I was only 9 at the time, yet I couldn't get away from the whole Rwandan massacre thing, just a couple of years after Bosnia.

Fact of the matter is, the attacks on the World Trade Centre wouldn't be such a 'disaster' if it hadn't have happened in America. The damage was more psychological than collateral.

What's the point in remembering the dead if we don't change the present and the future?

The bit about drinking cider and eating mushrooms: why the "fuck you"? I thought you'd admitted as much. Nowt wrong with it. Though being reformed is undoubtedly working out better for you. Good stuff.

 

(waits to see how you'll contrive to find offence in something I've said...)

 

September 11th - I'm disinclined to be cynical. Shame it always gets the same response, I agree. Though at the point I heard about it on the morning of 11/9/01, I have to admit that my first thought wasn't for the people dying in NY, it was "oh shit, this is just the excuse Bush has been waiting for to declare war on the rest of the world".

<whatever the word is> desensitized. If you see enough of something, it becomes numb and meaningless after the, 1 millionth time you see it.
Desensitized.

*inured

"There's no s(dies)

If only she would.

She'll outlive you, you ephemeral insect. Kept alive by the blood of the innocent !! :-&

When this happened I didn't really know anything about anything. Perhaps I still don't. But I do remember thinking "this was not accident" when my boss's wife came into the unit and said to put the TV on, sort of suggesting it was. After that it just made me want to know more about wht the fuck is going on.

At least you don't have to live through all the "remember!" crap that's going on over here.

I know how you feel. When Lockerbie and the space shuttle disaster happened I had no idea iether.
ALl I can remeber was the sick jocks getting banded around at the secondary school.

You've gone too far this time. How can you possibly misspell "joke" as "jock"?

Its a good 'un though - the sentence still works even with 'joke' replaced by 'jock'.

 

I think he did that one on purpose.

Not to mention that, one way or another, be it jocks or jokes, he said "was the sick *plural*" when obviously it should have been "were".

The sick bastard.

I would've gone with 'is', actually. There's only one thing he can remember.

God, get that pole out of your ass you righteous cunt!

 

My goodness, I'm so much cooler than that guy!