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Offline Caitshidhe

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2505 on: February 05, 2014, 03:13:17 am »
In some ways I think it may have been more frightening for someone who was five or six when the towers went down. I was fourteen so I understood what was happening and make no mistake: it was pants-shitting scary. But a little kid would just see their parent or other adults getting scared and upset and maybe even crying, and as a little kid there is nothing quite as scary as when grownups cry. Because adults are like superheroes and seeing them overwhelmed and yourself not being able to understand what is going on...... is alien and frightening.

In funnier news, there is this Tumblr, 'Confessions of a Demisexual'. Special snowflakes ahoy!
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2506 on: February 05, 2014, 03:58:50 am »
Quote from: thejebusfire on February 05, 2014, 02:07:20 am


There are plenty of 12-16 year olds who lost actual loved ones in 911 so why don't you shut the fuck up.
My dad was born in 1941 in the Netherlands. He remembers bombs flattening a few houses up the street from him, he remembers the Jews who were hiding in his attic, and hearing a Lancaster bomber fly overhead at an air show in the 90's was enough to put a glazed far off look on his face.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2507 on: February 05, 2014, 04:06:22 am »
Quote from: thejebusfire on February 05, 2014, 02:07:20 am


There are plenty of 12-16 year olds who lost actual loved ones in 911 so why don't you shut the fuck up.



Omfg. This is brilliant
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2508 on: February 05, 2014, 08:01:08 am »
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because I was old enough and you weren't

They sound quite childish for someone supposedly born before 1995.

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you don't know how special and amazing it was for us

Wtf. I remember 9/11 and I wouldn't really describe it as "special and amazing".
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2509 on: February 05, 2014, 09:19:19 am »
Whelp, seems the internet has once again jumped the shark.  People are claiming atrocities for their generation.

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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2510 on: February 05, 2014, 10:40:17 am »
Quote from: Caitshidhe on February 05, 2014, 03:13:17 am
In some ways I think it may have been more frightening for someone who was five or six when the towers went down. I was fourteen so I understood what was happening and make no mistake: it was pants-shitting scary. But a little kid would just see their parent or other adults getting scared and upset and maybe even crying, and as a little kid there is nothing quite as scary as when grownups cry. Because adults are like superheroes and seeing them overwhelmed and yourself not being able to understand what is going on...... is alien and frightening.

In funnier news, there is this Tumblr, 'Confessions of a Demisexual'. Special snowflakes ahoy!

14?  Damn.  Now I kinda feel like a creep for hitting on you so much back in the day.  Now?  Not so much.

But you're going with 1995 as the cut-off for 9/11 moron?  Seriously?  So a 6 year old doesn't have memories of important events in their childhood?  Are you honestly stupid or something?

Ironbite-oh wait...you're a special snowflake so I guess you are!
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2511 on: February 05, 2014, 10:43:53 am »
Hell, I was 21 when it happened, and I was scared.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2512 on: February 05, 2014, 11:03:45 am »
Quote from: thejebusfire on February 05, 2014, 02:07:20 am


What about all the children under 6 who died in the attacks? Or the ones who survived but were actually there?  But no I guess it's all about you and how you felt watching it on TV from the saftey of your livingroom, isn't it?

WTf is wrong with some people?
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2513 on: February 05, 2014, 11:31:55 am »
Ten bucks says that person was born in 1994. (Assuming they're serious.)
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2514 on: February 05, 2014, 02:42:10 pm »
Quote from: Ultimate Paragon on February 05, 2014, 10:43:53 am
Hell, I was 21 when it happened, and I was scared.
We're the same age.

It sure doesn't feel like it happened 12 years ago.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2515 on: February 05, 2014, 03:33:42 pm »
I was 12 to 14 when it happened.

I still remember the towers falling.  Vividly.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2516 on: February 05, 2014, 04:02:02 pm »
Quote from: ironbite on February 05, 2014, 10:40:17 am
14?  Damn.  Now I kinda feel like a creep for hitting on you so much back in the day.  Now?  Not so much.

Well I wasn't on FSTDT until I was maybe... twenty? I guess 21 when I actually became pretty active on the forum. And you aren't THAT much older than me, so, yeah, not that creepy. Well, the age difference anyway. You wouldn't be our Ibbs if you weren't at least a little bit creepy otherwise.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2517 on: February 05, 2014, 06:41:01 pm »
it was a week before my 17th birthday.  Needless to say, the usual to-do was... subdued.  I saw the news footage as I was getting ready for school.  And yeah, it's still unsettling to this day.  Especially now that I'm three hours north of NYC.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2518 on: February 05, 2014, 07:29:10 pm »
I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, and I vividly remember my mother screaming and collapsing in a heap on the floor because she thought her brother was on the second plane. That was also the first time I ever called 911 for real, because I thought she was dying. Even after we found out my uncle had missed his connecting flight and wasn't anywhere near New York, she was an emotional wreck. It was one of those thresholds that separates your life into Before and After - not only on a nation-wide scale, but for me personally. September 11 2001 marked the first time my family had truly depended on me - my siblings for basic care and my mother for emotional support.

So yeah, don't try to lecture me about what I'm not allowed to remember, douchebag.
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Re: Worst of Social Justice
« Reply #2519 on: February 05, 2014, 07:41:54 pm »
I was 12 when it happened. I was living in England, and school was just getting out when Mom came up and told me what had happened.
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