why i love my wife

[Van Cruncheon]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

[bagofeyes]

what day is it?

[Van Cruncheon]

a fuckin' important day if you live in new york or have family/friends there. otherwise, it's a wholly arbitrary day you use to grandstand about your patriotism or search for some greater mystical/tribal meaning in the ruin of your wasted first-world life

[T234]

Oh shit it's bagofeyes! Sup duder?

Also, Mrs. Cruncheon for Icon.

[bagofeyes]

Oh shit it's bagofeyes! Sup duder?

Hey

[Diunx]

Why are you waking your wife up at 6:30? is that some sort of sacrifice you gringos decided to do in honor of the 9/11 victims?

[ToxicAdam]

I want to create an alternate world where terrorists crashed into buildings in Topeka, Kansas. We wouldn't even be having this discussion right now.

[Van Cruncheon]

i was headed into work :'(

[Eric P]

a fuckin' important day if you live in new york or have family/friends there.

not really.

or at least, not to us.

[Van Cruncheon]

hey, i'm just acknowledgin' that SOMEONE may have a credible reason for acting like a preachy, jingoistic asshole on facebook/twitter today

[Cheebo]

I just noticed that my Comcast On Demand is advertising you can re-watch full news coverage from 9/11. Would anyone honestly want to do that?

[Van Cruncheon]

don't be specious. there are folks for whom 9/11 was important -- it made them feel like SOMETHING again, that as sort of self-assigned adjunct victims in a "national" tragedy, they became part of something mystical, something bigger than themselves and their useless obese dustbowl existences. and as ever with rubes, as soon as their maudlin yokelry is made public, there will also emerge snake oil mavens to take their time and dollar.

[Van Cruncheon]

that my wife forgot makes me love her because she never joined that big ol' cult of media-fomented victimhood <3

[Barry Egan]

working my shift in manhattan update:  still not blowed up yet. 

[Van Cruncheon]

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

[Rman]

I honestly just want to forget about it.  Sad for those losts, but I was in the city at the time and I can see how some people would want to cope by just putting it behind them.  

I was reading the in paper that many New Yorkers feel the same, not attending memorial services and moving on with their lives.  Everyone copes with tragedy and grief differently.  Not everyone is the "Never Forget" type.

[bork]

Yeah dude I'm pretty sure most people are just having a normal day today. Unless we get a national holiday out of it, most people aren't gonna care.

Yup.  This came up at work the other day and I said the same thing.  There are people making "NEVER FORGET" Facebook status updates, then going back to whatever nonsense it was that they were doing.

[recursivelyenumerable]

today is the day i move into my temporary living arrangements in bellevue. the 9/11 thing hadn't crossed my mind until i read this thread; thanks a LOT, prole

[lennedsay]

I posted about it on facebook and twitter, but I really didn't see it as a world changing event. Cause I'm sorry americans but the rest of the world thought it was a tragic moment but not the moment that defied a generation or anything.

It changed the US and affected everyone visiting. Anyone that has set foot in an airport is setting foot into a world changed by the events.

If you don't understand or agree, you're a terrorist. You're not a terrorist, are you Wrath?

[Mupepe]

Im proud to be an American where at least I eat Kraft cheese.

[Diunx]

The day that forever changed the gas prices :'(

[Brehvolution]

I skipped church. It was the least I could do for my country on this day.

[recursivelyenumerable]

It changed the US and affected everyone visiting. Anyone that has set foot in an airport is setting foot into a world changed by the events.

thankfully I took the train into Seattle instead! train >>>> other forms of transporation

[Beezy]

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

Even the dickheads I know who act like they don't give a fuck about anything are doing this. I just need football to start so that this will all be easier for me to ignore.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Alot more people died in other events in recent history that no one cares about in America, so I don't honestly care too much about the overportrayal and signifigigance of this holiday. However it is terrible people died, but more people died at Hotel Rolwanda and all they got is a movie staring some french

[Shaka Khan]

The actual news I got out of this thread:
- Bagofeyes is back.
- Prole has a twitter.

[Van Cruncheon]

no, i follow twitter. i have a work twitter account which i use for customer engagement. i don't use the disgusting thing for any personal exhortations

[Phoenix Dark]

People died on 911, I don't see the point in acting like an ass. You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't laugh at victims

[CajoleJuice]

It changed the US and affected everyone visiting. Anyone that has set foot in an airport is setting foot into a world changed by the events.

If you don't understand or agree, you're a terrorist. You're not a terrorist, are you Wrath?

Oh trust me I understand how tragic it is and how it affected america, I'm not going to downplay that, and I'll never attempt to justify the deaths of thousands. What I am saying is that the rest of the world was not changed by these events, at least not in a major way.

Basically its awful, and I do feel for those who were affected and I do respect those who risked their lives to help(you've seen this on facebook I bet). But I do feel that a lot of people have sadly taking this tragic event and made it into more of "we americans will have revenge!" and excuses for war than the death of innocent lives. I was happy with Osama's death in that it might finally bring closure to those who were affected, and I'm glad to here that some are moving on. Cause lord knows some can't let go of Pearl Harbor.

Nah, the rest of the world was affected, since we made sure to kill 50-500 times more people in retaliation.

[Van Cruncheon]

and in the wrong country, no less

[MrAngryFace]

SPOICE MAUREEENZZZ?!?!??!

[CajoleJuice]

and in the wrong country, no less

all the same future caliphate

[Dickie Dee]

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

Even the dickheads I know who act like they don't give a fuck about anything are doing this. I just need football to start so that this will all be easier for me to ignore.

Best plan on tuning in sometime mid first quarter

uh.  You don't think the NFL is going to turn this shit to 11?

Seriously, there'll probably be a couple million Chinese soldiers on our streets by tonight because our Air Force was severely depleted doing flyovers.

[Eric P]

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

Even the dickheads I know who act like they don't give a fuck about anything are doing this. I just need football to start so that this will all be easier for me to ignore.

uh.  You don't think the NFL is going to turn this shit to 11?

[Dickie Dee]

I pretty much had going through my head Krugman's post on this:

The Years of Shame

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons

[MrAngryFace]

The Maddow/Engle special on MSNBC is worth watching.

[Beezy]

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

Even the dickheads I know who act like they don't give a fuck about anything are doing this. I just need football to start so that this will all be easier for me to ignore.

Best plan on tuning in sometime mid first quarter

my facebook and twitter feeds are abuzz with the game of observational oneupsmanship -- who can REMEMBER 9/11 THE HARDEST

Even the dickheads I know who act like they don't give a fuck about anything are doing this. I just need football to start so that this will all be easier for me to ignore.

uh.  You don't think the NFL is going to turn this shit to 11?

[Eric P]

omg.  is this out on bluray yet?!

edit:  no.  utter bullshit.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I wouldn't have even remembered if it wasn't for this thread.

Thanks a lot, Drinky

[Mr. Gundam]

wow, has it really been 10 years since one of the most important moments in my life?

just about, i guess

spoiler (click to show/hide)

totally supposed to be a gif of zoolander here, but i can't see it anymore so maybe no one else can either

[close]

NEVER FORGET.  :'(

in a recent interview with Ben Stiller, Zoolander came up. The whole World Trade Center controversy was brought up (for those that do not know, the World Trade Centers were erased from the film). He said this regarding the situation, "I honestly regret taking the Trade Center out, in reality, it was there when we shot it, and I feel very connected to New York. On the Blu-ray release, I'm going to put it back in because I really feel it was not the right call on my part."

[Positive Touch]

r.i.p. propeller arena

[cool breeze]

the commentators during yesterday's tennis matches reminded me.  I'm not thrilled to be so aloof because it's slightly messed up that I remembered the 9th as Dreamcast's 12th anniversary and not this.  At least no one cares about Final Fantasy 8's anniversary.

if not then, someone would start a "where were you when it happened?" thing.  Then a "When were you when Osama died?"

 

[Positive Touch]

the commentators during yesterday's tennis matches reminded me.  I'm not thrilled to be so aloof because it's slightly messed up that I remembered the 9th as Dreamcast's 12th anniversary and not this.  At least no one cares about Final Fantasy 8's anniversary.

if not then, someone would start a "where were you when it happened?" thing.  Then a "When were you when Osama died?"

 

motherfucker

[DJ_Tet]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

I thought this was about the start of the NFL season. 

[Mr. Gundam]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

I thought this was about the start of the NFL season. 

Prole doesn't like sports.

[Great Rumbler]

Remembering 911.


 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(


[youtube=560,345]EHXc9lhMcKg[/youtube]

I watched that show all the time.

[Diunx]

Remembering 911.


 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(


[youtube=560,345]EHXc9lhMcKg[/youtube]

[Phoenix Dark]

The Pittsburg Steelers are ruining 911

[Vizzys]

has it really been ten years..

spoiler (click to show/hide)

..since zoolander?

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


 

[close]

[Mr. Gundam]

We will never forget the freak gasoline fight accident.

[Van Cruncheon]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

I thought this was about the start of the NFL season. 

Prole doesn't like sports.

i'm not against sports: i watch mma and boxing from time to time. but national televised team sports? idiotic slow-moving pageantry for toads. the nfl isn't watchable by ANYONE with a functioning cerebral cortex. seriously, try and watch an nfl game independent of whatever stupid regional tribalism you tout like it matters (you underemployed fucks) -- it's barely and sporadically engaging like the dysentery shits, at BEST. and the dumb fucking chatter from the commentators? if you can endure that shit, i never EVER want to hear you mock george lopez again, because it really *is* the most inside tribal idiot humor and observation imaginable. fuck off, nfltards!

[Diunx]

Prole with the truth bombs.

[Mr. Gundam]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

I thought this was about the start of the NFL season. 

Prole doesn't like sports.

i'm not against sports: i watch mma and boxing from time to time. but national televised team sports? idiotic slow-moving pageantry for toads. the nfl isn't watchable by ANYONE with a functioning cerebral cortex. seriously, try and watch an nfl game independent of whatever stupid regional tribalism you tout like it matters (you underemployed fucks) -- it's barely and sporadically engaging like the dysentery shits, at BEST. and the dumb fucking chatter from the commentators? if you can endure that shit, i never EVER want to hear you mock george lopez again, because it really *is* the most inside tribal idiot humor and observation imaginable. fuck off, nfltards!

You can't mock the NFL and mention that you watch MMA in the same sentence.

[Eric P]

speaking of MMA, there was a dude on the train who was a huge beefy guy who had a gargantuan Tap Out tattoo on the back of his neck.  I wanted to take a photo for anthropological purposes but also didn't want to retrieve my phone after it had been forcibly placed into my rectum.

[demi]

me: "wake up...you know what today is!"

her: "whaaaa...i'm not having sex at 6:30 with the kid up..."

me: "no, today is a very special day!"

her: "uhhhh, labor day was last weekend..."

me: "thank GOD *someone* forgot!"

I thought this was about the start of the NFL season. 

Prole doesn't like sports.

What are you his fuckin left nut?

[Van Cruncheon]

bullshit. mma has discrete fights -- it's not three hours of GRRROOOOOOOOOOOAN OH LOOK THREE SECONDS OF INDISTINCT EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY BACK TO SLEEEEEEEEP WHILE IDIOTS CHATTER WELL AH HUR HUR HUR LOOKS LIKE GREEN BAY'S GONNA RUN THE BALL NO SHIT OH GOD END THIS TEDIUM while around me gobsmacked slopebrows go HAW HAW HAW SEATTLE, NO HAW HAW HAW 49ERS, DROOL FART HURRRR.

[lennedsay]

has it really been ten years..

spoiler (click to show/hide)

..since zoolander?

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


 

[close]

Eric Northman

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Televised sports are fucking painful to endure.  Painful and boring.

[Van Cruncheon]

you useless fucks should just put on your warpaint and your furry loinclothes and ook it up at each other without all this stupid pageantry gettin' in my face and/or airwaves, i could be watching reruns of simon and simon or something instead

[Phoenix Dark]

bash the NFL for tribalism, praise UFC.

I haven't payed much attention to any of the 10 year anniversary stuff. Obviously 911 changed the country and world, in many ways for the worse. There's literally no way to "forget" 911 given its impact on everything from flying to the daily cost of wars. So I don't need the entire media reminding me not to forget, or dwelling on the past.

For a few minutes today I remembered back to how I felt on that day; my mom was in Chicago, heading for the Sears building and I remember semi-panicing after someone on the news mentioned the building as a potential threat. But after that I was back to thinking about football, school, and what I'm gonna eat tonight.