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Title: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 06:12:06 AM
Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) with Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8VwYLcxGo&feature=related#)

Just out of curiosity. Where were you (If you remember) when you heard about 9/11?

No hate please


I was 5 years old, and I still remember it like it was just yesterday. It was my first year in China and I had just recently moved in a few months ago from L.A.

I was in the 1st grade living in Shanghai, China. It was 8:46 PM when the first plane hit. (Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of New York City).

My parents had heard about the attacks from friends through phone and rushed home from dinner. They turned on the news to Chinese reporters streaming the events live. I think I was asleep at the time, or I was about to go to sleep, but my parents called me over to watch. Of course I didn't understand what was going on.

My brother said I laughed at the falling people. If that was true I really want to go back in time and slap myself. I can't believe I would be that disrespectful.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: blαh2355 on May 18, 2011, 09:46:43 AM
It was very sad, I was about 4, 5 ish and in kindergarden. I didn't know about 9/11 until like 5th grade. And don't feel bad, you probably thought it was a movie or something.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Shawn on May 18, 2011, 09:57:03 AM
I was in grade 6 at the time the teacher told us all "the twin towers have went down" (had no clue what the hell those were since I'm not American nor did i pay any attention to American events) so i said "Thats nice why do i care that some random towers went down"
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 18, 2011, 10:22:09 AM
Was in school.
5th grade.

Broadcasting it through tv in each room.
Teachers crying.

Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Sabb on May 18, 2011, 12:16:52 PM
Quote from: Wheatley on May 18, 2011, 06:12:06 AM
Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) with Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8VwYLcxGo&feature=related#)

Just out of curiosity. Where were you (If you remember) when you heard about 9/11?

No hate please


I was 5 years old, and I still remember it like it was just yesterday. It was my first year in China and I had just recently moved in a few months ago from L.A.

I was in the 1st grade living in Shanghai, China. It was 8:46 PM when the first plane hit. (Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of New York City).

My parents had heard about the attacks from friends through phone and rushed home from dinner. They turned on the news to Chinese reporters streaming the events live. I think I was asleep at the time, or I was about to go to sleep, but my parents called me over to watch. Of course I didn't understand what was going on.

My brother said I laughed at the falling people. If that was true I really want to go back in time and slap myself. I can't believe I would be that disrespectful.
Would just like to say that when you're 5 you obviously don't think the same and have a total different view point on everything.
But also, I was in school at the time it happened, but that's basically all I can remember. They never played it on the TVs or anything either, but I remember very little from it.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Dale Feles on May 18, 2011, 01:39:34 PM
Tbh, I just remember seeing on TV two towers collapsing. I didn't really care 'cause at the time I knew nothing about other countries. I feel so bad. May all the victims R.I.P.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Don on May 18, 2011, 01:45:01 PM
I didn't hear about it until about a year after it happened because it wasn't on our TV programs.
Except maybe for the evening news, but I didn't stay up that long back then.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Alphaggot on May 18, 2011, 01:49:47 PM
My relative worked in building 1. He was one of the lucky ones and managed to escape.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Bovicide on May 18, 2011, 02:48:19 PM
I was in 3rd grade, getting ready for school at like five in the morning. I was like "Mom! some building in New York got hit by a plane." She was like "wtf no way". But it was, and it was sad.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: cogsandspigots on May 18, 2011, 03:04:02 PM
I was not a school that day and my parents told me to come watch this. (the live broadcast) I guess payback finally happened.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Supertoaster on May 18, 2011, 03:54:09 PM
I was too young to remember, unfortunately.

I really didn't know about it at all until 2003-2004 then I understood what happened.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 18, 2011, 04:38:52 PM
I feel really old and I feel bad for being old

But then again someone thought I was 17 the other day.

Then I felt good again.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 04:48:05 PM
Quote from: Devie ♥ on May 18, 2011, 04:38:52 PM
I feel really old and I feel bad for being old

But then again someone thought I was 17 the other day.

Then I felt good again.

Aren't you like... 18 or 19 only? Lol
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 18, 2011, 04:54:40 PM
Quote from: Wheatley on May 18, 2011, 04:48:05 PM
Aren't you like... 18 or 19 only? Lol

19. Wishing I stayed at 16. or never pass the age 21.

FOREVER.21.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 04:55:39 PM
Quote from: Devie ♥ on May 18, 2011, 04:54:40 PM
19. Wishing I stayed at 16. or never pass the age 21.

FOREVER.21.

When you become 22, I will laugh :D
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 18, 2011, 05:16:28 PM
Quote from: Wheatley on May 18, 2011, 04:55:39 PM
When you become 22, I will laugh :D

but we'll all die soon
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 05:22:44 PM
Quote from: Devie ♥ on May 18, 2011, 05:16:28 PM
but we'll all die soon

Before I graduate :(
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 05:38:12 PM
Quote from: Wheatley on May 18, 2011, 05:22:44 PM
Before I graduate :(

AHUEHUHEUEHUEHDA
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 06:02:16 PM
Quote from: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 05:38:12 PM
AHUEHUHEUEHUEHDA

STFOO NOOB!!!
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 06:09:45 PM
its ok
you aren't missing much
unless you enjoy being in bed all fucking day.

it may sound good now...but trust me it sucks.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 18, 2011, 06:18:48 PM
Quote from: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 06:09:45 PM
its ok
you aren't missing much
unless you enjoy being in bed all fucking day.

it may sound good now...but trust me it sucks.
:o

but mah mama tol meh after ah graduate we gon tour europe.. an ah nevuh ben tuh europe.. ah always wanted tuh go

sorry I'm reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" In english class and I'm getting in the mood.

And plus I can finally leave this shithole of a place and get back to LA where my real friends are :)
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 06:23:26 PM
Quote from: Wheatley on May 18, 2011, 06:18:48 PM
:o

but mah mama tol meh after ah graduate we gon tour europe.. an ah nevuh ben tuh europe.. ah always wanted tuh go

sorry I'm reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God" In english class and I'm getting in the mood.

And plus I can finally leave this shithole of a place and get back to LA where my real friends are :)

just promise me you'll go to school
and if you don't
get a job. don't sit at home (also i didn't choose to do that, i can't find work)
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 18, 2011, 06:55:11 PM
Quote from: Deacon on May 18, 2011, 06:23:26 PM
just promise me you'll go to school
and if you don't
get a job. don't sit at home (also i didn't choose to do that, i can't find work)

my work sucks and its long. 12 hours for 3 days man.
It's so boring and you gotta stand for 12 hours although every 2 hours u get a 10 minute break to sit down..

It made me sad though cuz the job itself is definitely a dead end factory job.
As I sat there imagining things to buy with my money like a new flat screen for my room, new pc, xbox with gaemz... I realized as I looked around that people I worked with were foreigners who doesnt speak english. Russians, hispanics, asians.. and theyre here NOT TO buy things that they want (like I am) but to actually put food on their table.

What made me sad was the fact that the job is so easy... that I know for a fact that by the time computer science students graduate college, theyre gonna be the ones programming the robots that will replace these people one day. Considering the fact that robots will do this job more accurate, faster, and cheaper.

I was like :(
They already fired the people who worked there as lunch ladies and replaced them with machines.

I felt bad for these people :/
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Seb on May 18, 2011, 07:01:17 PM
I don't remember if this was 9/11, but I remember looking at the TV one day when I was really young adn seeing an xbox hueg flaming hole in a building. I thought something about special effects, and then my mom told me to go play outside. She was crying.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Deacon on May 19, 2011, 03:05:40 AM
Quote from: Devie ♥ on May 18, 2011, 06:55:11 PM
my work sucks and its long. 12 hours for 3 days man.
It's so boring and you gotta stand for 12 hours although every 2 hours u get a 10 minute break to sit down..

It made me sad though cuz the job itself is definitely a dead end factory job.
As I sat there imagining things to buy with my money like a new flat screen for my room, new pc, xbox with gaemz... I realized as I looked around that people I worked with were foreigners who doesnt speak english. Russians, hispanics, asians.. and theyre here NOT TO buy things that they want (like I am) but to actually put food on their table.

What made me sad was the fact that the job is so easy... that I know for a fact that by the time computer science students graduate college, theyre gonna be the ones programming the robots that will replace these people one day. Considering the fact that robots will do this job more accurate, faster, and cheaper.

I was like :(
They already fired the people who worked there as lunch ladies and replaced them with machines.

I felt bad for these people :/

Agreed about feeling bad, but this is why i keep saying an education is important (and why i keep repeating it).
Do you want to be the unfortunate laid-off worker or the person who fixes the robots?

And I can't even land a job with a damn broom and a mop
inb4deacongoesintoarmy
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: ·UηİŦ·· on May 19, 2011, 01:58:17 PM
Quote from: Devie ♥ on May 18, 2011, 10:22:09 AM
Was in school.
5th grade.

Broadcasting it through tv in each room.
Teachers crying.

Grade 3.

English Class.

RIGHT AFTER THE ANTHEM.

The principal makes an announcement.

Majority of School was  :'(

I only barely grasped what happened.

All I knew is that a Plane Crashed in New York... I was too young and incapable of imagining just how horrible it was...


We didn't do work that day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Cheesicle on May 19, 2011, 03:13:22 PM
Quote from: Unit on May 19, 2011, 01:58:17 PM
Grade 3.

English Class.

RIGHT AFTER THE ANTHEM.

The principal makes an announcement.

Majority of School was  :'(

I only barely grasped what happened.

All I knew is that a Plane Crashed in New York... I was too young and incapable of imagining just how horrible it was...


We didn't do work that day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)


O________________O
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Sabb on May 19, 2011, 03:36:36 PM
Quote from: Unit on May 19, 2011, 01:58:17 PM
Grade 3.

English Class.

RIGHT AFTER THE ANTHEM.

The principal makes an announcement.

Majority of School was  :'(

I only barely grasped what happened.

All I knew is that a Plane Crashed in New York... I was too young and incapable of imagining just how horrible it was...


We didn't do work that day.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inb4 it was an airsoft gun.
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Devie on May 19, 2011, 03:40:14 PM
Quote from: Deacon on May 19, 2011, 03:05:40 AM
Agreed about feeling bad, but this is why i keep saying an education is important (and why i keep repeating it).
Do you want to be the unfortunate laid-off worker or the person who fixes the robots?

And I can't even land a job with a damn broom and a mop
inb4deacongoesintoarmy

I kind of felt bad at the fact that I'm working here to buy things my daddy doesn't want to buy for me or my boyfriend can't afford immediately (spoiled little princess I know)

And I felt even worse at the fact that when I graduate college theyre gonna be out of jobs because of us...-- Idk I just feel like this:
"I'm going places and this is just another journey in my life that I will soon leave whenever another opportunity opens up for me as take life as it goes. Im young and my future is bright"

Then I looked around..
Then I felt horrible..


Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Seb on May 20, 2011, 01:28:25 PM
Quote from: SabbathFreak on May 19, 2011, 03:36:36 PM
Inb4 it was an airsoft gun.

"Officer, I swear! I just wanted to scare the kids!"
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Osme on May 20, 2011, 02:01:30 PM
was in 1st or 2nd grade, the school day jsut stoped. school closed several hours early and was closed for 2 days afterwards. entire time i was simply going ":o bad stuff"
Title: Re: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Post by: Sabb on May 20, 2011, 02:02:30 PM
Quote from: Seb on May 20, 2011, 01:28:25 PM
"Officer, I swear! I just wanted to scare the kids!"
Why not?
Sounds fun to me.