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My daughter was in kindergarten and saw a man fall to his death on 9-11. Its stuck with her. Nothing was done to those assholes who allowed this to happen.
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No. You should be able to figure out who I meant now. Right?
Edit: Bless your heart, I guess not.
I was 15 when I watched a guy blow his brains out on a freeway overpass on broadcast TV. That’s always stuck with me.
When my daughter was old enough I told her about the first death I saw. I was six years old and at a small dirt race track that operated for a few years. A photographer was crossing the track at the end of the night and I was looking right at him when a orange race car hit him at a fairly high speed. I was only about ten to twenty yards from him. I remember he was twitching and I remember all the blood on the track after they took him away. My mother of course was storing it all up for her vile daily gossip the next day. She dismissed my distress and told me it happens. Most people never see a person die. It affected me deeply and I was denied my distress by my parents. I’m thankful I could explain to my daughter that what she saw should upset her. Seeing something like that at a young age sticks with you.
I’m 40
What’s it like?
Yeah, pretty much. We burned up the middle class trying to bomb Iraq because of Bin-Laden. Billionaires won’t spend their money, poor people don’t have money to spend, not sure where republicans think the cash is going to come from for this crusade.
Am I numb or am I exhausted? Maybe I’ll find out after another nap.
Jokes on you, meme. I’d dropped out of high school and was working full time at Spencer’s by then. I got to see the second plane hit on a bank of TV’s at RadioShack on my way back from getting a pack of cigarettes from the news stand by the Sbarro.
One CircuitCity away from a Bingo
…and they hardly notice anything because their eyes are glued to TikTok…
Jokes on you. I watched 9/11 in elementary school.
I was in my geography lesson, so I don’t identify either.
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5th grade. I remember pre-9/11 I wasn’t really scared of much, cause you know, there wasn’t a lot to be scared of.
Watching it on live TV and everything devolved very quickly.
I think we’re called Zillennials?
Probably “Millennials” hating that you’re too young to claim their tag, and “Zoomers” hating that you’re too old to claim theirs. Whatever. We are the mid-90s (even 90s) babies, and that’s a cool name even if a little longer.
Millennials, anecdotally, do get really mad at you if you bring up being part of the Zillenial cusp. I had a whole group of them freak out on me for it once and insist that no, I was a millennial only. It was weird.
I’m honestly probably pre-cusp, but my siblings were cusp and Gen Z, so I track more as an old Zillennial.
Xennials?
Edit: oh, no, it’s in the other direction.
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Three recessions. People always forget the dotcom bubble that was made worse by the market going down after 9/11.
Pre 9/11 you could also get like 10% interest on a savings account.
OJ Simpson murdered his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
One of OJs lawyers was Robert Kardashian, Kim Kardashian’s father.
US President Bill Clinton impeached over abusing his power by getting a blowjob in the Oval Office from an intern. Then lying about it.
Y2K. Remember that?
AIDS.
And in my country, a coup, a toxic syndrome, a housing bubble, terrorism, …
It’s amazing to me the strides in medicine that have helped reduce the deaths associated with HIV in such a short time. I remember that shit was like a 1 to 2 year mortality rate, and people are now able to live much much longer.
AFAIK drugs can control HIV and prevent AIDS, so people aren’t dying from it if they’re treated, and I think they can also make it much less contagious. It’s really amazing.
Isnt it wild that the nothing ever happens chud has gone from /pol/ to mainstream. Its always so jarring to see people post the exact same stuff open nazi’s post.
Not saying you’re a nazi or anything, just rambling about how memes spread through communities.
Look at what happened to the 👌 sign. You can now get into legal trouble in some EU countries for doing this gesture, even though many militaries use it as the “all right” sign with the hand beside the face. It‘s absurd
Wait what
Wrong! I was in geometry class.
Ah yes.
Fuck
Some of us proto-millenials were already on active duty in the military on 9/11
That shit was insane
It was AP European history, but, ya, wtf this has been wild
Hey US history, and for me it was just a teacher walking into the class, going to the closet, grab ing his coat, and going “A plane just crashed into the WTC,” and leaving. Like, dude, how are you going to do that.
Biology for me. I remember watching the towers collapsing when the teacher turned the TV off and said we should just go about our day normally.
Golgi apparatus. (Was that a person jumping I saw before?) Lysosomes.
