"But for me it was Tuesday."

[Shoggoth2588]

9/11

For most Americans...it was emotional.

For me, I got let out of school early.

I was only in 6th grade when that happened, so that's pretty much how it was for me, too.

Honestly, I'm still unsure of what went on in the WTC before 9/11. I got out of school early that day and thought it was bad ass. I was in 6th grade then.

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The midnight launches of Black Ops and, Modern Warfare 2. I'm not anti-CoD I just didn't care for the series then and still don't like Black Ops.

 

[simmeh]

Here's a new one: 2008 US federal election. Being Canadian, I reserve my right to Not Give a Damn (tm) about whatever my southern neighbours do with their politics. As such, I didn't follow anything that happened in the entire campaign. Everyone else I knew was talking about it nonstop, and a bunch of my friends were really excited when Obama won (left-leaning university students? No freaking way!). They even threw a party the night of the election to watch the numbers roll in. Me, I stayed in my room and worked on an assignment that night, and was actually going to make a little contest for myself to see how long I could go without finding out the results (not long, as later that night my housemate drunkenly burst through the front door yelling, "OBAMA!", but that's a story for another time).

So yeah. There you have it.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

Well, a particularly amusing one was when I went on a relatively easy hiking trip to go check out a glacier with my family in Montana. There were lots of fat old people on the hike, so for them, the walk up the mountain was like Frodo's trip to Mount Doom. For my part, I was just getting kind of annoyed with how often our guide was stopping. And when we got there, for a lot of people it was a truly incredible view. While I won't deny that it was pretty, I had been at the top of a damn mountain in Colorado a few weeks prior and saw the most amazing view of my life; rugged, absurdly mountainous country 14,000 feet above sea level, with not a trace of civilization in sight. It just didn't compare.

Long story short, I was a little bit jaded. The little hiking trip wasn't nearly as arduous and meaningful for me as it was for most of the others in the group.

 

[DJDarque]

9/11

For most Americans...it was emotional.

For me, I got let out of school early.

I was only in 6th grade when that happened, so that's pretty much how it was for me, too.

I was in 5th grade and I was devastated.

I didn't really understand what had happened. It hit me later and I felt really bad.

 

[kittii-chan 300]

aftr the summer holidays i asked my freind why he had a cast on and he said "i got hit by a car in town on (whatever day it was)" and i replied with "oh, i went shopping in town on that day"

is that what you meant?

 

[scottxxxx667]

9/11 to me was the morning that I woke up my mother to complain that they weren't showing Pokemon on the morning TV. Instead they wanted to show some American news thing, at the time I didn't realise how insensitive I was, but I was a young Australian kid who wanted to watch Pokemon, why should I care about anything that isn't Pokemon.

(It probably would have been 9/12 considering the time difference, or 12/9 considering the difference between the American and Australian date systems but whatever)

 

[emeraldrafael]

When the US announced Osama was dead, I was more upset that id idnt get to see who lost on the Celebrity Apprentice. So it was just another Sunday.

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Here's a new one: 2008 US federal election. Being Canadian, I reserve my right to Not Give a Damn (tm) about whatever my southern neighbours do with their politics. As such, I didn't follow anything that happened in the entire campaign. Everyone else I knew was talking about it nonstop, and a bunch of my friends were really excited when Obama won (left-leaning university students? No freaking way!). They even threw a party the night of the election to watch the numbers roll in. Me, I stayed in my room and worked on an assignment that night, and was actually going to make a little contest for myself to see how long I could go without finding out the results (not long, as later that night my housemate drunkenly burst through the front door yelling, "OBAMA!", but that's a story for another time).

So yeah. There you have it.

I'm rather sure most people dont care about another country's politics. not to be a dick or anything, But i dont care about canada or the UK's elections, and can hardly be bothered with my own (The US). Mostly cause tehy're always the same.

 

[DMac the Knife]

For the most part I try really hard not to read or hear current news, it is usually days or weeks before I hear of events. So for me it was a Tuesday when most things happen in the world.

9/11 is a weird situation though. Someone broke in to talk about it on the radio morning show I listen to on my way to work and I worked all day, but it was surreal. It seemed like it should have been more than just a regular work day. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area though, so the only thing that was really different was that there were no planes in the sky (with 4 major airports there are usually (literally) tons of planes in the sky at any given time). It later turned out that one of the passengers on the second tower plane was a co-worker, so it seemed like it would have felt like more if I had known that at the time...

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

A guy mentioned it already, but the election of Obama. For me it was like "oh, cool. There's a black guy as their president" and carried on with my day.

 

[simmeh]

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I'm rather sure most people dont care about another country's politics. not to be a dick or anything, But i dont care about canada or the UK's elections, and can hardly be bothered with my own (The US). Mostly cause tehy're always the same.

Really? Coulda fooled me. We had our own election that year as well, and it made less news and discussion than the American one.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

I didn't care about the 2008 elections but everyone in my class did and since they wouldn't shut up about it the teacher gave us an assignment to watch the election live and tell what states voted for who, I used this assignment as an excuse to play games all night and then got the answers from a friend the next day. But yeah I don't care about politics at all.

 

[infohippie]

11/9/2001 (Note, date in correct format)
as well as when Osama was killed. I don't want to belittle what Americans felt on those days, but for me each one was just another day. I honestly didn't care about Osama, and the World Trade Centre was interesting to see live on TV since a few of us had not long gotten home from clubbing and we'd just happened to turn the TV on within a few minutes of the first crash. Other than that, though, it really held zero meaning for me.

 

[Pipsquid]

Most of the stuff people say here, royal wedding, 9/11, etc.

I know this is the opposite sense of the post, but when the 33 miners trapped in chile were about to get rescued, I watched it live from the first one out to about the 5th one. It just amazed me how they lived underground for months and got out alive, each and every single one of them.

 

[Not PvP Flagged]

9/11

now I dont mean to be disrespectful in this regard

I was about..10, and didnt know about the twin towers let alone their significance, so i had no grasp on the impact of the disaster

because from my perspective it wasnt much different from any other disaster I would often see on TV, and I was kind fo confused as to why it was the ONLY thing on tv for the next couple of days

I just sort of went about my life

9/11

For most Americans...it was emotional.

For me, I got let out of school early.

Yeah, pretty much those, I was in 2nd grade when 9/11 happened.

 

[Dreziv]

Nearly everything it was either Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

 

[General Vagueness]

I don't get people saying 9/11 was just another day for them, I was in elementary school (5th or 6th grade) and lived in Michigan and it was... well, sad. Surprising and sad and kind of confusing, and I knew it was a significant event.

 

[Quesa]

Hmm.. something I was too ignorant/young to be impacted by.. the assassination attempt on Reagan, I was 3. Oh wait, that's not very Bison-esque at all.

A lot of stuff, I'd just say Obama's ***** speech (pick one). It definitely meant less in the current day and age where we're so inundated by everything the candidates do. It is nice to have a president who can use big boy words again though.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Birthdays/New Year/holidays.

I celebrate nothing.

Same here.

Lets celebrate our celebrating nothingness!

That would ruin the entire thing. THE ENTIRE THING!

Birthdays/New Year/holidays.

I celebrate nothing.

I agree.

Yeah, that's pretty much me on any subject. Good job for depicting that so accurately! Internet cookie for you!

 

[Sampler]

My last job I hated and my borderline passive aggressive approach nosedived once I handed my notice in, especially as they made me work the full two month notice when most folk got away with the one month (you'd've thought with my past behaviour I'd've been straight on gardening leave).

So I did a lot of shit, bit too much to get into here but when the HR Manager who I had a particular loathe/hate relationship with (see what I did there) sent me a long winded email on all the points she could think of I simply replied tl;dr

Those two months have been the best working experience in my life