ASmileyFace
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I'm with you on this. Not a whole lot left from that time in my life. Though I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. Even at that age I knew the world had radically changed in a moment.
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Foppberg
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I'm sure if I thought long enough I could think of a few more, but the ones that come straight to mind are only like .. 5 or 6.
I was 8, but actually now that I think about it the only memory that I have about 9/11 was instead of playing O'Canada like we did every morning before classes start we played the Star Spangled Banner and had a moment of silence, and MAYBE a ceremony? Though that's way more fuzzy and might just be my mind thinking yeah that probably happened.
I was 8, but actually now that I think about it the only memory that I have about 9/11 was instead of playing O'Canada like we did every morning before classes start we played the Star Spangled Banner and had a moment of silence, and MAYBE a ceremony? Though that's way more fuzzy and might just be my mind thinking yeah that probably happened.
UncleRisto
Not Great, Bob!
Only thing I ever remember the school doing that's at all similar to that was when I was 12 and there was a school shooting in Finland. 150 miles away which is a considerable distance here. Giant deal. We had crisis help available at our school.
It's probably interesting how the distances affect this thing. If you went a 150 miles west from where I currently live, you'd easily make it to Sweden, and if you went east, you'd clear the Russian border. From Denver you don't even reach another state unless you head for Wyoming.
It's probably interesting how the distances affect this thing. If you went a 150 miles west from where I currently live, you'd easily make it to Sweden, and if you went east, you'd clear the Russian border. From Denver you don't even reach another state unless you head for Wyoming.
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Bubba Thudd
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I left Ohio when I was 8, and moved to Colorado.
I remember lots of things about Ohio, but I couldn't say exactly how old I was for each memory...
I remember lots of things about Ohio, but I couldn't say exactly how old I was for each memory...
McMetal
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Columbine was almost as big a deal as 9/11 was when it happened. Just an hour away. The police came to the school as a precaution, and rumors were all over the place about six kids with hand grenades and pipe bombs killing half the school. Nobody knew what was going on.
9/11, everybody at least knew what was happening before we came to school. It was kind of disorganized, lots of classes were just either watching the news or talking about what had just happened. It was high school though so it was a little bit more in depth than what younger people probably experienced that day.
9/11, everybody at least knew what was happening before we came to school. It was kind of disorganized, lots of classes were just either watching the news or talking about what had just happened. It was high school though so it was a little bit more in depth than what younger people probably experienced that day.
LieutenantDangle
Barry McKockner
I could tell you exactly what I was wearing, where I was what i was feeling etc on 9-11.
Post 9-11 was the war on privacy more than anything. The patriot act changed EVERYTHING, and generally in a very negative way imo. Kinda surreal to see the longstanding effects of that one day. Politicians using fear as leverage to get everything they want... I’ll just stop there
I was in the school cafeteria (6th grade) getting breakfast before classes started and an intercom announcement told everyone to report to home room and we all gathered around a tv and watched live as the second plane crashed into the towers. Teachers were crying and all the kids were confused with little grasp of the magnitude of what was unfolding... definitely the beginning of a new zeitgeist for our society
Post 9-11 was the war on privacy more than anything. The patriot act changed EVERYTHING, and generally in a very negative way imo. Kinda surreal to see the longstanding effects of that one day. Politicians using fear as leverage to get everything they want... I’ll just stop there
I was in the school cafeteria (6th grade) getting breakfast before classes started and an intercom announcement told everyone to report to home room and we all gathered around a tv and watched live as the second plane crashed into the towers. Teachers were crying and all the kids were confused with little grasp of the magnitude of what was unfolding... definitely the beginning of a new zeitgeist for our society
I'm with Hench, the world especially America before and after 9/11 was dramatically different. Not that I knew much then since I was still young, but from what my Dad has told me. The day 9/11 happened, I was taking a social studies exam where my teacher brought in a television and put it on. We all failed the test that day so she threw it out, I believe it was on early American history when the Pligrams landed at Plymouth rock. I specifically remember one scene during the news, when the Towers were burning, where a local high school in New York was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Not that there was ever a bomb in the HS, but when there is a mass panic and fear on unknown origins such as terrorism, stories just come out of nowhere. I personally (including a lot of my class) thought it was a horrible tragic accident. Only until days later did we all find out that it was an act of evil.
Which gold rush was it in?
henchman21
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I don't trust them... not in the least, but damn did I miss a money making opportunity...
Foppberg
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I've been looking into it a bit... I might invest a small amount just because the boom of it is so tempting.
Alex Jones
BIG BOWL 'A CHILI!!
Cycle of market emotions. Not applicable in every case, but I think this is one of them.
LieutenantDangle
Barry McKockner
No but my best friend from college invested in bit coin when he was deep in drug addiction to buy heroin. Invested about 300 and make about 400,000. Luckiest kid I’ve ever met
LieutenantDangle
Barry McKockner
Yeah, I think I missed the real boom but I had some cash laying around and put it into Ethereum a couple of weeks ago. Bought it around 700 and it’s now over 1300. It’s like crack though, I can’t stop watching it, lol
I’m not sure, actually I am sure, lol...that I don’t understand the whole concept, but if I can ride that wave and make some cash I don’t see why not throw some money at it
I’m not sure, actually I am sure, lol...that I don’t understand the whole concept, but if I can ride that wave and make some cash I don’t see why not throw some money at it
McMetal
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As if I had any money to invest in Bitcoin. Besides, some of the money that you put in when you buy Bitcoin goes to the guys who do terrible, illegal things on the darkweb. That all runs on Bitcoin, and they sell it when they want to turn that into untraceable real money.
Most of the value in it is a giant investment bubble, it will all blow up soon. It's always the last people in on a boom that get screwed.
Most of the value in it is a giant investment bubble, it will all blow up soon. It's always the last people in on a boom that get screwed.
If you plan on investing, BitCoin, LiteCoin, Etherum and the like have already passed their time of when it made sense investing in them. What you need to aim for are small crypto currencies which are yet to take off - they might never ftr -, a collegue of mine bought a couple of Etherum coins last August when they were around 15$, now they are worth $1300 each. He also bought some coins for a couple cents a pop, which are now worth about a dollar, making 50x in profit. But I've also heard stories about failure, people bought a lot of coins which were around cents per pop and never really took of or completely evaporated. That colleague of mine blew about $500 on these coins in around 10 different currencies and after six months only 3 returned a profit.
Cousin Eddie
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funny you say that, I felt the same way. I remember being so mind blown at what a crazy coincidence it was that two planes crashed into two neighboring towers in such a short period of time. It made no sense to me. But then my mom explained to me that it was a terrorist attack and that people did it on purpose. I had never heard of terrorism before so the fact that people could be made of such evil was, at the time even more confusing to me than if it was just a major coincidence that four planes went down the same day.
I couldn't fathom that people could be so evil. I literally had Bin Laden nightmares go right into my adulthood from seeing his place plastered all over television that day. Like nightmares of him coming to get me. Weird, I know. Brittle old man could barely walk, did none of the dirty work himself but he was my biggest fear in all of the world. Still gives me shivers.
UncleRisto
Not Great, Bob!
I once had nightmares about Black September after catching part of a TV documentary as a kid. They folded more than 20 years prior to my birth, naturally.
Tweaky
Solid #2
My earliest memories are of the ducks in our backyard in Spain, and the water buffalo (water tank on a trailer) parked at the end of the street when the water was turned off. I moved from Spain the summer before I turned 3. Those are true memories, as there are no pictures to remind me, and even when talking to my mom, she had to think to remember them, so she had not told me about them. Plenty of others that i consider assisted memories...pics of me in a mop bucket, stories of me going door to door asking for cookies, or when I walked off base to go visit dad at work (on base, but had to go out of the base housing side and back in the airfield side to get to his hanger...they caught me at the airfield gate trying to sneak in).
As for 9/11, I was home, woken by a call saying work was cancelled (I worked outsourced AOL tech support at the time). Watched TV, including the second tower strike, and updates o the other two planes. Eventually turned it off and started calling family. Wife was at work the whole day, and with no work and being awake (I would normally sleep most of the day, worked 4pm-1am shift), I would taken have advantage and played a ton of EQ. I did log in for a bit, just to chat with friends and guildies...no actual gameplay that day.
The world did change that day. Mostly for the worse IMO. Airport security all over the world is a much bigger pain that ever before. Privacy is a thing of the past (not just governments...Google and Facebook, etc. are a big part of that as well). Uber-nationalism, tribalism, xenophobia, partisan politics (alway present, but worse than ever), and so on. I hope the next generations do a better job than mine or my parents. I have faith in my kids (well spread in years....28 and 9), and I hope the rest of their peers stand with them and turn things around.
As for 9/11, I was home, woken by a call saying work was cancelled (I worked outsourced AOL tech support at the time). Watched TV, including the second tower strike, and updates o the other two planes. Eventually turned it off and started calling family. Wife was at work the whole day, and with no work and being awake (I would normally sleep most of the day, worked 4pm-1am shift), I would taken have advantage and played a ton of EQ. I did log in for a bit, just to chat with friends and guildies...no actual gameplay that day.
The world did change that day. Mostly for the worse IMO. Airport security all over the world is a much bigger pain that ever before. Privacy is a thing of the past (not just governments...Google and Facebook, etc. are a big part of that as well). Uber-nationalism, tribalism, xenophobia, partisan politics (alway present, but worse than ever), and so on. I hope the next generations do a better job than mine or my parents. I have faith in my kids (well spread in years....28 and 9), and I hope the rest of their peers stand with them and turn things around.
SaltySkywalker
Bushes of Love
Yeah cryptocurrency is definitely the Wild West. I invested in bitcoin about a month ago and it hasn’t been great with the emergence of bitcoin cash but I also threw some into ethereum and it’s taken off. I think it’s more of a real deal then the rest but it’s hard to say really. Already more than doubled my investment. You can use Coinbase if any of you are interested in trading. Super easy. I’d buy a wallet though.
The Abusement Park
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Verbier is something else man. The snow here has been sooooo good compared to CO, unfortunately have to come back to reality on Friday though.
ASmileyFace
Landeskog Replacement
With the season we are having in the SW corner of CO (literally getting our first real storms of the season NOW, after nothing since middle of November) I am so, so jealous. Post pictures or something because I'm desperate for some skiing stoke.
At least the ice climbing has been good, but it rained in Ouray last night and today so they haven't even been able to make more ice in the park...
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