just as they were reporting the second plane hitting and thought "HOLY SHIT WE'RE GOING TO WAR... i hope i don't get drafted."  then i skipped class for a nice long walk in the park.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Eric P on September 11, 2010, 10:04:02 AM
i was getting coffee in the break room watching cnn.  a plane hit the building and we all thought "well that's weird"

then the second one hit and it was pretty much chaos at work

then the pentagon was hit, where my mom worked

i had to beg my supervisors to let me leave because i knew i wouldn't be able to get anything done

basically, fuck sales jobs
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: rodi on September 11, 2010, 10:14:45 AM

i had to beg my supervisors to let me leave because i knew i wouldn't be able to get anything done

basically, fuck sales jobs

Dude, your boss wouldn't let you leave?! What a douche.

Yeah, I'm watching this documentary on youtube "The Falling Man". I never saw that photograph before, but now that I have I'm sad and angry all over again. Great picture.  :(
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: cool breeze on September 11, 2010, 10:43:24 AM
I was in art class and they announced it over the loud radio.  I leaned over to a friend and asked "what is the world trade center?" His reply was "I dunno, but I think they're letting us out early".  And we did a period after that class.  The other thing I remember is a bunch of teachers coming to escort a girl out of the classroom.  It was later that someone said "you don't know about the twin towers?...like from that simpsons episode" and I finally realized what they were talking about.  What it all meant wasn't understood until I came home and saw that every channel was talking about it.  The other thing about the internet at the time were all the crazy theories.  Things like the devil's face coming out of the smoke and that money folding trick.

And a 9 year anniversary? that's not really an important date.  Just another reason to run those stories in the news for now.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2010, 10:52:48 AM
I came into school about 7:50 [8:50 eastern time] with my mom [who worked there], one of the teachers there came out of the break room and said that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I didn't really think much about it at the time, assuming that it was just some small plane that had gotten lost in fog or something. But sometime later, the principle came over the loudspeaker and said for everybody to stay calm and keep going about their normal work. I didn't have any idea what was going on at the time, but my teacher got the TV in the room hooked up and then I just saw this image of NYC engulfed in smoke. It completely blew my mind.

We didn't get out early, but after I got home I was pretty much glued to the TV the rest of the day.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2010, 11:00:56 AM
I still think the explosions looked pretty fucking awesome.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: rodi on September 11, 2010, 11:07:00 AM
Explosions are always awesome.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Third on September 11, 2010, 12:05:09 PM
More people died during the tsunami in asia years ago. Why won't peolpe make threads about that. But oooh it's America. So it's more important.  ::)

that's deep yo

 :usacry
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 11, 2010, 12:14:19 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 11, 2010, 12:22:26 PM
i would have had 4 years to go before i started buying and playing videogames again (halo 2)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2010, 12:30:18 PM
What's even scarier than 9/11 is the fact that there are people alive today that you can have a conversation with who were not born when it happened. 

You're hanging out with 8 year olds? Fucking pedo.  :yuck
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: brob on September 11, 2010, 12:36:32 PM
Pearl Harbor 2: moar pearls
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: lennedsay on September 11, 2010, 12:57:10 PM
RIP Grandma...  :'(

Oh 9/11/2001? Nm

If I see one more neverforget!!!! FB status I'm going to check out.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Third on September 11, 2010, 01:17:27 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

You bought advance wars. That's ironic.  :lol
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on September 11, 2010, 01:27:32 PM
I remember on 9/10 I went out and spent my George W Bush thank you bucks on a pre-order for my Xbox.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 11, 2010, 01:30:30 PM
flickchart remembers

(http://imgur.com/1b68o.jpg)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2010, 01:52:48 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

You bought advance wars. That's ironic.  :lol

Now I kinda want to see a GIF made of planes vs WTC in Advance Wars style.

Also, I should just type out a "I remember where I was" post in notepad that I repost every year in these threads.

The part that I remember the most was my English teacher (I was in 10th grade) crying as she told me that the Twin Towers were gone. I was just like...what? I had heard about a plane crashing into one of them earlier, but I think that's all I had heard until then.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2010, 02:13:07 PM
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFwXmz1KGoQ[/youtube]

 :american
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:18:01 PM
More people died during the tsunami in asia years ago. Why won't peolpe make threads about that. But oooh it's America. So it's more important.  ::)

We aren't Asian. We're American. A bunch of people dying in a tsunami is sad, but honestly there are multiple sides to this:

1. The tsunami was not a terrorist attack and act of war committed on another country, that being an overwhelming percent of EB's home country. And comparing a terrorist attack to a fucking tsunami is stupid to begin with as it is a natural disaster.

2. We remember 9/11 every year because we are Americans are we have a bigger tie to Americans getting killed than a bunch of asian people drowning. Why? Because that's being ethnocentric, something every human is. This is like saying it unfair to remember the death of someone you loved but scoff at the death of thousands somewhere else. You didn't know them, and you shouldn't be expected to grieve for them. This is simply human.

3. 9/11 is an event that changed the world, in terms of foreign policy, in terms of safety, in terms of Bush's horrible act of being president and what he did to the world, in terms of where we're at right now, it was a big turning point. Comparing it to a tsunami is only possible through the mind of a child.

They key to bringing more awareness to other tragedies is making them more known, not deriding 9/11 and its effect on our world. Americans remember the holocaust and the bombings of Japan all the time. Why? Because not only were they global changing events but also because people DON'T forget shit like that and no one will ever let us forget. So if you want people in America to care about the tsunami, pitch a REMEMBER ASIAN TSUNAMI day or something.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 11, 2010, 02:24:27 PM
yeah 9/11 sucked, it was sad, and I was in a weird place emotionally for a while afterwards

but what's even sadder is the manufactured dedication and false-sense of patriotism that evolved from that day that continues to spread fuckwittery around this country.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2010, 02:25:29 PM
Oh yeah, let me be clear that the false sense of patriotism is hilarious.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 11, 2010, 02:26:28 PM
(http://www.product-reviews.net/wp-content/userimages/2007/08/iron-sheik.JPG)

HULK HOGAN IS FAGGOT AND JEW FUCK HIM IN ASS MAKE HIM HUMBLE
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2010, 02:55:24 PM
(http://images.shoutwire.com/pic_full/hulkhogan9111d6eaee0-1242-4597-bd5a-5df6edffdd51.jpg)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 11, 2010, 03:07:43 PM
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bWePKgzdCsTlVM:http://http://current.com/http://rebuildingyear.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/the_iron_sheik_-_hossein_khosrow_vaziri_01.jpg&t=1)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Oblivion on September 11, 2010, 05:52:20 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

So...what you're saying is that you're sad that Al Qaeda didn't blow up MORE buildings that day?

Requesting name change to Osama Van Cruncheon, plz.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Fresh Prince on September 11, 2010, 05:57:22 PM
One day we will forget.
Thank god.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2010, 06:05:08 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

So...what you're saying is that you're sad that Al Qaeda didn't blow up MORE buildings that day?

Requesting name change to Osama Van Cruncheon, plz.

Prole plays his DS while America crumbles.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Fresh Prince on September 11, 2010, 06:06:33 PM
damn prole is as cynical as I am
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: ManaByte on September 11, 2010, 06:51:00 PM
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdPOovU3deM[/youtube]
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Fresh Prince on September 11, 2010, 06:55:04 PM
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdPOovU3deM[/youtube]
Please be a parody  :(  :lol  :-\  :(
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: ManaByte on September 11, 2010, 07:01:16 PM
Nope. It's real. On Shock'n Y'all.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on September 11, 2010, 07:12:01 PM
Fucking Toby Keith.

Was driving around this morning making a few errands and noticed the city buses all have "Patroit Day" displayed on their digital screens.  Is that what we're fucking calling this now?

Someone fetch me some freedom fries.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 11, 2010, 08:28:13 PM
I don't think anyone had anything up for 9/11 in my town today.  I think we forgot  :usacry

I think you guys are just exaggerating or making shit up.

I also can't determine what set of people are worse: distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who still use it for political hay or the distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who think joking about it is funny. 
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Barry Egan on September 11, 2010, 08:34:32 PM
I'm dumb
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2010, 08:41:08 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

So...what you're saying is that you're sad that Al Qaeda didn't blow up MORE buildings that day?

Requesting name change to Osama Van Cruncheon, plz.

Prole plays his DS while America crumbles.

Sounds like a typical nintendo fanboy.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Trent Dole on September 11, 2010, 08:56:33 PM
[youtube=560,345]2AYujWCCHRk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYujWCCHRk
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2010, 09:16:44 PM
fuck would you let me FORGET the manufactured hysteria and decorated memories of this day

to me, this day symbolizes the moronic histrionics of a pampered society in decline

but if you must know where i was, i was at the mall buying advance wars for the gba

and i went home and played it, the end

So...what you're saying is that you're sad that Al Qaeda didn't blow up MORE buildings that day?

Requesting name change to Osama Van Cruncheon, plz.

Prole plays his DS while America crumbles.

Sounds like a typical nintendo fanboy.

Not only that, he was playing a game with lolis in it.

(http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1743/samiadvancewarsds.png)
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Purple Filth on September 12, 2010, 12:26:23 AM
i was watching tv when i saw the building explode, then saw the other getting hit by a fucking plane.

thought it was a movie.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Barry Egan on September 12, 2010, 10:59:08 PM
found this on my facebook feed: Rip all those who died on 9/11...can't believe it was 9 years ago..crazy..I remember it like it was yesterday...fuckin dirkas...
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Himu on September 12, 2010, 11:55:24 PM
:lol
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: rodi on September 13, 2010, 01:33:04 AM
Oh, facebook...
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Brehvolution on September 13, 2010, 09:39:20 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war#Casualty_estimates

Are we even yet?

Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 13, 2010, 09:47:16 AM
no, we need to kill at least 500,000 to make up for the quality of life lost here
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Mupepe on September 13, 2010, 11:00:56 AM
(http://images.shoutwire.com/pic_full/hulkhogan9111d6eaee0-1242-4597-bd5a-5df6edffdd51.jpg)
:rofl :rofl
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Beardo on September 13, 2010, 02:21:10 PM
I was playing advance wars. And I remember hearing about MJ's return to basketball. Again.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: T-Short on September 13, 2010, 02:44:31 PM
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/911_in_2010_remembrance_and_re.html (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/911_in_2010_remembrance_and_re.html)

Schmaltz factor 7, mr. Sulu
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 13, 2010, 04:36:46 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war#Casualty_estimates

Are we even yet?

What's the current brown-to-white life value conversation ratio?
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Brehvolution on September 13, 2010, 04:42:25 PM
Looks like less than 3/5ths
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Mupepe on September 13, 2010, 04:45:49 PM
Median household income in US (2008) was ~4k a month

Median household income in Afghanistan (2008) was ~$30 a month

4000/30 = 133.3

3000 deaths from 9/11.  So 3k * 133.3 is 399900.

What are the total deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan?  More or less than 399,900?
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Brehvolution on September 13, 2010, 04:47:39 PM
My wiki link hints to almost 1 million just in Iraq.  :-\
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Mupepe on September 13, 2010, 04:49:06 PM
Jesus Christ.  I was trying to be an ass but now I feel bad.  :(
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 13, 2010, 06:47:10 PM
its not like these high figures are entirely our fault, extremists have killed there own people with suicide bombers, not to mention they specifically hide out and fight amongst regular people and children
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 13, 2010, 11:47:04 PM
because ive been in the trenches with the enemy

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you and i both know that that is common fucking knowledge by now
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Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Diunx on September 14, 2010, 01:14:14 AM
That's just jew media propaganda, most of those deads are caused by fucking robots trowing bombs where thousands of civilians are living. DON'T BE A SHEEP OF THE MEDIA!
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: drew on September 14, 2010, 01:17:12 AM
 :hans1
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: Rman on September 14, 2010, 01:31:22 AM
It was a weird day.  It was just so quiet in the city the following weeks.  It was pretty desensitized even though it happened it my own backyard.
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: rodi on September 14, 2010, 03:14:31 AM
This is probably wrong, but I always got the feeling that people over there didn't really care about each other the same way we do across the pond... :(
Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: chronovore on September 15, 2010, 10:12:14 AM
More people died during the tsunami in asia years ago. Why won't peolpe make threads about that. But oooh it's America. So it's more important.  ::)

We aren't Asian. We're American. A bunch of people dying in a tsunami is sad, but honestly there are multiple sides to this:

1. The tsunami was not a terrorist attack and act of war committed on another country, that being an overwhelming percent of EB's home country. And comparing a terrorist attack to a fucking tsunami is stupid to begin with as it is a natural disaster.

2. We remember 9/11 every year because we are Americans are we have a bigger tie to Americans getting killed than a bunch of asian people drowning. Why? Because that's being ethnocentric, something every human is. This is like saying it unfair to remember the death of someone you loved but scoff at the death of thousands somewhere else. You didn't know them, and you shouldn't be expected to grieve for them. This is simply human.

3. 9/11 is an event that changed the world, in terms of foreign policy, in terms of safety, in terms of Bush's horrible act of being president and what he did to the world, in terms of where we're at right now, it was a big turning point. Comparing it to a tsunami is only possible through the mind of a child.

They key to bringing more awareness to other tragedies is making them more known, not deriding 9/11 and its effect on our world. Americans remember the holocaust and the bombings of Japan all the time. Why? Because not only were they global changing events but also because people DON'T forget shit like that and no one will ever let us forget. So if you want people in America to care about the tsunami, pitch a REMEMBER ASIAN TSUNAMI day or something.

Maybe Mssr. Third knows that SOMEONE WAS DRIVING THAT TSUNAMI!
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://imgur.com/FkIQt.jpg)
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Title: Re: 9/11
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on September 15, 2010, 11:06:36 AM
I'm totally apathetic about it. I never linked my ego to this country so I don't really care what happens to people hundreds of miles away, to be honest.  Then again it sure was a spectacle.