I know this will get a lot of angry replies but seriously – I don’t give a shit about 9/11. Leave it alone. I hate seeing it rehashed year after year after year. “Where were you when it happened?” or “Harper’s thoughts on 9/11”. This shit is retarded. People die. It sucks, and it sucked that it happened on a grand scale but really – Get the f*ck over it already media! I find it disgraceful that several times the amount of people killed in 9/11 are dying RIGHT NOW due to famine, war and just straight up genocide but because they aren’t americans they get ignored for all the sensationalism of repeating information about an old terrorist attack. Yes – those people’s families are going to be haunted forever, but don’t you think the families of the victims that are dying due to hunger are going to be haunted too? Why not take all this media attention off the people who died a decade ago and put it on to some people we can still save!!! —Get the F*ck Over It
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
Here’s a news flash, Spanky. You aren’t Winston Smith, 1984 was 27 years ago and those viewscreens in your living quarters come with an off button. Mourn who you want, aid who you want and STFU when others excercise the same option.
Many of the dead were from other countries, fyi.
What has happened in your little, tiny like that you’re going to complain that people want to commemorate an attact on their country, that’s lead to two wars(one on spurious grounds, the other less so).
Whatever’s come after 9/11, the initial attack was pretty awful.
Suck it up, princess.
Wp
p.s. How are YOU working to stop the deaths of these people dying now? Other than complaining about 9/11, of course.
I was watching the football yesterday, and State Farm was running commercials that had to do with the tragedy. I don’t agree with companies trying to profit or score points with the public from something like this.
Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary, OP, so cut us some slack.
I hear what you’re saying though. However it WAS the biggest day in history that any of us have likely witnessed. It made the world, especially this part of it, a different place.
Most of the attention was not about those that died, but the efforts of the police and firefighters who put their health and safety at risk to save people.
I feel like we can pay respect to the victims, the families and those that died and are still dying in the war, and still talk about feeding starving people in Africa and the rest of the world that need help now.
What’d you think, yesterday was going to come and go and you weren’t going to hear about it?
Anybody else see the Jets game last night? Felt like divine intervention.
you must be too young to remember the impact it had………….that or you are a sociopath.
9/11 was our generations pearl harbour yet on a world wide scale.
and you SHOULD care about it, especially living in a port city…. what do you think all those shipping containers down on the docks have the potential to carry? do you really think that we are immune up here?
its funny, your bitch sounds american in its “who cares, it doesnt affect me” tone.
i bet you are 18-19 and were a lil brat suckin on your moms teet in 2001.
I mostly agree with Tommy about 9-11 themed commercials, but ,damn it, this one still makes me tear up…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yfivS8SWs…
We’re supposed to remember these things. Lest we forget, right? Isn’t that the whole point of history? It’s a big deal OP, I think you’re the one who needs to get the fuck over it.
Media coverage cannot and will not change the fact that this tragedy happened. We still remember the fallen from two world wars -and later conflicts- on November 11, including special programming and news features. What is your problem with honouring the dead? In this case thousands of innocent people, most of whom who were merely going to work, including the first responders, were callously and horrifically murdered. Get over yourself!
OP there is something wrong with your head, your bitch is just a complete insult.
9/11 was a momentous occasion OP, particularly in the U.S., where it happened. We are saturated by American media so it would have been hard to avoid the coverage yesterday being the tenth anniversary.
You should have more interest in it OP as your world was changed forever. The terrorists successfully and quite diabolically struck fear in to the heart of America. Terrorists want to create and inflict fear which they did.
I believe the coverage was fair, Americans have the right to commemorate and grieve.
Besides you could have just shut off the TV.
I actually found that state farm ad pretty touching – these kids from a public school were going around to all the fire halls singing “empire state” to all the first responders, and it was kind of sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzUxVKLgMk
Fuck I hate the US government.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/1552…
On Friday I heard Heaven by Bryan Adams on Q104, being sung by a female artist, with a little girl speaking to her Dad, going from 5 years to 10 years, up until universtiy I believe, talk about lump in your throat moment, having a daughter myself it really hit home, just glad I’m still here for her.
Don’t worry OP, it’s Sept 12th now. You won’t hear about it again until next year 🙂
So just because people are dying right now of famine or whatever means people can’t remember their loved ones who died in the past? People who were MURDERED. People who jumped out of 100 story buildings because they couldn’t breathe and didn’t want to burn to death? Some people actually FELL out of the buildings because they were so blinded by smoke and couldn’t see where they were going. A firefighter even DIED when a jumper hit him.
Get bent, OP. It’s the 10th anniversary. 9/11 changed shit in North America and caused a buttload of shit to hit the fan in the Middle East.
I think you’d feel very differently if someone YOU loved died on 9/11. The mass murder of over 3000 people is certainly something to make a big deal out of.
You’re obviously a small minded idiot if you can’t grasp the magnitude of that event.
Fuckface.
This is precisely what i was saying yesterday: “I find it disgraceful that several times the amount of people killed in 9/11 are dying RIGHT NOW due to famine, war and just straight up genocide but because they aren’t americans they get ignored for all the sensationalism of repeating information about an old terrorist attack.”
Granted it’s only once a year but yeah. I don’t see anyone “celebrating” the anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake.
So that means we can’t recognize other tragedies?
Fuck sakes.
I didn’t know the lives of those who died in the Sichuan earthquake or those dying of famine were worth more than people who died in the 9/11 attacks, but thanks for that tip!
I_K, you’re comparing apples to oranges. I’m sure the Chinese media acknowledges and commemorates that earthquake similar to the way that the US does 9/11. We live in North America, of course were not going to be reminded of something that happened in China.
I bet you everyone you know remembers Sept 11th, 2011, what they did, what they heard, what they saw, how they felt. Everyone remembers that day and will for the rest of their lives. Sichuan earthquake? Not so much.
You know what I’m REALLY sick of?
This whole concept of “Western guilt” and how those of us in the west are made to feel (by bleeding heart liberal hippies) like we should almost be ashamed about being from here and being from the “first world.”
Whenever something happens here it’s almost marginalized because OMG lives of those in the west are obviously not as important as those in the underdeveloped and/or non-western nations. It’s like it’s a god damned CRIME to feel sorrow over something like 9/11 because ‘there are starving children in africa.’ So the fuck what? It’s a tragedy too, don’t get me wrong — it breaks my heart, but that doesn’t mean that 3000 people being mass murdered isn’t a tragedy either!
OB and I_K’s comments are a prime example of this and I’m so sick of this bullshit.
Just because I was born in an affluent part of the world, doesn’t mean I have to feel like a piece of shit because there are less privileged people on the planet.
Just because someone has more opportunity in life, doesn’t mean they’re worthless human beings.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?p…
Are you fucking serious?
yes o.p., i am too. i really think it’s time to let this bullshit cover up government job go. yeah i know, you believe everything the big man said about osama, and saddam, but is it their truth, or the real truth. i know people wwho lived in iraq, under saddam’s reign, and they say things were a hell of a lot better, than now.
but of course, the truth will never be known.these people have their own ways and customs of dealing with things. who the fuck are we and the u.s. ,to make them conform to our more civilized ways? anyone look at our own strets lately.
I am sick of hearing about it too day after day after day.
I wouldn’t say I don’t give a shit about 9/11, but nothing anyone can say will make me think that the people who died that day are any more important than the kids who died of starvation yesterday in the Sudan. The difference is, the people who died that day are more relatable. Here is some good reading.
http://therumpus.net/2011/09/the-decade-of…
If you’re sick of hearing it … don’t listen.
I’m sick of hearing about it too. Inside job all the way. What’s more disgusting is how the US used 9/11 as a justification for invading Iraq and murdering 1.6-million innocent Iraqis who had nothing to do with 9/11. I was proud to fly the Iraq flag and watch NFL yesterday instead of being sucked into the culture of fear and Islamaphobia.
Don’t try that shit here, OP. I’d call you a douche, but I don’t want to insult douche. Shit like this from fucks like you is better suited for the CBC site.
US Govt Official heard on 9/11/01: “Wow! Is this what terrorism really feels like? Oh my God! You mean this is what we’ve been putting the world through all these years? When we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki? When we secretly funded the IRA and other terrorist groups? When we bombed those villages in Viet Nam? The schools and that aspirin factory in Iraq? We are soooo sorry guys! FRom now on, we are going to be more understanding. We are going to respect other cultures. We are going to stop being the global bullies and start practicing what we preach…. Haha. Just kidding. Let’s go bomb Iraq and Afghanistan!”
OP, complaining on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy is kind of like pissing on a tombstone. You are a sick bastard.
FYI, not everyone who perished on that awful day were American. So your broad statement there was a tad off the mark.
And why the fuck are you so insensitive? Would you be all “this shit is retarded” if your mother/sister/son/daughter was on one of the plans and lost their life?
This just in: THE TV/RADIO HAS AN OFF BUTTON. Use it, jackass.
Our world was drastically changed forever on that day. You should take an interest in what goes on in the world around us, especially when it hits so close to home.
The reason we hear so much about 9/11 is we live in North America, that’s where this little tragedy happened, and 10 years in a historical point of view is not a long time. As for Africa, this famine happens every year, I try to feel bad about it, but it’s such a long standing problem with no solution that I just can’t. If people continue to live in that part of Africa the problem will never be solved, as the world dries and the temps continue to warm it’s only going to get worse.
I wiped my ass with an American flag on 9/11. Would have pissed on an Israeli flag but used it in the bonfire instead.